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Shiomi A, Nagao K, Yokota N, Tsuchiya M, Kato U, Juni N, Hara Y, Mori MX, Mori Y, Ui-Tei K, Murate M, Kobayashi T, Nishino Y, Miyazawa A, Yamamoto A, Suzuki R, Kaufmann S, Tanaka M, Tatsumi K, Nakabe K, Shintaku H, Yesylevsky S, Bogdanov M, Umeda M. Extreme deformability of insect cell membranes is governed by phospholipid scrambling. Cell Rep 2021; 35:109219. [PMID: 34107250 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Organization of dynamic cellular structure is crucial for a variety of cellular functions. In this study, we report that Drosophila and Aedes have highly elastic cell membranes with extremely low membrane tension and high resistance to mechanical stress. In contrast to other eukaryotic cells, phospholipids are symmetrically distributed between the bilayer leaflets of the insect plasma membrane, where phospholipid scramblase (XKR) that disrupts the lipid asymmetry is constitutively active. We also demonstrate that XKR-facilitated phospholipid scrambling promotes the deformability of cell membranes by regulating both actin cortex dynamics and mechanical properties of the phospholipid bilayer. Moreover, XKR-mediated construction of elastic cell membranes is essential for hemocyte circulation in the Drosophila cardiovascular system. Deformation of mammalian cells is also enhanced by the expression of Aedes XKR, and thus phospholipid scrambling may contribute to formation of highly deformable cell membranes in a variety of living eukaryotic cells.
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- Akifumi Shiomi
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, 74 Route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France
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- UMR 7021 CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, 74 Route du Rhin, 67401 Illkirch, France
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- Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Kouto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medicine and Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Center for Integrative Medicine and Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Center for Integrative Medicine and Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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- Microfluidics RIKEN Hakubi Research Team, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Laboratoire Chrono Environnement UMR CNRS 6249, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France; Department of Physics of Biological Systems, Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauky 46, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, 6431 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
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An optogenetic system to control membrane phospholipid asymmetry through flippase activation in budding yeast. Sci Rep 2020; 10:12474. [PMID: 32719316 PMCID: PMC7385178 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69459-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/08/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Lipid asymmetry in biological membranes is essential for various cell functions, such as cell polarity, cytokinesis, and apoptosis. P4-ATPases (flippases) are involved in the generation of such asymmetry. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protein kinases Fpk1p/Fpk2p activate the P4-ATPases Dnf1p/Dnf2p by phosphorylation. Previously, we have shown that a blue-light-dependent protein kinase, phototropin from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CrPHOT), complements defects in an fpk1Δ fpk2Δ mutant. Herein, we investigated whether CrPHOT optically regulates P4-ATPase activity. First, we demonstrated that the translocation of NBD-labelled phospholipids to the cytoplasmic leaflet via P4-ATPases was promoted by blue-light irradiation in fpk1Δ fpk2Δ cells with CrPHOT. In addition, blue light completely suppressed the defects in membrane functions (such as endocytic recycling, actin depolarization, and apical-isotropic growth switching) caused by fpk1Δ fpk2Δ mutations. All responses required the kinase activity of CrPHOT. Hence, these results indicate the utility of CrPHOT as a powerful and first tool for optogenetic manipulation of P4-ATPase activity.
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Conserved mechanism of phospholipid substrate recognition by the P4-ATPase Neo1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2019; 1865:158581. [PMID: 31786280 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2019.158581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2019] [Revised: 11/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The type IV P-type ATPases (P4-ATPases) thus far characterized are lipid flippases that transport specific substrates, such as phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), from the exofacial leaflet to the cytofacial leaflet of membranes. This transport activity generates compositional asymmetry between the two leaflets important for signal transduction, cytokinesis, vesicular transport, and host-pathogen interactions. Most P4-ATPases function as a heterodimer with a β-subunit from the Cdc50 protein family, but Neo1 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its metazoan orthologs lack a β-subunit requirement and it is unclear how these proteins transport substrate. Here we tested if residues linked to lipid substrate recognition in other P4-ATPases also contribute to Neo1 function in budding yeast. Point mutations altering entry gate residues in the first (Q209A) and fourth (S457Q) transmembrane segments of Neo1, where phospholipid substrate would initially be selected, disrupt PS and PE membrane asymmetry, but do not perturb growth of cells. Mutation of both entry gate residues inactivates Neo1, and cells expressing this variant are inviable. We also identified a gain-of-function mutation in the second transmembrane segment of Neo1 (Neo1[Y222S]), predicted to help form the entry gate, that substantially enhances Neo1's ability to replace the function of a well characterized phospholipid flippase, Drs2, in establishing PS and PE asymmetry. These results suggest a common mechanism for substrate recognition in widely divergent P4-ATPases.
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Mioka T, Fujimura-Kamada K, Mizugaki N, Kishimoto T, Sano T, Nunome H, Williams DE, Andersen RJ, Tanaka K. Phospholipid flippases and Sfk1p, a novel regulator of phospholipid asymmetry, contribute to low permeability of the plasma membrane. Mol Biol Cell 2018. [PMID: 29540528 PMCID: PMC5935070 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e17-04-0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Phospholipid flippase (type 4 P-type ATPase) plays a major role in the generation of phospholipid asymmetry in eukaryotic cell membranes. Loss of Lem3p-Dnf1/2p flippases leads to the exposure of phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the cell surface in yeast, resulting in sensitivity to PS- or PE-binding peptides. We isolated Sfk1p, a conserved membrane protein in the TMEM150/FRAG1/DRAM family, as a multicopy suppressor of this sensitivity. Overexpression of SFK1 decreased PS/PE exposure in lem3Δ mutant cells. Consistent with this, lem3Δ sfk1Δ double mutant cells exposed more PS/PE than the lem3Δ mutant. Sfk1p was previously implicated in the regulation of the phosphatidylinositol-4 kinase Stt4p, but the effect of Sfk1p on PS/PE exposure in lem3Δ was independent of Stt4p. Surprisingly, Sfk1p did not facilitate phospholipid flipping but instead repressed it, even under ATP-depleted conditions. We propose that Sfk1p negatively regulates transbilayer movement of phospholipids irrespective of directions. In addition, we showed that the permeability of the plasma membrane was dramatically elevated in the lem3Δ sfk1Δ double mutant in comparison with the corresponding single mutants. Interestingly, total ergosterol was decreased in the lem3Δ sfk1Δ mutant. Our results suggest that phospholipid asymmetry is required for the maintenance of low plasma membrane permeability.
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- Tetsuo Mioka
- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- Departments of Chemistry and Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Departments of Chemistry and Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Life Science, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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Phosphatidylethanolamine targeting for cell death imaging in early treatment response evaluation and disease diagnosis. Apoptosis 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s10495-017-1384-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Probing phosphoethanolamine-containing lipids in membranes with duramycin/cinnamycin and aegerolysin proteins. Biochimie 2016; 130:81-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2016.09.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2016] [Accepted: 09/27/2016] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Broughton LJ, Giuntini F, Savoie H, Bryden F, Boyle RW, Maraveyas A, Madden LA. Duramycin-porphyrin conjugates for targeting of tumour cells using photodynamic therapy. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2016; 163:374-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2016] [Revised: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 09/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Duramycin, through binding with phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), has shown potential to be an effective antitumour agent. However, its mode of action in relation to tumour cells is not fully understood. PE expression on the surface of a panel of cancer cell lines was analysed using duramycin and subsequent antibody labelling, and then analysed by flow cytometry. Cell viability was also assessed by flow cytometry using annexin V and propidium iodide. Calcium ion (Ca) release by tumour cells in response to duramycin was determined by spectrofluorometry following incubation with Fluo-3, AM. Confocal microscopy was performed on the cancer cell line AsPC-1 to assess real-time cell response to duramycin treatment. Duramycin could detect cell surface PE expression on all 15 cancer cell lines screened, which was shown to be duramycin concentration dependent. However, higher concentrations induced necrotic cell death. Duramycin induced calcium ion (Ca) release from the cancer cell lines also in a concentration-dependent and time-dependent manner. Confocal microscopy showed an influx of propidium iodide into the cells over time and induced morphological changes. Duramycin induces Ca release from cancer cell lines in a time-dependent and concentration-dependent manner.
