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Blottner D, Lück G. Just in time and place: NOS/NO system assembly in neuromuscular junction formation. Microsc Res Tech 2001; 55:171-80. [PMID: 11747092 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Recent advances in the molecular, biochemical, and anatomical aspects of postsynaptic membrane components at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) are briefly reviewed focussing on assembly, architecture, and function of the multi-subunit dystrophin-protein complex (DPC) and its associated nitric oxide (NO)-signaling complex. Elucidation of unique structural binding motifs of NO-synthases (NOS), and microscopical codistribution of neuronal NOS (nNOS), the major isoform of NOS expressed at the NMJ, with known synaptic proteins, i.e., family members of the DPC, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR), NMDA-receptor, type-1 sodium and Shaker K(+)-channel proteins, and linker proteins (e.g., PSD-95, 43K-rapsyn), suggests targeting and assembly of the NO-signaling pathway at postsynaptic membrane components. NO mediates agrin-induced AChR-aggregation and downstream signal transduction in C2 skeletal myotubes while administration of L-arginine, the limiting substrate for NO-biosynthesis, enhances aggregation of synapse-specific components such as utrophin. At the NMJ, NO appears to be a mediator of (1) early synaptic protein clustering, (2) synaptic receptor activity and transmitter release, or (3) downstream signaling for transcriptional control. Multidisciplinary data obtained from cellular and molecular studies and from immunolocalization investigations have led us to propose a working model for step-by-step binding of nNOS, e.g., to subunit domains of targeted and/or preexisting membrane components. Formation of NOS-membrane complexes appears to be governed by agrin-signaling as well as by NO-signaling, supporting the idea that parallel signaling pathways may account for the spatiotemporally defined postsynaptic assembly thereby linking the NOS/NO-signaling cascade to early membrane aggregations and at the right places nearby preexisting targets (e.g., juxtaposition of NO source and target) in synapse formation.
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- D Blottner
- Department of Anatomy 1, Neurobiology Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Strasse 15, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
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Miyagoe-Suzuki Y, Takeda SI. Association of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) with alpha1-syntrophin at the sarcolemma. Microsc Res Tech 2001; 55:164-70. [PMID: 11747091 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.1167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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alpha1-syntrophin is a PDZ-containing dystrophin-associated protein, expressed predominantly in striated muscle and brain. alpha1-syntrophin null mice generated by gene targeting technique showed no overt muscular dystrophic phenotype. Though other dystrophin-associated proteins were localized at the sarcolemma, neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) was selectively lost from the membrane fraction but remained in the cytoplasm. Thus, the alpha1-syntrophin null mice are useful in the elucidation of the functional importance of nNOS targeting at the sarcolemma. In addition, the mice would facilitate identification of other signaling molecules, which are targeted to dystrophin complex via interaction with alpha1-syntrophin.
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- Y Miyagoe-Suzuki
- Department of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan
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Adams ME, Mueller HA, Froehner SC. In vivo requirement of the alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain for the sarcolemmal localization of nNOS and aquaporin-4. J Cell Biol 2001; 155:113-22. [PMID: 11571312 PMCID: PMC2150783 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200106158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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alpha-Syntrophin is a scaffolding adapter protein expressed primarily on the sarcolemma of skeletal muscle. The COOH-terminal half of alpha-syntrophin binds to dystrophin and related proteins, leaving the PSD-95, discs-large, ZO-1 (PDZ) domain free to recruit other proteins to the dystrophin complex. We investigated the function of the PDZ domain of alpha-syntrophin in vivo by generating transgenic mouse lines expressing full-length alpha-syntrophin or a mutated alpha-syntrophin lacking the PDZ domain (Delta PDZ). The Delta PDZ alpha-syntrophin displaced endogenous alpha- and beta 1-syntrophin from the sarcolemma and resulted in sarcolemma containing little or no syntrophin PDZ domain. As a consequence, neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and aquaporin-4 were absent from the sarcolemma. However, the sarcolemmal expression and distribution of muscle sodium channels, which bind the alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain in vitro, were not altered. Both transgenic mouse lines were bred with an alpha-syntrophin-null mouse which lacks sarcolemmal nNOS and aquaporin-4. The full-length alpha-syntrophin, not the Delta PDZ form, reestablished nNOS and aquaporin-4 at the sarcolemma of these mice. Genetic crosses with the mdx mouse showed that neither transgenic syntrophin could associate with the sarcolemma in the absence of dystrophin. Together, these data show that the sarcolemmal localization of nNOS and aquaporin-4 in vivo depends on the presence of a dystrophin-bound alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain.
