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Smith FM, Kosman DJ. Loss of filamentous actin, tight junction protein expression, and paracellular barrier integrity in frataxin-deficient human brain microvascular endothelial cells-implications for blood-brain barrier physiology in Friedreich's ataxia. Front Mol Biosci 2024; 10:1299201. [PMID: 38274097 PMCID: PMC10808331 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2023.1299201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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Introduction: Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA) is the most prevalent inherited ataxia. FRDA results from loss of Frataxin (FXN), an essential mitochondrial iron trafficking protein. FRDA starts with an early burst of neurodegeneration of the dorsal root ganglion and cerebellar dentate nuclei, followed by progressive brain iron accumulation in the latter. End stage disease includes cardiac fibrosis that contributes to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The microvasculature plays an essential barrier role in both brain and heart homeostasis, thus an investigation of this tissue system in FRDA is essential to the delineation of the cellular dysfunction in this genetic disorder. Previous reports have identified cytoskeletal alterations in non-barrier forming FRDA cell models, but physiological consequences are limited. Methods: We investigated brain microvascular endothelial cell integrity in FRDA in a model of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). We have knocked down FXN in immortalized human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMVEC), which compose the microcapillaries of the BBB, by using shRNA. We confirmed known cellular pathophysiologies of FXN-knockdown including decreased energy metabolism, markers of oxidative stress, and increased cell size. Results: We investigated cytoskeletal architecture, identifying decreased filamentous actin and Occludin and Claudin-5 tight junction protein expression in shFXN hBMVECs. This was consistent with decreased transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) and increased paracellular tracer flux during early barrier formation. shFXN hBMVEC start with only 67% barrier integrity of the controls, and flux a paracellular tracer at 800% of physiological levels. Discussion: We identified that insufficient FXN levels in the hBMVEC BBB model causes changes in cytoskeletal architecture and tight junction protein abundance, co-incident with increased barrier permeability. Changes in the integrity of the BBB may be related to patient brain iron accumulation, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and stroke. Furthermore, our findings implicate other barrier cells, e.g., the cardiac microvasculature, loci of disease pathology in FRDA.
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- Frances M. Smith
- Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States
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Sun Y, Lu Z, Taylor JA, Au JLS. Quantitative image analysis of intracellular protein translocation in 3-dimensional tissues for pharmacodynamic studies of immunogenic cell death. J Control Release 2024; 365:89-100. [PMID: 37981052 PMCID: PMC11078532 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2023.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 11/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/12/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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A recent development in cancer chemotherapy is to use cytotoxics to induce tumor-specific immune response through immunogenic cell death (ICD). In ICD, calreticulin is translocated from endoplasmic reticulum to cell membrane (ecto-CRT) which serves as the 'eat-me-signal' to antigen-presenting cells. Ecto-CRT measurements, e.g., by ecto-CRT immunostaining plus flow cytometry, can be used to study the pharmacodynamics of ICD in single cells, whereas ICD studies in intact 3-dimensional tissues such as human tumors require different approaches. The present study described a method that used (a) immunostaining with fluorescent antibodies followed by confocal microscopy to obtain the spatial locations of two molecules-of-interest (CRT and a marker protein WGA), and (b) machine-learning (trainable WEKA segmentation) and additional image processing tools to locate the target molecules, remove the interfering signals in the nucleus, cytosol and extracellular space, enable the distinction of the inner and outer edges of the cell membrane and thereby identify the cells with ecto-CRT. This method, when applied to 3-dimensional human bladder cancer cell spheroids, yielded drug-induced ecto-CRT measurements that were qualitatively comparable to the flow cytometry results obtained with single cells disaggregated from spheroids. This new method was applied to study drug-induced ICD in short-term cultures of surgical specimens of human patient bladder tumors.
