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Shindou H, Ishii S, Yamamoto M, Takeda K, Akira S, Shimizu T. Priming effect of lipopolysaccharide on acetyl-coenzyme A:lyso-platelet-activating factor acetyltransferase is MyD88 and TRIF independent. J Immunol 2005; 175:1177-83. [PMID: 16002720 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.2.1177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
LPS has a priming effect on various stimuli. For instance, LPS priming enhances the production of platelet-activating factor (PAF), a proinflammatory lipid mediator that is induced by PAF itself. Among various enzymes responsible for PAF biosynthesis, acetyl-coenzyme A:1-O-alkyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine acetyltransferase is one of the enzymes activated by PAF receptor stimulation. In this study we investigated the priming effect of LPS on the acetyltransferase activation by PAF in TLR4-knockout (KO) mice, MyD88-KO mice, and Toll/IL-1R domain-containing adaptor inducing IFN-beta (TRIF)-KO mice. This enzyme was biphasically activated by LPS. Although the first peak occurred within 30 min in wild-type (WT), but not TLR4-KO or MyD88-KO, macrophages, the second phase reached a maximum within hours in WT, MyD88-KO, and TRIF-KO, but not in TLR4-KO, macrophages. Only in the second phase was the increase in acetyltransferase activity upon PAF receptor activation remarkably enhanced in WT, MyD88-KO, and TRIF-KO cells, but not in TLR4-KO cells. These data demonstrated that LPS exerted a priming effect on PAF receptor-mediated acetyltransferase activation through the TLR4-dependent, but MyD88- and TRIF-independent, pathway.
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MESH Headings
- Acetyl Coenzyme A/metabolism
- Acetyltransferases/metabolism
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- Cells, Cultured
- Enzyme Activation/drug effects
- Enzyme Activation/genetics
- Enzyme Activation/immunology
- Female
- Lipopolysaccharides/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/enzymology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Phospholipid Ethers/pharmacology
- Platelet Activating Factor/metabolism
- Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled/metabolism
- Receptors, Immunologic/deficiency
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Toll-Like Receptor 4
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- Hideo Shindou
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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With the mouse genome almost entirely sequenced and readily accessible to all who wish to examine it, the challenge across most biological disciplines now lies in the decipherment of gene and protein function rather than in the realm of gene identification per se. In the field of innate immunity, forward genetic methods have repeatedly been applied to identify key sensors, adapters, and effector molecules. However, most spontaneous mutations that affect innate immune function have been mapped and cloned, and the need for new monogenic phenotypes has been felt evermore keenly. N-Ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis is an efficient tool for the creation of aberrant monogenic innate immune response phenotypes. In this review, we will discuss the potential of the forward genetic approach and ENU mutagenesis to identify new genes and new functions of known genes related to innate immunity.
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- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- CD36 Antigens/genetics
- CD36 Antigens/physiology
- Ethylnitrosourea/pharmacology
- Gene Targeting
- Genes, Recessive
- Genetic Techniques
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Models, Immunological
- Mutagenesis
- Mutagens/pharmacology
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/physiology
- Toll-Like Receptors
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- K Hoebe
- Department of Immunology IMM-31, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Mitochondria are essential organelles of eukaryotic cells. Inheritance and maintenance of mitochondrial structure depend on cytoskeleton-mediated organelle transport and continuous membrane fusion and fission events. However, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae most of the known components involved in these processes are encoded by genes that are not essential for viability. Here we asked which essential genes are required for mitochondrial distribution and morphology. To address this question, we performed a systematic screen of a yeast strain collection harboring essential genes under control of a regulatable promoter. This library contains 768 yeast mutants and covers approximately two thirds of all essential yeast genes. A total of 119 essential genes were found to be required for maintenance of mitochondrial morphology. Among these, genes were highly enriched that encode proteins involved in ergosterol biosynthesis, mitochondrial protein import, actin-dependent transport processes, vesicular trafficking, and ubiquitin/26S proteasome-dependent protein degradation. We conclude that these cellular pathways play an important role in mitochondrial morphogenesis and inheritance.