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- M E Adams
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Ort T, Voronov S, Guo J, Zawalich K, Froehner SC, Zawalich W, Solimena M. Dephosphorylation of beta2-syntrophin and Ca2+/mu-calpain-mediated cleavage of ICA512 upon stimulation of insulin secretion. EMBO J 2001; 20:4013-23. [PMID: 11483505 PMCID: PMC149140 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.15.4013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Islet cell autoantigen (ICA) 512 is a receptor-tyrosine phosphatase-like protein associated with the secretory granules of neuroendocrine cells, including pancreatic beta-cells. Binding of its cytoplasmic tail to beta2-syntrophin suggests that ICA512 connects secretory granules to the utrophin complex and the actin cytoskeleton. Here we show that stimulation of insulin secretion from INS-1 cells triggers the biosynthesis of pro-ICA512 and the degradation of its mature form. Inhibition of calpain, which is activated upon stimulation of insulin secretion, prevents the Ca2+-dependent proteolysis of ICA512. In vitro mu-calpain cleaves ICA512 between a putative PEST domain and the beta2-syntrophin binding site, whereas binding of ICA512 to beta2-syntrophin protects the former from cleavage. beta2-syntrophin and its F-actin-binding protein utrophin are enriched in subcellular fractions containing secretory granules. ICA512 preferentially binds phospho-beta2-syntrophin and stimulation of insulin secretion induces the Ca2+-dependent, okadaic acid-sensitive dephosphorylation of beta2-syntrophin. Similarly to calpeptin, okadaic acid inhibits ICA512 proteolysis and insulin secretion. Thus, stimulation of insulin secretion might promote the mobilization of secretory granules by inducing the dissociation of ICA512 from beta2-syntrophin-utrophin complexes and the cleavage of the ICA512 cytoplasmic tail by mu-calpain.
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- Tatiana Ort
- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, School of Nursing and Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8020 and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA Corresponding author at: Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Endocrinology, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8020, USA e-mail:
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Hogan A, Shepherd L, Chabot J, Quenneville S, Prescott SM, Topham MK, Gee SH. Interaction of γ1-Syntrophin with Diacylglycerol Kinase-ζ. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:26526-33. [PMID: 11352924 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m104156200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Syntrophins are modular adapter proteins that link ion channels and signaling proteins to dystrophin and its homologues. A yeast two-hybrid screen of a human brain cDNA library using the PDZ domain of gamma 1- syntrophin, a recently identified brain-specific isoform, yielded overlapping clones encoding the C terminus of diacylglycerol kinase-zeta (DGK-zeta), an enzyme that converts diacylglycerol into phosphatidic acid. In biochemical assays, the C terminus of DGK-zeta, which contains a consensus PDZ-binding motif, was found to be necessary and sufficient for association with gamma 1-syntrophin. When coexpressed in HeLa cells, DGK-zeta and gamma 1-syntrophin formed a stable complex that partitioned between the cytoplasm and nucleus. DGK-zeta translocates from the cytosol to the nucleus, a process negatively regulated by protein kinase C phosphorylation. We found that DGK-zeta recruits gamma 1-syntrophin into the nucleus and that the PDZ-binding motif is required. Disrupting the interaction altered the intracellular localization of both proteins; DGK-zeta accumulated in the nucleus, whereas gamma 1-syntrophin remained in the cytoplasm. The level of endogenous syntrophins in the nucleus of HeLa cells also reflected the amount of nuclear DGK-zeta. In the brain, DGK-zeta and gamma 1-syntrophin were colocalized in cell bodies and dendrites of cerebellar Purkinjie neurons and other neuronal cell types, suggesting that their interaction is physiologically relevant. Moreover, coimmunoprecipitation and pull-down experiments from brain extracts and cells suggest that DGK-zeta, gamma 1-syntrophin, and dystrophin form a ternary complex. Collectively, our results suggest that gamma 1-syntrophin participates in regulating the subcellular localization of DGK-zeta to ensure correct termination of diacylglycerol signaling.
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- A Hogan
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Center for Neuromuscular Disease, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8M5, Canada
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Tanoue T, Yamamoto T, Maeda R, Nishida E. A Novel MAPK Phosphatase MKP-7 Acts Preferentially on JNK/SAPK and p38α and β MAPKs. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:26629-39. [PMID: 11359773 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m101981200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are inactivated via dephosphorylation of either the threonine or tyrosine residue or both in the P-loop catalyzed by protein phosphatases which include serine/threonine phosphatases, tyrosine phosphatases, and dual specificity phosphatases. Nine members of the dual specificity phosphatases specific for MAPKs, termed MKPs, have been reported. Each member has its own substrate specificity, tissue distribution, and subcellular localization. In this study, we have cloned and characterized a novel MKP, designated MKP-7. MKP-7 is most similar to hVH5, a member of previously known MKPs, in the primary structure. MKP-7 is predominantly localized in the cytoplasm when expressed in cultured cells, whereas hVH5 is both in the nucleus and the cytoplasm. MKP-7 binds to and inactivates p38 MAPK and JNK/SAPK, but not ERK. Furthermore, we have found that MKPs have the substrate specificity toward the isoforms of the p38 family (alpha, beta, gamma, and delta). MKP-7 binds to and inactivates p38 alpha and -beta, but not gamma or delta. MKP-5 and CL100/MKP-1 also bind to p38 alpha and -beta, but not gamma or delta. Finally, we propose a tentative classification of MKPs based on the sequence characteristics of their MAPK-docking site.