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Takar M, Wu Y, Graham TR. The Essential Neo1 Protein from Budding Yeast Plays a Role in Establishing Aminophospholipid Asymmetry of the Plasma Membrane. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:15727-39. [PMID: 27235400 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.686253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic organisms typically express multiple type IV P-type ATPases (P4-ATPases), which establish plasma membrane asymmetry by flipping specific phospholipids from the exofacial to the cytosolic leaflet. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, for example, expresses five P4-ATPases, including Neo1, Drs2, Dnf1, Dnf2, and Dnf3. Neo1 is thought to be a phospholipid flippase, although there is currently no experimental evidence that Neo1 catalyzes this activity or helps establish membrane asymmetry. Here, we use temperature-conditional alleles (neo1(ts)) to test whether Neo1 deficiency leads to loss of plasma membrane asymmetry. Wild-type (WT) yeast normally restrict most of the phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) to the inner cytosolic leaflet of the plasma membrane. However, the neo1-1(ts) and neo1-2(ts) mutants display a loss of PS and PE asymmetry at permissive growth temperatures as measured by hypersensitivity to pore-forming toxins that target PS (papuamide A) or PE (duramycin) exposed in the extracellular leaflet. When shifted to a semi-permissive growth temperature, the neo1-1(ts) mutant became extremely hypersensitive to duramycin, although the sensitivity to papuamide A was unchanged, indicating preferential exposure of PE. This loss of asymmetry occurs despite the presence of other flippases that flip PS and/or PE. Even when overexpressed, Drs2 and Dnf1 were unable to correct the loss of asymmetry caused by neo1(ts) However, modest overexpression of Neo1 weakly suppressed loss of membrane asymmetry caused by drs2Δ with a more significant correction of PE asymmetry than PS. These results indicate that Neo1 plays an important role in establishing PS and PE plasma membrane asymmetry in budding yeast.
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- Mehmet Takar
- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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- From the Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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Richard VR, Beach A, Piano A, Leonov A, Feldman R, Burstein MT, Kyryakov P, Gomez-Perez A, Arlia-Ciommo A, Baptista S, Campbell C, Goncharov D, Pannu S, Patrinos D, Sadri B, Svistkova V, Victor A, Titorenko VI. Mechanism of liponecrosis, a distinct mode of programmed cell death. Cell Cycle 2015; 13:3707-26. [PMID: 25483081 DOI: 10.4161/15384101.2014.965003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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An exposure of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to exogenous palmitoleic acid (POA) elicits "liponecrosis," a mode of programmed cell death (PCD) which differs from the currently known PCD subroutines. Here, we report the following mechanism for liponecrotic PCD. Exogenously added POA is incorporated into POA-containing phospholipids that then amass in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, mitochondrial membranes and the plasma membrane. The buildup of the POA-containing phospholipids in the plasma membrane reduces the level of phosphatidylethanolamine in its extracellular leaflet, thereby increasing plasma membrane permeability for small molecules and committing yeast to liponecrotic PCD. The excessive accumulation of POA-containing phospholipids in mitochondrial membranes impairs mitochondrial functionality and causes the excessive production of reactive oxygen species in mitochondria. The resulting rise in cellular reactive oxygen species above a critical level contributes to the commitment of yeast to liponecrotic PCD by: (1) oxidatively damaging numerous cellular organelles, thereby triggering their massive macroautophagic degradation; and (2) oxidatively damaging various cellular proteins, thus impairing cellular proteostasis. Several cellular processes in yeast exposed to POA can protect cells from liponecrosis. They include: (1) POA oxidation in peroxisomes, which reduces the flow of POA into phospholipid synthesis pathways; (2) POA incorporation into neutral lipids, which prevents the excessive accumulation of POA-containing phospholipids in cellular membranes; (3) mitophagy, a selective macroautophagic degradation of dysfunctional mitochondria, which sustains a population of functional mitochondria needed for POA incorporation into neutral lipids; and (4) a degradation of damaged, dysfunctional and aggregated cytosolic proteins, which enables the maintenance of cellular proteostasis.
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Key Words
- CFU, colony forming units
- CL, cardiolipin
- Cvt, cytoplasm-to-vacuole pathway
- ER, endoplasmic reticulum
- IMM, inner mitochondrial membrane
- LD, lipid droplets
- NL, neutral lipids
- PA, phosphatidic acid
- PC, phosphatidylcholine
- PCD, programmed cell death
- PE, phosphatidylethanolamine
- PI, phosphatidylinositol
- PL, phospholipids
- PM, plasma membrane
- POA, palmitoleic acid
- PS, phosphatidylserine
- ROS, reactive oxygen species
- TAG, triacylglycerols
- WT, wild-type
- apoptosis
- autophagy
- cellular proteostasis
- lipid metabolism in cellular organelles
- mechanisms of programmed cell death
- mitochondria,
- mitophagy
- plasma membrane
- signal transduction
- yeast
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- Vincent R Richard
- a Department of Biology ; Concordia University ; Montreal , QC Canada
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Roelants FM, Su BM, von Wulffen J, Ramachandran S, Sartorel E, Trott AE, Thorner J. Protein kinase Gin4 negatively regulates flippase function and controls plasma membrane asymmetry. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 208:299-311. [PMID: 25646086 PMCID: PMC4315245 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201410076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In yeast, the protein kinase Gin4 locally controls plasma membrane lipid asymmetry, which is necessary for optimal cytokinesis. Plasma membrane function requires distinct leaflet lipid compositions. Two of the P-type ATPases (flippases) in yeast, Dnf1 and Dnf2, translocate aminoglycerophospholipids from the outer to the inner leaflet, stimulated via phosphorylation by cortically localized protein kinase Fpk1. By monitoring Fpk1 activity in vivo, we found that Fpk1 was hyperactive in cells lacking Gin4, a protein kinase previously implicated in septin collar assembly. Gin4 colocalized with Fpk1 at the cortical site of future bud emergence and phosphorylated Fpk1 at multiple sites, which we mapped. As judged by biochemical and phenotypic criteria, a mutant (Fpk111A), in which 11 sites were mutated to Ala, was hyperactive, causing increased inward transport of phosphatidylethanolamine. Thus, Gin4 is a negative regulator of Fpk1 and therefore an indirect negative regulator of flippase function. Moreover, we found that decreasing flippase function rescued the growth deficiency of four different cytokinesis mutants, which suggests that the primary function of Gin4 is highly localized control of membrane lipid asymmetry and is necessary for optimal cytokinesis.
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- Françoise M Roelants
- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Division of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Takatori S, Mesman R, Fujimoto T. Microscopic methods to observe the distribution of lipids in the cellular membrane. Biochemistry 2014; 53:639-53. [PMID: 24460209 DOI: 10.1021/bi401598v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Membrane lipids not only provide the structural framework of cellular membranes but also influence protein functions in several different ways. In comparison to proteins, however, relatively little is known about distribution of membrane lipids because of the insufficiency of microscopic methods. The difficulty in studying lipid distribution results from several factors, including their unresponsiveness to chemical fixation, fast translational movement, small molecular size, and high packing density. In this Current Topic, we consider the major microscopic methods and discuss whether and to what degree of precision these methods can reveal membrane lipid distribution in situ. We highlight two fixation methods, chemical and physical, and compare the theoretical limitations to their spatial resolution. Recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of each method should help researchers interpret their microscopic results and increase our understanding of the physiological functions of lipids.
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- Sho Takatori
- Department of Anatomy and Molecular Cell Biology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine , Nagoya 466-8550, Japan
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Suzuki J, Denning DP, Imanishi E, Horvitz HR, Nagata S. Xk-Related Protein 8 and CED-8 Promote Phosphatidylserine Exposure in Apoptotic Cells. Science 2013; 341:403-6. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1236758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 370] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Flippase-mediated phospholipid asymmetry promotes fast Cdc42 recycling in dynamic maintenance of cell polarity. Nat Cell Biol 2012; 14:304-10. [PMID: 22344035 DOI: 10.1038/ncb2444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2011] [Accepted: 01/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Lipid asymmetry at the plasma membrane is essential for such processes as cell polarity, cytokinesis and phagocytosis. Here we find that a lipid flippase complex, composed of Lem3, Dnf1 or Dnf2, has a role in the dynamic recycling of the Cdc42 GTPase, a key regulator of cell polarity, in yeast. By using quantitative microscopy methods, we show that the flippase complex is required for fast dissociation of Cdc42 from the polar cortex by the guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor. A loss of flippase activity, or pharmacological blockage of the inward flipping of phosphatidylethanolamine, a phospholipid with a neutral head group, disrupts Cdc42 polarity maintained by guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor-mediated recycling. Phosphatidylethanolamine flipping may reduce the charge interaction between a Cdc42 carboxy-terminal cationic region with the plasma membrane inner leaflet, enriched for the negatively charged lipid phosphatidylserine. Using a reconstituted system with supported lipid bilayers, we show that the relative composition of phosphatidylethanolamine versus phosphatidylserine directly modulates Cdc42 extraction from the membrane by guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor.