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- Yajing Sun
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, United States of America
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- Institute of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Carlsbad, CA 92008, United States of America; Optimum Therapeutics LLC, Carlsbad, CA 92008, United States of America
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- Department of Urology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, United States of America; Institute of Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Carlsbad, CA 92008, United States of America; Optimum Therapeutics LLC, Carlsbad, CA 92008, United States of America; College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan.
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Gonzalez JP, Frandsen KEH, Kesten C. The role of intrinsic disorder in binding of plant microtubule-associated proteins to the cytoskeleton. Cytoskeleton (Hoboken) 2023; 80:404-436. [PMID: 37578201 DOI: 10.1002/cm.21773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/30/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Microtubules (MTs) represent one of the main components of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton and support numerous critical cellular functions. MTs are in principle tube-like structures that can grow and shrink in a highly dynamic manner; a process largely controlled by microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs). Plant MAPs are a phylogenetically diverse group of proteins that nonetheless share many common biophysical characteristics and often contain large stretches of intrinsic protein disorder. These intrinsically disordered regions are determinants of many MAP-MT interactions, in which structural flexibility enables low-affinity protein-protein interactions that enable a fine-tuned regulation of MT cytoskeleton dynamics. Notably, intrinsic disorder is one of the major obstacles in functional and structural studies of MAPs and represents the principal present-day challenge to decipher how MAPs interact with MTs. Here, we review plant MAPs from an intrinsic protein disorder perspective, by providing a complete and up-to-date summary of all currently known members, and address the current and future challenges in functional and structural characterization of MAPs.
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- Jordy Perez Gonzalez
- Department for Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department for Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department for Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Pedretti M, Favretto F, Troilo F, Giovannoni M, Conter C, Mattei B, Dominici P, Travaglini-Allocatelli C, Di Matteo A, Astegno A. Role of myristoylation in modulating PCaP1 interaction with calmodulin. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY : PPB 2023; 203:108003. [PMID: 37717348 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.108003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Revised: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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Plasma membrane-associated Cation-binding Protein 1 (PCaP1) belongs to the plant-unique DREPP protein family with largely unknown biological functions but ascertained roles in plant development and calcium (Ca2+) signaling. PCaP1 is anchored to the plasma membrane via N-myristoylation and a polybasic cluster, and its N-terminal region can bind Ca2+/calmodulin (CaM). However, the molecular determinants of PCaP1-Ca2+-CaM interaction and the functional impact of myristoylation in the complex formation and Ca2+ sensitivity of CaM remained to be elucidated. Herein, we investigated the direct interaction between Arabidopsis PCaP1 (AtPCaP1) and CaM1 (AtCaM1) using both myristoylated and non-myristoylated peptides corresponding to the N-terminal region of AtPCaP1. ITC analysis showed that AtCaM1 forms a high affinity 1:1 complex with AtPCaP1 peptides and the interaction is strictly Ca2+-dependent. Spectroscopic and kinetic Ca2+ binding studies showed that the myristoylated peptide dramatically increased the Ca2+-binding affinity of AtCaM1 and slowed the Ca2+ dissociation rates from both the C- and N-lobes, thus suggesting that the myristoylation modulates the mechanism of AtPCaP1 recognition by AtCaM1. Furthermore, NMR and CD spectroscopy revealed that the structure of both the N- and C-lobes of Ca2+-AtCaM1 changes markedly in the presence of the myristoylated AtPCaP1 peptide, which assumes a helical structure in the final complex. Overall, our results indicate that AtPCaP1 biological function is strictly related to the presence of multiple ligands, i.e., the myristoyl moiety, Ca2+ ions and AtCaM1 and only a full characterization of their equilibria will allow for a complete molecular understanding of the putative role of PCaP1 as signal protein.
