Phosphorylated rhodopsin and heparin induce similar conformational changes in arrestin.
Photoactivated rhodopsin is quenched upon its phosphorylation in the reaction catalyzed by rhodopsin kinase and the subsequent binding of a regulatory protein, arrestin. We have found that heparin and other polyanions compete with photoactivated, phosphorylated rhodopsin to bind arrestin (48-kDa protein, S-antigen). This is shown (a) by the suppression of ... stabilized metarhodopsin II; (b) by changes in the digestion of arrestin in the presence of heparin; and (c) by the restoration of arrestin-quenched phosphodiesterase activity. When bound to arrestin, heparin also mimics phosphorylated rhodopsin by similarly exposing arrestin to limited proteolysis. We conclude that heparin and rhodopsin have similar means of binding to arrestin, and we propose a cationic region of arrestin (beginning with Lys163 of the bovine sequence) as the interaction site. In agreement with previous kinetic data we interpret the results in terms of a binding conformation of arrestin which is stabilized by rhodopsin or heparin and is open to proteolytic attack.
Mesh Terms:
Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Antigens, Arrestin, Binding, Competitive, Cattle, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Eye Proteins, Heparin, Humans, Kinetics, Light, Molecular Sequence Data, Phosphorylation, Protein Conformation, Rhodopsin
Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Antigens, Arrestin, Binding, Competitive, Cattle, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Eye Proteins, Heparin, Humans, Kinetics, Light, Molecular Sequence Data, Phosphorylation, Protein Conformation, Rhodopsin
J. Biol. Chem.
Date: Oct. 05, 1991
PubMed ID: 1917988
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