Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Bimodal antagonism of PKA signalling by ARHGAP36

  • Rebecca L. Eccles,
  • Maciej T. Czajkowski,
  • Carolin Barth,
  • Paul Markus Müller,
  • Erik McShane,
  • Stephan Grunwald,
  • Patrick Beaudette,
  • Nora Mecklenburg,
  • Rudolf Volkmer,
  • Kerstin Zühlke,
  • Gunnar Dittmar,
  • Matthias Selbach,
  • Annette Hammes,
  • Oliver Daumke,
  • Enno Klussmann,
  • Sylvie Urbé,
  • Oliver Rocks

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12963
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Protein kinase A (PKA) is a key mediator of cyclic AMP signalling. Here, Eccles et al. show that ARHGAP36 antagonizes PKA by acting as a kinase inhibitor and targeting the catalytic subunit for endolysosomal degradation, thus reducing sensitivity of cells to cAMP and promoting Hedgehog signalling.