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- Katrin Altmann
- Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bayreuth, Germany
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Shi S, Blumenthal A, Hickey CM, Gandotra S, Levy D, Ehrt S. Expression of Many Immunologically Important Genes inMycobacterium tuberculosis-Infected Macrophages Is Independent of Both TLR2 and TLR4 but Dependent on IFN-αβ Receptor and STAT1. J Immunol 2005; 175:3318-28. [PMID: 16116224 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.5.3318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Macrophages respond to several subcellular products of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) through TLR2 or TLR4. However, primary mouse macrophages respond to viable, virulent Mtb by pathways largely independent of MyD88, the common adaptor molecule for TLRs. Using microarrays, quantitative PCR, and ELISA with gene-disrupted macrophages and mice, we now show that viable Mtb elicits the expression of inducible NO synthase, RANTES, IFN-inducible protein 10, immune-responsive gene 1, and many other key genes in macrophages substantially independently of TLR2, TLR4, their combination, or the TLR adaptors Toll-IL-1R domain-containing adapter protein and Toll-IL-1R domain-containing adapter inducing IFN-beta. Mice deficient in both TLR2 and TLR4 handle aerosol infection with viable Mtb as well as congenic controls. Viable Mtb also up-regulates inducible NO synthase, RANTES, IFN-inducible protein 10, and IRG1 in macrophages that lack mannose receptor, complement receptors 3 and 4, type A scavenger receptor, or CD40. These MyD88, TLR2/4-independent transcriptional responses require IFN-alphabetaR and STAT1, but not IFN-gamma. Conversely, those genes whose expression is MyD88 dependent do not depend on IFN-alphabetaR or STAT1. Transcriptional induction of TNF is TLR2/4, MyD88, STAT1, and IFN-alphabetaR independent, but TNF protein release requires the TLR2/4-MyD88 pathway. Thus, macrophages respond transcriptionally to viable Mtb through at least three pathways. TLR2 mediates the responses of a numerically minor set of genes that collectively do not appear to affect the course of infection in mice; regulation of TNF requires TLR2/4 for post-transcriptional control, but not for transcriptional induction; and many responding genes are regulated through an unknown, TLR2/4-independent pathway that may involve IFN-alphabetaR and STAT1.
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- Shuangping Shi
- Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Type I interferons (IFN) play a critical role in the Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated expression of B7 costimulatory family members. For example, LPS-induced up-regulation of CD80 (B7.1) and CD86 (B7.2) is abrogated in antigen-presenting cells (APC) deficient in TRIF or TRAM, two adaptors that are responsible for TLR4-mediated production of Type I IFN. In this report, we demonstrate that LPS-induced up-regulation of B7-related protein 1 (B7RP-1), a ligand for ICOS, is dependent primarily upon the MyD88-dependent signaling pathway. Signaling via the TRIF pathway sharply limits MyD88-dependent B7RP-1 up-regulation. Hence, LPS induces significantly higher B7RP-1 expression on TRIF- or TRAM-deficient mouse peritoneal macrophages and on TRIF-deficient mouse splenic B cells as compared to wild-type cells. Further studies reveal that Type I IFN are general suppressors of TLR-mediated up-regulation of B7RP-1. These data indicate that Type I IFN play a dual role in the TLR-mediated expression of B7 costimulatory family members and suggest that they may act to limit B7RP-1 expression and thus limit signals derived from B7RP-1-ICOS interaction.
