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Shim JH, Kim YS, Bahk YY. Proteome profile changes that are differentially regulated by lipid and protein phosphatase activities of tumor suppressor PTEN in PTEN-expressing U-87 MG human glioblastoma cells. Proteomics 2006; 6:81-93. [PMID: 16294307 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200500076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The phosphatase and tensin homolog tumor suppressor (PTEN) belongs to a class of "gatekeeper" tumor suppressors together with p53, retinoblastoma and adenomatous polyposis. It is considered one of the most important tumor suppressors in the post p53 era. Previously to identify the molecules involved in the signaling network regulated by PTEN using proteomic tools, we reported global proteome profiles at different time points using the PTEN inducible NIH3T3 cells (Kim, S.-y., Kim, Y. S., Bahk, Y. Y., Mol. Cells 2003, 15, 396-405). However, the system had a critical limitation that NIH3T3 cell has endogenous wild-type PTEN and, thus to be exact, the induced PTEN could not give the answer about the real physiological roles of this tumor suppressor. Here, to find out PTEN-related protein network we have established various PTEN (wild-type, an activity inert C124G, and a lipid phosphatase deficient G129E)-expressing cell clones in U-87 MG human glioblastoma cells lacking detectable PTEN as a result of genetic lesions. In this biological context, we compared their morphological and expression patterns, and proteome images of each PTEN-expressing cell clone by 2-DE followed by identification with MALDI-TOF MS. We obtained some pieces of evidence that morphological change by PTEN expression is mediated by its protein phosphatase activity and their growth rate by the lipid phosphatase activity. The proteomic approaches showed that 30 proteins possibly correlated with PTEN's protein phosphatase activity (13 down-regulated and 17 up-regulated) and 20 with the lipid phosphatase activity (14 down-regulated and 6 up-regulated) were identified. Taken together, we conclude that the comparative analysis of proteome from various PTEN-expressing cells has yielded interpretable data to elucidate the protein network directly and/or indirectly caused by individual phosphatase activities of PTEN in vivo.
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- Jung Hye Shim
- Protein Network Research Center, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemoon-gu, Seoul, Korea
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Basile M, Lin R, Kabbani N, Karpa K, Kilimann M, Simpson I, Kester M. Paralemmin interacts with D3 dopamine receptors: implications for membrane localization and cAMP signaling. Arch Biochem Biophys 2005; 446:60-8. [PMID: 16386234 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2005.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2005] [Revised: 10/17/2005] [Accepted: 10/22/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Paralemmin is a novel lipid-anchored protein, which is highly expressed in neuronal plasma membranes. In this study, we demonstrate that paralemmin specifically interacts with the third intracellular loop of the D3 dopamine receptor. Utilizing co-immunoprecipitation and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) pulldown strategies, we demonstrate that paralemmin interacts exclusively with D3, but not D2 or D4 dopamine receptors or beta-adrenergic receptors. Immunocytochemistry demonstrated co-localization of paralemmin and D3 receptor in vivo in hippocampus and cerebellum and in vitro in glial and neuronal cultures. Deletion mutational analysis indicates that amino acids 154-230 of paralemmin strongly interacted with amino acids 211-227 and 281-330 of the third intracellular loop of D3 receptor. The consequences of these interactions were investigated by co-expression in HEK293 cells. Cell surface biotinylation experiments demonstrate that paralemmin decreased D3 receptor concentration at the plasma membrane. Consistent with this observation, paralemmin expression decreased dopamine-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. However, paralemmin also decreased basal, isoproterenol and forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity, suggesting a more general cellular function for paralemmin. Taken together, paralemmin has been implicated as a potent modulator of cellular cAMP signaling within the brain.
