Mechanism and biological role of profilin-Srv2/CAP interaction.

Profilin and cyclase-associated protein (CAP, known in yeast as Srv2) are ubiquitous and abundant actin monomer-binding proteins. Profilin catalyses the nucleotide exchange on actin monomers and promotes their addition to filament barbed ends. Srv2/CAP recycles newly depolymerized actin monomers from ADF/cofilin for subsequent rounds of polymerization. Srv2/CAP also harbors two ...
proline-rich motifs and has been suggested to interact with profilin. However, the mechanism and biological role of the possible profilin-Srv2/CAP interaction has not been investigated. Here, we show that Saccharomyces cerevisiae Srv2 and profilin interact directly (K(D) approximately 1.3 microM) and demonstrate that a specific proline-rich motif in Srv2 mediates this interaction in vitro and in vivo. ADP-actin monomers and profilin do not interfere with each other's binding to Srv2, suggesting that these three proteins can form a ternary complex. Genetic and cell biological analyses on an Srv2 allele (srv2-201) defective in binding profilin reveals that a direct interaction with profilin is not essential for Srv2 cellular function. However, srv2-201 causes a moderate increase in cell size and partially suppresses the cell growth and actin organization defects of an actin binding mutant profilin (pfy1-4). Together these data suggest that Srv2 is an important physiological interaction partner of profilin.
Mesh Terms:
Actins, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Alleles, Amino Acid Motifs, Amino Acid Sequence, Cell Cycle Proteins, Cell Size, Cytoskeletal Proteins, Immunoprecipitation, Kinetics, Mutation, Profilins, Proline, Protein Binding, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Spectrometry, Fluorescence
J. Cell. Sci.
Date: Apr. 01, 2007
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