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Gaspar CJ, Gomes T, Martins JC, Melo MN, Adrain C, Cordeiro TN, Domingos PM. Xport-A functions as a chaperone by stabilizing the first five transmembrane domains of rhodopsin-1. iScience 2023; 26:108309. [PMID: 38025784 PMCID: PMC10663829 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Rhodopsin-1 (Rh1), the main photosensitive protein of Drosophila, is a seven-transmembrane domain protein, which is inserted co-translationally in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane. Biogenesis of Rh1 occurs in the ER, where various chaperones interact with Rh1 to aid in its folding and subsequent transport from the ER to the rhabdomere, the light-sensing organelle of the photoreceptors. Xport-A has been proposed as a chaperone/transport factor for Rh1, but the exact molecular mechanism for Xport-A activity upon Rh1 is unknown. Here, we propose a model where Xport-A functions as a chaperone during the biogenesis of Rh1 in the ER by stabilizing the first five transmembrane domains (TMDs) of Rh1.
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- Catarina J. Gaspar
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
- Membrane Traffic Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Membrane Traffic Lab, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), 2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal
- Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research, Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, BT9 7AE Belfast, UK
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB-NOVA), Av. da República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
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Vitamin A Deficiency Alters the Phototransduction Machinery and Distinct Non-Vision-Specific Pathways in the Drosophila Eye Proteome. Biomolecules 2022; 12:biom12081083. [PMID: 36008977 PMCID: PMC9405971 DOI: 10.3390/biom12081083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The requirement of vitamin A for the synthesis of the visual chromophore and the light-sensing pigments has been studied in vertebrate and invertebrate model organisms. To identify the molecular mechanisms that orchestrate the ocular response to vitamin A deprivation, we took advantage of the fact that Drosophila melanogaster predominantly requires vitamin A for vision, but not for development or survival. We analyzed the impacts of vitamin A deficiency on the morphology, the lipidome, and the proteome of the Drosophila eye. We found that chronic vitamin A deprivation damaged the light-sensing compartments and caused a dramatic loss of visual pigments, but also decreased the molar abundance of most phototransduction proteins that amplify and transduce the visual signal. Unexpectedly, vitamin A deficiency also decreased the abundances of specific subunits of mitochondrial TCA cycle and respiratory chain components but increased the levels of cuticle- and lens-related proteins. In contrast, we found no apparent effects of vitamin A deficiency on the ocular lipidome. In summary, chronic vitamin A deficiency decreases the levels of most components of the visual signaling pathway, but also affects molecular pathways that are not vision-specific and whose mechanistic connection to vitamin A remains to be elucidated.
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Wagner K, Smylla TK, Lampe M, Krieg J, Huber A. Phospholipase D and retromer promote recycling of TRPL ion channel via the endoplasmic reticulum. Traffic 2021; 23:42-62. [PMID: 34719094 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Plasma membrane protein trafficking is of fundamental importance for cell function and cell integrity of neurons and includes regulated protein recycling. In this work, we report a novel role of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) for protein recycling as discovered in trafficking studies of the ion channel TRPL in photoreceptor cells of Drosophila. TRPL is located within the rhabdomeric membrane from where it is endocytosed upon light stimulation and stored in the cell body. Conventional immunohistochemistry as well as stimulated emission depletion super-resolution microscopy revealed TRPL storage at the ER after illumination, suggesting an unusual recycling route of TRPL. Our results also imply that both phospholipase D (PLD) and retromer complex are required for correct recycling of TRPL to the rhabdomeric membrane. Loss of PLD activity in PLD3.1 mutants results in enhanced degradation of TRPL. In the retromer mutant vps35MH20 , TRPL is trapped in a Rab5-positive compartment. Evidenced by epistatic analysis in the double mutant PLD3.1 vps35MH20 , PLD activity precedes retromer function. We propose a model in which PLD and retromer function play key roles in the transport of TRPL to an ER enriched compartment.
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- Krystina Wagner
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Stuttgart, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Advanced Light Microscopy Core Facility, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Stuttgart, Germany
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Dewett D, Labaf M, Lam-Kamath K, Zarringhalam K, Rister J. Vitamin A deficiency affects gene expression in the Drosophila melanogaster head. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2021; 11:jkab297. [PMID: 34849795 PMCID: PMC8527478 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkab297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Insufficient dietary intake of vitamin A causes various human diseases. For instance, chronic vitamin A deprivation causes blindness, slow growth, impaired immunity, and an increased risk of mortality in children. In contrast to these diverse effects of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in mammals, chronic VAD in flies neither causes obvious developmental defects nor lethality. As in mammals, VAD in flies severely affects the visual system: it impairs the synthesis of the retinal chromophore, disrupts the formation of the visual pigments (Rhodopsins), and damages the photoreceptors. However, the molecular mechanisms that respond to VAD remain poorly understood. To identify genes and signaling pathways that are affected by VAD, we performed RNA-sequencing and differential gene expression analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. We found an upregulation of genes that are essential for the synthesis of the retinal chromophore, specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, and major nutrient reservoir proteins. We also discovered that VAD affects several genes that are required for the termination of the light response: for instance, we found a downregulation of both arrestin genes that are essential for the inactivation of Rhodopsin. A comparison of the VAD-responsive genes with previously identified blue light stress-responsive genes revealed that the two types of environmental stress trigger largely nonoverlapping transcriptome responses. Yet, both stresses increase the expression of seven genes with poorly understood functions. Taken together, our transcriptome analysis offers insights into the molecular mechanisms that respond to environmental stresses.
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- Deepshe Dewett
- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA
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Dewett D, Lam-Kamath K, Poupault C, Khurana H, Rister J. Mechanisms of vitamin A metabolism and deficiency in the mammalian and fly visual system. Dev Biol 2021; 476:68-78. [PMID: 33774009 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
Vitamin A deficiency can cause human pathologies that range from blindness to embryonic malformations. This diversity is due to the lack of two major vitamin A metabolites with very different functions: the chromophore 11-cis-retinal (vitamin A aldehyde) is a critical component of the visual pigment that mediates phototransduction, while the signaling molecule all-trans-retinoic acid regulates the development of various tissues and is required for the function of the immune system. Since animals cannot synthesize vitamin A de novo, they must obtain it either as preformed vitamin A from animal products or as carotenoid precursors from plant sources. Due to its essential role in the visual system, acute vitamin A deprivation impairs photoreceptor function and causes night blindness (poor vision under dim light conditions), while chronic deprivation results in retinal dystrophies and photoreceptor cell death. Chronic vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness according to the World Health Organization. Due to the requirement of vitamin A for retinoic acid signaling in development and in the immune system, vitamin A deficiency also causes increased mortality in children and pregnant women in developing countries. Drosophila melanogaster is an excellent model to study the effects of vitamin A deprivation on the eye because vitamin A is not essential for Drosophila development and chronic deficiency does not cause lethality. Moreover, genetic screens in Drosophila have identified evolutionarily conserved factors that mediate the production of vitamin A and its cellular uptake. Here, we review our current knowledge about the role of vitamin A in the visual system of mammals and Drosophila melanogaster. We compare the molecular mechanisms that mediate the uptake of dietary vitamin A precursors and the metabolism of vitamin A, as well as the consequences of vitamin A deficiency for the structure and function of the eye.
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- Deepshe Dewett
- Department of Biology, Integrated Sciences Complex, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biology, Integrated Sciences Complex, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biology, Integrated Sciences Complex, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biology, Integrated Sciences Complex, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biology, Integrated Sciences Complex, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA.
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Hebbar S, Lehmann M, Behrens S, Hälsig C, Leng W, Yuan M, Winkler S, Knust E. Mutations in the splicing regulator Prp31 lead to retinal degeneration in Drosophila. Biol Open 2021; 10:10/1/bio052332. [PMID: 33495354 PMCID: PMC7860132 DOI: 10.1242/bio.052332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a clinically heterogeneous disease affecting 1.6 million people worldwide. The second-largest group of genes causing autosomal dominant RP in human encodes regulators of the splicing machinery. Yet, how defects in splicing factor genes are linked to the aetiology of the disease remains largely elusive. To explore possible mechanisms underlying retinal degeneration caused by mutations in regulators of the splicing machinery, we induced mutations in Drosophila Prp31, the orthologue of human PRPF31, mutations in which are associated with RP11. Flies heterozygous mutant for Prp31 are viable and develop normal eyes and retina. However, photoreceptors degenerate under light stress, thus resembling the human disease phenotype. Degeneration is associated with increased accumulation of the visual pigment rhodopsin 1 and increased mRNA levels of twinfilin, a gene associated with rhodopsin trafficking. Reducing rhodopsin levels by raising animals in a carotenoid-free medium not only attenuates rhodopsin accumulation, but also retinal degeneration. Given a similar importance of proper rhodopsin trafficking for photoreceptor homeostasis in human, results obtained in flies presented here will also contribute to further unravel molecular mechanisms underlying the human disease. This paper has an associated First Person interview with the co-first authors of the article. Summary: Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a human disease resulting in blindness, which affects 1 in 4.000 people worldwide. So far >90 genes have been identified that are causally related to RP. Mutations in the splicing factor PRPF31 are linked to RP11. We induced mutations in the Drosophila orthologue Prp31 and show that flies heterozygous for Prp31 undergo light-dependent retinal degeneration. Degeneration is associated with increased accumulation of the light-sensitive molecule, rhodopsin 1. In fact, reducing rhodopsin levels by dietary intervention modifies the extent of retinal degeneration. This model will further contribute to better understand the aetiology of the human disease.
