Enzyme Nomenclature

Continued from EC 3.6.4

EC 3.6.5 Acting on GTP; involved in cellular and subcellular movement

Contents

EC 3.6.5.1 heterotrimeric G-protein GTPase
EC 3.6.5.2 small monomeric GTPase
EC 3.6.5.3 protein-synthesizing GTPase
EC 3.6.5.4 signal-recognition-particle GTPase
EC 3.6.5.5 dynamin GTPase
EC 3.6.5.6 tubulin GTPase


Entries

EC 3.6.5.1

Accepted name: heterotrimeric G-protein GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (signalling)

Comments: This group comprises GTP-hydrolysing systems, where GTP and GDP alternate in binding. This group includes stimulatory and inhibitory G-proteins such as Gs, Gi, Go and Golf, targetting adenylate cyclase and/or K+ and Ca2+ channels; Gq stimulating phospholipase C; transducin activating cGMP phosphodiesterase; gustducin activating cAMP phosphodiesterase. Golf is instrumental in odour perception, transducin in vision and gustducin in taste recognition. At least 16 different α subunits (39-52 kDa), 5 β subunits (36 kDa) and 12 γ subunits (6-9 kDa) are known.

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References:

1. Neer, E.J. Heterotrimeric G proteins: organizers of transmembrane signals. Cell 80 (1995) 249-259. [PMID: 7834744]

2. Sprang, S.R. G protein mechanisms: insights from structural analysis. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 66 (1997) 639-678. [PMID: 9242920]

3. Bondarenko, V.A., Deasi, M., Dua, S., Yamazaki, M., Amin, R.H., Yousif, K.K., Kinumi, T., Ohashi, M., Komori, N., Matsumoto, H., Jackson, K.W., Hayashi, F., Usukura, J., Lipikin, V.M. and Yamazaki, A. Residues within the polycationic region of cGMP phosphodiesterase γ subunit crucial for the interaction with transducin α subunit. Identification by endogenous ADP-ribosylation and site-directed mutagenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 272 (1997) 15856-15864. [PMID: 9188484]

4. Ming, D., Ruiz-Avila, L. and Margolskee, R.F. Characterization and solubilization of bitter-responsive receptors that couple to gustducin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95 (1998) 8933-8938. [PMID: 9671782]

[EC 3.6.5.1 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.46, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.1]

EC 3.6.5.2

Accepted name: small monomeric GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (cell-regulating)

Comments: A family of about 50 enzymes with a molecular mass of 21 kDa that are distantly related to the α-subunit of heterotrimeric G-protein GTPase (EC 3.6.5.1). They are involved in cell-growth regulation (Ras subfamily), membrane vesicle traffic and uncoating (Rab and ARF subfamilies), nuclear protein import (Ran subfamily) and organization of the cytoskeleton (Rho and Rac subfamilies).

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References:

1. Bourne, H.R., Sanders, D.A. and McCormick, F. The GTPase superfamily: conserved structure and molecular mechanisms. Nature 349 (1991) 117-127. [PMID: 1898771]

2. Hall, A. Small GTP-binding proteins and the regulation of actin cytoskeleton. Annu. Rev. Cell Biol. 10 (1994) 31-54. [PMID: 7888179]

3. Geyer, M. and Wittinghofer, A. GEFs, GAPs, GDIs and effectors: taking a closer (3D) look at the regulation of Ras-related GTP-binding proteins. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 7 (1997) 786-792. [PMID: 9434896]

4. Vitale, N., Moss, J. and Vaughan, M. Molecular characterization of the GTPase-activating domain of ADP-ribosylation factor domain protein 1 (ARD1). J. Biol. Chem. 273 (1998) 2553-2560. [PMID: 9446556]

[EC 3.6.5.2 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.47, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.2]

EC 3.6.5.3

Accepted name: protein-synthesizing GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Other name(s): elongation factor (EF); initiation factor (IF); peptide-release or termination factor

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (mRNA-translation-assisting)

Comments: This enzyme comprises a family of proteins involved in prokaryotic as well as eukaryotic protein synthesis. In the initiation factor complex, it is IF-2b (98 kDa) that binds GTP and subsequently hydrolyses it in prokaryotes. In eukaryotes, it is eIF-2 (150 kDa) that binds GTP. In the elongation phase, the GTP-hydrolysing proteins are the EF-Tu polypeptide of the prokaryotic transfer factor (43 kDa), the eukaryotic elongation factor EF-1α (53 kDa), the prokaryotic EF-G (77 kDa), the eukaryotic EF-2 (70-110 kDa) and the signal recognition particle that play a role in endoplasmic reticulum protein synthesis (325 kDa). EF-Tu and EF-1α catalyse binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosomal A-site, while EF-G and EF-2 catalyse the translocation of peptidyl-tRNA from the A-site to the P-site. GTPase activity is also involved in polypeptide release from the ribosome with the aid of the pRFs and eRFs.

