Retinal membrane guanylyl cyclase 1 (RetGC1) regulated by guanylyl cyclase-activating proteins (GCAPs) controls photoreceptor recovery and when mutated causes blinding disorders. We evaluated the principal models of how GCAP1 and GCAP2 bind RetGC1: through a shared docking interface versus independent binding sites formed by distant portions of the cydase intracellular domain. At near-saturating concentrations, GCAP1 and GCAP2 activated RetGC1 from HEK293 cells and RetGC2(-/-) GCAPs1,2(-/-) mouse retinas in a non-additive fashion. The M26R GCAP1, which binds but does not activate RetGC1, suppressed activation of recombinant and native RetGC1 by competing with both GCAP1 and GCAP2. Untagged GCAP1 displaced both GCAP1-GFP and GCAP2-GFP from the complex with RetGC1 in HEK293 cells. The intracellular segment of a natriuretic peptide receptor A guanylyl cyclase failed to bind GCAPs, but replacing its kinase homology and dimerization domains with those from RetGC1 restored GCAP1 and GCAP2 binding by the hybrid cyclase and its GCAP-dependent regulation. Deletion of the Tyr(1016)-Ser(1103) fragment in RetGC1 did not block GCAP2 binding to the cyclase. In contrast, substitutions in the kinase homology domain, W708R and 17341, linked to Leber congenital amaurosis prevented binding of both GCAP1-GFP and GCAP2-GFP. Our results demonstrate that GCAPs cannot regulate RetGC1 using independent primary binding sites. Instead, GCAP1 and GCAP2 bind with the cyclase molecule in a mutually exclusive manner using a common or overlapping binding site(s) in the Arg(488)-Arg(851) Arel portion of RetGC1, and mutations in that region causing Leber congenital amaurosis blindness disrupt activation of the cyclase by both GCAP1 and GCAP2.
Evaluating the Role of Retinal Membrane Guanylyl Cyclase 1 (RetGC1) Domains in Binding Guanylyl Cyclase-activating Proteins (GCAPs)
Creators
Igor V. Peshenko - Salus University
Elena V. Olshevskaya - Salus University
Alexander M. Dizhoor - Salus University
Publication Details
The Journal of biological chemistry, v 290(11), pp 6913-6924
Publisher
Amer Soc Biochemistry Molecular Biology Inc
Number of pages
12
Grant note
R01EY011522 / NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Eye Institute (NEI)
EY11522 / National Institutes of Health from the NEI
Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement formula grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Health
Resource Type
Journal article
Language
English
Academic Unit
Neurobiology and Anatomy; Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO)
Web of Science ID
WOS:000350991500026
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84924955754
Other Identifier
991022035113104721
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