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- Sarita Hebbar
- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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Sharkey CR, Blanco J, Leibowitz MM, Pinto-Benito D, Wardill TJ. The spectral sensitivity of Drosophila photoreceptors. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18242. [PMID: 33106518 PMCID: PMC7588446 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-74742-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Drosophila melanogaster has long been a popular model insect species, due in large part to the availability of genetic tools and is fast becoming the model for insect colour vision. Key to understanding colour reception in Drosophila is in-depth knowledge of spectral inputs and downstream neural processing. While recent studies have sparked renewed interest in colour processing in Drosophila, photoreceptor spectral sensitivity measurements have yet to be carried out in vivo. We have fully characterised the spectral input to the motion and colour vision pathways, and directly measured the effects of spectral modulating factors, screening pigment density and carotenoid-based ocular pigments. All receptor sensitivities had significant shifts in spectral sensitivity compared to previous measurements. Notably, the spectral range of the Rh6 visual pigment is substantially broadened and its peak sensitivity is shifted by 92 nm from 508 to 600 nm. We show that this deviation can be explained by transmission of long wavelengths through the red screening pigment and by the presence of the blue-absorbing filter in the R7y receptors. Further, we tested direct interactions between inner and outer photoreceptors using selective recovery of activity in photoreceptor pairs.
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- Camilla R Sharkey
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA.
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, 55108, USA. .,Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EG, UK.
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Hebbar S, Schuhmann K, Shevchenko A, Knust E. Hydroxylated sphingolipid biosynthesis regulates photoreceptor apical domain morphogenesis. J Cell Biol 2020; 219:211460. [PMID: 33048164 PMCID: PMC7557679 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201911100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2019] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Apical domains of epithelial cells often undergo dramatic changes during morphogenesis to form specialized structures, such as microvilli. Here, we addressed the role of lipids during morphogenesis of the rhabdomere, the microvilli-based photosensitive organelle of Drosophila photoreceptor cells. Shotgun lipidomics analysis performed on mutant alleles of the polarity regulator crumbs, exhibiting varying rhabdomeric growth defects, revealed a correlation between increased abundance of hydroxylated sphingolipids and abnormal rhabdomeric growth. This could be attributed to an up-regulation of fatty acid hydroxylase transcription. Indeed, direct genetic perturbation of the hydroxylated sphingolipid metabolism modulated rhabdomere growth in a crumbs mutant background. One of the pathways targeted by sphingolipid metabolism turned out to be the secretory route of newly synthesized Rhodopsin, a major rhabdomeric protein. In particular, altered biosynthesis of hydroxylated sphingolipids impaired apical trafficking via Rab11, and thus apical membrane growth. The intersection of lipid metabolic pathways with apical domain growth provides a new facet to our understanding of apical growth during morphogenesis.
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von Lintig J, Moon J, Babino D. Molecular components affecting ocular carotenoid and retinoid homeostasis. Prog Retin Eye Res 2020; 80:100864. [PMID: 32339666 DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2020.100864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 04/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Abstract
The photochemistry of vision employs opsins and geometric isomerization of their covalently bound retinylidine chromophores. In different animal classes, these light receptors associate with distinct G proteins that either hyperpolarize or depolarize photoreceptor membranes. Vertebrates also use the acidic form of chromophore, retinoic acid, as the ligand of nuclear hormone receptors that orchestrate eye development. To establish and sustain these processes, animals must acquire carotenoids from the diet, transport them, and metabolize them to chromophore and retinoic acid. The understanding of carotenoid metabolism, however, lagged behind our knowledge about the biology of their receptor molecules. In the past decades, much progress has been made in identifying the genes encoding proteins that mediate the transport and enzymatic transformations of carotenoids and their retinoid metabolites. Comparative analysis in different animal classes revealed how evolutionary tinkering with a limited number of genes evolved different biochemical strategies to supply photoreceptors with chromophore. Mutations in these genes impair carotenoid metabolism and induce various ocular pathologies. This review summarizes this advancement and introduces the involved proteins, including the homeostatic regulation of their activities.
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- Johannes von Lintig
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Li Q, DeBeaubien NA, Sokabe T, Montell C. Temperature and Sweet Taste Integration in Drosophila. Curr Biol 2020; 30:2051-2067.e5. [PMID: 32330421 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2019] [Revised: 03/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Sugar-containing foods offered at cooler temperatures tend to be less appealing to many animals. However, the mechanism through which the gustatory system senses thermal input and integrates temperature and chemical signals to produce a given behavioral output is poorly understood. To study this fundamental problem, we used the fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We found that the palatability of sucrose is strongly reduced by modest cooling. Using Ca2+ imaging and electrophysiological recordings, we demonstrate that bitter gustatory receptor neurons (GRNs) and mechanosensory neurons (MSNs) are activated by slight cooling, although sugar neurons are insensitive to the same mild stimulus. We found that a rhodopsin, Rh6, is expressed and required in bitter GRNs for cool-induced suppression of sugar appeal. Our findings reveal that the palatability of sugary food is reduced by slightly cool temperatures through different sets of thermally activated neurons, one of which depends on a rhodopsin (Rh6) for cool sensation.
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- Qiaoran Li
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Division of Cell Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, and Thermal Biology Group, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8787, Japan
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Leung NY, Thakur DP, Gurav AS, Kim SH, Di Pizio A, Niv MY, Montell C. Functions of Opsins in Drosophila Taste. Curr Biol 2020; 30:1367-1379.e6. [PMID: 32243853 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 01/16/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Rhodopsin is a light receptor comprised of an opsin protein and a light-sensitive retinal chromophore. Despite more than a century of scrutiny, there is no evidence that opsins function in chemosensation. Here, we demonstrate that three Drosophila opsins, Rh1, Rh4, and Rh7, are needed in gustatory receptor neurons to sense a plant-derived bitter compound, aristolochic acid (ARI). The gustatory requirements for these opsins are light-independent and do not require retinal. The opsins enabled flies to detect lower concentrations of aristolochic acid by initiating an amplification cascade that includes a G-protein, phospholipase Cβ, and the TRP channel, TRPA1. In contrast, responses to higher levels of the bitter compound were mediated through direct activation of TRPA1. Our study reveals roles for opsins in chemosensation and raise questions concerning the original roles for these classical G-protein-coupled receptors.
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- Nicole Y Leung
- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100 Rehovot, Israel; The Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel; Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100 Rehovot, Israel; The Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Katana R, Guan C, Zanini D, Larsen ME, Giraldo D, Geurten BRH, Schmidt CF, Britt SG, Göpfert MC. Chromophore-Independent Roles of Opsin Apoproteins in Drosophila Mechanoreceptors. Curr Biol 2019; 29:2961-2969.e4. [PMID: 31447373 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Revised: 06/24/2019] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Rhodopsins, the major light-detecting molecules of animal visual systems [1], consist of opsin apoproteins that covalently bind a retinal chromophore with a conserved lysine residue [1, 2]. In addition to capturing photons, this chromophore contributes to rhodopsin maturation [3, 4], trafficking [3, 4], and stabilization [5], and defects in chromophore synthesis and recycling can cause dysfunction of the retina and dystrophy [6-9]. Indications that opsin apoproteins alone might have biological roles have come from archaebacteria and platyhelminths, which present opsin-like proteins that lack the chromophore binding site and are deemed to function independently of light [10, 11]. Light-independent sensory roles have been documented for Drosophila opsins [12-15], yet also these unconventional opsin functions are thought to require chromophore binding [12, 13, 15]. Unconjugated opsin apoproteins act as phospholipid scramblases in mammalian photoreceptor disks [16], yet chromophore-independent roles of opsin apoproteins outside of eyes have, to the best of our knowledge, hitherto not been described. Drosophila chordotonal mechanoreceptors require opsins [13, 15], and we find that their function remains uncompromised by nutrient carotenoid depletion. Disrupting carotenoid uptake and cleavage also left the mechanoreceptors unaffected, and manipulating the chromophore attachment site of the fly's major visual opsin Rh1 impaired photoreceptor, but not mechanoreceptor, function. Notwithstanding this chromophore independence, some proteins that process and recycle the chromophore in the retina are also required in mechanoreceptors, including visual cycle components that recycle the chromophore upon its photoisomerization. Our results thus establish biological function for unconjugated opsin apoproteins outside of eyes and, in addition, document chromophore-independent roles for chromophore pathway components.
