Purification of ARAP3 and characterization of GAP activities

Methods Enzymol. 2006:406:91-103. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)06008-3.

Abstract

ARAP3 is a dual Arf and Rho GTPase activating protein (GAP) that was identified from pig leukocyte cytosol using a phosphatidylinositol-(3,4,5)-trisphosphate (PtdIns[3,4,5]P3) affinity matrix in a targeted proteomics study. ARAP3's domain structure includes five PH domains, an Arf GAP domain, three ankyrin repeats, a Rho GAP domain, and a Ras association domain. ARAP3 is a PtdIns(3,4,5)P3-dependent GAP for Arf6 both in vitro and in vivo. It acts as a Rap-GTP-activated RhoA GAP in vitro, and this activation depends on a direct interaction between ARAP3 and Rap-GTP; in vivo PtdIns(3,4,5)P3 seems to be required to allow ARAP3's activation as a RhoA GAP by Rap-GTP. Overexpression of ARAP3 in pig aortic endothelial (PAE) cells causes the PI3K-dependent loss of adhesion to the substratum and interferes with lamellipodium formation. This overexpression phenotype depends on ARAP3's intact abilities to bind PtdIns(3,4,5)P3, to interact with Rap-GTP, and to be a catalytically active RhoA and Arf6 GAP.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • ADP-Ribosylation Factor 6
  • ADP-Ribosylation Factors / analysis
  • ADP-Ribosylation Factors / metabolism
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / isolation & purification*
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Cytosol / chemistry
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology
  • GTPase-Activating Proteins / isolation & purification*
  • GTPase-Activating Proteins / metabolism*
  • Leukocytes / chemistry
  • Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates / metabolism
  • Recombinant Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Spodoptera
  • Swine
  • ras Proteins / isolation & purification
  • rho GTP-Binding Proteins / isolation & purification

Substances

  • ADP-Ribosylation Factor 6
  • ARAP3 protein, human
  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • GTPase-Activating Proteins
  • Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate
  • rho GTPase-activating protein
  • ADP-Ribosylation Factors
  • ARF6 protein, human
  • ras Proteins
  • rho GTP-Binding Proteins