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Tukacs V, Mittli D, Hunyadi-Gulyás É, Darula Z, Juhász G, Kardos J, Kékesi KA. Comparative analysis of hippocampal extracellular space uncovers widely altered peptidome upon epileptic seizure in urethane-anaesthetized rats. Fluids Barriers CNS 2024; 21:6. [PMID: 38212833 PMCID: PMC10782730 DOI: 10.1186/s12987-024-00508-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The brain extracellular fluid (ECF), composed of secreted neurotransmitters, metabolites, peptides, and proteins, may reflect brain processes. Analysis of brain ECF may provide new potential markers for synaptic activity or brain damage and reveal additional information on pathological alterations. Epileptic seizure induction is an acute and harsh intervention in brain functions, and it can activate extra- and intracellular proteases, which implies an altered brain secretome. Thus, we applied a 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) epilepsy model to study the hippocampal ECF peptidome alterations upon treatment in rats. METHODS We performed in vivo microdialysis in the hippocampus for 3-3 h of control and 4-AP treatment phase in parallel with electrophysiology measurement. Then, we analyzed the microdialysate peptidome of control and treated samples from the same subject by liquid chromatography-coupled tandem mass spectrometry. We analyzed electrophysiological and peptidomic alterations upon epileptic seizure induction by two-tailed, paired t-test. RESULTS We detected 2540 peptides in microdialysate samples by mass spectrometry analysis; and 866 peptides-derived from 229 proteins-were found in more than half of the samples. In addition, the abundance of 322 peptides significantly altered upon epileptic seizure induction. Several proteins of significantly altered peptides are neuropeptides (Chgb) or have synapse- or brain-related functions such as the regulation of synaptic vesicle cycle (Atp6v1a, Napa), astrocyte morphology (Vim), and glutamate homeostasis (Slc3a2). CONCLUSIONS We have detected several consequences of epileptic seizures at the peptidomic level, as altered peptide abundances of proteins that regulate epilepsy-related cellular processes. Thus, our results indicate that analyzing brain ECF by in vivo microdialysis and omics techniques is useful for monitoring brain processes, and it can be an alternative method in the discovery and analysis of CNS disease markers besides peripheral fluid analysis.
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- Vanda Tukacs
- ELTE NAP Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
- Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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- ELTE NAP Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
- Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Proteomics Research, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN), Temesvári Körút 62, Szeged, 6726, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Proteomics Research, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN), Temesvári Körút 62, Szeged, 6726, Hungary
- Single Cell Omics Advanced Core Facility, Hungarian Centre of Excellence for Molecular Medicine, Temesvári Körút 62, Szeged, 6726, Hungary
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- ELTE NAP Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
- Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
- InnoScience Hungary Ltd., Bátori Út 9, Mátranovák, 3142, Hungary
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- ELTE NAP Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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- ELTE NAP Neuroimmunology Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary.
- Laboratory of Proteomics, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary.
- InnoScience Hungary Ltd., Bátori Út 9, Mátranovák, 3142, Hungary.
- Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter Sétány 1/C, Budapest, 1117, Hungary.
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Mees I, Li S, Tran H, Ang CS, Williamson NA, Hannan AJ, Renoir T. Phosphoproteomic dysregulation in Huntington's disease mice is rescued by environmental enrichment. Brain Commun 2022; 4:fcac305. [PMID: 36523271 PMCID: PMC9746689 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
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Huntington's disease is a fatal autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by neuronal cell dysfunction and loss, primarily in the striatum, cortex and hippocampus, causing motor, cognitive and psychiatric impairments. Unfortunately, no treatments are yet available to modify the progression of the disease. Recent evidence from Huntington's disease mouse models suggests that protein phosphorylation (catalysed by kinases and hydrolysed by phosphatases) might be dysregulated, making this major post-translational modification a potential area of interest to find novel therapeutic targets. Furthermore, environmental enrichment, used to model an active lifestyle in preclinical models, has been shown to alleviate Huntington's disease-related motor and cognitive symptoms. However, the molecular mechanisms leading to these therapeutic effects are still largely unknown. In this study, we applied a phosphoproteomics approach combined with proteomic analyses on brain samples from pre-motor symptomatic R6/1 Huntington's disease male mice and their wild-type littermates, after being housed either in environmental enrichment conditions, or in standard housing conditions from 4 to 8 weeks of age (n = 6 per group). We hypothesized that protein phosphorylation dysregulations occur prior to motor onset in this mouse model, in two highly affected brain regions, the striatum and hippocampus. Furthermore, we hypothesized that these phosphoproteome alterations are rescued by environmental enrichment. When comparing 8-week-old Huntington's disease mice and wild-type mice in standard housing conditions, our analysis revealed 229 differentially phosphorylated peptides in the striatum, compared with only 15 differentially phosphorylated peptides in the hippocampus (statistical thresholds fold discovery rate 0.05, fold change 1.5). At the same disease stage, minor differences were found in protein levels, with 24 and 22 proteins dysregulated in the striatum and hippocampus, respectively. Notably, we found no differences in striatal protein phosphorylation and protein expression when comparing Huntington's disease mice and their wild-type littermates in environmentally enriched conditions. In the hippocampus, only four peptides were differentially phosphorylated between the two genotypes under environmentally enriched conditions, and 22 proteins were differentially expressed. Together, our data indicates that protein phosphorylation dysregulations occur in the striatum of Huntington's disease mice, prior to motor symptoms, and that the kinases and phosphatases leading to these changes in protein phosphorylation might be viable drug targets to consider for this disorder. Furthermore, we show that an early environmental intervention was able to rescue the changes observed in protein expression and phosphorylation in the striatum of Huntington's disease mice and might underlie the beneficial effects of environmental enrichment, thus identifying novel therapeutic targets.