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Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is a major component in the mammalian plasma membrane. It is present mainly in the inner leaflet of the membrane bilayer in a viable, typical mammalian cell. However, accumulating evidence indicates that a number of biological events involve PE externalization. For instance, PE is concentrated at the surface of cleavage furrow between mitotic daughter cells and is correlated with the dynamics of contractile ring. In apoptotic cells, PE is exposed to the cell surface, thus providing a molecular marker for detection. In addition, PE is a cofactor in the anticoagulant mechanism, and a distinct distribution profile of PE has been documented at the blood-endothelium interface. These recent discoveries were made possible using PE-specific probes derived from duramycin and cinnamycin, which are members of type B lantibiotics. This review provides an account on the features of these PE-specific lantibiotics in the context of molecular probes for the characterization of PE on a cellular and tissue level. According to the existing data, PE is likely a versatile chemical species that plays a role in the regulation of defined biological and physiological activities. The utilities of lantibiotic-based molecular probes will help accelerate the characterization of PE as an abundant, yet elusive membrane component.
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- Ming Zhao
- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 53226, USA.
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Weingärtner A, dos Santos MG, Drobot B, Pomorski TG. Ca2+-activated transbilayer movement of plasma membrane phospholipids in Leishmania donovani during ionomycin or thapsigargin stimulation. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2011; 179:59-68. [PMID: 21684309 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2011.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2010] [Revised: 04/22/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The protozoan parasite Leishmania causes serious infections in humans all over the world. After being inoculated into the skin through the bite of an infected sandfly, Leishmania promastigotes must gain entry into macrophages to initiate a successful infection. Specific, surface exposed phospholipids have been implicated in Leishmania-macrophage interaction but the mechanisms controlling and regulating the plasma membrane lipid distribution remains to be elucidated. Here, we provide evidence for Ca(2+)-induced phospholipid scrambling in the plasma membrane of Leishmania donovani. Stimulation of parasites with ionomycin increases intracellular Ca(2+) levels and triggers exposure of phosphatidylethanolamine at the cell surface. We found that increasing intracellular Ca(2+) levels with ionomycin or thapsigargin induces rapid transbilayer movement of NBD-labelled phospholipids in the parasite plasma membrane that is bidirectional, independent of cellular ATP and not specific to the polar lipid head group. The findings suggest the presence of a Ca(2+)-dependent lipid scramblase activity in Leishmania parasites. Our studies further show that lipid scrambling is not activated by rapid exposure of promastigotes to higher physiological temperature that increases intracellular Ca(2+) levels.
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- Adrien Weingärtner
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science I, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany
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Suzuki J, Umeda M, Sims PJ, Nagata S. Calcium-dependent phospholipid scrambling by TMEM16F. Nature 2010; 468:834-8. [PMID: 21107324 DOI: 10.1038/nature09583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 675] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 10/13/2010] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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In all animal cells, phospholipids are asymmetrically distributed between the outer and inner leaflets of the plasma membrane. This asymmetrical phospholipid distribution is disrupted in various biological systems. For example, when blood platelets are activated, they expose phosphatidylserine (PtdSer) to trigger the clotting system. The PtdSer exposure is believed to be mediated by Ca(2+)-dependent phospholipid scramblases that transport phospholipids bidirectionally, but its molecular mechanism is still unknown. Here we show that TMEM16F (transmembrane protein 16F) is an essential component for the Ca(2+)-dependent exposure of PtdSer on the cell surface. When a mouse B-cell line, Ba/F3, was treated with a Ca(2+) ionophore under low-Ca(2+) conditions, it reversibly exposed PtdSer. Using this property, we established a Ba/F3 subline that strongly exposed PtdSer by repetitive fluorescence-activated cell sorting. A complementary DNA library was constructed from the subline, and a cDNA that caused Ba/F3 to expose PtdSer spontaneously was identified by expression cloning. The cDNA encoded a constitutively active mutant of TMEM16F, a protein with eight transmembrane segments. Wild-type TMEM16F was localized on the plasma membrane and conferred Ca(2+)-dependent scrambling of phospholipids. A patient with Scott syndrome, which results from a defect in phospholipid scrambling activity, was found to carry a mutation at a splice-acceptor site of the gene encoding TMEM16F, causing the premature termination of the protein.
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- Jun Suzuki
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
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Brain M, Ruether B, Valentine K, Brown C, ter Keurs H. Life-threatening hemolytic anemia due to an autoanti-Pr cold agglutinin: evidence that glycophorin A antibodies may induce lipid bilayer exposure and cation permeability independent of agglutination. Transfusion 2010; 50:292-301. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02445.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zhao M, Li Z, Bugenhagen S. 99mTc-labeled duramycin as a novel phosphatidylethanolamine-binding molecular probe. J Nucl Med 2008; 49:1345-52. [PMID: 18632826 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.107.048603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED With only 19 amino acids, duramycin is the smallest known polypeptide that has a defined 3-dimensional binding structure. Duramycin binds phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdE) at a 1:1 ratio with high affinity and exclusive specificity. As an abundant binding target, PtdE is a major phospholipid and accounts for about 20% of the phospholipid content in mammalian cellular membranes. PtdE is externalized to the surface of apoptotic cells and also becomes accessible in necrotic cells because of compromised plasma membrane integrity. Given the unique physicochemical properties of duramycin and the availability of PtdE in acute cell death, the goal of this study was to develop and evaluate 99mTc-duramycin as a novel molecular probe for imaging PtdE. METHODS Duramycin is covalently modified with succinimidyl 6-hydrazinonicotinate acetone hydrazone (HYNIC) and labeled with 99mTc using a coordination chemistry involving tricine-phosphine coligands. The retention of PtdE-binding activities was confirmed using competition assays with PtdE-containing liposomes. The blood clearance, pharmacokinetics, and biodistribution of 99mTc-duramycin were measured in rats. Finally, 99mTc-duramycin binding to acute cell death in vivo was demonstrated using a rat model of acute myocardial infarction induced by ischemia and reperfusion and confirmed using autoradiography and histology. RESULTS HYNIC-derivatized duramycin with 1:1 stoicheometry was synthesized and confirmed by mass spectrometry. The radiolabeling efficiency was 80%-85%, radiochemical purity was 78%-89%, and specific activity was 54 GBq. The radiotracer was purified with high-performance liquid chromatography radiodetection before use. The specific uptake of 99mTc-duramycin in apoptotic cells, compared with that in viable control cells, was enhanced by more than 30-fold. This binding was competitively diminished in the presence of PtdE-containing liposomes but not by liposomes consisting of other phospholipid species. Intravenously injected 99mTc-duramycin has favorable pharmacokinetic and biodistribution profiles: it quickly clears from the circulation via the renal system, with a blood half-life of less than 4 min in rats. The hepatic and gastrointestinal uptake were very low. 99mTc-duramycin is completely unmetabolized in vivo, and the intact agent is recovered from the urine. Combined with a fast clearance and low hepatic background, the avid binding of 99mTc-duramycin to the infarcted myocardium quickly becomes conspicuous shortly after injection. The uptake of radioactivity in infarcted tissues was confirmed by autoradiography and histology. CONCLUSION 99mTc-duramycin is a stable, low-molecular-weight PtdE-binding radiopharmaceutical, with favorable in vivo imaging profiles. It is a strong candidate as a molecular probe for PtdE imaging and warrants further development and characterization.
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- Ming Zhao
- Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA.