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MESH Headings
- Adenylyl Cyclases/metabolism
- Amino Acids/chemistry
- Amino Acids/metabolism
- Animals
- Biotinylation
- Brain/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Cerebellum/metabolism
- Colforsin/pharmacology
- Cyclic AMP/genetics
- Cyclic AMP/physiology
- Glutathione Transferase/metabolism
- Hippocampus/metabolism
- Isoproterenol/pharmacology
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mutation
- Neuroglia/cytology
- Neuroglia/metabolism
- Neurons/cytology
- Neurons/metabolism
- Phosphoproteins/metabolism
- Rats
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/genetics
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/genetics
- Receptors, Dopamine D2/metabolism
- Receptors, Dopamine D3/genetics
- Receptors, Dopamine D3/metabolism
- Receptors, Dopamine D4/genetics
- Receptors, Dopamine D4/metabolism
- Signal Transduction
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- Maria Basile
- Department of Pharmacology, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA
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Huang K, El-Husseini A. Modulation of neuronal protein trafficking and function by palmitoylation. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2005; 15:527-35. [PMID: 16125924 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2005] [Accepted: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Modification of proteins with the lipid palmitate regulates targeting to specific vesicular compartments and synaptic membranes. Mounting evidence indicates that this lipid modification modulates diverse aspects of neuronal development and synaptic transmission. In particular, palmitoylation regulates the function of proteins that control neuronal differentiation, axonal pathfinding and filopodia formation. In addition, trafficking of numerous proteins associated with synaptic vesicle release machinery requires protein palmitoylation. Remarkably, reversible palmitoylation of specific scaffolding proteins and signaling molecules dynamically regulates ion channel clustering and synaptic strength. The recent discovery of enzymes that palmitoylate specific subsets of synaptic proteins suggests that this process is tightly controlled in neurons.
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- Kun Huang
- Department of Psychiatry and the Brain Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Castellini M, Wolf LV, Chauhan BK, Galileo DS, Kilimann MW, Cvekl A, Duncan MK. Palm is expressed in both developing and adult mouse lens and retina. BMC Ophthalmol 2005; 5:14. [PMID: 15969763 PMCID: PMC1183217 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2415-5-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Accepted: 06/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Paralemmin (Palm) is a prenyl-palmitoyl anchored membrane protein that can drive membrane and process formation in neurons. Earlier studies have shown brain preferred Palm expression, although this protein is a major water insoluble protein in chicken lens fiber cells and the Palm gene may be regulated by Pax6. Methods The expression profile of Palm protein in the embryonic, newborn and adult mouse eye as well as dissociated retinal neurons was determined by confocal immunofluorescence. The relative mRNA levels of Palm, Palmdelphin (PalmD) and paralemmin2 (Palm2) in the lens and retina were determined by real time rt-PCR. Results In the lens, Palm is already expressed at 9.5 dpc in the lens placode, and this expression is maintained in the lens vesicle throughout the formation of the adult lens. Palm is largely absent from the optic vesicle but is detectable at 10.5 dpc in the optic cup. In the developing retina, Palm expression transiently upregulates during the formation of optic nerve as well as in the formation of both the inner and outer plexiform layers. In short term dissociated chick retinal cultures, Palm protein is easily detectable, but the levels appear to reduce sharply as the cultures age. Palm mRNA was found at much higher levels relative to Palm2 or PalmD in both the retina and lens. Conclusion Palm is the major paralemmin family member expressed in the retina and lens and its expression in the retina transiently upregulates during active neurite outgrowth. The expression pattern of Palm in the eye is consistent with it being a Pax6 responsive gene. Since Palm is known to be able to drive membrane formation in brain neurons, it is possible that this molecule is crucial for the increase in membrane formation during lens fiber cell differentiation.
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- Meryl Castellini
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA
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- Depts. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Depts. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Developmental Biology Division and Department of Ophthalmology, Children's Hospital Research Foundation, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45229 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, S-75124 Uppsala Sweden
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- Depts. of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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Archer HL, Gupta S, Enoch S, Thompson P, Rowbottom A, Chua I, Warren S, Johnson D, Ledbetter DH, Lese-Martin C, Williams P, Pilz DT. Distinct phenotype associated with a cryptic subtelomeric deletion of 19p13.3-pter. Am J Med Genet A 2005; 136:38-44. [PMID: 15937949 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Telomeres are gene rich regions with a high recombination rate. Cryptic subtelomeric rearrangements are estimated to account for 5% of mental retardation/malformation syndromes. Here we present the first patient with a deletion of 19p13.3, identified by subtelomeric FISH analysis. His features included a distinctive facial appearance, cleft palate, hearing impairment, congenital heart malformation, keloid scarring, immune dysregulation, and mild learning difficulties. Subtelomeric FISH analysis identified a deletion of 19p13.3-pter. The deletion size was determined to be 1.2 Mb by FISH analysis. It extended from within the chromosomal region covered by BAC RP11-50C6 to 19pter. The deleted area encompassed approximately 60 genes. Fifteen possible candidate genes were considered with respect to the phenotype, including follistatin-related precursor 3 (FSTL3) and serine-threonine kinase 11 (STK-11).