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- Radoslaw Katana
- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Faculty of Physics, Third Institute of Physics - Biophysics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Faculty of Physics, Third Institute of Physics - Biophysics, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; Department of Physics and Soft Matter Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Departments of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Department of Cellular Neurobiology, University of Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Huang HW, Brown B, Chung J, Domingos PM, Ryoo HD. highroad Is a Carboxypetidase Induced by Retinoids to Clear Mutant Rhodopsin-1 in Drosophila Retinitis Pigmentosa Models. Cell Rep 2019; 22:1384-1391. [PMID: 29425495 PMCID: PMC5832065 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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Rhodopsins require retinoid chromophores for their function. In vertebrates, retinoids also serve as signaling molecules, but whether these molecules similarly regulate gene expression in Drosophila remains unclear. Here, we report the identification of a retinoid-inducible gene in Drosophila, highroad, which is required for photoreceptors to clear folding-defective mutant Rhodopsin-1 proteins. Specifically, knockdown or genetic deletion of highroad blocks the degradation of folding-defective Rhodopsin-1 mutant, ninaEG69D. Moreover, loss of highroad accelerates the age-related retinal degeneration phenotype of ninaEG69D mutants. Elevated highroad transcript levels are detected in ninaEG69D flies, and interestingly, deprivation of retinoids in the fly diet blocks this effect. Consistently, mutations in the retinoid transporter, santa maria, impairs the induction of highroad in ninaEG69D flies. In cultured S2 cells, highroad expression is induced by retinoic acid treatment. These results indicate that cellular quality-control mechanisms against misfolded Rhodopsin-1 involve regulation of gene expression by retinoids.
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- Huai-Wei Huang
- Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da República, Oeiras 2780-157, Portugal
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- Department of Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Sokabe T, Chen HC, Luo J, Montell C. A Switch in Thermal Preference in Drosophila Larvae Depends on Multiple Rhodopsins. Cell Rep 2017; 17:336-344. [PMID: 27705783 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Drosophila third-instar larvae exhibit changes in their behavioral responses to gravity and food as they transition from feeding to wandering stages. Using a thermal gradient encompassing the comfortable range (18°C to 28°C), we found that third-instar larvae exhibit a dramatic shift in thermal preference. Early third-instar larvae prefer 24°C, which switches to increasingly stronger biases for 18°C-19°C in mid- and late-third-instar larvae. Mutations eliminating either of two rhodopsins, Rh5 and Rh6, wiped out these age-dependent changes in thermal preference. In larvae, Rh5 and Rh6 are thought to function exclusively in the light-sensing Bolwig organ. However, the Bolwig organ was dispensable for the thermal preference. Rather, Rh5 and Rh6 were required in trpA1-expressing neurons in the brain, ventral nerve cord, and body wall. Because Rh1 contributes to thermal selection in the comfortable range during the early to mid-third-instar stage, fine thermal discrimination depends on multiple rhodopsins.
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- Takaaki Sokabe
- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Rhodopsin is the classical light sensor. Although rhodopsin has long been known to be important for image formation in the eye, the requirements for opsins in non-image formation and in extraocular light sensation were revealed much later. Most recent is the demonstration that an opsin in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is expressed in pacemaker neurons in the brain and functions in light entrainment of circadian rhythms. However, the biggest surprise is that opsins have light-independent roles, countering more than a century of dogma that they function exclusively as light sensors. Through studies in Drosophila, light-independent roles of opsins have emerged in temperature sensation and hearing. Although these findings have been uncovered in the fruit fly, there are hints that opsins have light-independent roles in a wide array of animals, including mammals. Thus, despite the decades of focus on opsins as light detectors, they represent an important new class of polymodal sensory receptor.
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- Nicole Y Leung
- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106;
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- Neuroscience Research Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106;
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Schopf K, Huber A. Membrane protein trafficking in Drosophila photoreceptor cells. Eur J Cell Biol 2016; 96:391-401. [PMID: 27964885 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2016.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2016] [Revised: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Membrane protein trafficking occurs throughout the lifetime of neurons and includes the initial protein synthesis and anterograde transport to the plasma membrane as well as internalization, degradation, and recycling of plasma membrane proteins. Defects in protein trafficking can result in neuronal degeneration and underlie blinding diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa as well as other neuronal disorders. Drosophila photoreceptor cells have emerged as a model system for identifying the components and mechanisms involved in membrane protein trafficking in neurons. Here we summarize the current knowledge about trafficking of three Drosophila phototransduction proteins, the visual pigment rhodopsin and the two light-activated ion channels TRP (transient receptor potential) and TRPL (TRP-like). Despite some common requirements shared by rhodopsin and TRP, details in the trafficking of these proteins differ considerably, suggesting the existence of several trafficking pathways for these photoreceptor proteins.
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- Krystina Schopf
- University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physiology, Department of Biosensorics, Stuttgart, Germany
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- University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physiology, Department of Biosensorics, Stuttgart, Germany.
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Satoh T, Nakamura Y, Satoh AK. The roles of Syx5 in Golgi morphology and Rhodopsin transport in Drosophila photoreceptors. Biol Open 2016; 5:1420-1430. [PMID: 27591190 PMCID: PMC5087674 DOI: 10.1242/bio.020958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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SNAREs (SNAP receptors) are the key components of protein complexes that drive membrane fusion. Here, we report the function of a SNARE, Syntaxin 5 (Syx5), in the development of photoreceptors in Drosophila. In wild-type photoreceptors, Syx5 localizes to cis-Golgi, along with cis-Golgi markers: Rab1 and GM130. We observed that Syx5-deficient photoreceptors show notable accumulation of these cis-Golgi markers accompanying drastic accumulation of vesicles between endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi cisternae. Extensive analysis of Rh1 (rhodopsin 1) trafficking revealed that in Syx5-deficient photoreceptors, Rh1 is exported from the ER with normal kinetics, retained in the cis-Golgi region along with GM130 for a prolonged period, and then subsequently degraded presumably by endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation (ERAD) after retrieval to the ER. Unlike our previous report of Rab6-deficient photoreceptors – where two apical transport pathways are specifically inhibited – vesicle transport pathways to all plasma membrane domains are inhibited in Syx5-deficient photoreceptors, implying that Rab6 and Syx5 are acting in different steps of intra-Golgi transport. These results indicate that Syx5 is crucial for membrane protein transport, presumably during ER-derived vesicle fusion to form cis-Golgi cisternae. Summary: Unlike Rab6-deficiency which affects only apical transport pathways, Syx5-deficiency inhibits all of polarized transport pathways, implying that these two genes are working in distinct stages of intra-Golgi transport.
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- Takunori Satoh
- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
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Selective membrane transport pathways are essential for cells in situ to construct and maintain a polarized structure comprising multiple plasma membrane domains, which is essential for their specific cellular functions. Genetic screening in Drosophila photoreceptors harboring multiple plasma membrane domains enables the identification of genes involved in polarized transport pathways. Our genome-wide high-throughput screening identified a Rab6-null mutant with a rare phenotype characterized by a loss of 2 apical transport pathways with an intact basolateral transport. Although the functions of Rab6 in the Golgi apparatus are well known, its function in polarized transport is unexpected. The mutant phenotype and localization of Rab6 strongly indicate that Rab6 regulates transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and recycling endosomes (REs): basolateral cargos are segregated at the TGN before Rab6 functions, but cargos going to multiple apical domains are sorted at REs. Both the medial-Golgi resident protein Metallophosphoesterase (MPPE) and the TGN marker GalT::CFP exhibit diffused co-localized distributions in Rab6-deficient cells, suggesting they are trapped in the retrograde transport vesicles returning to trans-Golgi cisternae. Hence, we propose that Rab6 regulates the fusion of retrograde transport vesicles containing medial, trans-Golgi resident proteins to the Golgi cisternae, which causes Golgi maturation to REs.
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- Takunori Satoh
- a Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima , Japan
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- a Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima , Japan
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- a Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima , Japan
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Babino D, Golczak M, Kiser PD, Wyss A, Palczewski K, von Lintig J. The Biochemical Basis of Vitamin A3 Production in Arthropod Vision. ACS Chem Biol 2016; 11:1049-57. [PMID: 26811964 PMCID: PMC4841470 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.5b00967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Metazoan photochemistry involves cis-trans isomerization of a retinylidene chromophore bound to G protein coupled receptors. Successful production of chromophores is critical for photoreceptor function and survival. For chromophore production, animals have to choose from more than 600 naturally occurring carotenoids and process them by oxidative cleavage and geometric isomerization of double bonds. Vertebrates employ three carotenoid cleavage oxygenases to tailor the carotenoid precursor in the synthesis of 11-cis-retinal (vitamin A1). Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) possess only one such enzyme, NinaB, which faces the challenge to catalyze these reactions in unison to produce 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal (vitamin A3). We here showed that key to this multitasking is a bipartite substrate recognition site that conveys regio- and stereoselectivity for double bond processing. One side performed the specific C11, C12 cis-isomerization and preferentially binds 3-OH-β-ionone rings sites. The other side maintained a trans configuration in the resulting product and preferentially binds noncanonical ionone ring sites. Concurrent binding of carotenoids containing two cyclohexyl rings to both domains is required for specific oxidative cleavage at position C15, C15' of the substrate. The unique reaction sequence follows a dioxygenase mechanism with a carbocation/radical intermediate. This ingenious quality control system guarantees 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal production, the essential retinoid for insect (vitamin A3) vision.
