Phosducin

Phosducin, also known as PDC, is a human protein and gene. It belongs to the phosducin family of proteins.

PDC
Identifiers
Aliases	PDC, MEKA, PHD, PhLOP, PhLP, phosducin
External IDs	OMIM: 171490 MGI: 98090 HomoloGene: 1950 GeneCards: PDC
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 1 (human) Band 1q31.1 Start 186,443,566 bp End 186,461,114 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 1 (mouse) Band 1 G1|1 63.84 cM Start 150,195,168 bp End 150,209,657 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in retinal pigment epithelium corpus callosum Achilles tendon Brodmann area 9 tibial nerve striated muscle tissue skeletal muscle tissue gastrocnemius muscle body of pancreas substantia nigra Top expressed in retinal pigment epithelium ciliary body corneal stroma iris pineal gland gallbladder conjunctival fornix internal carotid artery basilar part of occipital bone external carotid artery More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function phospholipase inhibitor activity queuine tRNA-ribosyltransferase activity Cellular component photoreceptor inner segment cytoplasm cytosol photoreceptor outer segment cell projection cilium nucleus Biological process queuosine biosynthetic process G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway response to stimulus visual perception phototransduction negative regulation of catalytic activity Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 5132 20028 Ensembl ENSG00000116703 ENSMUSG00000006007 UniProt P20941 Q52LP8 Q9QW08 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002597 NM_022576 NM_022577 NM_001159730 NM_024458 RefSeq (protein) NP_002588 NP_072098 NP_002588.3 NP_001153202 NP_077778 Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 186.44 – 186.46 Mb Chr 1: 150.2 – 150.21 Mb PubMed search
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This gene encodes a phosphoprotein, which is located in the outer and inner segments of the rod cells in the retina. This protein may participate in the regulation of visual phototransduction or in the integration of photoreceptor metabolism. It modulates the phototransduction cascade by interacting with the beta and gamma subunits of the retinal G-protein transducin. By associating with these subunits only, the transducin alpha subunit will remain active for longer. This will increase the amount of time of visual excitation.

This gene is a potential candidate gene for retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome type II. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified.

See also

• Phosducin family

Further reading

• Abe T, Nakabayashi H, Tamada H, et al. (1990). "Analysis of the human, bovine and rat 33-kDa proteins and cDNA in retina and pineal gland". Gene. 91 (2): 209–15. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(90)90090-E. PMID 2210381.
• Watanabe Y, Kawasaki K, Miki N, Kuo CH (1990). "Isolation and analysis of the human MEKA gene encoding a retina-specific protein". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 170 (2): 951–6. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(90)92183-Z. PMID 2383274.
• Lee RH, Brown BM, Lolley RN (1990). "Protein kinase A phosphorylates retinal phosducin on serine 73 in situ". J. Biol. Chem. 265 (26): 15860–6. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)55478-8. PMID 2394752.
• Hawes BE, Touhara K, Kurose H, et al. (1994). "Determination of the G beta gamma-binding domain of phosducin. A regulatable modulator of G beta gamma signaling". J. Biol. Chem. 269 (47): 29825–30. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)43955-5. PMID 7961975.
• Abe T, Kikuchi T, Shinohara T (1994). "The sequence of the human phosducin gene (PDC) and its 5'-flanking region". Genomics. 19 (2): 369–72. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1072. PMID 8188267.
• Sparkes RS, Lee RH, Shinohara T, et al. (1994). "Assignment of the phosducin (PDC) gene to human chromosome 1q25-1q32.1 by somatic cell hybridization and in situ hybridization". Genomics. 18 (2): 426–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1993.1490. PMID 8288249.
• Ding C, Li X, Griffin CA, et al. (1994). "The gene for human phosducin (PDC), a soluble protein that binds G-protein beta gamma dimers, maps to 1q25-q31.1". Genomics. 18 (2): 457–9. doi:10.1006/geno.1993.1501. PMID 8288259.
• Boekhoff I, Touhara K, Danner S, et al. (1997). "Phosducin, potential role in modulation of olfactory signaling". J. Biol. Chem. 272 (7): 4606–12. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.7.4606. PMID 9020189.
• Barhite S, Thibault C, Miles MF (1998). "Phosducin-like protein (PhLP), a regulator of G beta gamma function, interacts with the proteasomal protein SUG1". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1402 (1): 95–101. doi:10.1016/S0167-4889(97)00141-9. PMID 9551090.
• Zhu X, Craft CM (1998). "Interaction of phosducin and phosducin isoforms with a 26S proteasomal subunit, SUG1". Mol. Vis. 4: 13. PMID 9701609.
• Craft CM, Xu J, Slepak VZ, et al. (1998). "PhLPs and PhLOPs in the phosducin family of G beta gamma binding proteins". Biochemistry. 37 (45): 15758–72. doi:10.1021/bi980921a. PMID 9843381.
• Carpten JD, Makalowska I, Robbins CM, et al. (2000). "A 6-Mb high-resolution physical and transcription map encompassing the hereditary prostate cancer 1 (HPC1) region". Genomics. 64 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.6051. PMID 10708513.
• Zhu X, Craft CM (2000). "The carboxyl terminal domain of phosducin functions as a transcriptional activator". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 270 (2): 504–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.2414. PMID 10753654.
• Zhu X, Craft CM (2000). "Modulation of CRX transactivation activity by phosducin isoforms". Mol. Cell. Biol. 20 (14): 5216–26. doi:10.1128/MCB.20.14.5216-5226.2000. PMC 85970. PMID 10866677.
• Ruiz-Gómez A, Humrich J, Murga C, et al. (2000). "Phosphorylation of phosducin and phosducin-like protein by G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (38): 29724–30. doi:10.1074/jbc.M001864200. PMID 10884381.
• Nakano K, Chen J, Tarr GE, et al. (2001). "Rethinking the role of phosducin: light-regulated binding of phosducin to 14-3-3 in rod inner segments". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 (8): 4693–8. Bibcode:2001PNAS...98.4693N. doi:10.1073/pnas.071067198. PMC 31896. PMID 11287646.
• Thulin CD, Savage JR, McLaughlin JN, et al. (2001). "Modulation of the G protein regulator phosducin by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II phosphorylation and 14-3-3 protein binding". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (26): 23805–15. doi:10.1074/jbc.M101482200. PMID 11331285.
• Wistow G, Bernstein SL, Wyatt MK, et al. (2002). "Expressed sequence tag analysis of human retina for the NEIBank Project: retbindin, an abundant, novel retinal cDNA and alternative splicing of other retina-preferred gene transcripts". Mol. Vis. 8: 196–204. PMID 12107411.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Margulis A, Dang L, Pulukuri S, et al. (2002). "Presence of phosducin in the nuclei of bovine retinal cells". Mol. Vis. 8: 477–82. PMID 12500174.