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- H L Archer
- Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
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Huang K, Yanai A, Kang R, Arstikaitis P, Singaraja RR, Metzler M, Mullard A, Haigh B, Gauthier-Campbell C, Gutekunst CA, Hayden MR, El-Husseini A. Huntingtin-Interacting Protein HIP14 Is a Palmitoyl Transferase Involved in Palmitoylation and Trafficking of Multiple Neuronal Proteins. Neuron 2004; 44:977-86. [PMID: 15603740 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 232] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2004] [Revised: 10/13/2004] [Accepted: 11/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In neurons, posttranslational modification by palmitate regulates the trafficking and function of signaling molecules, neurotransmitter receptors, and associated synaptic scaffolding proteins. However, the enzymatic machinery involved in protein palmitoylation has remained elusive. Here, using biochemical assays, we show that huntingtin (htt) interacting protein, HIP14, is a neuronal palmitoyl transferase (PAT). HIP14 shows remarkable substrate specificity for neuronal proteins, including SNAP-25, PSD-95, GAD65, synaptotagmin I, and htt. Conversely, HIP14 is catalytically invariant toward paralemmin and synaptotagmin VII. Exogenous HIP14 enhances palmitoylation-dependent vesicular trafficking of several acylated proteins in both heterologous cells and neurons. Moreover, interference with endogenous expression of HIP14 reduces clustering of PSD-95 and GAD65 in neurons. These findings define HIP14 as a mammalian palmitoyl transferase involved in the palmitoylation and trafficking of multiple neuronal proteins.
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- Kun Huang
- Department of Psychiatry, Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gauthier-Campbell C, Bredt DS, Murphy TH, El-Husseini AED. Regulation of dendritic branching and filopodia formation in hippocampal neurons by specific acylated protein motifs. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:2205-17. [PMID: 14978216 PMCID: PMC404016 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-07-0493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2003] [Revised: 02/01/2004] [Accepted: 02/02/2004] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Although neuronal axons and dendrites with their associated filopodia and spines exhibit a profound cell polarity, the mechanism by which they develop is largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that specific palmitoylated protein motifs, characterized by two adjacent cysteines and nearby basic residues, are sufficient to induce filopodial extensions in heterologous cells and to increase the number of filopodia and the branching of dendrites and axons in neurons. Such motifs are present at the N-terminus of GAP-43 and the C-terminus of paralemmin, two neuronal proteins implicated in cytoskeletal organization and filopodial outgrowth. Filopodia induction is blocked by mutations of the palmitoylated sites or by treatment with 2-bromopalmitate, an agent that inhibits protein palmitoylation. Moreover, overexpression of a constitutively active form of ARF6, a GTPase that regulates membrane cycling and dendritic branching reversed the effects of the acylated protein motifs. Filopodia induction by the specific palmitoylated motifs was also reduced upon overexpression of a dominant negative form of the GTPase cdc42. These results demonstrate that select dually lipidated protein motifs trigger changes in the development and growth of neuronal processes.
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- Catherine Gauthier-Campbell
- Department of Psychiatry and the Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z3
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Paralemmin was identified in the chicken lens as a protein with mol. wt 65 kDa and a splice variant of 60 kDa, both soluble in Triton X-100. Paralemmin is localized to the plasma membrane of fiber cells, and was not detected in the annular pad cells. Thus in the chick lens it is another feature of fiber cell differentiation. Its localization to the short side of the fiber cell and the sites of fiber cell interlocking suggests that paralemmin may play a role in the development of such interdigitating processes.
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- M Bagchi
- Department of Anatomy/Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, 540 East Canfield, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Takemoto-Kimura S, Terai H, Takamoto M, Ohmae S, Kikumura S, Segi E, Arakawa Y, Furuyashiki T, Narumiya S, Bito H. Molecular cloning and characterization of CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma, a novel membrane-anchored neuronal Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK). J Biol Chem 2003; 278:18597-605. [PMID: 12637513 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m300578200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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During a screen for novel putative Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK)-like CREB kinases (CLICKs), we have cloned a full-length cDNA for CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma, an isoform of the CaMKI family with an extended C-terminal domain ending with CAAX motif (where AA is aliphatic acid). As expected from the similarity of its kinase domain with the other CaMKI isoforms, full activation of CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma required both Ca(2+)/CaM and phosphorylation by CaMKK. We also found that Ca(2+)/cAMP-response element-binding protein (CREB) was a good substrate for CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma, at least in vitro. Interestingly enough, CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma transcripts were most abundant in neurons, with the highest levels in limited nuclei such as the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) and the ventromedial hypothalamus. Consistent with the presence of the CAAX motif, CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma was found to be anchored to various membrane compartments, especially to Golgi and plasma membranes. Both point mutation in the CAAX motif and treatment with compactin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor, disrupted such membrane localization, suggesting that membrane localization of CLICK-III/CaMKIgamma occurred in a prenylation-dependent way. These findings provide a novel mechanism by which neuronal CaMK activity could be targeted to specific membrane compartments.