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Nakano K, Yamamoto T, Kishimoto T, Noji T, Tanaka K. Protein kinases Fpk1p and Fpk2p are novel regulators of phospholipid asymmetry. Mol Biol Cell 2008; 19:1783-97. [PMID: 18199685 PMCID: PMC2291408 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-07-0646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2007] [Revised: 12/20/2007] [Accepted: 01/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Type 4 P-type ATPases (flippases) are implicated in the generation of phospholipid asymmetry in membranes by the inward translocation of phospholipids. In budding yeast, the DRS2/DNF family members Lem3p-Dnf1p/Dnf2p and Cdc50p-Drs2p are putative flippases that are localized, respectively, to the plasma membrane and endosomal/trans-Golgi network (TGN) compartments. Herein, we identified a protein kinase gene, FPK1, as a mutation that exhibited synthetic lethality with the cdc50Delta mutation. The kinase domain of Fpk1p exhibits high homology to plant phototropins and the fungus Neurospora crassa NRC-2, both of which have membrane-associated functions. Simultaneous disruption of FPK1 and its homolog FPK2 phenocopied the lem3Delta/dnf1Delta dnf2Delta mutants, exhibiting the impaired NBD-labeled phospholipid uptake, defects in the early endosome-to-TGN pathway in the absence of CDC50, and hyperpolarized bud growth after exposure of phosphatidylethanolamine at the bud tip. The fpk1Delta fpk2Delta mutation did not affect the subcellular localization of Lem3p-Dnf1p or Lem3p-Dnf2p. Further, the purified glutathione S-transferase (GST)-fused kinase domain of Fpk1p phosphorylated immunoprecipitated Dnf1p and Dnf2p to a greater extent than Drs2p. We propose that Fpk1p/Fpk2p are upstream activating protein kinases for Lem3p-Dnf1p/Dnf2p.
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- Kenzi Nakano
- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate Schools of *Medicine and
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate Schools of *Medicine and
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- Division of Molecular Interaction, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate Schools of *Medicine and
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Ikeda M, Kihara A, Denpoh A, Igarashi Y. The Rim101 pathway is involved in Rsb1 expression induced by altered lipid asymmetry. Mol Biol Cell 2008; 19:1922-31. [PMID: 18287536 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-08-0806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Biological membranes consist of lipid bilayers. The lipid compositions between the two leaflets of the plasma membrane differ, generating lipid asymmetry. Maintenance of proper lipid asymmetry is physiologically quite important, and its collapse induces several cellular responses including apoptosis and platelet coagulation. Thus, a change in lipid asymmetry must be restored to maintain "lipid asymmetry homeostasis." However, to date no lipid asymmetry-sensing proteins or any related downstream signaling pathways have been identified. We recently demonstrated that expression of the putative yeast sphingoid long-chain base transporter/translocase Rsb1 is induced when glycerophospholipid asymmetry is altered. Using mutant screening, we determined that the pH-responsive Rim101 pathway, the protein kinase Mck1, and the transcription factor Mot3 all act in lipid asymmetry signaling, and that the Rim101 pathway was activated in response to a change in lipid asymmetry. The activated transcription factor Rim101 induces Rsb1 expression via repression of another transcription repressor, Nrg1. Changes in lipid asymmetry are accompanied by cell surface exposure of negatively charged phospholipids; we speculate that the Rim101 pathway recognizes the surface charges.
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- Mika Ikeda
- Laboratory of Biomembrane and Biofunctional Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan
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Johnson CM, Yuan Z, Bakovic M. Characterization of transcription factors and cis-acting elements that regulate human CTP: phosphoethanolamine cytidylyltransferase (Pcyt2). Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2005; 1735:230-5. [PMID: 16023412 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2005.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2005] [Revised: 06/02/2005] [Accepted: 06/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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CTP: phosphoethanolamine cytidylyltransferase (Pcyt2) promoter was isolated from human breast cancer MCF-7 cells and its activity delineated by luciferase reporter assays and gel-shift analysis. The Pcyt2 promoter is driven by a functional CAAT box (-90/-73) and by negative (-385/-255) and positive regulatory elements (-255/-153) in the upstream regions.
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- Christa M Johnson
- Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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Emoto K, Inadome H, Kanaho Y, Narumiya S, Umeda M. Local change in phospholipid composition at the cleavage furrow is essential for completion of cytokinesis. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:37901-7. [PMID: 16162509 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m504282200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cell division ends up with the membrane separation of two daughter cells, presumably by a membrane fusion that requires dynamic changes of the distribution and the composition of membrane lipids. We have previously shown that a membrane lipid phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is exposed on the cell surface of the cleavage furrow during late cytokinesis and that this PE movement is involved in regulation of the contractile ring disassembly. Here we show that immobilization of cell surface PE by a PE-binding peptide blocks the RhoA inactivation in the late stage of cytokinesis. Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase (PIP5K), but not other RhoA effectors, is co-localized with RhoA in the peptide-treated cells. Indeed, PIP5K and its product phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P(2)) are localized to the cleavage furrow of normally dividing cells. Both overexpression of a kinase-deficient PIP5K mutant and microinjection of anti-PI(4,5)P(2) antibodies compromise cytokinesis by preventing local accumulation of PI(4,5)P(2) in the cleavage furrow. These findings demonstrate that the localized production of PI(4,5)P(2) is required for the proper completion of cytokinesis and that the possible formation of a unique lipid domain in the cleavage furrow membrane may play a crucial role in coordinating the contractile rearrangement with the membrane remodeling during late cytokinesis.
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- Kazuo Emoto
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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Rickert DE, Dingley K, Ubick E, Dix KJ, Molina L. Determination of the tissue distribution and excretion by accelerator mass spectrometry of the nonadecapeptide 14C-Moli1901 in beagle dogs after intratracheal instillation. Chem Biol Interact 2005; 155:55-61. [PMID: 15893299 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2005.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2005] [Accepted: 04/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Moli1901 is a 19 residue polycyclic peptide antibiotic which increases chloride transport and water mobilization in airway epithelium. These properties suggest that it may be a useful treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF). In this study, we used accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to quantify Moli1901 following administration of only 0.045 microCi of 14C-Moli1901 per dog. Limits of quantitation of AMS were 0.03 (urine) to 0.3 (feces) ng equiv. Moli1901/g. Administration of 14C-Moli1901 by intratracheal instillation (approximately 100 microg) into the left cranial lobe of the lung of beagle dogs resulted in retention of 64% of the dose in the left cranial lobe for up to 28 days. Whole blood and plasma concentrations of 14C were <5 ng/ml at all times after the dose. Concentrations of 14C in whole blood and plasma declined over the first day after the dose and rose thereafter, with the rise in plasma concentrations lagging behind those in whole blood. During the first 3 days after the dose, plasma accounted for the majority of 14C in whole blood, but after that time, plasma accounted for only 25-30% of the 14C in whole blood. Tissue (left and right caudal lung lobe, liver, kidney, spleen, brain) and bile concentrations were low, always less than 0.25% the concentrations found in the left cranial lung lobe. Approximately 13% of the dose was eliminated in urine and feces in 28 days, with fecal elimination accounting for about 10% of the dose. The data presented here are consistent with that obtained in other species. Moli1901 is slowly absorbed and excreted from the lung, and it does not accumulate in other tissues. Moli1901 is currently in the clinic and has proven to be safe in single dose studies in human volunteers and cystic fibrosis patients by the inhalation route. No information on the disposition of the compound in humans is available. This study in dogs demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining that information using 14C-Moli1901 and AMS.
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- D E Rickert
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
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Iwamoto K, Kobayashi S, Fukuda R, Umeda M, Kobayashi T, Ohta A. Local exposure of phosphatidylethanolamine on the yeast plasma membrane is implicated in cell polarity. Genes Cells 2005; 9:891-903. [PMID: 15461661 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2004.00782.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cell surface phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) of the yeast cell was probed by biotinylated Ro09-0198 (Bio-Ro), which specifically binds to PE and was visualized with fluorescein-labelled streptavidin. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the signals were observed at the presumptive bud site, the emerging small bud cortex, the bud neck of the late mitotic large-budded cells and the tip of the mating projection. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the signals were observed at one end or both ends of mono-nucleated cells and the division plane of the late mitotic cells. These sites were polarized ends in the yeast cells, implying that PE is exposed on the cell surface at cellular polarized ends. Treatment of S. cerevisiae cells with Ro09-0198 resulted in aberrant F-actin accumulation at the above sites, implying that limited surface exposure of PE is involved in the polarized organization of the actin cytoskeleton. Furthermore, S. cerevisiae ros3, dnf1 and dnf2 null mutants, which were known to be defective in the internalization of fluorescence-labelled PE, as well as the combinatorial mutants, were stained with Bio-Ro at the enlarging bud cortex, in addition to the Bio-Ro-staining sites of wild-type cells, suggesting that Ros3p, Dnf1p and Dnf2p are involved in the retrieval of exposed PE at the bud cortex.