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- Marco Pedretti
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, 67100, L'Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134, Verona, Italy
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Smith FM, Kosman DJ. Frataxin-deficient human brain microvascular endothelial cells lose polymerized actin and are paracellularly permeable -implications for blood-brain barrier integrity in Friedreich's Ataxia. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.09.527936. [PMID: 36798283 PMCID: PMC9934603 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.09.527936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
Abstract
Background Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA) is the most prevalent inherited ataxia; the disease results from loss of Frataxin, an essential mitochondrial iron trafficking protein. FRDA presents as neurodegeneration of the dorsal root ganglion and cerebellar dentate nuclei, followed by brain iron accumulation in the latter. End stage disease includes cardiac fibrosis that contributes to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The microvasculature plays an essential barrier role in both the brain and heart, thus an investigation of this tissue system in FRDA is essential to the delineation of the cellular dysfunction in this genetic disorder. Here, we investigate brain microvascular endothelial cell integrity in FRDA in a model of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Methods We used lentiviral mediated shRNA delivery to generate a novel FRDA model in immortalized human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMVEC) that compose the microcapillaries of the BBB. We verified known cellular pathophysiologies of FXN knockdown including increased oxidative stress, loss of energy metabolism, and increased cell size. Furthermore, we investigated cytoskeletal architecture including the abundance and organization of filamentous actin, and barrier physiology via transendothelial electrical resistance and fluorescent tracer flux. Results shFXN hBMVEC display the known FRDA cell morbidity including increased oxidative stress, decreased energy metabolism, and an increase in cell size. We demonstrate that shFXN hBMVEC have less overall filamentous actin, and that filamentous actin is lost at the cell membrane and cortical actin ring. Consistent with loss of cytoskeletal structure and anchorage, we found decreased barrier strength and increased paracellular tracer flux in the shFXN hBMVEC transwell model. Conclusion We identified that insufficient FXN levels in the hBMVEC BBB model causes changes in cytoskeletal architecture and increased barrier permeability, cell pathologies that may be related to patient brain iron accumulation, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and stroke. Our findings implicate other barrier cells, e.g., the cardiac microvasculature, likely contributory also to disease pathology in FRDA.
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- Frances M Smith
- Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of New York at Buffalo
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- Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of New York at Buffalo
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Yang P, Jin J, Zhang J, Wang D, Bai X, Xie W, Hu T, Zhao X, Mao T, Qin T. MDP25 mediates the fine-tuning of microtubule organization in response to salt stress. JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 64:1181-1195. [PMID: 35436387 DOI: 10.1111/jipb.13264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeleton structures playing fundamental roles in plant responses to salt stress. The precise mechanisms by which microtubule organization is regulated under salt stress are largely unknown. Here, we report that Arabidopsis thaliana MICROTUBULE-DESTABILIZING PROTEIN 25 (MDP25; also known as PLASMA MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED CATION-BINDING PROTEIN 1 (PCaP1)) helps regulate microtubule organization. Under salt treatment, elevated cytosolic Ca2+ concentration caused MDP25 to partially dissociate from the plasma membrane, promoting microtubule depolymerization. When Ca2+ signaling was blocked by BAPTA-AM or LaCl3 , microtubule depolymerization in wild-type and MDP25-overexpressing cells was slower, while there was no obvious change in mdp25 cells. Knockout of MDP25 improved microtubule reassembly and was conducive to microtubule integrity under long-term salt treatment and microtubule recovery after salt stress. Moreover, mdp25 seedlings exhibited a higher survival rate under salt stress. The presence microtubule-disrupting reagent oryzalin or microtubule-stabilizing reagent paclitaxel differentially affected the survival rates of different genotypes under salt stress. MDP25 promoted microtubule instability by affecting the catastrophe and rescue frequencies, shrinkage rate and time in pause phase at the microtubule plus-end and the depolymerization rate at the microtubule minus-end. These findings reveal a role for MDP25 in regulating microtubule organization under salt treatment by affecting microtubule dynamics.