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- Sayaka Takemoto-Kimura
- Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, PRESTO-Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8315, Japan
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Wang L, Li K, Cheng J, Lu YY, Zhang J, Hong TYCY, Liu Y, Wang G, Zhong YW. Screening of gene encoding of hepatic proteins interacting with Hcbp6 via yeast two hybridization. Shijie Huaren Xiaohua Zazhi 2003; 11:385-388. [DOI: 10.11569/wcjd.v11.i4.385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To seek for hepatic proteins that interacted with protein encoded by Hcbp6 for exploring the biological function of Hcbp6.
METHODS Hcbp6 gene was introduced into pGBKT7, and then transformed into yeast AH109, which was mated with yeast Y187 (αtype) containing liver cDNA library plasmid in 2×YPDA medium. Diploid yeast was plated on synthetic dropout nutrient medium (SD/-Trp-Leu-His-Ade) containing x-α-gal. Plasmids were extracted from positive colonies, and sequence analysis was performed by bioinformatics.
RESULTS Four kind of proteins including paralemmin, Ran binding protein 2, transmembrane transporting protein and albumin were identified to interact with Hcbp6 specifically.
CONCLUSION Hcbp6 proteins may belong to or be associated with formation of secretary proteins, more study needs to be done for clarifying its biological function.
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- Lin Wang
- Tian-Yan Chen, Yuan Hong, Yan Liu, Gang Wang, Yan-Wei Zhong, Gene Therapy Research Center, Institute of Infectious Diseases, The 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100039, China
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- Tian-Yan Chen, Yuan Hong, Yan Liu, Gang Wang, Yan-Wei Zhong, Gene Therapy Research Center, Institute of Infectious Diseases, The 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100039, China
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- Tian-Yan Chen, Yuan Hong, Yan Liu, Gang Wang, Yan-Wei Zhong, Gene Therapy Research Center, Institute of Infectious Diseases, The 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100039, China
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- Tian-Yan Chen, Yuan Hong, Yan Liu, Gang Wang, Yan-Wei Zhong, Gene Therapy Research Center, Institute of Infectious Diseases, The 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100039, China
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- Tian-Yan Chen, Yuan Hong, Yan Liu, Gang Wang, Yan-Wei Zhong, Gene Therapy Research Center, Institute of Infectious Diseases, The 302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing 100039, China
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Chauhan BK, Reed NA, Yang Y, Cermák L, Reneker L, Duncan MK, Cvekl A. A comparative cDNA microarray analysis reveals a spectrum of genes regulated by Pax6 in mouse lens. Genes Cells 2002; 7:1267-83. [PMID: 12485166 PMCID: PMC2080869 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2002.00602.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pax6 is a transcription factor that is required for induction, growth, and maintenance of the lens; however, few direct target genes of Pax6 are known. RESULTS In this report, we describe the results of a cDNA microarray analysis of lens transcripts from transgenic mice over-expressing Pax6 in lens fibre cells in order to narrow the field of potential direct Pax6 target genes. This study revealed that the transcript levels were significantly altered for 508 of the 9700 genes analysed, including five genes encoding the cell adhesion molecules beta1-integrin, JAM1, L1 CAM, NCAM-140 and neogenin. Notably, comparisons between the genes differentially expressed in Pax6 heterozygous and Pax6 over-expressing lenses identified 13 common genes, including paralemmin, GDIbeta, ATF1, Hrp12 and Brg1. Immunohistochemistry and Western blotting demonstrated that Brg1 is expressed in the embryonic and neonatal (2-week-old) but not in 14-week adult lenses, and confirmed altered expression in transgenic lenses over-expressing Pax6. Furthermore, EMSA demonstrated that the BRG1 promoter contains Pax6 binding sites, further supporting the proposition that it is directly regulated by Pax6. CONCLUSIONS These results provide a list of genes with possible roles in lens biology and cataracts that are directly or indirectly regulated by Pax6.