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- T Tanoue
- Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Benson MA, Newey SE, Martin-Rendon E, Hawkes R, Blake DJ. Dysbindin, a novel coiled-coil-containing protein that interacts with the dystrobrevins in muscle and brain. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:24232-41. [PMID: 11316798 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m010418200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 252] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC) is required for the maintenance of muscle integrity during the mechanical stresses of contraction and relaxation. In addition to providing a membrane scaffold, members of the DPC such as the alpha-dystrobrevin protein family are thought to play an important role in intracellular signal transduction. To gain additional insights into the function of the DPC, we performed a yeast two-hybrid screen for dystrobrevin-interacting proteins. Here we describe the identification of a dysbindin, a novel dystrobrevin-binding protein. Dysbindin is an evolutionary conserved 40-kDa coiled-coil-containing protein that binds to alpha- and beta-dystrobrevin in muscle and brain. Dystrophin and alpha-dystrobrevin are co-immunoprecipitated with dysbindin, indicating that dysbindin is DPC-associated in muscle. Dysbindin co-localizes with alpha-dystrobrevin at the sarcolemma and is up-regulated in dystrophin-deficient muscle. In the brain, dysbindin is found primarily in axon bundles and especially in certain axon terminals, notably mossy fiber synaptic terminals in the cerebellum and hippocampus. These findings have implications for the molecular pathology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and may provide an alternative route for anchoring dystrobrevin and the DPC to the muscle membrane.
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- M A Benson
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom
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Marinissen MJ, Chiariello M, Gutkind JS. Regulation of gene expression by the small GTPase Rho through the ERK6 (p38 gamma) MAP kinase pathway. Genes Dev 2001; 15:535-53. [PMID: 11238375 PMCID: PMC312639 DOI: 10.1101/gad.855801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Small GTP-binding proteins of the Rho-family, Rho, Rac, and Cdc42, have been traditionally linked to the regulation of the cellular actin-based cytoskeleton. Rac and Cdc42 can also control the activity of JNK, thus acting in a molecular pathway transmitting extracellular signals to the nucleus. Interestingly, Rho can also regulate gene expression, albeit by a not fully understood mechanism. Here, we found that activated RhoA can stimulate c-jun expression and the activity of the c-jun promoter. As the complexity of the signaling pathways controlling the expression of c-jun has begun to be unraveled, this finding provided a unique opportunity to elucidate the biochemical routes whereby RhoA regulates nuclear events. We found that RhoA can initiate a linear kinase cascade leading to the activation of ERK6 (p38 gamma), a recently identified member of the p38 family of MAPKs. Furthermore, we present evidence that RhoA, PKN, MKK3/MKK6, and ERK6 (p38 gamma) are components of a novel signal transduction pathway involved in the regulation of gene expression and cellular transformation.
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- M J Marinissen
- Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Olalla L, Aledo JC, Bannenberg G, Márquez J. The C-terminus of human glutaminase L mediates association with PDZ domain-containing proteins. FEBS Lett 2001; 488:116-22. [PMID: 11163757 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)02373-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The enzyme glutaminase in brain is responsible for the synthesis of neurotransmitter glutamate. We used the two-hybrid genetic selection system in yeast to look for interactors of glutaminase in human brain. We have identified two proteins containing PDZ domains, alpha1-syntrophin and a glutaminase-interacting protein, named GIP, that showed association with human glutaminase L, as deduced from specificity test of the two-hybrid system. The complete GIP cDNA clone has 1315 nucleotides with a 372-base open reading frame encoding a 124-amino acids protein. Glutaminase associates with both PDZ proteins through its C-terminal end; mutagenesis of single amino acids revealed the sequence -ESXV as essential for the interaction. These data suggest the possibility that PDZ domain-containing proteins are involved in the regulation of glutaminase in brain.
