Morphology of migrating cells is regulated by Rho GTPases and fine-tuned by protein interactions and phosphorylation.PKA affects cell migration potentially through spatiotemporal interactions with regulators of Rho GTPases. Here we show that the endogenous regulatory (R) subunit of type I PKA interacts with P-Rex1, a Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor that integrates chemotactic signals. Type I PKA holoenzyme interacts with P-Rex1 PDZ domains via the CNB B domain of RI␣, which when expressed by itself facilitates endothelial cell migration. P-Rex1 activation localizes PKA to the cell periphery, whereas stimulation of PKA phosphorylates P-Rex1 and prevents its activation in cells responding to SDF-1 (stromal cellderived factor 1). The P-Rex1 DEP 1 domain is phosphorylated at Ser-436, which inhibits the DH-PH catalytic cassette by direct interaction. In addition, the P-Rex1 C terminus is indirectly targeted by PKA, promoting inhibitory interactions independently of the DEP 1 -PDZ 2 region. A P-Rex1 S436A mutant construct shows increased RacGEF activity and prevents the inhibitory effect of forskolin on sphingosine 1-phosphate-dependent endothelial cell migration. Altogether, these results support the idea that P-Rex1 contributes to the spatiotemporal localization of type I PKA, which tightly regulates this guanine exchange factor by a multistep mechanism, initiated by interaction with the PDZ domains of P-Rex1 followed by direct phosphorylation at the first DEP domain and putatively indirect regulation of the C terminus, thus promoting inhibitory intramolecular interactions. This reciprocal regulation between PKA and P-Rex1 might represent a key node of integration by which chemotactic signaling is fine-tuned by PKA.Rho guanine exchange factors (RhoGEFs) 4 are mechanistically linked to fundamental cellular processes, such as migration, adhesion, and morphogenesis. Based on their ability to integrate signaling inputs that result in the activation of Rho GTPases, RhoGEFs indirectly contribute to establish nucleation sites for actin polymerization, thus exerting a tight control on cytoskeleton dynamics (1, 2). RhoGEFs can also play a role as scaffolds of different signaling cascades, thus representing regulatory nodes for spatial and temporal control of signaling (3). These fundamental processes are fine-tuned by phosphorylation of RhoGEFs. However, the complex interplay between RhoGEFs and kinases is not completely understood; relevant examples include RhoGEFs known to be activated or inhibited by phosphorylation, some of them by PKA (4, 5).The ability of PKA to modulate the activity of RhoGEFs might be further facilitated by direct interactions that would also influence the subcellular localization of PKA and its accessibility to specific substrates. The paradigmatic example of this situation is AKAP-Lbc, which is a RhoGEF activated by G 12 -coupled receptors that promotes polymerization of actin filaments downstream of Rho and also interacts with multiple kinases regulating mitogenic inputs (6, 7). AKAP-Lbc ...