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- Bharesh K Chauhan
- The Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Chauhan BK, Reed NA, Zhang W, Duncan MK, Kilimann MW, Cvekl A. Identification of genes downstream of Pax6 in the mouse lens using cDNA microarrays. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:11539-48. [PMID: 11790784 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110531200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Pax6 is a transcription factor that regulates the development of the visual, olfactory, and central nervous systems, pituitary, and pancreas. Pax6 is required for induction, growth, and maintenance of the lens; however, few direct Pax6 target genes are known. This study was designed to identify batteries of differentially expressed genes in three related systems: 8-week old Pax6 heterozygous lenses, 8-week old Pax6 heterozygous eyes, and transgenic lenses overexpressing PAX6(5a), using high throughput cDNA microarrays containing about 9700 genes. Initially, we obtained almost 400 differentially expressed genes in lenses from mice heterozygous for a Pax6 deletion, suggesting that Pax6 haploinsufficiency causes global changes in the lens transcriptome. Comparisons between the three sets of analyses revealed that paralemmin, molybdopterin synthase sulfurylase, Tel6 oncogene (ETV6), a cleavage-specific factor (Cpsf1) and tangerin A were abnormally expressed in all three experimental models. Semiquantitative reverse transcription (RT)-PCR analysis confirmed that all five of these genes were differentially expressed in Pax-6 heterozygous and Pax6(5a) transgenic lenses. Western blotting and immunohistochemistry demonstrated that paralemmin is found at high levels in the adult lens and confirmed its down-regulation in the Pax6(5a)-transgenic lenses. Collectively, our data provide insights into the genetic programs regulated by Pax6 in the lens.
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- Bharesh K Chauhan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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El-Husseini AED, Craven SE, Brock SC, Bredt DS. Polarized targeting of peripheral membrane proteins in neurons. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:44984-92. [PMID: 11546762 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m103049200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Differential targeting of neuronal proteins to axons and dendrites is essential for directional information flow within the brain, however, little is known about this protein-sorting process. Here, we investigate polarized targeting of lipid-anchored peripheral membrane proteins, postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95) and growth-associated protein-43 (GAP-43). Whereas the N-terminal palmitoylated motif of PSD-95 is necessary but not sufficient for sorting to dendrites, the palmitoylation motif of GAP-43 is sufficient for axonal targeting and can redirect a PSD-95 chimera to axons. Systematic mutagenesis of the GAP-43 and PSD-95 palmitoylation motifs indicates that the spacing of the palmitoylated cysteines and the presence of nearby basic amino acids determine polarized targeting by these two motifs. Similarly, the axonal protein paralemmin contains a C-terminal palmitoylated domain, which resembles that of GAP-43 and also mediates axonal targeting. These axonally targeted palmitoylation motifs also mediate targeting to detergent-insoluble glycolipid-enriched complexes in heterologous cells, suggesting a possible role for specialized lipid domains in axonal sorting of peripheral membrane proteins.