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- Isaline Mees
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Bio21 Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Bio21 Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
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Sánchez RG, Parrish RR, Rich M, Webb WM, Lockhart RM, Nakao K, Ianov L, Buckingham SC, Broadwater DR, Jenkins A, de Lanerolle NC, Cunningham M, Eid T, Riley K, Lubin FD. Human and rodent temporal lobe epilepsy is characterized by changes in O-GlcNAc homeostasis that can be reversed to dampen epileptiform activity. Neurobiol Dis 2019; 124:531-543. [PMID: 30625365 PMCID: PMC6379093 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2019.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2018] [Revised: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/01/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) is frequently associated with changes in protein composition and post-translational modifications (PTM) that exacerbate the disorder. O-linked-β-N-acetyl glucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is a PTM occurring at serine/threonine residues that is derived from and closely associated with metabolic substrates. The enzymes O-GlcNActransferase (OGT) and O-GlcNAcase (OGA) mediate the addition and removal, respectively, of the O-GlcNAc modification. The goal of this study was to characterize OGT/OGA and protein O-GlcNAcylation in the epileptic hippocampus and to determine and whether direct manipulation of these proteins and PTM's alter epileptiform activity. We observed reduced global and protein specific O-GlcNAcylation and OGT expression in the kainate rat model of TLE and in human TLE hippocampal tissue. Inhibiting OGA with Thiamet-G elevated protein O-GlcNAcylation, and decreased both seizure duration and epileptic spike events, suggesting that OGA may be a therapeutic target for seizure control. These findings suggest that loss of O-GlcNAc homeostasis in the kainate model and in human TLE can be reversed via targeting of O-GlcNAc related pathways.
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- Richard G Sánchez
- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Civitan International Research Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- School of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States
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- Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, United States.
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Tropomodulin Isoform-Specific Regulation of Dendrite Development and Synapse Formation. J Neurosci 2018; 38:10271-10285. [PMID: 30301754 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3325-17.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2017] [Revised: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Neurons of the CNS elaborate highly branched dendritic arbors that host numerous dendritic spines, which serve as the postsynaptic platform for most excitatory synapses. The actin cytoskeleton plays an important role in dendrite development and spine formation, but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Tropomodulins (Tmods) are a family of actin-binding proteins that cap the slow-growing (pointed) end of actin filaments, thereby regulating the stability, length, and architecture of complex actin networks in diverse cell types. Three members of the Tmod family, Tmod1, Tmod2, and Tmod3 are expressed in the vertebrate CNS, but their function in neuronal development is largely unknown. In this study, we present evidence that Tmod1 and Tmod2 exhibit distinct roles in regulating spine development and dendritic arborization, respectively. Using rat hippocampal tissues from both sexes, we find that Tmod1 and Tmod2 are expressed with distinct developmental profiles: Tmod2 is expressed early during hippocampal development, whereas Tmod1 expression coincides with synaptogenesis. We then show that knockdown of Tmod2, but not Tmod1, severely impairs dendritic branching. Both Tmod1 and Tmod2 are localized to a distinct subspine region where they regulate local F-actin stability. However, the knockdown of Tmod1, but not Tmod2, disrupts spine morphogenesis and impairs synapse formation. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that regulation of the actin cytoskeleton by different members of the Tmod family plays an important role in distinct aspects of dendrite and spine development.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT The Tropomodulin family of molecules is best known for controlling the length and stability of actin myofilaments in skeletal muscles. While several Tropomodulin members are expressed in the brain, fundamental knowledge about their role in neuronal function is limited. In this study, we show the unique expression profile and subcellular distribution of Tmod1 and Tmod2 in hippocampal neurons. While both Tmod1 and Tmod2 regulate F-actin stability, we find that they exhibit isoform-specific roles in dendrite development and synapse formation: Tmod2 regulates dendritic arborization, whereas Tmod1 is required for spine development and synapse formation. These findings provide novel insight into the actin regulatory mechanisms underlying neuronal development, thereby shedding light on potential pathways disrupted in a number of neurological disorders.
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Arslan B, Colpan M, Gray KT, Abu-Lail NI, Kostyukova AS. Characterizing interaction forces between actin and proteins of the tropomodulin family reveals the presence of the N-terminal actin-binding site in leiomodin. Arch Biochem Biophys 2017; 638:18-26. [PMID: 29223925 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2017] [Revised: 11/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Tropomodulin family of proteins includes several isoforms of tropomodulins (Tmod) and leiomodins (Lmod). These proteins can sequester actin monomers or nucleate actin polymerization. Although it is known that their actin-binding properties are isoform-dependent, knowledge on how they vary in strengths of interactions with G-actin is missing. While it is confirmed in many studies that Tmods have two actin-binding sites, information on number and location of actin-binding sites in Lmod2 is controversial. We used atomic force microscopy to study interactions between G-actin and proteins of the tropomodulin family. Unbinding forces between G-actin and Tmod1, Tmod2, Tmod3, or Lmod2 were quantified. Our results indicated that Tmod1 and Tmod3 had unimodal force distributions, Tmod2 had a bimodal distribution and Lmod2 had a trimodal distribution. The number of force distributions correlates with the proteins' abilities to sequester actin or to nucleate actin polymerization. We assigned specific unbinding forces to the individual actin-binding sites of Tmod2 and Lmod2 using mutations that destroy actin-binding sites of Tmod2 and truncated Lmod2. Our results confirm the existence of the N-terminal actin-binding site in Lmod2. Altogether, our data demonstrate how the differences between the number and the strength of actin-binding sites of Tmod or Lmod translate to their functional abilities.