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- L Olalla
- Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Laboratorio de Química de Proteínas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071, Málaga, Spain
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Chen YW, Zhao P, Borup R, Hoffman EP. Expression profiling in the muscular dystrophies: identification of novel aspects of molecular pathophysiology. J Cell Biol 2000; 151:1321-36. [PMID: 11121445 PMCID: PMC2190600 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.151.6.1321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 394] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We used expression profiling to define the pathophysiological cascades involved in the progression of two muscular dystrophies with known primary biochemical defects, dystrophin deficiency (Duchenne muscular dystrophy) and alpha-sarcoglycan deficiency (a dystrophin-associated protein). We employed a novel protocol for expression profiling in human tissues using mixed samples of multiple patients and iterative comparisons of duplicate datasets. We found evidence for both incomplete differentiation of patient muscle, and for dedifferentiation of myofibers to alternative lineages with advancing age. One developmentally regulated gene characterized in detail, alpha-cardiac actin, showed abnormal persistent expression after birth in 60% of Duchenne dystrophy myofibers. The majority of myofibers ( approximately 80%) remained strongly positive for this protein throughout the course of the disease. Other developmentally regulated genes that showed widespread overexpression in these muscular dystrophies included embryonic myosin heavy chain, versican, acetylcholine receptor alpha-1, secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine/osteonectin, and thrombospondin 4. We hypothesize that the abnormal Ca(2)+ influx in dystrophin- and alpha-sarcoglycan-deficient myofibers leads to altered developmental programming of developing and regenerating myofibers. The finding of upregulation of HLA-DR and factor XIIIa led to the novel identification of activated dendritic cell infiltration in dystrophic muscle; these cells mediate immune responses and likely induce microenvironmental changes in muscle. We also document a general metabolic crisis in dystrophic muscle, with large scale downregulation of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial gene expression. Finally, our expression profiling results show that primary genetic defects can be identified by a reduction in the corresponding RNA.
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- Yi-Wen Chen
- Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20010
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- Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20010
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- Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20010
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- Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20010
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Pillaire MJ, Nebreda AR, Darbon JM. Cisplatin and UV radiation induce activation of the stress-activated protein kinase p38gamma in human melanoma cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 278:724-8. [PMID: 11095975 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The p38 alpha mitogen-activated protein kinase has been implicated in the cellular response to genotoxic agents. Here we show that another p38 family member is also activated in response to cisplatin exposure in human melanoma cells. We identified this isoform as p38gamma based on its recognition by specific antibodies and because, in contrast to p38alpha, its activity was not affected by SB203580. We also found that etoposide caused a much more discrete phosphorylation of both p38alpha and p38gamma than either cisplatin or UV treatment. These results indicate that genotoxic stresses activate several p38 isoforms whose implication in the cellular response might depend on the type of DNA damage.
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- M J Pillaire
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire du Contrôle de la Prolifération, UMR 5088 CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse Cedex, 31062, France
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Newey SE, Benson MA, Ponting CP, Davies KE, Blake DJ. Alternative splicing of dystrobrevin regulates the stoichiometry of syntrophin binding to the dystrophin protein complex. Curr Biol 2000; 10:1295-8. [PMID: 11069112 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00760-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Dystrophin coordinates the assembly of a complex of structural and signalling proteins that is required for normal muscle function. A key component of the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC) is alpha-dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related and -associated protein whose absence results in muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular junction defects [1,2]. The current model of the DPC predicts that dystrophin and dystrobrevin each bind a single syntrophin molecule [3]. The syntrophins are PDZ-domain-containing proteins that facilitate the recruitment of signalling proteins such as nNOS (neuronal nitric oxide synthase) to the DPC [4]. Here we show, using yeast two-hybrid analysis and biochemical binding studies, that alpha-dystrobrevin in fact contains two independent syntrophin-binding sites in tandem. The previously undescribed binding site is situated within an alternatively spliced exon of alpha-dystrobrevin, termed the variable region-3 (vr3) sequence, which is specifically expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscle [5,6]. Analysis of the syntrophin-binding region of dystrobrevin reveals a tandem pair of predicted alpha helices with significant sequence similarity. These alpha helices, each termed a syntrophin-binding motif, are also highly conserved in dystrophin and utrophin. Together these data show that there are four potential syntrophin-binding sites per dystrophin complex in skeletal muscle: two on dystrobrevin and two on dystrophin or utrophin. Furthermore, alternative splicing of dystrobrevin provides a mechanism for regulating the stoichiometry of syntrophin association with the DPC. This is likely to have important consequences for the recruitment of specific signalling molecules to the DPC and ultimately for its function.