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- Darwin Babino
- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, DSM Nutritional Products, Kaiseraugst 4303, Switzerland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
- Cleveland Center for Membrane and Structural Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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- Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106
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Iwanami N, Nakamura Y, Satoh T, Liu Z, Satoh AK. Rab6 Is Required for Multiple Apical Transport Pathways but Not the Basolateral Transport Pathway in Drosophila Photoreceptors. PLoS Genet 2016; 12:e1005828. [PMID: 26890939 PMCID: PMC4758697 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Polarized membrane trafficking is essential for the construction and maintenance of multiple plasma membrane domains of cells. Highly polarized Drosophila photoreceptors are an excellent model for studying polarized transport. A single cross-section of Drosophila retina contains many photoreceptors with 3 clearly differentiated plasma membrane domains: a rhabdomere, stalk, and basolateral membrane. Genome-wide high-throughput ethyl methanesulfonate screening followed by precise immunohistochemical analysis identified a mutant with a rare phenotype characterized by a loss of 2 apical transport pathways with normal basolateral transport. Rapid gene identification using whole-genome resequencing and single nucleotide polymorphism mapping identified a nonsense mutation of Rab6 responsible for the apical-specific transport deficiency. Detailed analysis of the trafficking of a major rhabdomere protein Rh1 using blue light-induced chromophore supply identified Rab6 as essential for Rh1 to exit the Golgi units. Rab6 is mostly distributed from the trans-Golgi network to a Golgi-associated Rab11-positive compartment that likely recycles endosomes or transport vesicles going to recycling endosomes. Furthermore, the Rab6 effector, Rich, is required for Rab6 recruitment in the trans-Golgi network. Moreover, a Rich null mutation phenocopies the Rab6 null mutant, indicating that Rich functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rab6. The results collectively indicate that Rab6 and Rich are essential for the trans-Golgi network–recycling endosome transport of cargoes destined for 2 apical domains. However, basolateral cargos are sorted and exported from the trans-Golgi network in a Rab6-independent manner. Cells in animal bodies have multiple plasma membrane domains; this polarized characteristic of cells is essential for their specific functions. Selective membrane transport pathways play key roles in the construction and maintenance of polarized structures. Drosophila photoreceptors with multiple plasma membrane domains are an excellent model of polarized transport. We performed genetic screening and identified a Rab6 null mutant with a rare phenotype characterized by a loss of 2 apical transport pathways with normal basolateral transport. Although Rab6 functions in the Golgi are well known, its function in polarized transport was unexpected. Here, we found that Rab6 and its effector, Rich, are required for multiple apical transport pathways but not the basolateral transport pathway. Our findings strongly indicate that the membrane proteins delivered to multiple polarized domains are not sorted simultaneously: basolateral cargos are segregated before the Rab6-dependent process, and cargos going to multiple apical domains are sorted after Rab6-dependent transport from the trans-Golgi network to the Golgi-associated Rab11-positive compartment, which presumably recycles endosomes. Our finding of the function of Rab6 in polarized transport will elucidate the molecular mechanisms of polarized transport.
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- Nozomi Iwanami
- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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Xu Z, Chikka MR, Xia H, Ready DF. Ire1 supports normal ER differentiation in developing Drosophila photoreceptors. J Cell Sci 2016; 129:921-9. [PMID: 26787744 PMCID: PMC4813318 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.180406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 01/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) serves virtually all aspects of cell physiology and, by pathways that are incompletely understood, is dynamically remodeled to meet changing cell needs. Inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (Ire1), a conserved core protein of the unfolded protein response (UPR), participates in ER remodeling and is particularly required during the differentiation of cells devoted to intense secretory activity, so-called 'professional' secretory cells. Here, we characterize the role of Ire1 in ER differentiation in the developing Drosophila compound eye photoreceptors (R cells). As part of normal development, R cells take a turn as professional secretory cells with a massive secretory effort that builds the photosensitive membrane organelle, the rhabdomere. We find rough ER sheets proliferate as rhabdomere biogenesis culminates, and Ire1 is required for normal ER differentiation. Ire1 is active early in R cell development and is required in anticipation of peak biosynthesis. Without Ire1, the amount of rough ER sheets is strongly reduced and the extensive cortical ER network at the rhabdomere base, the subrhabdomere cisterna (SRC), fails. Instead, ER proliferates in persistent and ribosome-poor tubular tangles. A phase of Ire1 activity early in R cell development thus shapes dynamic ER.
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- Zuyuan Xu
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Fatty acid transport proteins in disease: New insights from invertebrate models. Prog Lipid Res 2015; 60:30-40. [PMID: 26416577 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2015.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Accepted: 08/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The dysregulation of lipid metabolism has been implicated in various diseases, including diabetes, cardiopathies, dermopathies, retinal and neurodegenerative diseases. Mouse models have provided insights into lipid metabolism. However, progress in the understanding of these pathologies is hampered by the multiplicity of essential cellular processes and genes that modulate lipid metabolism. Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans have emerged as simple genetic models to improve our understanding of these metabolic diseases. Recent studies have characterized fatty acid transport protein (fatp) mutants in Drosophila and C. elegans, establishing new models of cardiomyopathy, retinal degeneration, fat storage disease and dermopathies. These models have generated novel insights into the physiological role of the Fatp protein family in vivo in multicellular organisms, and are likely to contribute substantially to progress in understanding the etiology of various metabolic disorders. Here, we describe and discuss the mechanisms underlying invertebrate fatp mutant models in the light of the current knowledge relating to FATPs and lipid disorders in vertebrates.
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Jaiswal M, Haelterman NA, Sandoval H, Xiong B, Donti T, Kalsotra A, Yamamoto S, Cooper TA, Graham BH, Bellen HJ. Impaired Mitochondrial Energy Production Causes Light-Induced Photoreceptor Degeneration Independent of Oxidative Stress. PLoS Biol 2015; 13:e1002197. [PMID: 26176594 PMCID: PMC4503542 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 06/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Two insults often underlie a variety of eye diseases including glaucoma, optic atrophy, and retinal degeneration—defects in mitochondrial function and aberrant Rhodopsin trafficking. Although mitochondrial defects are often associated with oxidative stress, they have not been linked to Rhodopsin trafficking. In an unbiased forward genetic screen designed to isolate mutations that cause photoreceptor degeneration, we identified mutations in a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial gene, ppr, a homolog of human LRPPRC. We found that ppr is required for protection against light-induced degeneration. Its function is essential to maintain membrane depolarization of the photoreceptors upon repetitive light exposure, and an impaired phototransduction cascade in ppr mutants results in excessive Rhodopsin1 endocytosis. Moreover, loss of ppr results in a reduction in mitochondrial RNAs, reduced electron transport chain activity, and reduced ATP levels. Oxidative stress, however, is not induced. We propose that the reduced ATP level in ppr mutants underlies the phototransduction defect, leading to increased Rhodopsin1 endocytosis during light exposure, causing photoreceptor degeneration independent of oxidative stress. This hypothesis is bolstered by characterization of two other genes isolated in the screen, pyruvate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase. Their loss also causes a light-induced degeneration, excessive Rhodopsin1 endocytosis and reduced ATP without concurrent oxidative stress, unlike many other mutations in mitochondrial genes that are associated with elevated oxidative stress and light-independent photoreceptor demise. Some mitochondrial disorders cause blindness through increased oxidative stress. This study shows that in other such disorders, light-activated photoreceptors degenerate because the shortfall in mitochondrial energy production impairs rhodopsin trafficking and induces toxicity. Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with a number of metabolic and neurological diseases such as Leigh syndrome and progressive blindness. Increased oxidative stress, which is often associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, is thought to be a common cause of disease progression. Here, we identified nuclear genes that encode mitochondrial proteins, whose loss causes the demise of photoreceptor neurons. Contrary to the common idea that this degeneration is triggered by elevated levels of oxidative stress, we find no change in the levels of oxidative stress. We show that activating photoreceptor neurons with light significantly increases energy production, and that this process is required to sustain their activity. Mitochondrial dysfunction impairs this capacity and leads to a premature termination of the light response. This in turn impairs the cycling of the light-sensitive receptor Rhodopsin in photoreceptors, and Rhodopsin accumulates in the cell inducing toxicity. This distinct mechanism of degeneration suggests that different mitochondrial diseases may follow different paths of disease progression and would hence respond differently to treatments.