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- Baran Arslan
- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6515, United States
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- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6515, United States; Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Sarver Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
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- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6515, United States
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- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6515, United States.
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- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6515, United States.
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Gray KT, Kostyukova AS, Fath T. Actin regulation by tropomodulin and tropomyosin in neuronal morphogenesis and function. Mol Cell Neurosci 2017; 84:48-57. [PMID: 28433463 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2017.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
Actin is a profoundly influential protein; it impacts, among other processes, membrane morphology, cellular motility, and vesicle transport. Actin can polymerize into long filaments that push on membranes and provide support for intracellular transport. Actin filaments have polar ends: the fast-growing (barbed) end and the slow-growing (pointed) end. Depolymerization from the pointed end supplies monomers for further polymerization at the barbed end. Tropomodulins (Tmods) cap pointed ends by binding onto actin and tropomyosins (Tpms). Tmods and Tpms have been shown to regulate many cellular processes; however, very few studies have investigated their joint role in the nervous system. Recent data directly indicate that they can modulate neuronal morphology. Additional studies suggest that Tmod and Tpm impact molecular processes influential in synaptic signaling. To facilitate future research regarding their joint role in actin regulation in the nervous system, we will comprehensively discuss Tpm and Tmod and their known functions within molecular systems that influence neuronal development.
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- Kevin T Gray
- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States; School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States.
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Gray KT, Suchowerska AK, Bland T, Colpan M, Wayman G, Fath T, Kostyukova AS. Tropomodulin isoforms utilize specific binding functions to modulate dendrite development. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2016; 73:316-28. [PMID: 27126680 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2016] [Revised: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Tropomodulins (Tmods) cap F-actin pointed ends and have altered expression in the brain in neurological diseases. The function of Tmods in neurons has been poorly studied and their role in neurological diseases is entirely unknown. In this article, we show that Tmod1 and Tmod2, but not Tmod3, are positive regulators of dendritic complexity and dendritic spine morphology. Tmod1 increases dendritic branching distal from the cell body and the number of filopodia/thin spines. Tmod2 increases dendritic branching proximal to the cell body and the number of mature dendritic spines. Tmods utilize two actin-binding sites and two tropomyosin (Tpm)-binding sites to cap F-actin. Overexpression of Tmods with disrupted Tpm-binding sites indicates that Tmod1 and Tmod2 differentially utilize their Tpm- and actin-binding sites to affect morphology. Disruption of Tmod1's Tpm-binding sites abolished the overexpression phenotype. In contrast, overexpression of the mutated Tmod2 caused the same phenotype as wild type overexpression. Proximity ligation assays indicate that the mutated Tmods are shuttled similarly to wild type Tmods. Our data begins to uncover the roles of Tmods in neural development and the mechanism by which Tmods alter neural morphology. These observations in combination with altered Tmod expression found in several neurological diseases also suggest that dysregulation of Tmod expression may be involved in the pathology of these diseases. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Kevin T Gray
- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
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Cell type-restricted expression of erythrocyte tropomodulin Isoform41 in exon 1 knockout/LacZ knock-in heterozygous mice. Gene Expr Patterns 2015; 17:45-55. [PMID: 25721257 DOI: 10.1016/j.gep.2015.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2014] [Revised: 02/03/2015] [Accepted: 02/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Full-length erythrocyte tropomodulin (E-Tmod or Tmod1) isoform of 41 kDa is an actin nucleation protein and caps the pointed end of tropomyosin-coated actin filaments. It participates in the length control of short actin protofilaments in the erythrocyte membrane skeletal network as well as the organization of microfilaments in non-erythroid cells. Recently we discovered and characterized a truncated isoform of 29 kDa, which lacks the N-terminal sequence encoded by exons 1 and 2 required for nucleation and capping. Thus, it is important to study the expression pattern of solely the E-Tmod41 isoform in tissues. We utilized our exon 1 knockout (KO) mouse model with a knock-in lacZ reporter gene which reports the expression of E-Tmod41, but not E-Tmod29. Because this homozygous isoform-specific KO is an embryonic lethal mutation, we used heterozygous mice. X-gal staining localized specific signals at the single cell level and revealed a timed expression during embryonic development and restricted expression in adult mice. Our results showed that E-Tmod41 expressing cells include developing and young erythroid cells, developing somites, young fiber cells in the lens, certain subtype(s) of tubular cells in the kidney, smooth muscle cells in various tissues, and horizontal cells in the retina. A comparison with previous studies revealed that most if not all tissues known to express E-Tmod contained lacZ-expressing cells. Interestingly, some tubular cells were lacZ-positive while others in the same renal tubule were not, indicating heterogeneity within the tubular cells. Combined with double immunocytochemistry, we further localized E-Tmod41 to dendritic spines of horizontal cells. These timed and cell-type restricted expressions of E-Tmod41 suggest a role of actin nucleation and/or short actin protofilaments in these cell types and sub-cellular structures.