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- S E Newey
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK
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Crawford GE, Faulkner JA, Crosbie RH, Campbell KP, Froehner SC, Chamberlain JS. Assembly of the dystrophin-associated protein complex does not require the dystrophin COOH-terminal domain. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:1399-410. [PMID: 10995444 PMCID: PMC2150715 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.6.1399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Dystrophin is a multidomain protein that links the actin cytoskeleton to laminin in the extracellular matrix through the dystrophin associated protein (DAP) complex. The COOH-terminal domain of dystrophin binds to two components of the DAP complex, syntrophin and dystrobrevin. To understand the role of syntrophin and dystrobrevin, we previously generated a series of transgenic mouse lines expressing dystrophins with deletions throughout the COOH-terminal domain. Each of these mice had normal muscle function and displayed normal localization of syntrophin and dystrobrevin. Since syntrophin and dystrobrevin bind to each other as well as to dystrophin, we have now generated a transgenic mouse deleted for the entire dystrophin COOH-terminal domain. Unexpectedly, this truncated dystrophin supported normal muscle function and assembly of the DAP complex. These results demonstrate that syntrophin and dystrobrevin functionally associate with the DAP complex in the absence of a direct link to dystrophin. We also observed that the DAP complexes in these different transgenic mouse strains were not identical. Instead, the DAP complexes contained varying ratios of syntrophin and dystrobrevin isoforms. These results suggest that alternative splicing of the dystrophin gene, which naturally generates COOH-terminal deletions in dystrophin, may function to regulate the isoform composition of the DAP complex.
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- G E Crawford
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0618, USA
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Adams ME, Kramarcy N, Krall SP, Rossi SG, Rotundo RL, Sealock R, Froehner SC. Absence of alpha-syntrophin leads to structurally aberrant neuromuscular synapses deficient in utrophin. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:1385-98. [PMID: 10995443 PMCID: PMC2150701 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.6.1385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The syntrophins are a family of structurally related proteins that contain multiple protein interaction motifs. Syntrophins associate directly with dystrophin, the product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus, and its homologues. We have generated alpha-syntrophin null mice by targeted gene disruption to test the function of this association. The alpha-Syn(-/)- mice show no evidence of myopathy, despite reduced levels of alpha-dystrobrevin-2. Neuronal nitric oxide synthase, a component of the dystrophin protein complex, is absent from the sarcolemma of the alpha-Syn(-/)- mice, even where other syntrophin isoforms are present. alpha-Syn(-/)- neuromuscular junctions have undetectable levels of postsynaptic utrophin and reduced levels of acetylcholine receptor and acetylcholinesterase. The mutant junctions have shallow nerve gutters, abnormal distributions of acetylcholine receptors, and postjunctional folds that are generally less organized and have fewer openings to the synaptic cleft than controls. Thus, alpha-syntrophin has an important role in synapse formation and in the organization of utrophin, acetylcholine receptor, and acetylcholinesterase at the neuromuscular synapse.
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- M E Adams
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7545, USA
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Ort T, Maksimova E, Dirkx R, Kachinsky AM, Berghs S, Froehner SC, Solimena M. The receptor tyrosine phosphatase-like protein ICA512 binds the PDZ domains of beta2-syntrophin and nNOS in pancreatic beta-cells. Eur J Cell Biol 2000; 79:621-30. [PMID: 11043403 DOI: 10.1078/0171-9335-00095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Islet cell autoantigen (ICA) 512 of type I diabetes is a receptor tyrosine phosphatase-like protein associated with the secretory granules of neurons and endocrine cells including insulin-secreting beta-cells of the pancreas. Here we show that in a yeast two-hybrid assay its cytoplasmic domain binds beta2-syntrophin, a modular adapter which in muscle cells interacts with members of the dystrophin family including utrophin, as well as the signaling molecule neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). The cDNA isolated by two-hybrid screening corresponded to a novel beta2-syntrophin isoform with a predicted molecular mass of 28 kDa. This isoform included the PDZ domain, but not the C-terminal region, which in full-length beta2-syntrophin is responsible for binding dystrophin-related proteins. In vitro binding of the beta2-syntrophin PDZ domain to ICA512 required both ICA512's C-terminal region and an internal polypeptide preceding its tyrosine phosphatase-like domain. Immunomicroscopy and co-immunoprecipitations from insulinoma INS-1 cells confirmed the occurrence of ICA512-beta2-syntrophin complexes in vivo. ICA512 also interacted in vitro with the PDZ domain of nNOS and ICA512-nNOS complexes were co-immunoprecipitated from INS-1 cells. Finally, we show that INS-1 cells, like muscle cells, contain beta2-syntrophin-utrophin oligomers. Thus, we propose that ICA512, through beta2-syntrophin and nNOS, links secretory granules with the actin cytoskeleton and signaling pathways involving nitric oxide.
