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Doppel and PrPC co-immunoprecipitate in detergent-resistant membrane domains of epithelial FRT cells. Biochem J 2009; 425:341-51. [PMID: 19888917 PMCID: PMC2825736 DOI: 10.1042/bj20091050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Dpl (doppel) is a paralogue of the PrPC (cellular prion protein), whose misfolded conformer (the scrapie prion protein, PrPSc) is responsible for the onset of TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) or prion diseases. It has been shown that the ectopic expression of Dpl in the brains of some lines of PrP-knockout mice provokes cerebellar ataxia, which can be rescued by the reintroduction of the PrP gene, suggesting a functional interaction between the two proteins. It is, however, still unclear where, and under which conditions, this event may occur. In the present study we addressed this issue by analysing the intracellular localization and the interaction between Dpl and PrPC in FRT (Fischer rat thyroid) cells stably expressing the two proteins separately or together. We show that both proteins localize prevalently on the basolateral surface of FRT cells, in both singly and doubly transfected clones. Interestingly we found that they associate with DRMs (detergent-resistant membranes) or lipid rafts, from where they can be co-immunoprecipitated in a cholesterol-dependent fashion. Although the interaction between Dpl and PrPC has been suggested before, our results provide the first clear evidence that this interaction occurs in rafts and is dependent on the integrity of these membrane microdomains. Furthermore, both Dpl and PrPC could be immunoprecipitated with flotillin-2, a raft protein involved in endocytosis and cell signalling events, suggesting that they share the same lipid environment.
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Watts JC, Huo H, Bai Y, Ehsani S, Won AH, Shi T, Daude N, Lau A, Young R, Xu L, Carlson GA, Williams D, Westaway D, Schmitt-Ulms G. Interactome analyses identify ties of PrP and its mammalian paralogs to oligomannosidic N-glycans and endoplasmic reticulum-derived chaperones. PLoS Pathog 2009; 5:e1000608. [PMID: 19798432 PMCID: PMC2749441 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2009] [Accepted: 09/08/2009] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The physiological environment which hosts the conformational conversion of the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) to disease-associated isoforms has remained enigmatic. A quantitative investigation of the PrP(C) interactome was conducted in a cell culture model permissive to prion replication. To facilitate recognition of relevant interactors, the study was extended to Doppel (Prnd) and Shadoo (Sprn), two mammalian PrP(C) paralogs. Interestingly, this work not only established a similar physiological environment for the three prion protein family members in neuroblastoma cells, but also suggested direct interactions amongst them. Furthermore, multiple interactions between PrP(C) and the neural cell adhesion molecule, the laminin receptor precursor, Na/K ATPases and protein disulfide isomerases (PDI) were confirmed, thereby reconciling previously separate findings. Subsequent validation experiments established that interactions of PrP(C) with PDIs may extend beyond the endoplasmic reticulum and may play a hitherto unrecognized role in the accumulation of PrP(Sc). A simple hypothesis is presented which accounts for the majority of interactions observed in uninfected cells and suggests that PrP(C) organizes its molecular environment on account of its ability to bind to adhesion molecules harboring immunoglobulin-like domains, which in turn recognize oligomannose-bearing membrane proteins.
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- Joel C. Watts
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Alberta Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana, United States of America
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana, United States of America
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- McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, Montana, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Alberta Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Cordier-Dirikoc S, Zsürger N, Cazareth J, Ménard B, Chabry J. Expression profiles of prion and doppel proteins and of their receptors in mouse splenocytes. Eur J Immunol 2008; 38:2131-41. [DOI: 10.1002/eji.200738099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Heitz S, Lutz Y, Rodeau JL, Zanjani H, Gautheron V, Bombarde G, Richard F, Fuchs JP, Vogel MW, Mariani J, Bailly Y. BAX contributes to Doppel-induced apoptosis of prion-protein-deficient Purkinje cells. Dev Neurobiol 2007; 67:670-86. [PMID: 17443816 DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Research efforts to deduce the function of the prion protein (PrPc) in knock-out mouse mutants have revealed that large deletions in the PrPc genome result in the ectopic neuronal expression of the prion-like protein Doppel (Dpl). In our analysis of one such line of mutant mice, Ngsk Prnp0/0 (NP0/0), we demonstrate that the ectopic expression of Dpl in brain neurons induces significant levels of cerebellar Purkinje cell (PC) death as early as six months after birth. To investigate the involvement of the mitochondrial proapoptotic factor BAX in the Dpl-induced apoptosis of PCs, we have analyzed the progression of PC death in aging NP0/0:Bax-/- double knockout mutants. Quantitative analysis of cell numbers showed that significantly more PCs survived in NP0/0:Bax-/- double mutants than in the NP0/0:Bax+/+ mutants. However, PC numbers were not restored to wildtype levels or to the increased number of PCs observed in Bax-/- mutants. The partial rescue of NP0/0 PCs suggests that the ectopic expression of Dpl induces both BAX-dependent and BAX-independent pathways of cell death. The activation of glial cells that is shown to be associated topographically with Dpl-induced PC death in the NP0/0:Bax+/+ mutants is abolished by the loss of Bax expression in the double mutant mice, suggesting that chronic inflammation is an indirect consequence of Dpl-induced PC death.