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- Peizhi Yang
- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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- Research Center of Chinese Jujube, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071001, China
- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071001, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Plant Sciences, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- College of Grassland Agriculture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China
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Zhang K, Shi W, Zheng X, Liu X, Wang L, Riemann M, Heintz D, Nick P. A rice tubulin tyrosine ligase like 12 regulates phospholipase D activity and tubulin synthesis. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2022; 316:111155. [PMID: 35151438 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.111155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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All plant α-tubulins encode a C-terminal tyrosine. An elusive tubulin tyrosine carboxypeptidase can cleave off, and a tubulin tyrosine ligase (TTL) re-ligate this tyrosine. The biological function of this cycle remains unclear but may correlate with microtubule stability. To get insight into the functional context of this phenomenon, we used cold-induced elimination of microtubules as experimental model. In previous work, we had analysed a rice TTL-like 12 (OsTTLL12), the only potential candidate of plant TTL. To follow the effect of OsTTLL12 upon microtubule responses in vivo, we expressed OsTTLL12-RFP into tobacco BY-2 cells stably overexpressing NtTUA3-GFP. We found that overexpression of OsTTLL12-RFP made microtubules disappear faster in response to cold stress, accompanied with more rapid Ca2+ influx, culminating in reduced cold tolerance. Treatment with different butanols indicated that α-tubulin detyrosination/tyrosination differently interacts with phospholipase D (PLD) dependent signalling. In fact, rice PLDα1 decorated microtubules and increased detyrosinated α-tubulin. Unexpectedly, overexpression of the two proteins (OsTTLL12-RFP, NtTUA3-GFP) mutually regulated the accumulation of their transcripts, leading us to a model, where tubulin detyrosination feeds back upon tubulin transcripts and defines a subset of microtubules for interaction with PLD dependent stress signalling.
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- Kunxi Zhang
- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071001, Hebei, China
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- College of Horticulture, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, 071001, Hebei, China
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Plant Imaging and Mass Spectrometry (PIMS), Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Centre National du Recherche Scientifique (CNRS-IBMP), Université de Strasbourg, 12 rue du Général Zimmer, 67084, Strasbourg, France
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- Molecular Cell Biology, Botanical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Giovannoni M, Marti L, Ferrari S, Tanaka‐Takada N, Maeshima M, Ott T, De Lorenzo G, Mattei B. The plasma membrane-associated Ca 2+ -binding protein, PCaP1, is required for oligogalacturonide and flagellin-induced priming and immunity. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2021; 44:3078-3093. [PMID: 34050546 PMCID: PMC8457133 DOI: 10.1111/pce.14118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2019] [Revised: 05/13/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Early signalling events in response to elicitation include reversible protein phosphorylation and re-localization of plasma membrane (PM) proteins. Oligogalacturonides (OGs) are a class of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that act as endogenous signals to activate the plant immune response. Previous data on early phosphoproteome changes in Arabidopsis thaliana upon OG perception uncovered the immune-related phospho-regulation of several membrane proteins, among which PCaP1, a PM-anchored protein with actin filament-severing activity, was chosen for its potential involvement in OG- and flagellin-triggered responses. Here, we demonstrate that PCaP1 is required for late, but not early, responses induced by OGs and flagellin. Moreover, pcap1 mutants, unlike the wild type, are impaired in the recovery of full responsiveness to a second treatment with OGs performed 24 h after the first one. Localization studies on PCaP1 upon OG treatment in plants expressing a functional PCaP1-GFP fusion under the control of PCaP1 promoter revealed fluorescence on the PM, organized in densely packed punctate structures, previously reported as microdomains. Fluorescence was found to be associated also with endocytic vesicles, the number of which rapidly increased after OG treatment, suggesting both an endocytic turnover of PCaP1 for maintaining its homeostasis at the PM and an OG-induced endocytosis.