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- Manish Jaiswal
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Program in Developmental Biology, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, BCM, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Satoh T, Ohba A, Liu Z, Inagaki T, Satoh AK. dPob/EMC is essential for biosynthesis of rhodopsin and other multi-pass membrane proteins in Drosophila photoreceptors. eLife 2015; 4. [PMID: 25715730 PMCID: PMC4341237 DOI: 10.7554/elife.06306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Accepted: 01/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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In eukaryotes, most integral membrane proteins are synthesized, integrated into the membrane, and folded properly in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We screened the mutants affecting rhabdomeric expression of rhodopsin 1 (Rh1) in the Drosophila photoreceptors and found that dPob/EMC3, EMC1, and EMC8/9, Drosophila homologs of subunits of ER membrane protein complex (EMC), are essential for stabilization of immature Rh1 in an earlier step than that at which another Rh1-specific chaperone (NinaA) acts. dPob/EMC3 localizes to the ER and associates with EMC1 and calnexin. Moreover, EMC is required for the stable expression of other multi-pass transmembrane proteins such as minor rhodopsins Rh3 and Rh4, transient receptor potential, and Na+K+-ATPase, but not for a secreted protein or type I single-pass transmembrane proteins. Furthermore, we found that dPob/EMC3 deficiency induces rhabdomere degeneration in a light-independent manner. These results collectively indicate that EMC is a key factor in the biogenesis of multi-pass transmembrane proteins, including Rh1, and its loss causes retinal degeneration. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06306.001 The membranes that surround cells contain many proteins, and those that span the entire width of the membrane are known as transmembrane proteins. Rhodopsin is one such transmembrane protein that is found in the light-sensitive ‘photoreceptor’ cells of the eye, where it plays an essential role in vision. Transmembrane proteins are made inside the cell and are inserted into the membrane surrounding a compartment called the endoplasmic reticulum. Here, they mature and ‘fold’ into their correct three-dimensional shape with help from chaperone proteins. Once correctly folded, the transmembrane proteins can be transported to the cell membrane. Incorrect folding of proteins can have severe consequences; if rhodopsin is incorrectly folded the photoreceptor cells can die, leading to blindness in humans and other animals. Experiments carried out in zebrafish have shown that the chaperone protein Pob is required for the survival of photoreceptor cells. Pob is part of a group or ‘complex’ of chaperone proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum called the EMC complex. This suggests that the EMC complex may be involved in folding rhodopsin, but the details remain unclear. Here, Satoh et al. studied the role of the EMC complex in the folding of rhodopsin in fruit flies. This involved examining hundreds of flies that carried a variety of genetic mutations and that also had low levels of rhodopsin. The experiments show that dPob—the fly version of Pob—and two other proteins in the EMC complex are required for newly-made rhodopsin to be stabilized. If photoreceptor cells are missing proteins from the complex, the light-sensitive structures in the eye degenerate. Rhodopsin is known as a ‘multi-pass’ membrane protein because it crosses the membrane multiple times. Satoh et al. found that the EMC complex is also required for the folding of other multi-pass membrane proteins in photoreceptor cells. The next challenge will be to reveal how the EMC complex is able to specifically target this type of transmembrane protein. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.06306.002
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- Takunori Satoh
- Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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- Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
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Wang S, Tan KL, Agosto MA, Xiong B, Yamamoto S, Sandoval H, Jaiswal M, Bayat V, Zhang K, Charng WL, David G, Duraine L, Venkatachalam K, Wensel TG, Bellen HJ. The retromer complex is required for rhodopsin recycling and its loss leads to photoreceptor degeneration. PLoS Biol 2014; 12:e1001847. [PMID: 24781186 PMCID: PMC4004542 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 03/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Rhodopsin recycling via the retromer, rather than degradation through lysosomes, can alleviate light-induced photoreceptor degeneration in Drosophila. Rhodopsin mistrafficking can cause photoreceptor (PR) degeneration. Upon light exposure, activated rhodopsin 1 (Rh1) in Drosophila PRs is internalized via endocytosis and degraded in lysosomes. Whether internalized Rh1 can be recycled is unknown. Here, we show that the retromer complex is expressed in PRs where it is required for recycling endocytosed Rh1 upon light stimulation. In the absence of subunits of the retromer, Rh1 is processed in the endolysosomal pathway, leading to a dramatic increase in late endosomes, lysosomes, and light-dependent PR degeneration. Reducing Rh1 endocytosis or Rh1 levels in retromer mutants alleviates PR degeneration. In addition, increasing retromer abundance suppresses degenerative phenotypes of mutations that affect the endolysosomal system. Finally, expressing human Vps26 suppresses PR degeneration in Vps26 mutant PRs. We propose that the retromer plays a conserved role in recycling rhodopsins to maintain PR function and integrity. Upon light exposure, rhodopsins—light-sensing proteins in the eye—trigger visual transduction signaling to activate fly photoreceptor cells. After activation, rhodopsins can be internalized from the cell surface into endosomes and then degraded in lysosomes. This mechanism prevents constant activation of the visual transduction pathway, thereby maintaining the function and integrity of photoreceptor cells. It is not known, however, whether these internalized rhodopsins can be recycled. Here, we show that the retromer, an evolutionarily conserved protein complex, is required for the recycling of rhodopsins. We find that loss of key retromer subunits (Vps35 or Vps26) causes rhodopsin mislocalization in the photoreceptors and severe light-induced photoreceptor degeneration. Conversely, gain of retromer subunits can alleviate photoreceptor degeneration in some contexts. Human retromer components can stand in for depleted fruit fly retromer, suggesting that this complex plays a role in recycling light sensors in both vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptors.
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- Shiuan Wang
- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Leboulle G, Niggebrügge C, Roessler R, Briscoe AD, Menzel R, Hempel de Ibarra N. Characterisation of the RNA interference response against the long-wavelength receptor of the honeybee. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2013; 43:959-969. [PMID: 23933285 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2013] [Revised: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 07/25/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Targeted knock-down is the method of choice to advance the study of sensory and brain functions in the honeybee by using molecular techniques. Here we report the results of a first attempt to interfere with the function of a visual receptor, the long-wavelength-sensitive (L-) photoreceptor. RNA interference to inhibit this receptor led to a reduction of the respective mRNA and protein. The interference effect was limited in time and space, and its induction depended on the time of the day most probably because of natural daily variations in opsin levels. The inhibition did not effectively change the physiological properties of the retina. Possible constraints and implications of this method for the study of the bee's visual system are discussed. Overall this study underpins the usefulness and feasibility of RNA interference as manipulation tool in insect brain research.
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- Gérard Leboulle
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Neurobiologie, Königin-Luise-Str. 28/30, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Xiong B, Bellen HJ. Rhodopsin homeostasis and retinal degeneration: lessons from the fly. Trends Neurosci 2013; 36:652-60. [PMID: 24012059 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2013] [Revised: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 08/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Rhodopsins (Rh) are G protein-coupled receptors that function as light-sensors in photoreceptors. In humans, Rh mutations cause retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative disease that ultimately results in blindness. Studies in Drosophila have provided many insights into basic Rh biology and have identified pathways that lead to retinal degeneration. It has been shown that, because Rh is very abundant in photoreceptors, its accumulation in numerous organelles induces severe stress and results in degeneration of these cells. Moreover, genetic lesions that affect proper activation of membrane-bound Rh lead to disruption in Ca(2+) homeostasis which also causes photoreceptor degeneration. We review here the molecular signals involved in Rh homeostasis and the mechanisms underlying retinal degeneration in flies, and discuss possible links to human diseases.
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- Bo Xiong
- Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Satoh T, Inagaki T, Liu Z, Watanabe R, Satoh AK. GPI biosynthesis is essential for rhodopsin sorting at the trans-Golgi network in Drosophila photoreceptors. Development 2013; 140:385-94. [PMID: 23250212 DOI: 10.1242/dev.083683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Sorting of integral membrane proteins plays crucial roles in establishing and maintaining the polarized structures of epithelial cells and neurons. However, little is known about the sorting mechanisms of newly synthesized membrane proteins at the trans-Golgi network (TGN). To identify which genes are essential for these sorting mechanisms, we screened mutants in which the transport of Rhodopsin 1 (Rh1), an apical integral membrane protein in Drosophila photoreceptors, was affected. We found that deficiencies in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) synthesis and attachment processes cause loss of the apical transport of Rh1 from the TGN and mis-sorting to the endolysosomal system. Moreover, Na(+)K(+)-ATPase, a basolateral membrane protein, and Crumbs (Crb), a stalk membrane protein, were mistransported to the apical rhabdomeric microvilli in GPI-deficient photoreceptors. These results indicate that polarized sorting of integral membrane proteins at the TGN requires the synthesis and anchoring of GPI-anchored proteins. Little is known about the cellular biological consequences of GPI deficiency in animals in vivo. Our results provide new insights into the importance of GPI synthesis and aid the understanding of pathologies involving GPI deficiency.
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- Takunori Satoh
- Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Integral Arts and Science, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8521, Japan
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Tian Y, Li T, Sun M, Wan D, Li Q, Li P, Zhang Z, Han J, Xie W. Neurexin Regulates Visual Function via Mediating Retinoid Transport to Promote Rhodopsin Maturation. Neuron 2013; 77:311-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Hibbard KL, O’Tousa JE. A role for the cytoplasmic DEAD box helicase Dbp21E2 in rhodopsin maturation and photoreceptor viability. J Neurogenet 2012; 26:177-88. [PMID: 22794106 PMCID: PMC3680124 DOI: 10.3109/01677063.2012.692412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The Dbp21E2 (DEAD box protein 21E2) is a member of a family of DEAD box helicases active in RNA processing and stability. The authors used genetic mosaics to identify mutants in Dbp21E2 that affect rhodopsin biogenesis and the maintenance of photoreceptor structure. Analysis of a green fluorescent protein (GFP)-tagged Rh1 rhodopsin construct placed under control of a heat shock promoter showed that Dbp21E21 fails to efficiently transport Rh1 from the photoreceptor cell body to the rhabdomere. Retinal degeneration is not dependent on the Rh1 transport defects. The authors also showed that GFP- and red fluorescent protein (RFP)-tagged Dbp21E2 proteins are localized to discrete cytoplasmic structures that are not associated with organelles known to be active in rhodopsin transport. The molecular genetic analysis described here reveals an unexpected role for the Dbp21E2 helicase and provides an experimental system to further characterize its function.
