Heterotrimeric G protein subunit Gαq is a master switch for Gβγ-mediated calcium mobilization by Gi-coupled GPCRs

Eva Marie Pfeil; Julian Brands; Nicole Merten; Timo Vogtle; Maddalena Vescovo; Ulrike Rich; Ina-Maria Albrecht; Nina Heycke; Kouki Kawakami; Yuki Ono; Francois Marie Ngako Kadji; Suzune Hiratsuka; Junken Aoki; Felix Haberlein; Michaela Matthey; Jaspal Garg; Stephanie Hennen; Marie-Lise Jobin; Kerstin Seier; Davide Calebiro; Alexander Pfeifer; Akos Heinemann; Daniela Wenzel; Gabriele  Konig; Bernhard Nieswandt; Bernd Fleischmann; Asuka Inoue; Anna Katharina Simon; Evi Kostenis

doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.027

Heterotrimeric G protein subunit Gαq is a master switch for Gβγ-mediated calcium mobilization by Gi-coupled GPCRs

Eva Marie Pfeil, Julian Brands, Nicole Merten, Timo Vogtle, Maddalena Vescovo, Ulrike Rich, Ina-Maria Albrecht, Nina Heycke, Kouki Kawakami, Yuki Ono, Francois Marie Ngako Kadji, Suzune Hiratsuka, Junken Aoki, Felix Haberlein, Michaela Matthey, Jaspal Garg, Stephanie Hennen, Marie-Lise Jobin, Kerstin Seier, Davide CalebiroAlexander Pfeifer, Akos Heinemann, Daniela Wenzel, Gabriele Konig, Bernhard Nieswandt, Bernd Fleischmann, Asuka Inoue, Anna Katharina Simon, Evi Kostenis

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Mechanisms that control mobilization of cytosolic calcium [Ca2+]i are key for regulation of numerous eukaryotic cell functions. One such paradigmatic mechanism involves activation of phospholipase Cβ (PLCβ) enzymes by G protein βγ subunits from activated Gαi-Gβγ heterotrimers. Here, we report identification of a master switch to enable this control for PLCβ enzymes in living cells. We find that the Gαi-Gβγ-PLCβ-Ca2+ signaling module is entirely dependent on the presence of active Gαq. If Gαq is pharmacologically inhibited or genetically ablated, Gβγ can bind to PLCβ but does not elicit Ca2+ signals. Removal of an auto-inhibitory linker that occludes the active site of the enzyme is required and sufficient to empower “stand-alone control” of PLCβ by Gβγ. This dependence of Gi-Gβγ-Ca2+ on Gαq places an entire signaling branch of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) under hierarchical control of Gq and changes our understanding of how Gi-GPCRs trigger [Ca2+]i via PLCβ enzymes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	940-954.e6
Journal	Molecular Cell
Volume	80
Issue number	6
Early online date	16 Nov 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.027
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2020

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Pfeil, E. M., Brands, J., Merten, N., Vogtle, T., Vescovo, M., Rich, U., Albrecht, I.-M., Heycke, N., Kawakami, K., Ono, Y., Kadji, F. M. N., Hiratsuka, S., Aoki, J., Haberlein, F., Matthey, M., Garg, J., Hennen, S., Jobin, M.-L., Seier, K., ... Kostenis, E. (2020). Heterotrimeric G protein subunit Gαq is a master switch for Gβγ-mediated calcium mobilization by Gi-coupled GPCRs. Molecular Cell, 80(6), 940-954.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2020.10.027

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Heterotrimeric G protein subunit Gαq is a master switch for Gβγ-mediated calcium mobilization by Gi-coupled GPCRs

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