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- Moira Giovannoni
- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
- Department of Health, Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural SciencesNagoya UniversityNagoyaJapan
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- Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural SciencesNagoya UniversityNagoyaJapan
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- Faculty of Biology, Cell BiologyUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
- CIBSS ‐ Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling StudiesUniversity of FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “C. Darwin”Sapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Health, Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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Tanaka-Takada N, Kobayashi A, Takahashi H, Kamiya T, Kinoshita T, Maeshima M. Plasma Membrane-Associated Ca2+-Binding Protein PCaP1 is Involved in Root Hydrotropism of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2019; 60:1331-1341. [PMID: 30828737 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcz042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Root hydrotropism is an essential growth response to water potential gradients in plants. To understand the mechanism, fundamental elements such as MIZU-KUSSEI 1 (MIZ1) have been investigated extensively. We investigated the physiological role of a plasma membrane-associated cation-binding protein (PCaP1) and examined the effect of PCaP1 loss-of-function mutations on root hydrotropism. pcap1 knockout mutants showed a defect in root bending as a hydrotropic response, although gravitropism was normal in pcap1 mutants. When pcap1 seedlings were treated with abscisic acid, a negative regulator of gravitropism, the seedlings showed normal gravitropism. The hydrotropism defect in pcap1 mutants was clearly rescued by introducing the genomic sequence of PCaP1 with an endodermis-specific promoter. Analysis of PCaP1-greenfluorescent protein-expressing roots by confocal laser scanning microscopy revealed that PCaP1 was stably associated with the plasma membrane in most cells, but in the cytoplasm of endodermal cells at the bending region. Furthermore, we prepared a transgenic line overexpressing MIZ1 on the pcap1 background and found that the pcap1 hydrotropism defect was rescued. Our results indicate that PCaP1 in the endodermal cells of the root elongation zone is involved in the hydrotropic response. We suggest that PCaP1 contributes to hydrotropism through a MIZ1-independent pathway or as one of the upstream components that transduce water potential signals to MIZ1.
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- Natsuki Tanaka-Takada
- Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Sennsory and Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Sennsory and Developmental Biology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan
- Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Japan
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- Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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Kölling M, Kumari P, Bürstenbinder K. Calcium- and calmodulin-regulated microtubule-associated proteins as signal-integration hubs at the plasma membrane-cytoskeleton nexus. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2019; 70:387-396. [PMID: 30590729 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ery397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Plant growth and development are a genetically predetermined series of events but can change dramatically in response to environmental stimuli, involving perpetual pattern formation and reprogramming of development. The rate of growth is determined by cell division and subsequent cell expansion, which are restricted and controlled by the cell wall-plasma membrane-cytoskeleton continuum, and are coordinated by intricate networks that facilitate intra- and intercellular communication. An essential role in cellular signaling is played by calcium ions, which act as universal second messengers that transduce, integrate, and multiply incoming signals during numerous plant growth processes, in part by regulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton. In this review, we highlight recent advances in the understanding of calcium-mediated regulation of microtubule-associated proteins, their function at the microtubule cytoskeleton, and their potential role as hubs in crosstalk with other signaling pathways.
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- Malte Kölling
- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Weinberg, Halle/Saale, Germany
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Meng F, Xiao Y, Guo L, Zeng H, Yang X, Qiu D. A DREPP protein interacted with PeaT1 from Alternaria tenuissima and is involved in elicitor-induced disease resistance in Nicotiana plants. JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH 2018; 131:827-837. [PMID: 29730747 DOI: 10.1007/s10265-018-1038-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 04/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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PeaT1 is a proteinaceous elicitor from fungal pathogen Alternaria tenuissima. Our previous research revealed that this elicitor could induce defense response and enhance disease resistance in various plants including Nicotiana plants. However, immune activation mechanisms whereby PeaT1 elicits defense response remain unclear. In this study, the association between elicitor protein PeaT1 and the plasma membrane was assessed using the FITC (Fluorescein isothiocyanate) labeling method. A PeaT1-interacting protein was isolated via 125I-PeaT1 cross-linking and Far Western blot analyses, and designated PtBP1 (PeaT1 Binding Protein 1). From the data of Mass spectrometry (MS) and bioinformatics analysis, the 22 kDa plasma membrane protein PtBP1 was inferred to be a member of DREPP (developmentally regulated plasma membrane polypeptide) family that is induced in plants under stress conditions and might get involved in downstream signaling. For further verification of this association, Far Western blot, co-immunoprecipitation and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) analyses were performed, showing PtBP1 could bind with PeaT1 in vitro and in vivo. Virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) analysis exhibited that PtBP1 silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana attenuated tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) resistance compared to the tobacco rattle virus (TRV) control after PeaT1 treatment.