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- Zuping Zhou
- Department of Immunology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Wang Y, Horvath O, Hamm-Baarke A, Richelme M, Grégoire C, Guinamard R, Horejsi V, Angelisova P, Spicka J, Schraven B, Malissen B, Malissen M. Single and combined deletions of the NTAL/LAB and LAT adaptors minimally affect B-cell development and function. Mol Cell Biol 2005; 25:4455-65. [PMID: 15899851 PMCID: PMC1140644 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.25.11.4455-4465.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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NTAL (non-T-cell activation linker, also called LAB) and LAT (linker for activation of T cells) are evolutionarily related transmembrane adaptor proteins that are phosphorylated upon immunoreceptor engagement. Using quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, both NTAL and LAT were found to be expressed in B cells. However, LAT expression was limited to early B cells, whereas NTAL expression typified mature B cells. To delineate their roles in B-cell development and function, Ntal-deficient mice were generated and crossed with Lat-deficient mice. B cells developed in Lat(-/-) Ntal(-/-) double-deficient mice and in mice lacking either of the two adaptors with the same efficiency as in wild-type mice. Upon B-cell antigen receptor cross-linking, Ntal(-/-) B cells exhibited slightly increased Ca(2+) mobilization and proliferation. In addition, Ntal-deficient mice had increased levels of natural antibodies and slightly increased humoral response to a T-dependent antigen. Normal titers of serum-specific immunoglobulins were produced in response to a T-cell-independent antigen. Although NTAL is also expressed in plasma cells, its absence did not affect the hypergammaglobulinemia E and G1 that developed in mice with a mutation in tyrosine 136 of LAT. Therefore, NTAL does not play a role in B cells symmetric to the role played by LAT in T cells.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/physiology
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antibody Formation
- Antigens, T-Independent/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/drug effects
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Calcium/pharmacology
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Proliferation
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression
- Membrane Proteins/deficiency
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mutation
- Phosphoproteins/deficiency
- Phosphoproteins/genetics
- Phosphoproteins/physiology
- Plasma Cells/immunology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Tyrosine/genetics
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- Ying Wang
- Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, INSERM-CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
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De Trez C, Pajak B, Brait M, Glaichenhaus N, Urbain J, Moser M, Lauvau G, Muraille E. TLR4 and Toll-IL-1 Receptor Domain-Containing Adapter-Inducing IFN-β, but Not MyD88, Regulate Escherichia coli-Induced Dendritic Cell Maturation and Apoptosis In Vivo. J Immunol 2005; 175:839-46. [PMID: 16002681 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.2.839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Dendritic cells (DC) are short-lived, professional APCs that play a central role in the generation of adaptive immune responses. Induction of efficient immune responses is dependent on how long DCs survive in the host. Therefore, the regulation of DC apoptosis in vivo during infection remains an important question that requires further investigation. The impact of Escherichia coli bacteremia on DCs has never been analyzed. We show here that i.v. or i.p. administration of live or heat-killed E. coli in mice induces splenic DC migration, maturation, and apoptosis. We further characterize which TLR and Toll-IL-1R (TIR)-containing adaptor molecules regulate these processes in vivo. In this model, DC maturation is impaired in TLR2(-/-), TLR4(-/-) and TIR domain-containing adapter-inducing IFN-beta (TRIF)(-/-) mice. In contrast, DC apoptosis is reduced only in TLR4(-/-) and TRIF(-/-) mice. As expected, DC apoptosis induced by the TLR4 ligand LPS is also abolished in these mice. Injection of the TLR9 ligand CpG-oligodeoxynucleotide (synthetic bacterial DNA) induces DC migration and maturation, but only modest DC apoptosis when compared with LPS and E. coli. Together, these results suggest that E. coli bacteremia directly impacts on DC maturation and survival in vivo through a TLR4-TRIF-dependent signaling pathway.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/biosynthesis
- Antigens, Differentiation/genetics
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Movement/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/cytology
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/microbiology
- Escherichia coli/growth & development
- Escherichia coli/immunology
- Female
- Injections, Intravenous
- Interferon-beta/biosynthesis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Receptors, Immunologic/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Immunologic/deficiency