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- Karen L. Hibbard
- Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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In mammalian rods and cones, light activation of the visual pigments leads to release of the chromophore, which is then recycled through a multistep enzymatic pathway, referred to as the visual or retinoid cycle. In invertebrates such as Drosophila, a visual cycle was thought not to exist since the rhodopsins are bistable photopigments, which consist of a chromophore that normally stays bound to the opsin following light activation. Nevertheless, we recently described a visual cycle in Drosophila that serves to recycle the free chromophore that is released following light-induced internalization of rhodopsin, and a retinol dehydrogenase (RDH) that catalyzes the first step of the pathway. Here, we describe the identification of a putative RDH, referred to as RDHB (retinol dehydrogenase B), which functions in the visual cycle and in de novo synthesis of the chromophore. RDHB was expressed in the retinal pigment cells (RPCs), where it promoted the final enzymatic reaction necessary for the production of the chromophore. Mutation of rdhB caused moderate light-dependent degeneration of the phototransducing compartment of the photoreceptor cells-the rhabdomeres, reminiscent of the effects of mutations in some human RDH genes. Since the first and last steps in the visual cycle take place in the RPCs, it appears that these cells are the sites of action for this entire enzymatic pathway in Drosophila.
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All animals endowed with the ability to detect light through visual pigments must have evolved pathways in which dietary precursors for the involved chromophore are absorbed, transported, and metabolized. Knowledge about this metabolism has exponentially increased over the past decade. Genetic manipulation of animal models provided insights into the metabolic flow of these compounds through the body and in the eyes, unraveling their regulatory aspects and aberrant side reactions. The scheme that emerges reveals a common origin of key components for chromophore metabolism that have been adapted to the specific requirements of retinoid biology in different animal classes.
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- Johannes von Lintig
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
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Inherited retinal degeneration in Drosophila has been explored for insights into similar processes in humans. Based on the mechanisms, I divide these mutations in Drosophila into three classes. The first consists of genes that control the specialization of photoreceptor cells including the morphogenesis of visual organelles (rhabdomeres) that house the visual signaling proteins. The second class contains genes that regulate the activity or level of the major rhodopsin, Rh1, which is the light sensor and also provides a structural role for the maintenance of rhabdomeres. Some mutations in Rh1 (NinaE) are dominant due to constitutive activity or folding defects, like autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP) in humans. The third class consists of genes that control the Ca ( 2+) influx directly or indirectly by promoting the turnover of the second messenger and regeneration of PIP 2, or mediate the Ca ( 2+) -dependent regulation of the visual response. These gene products are critical for the increase in cytosolic Ca ( 2+ ) following light stimulation to initiate negative regulatory events. Here I will focus on the signaling mechanisms underlying the degeneration in norpA, and in ADRP-type NinaE mutants that produce misfolded Rh1. Accumulation of misfolded Rh1 in the ER triggers the unfolded protein response (UPR), while endosomal accumulation of activated Rh1 may initiate autophagy in norpA. Both autophagy and the UPR are beneficial for relieving defective endosomal trafficking and the ER stress, respectively. However, when photoreceptors fail to cope with the persistence of these stresses, a cell death program is activated leading to retinal degeneration.
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- Bih-Hwa Shieh
- Department of Pharmacology, Center for Molecular Neuroscience and Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA.
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Schmidt TM, Chen SK, Hattar S. Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells: many subtypes, diverse functions. Trends Neurosci 2011; 34:572-80. [PMID: 21816493 DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2011] [Revised: 06/29/2011] [Accepted: 07/02/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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For decades, rods and cones were thought to be the only photoreceptors in the mammalian retina. However, a population of atypical photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) expresses the photopigment melanopsin and is intrinsically photosensitive (ipRGCs). These ipRGCs are crucial for relaying light information from the retina to the brain to control circadian photoentrainment, pupillary light reflex, and sleep. ipRGCs were initially described as a uniform population involved solely in signaling irradiance for non-image forming functions. Recent work, however, has uncovered that ipRGCs are unexpectedly diverse at the molecular, cellular and functional levels, and could even be involved in image formation. This review summarizes our current understanding of the diversity of ipRGCs and their various roles in modulating behavior.
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- Tiffany M Schmidt
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
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Cao J, Li Y, Xia W, Reddig K, Hu W, Xie W, Li HS, Han J. A Drosophila metallophosphoesterase mediates deglycosylation of rhodopsin. EMBO J 2011; 30:3701-13. [PMID: 21804530 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2011.254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2011] [Accepted: 07/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Oligosaccharide chains of newly synthesized membrane receptors are trimmed and modified to optimize their trafficking and/or signalling before delivery to the cell surface. For most membrane receptors, the functional significance of oligosaccharide chain modification is unknown. During the maturation of Rh1 rhodopsin, a Drosophila light receptor, the oligosaccharide chain is trimmed extensively. Neither the functional significance of this modification nor the enzymes mediating this process are known. Here, we identify a dmppe (Drosophila metallophosphoesterase) mutant with incomplete deglycosylation of Rh1, and show that the retained oligosaccharide chain does not affect Rh1 localization or signalling. The incomplete deglycosylation, however, renders Rh1 more sensitive to endocytic degradation, and causes morphological and functional defects in photoreceptors of aged dmppe flies. We further demonstrate that the dMPPE protein functions as an Mn(2+)/Zn(2+)-dependent phosphoesterase and mediates in vivo dephosphorylation of α-Man-II. Most importantly, the dephosphorylated α-Man-II is required for the removal of the Rh1 oligosaccharide chain. These observations suggest that the glycosylation status of membrane proteins is controlled through phosphorylation/dephosphorylation, and that MPPE acts as the phosphoesterase in this regulation.
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- Jinguo Cao
- Institute of Life Science, The Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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Lee J, Lee J, Ju BG. Drosophila arf72A acts as an essential regulator of endoplasmic reticulum quality control and suppresses autosomal-dominant retinopathy. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 2011; 43:1392-401. [PMID: 21693198 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2011.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2011] [Revised: 05/25/2011] [Accepted: 06/06/2011] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum operates multiple quality control mechanisms to ensure that only properly folded proteins are exported to their final destinations via the secretory pathway and those that are not are destroyed via the degradation pathway. However, molecular mechanisms underlying such regulated exportation to these distinct routes are unknown. In this article, we report the role of Drosophila arf72A--the fly homologue of the mammalian Arl1 - in the quality checks of proteins and in the autosomal-dominant retinopathy. ARF72A localizes to the Golgi membranes of Drosophila photoreceptor cells, consistent with mammalian Arl1 localization in cell culture systems. A loss of arf72A function changes the membrane character of the endoplasmic reticulum and shifts the membrane balance between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi complex toward the Golgi complex, resulting in over-proliferated Golgi complexes and accelerated protein secretion. Interestingly, our study indicated that more ARF72A localized on the endoplasmic reticulum in the ninaE(D1) photoreceptor cell, a Drosophila model of autosomal-dominant retinitis pigmentosa, compared to that in the wild-type. In addition, arf72A loss was shown to rescue the ninaE(D1)-related membrane accumulation and the rhodopsin maturation defect, and suppress ninaE(D1)-triggered retinal degeneration, indicating that rhodopsin accumulated in the endoplasmic reticulum bypasses the quality checks. While previous studies of ARF small GTPases have focused on their roles in vesicular budding and transport between the specific organelles, our findings establish an additional function of arf72A in the quality check machinery of the endoplasmic reticulum distinguishing the cargoes for secretion from those for degradation.
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- Jongwoo Lee
- Department of Biological Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA.
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- Baruch Minke
- Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Institute of Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
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Cook T, Zelhof A, Mishra M, Nie J. 800 facets of retinal degeneration. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2011; 100:331-68. [PMID: 21377630 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-384878-9.00008-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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In today's world of genomics and large computational analyses, rapid progress has been made in identifying genes associated with human retinal diseases. Nevertheless, before significant advances toward effective therapeutic intervention is made, a clearer understanding of the molecular and cellular role of these gene products in normal and diseased photoreceptor cell biology is required. Given the complexity of the vertebrate retina, these advancements are unlikely to be revealed in isolated human cell lines, but instead, will require the use of numerous model systems. Here, we describe several parallels between vertebrate and invertebrate photoreceptor cell biology that are beginning to emerge and advocate the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a powerful genetic model system for uncovering molecular mechanisms of human retinal pathologies, in particular photoreceptor neurodegeneration.