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Guillaud L, Gray KT, Moroz N, Pantazis C, Pate E, Kostyukova AS. Role of tropomodulin's leucine rich repeat domain in the formation of neurite-like processes. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2689-700. [PMID: 24746171 PMCID: PMC4018078 DOI: 10.1021/bi401431k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Actin dynamics is fundamental for neurite development; monomer depolymerization from pointed ends is rate-limiting in actin treadmilling. Tropomodulins (Tmod) make up a family of actin pointed end-capping proteins. Of the four known isoforms, Tmod1-Tmod3 are expressed in brain cells. We investigated the role of Tmod's C-terminal (LRR) domain in the formation of neurite-like processes by overexpressing Tmod1 and Tmod2 with deleted or mutated LRR domains in PC12 cells, a model system used to study neuritogenesis. Tmod1 overexpression results in a normal quantity and a normal length of processes, while Tmod2 overexpression reduces both measures. The Tmod2 overexpression phenotype is mimicked by overexpression of Tmod1 with the LRR domain removed or with three point mutations in the LRR domain that disrupt exposed clusters of conserved residues. Removal of Tmod2's LRR domain does not significantly alter the outgrowth of neurite-like processes compared to that of Tmod2. Overexpression of chimeras with the N-terminal and C-terminal domains switched between Tmod1 and Tmod2 reinforces the idea that Tmod1's LRR domain counteracts the reductive effect of the Tmod N-terminal domain upon formation of processes while Tmod2's LRR domain does not. We suggest that the TM-dependent actin capping ability of both Tmods inhibits the formation of processes, but in Tmod1, this inhibition can be controlled via its LRR domain. Circular dichroism, limited proteolysis, and molecular dynamics demonstrate structural differences in the C-terminal region of the LRR domains of Tmod1, Tmod2, and the Tmod1 mutant.
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- Laurent Guillaud
- Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit, OIST Graduate University , 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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Colpan M, Moroz NA, Kostyukova AS. Tropomodulins and tropomyosins: working as a team. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 2013; 34:247-60. [PMID: 23828180 DOI: 10.1007/s10974-013-9349-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/24/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Actin filaments are major components of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells and are involved in vital cellular functions such as cell motility and muscle contraction. Tmod and TM are crucial constituents of the actin filament network, making their presence indispensable in living cells. Tropomyosin (TM) is an alpha-helical, coiled coil protein that covers the grooves of actin filaments and stabilizes them. Actin filament length is optimized by tropomodulin (Tmod), which caps the slow growing (pointed end) of thin filaments to inhibit polymerization or depolymerization. Tmod consists of two structurally distinct regions: the N-terminal and the C-terminal domains. The N-terminal domain contains two TM-binding sites and one TM-dependent actin-binding site, whereas the C-terminal domain contains a TM-independent actin-binding site. Tmod binds to two TM molecules and at least one actin molecule during capping. The interaction of Tmod with TM is a key regulatory factor for actin filament organization. The binding efficacy of Tmod to TM is isoform-dependent. The affinities of Tmod/TM binding influence the proper localization and capping efficiency of Tmod at the pointed end of actin filaments in cells. Here we describe how a small difference in the sequence of the TM-binding sites of Tmod may result in dramatic change in localization of Tmod in muscle cells or morphology of non-muscle cells. We also suggest most promising directions to study and elucidate the role of Tmod-TM interaction in formation and maintenance of sarcomeric and cytoskeletal structure.
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- Mert Colpan
- The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, 118 Dana Hall, Spokane St., Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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Yamashiro S, Gokhin DS, Kimura S, Nowak RB, Fowler VM. Tropomodulins: pointed-end capping proteins that regulate actin filament architecture in diverse cell types. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2012; 69:337-70. [PMID: 22488942 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2011] [Revised: 03/23/2012] [Accepted: 03/26/2012] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Tropomodulins are a family of four proteins (Tmods 1-4) that cap the pointed ends of actin filaments in actin cytoskeletal structures in a developmentally regulated and tissue-specific manner. Unique among capping proteins, Tmods also bind tropomyosins (TMs), which greatly enhance the actin filament pointed-end capping activity of Tmods. Tmods are defined by a TM-regulated/Pointed-End Actin Capping (TM-Cap) domain in their unstructured N-terminal portion, followed by a compact, folded Leucine-Rich Repeat/Pointed-End Actin Capping (LRR-Cap) domain. By inhibiting actin monomer association and dissociation from pointed ends, Tmods regulate actin dynamics and turnover, stabilizing actin filament lengths and cytoskeletal architecture. In this review, we summarize the genes, structural features, molecular and biochemical properties, actin regulatory mechanisms, expression patterns, and cell and tissue functions of Tmods. By understanding Tmods' functions in the context of their molecular structure, actin regulation, binding partners, and related variants (leiomodins 1-3), we can draw broad conclusions that can explain the diverse morphological and functional phenotypes that arise from Tmod perturbation experiments in vitro and in vivo. Tmod-based stabilization and organization of intracellular actin filament networks provide key insights into how the emergent properties of the actin cytoskeleton drive tissue morphogenesis and physiology.
