Kinetics of Cdc42 Membrane Extraction by Rho-GDI Monitored by Real-Time Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
- 16 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 38 (6), 1744-1750
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi982198u
Abstract
The mechanisms underlying the ability of the Rho-GDP dissociation inhibitor (RhoGDI) to elicit the release of Rho-related GTP-binding proteins from membranes is currently unknown. In this report, we have set out to address this issue by using fluorescence resonance energy transfer approaches to examine the functional interactions of the RhoGDI with membrane-associated Cdc42. Two fluorescence assays were developed to monitor the interactions between these proteins in real time. The first involved measurements of resonance energy transfer between N-methylanthraniloyl GDP (MantGDP) bound to Cdc42 and fluorescein maleimide covalently attached to cysteine 79 of RhoGDI (RhoGDI-FM). This assay allowed us to directly monitor the binding of RhoGDI to membrane-associated Cdc42. The second fluorescence assay involved measurements of resonance energy transfer between membrane-associated Cdc42−MantGDP and hexadecyl(amino) fluorescein that was randomly inserted into the membrane bilayer. This assay enabled us to directly monitor the (GDI-induced) release of Cdc42 from membranes. Analyses of the rates of change in the fluorescence of Cdc42−MantGDP, which serves as a resonance energy transfer donor in both of these assays, as a function of RhoGDI concentration suggests a two-step mechanism to explain the ability of RhoGDI to stimulate the release of Cdc42 from membranes. Specifically, we propose that the GDI first binds rapidly to membrane-associated Cdc42 and then a slower isomerization occurs which represents the rate-limiting step for the dissociation of the Cdc42−RhoGDI complex from membranes. We propose that this slow step in the observed kinetics reflects the time-course of translocation of the geranyl−geranyl lipid tail of Cdc42 from the outer leaflet of the membrane to the isoprenyl binding site observed in the previously reported NMR structure of the Cdc42−RhoGDI complex [Gosser et al. (1997) Nature 387, 814].Keywords
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