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- S Heitz
- Département Neurotransmission et Sécrétion Neuroendocrine, Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives (UMR7168-LC2), CNRS/Université Louis Pasteur, IFR 37 des Neurosciences de Strasbourg, and APHP, Hôpital Charles Foix, Ivry/Seine, France
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Watts JC, Westaway D. The prion protein family: Diversity, rivalry, and dysfunction. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2007; 1772:654-72. [PMID: 17562432 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2007.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2006] [Revised: 04/26/2007] [Accepted: 05/02/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The prion gene family currently consists of three members: Prnp which encodes PrP(C), the precursor to prion disease associated isoforms such as PrP(Sc); Prnd which encodes Doppel, a testis-specific protein involved in the male reproductive system; and Sprn which encodes the newest PrP-like protein, Shadoo, which is expressed in the CNS. Although the identification of numerous candidate binding partners for PrP(C) has hinted at possible cellular roles, molecular interpretations of PrP(C) activity remain obscure and no widely-accepted view as to PrP(C) function has emerged. Nonetheless, studies into the functional interrelationships of prion proteins have revealed an interesting phenomenon: Doppel is neurotoxic to cerebellar cells in a manner which can be blocked by either PrP(C) or Shadoo. Further examination of this paradigm may help to shed light on two prominent unanswered questions in prion biology: the functional role of PrP(C) and the neurotoxic pathways initiated by PrP(Sc) in prion disease.
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- Joel C Watts
- Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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Qin K, Zhao L, Tang Y, Bhatta S, Simard JM, Zhao RY. Doppel-induced apoptosis and counteraction by cellular prion protein in neuroblastoma and astrocytes. Neuroscience 2006; 141:1375-88. [PMID: 16766127 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.04.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2006] [Revised: 04/18/2006] [Accepted: 04/19/2006] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Expression of a prion-like protein, doppel, induces apoptosis-like changes in cerebellar neuronal granule and Purkinje cells of prion-knockout mice and this effect can be rescued by re-introduction of cellular prion. Since most of those studies were done in transgenic mice, in the present study, we have established a murine neuro-2a cell line and the primary rat adult reactive astrocyte model for studying doppel-induced apoptosis and possible prion counteraction. We demonstrate that expression of doppel in neuro-2a cells causes apoptosis, during which DNA fragmentation occurs as visualized by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase biotin-dUTP nick end labeling staining and other intracellular changes characteristic of apoptosis are observed in the electron microscope. Using immunoblot analyses, we further demonstrate that doppel expression activates caspase-10 as well as caspase-3, but does not activate caspase-9. Addition of purified doppel to cultures of neuro-2a cells and the primary astrocytes causes similar apoptotic changes. Significantly, apoptosis induced by doppel is enhanced when cellular prion protein is depleted by RNA interference, suggesting a protective effect of cellular prion against doppel-induced apoptosis. The antagonistic interaction between cellular prion and doppel appears to involve direct protein-protein interaction possibly on cell membrane as cellular prion and doppel physically interact with each other and co-localize on cell membranes. Together, our data show that doppel induces apoptosis in neuroblastoma neuro-2a and rat primary astrocytes via a caspase-10 mediated pathway and that this effect is counteracted by cellular prion through direct interaction with doppel possibly on cell membrane.
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- K Qin
- Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 South Pine Street, MSTF 700A, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Sakudo A, Lee DC, Nakamura I, Taniuchi Y, Saeki K, Matsumoto Y, Itohara S, Ikuta K, Onodera T. Cell-autonomous PrP–Doppel interaction regulates apoptosis in PrP gene-deficient neuronal cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 333:448-54. [PMID: 15950943 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.05.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2005] [Accepted: 05/19/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The Prnd-encoded prion protein (PrP)-like protein, Doppel (Dpl), is a homologue of Prnp-encoded PrP, and is N-glycosylated protein with glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor like PrP. Recently, ectopic expressions of Prnp/Prnd chimeric mRNAs have been identified as the cause of late-onset ataxia observed in several lines of Prnp-knockout mice such as ZrchII, Ngsk, Rcm0, and Rikn mice. However, it remains unclear whether the toxic effect of Dpl expression is a cell-autonomous mechanism but rather reflect a systemic process of heterogeneous cell population in the brain. In this study, the cell-autonomous role of Dpl was estimated by investigating PrP-deficient cells (HpL3-4)-the SV40 large T-antigen immortalized and Rikn Prnp(-/-) mice-derived neuronal cell line expressing Prnp/Prnd chimeric mRNAs. The reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction revealed that serum deprivation did not increase Prnp/Prnd chimeric mRNAs, which in fact was translated into a small amount of Dpl in HpL3-4 cells, whereas serum deprivation induced apoptotic cell death of HpL3-4 cells. Dpl overexpression enhanced apoptotic cell death, whereas the toxic effect of Dpl on apoptotic cell death was neutralized by PrP expression. These results indicate that Dpl elicited dose-dependently toxic effects on PrP-deficient cells without affecting on PrP-expressing cells, suggesting that the PrP-Dpl interaction can regulate cell death in a cell-autonomous manner.
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- Akikazu Sakudo
- Department of Molecular Immunology, School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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