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- Sawako Yamashiro
- Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Piscopo P, Crestini A, Adduci A, Ferrante A, Massari M, Popoli P, Vanacore N, Confaloni A. Altered oxidative stress profile in the cortex of mice fed an enriched branched-chain amino acids diet: Possible link with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis? J Neurosci Res 2011; 89:1276-83. [DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2010] [Revised: 02/24/2011] [Accepted: 03/07/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Fath T, Fischer RS, Dehmelt L, Halpain S, Fowler VM. Tropomodulins are negative regulators of neurite outgrowth. Eur J Cell Biol 2010; 90:291-300. [PMID: 21146252 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2010.10.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2010] [Revised: 10/20/2010] [Accepted: 10/26/2010] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton is critical for neurite formation. Tropomodulins (Tmods) regulate polymerization at actin filament pointed ends. Previous experiments using a mouse model deficient for the neuron specific isoform Tmod2 suggested a role for Tmods in neuronal function by impacting processes underlying learning and memory. However, the role of Tmods in neuronal function on the cellular level remains unknown. Immunofluorescence localization of the neuronal isoforms Tmod1 and Tmod2 in cultured rat primary hippocampal neurons revealed that Tmod1 is enriched along the proximal part of F-actin bundles in lamellipodia of spreading cells and in growth cones of extending neurites, while Tmod2 appears largely cytoplasmic. Functional analysis of these Tmod isoforms in a mouse neuroblastoma N2a cell line showed that knockdown of Tmod2 resulted in a significant increase in the number of neurite-forming cells and in neurite length. While N2a cells compensated for Tmod2 knockdown by increasing Tmod1 levels, over-expression of exogenous Tmod1 had no effect on neurite outgrowth. Moreover, knockdown of Tmod1 increased the number of neurites formed per cell, without effect on the number of neurite-forming cells or neurite length. Taken together, these results indicate that Tmod1 and Tmod2 have mechanistically distinct inhibitory roles in neurite formation, likely mediated via different effects on F-actin dynamics and via differential localizations during early neuritogenesis.
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- Thomas Fath
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Wallace Wurth Building (C27), Rm502, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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Loheswaran G, Stanojcic M, Xu L, Sakic B. Autoimmunity as a principal pathogenic factor in the refined model of neuropsychiatric lupus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-1961.2010.00014.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Yao W, Nathanson J, Lian I, Gage FH, Sung LA. Mouse erythrocyte tropomodulin in the brain reported by lacZ knocked-in downstream from the E1 promoter. Gene Expr Patterns 2007; 8:36-46. [PMID: 17920339 DOI: 10.1016/j.modgep.2007.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2007] [Revised: 07/19/2007] [Accepted: 08/22/2007] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Erythrocyte tropomodulin (E-Tmod, Tmod1) is a tropomyosin-binding protein that caps the slow-growing end of actin filaments. In erythrocytes, it may favor the formation of short actin protofilaments needed for elastic cell deformation. Previously we created a knockout mouse model in which lacZ was knocked-in downstream of the E1 promoter to report the expression of full length E-Tmod. Here we utilize E-Tmod(+/lacZ) mice to study E-Tmod expression patterns in the CNS. X-gal staining and in situ hybridization of adults revealed its restricted expression in the olfactory bulb, hippocampus, cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, nuclei of brain stem and cerebellum. In neonates, signals in the cortex and caudate putamen increased from days 15 to 40. Immunohistochemistry also revealed that signals for beta-galactosidase coincided with that of NeuN, a post-mitotic nuclear marker for neurons, but not that for GFAP+ astrocytes or APC+ oligodendrocytes, suggesting E-Tmod/lacZ-positive cells in the CNS were neurons. Large neurons, e.g., mitral cells in olfactory bulb and mossy cells in hilus of the dentate gyrus are among those that expressed very high levels of E-Tmod in the CNS.
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- Weijuan Yao
- Department of Bioengineering and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA
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Yang JW, Czech T, Felizardo M, Baumgartner C, Lubec G. Aberrant expression of cytoskeleton proteins in hippocampus from patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Amino Acids 2006; 30:477-93. [PMID: 16583313 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-005-0281-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2005] [Accepted: 04/06/2005] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), the most common form of epilepsy, is characterised by cytoarchitectural abnormalities including neuronal cell loss and reactive gliosis in hippocampus. Determination of aberrant cytoskeleton protein expression by proteomics techniques may help to understand pathomechanism that is still elusive. We searched for differential expression of hippocampal proteins by an analytical method based on two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) coupled with mass spectrometry unambiguously identifying 77 proteins analysed in eight control and eight MTLE hippocampi. Proteins were quantified and we observed 18 proteins that were altered in MTLE. Cytoskeleton proteins tubulin alpha-1 chain, beta-tubulin, profilin II, neuronal tropomodulin were significantly reduced and one actin spot was missing, whereas ezrin and vinculin were significantly increased in MTLE. Proteins of several classes as e.g. antioxidant proteins (peroxiredoxins 3 and 6), chaperons (T-complex protein 1-alpha, stress-induced-phosphoprotein 1), signaling protein MAP kinase kinase 1, synaptosomal proteins (synaptotagmin I, alpha-synuclein), NAD-dependent deacetylase sirtuin-2 and 26S protease regulatory subunit 7 protein, neuronal-specific septin 3 were altered in MTLE. Taken together, the findings may represent or lead to cytoskeletal impairment; aberrant antioxidant proteins, chaperons, MAP kinase kinase 1 and NAD-dependent deacetylase sirtuin-2 may have been involved in pathogenetic mechanisms and altered synaptosomal protein expression possibly reflects synaptic impairment in MTLE.