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- A el-D El-Husseini
- Department of Physiology and Program in Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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Andreu N, Escarceller M, Feather S, Devriendt K, Wolf AS, Estivill X, Sumoy L. PALML, a novel paralemmin-related gene mapping on human chromosome 1p21. Gene 2001; 278:33-40. [PMID: 11707320 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(01)00719-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We describe PALML, a novel gene encoding a 551 amino acid protein with similarity to paralemmin and the paralemmin-like amino terminal domain of AKAP2, a protein kinase A anchor protein. PALML mRNA is expressed in many tissues and is most abundant in cardiac and skeletal muscle, while absent from brain and blood. Exogenously expressed PALML fusion protein has a widespread cytoplasmic localization, and it is excluded from the nucleus. Human PALML maps on human chromosome 1p21 (between D1S2767 and D1S223). SSCP-HD analysis of exonic sequences in patients with VUR (familial non-syndromic vesicoureteral reflux syndrome) excluded mutations in the PALML gene from causing this disease. PALML, paralemmin and AKAP2 share the presence of a conserved coiled coil region that may mediate protein interactions with shared partners. Based on its resemblance to paralemmin and AKAP2, PALML is hypothesized to be involved in regulating intracellular signaling and membrane-cytoskeletal interactions.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- COS Cells
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/genetics
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Genes/genetics
- Humans
- Male
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tissue Distribution
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- N Andreu
- Institut de Recerca Oncològica-IRO, Departament de Genètica Molecular, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Av. Gran Via s/n km 2,7, 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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Hu B, Copeland NG, Gilbert DJ, Jenkins NA, Kilimann MW. The paralemmin protein family: identification of paralemmin-2, an isoform differentially spliced to AKAP2/AKAP-KL, and of palmdelphin, a more distant cytosolic relative. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2001; 285:1369-76. [PMID: 11478809 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2001.5329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Paralemmin is a protein implicated in plasma membrane dynamics. Here we describe the identification of two new paralemmin-related proteins. A partial paralemmin homolog, palmdelphin, is predominantly cytosolic, unlike paralemmin which is lipid-anchored to the plasma membrane through a C-terminal CaaX motif. We have mapped the mouse palmdelphin gene to distal chromosome 3 between Amy2 and Abcd3, in a region homologous to human chromosome 1p22-p21 where the human palmdelphin gene is located. We have also identified a second paralemmin isoform, paralemmin-2. It is expressed from a gene on human chromosome 9q31-q33 which ends only 33 kb upstream of the gene encoding the protein kinase A-binding protein,AKAP2/AKAP-KL. The closely adjacent paralemmin-2 and AKAP2 genes are functionally linked in a very unusual manner. Chimeric mRNAs are expressed, apparently by RNA readthrough and differential splicing, that encode natural fusion proteins in which either the N-terminal coiled-coil region or nearly the complete sequence of paralemmin-2 except its C-terminal CaaX motif is fused to AKAP2/AKAP-KL. The N-terminal coiled-coil region is conserved in paralemmin-1, paralemmin-2/AKAP2, palmdelphin and a fourth, uncharacterized gene, suggesting that it is a modular functional domain.
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MESH Headings
- A Kinase Anchor Proteins
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Alternative Splicing
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Chickens
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/genetics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9/genetics
- Cytosol/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Complementary/isolation & purification
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Organ Specificity
- Phosphoproteins
- Physical Chromosome Mapping
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Proteins/genetics
- Proteins/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Rats
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Terminology as Topic
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- B Hu
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstrasse 150, Bochum, D-44780, Germany
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Neurobeachin: A protein kinase A-anchoring, beige/Chediak-higashi protein homolog implicated in neuronal membrane traffic. J Neurosci 2001. [PMID: 11102458 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-23-08551.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We describe the identification and initial characterization of neurobeachin, a neuron-specific multidomain protein of 327 kDa with a high-affinity binding site (K(d), 10 nm) for the type II regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (PKA RII). Neurobeachin is peripherally associated with pleomorphic tubulovesicular endomembranes near the trans sides of Golgi stacks and throughout the cell body and cell processes. It is also found in a subpopulation of synapses, where it is concentrated at the postsynaptic plasma membrane. In live cells, perinuclear neurobeachin is dispersed by brefeldin A (BFA) within 1 min, and in permeabilized cells a recruitment of neurobeachin from cytosol to Golgi-near membranes is stimulated by GTPgammaS and prevented by brefeldin A. Spots of neurobeachin recruitment are close to but distinct from recruitment sites of COP-I, AP-1, and AP-3 coat proteins involved in vesicle budding. These observations indicate that neurobeachin binding to membranes close to the trans-Golgi requires an ADP-ribosylation factor-like GTPase, possibly in association with a novel type of protein coat. A neurobeachin isoform that does not bind RII, beige-like protein (BGL), is expressed in many tissues. Neurobeachin, BGL, and approximately 10 other mammalian gene products share a characteristic C-terminal BEACH-WD40 sequence module, which is also present in gene products of invertebrates, plants, protozoans, and yeasts, thus defining a new protein family. The prototype member of this family of BEACH domain proteins, lysosomal trafficking regulator (LYST), is deficient in genetic defects of protein sorting in lysosome biogenesis (the beige mouse and Chediak-Higashi syndrome). Neurobeachin's subcellular localization, its coat protein-like membrane recruitment, and its sequence similarity to LYST suggest an involvement in neuronal post-Golgi membrane traffic, one of its functions being to recruit protein kinase A to the membranes with which it associates.
