应用酵母双杂交研究G蛋白通路中的蛋白因子

摘要

Objective To explore the protein factors that could interact with Gβ subunit within the G protein sig nal transducing pathway. Methods The highly sensitive protein-protein interaction system——Yeast Two-hybrid System was applied to screen the human cDNA library with constructed “Bite plasmid” contain ing Gβ subunit gene fragment. And then the faulse positive test was adapted. Results Three positive gene fragments were obtained. One codes for “Actin bundling protein”. The other two are new ones and their GeneBank accession numbers are AF288405 and AF288406 respectively. Conclusions It is the first time to find that among human brain tissue, Gβ subunit becomes a structural or functional unit interacts with actin bundling protein and the other two unknown protein factors to activate the following pathway. This re sult may be important to understand the relationship between the actin cytoskeleton and G proteins.%目的探寻G蛋白信号传导途径中与Gβ亚基相互作用的下游蛋白因子，揭示G蛋白信号传导通路的机制。方法采用敏感性较高的酵母双杂交体系，构建含Gβ亚基基因的饵质粒筛选人脑cDNA文库。结果获得了肌动蛋白集束调控蛋白(actin bundling protein)的编码基因和两个新基因片段，GeneBank登录号分别为AF288405(427 bp)及AF288406(2832 bp)。结论提示在人脑组织中Gβ亚基作为结构和功能单位可能通过与actin bundling protein 及另两种未知的蛋白因子间的相互作用而介导了信号的传导，对于揭示G蛋白信号传递通路与actin细胞骨架之间的关系起重要的提示作用