Reconstitution of cholera toxin-activated adenylate cyclase.

AUTOR(ES)

Johnson, G L

RESUMO

Reconstitution of adenylate cyclase activity responsive to stimulation by guanylyl-5'imidodiphosphate or NaF may be achieved by mixing dilute Lubrol 12A9-solubilized extracts of wild-type S49 membranes with membranes of an adenylate cyclase-deficient variant. Experiments using N-ethylmaleimide to inactivate components of the adenylate cyclase system indicate that distinct components from both wild-type detergent extracts and adenylate cyclase-deficient membranes are essential for reconstitution. These results and conclusions confirm those of E. M. Ross and A. G. Gilman [J. Biol. Chem. (1977) 252, 6966-6969]. Detergent extracts of cholera toxin-treated wild-type membranes yield a reconstituted adenylate cyclase as responsive to GTP as to guanylyl-5'-imidodiphosphate whereas, in the absence of cholera toxin treatment, GTP has little or no effect. Cholera toxin-treated adenylate cyclase-deficient membranes and Lubrol 12A9 extracts from them, however, fail to yield a reconstituted adenylate cyclase that responds to GTP with an increase in cyclase activity. Because treatment of the adenylate cyclase-deficient variants with cholera toxin is without effect on the reconstituted cyclase, we propose that the cholera toxin substrate is absent or altered in the adenylate cyclase-deficient phenotype.

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