G protein complement of SV40-transformed ciliary epithelial cells

Harry Cooper, David R. Manning, Martin B. Wax

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Abstract

Guanine nucleotide-binding proteins (G proteins) are a family of receptor-coupled signal-transducing proteins that regulate a variety of second-messenger systems and ion channels. The complement of G proteins in SV40-transformed pigmented and nonpigmented ciliary epithelial cells was determined by Western blot analysis utilizing peptide and holoprotein derived antisera to known G protein α and β subunits and cholera toxin catalyzed ADP-ribosylation. The complement of α subunits found in both SV40-transformed NPE and PE cells includes G and all three members of the G family. Neither cell type contains G or G. Both cell lines contain β35 and β36. Future studies will examine the functional involvement of these G proteins in the regulation of aqueous humor stimulus-secretion coupling.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)493-499
Number of pages7
JournalCurrent Eye Research
Volume9
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1990

Keywords

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Blotting, Western
  • Cattle
  • Cell Line, Transformed
  • Cell Transformation, Viral
  • Ciliary Body/analysis
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Epithelium/analysis
  • GTP-Binding Proteins/analysis
  • Humans
  • Immunoenzyme Techniques
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Simian virus 40

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