Degradation rate of alpha mating factor receptor

Value 4e-4 molecules/cell/sec
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Yi TM, Kitano H, Simon MI. A quantitative characterization of the yeast heterotrimeric G protein cycle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Sep 16100(19):10764-9PubMed ID12960402
Method Researchers constructed strains possessing genomic copies of the FRET pairs CFP-GPA1 (Ga) and STE18-YFP (G?), which replaced their cognate genes. They observed the dose-dependent loss of FRET on a-factor addition, which was quantitated by fluorometer. The kinetics and dose response of G protein activation were measured and compared with the pheromone responsiveness of two downstream events, cell-cycle arrest, and transcriptional activation of pheromone-inducible genes. Finally, researchers fit the data to a mathematical model that furnishes a detailed description of the yeast heterotrimeric G protein cycle (Fig. 1) and also enables quantitative explanations of the data.
Entered by Uri M
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