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- J W Yang
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Lee KH, Ryu CJ, Hong HJ, Kim J, Lee EH. cDNA Microarray Analysis of Nerve Growth Factor-Regulated Gene Expression Profile in Rat PC12 Cells. Neurochem Res 2005; 30:533-40. [PMID: 16076023 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-005-2688-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Nerve growth factor (NGF)-driven differentiation of PC12 cells into neuronal-like cells provides a representative model system for studying neuronal differentiation processes. Despite of extensive research, gene regulation associated with the differentiation program in PC12 cells still needs to be elucidated. We used cDNA microarray analysis to characterize the response of PC12 cells to NGF at mRNA expression. Forty-six genes were reproducibly influenced by 2-fold or more after NGF treatment for 5 days. Twenty-five of the regulated transcripts were matched to genes which have known functions. Among the microarray results confirmed with real-time reverse transcriptase assay, several genes have not previously known to be modulated by NGF. The results mostly reflected changes in molecules regulating neural plasticity, cytoskeletal organization, and lipid metabolism, which include neuritin, PDZ protein Mrt1, lipoprotein lipase, tropomodulin 1 and rhoB. These observed genetic changes may provide new information about molecular mechanisms underlying NGF-promoted differentiation of PC12 cells.
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- Kyung-Hee Lee
- Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, Korea
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Greenfield NJ, Kostyukova AS, Hitchcock-DeGregori SE. Structure and tropomyosin binding properties of the N-terminal capping domain of tropomodulin 1. Biophys J 2004; 88:372-83. [PMID: 15475586 PMCID: PMC1305014 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.051128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Two families of actin regulatory proteins are the tropomodulins and tropomyosins. Tropomodulin binds to tropomyosin (TM) and to the pointed end of actin filaments and "caps" the pointed end (i.e., inhibits its polymerization and depolymerization). Tropomodulin 1 has two distinct actin-capping regions: a folded C-terminal domain (residues 160-359), which does not bind to TM, and a conserved, N-terminal region, within residues 1-92 that binds TM and requires TM for capping activity. NMR and circular dichroism were used to determine the structure of a peptide containing residues 1-92 of tropomodulin (Tmod1(1-92)) and to define its TM binding site. Tmod1(1-92) is mainly disordered with only one helical region, residues 24-35. This helix forms part of the TM binding domain, residues 1-35, which become more ordered upon binding a peptide containing the N-terminus of an alpha-TM. Mutation of L27 to E or G in the Tmod helix reduces TM affinity. Residues 49-92 are required for capping but do not bind TM. Of these, residues 67-75 have the sequence of an amphipathic helix, but are not helical. Residues 55-62 and 76-92 display negative 1H-15N heteronuclear Overhauser enhancements showing they are flexible. The conformational dynamics of these residues may be important for actin capping activity.
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- Norma J Greenfield
- Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-5635, USA.
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Kong KY, Kedes L. Cytoplasmic Nuclear Transfer of the Actin-capping Protein Tropomodulin. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:30856-64. [PMID: 15123707 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302845200] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Tropomodulin (Tmod) is a cytoskeletal actin-capping protein that interacts with tropomyosin at the pointed end of actin filaments. E-Tmod is an isoform that expresses predominantly in cardiac cells and slow skeletal muscle fibers. We unexpectedly discovered significant levels of Tmod in nuclei and then defined peptide domains in Tmod responsible for nuclear import and export. These domains resemble, and function as, a nuclear export signal (NES) and a pattern 4 nuclear localization signal (NLS). Both motifs are conserved in other Tmod isoforms and across species. Comparisons of wild-type Tmod and Tmod carrying mutations in these peptide domains revealed that Tmod normally traffics through the nucleus. These observations logically presuppose that Tmod functions may include a nuclear role. Indeed, increasing Tmod in the nucleus severely hampered myogenic differentiation and selectively suppressed muscle-specific gene expression (endogenous p21, myosin heavy chain, myogenin, and Tmod) but did not affect endogenous glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase or expression from a transfected E-GFP vector. These results suggest that, at least in myogenic cells, nuclear Tmod may be involved in the differentiation process.