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- T Ort
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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Loh NY, Newey SE, Davies KE, Blake DJ. Assembly of multiple dystrobrevin-containing complexes in the kidney. J Cell Sci 2000; 113 ( Pt 15):2715-24. [PMID: 10893187 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.113.15.2715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Dystrophin is the key component in the assembly and maintenance of the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC) in skeletal muscle. In kidney, dystroglycan, an integral component of the DPC, is involved in kidney epithelial morphogenesis, suggesting that the DPC is important in linking the extracellular matrix to the internal cytoskeleton of kidney epithelia. Here, we have investigated the molecular architecture of dystrophin-like protein complexes in kidneys from normal and dystrophin-deficient mice. Using isoform-specific antibodies, we show that the different cell types that make up the kidney maintain different dystrophin-like complexes. These complexes can be broadly grouped according to their dystrobrevin content: beta-dystrobrevin containing complexes are present at the basal region of renal epithelial cells, whilst alpha-dystrobrevin-1 containing complexes are found in endothelial and smooth muscle cells. Furthermore, these complexes are maintained even in the absence of all dystrophin isoforms. Thus our data suggest that the functions and assembly of the dystrophin-like complexes in kidney differ from those in skeletal muscle and implicate a protein other than dystrophin as the primary molecule in the assembly and maintenance of kidney complexes. Our findings also provide a possible explanation for the lack of kidney pathology in Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients and mice lacking all dystrophin isoforms.
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- N Y Loh
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
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Wang X, McGowan CH, Zhao M, He L, Downey JS, Fearns C, Wang Y, Huang S, Han J. Involvement of the MKK6-p38gamma cascade in gamma-radiation-induced cell cycle arrest. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:4543-52. [PMID: 10848581 PMCID: PMC85840 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.13.4543-4552.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The p38 group of kinases belongs to the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase superfamily with structural and functional characteristics distinguishable from those of the ERK, JNK (SAPK), and BMK (ERK5) kinases. Although there is a high degree of similarity among members of the p38 group in terms of structure and activation, each member appears to have a unique function. Here we show that activation of p38gamma (also known as ERK6 or SAPK3), but not the other p38 isoforms, is required for gamma-irradiation-induced G(2) arrest. Activation of the MKK6-p38gamma cascade is sufficient to induce G(2) arrest in cells, and expression of dominant negative alleles of MKK6 or p38gamma allows cells to escape the DNA damage-induce G(2) delay. Activation of p38gamma is dependent on ATM and leads to activation of Cds1 (also known as Chk2). These data suggest a model in which activation of ATM by gamma irradiation leads to the activation of MKK6, p38gamma, and Cds1 and that activation of both MKK6 and p38gamma is essential for the proper regulation of the G(2) checkpoint in mammalian cells.
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- X Wang
- Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Lee JC, Kumar S, Griswold DE, Underwood DC, Votta BJ, Adams JL. Inhibition of p38 MAP kinase as a therapeutic strategy. IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY 2000; 47:185-201. [PMID: 10878289 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-3109(00)00206-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 350] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Since the discovery of p38 MAP kinase in 1994, our understanding of its biology has progressed dramatically. The key advances include (1) identification of p38 MAP kinase homologs and protein kinases that act upstream and downstream from p38 MAP kinase, (2) identification of interesting and potentially important substrates, (3) elucidation of the role of p38 MAP kinase in cellular processes and (4) the establishment of the mechanism by which the pyridinylimidazole p38 MAP kinase inhibitors inhibit enzyme activity. It is now known that there are four members of the p38 MAP kinase family. They differ in their tissue distribution, regulation of kinase activation and subsequent phosphorylation of downstream substrates. They also differ in terms of their sensitivities toward the p38 MAP kinase inhibitors. The best-studied isoform is p38 alpha, whose activation has been observed in many hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cell types upon treatment with appropriate stimuli. The pyridinylimidazole compounds, exemplified by SB 203580, were originally prepared as inflammatory cytokine synthesis inhibitors that subsequently were found to be selective inhibitors of p38 MAP kinase. SB 203580 inhibits the catalytic activity of p38 MAP kinase by competitive binding in the ATP pocket. X-ray crystallographic studies of the target enzyme complexed with inhibitor reinforce the observations made from site-directed mutagenesis studies, thereby providing a molecular basis for understanding the kinase selectivity of these inhibitors. The p38 MAP kinase inhibitors are efficacious in several disease models, including inflammation, arthritis and other joint diseases, septic shock, and myocardial injury. In all cases, p38 activation in key cell types correlated with disease initiation and progression. Treatment with p38 MAP kinase inhibitors attenuated both p38 activation and disease severity. Structurally diverse p38 MAP kinase inhibitors have been tested extensively in preclinical studies.
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- J C Lee
- SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, 709 Swedeland Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA.
