Sheth B, Banks P, Burton D R, Monk P N
Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, U.K.
Biochem J. 1991 May 1;275 ( Pt 3)(Pt 3):809-11. doi: 10.1042/bj2750809.
Undifferentiated U937 cells appear to lack a capacity of increase cellular F-actin. However, electropermeabilized cells gain the ability to respond in this way to a guanine nucleotide analogue, guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]trisphosphate (GTP[S]) after 1 h of treatment with dibutyryl cyclic AMP (db-cAMP). The results reported here show that the levels of membrane association of the G-protein Gi2 alpha increase with a time course identical with that of the GTP[S]-sensitivity of electropermeabilized cells. These results suggest that Gi2 alpha may be involved in the signal-transduction pathway leading to actin polymerization in db-cAMP-differentiated U937 cells.
未分化的U937细胞似乎缺乏增加细胞F-肌动蛋白的能力。然而,用电穿孔法处理的细胞在用二丁酰环磷腺苷(db-cAMP)处理1小时后,获得了以这种方式对鸟嘌呤核苷酸类似物鸟苷5'-[γ-硫代]三磷酸(GTP[S])作出反应的能力。此处报道的结果表明,G蛋白Gi2α的膜结合水平随时间的变化过程与电穿孔细胞对GTP[S]的敏感性相同。这些结果表明,Gi2α可能参与了导致db-cAMP分化的U937细胞中肌动蛋白聚合的信号转导途径。