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MESH Headings
- Actins/chemistry
- Active Transport, Cell Nucleus
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Carrier Proteins/chemistry
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Line
- Cell Nucleus/metabolism
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytoplasm/metabolism
- Cytoskeleton/metabolism
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Lentivirus/genetics
- Luminescent Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Microfilament Proteins/chemistry
- Microfilament Proteins/metabolism
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Microscopy, Phase-Contrast
- Models, Genetic
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mutation
- Myocytes, Cardiac/cytology
- Nuclear Localization Signals
- Plasmids/metabolism
- Protein Isoforms
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- RNA/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Transfection
- Tropomodulin
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- Kimi Y Kong
- Institute for Genetic Medicine and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA
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Chu X, Thompson D, Yee LJ, Sung LA. Genomic organization of mouse and human erythrocyte tropomodulin genes encoding the pointed end capping protein for the actin filaments. Gene 2000; 256:271-81. [PMID: 11054557 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(00)00327-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Erythrocyte tropomodulin (E-Tmod), a globular protein of 359 residues, is highly expressed in the erythrocyte, heart and skeletal muscle. By binding to the N-terminus of tropomyosin (TM) and actin, E-Tmod blocks the elongation and depolymerization of the actin filaments at the pointed end. In erythrocytes, the E-Tmod/TM complex contributes to the formation of the short actin protofilament, which in turn defines the geometry of the membrane skeleton. In juvenile mice, over-expression of E-Tmod is associated with dilated cardiomyopathy. We have previously cloned the human E-Tmod cDNA, identified its TM-binding region, and mapped its gene to chromosome 9q22. Through genomic library screening and PCR-based genomic walking we have now cloned the mouse E-Tmod gene, whose coding region spans approximately 60kb containing nine exons and eight introns. The human E-Tmod gene obtained by PCR has an identical exon-intron organization. In sanpodo, a Tmod homologue in Drosophila, the exon boundaries are also conserved except that exons 2-5 and 6-7 are 'fused' and alternative splicing of two additional 5' exons and the 3' exons may give rise to several sanpodo isoforms. In a Tmod-like gene of C. elegans, exons 2-3 are 'fused', boundaries of exons 1, 7, 8, and 9 are conserved and exon/intron junctions of exons 4, 5 and 6 are shifted by a few residues. Analyses of 15 Tmod members from six species show no insertions or deletions of residues in the region of exons 6 and 7. A 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends reveals that mouse E-Tmod transcripts obtained from embryonic stem cells, skeletal muscle and heart, but not smooth muscle, contain an additional 86bp untranslated cDNA sequence further upstream from exon 1. Thus, alternative promoters may provide a possible mechanism for tissue-specific expression and regulation of E-Tmod. This study is the first to report the exon organization of E-Tmod genes, which allows their regulation, manipulation, and disease relevance to be further investigated.
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- X Chu
- Department of Bioengineering and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA
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While primary, or idiopathic, epilepsies may exist, in the vast majority of cases epilepsy is a symptom of an underlying brain disease or injury. In these cases, it is difficult if not impossible to dissociate the consequences of epilepsy from the consequences of the underlying disease, the treatment of either the disease or the epilepsy, or the actual seizures themselves. Several cases of apparent complications of epilepsy are presented to illustrate the range of consequences encountered in clinical practice and the difficulty in assigning blame for progressive symptomatology in individual cases. Because of the difficulty in interpreting clinical material, many investigators have turned to epilepsy models in order to address the potential progressive consequences of recurrent seizures. The authors review experimental data, mainly from animal models, that illustrate short-, medium-, and long-term morphological and biochemical changes in the brain occurring after seizures, and attempt to relate these observations to the human condition.
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- A J Cole
- Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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Cox PR, Zoghbi HY. Sequencing, expression analysis, and mapping of three unique human tropomodulin genes and their mouse orthologs. Genomics 2000; 63:97-107. [PMID: 10662549 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.6061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Tropomodulin (TMOD) is the actin-capping protein for the slow-growing end of filamentous actin, and a neuronal-specific isoform, neuronal tropomodulin (NTMOD), is the major binding protein to brain tropomyosin in rat. The Drosophila TMOD homolog, Sanpodo, alters sibling cell fate determination, so we used a cross-species approach to identify additional TMOD family members that may play a critical role in this process. We characterized the human and mouse orthologs to rat NTMOD (TMOD2 and Tmod2, respectively) as well as two novel tropomodulin family members (TMOD3, Tmod3 and TMOD4, Tmod4). Their expression patterns vary extensively, from ubiquitous (TMOD3 and Tmod3) to muscle (TMOD4) or neuronal tissues only (TMOD2 and Tmod2). TMOD2 and TMOD3 map next to one another on chromosome 15q21.1-q21.2, and their mouse orthologs map to a homologous region on mouse chromosome 9; TMOD4 maps to the telomeric end of 1q12 and Tmod4 to a homologous region of mouse chromosome 3. Their location and expression patterns make TMOD2 and TMOD3 candidate genes for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 5 (ALS5) and dyslexia-1 (DYX1) and TMOD4 a candidate gene for limb girdle muscular dystrophy 1B (LGMD1B). Our mapping efforts revealed new regions of paralogy among chromosomes 1q, 9q, 15q, and 19p.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 15
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 19
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9
- Embryo, Mammalian/metabolism
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Mice
- Microfilament Proteins/genetics
- Microfilament Proteins/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Organ Specificity
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Rats
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Alignment
- Tropomodulin
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- P R Cox
- Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Rafiki A, Ben-Ari Y, Khrestchatisky M, Represa A. Long-lasting enhanced expression in the rat hippocampus of NMDAR1 splice variants in a kainate model of epilepsy. Eur J Neurosci 1998; 10:497-507. [PMID: 9749712 DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00054.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Chronic epilepsy is associated with increased excitability which may result from abnormal glutamatergic synaptic transmission involving altered properties of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. To date two gene families encoding NMDA receptor subunits have been cloned, NR1 and NR2. Eight NR1 mRNAs are generated by alternative splicing of exons 5, 21 and 22; the NR1-1 to NR1-4 C-terminal variants exist in the a or b version depending on the presence or absence of the domain encoded by exon 5. Epilepsy was induced in rats by unilateral intra-amygdalar injection of kainate and animals were killed from 6 h to 4 months following the injection. Increased NR1 mRNA levels were observed during status epilepticus (6-24 h after the injection), both psilateral and contralateral, while a second wave of NMDAR1 mRNA increase occurred in chronic epileptic animals, between 21 days and 4 months following kainate injection. Our data show: (i) a permanent increase of the NR1-2a and NR1-2b mRNA species (containing exon 22) in all hippocampal fields, both ipsilateral and contralateral, and (ii) an increase of the NR1-3 (a and b) mRNAs (containing exon 21) in the ipsilateral CA1, and NR1-3a mRNA in the ipsilateral dentate gyrus. No long-term changes were observed for the NR1-1 and NR14 splice variants. In the ipsilateral CA3 area a globally decreased mRNA expression was associated with neuronal loss. A possible contribution to the maintenance of the epileptic state by an increased expression of NMDA receptors is discussed.