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- T Cook
- Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Sato K, Nakazawa M, Takeuchi K, Mizukoshi S, Ishiguro SI. S-opsin protein is incompletely modified during N-glycan processing in Rpe65(-/-) mice. Exp Eye Res 2010; 91:54-62. [PMID: 20398652 DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2009] [Revised: 03/12/2010] [Accepted: 03/29/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Retinal pigment epithelium-specific protein 65 kDa (RPE65) is a key enzyme for the visual cycle in the eye. Rpe65(-/-) mice lack 11-cis-retinal, and show early cone degeneration and mislocalization of cone opsins. The present study investigated whether abnormal modification of cone opsins at the protein level is present in Rpe65(-/-) mice. Retina-RPE-choroids of Rpe65(-/-) mice at 3, 5 and 7 weeks old were used. Immunohistochemistry of opsins was performed using cryosections and retinal flatmounts. We evaluated levels of mRNA for cone and rod opsin genes by RT-PCR and levels of proteins by western blotting. To examine modification patterns of N-glycan in Rpe65(-/-) mice, cone opsins were digested with peptide-N-glycosidase (PNGase) F. S-opsin protein was detected at approximately 40-kDa as a major band in wild-type mice, whereas approximately 42-kDa S-opsin protein was detected in Rpe65(-/-) mice. After PNGase F treatment, mobility of S-opsin protein in wild-type and Rpe65(-/-) mice on SDS-PAGE was similar. In addition, approximately 25-kDa S-opsin polypeptide was notably detected in Rpe65(-/-) mice. Conversely, M-opsin proteins were not observed by immunohistochemistry or western blotting in Rpe65(-/-) mice, but expression of M-opsin mRNA in Rpe65(-/-) mice did not differ significantly from that in wild-type mice at 3 and 5 weeks. Mobility of M-opsin protein in Rpe65(-/-) mice was unchanged. Our data suggest that S-opsin protein is incompletely modified during N-glycan processing in Rpe65(-/-) mice, whereas M-opsin protein is severely reduced by posttranslational degradation in the absence of incomplete N-glycan processing in Rpe65(-/-) mice.
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- Kota Sato
- Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Division of Cell Technology, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
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von Lintig J, Kiser PD, Golczak M, Palczewski K. The biochemical and structural basis for trans-to-cis isomerization of retinoids in the chemistry of vision. Trends Biochem Sci 2010; 35:400-10. [PMID: 20188572 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2010.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2009] [Revised: 01/08/2010] [Accepted: 01/20/2010] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Recently, much progress has been made in elucidating the chemistry and metabolism of retinoids and carotenoids, as well as the structures of processing proteins related to vision. Carotenoids and their retinoid metabolites are isoprenoids, so only a limited number of chemical transformations are possible, and just a few of these occur naturally. Although there is an intriguing evolutionary conservation of the key components involved in the production and recycling of chromophores, these genes have also adapted to the specific requirements of insect and vertebrate vision. These 'ancestral footprints' in animal genomes bear witness to the common origin of the chemistry of vision, and will further stimulate research across evolutionary boundaries.
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- Johannes von Lintig
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4965, USA.
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Wang X, Wang T, Jiao Y, von Lintig J, Montell C. Requirement for an enzymatic visual cycle in Drosophila. Curr Biol 2009; 20:93-102. [PMID: 20045325 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.12.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2009] [Accepted: 12/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The visual cycle is an enzymatic pathway employed in the vertebrate retina to regenerate the chromophore after its release from light-activated rhodopsin. However, a visual cycle is thought to be absent in invertebrates such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. RESULTS We demonstrate that an enzymatic visual cycle exists in flies for chromophore regeneration and requires a retinol dehydrogenase, PDH, in retinal pigment cells. Absence of PDH resulted in progressive light-dependent loss of rhodopsin and retinal degeneration. These defects are suppressed by introduction of a mammalian dehydrogenase, RDH12, which is required in humans to prevent retinal degeneration. We demonstrate that a visual cycle is required in flies to sustain a visual response under nutrient deprivation conditions that preclude de novo production of the chromophore. CONCLUSIONS Our results demonstrate that an enzymatic visual cycle exists and is required in flies for maintaining rhodopsin levels. These findings establish Drosophila as an animal model for studying the visual cycle and retinal diseases associated with chromophore regeneration.
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- Xiaoyue Wang
- Center for Sensory Biology, Departments of Biological Chemistry and Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Voolstra O, Oberhauser V, Sumser E, Meyer NE, Maguire ME, Huber A, von Lintig J. NinaB is essential for Drosophila vision but induces retinal degeneration in opsin-deficient photoreceptors. J Biol Chem 2009; 285:2130-9. [PMID: 19889630 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.056101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In animals, visual pigments are essential for photoreceptor function and survival. These G-protein-coupled receptors consist of a protein moiety (opsin) and a covalently bound 11-cis-retinylidene chromophore. The chromophore is derived from dietary carotenoids by oxidative cleavage and trans-to-cis isomerization of double bonds. In vertebrates, the necessary chemical transformations are catalyzed by two distinct but structurally related enzymes, the carotenoid oxygenase beta-carotenoid-15,15'-monooxygenase and the retinoid isomerase RPE65 (retinal pigment epithelium protein of 65 kDa). Recently, we provided biochemical evidence that these reactions in insects are catalyzed by a single enzyme family member named NinaB. Here we show that in the fly pathway, carotenoids are mandatory precursors of the chromophore. After chromophore formation, the retinoid-binding protein Pinta acts downstream of NinaB and is required to supply photoreceptors with chromophore. Like ninaE encoding the opsin, ninaB expression is eye-dependent and is activated as a downstream target of the eyeless/pax6 and sine oculis master control genes for eye development. The requirement for coordinated synthesis of chromophore and opsin is evidenced by analysis of ninaE mutants. Retinal degeneration in opsin-deficient photoreceptors is caused by the chromophore and can be prevented by restricting its supply as seen in an opsin and chromophore-deficient double mutant. Thus, our study identifies NinaB as a key component for visual pigment production and provides evidence that chromophore in opsin-deficient photoreceptors can elicit retinal degeneration.
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- Olaf Voolstra
- Institut für Biologie I, Neurobiologie und Tiephysiologie, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, D-79102 Freiburg, Germany
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NinaB combines carotenoid oxygenase and retinoid isomerase activity in a single polypeptide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:19000-5. [PMID: 19020100 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807805105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In animals, successful production of the visual chromophore (11-cis-retinal or derivatives thereof such as 11-cis-3-hydroxy-retinal) is essential for photoreceptor cell function and survival. These carotenoid-derived compounds must combine with a protein moiety (the opsin) to establish functional visual pigments. Evidence from cell culture systems has implicated that the retinal pigment epithelium protein of 65 kDa (RPE65) is the long-sought all-trans to 11-cis retinoid isomerase. RPE65 is structurally related to nonheme iron oxygenases that catalyze the conversion of carotenoids into retinoids. In vertebrate genomes, two carotenoid oxygenases and RPE65 are encoded, whereas in insect genomes only a single representative of this protein family, named NinaB (denoting neither inactivation nor afterpotential mutant B), is encoded. We here cloned and functionally characterized the ninaB gene from the great wax moth Galleria mellonella. We show that the recombinant purified enzyme combines isomerase and oxygenase (isomerooxygenase) activity in a single polypeptide. From kinetics and isomeric composition of cleavage products of asymmetrical carotenoid substrates, we propose a model for the spatial arrangement between substrate and enzyme. In Drosophila, we show that carotenoid-isomerooxygenase activity of NinaB is more generally found in insects, and we provide physiological evidence that carotenoids such as 11-cis-retinal can promote visual pigment biogenesis in the dark. Our study demonstrates that trans/cis isomerase activity can be intrinsic to this class of proteins and establishes these enzymes as key components for both invertebrate and vertebrate vision.
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Hirai-Fujita Y, Yamamoto-Hino M, Kanie O, Goto S. N-Glycosylation of the Drosophila neural protein Chaoptin is essential for its stability, cell surface transport and adhesive activity. FEBS Lett 2008; 582:2572-6. [PMID: 18588887 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2008] [Revised: 06/03/2008] [Accepted: 06/18/2008] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Glycosylation of proteins can modulate their function in a striking variety of systems, including immune responses, neuronal activities and development. The Drosophila protein, Chaoptin (Chp), is essential for the development and maintenance of photoreceptor cells. This protein is heavily glycosylated, but the possible role of this glycosylation is not well-understood. Here we show that mutations introduced into about 1/3 of 16 potential N-linked glycosylation sites within Chp impaired its cell adhesive activities when expressed in Drosophila S2 cells. Mutation of 2/3 of the glycosylation sites resulted in a marked decrease in Chp protein abundance. These results suggest that N-linked glycosylation of Chp is essential for its stability and activity.