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- Kunihiko Iwamoto
- Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Pohl A, Devaux PF, Herrmann A. Function of prokaryotic and eukaryotic ABC proteins in lipid transport. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2004; 1733:29-52. [PMID: 15749056 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2004.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2004] [Revised: 11/08/2004] [Accepted: 12/16/2004] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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ATP binding cassette (ABC) proteins of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic origins are implicated in the transport of lipids. In humans, members of the ABC protein families A, B, C, D and G are mutated in a number of lipid transport and metabolism disorders, such as Tangier disease, Stargardt syndrome, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, pseudoxanthoma elasticum, adrenoleukodystrophy or sitosterolemia. Studies employing transfection, overexpression, reconstitution, deletion and inhibition indicate the transbilayer transport of endogenous lipids and their analogs by some of these proteins, modulating lipid transbilayer asymmetry. Other proteins appear to be involved in the exposure of specific lipids on the exoplasmic leaflet, allowing their uptake by acceptors and further transport to specific sites. Additionally, lipid transport by ABC proteins is currently being studied in non-human eukaryotes, e.g. in sea urchin, trypanosomatides, arabidopsis and yeast, as well as in prokaryotes such as Escherichia coli and Lactococcus lactis. Here, we review current information about the (putative) role of both pro- and eukaryotic ABC proteins in the various phenomena associated with lipid transport. Besides providing a better understanding of phenomena like lipid metabolism, circulation, multidrug resistance, hormonal processes, fertilization, vision and signalling, studies on pro- and eukaryotic ABC proteins might eventually enable us to put a name on some of the proteins mediating transbilayer lipid transport in various membranes of cells and organelles. It must be emphasized, however, that there are still many uncertainties concerning the functions and mechanisms of ABC proteins interacting with lipids. In particular, further purification and reconstitution experiments with an unambiguous role of ATP hydrolysis are needed to demonstrate a clear involvement of ABC proteins in lipid transbilayer asymmetry.
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- Antje Pohl
- Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute of Biology, Invalidenstr. 42, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.
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Wang X, Li N, Liu B, Sun H, Chen T, Li H, Qiu J, Zhang L, Wan T, Cao X. A Novel Human Phosphatidylethanolamine-binding Protein Resists Tumor Necrosis Factor α-induced Apoptosis by Inhibiting Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Pathway Activation and Phosphatidylethanolamine Externalization. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:45855-64. [PMID: 15302887 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m405147200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)-binding proteins (PEBPs) are an evolutionarily conserved family of proteins with pivotal biological functions. Here we describe the cloning and functional characterization of a novel family member, human phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 4 (hPEBP4). hPEBP4 is expressed in most human tissues and highly expressed in tumor cells. Its expression in tumor cells is further enhanced upon tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha treatment, whereas hPEBP4 normally co-localizes with lysosomes, TNFalpha stimulation triggers its transfer to the cell membrane, where it binds to Raf-1 and MEK1. L929 cells overexpressing hPEBP4 are resistant to both TNFalpha-induced ERK1/2, MEK1, and JNK activation and TNFalpha-mediated apoptosis. Co-precipitation and in vitro protein binding assay demonstrated that hPEBP4 interacts with Raf-1 and MEK1. A truncated form of hPEBP4, lacking the PE-binding domain, maintains lysosomal co-localization but has no effect on cellular responses to TNFalpha. Given that MCF-7 breast cancer cells expressed hPEBP4 at a high level, small interfering RNA was used to silence the expression of hPEBP4. We demonstrated that down-regulation of hPEBP4 expression sensitizes MCF-7 breast cancer cells to TNFalpha-induced apoptosis. hPEBP4 appears to promote cellular resistance to TNF-induced apoptosis by inhibiting activation of the Raf-1/MEK/ERK pathway, JNK, and PE externalization, and the conserved region of PE-binding domain appears to play a vital role in this biological activity of hPEBP4.
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- Xiaojian Wang
- Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310031, People's Republic of China
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Poloumienko A, Coté A, Quee ATT, Zhu L, Bakovic M. Genomic organization and differential splicing of the mouse and human Pcyt2 genes. Gene 2004; 325:145-55. [PMID: 14697519 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2003.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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CTP: ethanolaminephosphate cytidylyltransferase (Pcyt2) is an important regulatory enzyme in phosphatidylethanolamine and plasmalogen biosynthesis. We cloned the mouse gene mPcyt2 and established its relationship with the human homolog PCYT2. The two genes share similar size and contain two conserved catalytic domains but exhibit different exon/intron organization. An internal region could be alternatively spliced producing a longer mouse transcript, mPcyt2 alpha, and a shorter human transcript, PCYT2 beta. The spliced region is entirely made from mPcyt2 Exon 7 and encodes the peptide PPHPTPAGDTLSSEVSSQ, located upstream of the second catalytic motif HIGH. Mouse and human proteins also differ in amino acid composition at the C-terminus due to an additional splicing between Exons 13 and 14 in PCYT2. The 5' RACE analyses and subsequent cloning of the promoter regions demonstrated that the mPcyt2 and PCYT2 promoters are located immediately upstream of the first exon. There is no sequence homology between the two promoters but they are both TATA-less, have conserved CAAT boxes at a matching distance (-85/-70 bp) from the transcription start site and contain cis-elements for transcription factors of the CAAT, Sp1 and NF1 family, all in accordance with ubiquitous expression of both genes. The mPcyt2 gene is highly expressed in liver, brain, adipose tissues, heart, skeletal muscle, spleen, lungs and kidney. In THP-1 and U937 cells, PCYT2 expression could vary with the stage of cell differentiation. Luciferase reporter analyses show that the Pcyt2 and PCYT2 promoters are strong promoters similar to other ubiquitous promoters, such as those of Pcyt1 and SV-40.
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- Arkadi Poloumienko
- Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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Kobayashi H, Ohta N, Umeda M. Biology of Lysenin, a Protein in the Coelomic Fluid of the Earthworm Eisenia foetida. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2004; 236:45-99. [PMID: 15261736 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(04)36002-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Lysenin is a protein of 33?kDa in the coelomic fluid (CF) of the earthworm Eisenia foetida. It differs from other biologically active proteins, such as fetidins, eiseniapore, and coelomic cytolytic factor (CCF-1), that have been found in Eisenia foetida, in terms of both its biochemical and its biological characteristics. The large coelomocytes and free chloragocytes in the typhlosole of Eisenia foetida appear to be the cells that produce lysenin since the mRNA for lysenin and immunoreactive lysenin have been found in these cells. Lysenin binds specifically to sphingomyelin (SM) but not to other phospholipids in cell membranes. After binding to the cell membranes of target cells, lysenin forms oligomers in an SM-dependent manner, with subsequent formation of pores with a hydrodynamic diameter of approximately 3?nm. The biochemical interactions between lysenin and SM in cell membranes are responsible for the pharmacological activities of lysenin and of CF that contains lysenin in vertebrates, such as hemolysis, cytotoxicity, and contraction of smooth muscle in vitro and vasodepressor activity and lethality in vivo. When incubated with SM-liposomes, CF and lysenin lost some or all of their activity, an observation that suggests that SM might be involved in the induction of the various activities of lysenin and CF. However, in general, lysenin is neither cytotoxic nor lethal to invertebrates. An attempt has been made to explain the differences in the responses to lysenin and CF between vertebrates and invertebrates in terms of the presence or absence of SM in the various animals. Among Protostomia, SM is absent in Lophotrochozoa, with the exception of some molluscan species, but it is present in Ecdysozoa, with the exception of Nematomorpha and flies. Among Deuterostomia, Echinodermata and Hemichordata lack SM but SM is found in Chordata. Thus, the difference in terms of the response to lysenin between invertebrates and vertebrates cannot be fully explained by reference to the presence or absence of SM in the organism. Lysenin and its antiserum have made it possible to localize SM in the cell membranes. They should be a useful tool for studies of membrane physiology and the role of SM.
