Lysine Ubiquitylation Drives Rhodopsin Protein Turnover.
Adv Exp Med Biol
; 1415: 493-498, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
Rhodopsin is a G-protein-coupled receptor that is specifically and abundantly expressed in rod photoreceptors. Over 150 rhodopsin mutations cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (adRP). The most common mutation in the United States is the conversion of proline to histidine at position 23 (P23H) in the N-terminal domain of rhodopsin. We previously found that P23H rhodopsin was misfolded, ubiquitinylated, and rapidly degraded. Here, we investigated the role of lysine residues on P23H rhodopsin ubiquitinylation and turnover. We transfected HEK293 cells with a P23H human rhodopsin construct where all 11 lysine residues were mutated to arginine (K-null P23H). We found that the K-null P23H rhodopsin was significantly less ubiquitylated than intact P23H rhodopsin. We found that K-null P23H protein turnover was significantly slower compared to P23H rhodopsin through cycloheximide chase analysis. Finally, we also generated a wild-type rhodopsin construct where all lysines were converted to arginine and found significantly reduced ubiquitylation. Our findings identify ubiquitinylation of lysine residues as an important posttranslational modification involved in P23H rhodopsin protein degradation.
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