J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 258, Issue 16, 9717-9723, 08, 1983
Identification by direct photoaffinity labeling of an altered phosphodiesterase in a mutant S49 lymphoma cell
VE Groppi, F Steinberg, HR Kaslow, N Walker and HR Bourne
Extracts of a mutant S49 lymphoma cell line, termed K30a, hydrolyze cAMP
and cGMP at rates much faster than do wild type S49 extracts. This elevated
phosphodiesterase activity, called K-PDE, elutes as a single peak of
activity on DEAE-cellulose columns (Brothers, V. M., Walker, N., and
Bourne, H. R. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 9349-9355). Direct photoaffinity
labeling of K30a extracts with [32P]cGMP results in radiolabeling of a
unique polypeptide, not observed in wild type extracts, which migrates in
sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gels with an Mr = 106,000. The
106-kDa band was identified as the catalytic K-PDE polypeptide based on the
following observations: competitive inhibitors and substrates of K-PDE
inhibit photolabeling of the 106-kDa band, indicating that [32P] cGMP
photolabels the enzyme at its catalytic site; on DEAE-cellulose
chromatography the polypeptide that is susceptible to photolabeling
co-elutes with K-PDE activity; the 106- kDa band is detectable in extracts
of WT X K30a hybrids (where WT denotes wild type) in amounts proportional
to the K-PDE activity in the hybrids, but is undetectable in wild type. The
hybrid phenotype strongly suggests that the K30a phenotype is not due to
mutations that affect either a diffusible regulator of transcription or an
enzyme that modifies K-PDE. Although wild type cells contain a minor cGMP
phosphodiesterase activity distinct from the major cAMP phosphodiesterase,
the wild type cGMP phosphodiesterase is not susceptible to radiolabeling
with [32P]cGMP; this rules out the possibility that the K30a phenotype is
caused by overexpression of a wild type phosphodiesterase. We conclude that
the K30a mutation produced expression of a new species of phosphodiesterase
molecule that is not detectably expressed in the parental S49 wild type
cell line.