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Wang X, Herberg FW, Laue MM, Wullner C, Hu B, Petrasch-Parwez E, Kilimann MW. Neurobeachin: A protein kinase A-anchoring, beige/Chediak-higashi protein homolog implicated in neuronal membrane traffic. J Neurosci 2000; 20:8551-65. [PMID: 11102458 PMCID: PMC6773050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2000] [Revised: 08/11/2000] [Accepted: 08/28/2000] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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We describe the identification and initial characterization of neurobeachin, a neuron-specific multidomain protein of 327 kDa with a high-affinity binding site (K(d), 10 nm) for the type II regulatory subunit of protein kinase A (PKA RII). Neurobeachin is peripherally associated with pleomorphic tubulovesicular endomembranes near the trans sides of Golgi stacks and throughout the cell body and cell processes. It is also found in a subpopulation of synapses, where it is concentrated at the postsynaptic plasma membrane. In live cells, perinuclear neurobeachin is dispersed by brefeldin A (BFA) within 1 min, and in permeabilized cells a recruitment of neurobeachin from cytosol to Golgi-near membranes is stimulated by GTPgammaS and prevented by brefeldin A. Spots of neurobeachin recruitment are close to but distinct from recruitment sites of COP-I, AP-1, and AP-3 coat proteins involved in vesicle budding. These observations indicate that neurobeachin binding to membranes close to the trans-Golgi requires an ADP-ribosylation factor-like GTPase, possibly in association with a novel type of protein coat. A neurobeachin isoform that does not bind RII, beige-like protein (BGL), is expressed in many tissues. Neurobeachin, BGL, and approximately 10 other mammalian gene products share a characteristic C-terminal BEACH-WD40 sequence module, which is also present in gene products of invertebrates, plants, protozoans, and yeasts, thus defining a new protein family. The prototype member of this family of BEACH domain proteins, lysosomal trafficking regulator (LYST), is deficient in genetic defects of protein sorting in lysosome biogenesis (the beige mouse and Chediak-Higashi syndrome). Neurobeachin's subcellular localization, its coat protein-like membrane recruitment, and its sequence similarity to LYST suggest an involvement in neuronal post-Golgi membrane traffic, one of its functions being to recruit protein kinase A to the membranes with which it associates.
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- X Wang
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie and Institut für Anatomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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Wang TY, Leventis R, Silvius JR. Fluorescence-based evaluation of the partitioning of lipids and lipidated peptides into liquid-ordered lipid microdomains: a model for molecular partitioning into "lipid rafts". Biophys J 2000; 79:919-33. [PMID: 10920023 PMCID: PMC1300989 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(00)76347-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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A fluorescence-quenching assay is described that can directly monitor the relative extents of partitioning of different but structurally homologous fluorescent molecules into liquid-ordered (l(o)) domains in lipid vesicles exhibiting liquid-ordered/liquid-disordered (l(o)/l(d)) phase coexistence. Applying this assay to a series of bimane-labeled diacyl phospholipid probes in cholesterol-containing ternary lipid mixtures exhibiting l(o)/l(d) phase separation, we demonstrate that partitioning into l(o)-phase domains is negligible for diunsaturated species and greatest for long-chain disaturated species. These conclusions agree well with those derived from previous studies of the association of lipids and lipid-anchored molecules with l(o)-phase domains, using methods based on the isolation of a detergent-insoluble fraction from model or biological membranes at low temperatures. However, we also find that monounsaturated and shorter-chain saturated species partition into l(o) phases with significant, albeit modest affinities, and that the level of partitioning of these latter species into l(o)-phase domains is significantly underestimated (relative to that of their long-chain saturated counterparts) by the criterion of low-temperature detergent insolubility. Finally, applying the fluorescence-quenching method to a family of lipid-modified peptides, we demonstrate that the S-palmitoyl/S-isoprenyl dual-lipidation motif found in proteins such as H- and N-ras and yeast Ste18p does not promote significant association with l(o) domains in l(o)/l(d)-phase-separated bilayers.