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- Yu Hirai-Fujita
- Mitsubishi-Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences, 11 Minamiooya, Machida, Tokyo, Japan
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Schonthaler HB, Lampert JM, Isken A, Rinner O, Mader A, Gesemann M, Oberhauser V, Golczak M, Biehlmaier O, Palczewski K, Neuhauss SCF, von Lintig J. Evidence for RPE65-independent vision in the cone-dominated zebrafish retina. Eur J Neurosci 2007; 26:1940-9. [PMID: 17868371 PMCID: PMC2435297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05801.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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An enzyme-based cyclic pathway for trans to cis isomerization of the chromophore of visual pigments (11-cis-retinal) is intrinsic to vertebrate cone and rod vision. This process, called the visual cycle, is mostly characterized in rod-dominated retinas and essentially depends on RPE65, an all-trans to 11-cis-retinoid isomerase. Here we analysed the role of RPE65 in zebrafish, a species with a cone-dominated retina. We cloned zebrafish RPE65 and showed that its expression coincided with photoreceptor development. Targeted gene knockdown of RPE65 resulted in morphologically altered rod outer segments and overall reduced 11-cis-retinal levels. Cone vision of RPE65-deficient larvae remained functional as demonstrated by behavioural tests and by metabolite profiling for retinoids. Furthermore, all-trans retinylamine, a potent inhibitor of the rod visual cycle, reduced 11-cis-retinal levels of control larvae to a similar extent but showed no additive effects in RPE65-deficient larvae. Thus, our study of zebrafish provides in vivo evidence for the existence of an RPE65-independent pathway for the regeneration of 11-cis-retinal for cone vision.
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- Helia B. Schonthaler
- University of Zurich, Institute of Zoology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University of Zurich, Institute of Zoology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University of Zurich, Institute of Zoology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106–4965, USA
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- University of Zurich, Institute of Zoology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106–4965, USA
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- University of Zurich, Institute of Zoology, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg, Hauptstrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Wang T, Montell C. Phototransduction and retinal degeneration in Drosophila. Pflugers Arch 2007; 454:821-47. [PMID: 17487503 DOI: 10.1007/s00424-007-0251-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2007] [Accepted: 03/05/2007] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Drosophila visual transduction is the fastest known G-protein-coupled signaling cascade and has therefore served as a genetically tractable animal model for characterizing rapid responses to sensory stimulation. Mutations in over 30 genes have been identified, which affect activation, adaptation, or termination of the photoresponse. Based on analyses of these genes, a model for phototransduction has emerged, which involves phosphoinoside signaling and culminates with opening of the TRP and TRPL cation channels. Many of the proteins that function in phototransduction are coupled to the PDZ containing scaffold protein INAD and form a supramolecular signaling complex, the signalplex. Arrestin, TRPL, and G alpha(q) undergo dynamic light-dependent trafficking, and these movements function in long-term adaptation. Other proteins play important roles either in the formation or maturation of rhodopsin, or in regeneration of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2), which is required for the photoresponse. Mutation of nearly any gene that functions in the photoresponse results in retinal degeneration. The underlying bases of photoreceptor cell death are diverse and involve mechanisms such as excessive endocytosis of rhodopsin due to stable rhodopsin/arrestin complexes and abnormally low or high levels of Ca2+. Drosophila visual transduction appears to have particular relevance to the cascade in the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in mammals, as the photoresponse in these latter cells appears to operate through a remarkably similar mechanism.
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- Tao Wang
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Center for Sensory Biology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Spaethe J, Briscoe AD. Molecular characterization and expression of the UV opsin in bumblebees: three ommatidial subtypes in the retina and a new photoreceptor organ in the lamina. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 208:2347-61. [PMID: 15939775 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ultraviolet-sensitive photoreceptors have been shown to be important for a variety of visual tasks performed by bees, such as orientation, color and polarization vision, yet little is known about their spatial distribution in the compound eye or optic lobe. We cloned and sequenced a UV opsin mRNA transcript from Bombus impatiens head-specific cDNA and, using western blot analysis, detected an eye protein band of approximately 41 kDa, corresponding to the predicted molecular mass of the encoded opsin. We then characterized UV opsin expression in the retina, ocelli and brain using immunocytochemistry. In the main retina, we found three different ommatidial types with respect to the number of UV opsin-expressing photoreceptor cells, namely ommatidia containing two, one or no UV opsin-immunoreactive cells. We also observed UV opsin expression in the ocelli. These results indicate that the cloned opsin probably encodes the P350 nm pigment, which was previously characterized by physiological recordings. Surprisingly, in addition to expression in the retina and ocelli, we found opsin expression in different parts of the brain. UV opsin immunoreactivity was detected in the proximal rim of the lamina adjacent to the first optic chiasm, which is where studies in other insects have found expression of proteins involved in the circadian clock, period and cryptochrome. We also found UV opsin immunoreactivity in the core region of the antennal lobe glomeruli and different clusters of perikarya within the protocerebrum, indicating a putative function of these brain regions, together with the lamina organ, in the entrainment of circadian rhythms. In order to test for a possible overlap of clock protein and UV opsin spatial expression, we also examined the expression of the period protein in these regions.
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- Johannes Spaethe
- Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Group, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Sarfare S, Ahmad ST, Joyce MV, Boggess B, O'Tousa JE. The Drosophila ninaG Oxidoreductase Acts in Visual Pigment Chromophore Production. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:11895-901. [PMID: 15640158 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412236200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Drosophila ninaG mutant is characterized by low levels of Rh1 rhodopsin, because of the inability to transport this rhodopsin from the endoplasmic reticulum to the rhabdomere. ninaG mutants do not affect the biogenesis of the minor opsins Rh4 and Rh6. A genetic analysis placed the ninaG gene within the 86E4-86E6 chromosomal region. A sequence analysis of the 15 open reading frames within this region from the ninaG(P330) mutant allele identified a stop codon in the CG6728 gene. Germ-line transformation of the CG6728 genomic region rescued the ninaG mutant phenotypes, confirming that CG6728 corresponds to the ninaG gene. The NinaG protein belongs to the glucose-methanol-choline oxidoreductase family of flavin adenine dinucleotide-binding enzymes catalyzing hydroxylation and oxidation of a variety of small organic molecules. High performance liquid chromatography analysis of retinoids was used to gain insight into the in vivo role of the NinaG oxidoreductase. The results show that when Rh1 is expressed as the major rhodopsin, ninaG flies fail to accumulate 3-hydroxyretinal. Further, in transgenic flies expressing Rh4 as the major rhodopsin, 3-hydroxyretinal is the major retinoid in ninaG+, but a different retinoid profile is observed in ninaG(P330). These results indicate that the ninaG oxidoreductase acts in the biochemical pathway responsible for conversion of retinal to the rhodopsin chromophore, 3-hydroxyretinal.
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- Shanta Sarfare
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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Satoh AK, O'Tousa JE, Ozaki K, Ready DF. Rab11 mediates post-Golgi trafficking of rhodopsin to the photosensitive apical membrane of Drosophila photoreceptors. Development 2005; 132:1487-97. [PMID: 15728675 DOI: 10.1242/dev.01704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In developing Drosophila photoreceptors, rhodopsin is trafficked to the rhabdomere, a specialized domain within the apical membrane surface. Rab11, a small GTPase implicated in membrane traffic, immunolocalizes to the trans-Golgi network, cytoplasmic vesicles and tubules, and the base of rhabdomeres. One hour after release from the endoplasmic reticulum, rhodopsin colocalizes with Rab11 in vesicles at the base of the rhabdomere. When Rab11 activity is reduced by three different genetic procedures, rhabdomere morphogenesis is inhibited and rhodopsin-bearing vesicles proliferate within the cytosol. Rab11 activity is also essential for development of MVB endosomal compartments; this is probably a secondary consequence of impaired rhabdomere development. Furthermore, Rab11 is required for transport of TRP, another rhabdomeric protein, and for development of specialized membrane structures within Garland cells. These results establish a role for Rab11 in the post-Golgi transport of rhodopsin and of other proteins to the rhabdomeric membranes of photoreceptors, and in analogous transport processes in other cells.
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- Akiko K Satoh
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Baumann O. Spatial pattern of nonmuscle myosin-II distribution during the development of the Drosophila compound eye and implications for retinal morphogenesis. Dev Biol 2004; 269:519-33. [PMID: 15110717 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2004.01.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2002] [Revised: 11/24/2003] [Accepted: 01/27/2004] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Nonmuscle myosin-II is a motor protein that drives cell movement and changes in cell shape during tissue and organ development. This study has determined the dynamic changes in myosin-II distribution during Drosophila compound eye morphogenesis. In photoreceptor neurons, myosin-II is undetectable at the apical domain throughout the first half of pupal life, at which time this membrane domain is involuted into the epithelium and progresses toward the retinal floor. Myosin-II is deployed at the apical surface at about 60% of pupal development, once the developing rhabdomeres reach the retinal floor. Subsequently, myosin-II becomes restricted to two stripes at the sides of the developing rhabdomere, adopting its final position within the visual cells R1-6; here, myosin-II is associated with a set of actin filaments that extend alongside the rhabdomeres. At the midpupal stage, myosin-II is also incorporated into stress-fiber-like arrays within the basal endfeet of the pigment cells that then change their shape. This spatiotemporal pattern of myosin-II localization and the morphological defects observed in the eyes of a myosin-II mutant suggest that the myosin-II/F-actin system is involved in the alignment of the rhabdomeres within the retina and in the flattening of the retinal floor. The observation that the myosin-II/F-actin arrays are incomplete or disorganized in R7/R8 and in rhodopsin-1-null R1-6 suggests further that the establishment and stability of this cytoskeletal system depend on rhodopsin-1 expression.
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- Otto Baumann
- Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Zoophysiologie, Universität Potsdam, D-14415 Potsdam, Germany.
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