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PLANT PHYSIOLOGY , Vol 108, Issue 1 59-67, Copyright © 1995 by American Society of Plant Biologists
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CELL BIOLOGY AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION |
Characterization of Membrane-Bound Small GTP-Binding Proteins from Nicotiana tabacum
T. Haizel, T. Merkle, F. Turck and F. Nagy
Friedrich Miescher-Institute, P.O. Box 2543, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland (T.H., T.M., F.T., F.N.)
We have cloned nine cDNAs encoding small GTP-binding proteins from leaf
cDNA libraries of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). These cDNAs encode distinct
proteins (22-25 kD) that display different levels of identity with members
of the mammalian Rab family: Nt-Rab6 with Rab6 (83%), Nt-Rab7a-c with Rab7
(63-70%), and Nt-Rab11a-e with Rab11 (53-69%). Functionally important
regions of these proteins, including the "effector binding" domain, the
C-terminal Cys residues for membrane attachment, and the four regions
involved in GTP-binding and hydrolysis, are highly conserved. Northern and
western blot analyses show that these genes are expressed, although at
slightly different levels, in all plant tissues examined. We demonstrate
that the plant Rab5, Rab6, and Rab11 proteins, similar to their mammalian
and yeast counterparts, are tightly bound to membranes and that they
exhibit different solubilization characteristics. Furthermore, we show that
the yeast GTPase-activating protein Gyp6, shown to be specifically required
to control the GTP hydrolysis of the yeast Ypt6 protein, could interact
with tobacco GTP-binding proteins. It increases in vitro the GTP hydrolysis
rate of the wild-type Nt-Rab7 protein. In addition, it also increases, at
different levels, the GTP hydrolysis rates of a Nt-Rab7m protein with a
Rab6 effector domain and of two other chimaeric Nt-Rab6/Nt-Rab7 proteins.
However, it does not interact with the wild-type Nt-Rab6 protein, which is
most similar to the yeast Ypt6 protein.
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