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Spleen/microbiology
- Toll-Like Receptor 2
- Toll-Like Receptor 4
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- Carl De Trez
- Laboratory of Animal Physiology, Institut de Biologie et de Médecine Moléculaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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Gu P, Morgan DH, Sattar M, Xu X, Wagner R, Raviscioni M, Lichtarge O, Cooney AJ. Evolutionary trace-based peptides identify a novel asymmetric interaction that mediates oligomerization in nuclear receptors. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:31818-29. [PMID: 15994320 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m501924200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF) is an orphan nuclear receptor that plays important roles in development and reproduction, by repressing the expression of essential genes such as Oct4, GDF9, and BMP15, through binding to DR0 elements. Surprisingly, whereas recombinant GCNF binds to DR0 sequences as a homodimer, endogenous GCNF does not exist as a homodimer but rather as part of a large complex termed the transiently retinoid-induced factor (TRIF). Here, we use evolutionary trace (ET) analysis to design mutations and peptides that probe the molecular basis for the formation of this unusual complex. We find that GCNF homodimerization and TRIF complex formation are DNA-dependent, and ET suggests that dimerization involves key functional sites on both helix 3 and helix 11, which are located on opposing surfaces of the ligand binding domain. Targeted mutations in either helix of GCNF disrupt the formation of both the homodimer and the endogenous TRIF complex. Moreover, peptide mimetics of both of these ET-determined sites inhibit dimerization and TRIF complex formation. This suggests that a novel helix 3-helix 11 heterotypic interaction mediates GCNF interaction and would facilitate oligomerization. Indeed, it was determined that the endogenous TRIF complex is composed of a GCNF oligomer. These findings shed light on an evolutionarily selected mechanism that reveals the unusual DNA-binding, dimerization, and oligomerization properties of GCNF.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/metabolism
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Cell Line
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Dimerization
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genes, Reporter
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 6, Group A, Member 1
- Peptides/genetics
- Peptides/metabolism
- Peptides/physiology
- Point Mutation
- Protein Structure, Secondary
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Receptor Cross-Talk/physiology
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/genetics
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/physiology
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/genetics
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/metabolism
- Receptors, Retinoic Acid/physiology
- Response Elements
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- Peili Gu
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Aksoy E, Vanden Berghe W, Detienne S, Amraoui Z, Fitzgerald KA, Haegeman G, Goldman M, Willems F. Inhibition of phosphoinositide 3-kinase enhances TRIF-dependent NF-κB activation and IFN-β synthesis downstream of Toll-like receptor 3 and 4. Eur J Immunol 2005; 35:2200-9. [PMID: 15940673 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3K) are known to regulate Toll-like receptor (TLR)-mediated inflammatory responses, but their impact on the different pathways of TLR signaling remains to be clarified. Here, we investigated the consequences of pharmacological inhibition of PI3K on Toll-IL-1 receptor domain-containing adapter-inducing IFN-beta (TRIF)-dependent signaling, which induces IFN-beta gene expression downstream of TLR3 and TLR4. First, treatment of monocyte-derived dendritic cells (DC) with wortmannin or LY294002 was found to enhance IFN-beta expression upon TLR3 or TLR4 engagement. In the same models of DC activation, PI3K inhibition increased DNA-binding activity of NF-kappaB, but not interferon response factor (IRF)-3, the key transcription factors required for TLR-mediated IFN-beta synthesis. In parallel, wortmannin-treated DC exhibited enhanced levels of IkappaB kinase (IKK)-alpha/beta phosphorylation and IkappaB-alpha degradation with a concomitant increase in NF-kappaB nuclear translocation. Experiments carried out in HEK 293T cells stably expressing TLR3 or TLR4 confirmed that inhibition of PI3K activity enhances NF-kappaB-dependent promoters as well as IFN-beta promoter activities without interfering with transcription at the positive regulatory domain III-I. Furthermore, wortmannin enhanced NF-kappaB activity induced by TRIF overexpression in HEK 293T cells, while overexpression of catalytically active PI3K selectively attenuated TRIF-mediated NF-kappaB transcriptional activity. Finally, in co-immunoprecipitation experiments, we showed that PI3K physically interacted with TRIF. We conclude that inhibition of PI3K activity enhances TRIF-dependent NF-kappaB activity, and thereby increases IFN-beta synthesis elicited by TLR3 or TLR4 ligands.