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- Hideshi Kobayashi
- Research Laboratory, Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd., Nerima-ku, Tokyo 178-0062, Japan
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Machaidze G, Seelig J. Specific Binding of Cinnamycin (Ro 09-0198) to Phosphatidylethanolamine. Comparison between Micellar and Membrane Environments†. Biochemistry 2003; 42:12570-6. [PMID: 14580203 DOI: 10.1021/bi035225b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cinnamycin (Ro 09-0198) is a tetracyclic peptide antibiotic that binds specifically to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Formation of a complex with phosphatidylethanolamine follows a 1:1 stoichiometry. Using high-sensitivity isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), we have measured the thermodynamic parameters of complex formation for two different PE environments, namely, PE dissolved either in octyl glucoside (OG) micelles or in a 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) bilayer membrane. We have compared diacyl-PE with lyso-PE and have varied the carbon chain length from 6 to 18. Binding requires both a PE headgroup and at least one fatty acyl chain. The optimum chain length for complex formation (n) is eight. Longer chains do not enhance the binding affinity; for shorter chains, the interaction is weakened. The cinnamycin-PE complex has a binding constant K(0) of approximately 10(7)-10(8) M(-1) in the POPC membrane and only approximately 10(6) M(-1) in the octyl glucoside micelle. The difference can be attributed to the nonspecific hydrophobic interaction of cinnamycin with the lipid membrane. Complex formation is enthalpy-driven in OG micelles, whereas enthalpy and entropy make equal contributions in bilayer membranes. However, for the optimum chain length (n) of eight, the binding reaction is also completely enthalpy-driven for the bilayer membrane.
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- Gia Machaidze
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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McIntyre JA, Wagenknecht DR, Faulk WP. Antiphospholipid antibodies: discovery, definitions, detection and disease. Prog Lipid Res 2003; 42:176-237. [PMID: 12689618 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-7827(02)00048-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) are immunoglobulins of IgG, IgM and IgA isotypes that target phospholipid (PL) and/or PL-binding plasma proteins. Detection of aPL in the laboratory is done currently by both immunoassays and functional coagulation tests. Convention defines aPL specificity in immunoassays according to the particular PL substrate present, for example aPS represents antiphosphatidylserine antibodies. This may be technically incorrect inasmuch as a particular PL may be responsible for binding and highly concentrating a specific plasma protein, the latter then becomes the target for the aPL. The binding of beta(2)GP-I (apolipoprotein H) to the negatively charged PL, cardiolipin (CL) provides a good example of this circumstance. In contrast, aPL which specifically prolong coagulation times in in vitro are called lupus anticoagulants (LA). The precise PL target(s) of the aPL responsible for LA activities are unknown and often debated. The persistent finding of aPL in patients in association with abnormal blood clotting and a myriad of neurological, obstetrical and rheumatic disorders often compounded by autoimmune diseases has led to an established clinical diagnosis termed antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The common denominator for these APS patients is the presence of circulating aPL on two or more occasions and the observation of events attributable to abnormal or accelerated blood clotting somewhere in vivo. The purpose of this review is to collect, collate, and consolidate information concerning aPL.
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- John A McIntyre
- HLA-Vascular Biology Laboratory, St. Francis Hospital and Healthcare Centers, 1600 Albany Street, Beech Grove, IN 46107, USA.
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Pomorski T, Lombardi R, Riezman H, Devaux PF, van Meer G, Holthuis JCM. Drs2p-related P-type ATPases Dnf1p and Dnf2p are required for phospholipid translocation across the yeast plasma membrane and serve a role in endocytosis. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:1240-54. [PMID: 12631737 PMCID: PMC151593 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-08-0501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Plasma membranes in eukaryotic cells display asymmetric lipid distributions with aminophospholipids concentrated in the inner and sphingolipids in the outer leaflet. This asymmetry is maintained by ATP-driven lipid transporters whose identities are unknown. The yeast plasma membrane contains two P-type ATPases, Dnf1p and Dnf2p, with structural similarity to ATPase II, a candidate aminophospholipid translocase from bovine chromaffin granules. Loss of Dnf1p and Dnf2p virtually abolished ATP-dependent transport of NBD-labeled phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidylcholine from the outer to the inner plasma membrane leaflet, leaving transport of sphingolipid analogs unaffected. Labeling with trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid revealed that the amount of phosphatidylethanolamine exposed on the surface of Deltadnf1Deltadnf2 cells increased twofold relative to wild-type cells. Phosphatidylethanolamine exposure by Deltadnf1Deltadnf2 cells further increased upon removal of Drs2p, an ATPase II homolog in the yeast Golgi. These changes in lipid topology were accompanied by a cold-sensitive defect in the uptake of markers for bulk-phase and receptor-mediated endocytosis. Our findings demonstrate a requirement for Dnf1p and Dnf2p in lipid translocation across the yeast plasma membrane. Moreover, it appears that Dnf1p, Dnf2p and Drs2p each help regulate the transbilayer lipid arrangement in the plasma membrane, and that this regulation is critical for budding endocytic vesicles.
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- Thomas Pomorski
- Department of Membrane Enzymology, Center for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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Makino A, Baba T, Fujimoto K, Iwamoto K, Yano Y, Terada N, Ohno S, Sato SB, Ohta A, Umeda M, Matsuzaki K, Kobayashi T. Cinnamycin (Ro 09-0198) promotes cell binding and toxicity by inducing transbilayer lipid movement. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:3204-9. [PMID: 12446685 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m210347200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cinnamycin is a unique toxin in that its receptor, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), resides in the inner layer of the plasma membrane. Little is known about how the toxin recognizes PE and causes cytotoxicity. We showed that cinnamycin induced transbilayer phospholipid movement in target cells that leads to the exposure of inner leaflet PE to the toxin. Model membrane studies revealed that cinnamycin induced transbilayer lipid movement in a PE concentration-dependent manner. Re-orientation of phospholipids was accompanied by an increase in the incidence of beta-sheet structure in cinnamycin. When the surface concentration of PE was high, cinnamycin induced membrane re-organization such as membrane fusion and the alteration of membrane gross morphology. These results suggest that cinnamycin promotes its own binding to the cell and causes toxicity by inducing transbilayer lipid movement.
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- Asami Makino
- Supra-Biomolecular System Research Group, RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Frontier Research System, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Kato U, Emoto K, Fredriksson C, Nakamura H, Ohta A, Kobayashi T, Murakami-Murofushi K, Kobayashi T, Umeda M. A novel membrane protein, Ros3p, is required for phospholipid translocation across the plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:37855-62. [PMID: 12133835 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m205564200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Ro09-0198 (Ro) is a tetracyclic peptide antibiotic that binds specifically to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and causes cytolysis. To investigate the molecular basis of transbilayer movement of PE in biological membranes, we have isolated a series of budding yeast mutants that are hypersensitive to the Ro peptide. One of the most sensitive mutants, designated ros3 (Ro-sensitive 3), showed no significant change in the cellular phospholipid composition or in the sensitivity to amphotericin B, a sterol-binding polyene macrolide antibiotic. These results suggest that the mutation of ros3 affects the PE organization on the plasma membrane, rather than PE synthesis or overall organization of the membrane structures. By functional complementation screening, we identified the gene ROS3 affected in the mutant, and we showed that the hypersensitive phenotype was caused by the defective expression of the ROS3 gene product, Ros3p, an evolutionarily conserved protein with two putative transmembrane domains. Disruption of the ROS3 gene resulted in a marked decrease in the internalization of fluorescence-labeled analogs of PE and phosphatidylcholine, whereas the uptake of fluorescence-labeled phosphatidylserine and endocytic markers was not affected. Neither expression levels nor activities of ATP-binding cassette transporters of the ros3Delta cells differed from those of wild type cells, suggesting that Ros3p is not related to the multidrug resistance activities. Immunochemical analyses of the structure and subcellular localization showed that Ros3p was a glycosylated membrane protein localized in both the plasma membrane and the endoplasmic reticulum, and that a part of Ros3p was associated with the detergent-insoluble glycolipid-enriched complexes. These results indicate that Ros3p is a membrane glycoprotein that plays an important role in the phospholipid translocation across the plasma membrane.