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- T Y Wang
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6, Canada
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Frey D, Laux T, Xu L, Schneider C, Caroni P. Shared and unique roles of CAP23 and GAP43 in actin regulation, neurite outgrowth, and anatomical plasticity. J Cell Biol 2000; 149:1443-54. [PMID: 10871284 PMCID: PMC2175140 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.7.1443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 217] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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CAP23 is a major cortical cytoskeleton-associated and calmodulin binding protein that is widely and abundantly expressed during development, maintained in selected brain structures in the adult, and reinduced during nerve regeneration. Overexpression of CAP23 in adult neurons of transgenic mice promotes nerve sprouting, but the role of this protein in process outgrowth was not clear. Here, we show that CAP23 is functionally related to GAP43, and plays a critical role to regulate nerve sprouting and the actin cytoskeleton. Knockout mice lacking CAP23 exhibited a pronounced and complex phenotype, including a defect to produce stimulus-induced nerve sprouting at the adult neuromuscular junction. This sprouting deficit was rescued by transgenic overexpression of either CAP23 or GAP43 in adult motoneurons. Knockin mice expressing GAP43 instead of CAP23 were essentially normal, indicating that, although these proteins do not share homologous sequences, GAP43 can functionally substitute for CAP23 in vivo. Cultured sensory neurons lacking CAP23 exhibited striking alterations in neurite outgrowth that were phenocopied by low doses of cytochalasin D. A detailed analysis of such cultures revealed common and unique functions of CAP23 and GAP43 on the actin cytoskeleton and neurite outgrowth. The results provide compelling experimental evidence for the notion that CAP23 and GAP43 are functionally related intrinsic determinants of anatomical plasticity, and suggest that these proteins function by locally promoting subplasmalemmal actin cytoskeleton accumulation.
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- Dunja Frey
- Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
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El-Husseini AE, Craven SE, Chetkovich DM, Firestein BL, Schnell E, Aoki C, Bredt DS. Dual palmitoylation of PSD-95 mediates its vesiculotubular sorting, postsynaptic targeting, and ion channel clustering. J Cell Biol 2000; 148:159-72. [PMID: 10629226 PMCID: PMC2156213 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.148.1.159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/1999] [Accepted: 12/01/1999] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95/SAP-90) is a palmitoylated peripheral membrane protein that scaffolds ion channels at excitatory synapses. To elucidate mechanisms for postsynaptic ion channel clustering, we analyzed the cellular trafficking of PSD-95. We find that PSD-95 transiently associates with a perinuclear membranous compartment and traffics with vesiculotubular structures, which migrate in a microtubule-dependent manner. Trafficking of PSD-95 with these vesiculotubular structures requires dual palmitoylation, which is specified by five consecutive hydrophobic residues at the NH(2) terminus. Mutations that disrupt dual palmitoylation of PSD-95 block both ion channel clustering by PSD-95 and its synaptic targeting. Replacing the palmitoylated NH(2) terminus of PSD-95 with alternative palmitoylation motifs at either the NH(2) or COOH termini restores ion channel clustering also induces postsynaptic targeting, respectively. In brain, we find that PSD-95 occurs not only at PSDs but also in association with intracellular smooth tubular structures in dendrites and spines. These data imply that PSD-95 is an itinerant vesicular protein; initial targeting of PSD-95 to an intracellular membrane compartment may participate in postsynaptic ion channel clustering by PSD-95.
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- Alaa E. El-Husseini
- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
- Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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- Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York 10003
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- Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143
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Wang X, Kibschull M, Laue MM, Lichte B, Petrasch-Parwez E, Kilimann MW. Aczonin, a 550-kD putative scaffolding protein of presynaptic active zones, shares homology regions with Rim and Bassoon and binds profilin. J Cell Biol 1999; 147:151-62. [PMID: 10508862 PMCID: PMC2164979 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.1.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Neurotransmitter exocytosis is restricted to the active zone, a specialized area of the presynaptic plasma membrane. We report the identification and initial characterization of aczonin, a neuron-specific 550-kD protein concentrated at the presynaptic active zone and associated with a detergent-resistant cytoskeletal subcellular fraction. Analysis of the amino acid sequences of chicken and mouse aczonin indicates an organization into multiple domains, including two pairs of Cys(4) zinc fingers, a polyproline tract, and a PDZ domain and two C2 domains near the COOH terminus. The second C2 domain is subject to differential splicing. Aczonin binds profilin, an actin-binding protein implicated in actin cytoskeletal dynamics. Large parts of aczonin, including the zinc finger, PDZ, and C2 domains, are homologous to Rim or to Bassoon, two other proteins concentrated in presynaptic active zones. We propose that aczonin is a scaffolding protein involved in the organization of the molecular architecture of synaptic active zones and in the orchestration of neurotransmitter vesicle trafficking.
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- Xiaolu Wang
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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