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- Fanlu Meng
- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China
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- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China
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- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China
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- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China
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- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- The State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Disease and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street, Beijing, 100081, China.
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Theerawitaya C, Yamada-Kato N, Singh HP, Cha-Um S, Takabe T. Isolation, expression, and functional analysis of developmentally regulated plasma membrane polypeptide 1 (DREPP1) in Sporobolus virginicus grown under alkali salt stress. PROTOPLASMA 2018; 255:1423-1432. [PMID: 29574487 DOI: 10.1007/s00709-018-1242-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The plant specific DREPP proteins have been shown to bind Ca2+ and regulate the N-myristoylation signaling and microtubule polymerization in Arabidopsis thaliana. The information about DREPP proteins in other plants is, however, scarce. In the present study, we isolated the DREPP gene from a halophytic grass, Sporobolus virginicus, and tested whether the gene was involved in alkaline salt stress responses. The SvDREPP1 was cloned from S. virginicus by RACE methods. The isolated gene showed high homology to DREPP homologs from C4 grasses, Setaria italica, and Panicum hallii as well as rice (OsDREPP1). The encoded protein contained 202 amino acid residues. It was expressed in E. coli, and its biochemical properties were studied. It was observed that SvDREPP1 was not only Ca2+-binding protein, but also bind to calmodulin and microtubules. The SvDREPP1 mRNA expression in plants grown under alkaline salt stress was upregulated by 3.5 times over the control in leaf tissues after 48-h treatment, whereas it was increased for 6.0 times in the root tissues at 36 h. The data suggests the importance of SvDREPP1 in regulating alkali salt stress responses in the leaf tissues.
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- Cattarin Theerawitaya
- National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- Research Institute, Meijo University, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-8502, Japan
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- Department of Environment Studies, Faculty of Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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- National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand
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- Research Institute, Meijo University, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 468-8502, Japan.
- Graduate School of Environmental and Human Sciences, Meijo University, Nagoya, 468-8502, Japan.
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Vosolsobě S, Schwarzerová K, Petrášek J. Determination of Plasma Membrane Partitioning for Peripherally-associated Proteins. J Vis Exp 2018. [PMID: 29985355 DOI: 10.3791/57837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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This method provides a fast approach for the determination of plasma membrane partitioning of any fluorescently-tagged peripherally-associated protein using the profiles of fluorescence intensity across the plasma membrane. Measured fluorescence profiles are fitted by a model for membrane and cytoplasm fluorescence distribution along a line applied perpendicularly to the cell periphery. This model is constructed from the fluorescence intensity values in reference cells expressing a fluorescently-tagged marker for cytoplasm and with FM 4-64-labeled plasma membrane. The method can be applied to various cell types and organisms; however, only plasma membranes of non-neighboring cells can be evaluated. This fast microscopy-based method is suitable for experiments, where subtle and dynamic changes of plasma membrane-associated markers are expected and need to be quantified, e.g., in the analysis of mutant versions of proteins, inhibitor treatments, and signal transduction observations. The method is implemented in a multi-platform R package that is coupled with an ImageJ macro that serves as a user-friendly interface.
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- Stanislav Vosolsobě
- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, University of Science, Charles University;
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- Department of Experimental Plant Biology, University of Science, Charles University
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