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Biochemical and functional characterization of Rab27a mutations occurring in Griscelli syndrome patients

Gaël Ménasché
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Jérôme Feldmann
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Anne Houdusse
Catherine Desaymard
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Alain Fischer
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Bruno Goud
Geneviève de Saint Basile
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Rab27a is a member of the Rab family of small GTPase proteins, and thus far is the first member to be associated with a human disease (ie, the Griscelli syndrome type 2). Mutations in the Rab27a gene cause pigment as well as cytotoxic granule transport defects, accounting for the partial albinism and severe immune disorder characteristics of this syndrome. So far, 3 Rab27a missense mutations have been identified. They open a unique opportunity to designate critical structural and functional residues of Rab proteins. We show here that the introduction of a proline residue in the ␣4 (Ala152Pro) or ␤5 (Leu130Pro) loop, observed in 2 of these spontaneous mutants, dramatically affects both guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and guanosine diphosphate (GDP) nucleotide-binding activity of Rab27a, probably by disrupting protein folding. The third mutant, Trp73Gly, is located within an invariant hydrophobic triad at the switch interface, and was previously shown in active Rab3A to mediate rabphilin3A effector interaction. Trp73Gly is shown to display the same nucleotidebinding and GTPase characteristics as the constitutively active mutant Gln78Leu. However, in contrast to Gln78Leu, Trp73Gly mutant construct neither interacts with the Rab27a effector melanophilin nor modifies melanosome distribution and cytotoxic granule exocytosis. Substitutions introduced at the 73 position, including the leucine residue present in Ras, did not restore Rab27a protein functions. Taken together, our results characterize new critical residues of Rab proteins, and identify the Trp73 residue of Rab27a as a key position for interaction with the specific effectors of Rab27a, both in melanocytes and cytotoxic cells. (Blood.
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hal-03059374 , version 1 (12-12-2020)

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Gaël Ménasché, Jérôme Feldmann, Anne Houdusse, Catherine Desaymard, Alain Fischer, et al.. Biochemical and functional characterization of Rab27a mutations occurring in Griscelli syndrome patients. Blood, 2003, 101, pp.2736 - 2742. ⟨10.1182/blood-2002-09-2789⟩. ⟨hal-03059374⟩
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