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Enslen H, Brancho DM, Davis RJ. Molecular determinants that mediate selective activation of p38 MAP kinase isoforms. EMBO J 2000; 19:1301-11. [PMID: 10716930 PMCID: PMC305671 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.6.1301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) group is represented by four isoforms in mammals (p38alpha, p38beta2, p38gamma and p38delta). These p38 MAPK isoforms appear to mediate distinct functions in vivo due, in part, to differences in substrate phosphorylation by individual p38 MAPKs and also to selective activation by MAPK kinases (MAPKKs). Here we report the identification of two factors that contribute to the specificity of p38 MAPK activation. One mechanism of specificity is the selective formation of functional complexes between MAPKK and different p38 MAPKs. The formation of these complexes requires the presence of a MAPK docking site in the N-terminus of the MAPKK. The second mechanism that confers signaling specificity is the selective recognition of the activation loop (T-loop) of p38 MAPK isoforms. Together, these processes provide a mechanism that enables the selective activation of p38 MAPK in response to activated MAPKK.
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- H Enslen
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Lebakken CS, Venzke DP, Hrstka RF, Consolino CM, Faulkner JA, Williamson RA, Campbell KP. Sarcospan-deficient mice maintain normal muscle function. Mol Cell Biol 2000; 20:1669-77. [PMID: 10669744 PMCID: PMC85350 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.20.5.1669-1677.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Sarcospan is an integral membrane component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) found at the sarcolemma of striated and smooth muscle. The DGC plays important roles in muscle function and viability as evidenced by defects in components of the DGC, which cause muscular dystrophy. Sarcospan is unique among the components of the complex in that it contains four transmembrane domains with intracellular N- and C-terminal domains and is a member of the tetraspan superfamily of proteins. Sarcospan is tightly linked to the sarcoglycans, and together these proteins form a subcomplex within the DGC. Stable expression of sarcospan at the sarcolemma is dependent upon expression of the sarcoglycans. Here we describe the generation and analysis of mice carrying a null mutation in the Sspn gene. Surprisingly, the Sspn-deficient muscle maintains expression of other components of the DGC at the sarcolemma, and no gross histological abnormalities of muscle from the mice are observed. The Sspn-deficient muscle maintains sarcolemmal integrity as determined by serum creatine kinase and Evans blue uptake assays, and the Sspn-deficient muscle maintains normal force and power generation capabilities. These data suggest either that sarcospan is not required for normal DGC function or that the Sspn-deficient muscle is compensating for the absence of sarcospan, perhaps by utilizing another protein to carry out its function.
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- C S Lebakken
- Departments of Physiology and Biophysics and Neurology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Muscular dystrophy is a heterogeneous genetic disease that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle. The genetic defects associated with muscular dystrophy include mutations in dystrophin and its associated glycoproteins, the sarcoglycans. Furthermore, defects in dystrophin have been shown to cause a disruption of the normal expression and localization of the sarcoglycan complex. Thus, abnormalities of sarcoglycan are a common molecular feature in a number of dystrophies. By combining biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and human and mouse genetics, a growing understanding of the sarcoglycan complex is emerging. Sarcoglycan appears to be an important, independent mediator of dystrophic pathology in both skeletal muscle and heart. The absence of sarcoglycan leads to alterations of membrane permeability and apoptosis, two shared features of a number of dystrophies. beta-sarcoglycan and delta-sarcoglycan may form the core of the sarcoglycan subcomplex with alpha- and gamma-sarcoglycan less tightly associated to this core. The relationship of epsilon-sarcoglycan to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex remains unclear. Animals lacking alpha-, gamma- and delta-sarcoglycan have been described and provide excellent opportunities for further investigation of the function of sarcoglycan. Dystrophin with dystroglycan and laminin may be a mechanical link between the actin cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. By positioning itself in close proximity to dystrophin and dystroglycan, sarcoglycan may function to couple mechanical and chemical signals in striated muscle. Sarcoglycan may be an independent signaling or regulatory module whose position in the membrane is determined by dystrophin but whose function is carried out independent of the dystrophin-dystroglycan-laminin axis.
