Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2018
Abstract
Primary cilia are solitary organelles that emanate from the plasma membrane during growth arrest in almost all mammalian cells. The canonical Hedgehog (HH) pathway requires trafficking of the G protein-coupled receptor SMOOTHENED (SMO) and the GLI transcription factors to the primary cilium upon binding of a HH ligand to PATCHED1. However, it is unknown if activation of the small GTPase RHOA by SMO coupling to heterotrimeric Gi proteins, a form of non-canonical HH signaling, requires localization of SMO in the primary cilium. In this study, we compared RHOA and Gi protein stimulation by activation of SMO or sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor (S1P) receptors in WT and KIF3A-deficient mouse embryonic fibroblasts that lack primary cilia. We found that activation of SMO in response to Sonic HH (SHH) or purmorphamine (PUR), a small molecule agonist of SMO, stimulates Gi proteins and RHOA independently of the presence of primary cilia, similar to the effects of S1P. However, while S1P induced a fast activation of AKT that is sensitive to the Gi inhibitor pertussis toxin, HH pathway activators did not significantly activate AKT, suggesting that RHOA activation is not downstream of AKT. Our findings demonstrate that early events in some forms of non-canonical HH signaling occur in extraciliary membranes, which might be particularly relevant for actively-cycling cells, for some cancers characterized by loss of primary cilia, and in ciliopathies.
Recommended Citation
Ho Wei, Lan; Arastoo, Mohammad; Georgiou, Ioanna; Manning, David R.; and Riobo-Del Galdo, Natalia A., "Activation of the Gi protein-RHOA axis by non-canonical Hedgehog signaling is independent of primary cilia." (2018). Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers. Paper 139.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/bmpfp/139
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PubMed ID
30148884
Language
English
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It is the author’s final published version in PLoS ONE, Volume 13, Issue 8, August 2018, Article number e0203170.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203170. Copyright © Wei et al.