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- A Rafiki
- Université René Descartes (Paris V), France
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Sussman MA, Baqué S, Uhm CS, Daniels MP, Price RL, Simpson D, Terracio L, Kedes L. Altered expression of tropomodulin in cardiomyocytes disrupts the sarcomeric structure of myofibrils. Circ Res 1998; 82:94-105. [PMID: 9440708 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.82.1.94] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Tropomodulin is a tropomyosin-binding protein that terminates "pointed-end" actin filament polymerization. To test the hypothesis that regulation of tropomodulin:actin filament stoichiometry is critical for maintenance of actin filament length, tropomodulin levels were altered in cells by infection with recombinant adenoviral expression vectors, which produce either sense or antisense tropomodulin mRNA. Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were infected, and sarcomeric actin filament organization was examined. Confocal microscopy indicated that overexpression of tropomodulin protein shortened actin filaments and caused myofibril degeneration. In contrast, decreased tropomodulin content resulted in the formation of abnormally long actin filament bundles. Despite changes in myofibril structure caused by altered tropomodulin expression, total protein turnover of the cardiomyocytes was unaffected. Biochemical analyses of infected cardiomyocytes indicated that changes in actin distribution, rather than altered actin content, accounted for myofibril reorganization. Ultrastructural analysis showed thin-filament disarray and revealed the presence of leptomeres after tropomodulin overexpression. Tropomodulin-mediated effects constitute a novel mechanism to control actin filaments, and our findings demonstrate that regulated tropomodulin expression is necessary to maintain stabilized actin filament structures in cardiac muscle cells.
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- M A Sussman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA.
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Watakabe A, Kobayashi R, Helfman DM. N-tropomodulin: a novel isoform of tropomodulin identified as the major binding protein to brain tropomyosin. J Cell Sci 1996; 109 ( Pt 9):2299-310. [PMID: 8886980 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.109.9.2299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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We have identified and characterized two proteins in rat brain that bind to the neuron-specific tropomyosin isoform, TMBr3. The two proteins were identified by blot overlay assay, in which the proteins immobilized on the membrane were probed by epitope-tagged TMBr3, followed by detection with anti-epitope antibody. We have purified these proteins using a TMBr3 affinity column. Peptide sequencing as well as immunoblotting showed that one of the two proteins is identical to tropomodulin, a tropomyosin-binding protein originally identified in erythrocytes. The cDNA for the other protein was cloned from an adult rat brain cDNA library using degenerate oligonucleotides that we designed based on the peptide sequences. Sequence analysis of the cDNA clone revealed this protein to be a novel isoform of tropomodulin which is the product of a distinct gene, and is herein referred to as N-tropomodulin. Recombinant N-tropomodulin bound to TMBr3 as well as to other low molecular mass tropomyosins (TM5a or TM5), but not to high molecular mass tropomyosins (TM2 or TMBr1). Northern blotting and RNase protection assays as well as immunoblotting showed that N-tropomodulin is expressed predominantly in brain. Furthermore, RNase protection assays revealed no alternatively spliced regions within the coding sequence. Developmentally, N-tropomodulin was detected in rat brain as early as embryonic day 14 and reaches the adult level before birth. Immunofluorescence of primary frontal cortex cell cultures showed that N-tropomodulin is specifically expressed in neurons. The neuron-specific expression of N-tropomodulin strongly suggests specialized roles of this TM-binding protein in neurons.
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- A Watakabe
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 11724, USA
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Gregorio CC, Fowler VM. Tropomodulin function and thin filament assembly in cardiac myocytes. Trends Cardiovasc Med 1996; 6:136-41. [DOI: 10.1016/1050-1738(96)00022-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Gregorio CC, Weber A, Bondad M, Pennise CR, Fowler VM. Requirement of pointed-end capping by tropomodulin to maintain actin filament length in embryonic chick cardiac myocytes. Nature 1995; 377:83-6. [PMID: 7544875 DOI: 10.1038/377083a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Control of actin filament length and dynamics is important for cell motility and architecture and is regulated in part by capping proteins that block elongation and depolymerization at both the fast-growing (barbed) and slow-growing (pointed) ends. Tropomodulin is a capping protein for the pointed end of the actin filament; it is associated with the free, pointed ends of the thin filaments in striated muscle, where it is thought to bind to both tropomyosin and actin. In embryonic chick cardiac myocytes, tropomodulin assembles after the thin, as well as the thick, filaments have become organized into periodic I and A bands, suggesting that tropomodulin might be involved in maintaining actin filament length. Here we show that microinjection of an antibody that inhibits tropomodulin's pointed-end-capping activity in vitro results in a marked elongation of actin filaments from their pointed ends and a > 80% reduction in the percentage of beating cells. This demonstrates that pointed-end capping by tropomodulin is required to maintain actin filament length in vivo and that this is essential for contractile function in embryonic chick cardiac myocytes.
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- C C Gregorio
- Department of Cell Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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