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Structure and Ca2+ regulation of frog photoreceptor guanylate cyclase, ROS-GC1

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Rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase (ROS-GC) is a critical component of the vertebrate phototransduction machinery. In response to photoillumination, it senses a decline in free Ca2+ levels from 500 to below 100 nM, becomes activated, and replenishes the depleted cyclic GMP pool to restore the dark state of the photoreceptor cell. It exists in two forms, ROS-GC1 and ROS-GC2. In outer segments, ROS-GCs sense fluctuations in Ca2+ via two Ca2+-binding proteins, which have been termed GCAP1 and GCAP2. In the present study we report on the cloning of two ROS-GCs from the frog retinal cDNA library. These cyclases are the structural and functional counterparts of the mammalian ROS-GC1 and ROS-GC2. There is, however, an important difference between the regulation of mammalian and frog ROS-GC1: In contrast to the mammalian, the frog form does not require the myristoylated form of GCAP1 for its Ca2+-dependent modulation. This feature is not dependent upon the ability of frog GCAP1 to bind Ca2+ because unmyristoylated GCAP1 mutants which do not bind Ca2+, activate frog ROS-GC1. The findings establish frog as a suitable phototransduction model and show a facet of frog ROS-GC signaling, which is not shared by the mammalian form.

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Subbaraya, I., Zhao, C. & Duda, T. Structure and Ca2+ regulation of frog photoreceptor guanylate cyclase, ROS-GC1. Mol Cell Biochem 254, 9–19 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1027311811807

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