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- Utako Kato
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Kazuo Emoto
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan.
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Gadella BM, Harrison RAP. Capacitation induces cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate-dependent, but apoptosis-unrelated, exposure of aminophospholipids at the apical head plasma membrane of boar sperm cells. Biol Reprod 2002; 67:340-50. [PMID: 12080038 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod67.1.340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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The capacitating agent bicarbonate/CO(2) has been shown to induce profound changes in the architecture and dynamics within the sperm's plasma membrane lipid bilayer via a cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation signaling pathway. Here we have investigated the effect of bicarbonate on surface exposure of endogenous aminophospholipids in boar spermatozoa, detecting phosphatidylserine (PS) with fluorescein-conjugated annexin V and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) with fluorescein-conjugated streptavidin/biotinylated Ro-09-0198. Flow cytometric analyses revealed that incubation with 15 mM bicarbonate induced 30%-70% of live acrosome-intact cells to expose PE very rapidly; this exposure was closely related to a decrease in lipid packing order as detected by enhanced binding of merocyanine 540. PS exposure was detectable in the same proportion of cells, though its expression was slower. Confocal microscopy revealed that exposure of aminophospholipids in intact cells was restricted to the anterior acrosomal region of the head plasma membrane. Aminophospholipid exposure, merocyanine stainability, and a subsequent migration of cholesterol to the apical region of the head plasma membrane, were all under the control of the cAMP-dependent protein phosphorylation pathway. The close coupling of decreased lipid packing order with exposure of PE led us to conclude that bicarbonate was inducing phospholipid scrambling (i.e., collapse of asymmetric transverse distribution), and that the scrambling was a prerequisite for cholesterol relocation. There was no evidence whatever that the bicarbonate-induced scrambling was an apoptotic process. It was not accompanied by major loss of viability or by DNA degeneration or by loss of mitochondrial function, and it could not be blocked by the broad-specificity caspase inhibitors zVAD-fmk and BocD-fmk. In the absence of bicarbonate, scrambling could not be induced by the apoptotic agents UV, staurosporine, or cycloheximide. Bicarbonate-induced phospholipid scrambling thus appears to be an important and early physiological event in the capacitation process.
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- B M Gadella
- Institute of Biomembranes, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 2, 3564 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Lambert TN, Boon JM, Smith BD, Pérez-Payán MN, Davis AP. Facilitated phospholipid flip-flop using synthetic steroid-derived translocases. J Am Chem Soc 2002; 124:5276-7. [PMID: 11996562 DOI: 10.1021/ja026022y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cholate esters with phenylurea groups at the 7alpha- and 12alpha-positions are highly effective promoters of phosphatidylcholine translocation across vesicle and cell membranes. The urea groups are essential for strong binding of the highly polar phosphate portion of the phosphocholine headgroup and apparently cannot be replaced by simple amide, alcohol, or amine moieties. NMR and UV studies show that these synthetic translocases have very weak affinity for phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylserine.
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- Timothy N Lambert
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Walther Cancer Research Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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Machaidze G, Ziegler A, Seelig J. Specific binding of Ro 09-0198 (cinnamycin) to phosphatidylethanolamine: a thermodynamic analysis. Biochemistry 2002; 41:1965-71. [PMID: 11827543 DOI: 10.1021/bi015841c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ro 09-0198 (cinnamycin) is a tetracyclic peptide antibiotic that is used to monitor the transbilayer movement of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) in biological membranes during cell division and apoptosis. The molecule is one of the very rare examples where a small peptide binds specifically to a particular lipid. In model membranes and biological membranes containing phosphatidylethanolamine, Ro 09-0198 forms a 1:1 complex with this lipid. We have measured the thermodynamic parameters of complex formation with high sensitivity isothermal titration calorimetry and have investigated the structural consequences with deuterium and phosphorus solid-state NMR. Complex formation is characterized by a large binding constant, K0, of 10(7) to 10(8) M(-1), depending on the experimental conditions. The reaction enthalpy, DeltaHdegrees, varies between zero at 10 degrees C to strongly exothermic -10 kcal/mol at 50 degrees C. For large vesicles with a diameter of approximately 100 nm, DeltaHdegrees decreases linearly with temperature and the molar heat capacity of complex formation can be evaluated as = -245 cal/mol, indicating a hydrophobic binding mechanism. The free energy of binding is DeltaGdegrees = -10.5 kcal/mol and shows only little temperature dependence. The constancy of DeltaGdegrees together with the distinct temperature-dependence of DeltaHdegrees provide evidence for an entropy-enthalpy compensation mechanism: at 10 degrees C, complex formation is completely entropy-driven, at 50 degrees C it is enthalpy-driven. Varying the PE fatty acid chain-length between 6 and 18 carbon atoms produces similar binding constants and DeltaHdegrees values. Addition of Ro 09-0198 to PE containing bilayers eliminates the typical bilayer structure and produces 2H- and 31P-NMR spectra characteristic of slow isotropic tumbling. This reorganization of the lipid matrix is not limited to PE but also includes other lipids.
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- Gia Machaidze
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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In the final stage of cell division, cytokinesis constricts and then seals the plasma membrane between the two daughter cells. The constriction is powered by a contractile ring of actin filaments, and scission involves rearrangement of the lipid bilayer of the cell membrane. We have shown that the lipid phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), which normally resides in the internal leaflet of the bilayer, is exposed on the external leaflet of the cleavage furrow as a result of enhanced transbilayer movement of the phospholipids during cytokinesis. To investigate the role of PE in cytokinesis, we employed two different approaches: manipulation of cell surface PE by a PE-binding peptide and establishment of a mutant cell line specifically defective in PE biosynthesis. Both approaches provide evidence that surface exposure of PE is essential for disassembly of the contractile ring at the final stage of cytokinesis. Based on these findings, we proposed that the transbilayer redistribution of PE plays a critical role in mediating coordinated movements between the contractile ring and the plasma membrane that are required for the proper progression of cytokinesis.
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- K Emoto
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan.
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Emoto K, Umeda M. An essential role for a membrane lipid in cytokinesis. Regulation of contractile ring disassembly by redistribution of phosphatidylethanolamine. J Cell Biol 2000; 149:1215-24. [PMID: 10851019 PMCID: PMC2175113 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.6.1215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2000] [Accepted: 05/04/2000] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is a major membrane phospholipid that is mainly localized in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane. We previously demonstrated that PE was exposed on the cell surface of the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis. Immobilization of cell surface PE by a PE-binding peptide inhibited disassembly of the contractile ring components, including myosin II and radixin, resulting in formation of a long cytoplasmic bridge between the daughter cells. This blockade of contractile ring disassembly was reversed by removal of the surface-bound peptide, suggesting that the PE exposure plays a crucial role in cytokinesis. To further examine the role of PE in cytokinesis, we established a mutant cell line with a specific decrease in the cellular PE level. On the culture condition in which the cell surface PE level was significantly reduced, the mutant ceased cell growth in cytokinesis, and the contractile ring remained in the cleavage furrow. Addition of PE or ethanolamine, a precursor of PE synthesis, restored the cell surface PE on the cleavage furrow and normal cytokinesis. These findings provide the first evidence that PE is required for completion of cytokinesis in mammalian cells, and suggest that redistribution of PE on the cleavage furrow may contribute to regulation of contractile ring disassembly.
