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Membrane protein transport in photoreceptors: the function of PDEδ: the Proctor lecture.

Abstract
This lecture details the elucidation of cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDEδ), discovered 25 years ago by Joe Beavo at the University of Washington. PDEδ, once identified as a fourth PDE6 subunit, is now regarded as a promiscuous prenyl-binding protein and important chaperone of prenylated small G proteins of the Ras superfamily and prenylated proteins of phototransduction. Alfred Wittinghofer's group in Germany showed that PDEδ forms an immunoglobulin-like β-sandwich fold that is closely related in structure to other lipid-binding proteins, for example, Uncoordinated 119 (UNC119) and RhoGDI. His group cocrystallized PDEδ with ARL (Arf-like) 2(GTP), and later with farnesylated Rheb (ras homolog expressed in brain). PDEδ specifically accommodates farnesyl and geranylgeranyl moieties in the absence of bound protein. Germline deletion of the Pde6d gene encoding PDEδ impeded transport of rhodopsin kinase (GRK1) and PDE6 to outer segments, causing slowly progressing, recessive retinitis pigmentosa. A rare PDE6D null allele in human patients, discovered by Tania Attié-Bitach in France, specifically impeded trafficking of farnesylated phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP3) 5-phosphatase (INPP5E) to cilia, causing severe syndromic ciliopathy (Joubert syndrome). Binding of cargo to PDEδ is controlled by Arf-like proteins, ARL2 and ARL3, charged with guanosine-5'-triphosphate (GTP). Arf-like proteins 2 and 3 are unprenylated small GTPases that serve as cargo displacement factors. The lifetime of ARL3(GTP) is controlled by its GTPase-activating protein, retinitis pigmentosa protein 2 (RP2), which accelerates GTPase activity up to 90,000-fold. RP2 null alleles in human patients are associated with severe X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP). Germline deletion of RP2 in mouse, however, causes only a mild form of XLRP. Absence of RP2 prolongs the activity of ARL3(GTP) that, in turn, impedes PDE6δ-cargo interactions and trafficking of prenylated protein to the outer segments. Hyperactive ARL3(GTP), acting as a hyperactive cargo displacement factor, is predicted to be key in the pathobiology of RP2-XLRP.
AuthorsWolfgang Baehr
JournalInvestigative ophthalmology & visual science (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci) Vol. 55 Issue 12 Pg. 8653-66 (Dec 30 2014) ISSN: 1552-5783 [Electronic] United States
PMID25550383 (Publication Type: Lecture, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright 2014 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc.
Chemical References
  • Membrane Transport Proteins
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 6
  • Transducin
  • ADP-Ribosylation Factors
Topics
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-GMP Phosphodiesterases (physiology)
  • ADP-Ribosylation Factors (physiology)
  • Animals
  • Biological Transport (physiology)
  • Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 6 (physiology)
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Humans
  • Membrane Transport Proteins (physiology)
  • Mice
  • Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate (physiology)
  • Protein Prenylation (physiology)
  • Transducin (metabolism)
  • Vision, Ocular (physiology)

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