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- A A Hack
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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English J, Pearson G, Wilsbacher J, Swantek J, Karandikar M, Xu S, Cobb MH. New insights into the control of MAP kinase pathways. Exp Cell Res 1999; 253:255-70. [PMID: 10579927 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1999.4687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 343] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- J English
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, 75235-9041, USA
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Blake DJ, Hawkes R, Benson MA, Beesley PW. Different dystrophin-like complexes are expressed in neurons and glia. J Cell Biol 1999; 147:645-58. [PMID: 10545507 PMCID: PMC2151186 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.147.3.645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 187] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal muscle disease that is often associated with cognitive impairment. Accordingly, dystrophin is found at the muscle sarcolemma and at postsynaptic sites in neurons. In muscle, dystrophin forms part of a membrane-spanning complex, the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC). Whereas the composition of the DPC in muscle is well documented, the existence of a similar complex in brain remains largely unknown. To determine the composition of DPC-like complexes in brain, we have examined the molecular associations and distribution of the dystrobrevins, a widely expressed family of dystrophin-associated proteins, some of which are components of the muscle DPC. beta-Dystrobrevin is found in neurons and is highly enriched in postsynaptic densities (PSDs). Furthermore, beta-dystrobrevin forms a specific complex with dystrophin and syntrophin. By contrast, alpha-dystrobrevin-1 is found in perivascular astrocytes and Bergmann glia, and is not PSD-enriched. alpha-Dystrobrevin-1 is associated with Dp71, utrophin, and syntrophin. In the brains of mice that lack dystrophin and Dp71, the dystrobrevin-syntrophin complexes are still formed, whereas in dystrophin-deficient muscle, the assembly of the DPC is disrupted. Thus, despite the similarity in primary sequence, alpha- and beta-dystrobrevin are differentially distributed in the brain where they form separate DPC-like complexes.
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- D J Blake
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom.
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Madhavan R, Jarrett HW. Phosphorylation of dystrophin and alpha-syntrophin by Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1434:260-74. [PMID: 10525145 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00193-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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A Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase activity (DGC-PK) was previously shown to associate with skeletal muscle dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) preparations, and phosphorylate dystrophin and a protein with the same electrophoretic mobility as alpha-syntrophin (R. Madhavan, H.W. Jarrett, Biochemistry 33 (1994) 5797-5804). Here, we show that DGC-PK and Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) phosphorylate a common site (RSDS(3616)) within the dystrophin C terminal domain that fits the consensus CaM kinase II phosphorylation motif (R/KXXS/T). Furthermore, both kinase activities phosphorylate exactly the same three fusion proteins (dystrophin fusions DysS7 and DysS9, and the syntrophin fusion) out of a panel of eight fusion proteins (representing nearly 100% of syntrophin and 80% of dystrophin protein sequences), demonstrating that DGC-PK and CaM kinase II have the same substrate specificity. Complementing these results, anti-CaM kinase II antibodies specifically stained purified DGC immobilized on nitrocellulose membranes. Renaturation of electrophoretically resolved DGC proteins revealed a single protein kinase band (M(r) approximately 60,000) that, like CaM kinase II, underwent Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent autophosphorylation. Based on these observations, we conclude DGC-PK represents a dystrophin-/syntrophin-phosphorylating skeletal muscle isoform of CaM kinase II. We also show that phosphorylation of the dystrophin C terminal domain sequences inhibits their syntrophin binding in vitro, suggesting a regulatory role for phosphorylation.
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- R Madhavan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee-Memphis, 858 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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Conrad PW, Rust RT, Han J, Millhorn DE, Beitner-Johnson D. Selective activation of p38alpha and p38gamma by hypoxia. Role in regulation of cyclin D1 by hypoxia in PC12 cells. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:23570-6. [PMID: 10438538 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.33.23570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hypoxic/ischemic trauma is a primary factor in the pathology of a multitude of disease states. The effects of hypoxia on the stress- and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways were studied in PC12 cells. Exposure to moderate hypoxia (5% O(2)) progressively stimulated phosphorylation and activation of p38gamma in particular, and also p38alpha, two stress-activated protein kinases. In contrast, hypoxia had no effect on enzyme activity of p38beta, p38beta(2), p38delta, or on c-Jun N-terminal kinase, another stress-activated protein kinase. Prolonged hypoxia also induced phosphorylation and activation of p42/p44 mitogen-activated protein kinase, although this activation was modest compared with nerve growth factor- and ultraviolet light-induced activation. Hypoxia also dramatically down-regulated immunoreactivity of cyclin D1, a gene that is known to be regulated negatively by p38 at the level of gene expression (Lavoie, J. N., L'Allemain, G., Brunet, A., Muller, R., and Pouyssegur, J. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 20608-20616). This effect was partially blocked by SB203580, an inhibitor of p38alpha but not p38gamma. Overexpression of a kinase-inactive form of p38gamma was also able to reverse in part the effect of hypoxia on cyclin D1 levels, suggesting that p38alpha and p38gamma converge to regulate cyclin D1 during hypoxia. These studies demonstrate that an extremely typical physiological stress (hypoxia) causes selective activation of specific p38 signaling elements; and they also identify a downstream target of these pathways.
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- P W Conrad
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0576, USA
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