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References:

1. Kurzchalia, T.V., Bommer, U.A., Babkina, G.T. and Karpova, G.G. GTP interacts with the γ-subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor EIF-2. FEBS Lett. 175 (1984) 313-316. [PMID: 6566615]

2. Kisselev, L.L. and Frolova, L.Yu. Termination of translation in eukaryotes. Biochem. Cell Biol. 73 (1995) 1079-1086. [PMID: 8722024]

3. Rodnina, M.V., Savelsberg, A., Katunin, V.I. and Wintermeyer, W. Hydrolysis of GTP by elongation factor G drives tRNA movement on the ribosome. Nature 385 (1997) 37-41. [PMID: 8985244]

4. Freistroffer, D.V., Pavlov, M.Y., MacDougall, J., Buckingham, R.H. and Ehrenberg, M. Release factor RF3 in E. coli accelerates the dissociation of release factors RF1 and RF2 from the ribosome in a GTP-dependent manner. EMBO J. 16 (1997) 4126-4133. [PMID: 9233821]

5. Krab, I.M. and Parmeggiani, A. EF-Tu, a GTPase odyssey. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1443, (1998) 1-22. [PMID: 9838020]

[EC 3.6.5.3 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.48, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.3]

EC 3.6.5.4

Accepted name: signal-recognition-particle GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (protein-synthesis-assisting)

Comments: Activity is associated with the signal-recognition particle (a protein- and RNA-containing structure involved in endoplasmic-reticulum-associated protein synthesis).

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References:

1. Connolly, T. and Gilmore, R. The signal recognition particle receptor mediates the GTP-dependent displacement of SRP from the signal sequence of the nascent polypeptide. Cell 57 (1989) 599-610. [PMID: 2541918]

2. Connolly, T., Rapiejko, P.J. and Gilmore, R. Requirement of GTP hydrolysis for dissociation of the signal recognition particle from its receptor. Science 252 (1991) 1171-1173. [PMID: 1851576]

3. Miller, J.D., Wilhelm, H., Gierasch, L., Gilmore, R. and Walter, P. GTP binding and hydrolysis by the signal recognition particle during initiation of protein translocation. Nature 366 (1993) 351-354. [PMID: 8247130]

4. Freymann, D.M., Keenan, R.J., Stroud, R.M. and Walter, P. Structure of the conserved GTPase domain of the signal recognition particle. Nature 385 (1997) 361-364. [PMID: 9002524]

[EC 3.6.5.4 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.49, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.4]

EC 3.6.5.5

Accepted name: dynamin GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (vesicle-releasing)

Comments: An enzyme with a molecular mass of about 100 kDa that is involved in endocytosis and is instrumental in pinching off membrane vesicles.

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References:

1. Warnock, D.E. and Schmid, S.L. Dynamin GTPase, a force-generating molecular switch. Bioessays 18 (1996) 885-893. [PMID: 8939066]

2. McClure, S.J. and Robinson, P.J. Dynamin, endocytosis and intracellular signalling. Mol. Membr. Biol. 13 (1996) 189-215. [PMID: 9116759]

3. Oh, P., McIntosh, D.P. and Schnitzer, J.E. Dynamin at the neck of caveolae mediates their budding to form transport vesicles by GTP-driven fission from the plasma membrane of endothelium. J. Cell Biol. 141 (1998) 101-114. [PMID: 9531551]

[EC 3.6.5.5 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.50, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.5]

EC 3.6.5.6

Accepted name: tubulin GTPase

Reaction: GTP + H2O = GDP + phosphate

Systematic name: GTP phosphohydrolase (microtubule-releasing)

Comments: An intrinsic activity of α-tubulin involved in tubulin folding, division plane formation in prokaryotic cells and others.

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References:

1. Yu, X.C. and Margolin, W. Ca2+-mediated GTP-dependent dynamic assembly of bacetrial cell division protein FtsZ into asters and polymer networks in vitro. EMBO J. 16, (1997) 5455-5463. [PMID: 9312004]

2. Tian, G., Bhamidipati, A., Cowan, N.J . and Lewis, S.A. Tubulin folding cofactors as GTPase-activating proteins. GTP hydrolysis and the assembly of the α/β-tubulin heterodimer. J. Biol. Chem. 274, (1999) 24054-24058. [PMID: 10446175]

3. Roychowdhury, S., Panda, D., Wilson, L. and Rasenick, M.M. G protein α subunits activate tubulin GTPase and modulate microtubule polymerization dynamics. J. Biol. Chem. 274, (1999) 13485-13490. [PMID: 10224115]

[EC 3.6.5.6 created 2000 as EC 3.6.1.51, transferred 2003 to EC 3.6.5.6]


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