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- K Emoto
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (RINSHOKEN), Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
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Emoto K, Kuge O, Nishijima M, Umeda M. Isolation of a Chinese hamster ovary cell mutant defective in intramitochondrial transport of phosphatidylserine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:12400-5. [PMID: 10535934 PMCID: PMC22930 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.22.12400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A CHO-K1 cell mutant with a specific decrease in cellular phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) level was isolated as a variant resistant to Ro09-0198, a PE-directed antibiotic peptide. The mutant was defective in the phosphatidylserine (PS) decarboxylation pathway for PE formation, in which PS produced in the endoplasmic reticulum is transported to mitochondria and then decarboxylated by an inner mitochondrial membrane enzyme, PS decarboxylase. Neither PS formation nor PS decarboxylase activity was reduced in the mutant, implying that the mutant is defective in some step of PS transport. The transport processes of phospholipids between the outer and inner mitochondrial membrane were analyzed by use of isolated mitochondria and two fluorescence-labeled phospholipid analogs, 1-palmitoyl-2-[N-[6(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1, 3-diazol-4-yl)amino]caproyl]-PS (C6-NBD-PS) and C6-NBD-phosphatidylcholine (C6-NBD-PC). On incubation with the CHO-K1 mitochondria, C6-NBD-PS was readily decarboxylated to C6-NBD-PE, suggesting that the PS analog was partitioned into the outer leaflet of mitochondria and then translocated to the inner mitochondrial membrane. The rate of decarboxylation of C6-NBD-PS in the mutant mitochondria was reduced to approximately 40% of that in the CHO-K1 mitochondria. The quantity of phospholipid analogs translocated from the outer leaflet of mitochondria into inner mitochondrial membranes was further examined by selective extraction of the analogs from the outer leaflet of mitochondria. In the mutant mitochondria, the translocation of C6-NBD-PS was significantly reduced, whereas the translocation of C6-NBD-PC was not affected. These results indicate that the mutant is defective in PS transport between the outer and inner mitochondrial membrane and provide genetic evidence for the existence of a specific mechanism for intramitochondrial transport of PS.
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- K Emoto
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (RINSHOKEN), 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8613, Japan
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Umeda M, Emoto K. Membrane phospholipid dynamics during cytokinesis: regulation of actin filament assembly by redistribution of membrane surface phospholipid. Chem Phys Lipids 1999; 101:81-91. [PMID: 10810927 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-3084(99)00057-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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To study molecular motion and function of membrane phospholipids, we have developed various probes which bind specifically to certain phospholipids. Using a novel peptide probe, RoO9-0198, which binds specifically to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) in biological membranes, we have analyzed the cell surface movement of PE in dividing CHO cells. We found that PE was exposed on the cell surface specifically at the cleavage furrow during the late telophase of cytokinesis. PE was exposed on the cell surface only during the late telophase and no alteration in the distribution of the plasma membranebound peptide was observed during the cytokinesis, suggesting that the surface exposure of PE reflects the enhanced transbilayer movement of PE at the cleavage furrow. Furthermore, cell surface immobilization of PE induced by adding of the cyclic peptide coupled with streptavidin to prometaphase cells effectively blocked the cytokinesis at late telophase. The peptide-streptavidin complex bound specifically to cleavage furrow and inhibited both actin filament disassembly at cleavage furrow and subsequent plasma membrane fusion. Binding of the peptide complex to interphase cells also induced immediate disassembly of stress fibers followed by assembly of cortical actin filaments to the local area of plasma membrane where the peptide complex bound. The cytoskeletal reorganizations caused by the peptide complex were fully reversible; removal of the surface-bound peptide complex by incubating with PE-containing liposome caused gradual disassembly of the cortical actin filaments and subsequent formation of stress fibers. These observations suggest that the redistribution of plasma membrane phospholipids act as a regulator of actin cytoskeleton organization and may play a crucial role in mediating a coordinate movement between plasma membrane and actin cytoskeleton to achieve successful cell division.
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- M Umeda
- Department of Molecular Biodynamics, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (RINSHOKEN), Japan.
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Ikemoto A, Kobayashi T, Emoto K, Umeda M, Watanabe S, Okuyama H. Effects of docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acids on the synthesis and distribution of aminophospholipids during neuronal differentiation of PC12 cells. Arch Biochem Biophys 1999; 364:67-74. [PMID: 10087166 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1999.1110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We have shown previously that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) promotes and arachidonic acid (AA) suppresses neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells induced by nerve growth factor (NGF) and that incorporation of [3H]ethanolamine into phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) is suppressed in PC12 cells by AA while DHA has no effect. In the present study, the effects of these fatty acids on PE synthesis via decarboxylation of phosphatidylserine (PS), another pathway of PE synthesis, and distribution of aminophospholipids were examined. Incorporation of [3H]serine into PS and PE was elevated in the course of NGF-induced differentiation and was further stimulated significantly by DHA, but not by AA. [3H]Ethanolamine uptake by PC12 cells was significantly suppressed by AA but not by DHA while these fatty acids did not affect [3H]serine uptake, indicating that the suppression by AA of [3H]ethanolamine incorporation into phosphatidylethanolamine is attributable, at least in part, to a reduction in [3H]ethanolamine uptake. The distribution of PE in the outer leaflet of plasma membrane decreased during differentiation, which is known to be accompanied by an increase in the surface area of plasma membrane. Supplementation of PC12 cells with DHA or AA did not affect the distribution of aminophospholipids. Thus, DHA and AA affected aminophospholipid synthesis and neurite outgrowth differently, but not the transport and distribution of aminophospholipids, while the PE concentration in the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane decreased in association with morphological changes in PC12 cells induced by NGF.
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- A Ikemoto
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, 3-1 Tanabedori, Nagoya, Mizuhoku, 467-8603, Japan.
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Emoto K, Toyama-Sorimachi N, Karasuyama H, Inoue K, Umeda M. Exposure of phosphatidylethanolamine on the surface of apoptotic cells. Exp Cell Res 1997; 232:430-4. [PMID: 9168822 DOI: 10.1006/excr.1997.3521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In the early stages of apoptosis, phosphatidylserine (PS) is translocated from the inner side of the plasma membrane to the outer layer, which allows phagocytes to recognize and engulf the apoptotic cells. In this study we have analyzed the cell surface exposure of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) in apoptotic CTLL-2 cells, a cytotoxic T cell line, using a tetracyclic polypeptide of 19 amino acids (Ro09-0198) which specifically recognizes the structure of PE and forms a tight equimolar complex with the phospholipid. Fluorescence microscopic analysis showed that the peptide, conjugated with fluorescence-labeled streptavidin (FL-SA-Ro), bound effectively to the cell surface of cells undergoing apoptosis in response to withdrawal of interleukin-2 from the culture media, but not to nonapoptotic cells. The binding of FL-SA-Ro to apoptotic cells was not uniform and the intense staining was observed on surface blebs of apoptotic cells. The FL-SA-Ro binding was inhibited specifically by liposomes containing PE, suggesting that PE is mainly exposed on the surface blebs of apoptotic cells. The specific binding of FL-SA-Ro to the apoptotic cells was also confirmed using a flourescence-activated cell sorter and the time-dependent cell surface exposure of PE correlated well with the exposure of PS, as detected by the binding of annexin V. This study provides the first direct evidence that PE as well as PS is exposed on the cell surface during the early stages of apoptosis, resulting in the total loss of asymmetric distribution of aminophospholipids in the plasma membrane bilayer.
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- K Emoto
- Department of Inflammation Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (RINSHOKEN), Japan
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Emoto K, Kobayashi T, Yamaji A, Aizawa H, Yahara I, Inoue K, Umeda M. Redistribution of phosphatidylethanolamine at the cleavage furrow of dividing cells during cytokinesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1996; 93:12867-72. [PMID: 8917511 PMCID: PMC24012 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.23.12867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/1996] [Accepted: 08/26/1996] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Ro09-0198 is a tetracyclic polypeptide of 19 amino acids that recognizes strictly the structure of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and forms a tight equimolar complex with PE on biological membranes. Using the cyclic peptide coupled with fluorescence-labeled streptavidin, we have analyzed the cell surface localization of PE in dividing Chinese hamster ovary cells. We found that PE was exposed on the cell surface specifically at the cleavage furrow during the late telophase of cytokinesis. PE was exposed on the cell surface only during the late telophase and no alteration in the distribution of the plasma membrane-bound cyclic peptide was observed during the cytokinesis, suggesting that the surface exposure of PE reflects the enhanced scrambling of PE at the cleavage furrow. Furthermore, cell surface immobilization of PE induced by adding the cyclic peptide coupled with streptavidin to prometaphase cells effectively blocked the cytokinesis at late telophase. The peptide-streptavidin complex treatment had no effect on furrowing, rearrangement of microtubules, and nuclear reconstitution, but specifically inhibited both actin filament disassembly at the cleavage furrow and subsequent membrane fusion. These results suggest that the redistribution of the plasma membrane phospholipids is a crucial step for cytokinesis and the cell surface PE may play a pivotal role in mediating a coordinate movement between the contractile ring and plasma membrane to achieve successful cell division.
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- K Emoto
- Department of Inflammation Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (RINSHOKEN), Japan
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