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- Ezra Aksoy
- Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, Belgium
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The membrane-associated adaptor protein LAX is a linker for activation of T cells (LAT)-like molecule that is expressed in lymphoid tissues. Upon stimulation of T or B cells, it is phosphorylated and interacts with Grb2 and the p85 subunit of PI3K. LAX, however, is not capable of replacing LAT in the TCR signaling pathway. In this study we report that upon T or B cell activation, the LAX protein was up-regulated dramatically. Although disruption of the LAX gene by homologous recombination had no major impact on lymphocyte development, it caused a significant reduction in CD23 expression on mature B cells. Interestingly, naive LAX(-/-) mice had spontaneous germinal center formation. Compared with normal T and B cells, LAX(-/-) T and B cells were hyperresponsive and had enhanced calcium flux, protein tyrosine phosphorylation, MAPK and Akt activation, and cell survival upon engagement of the T or B AgRs. Our data demonstrate that LAX functions as a negative regulator in lymphocyte signaling.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/biosynthesis
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Down-Regulation/genetics
- Down-Regulation/immunology
- Gene Targeting
- Humans
- Jurkat Cells
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Membrane Proteins/biosynthesis
- Membrane Proteins/deficiency
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Membrane Proteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/cytology
- T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Up-Regulation/genetics
- Up-Regulation/immunology
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- Minghua Zhu
- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Beutler B, Hoebe K, Georgel P, Tabeta K, Du X. Genetic analysis of innate immunity: identification and function of the TIR adapter proteins. Adv Exp Med Biol 2005; 560:29-39. [PMID: 15934170 DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24180-9_4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
The innate immune system senses pathogens largely through signals initiated by a collection of phylogenetically related proteins known as "Toll-like receptors" (TLRs), of which ten representatives are encoded in the human genome. The sensing role of the TLRs first came to light when one member of this family, TLR4, was shown to serve the detection of endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS) in mice. This discovery was based upon positional cloning of a spontaneous mutation affecting a locus known as Lps. The recognition specificities of other TLRs have since been established by reverse genetic methods. The understanding of the biochemical circuitry that maintains the innate capacity for immune recognition and response has loomed as the next hurdle in the field. A total of five adapter proteins with cytoplasmic domain homology to the TLRs are known to exist in mammals. These proteins are not entirely promiscuous in their interaction with TLRs, but rather, show preferential association with individual family members, giving a particular character to the signals that distinct micro-organisms initiate. The adaptive immune response is dependent upon upregulation of costimulatory molecules (UCM) such as CD80 and CD86. Very recently, it has been shown that this upregulation is dependent upon an adapter encoded by a locus known as Lps2, known as Trif or Ticam-1, and upon type I interferon receptor signaling. LPS and dsRNA both signal via Trif, but dsRNA has an accessory pathway for UCM, that is independent of both Trif/Ticam-1 and the known dsRNA receptor, TLR3. Other key innate immunity genes have also been disclosed by germline mutagenesis, and are discussed in the present review.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/immunology
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/immunology
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate/genetics
- Immunity, Innate/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mutation
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Receptors, Immunologic/immunology
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/immunology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/physiology
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- Bruce Beutler
- Scripps Research Institute, Department of Immunology, IMM-31, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Kaiser WJ, Offermann MK. Apoptosis Induced by the Toll-Like Receptor Adaptor TRIF Is Dependent on Its Receptor Interacting Protein Homotypic Interaction Motif. J Immunol 2005; 174:4942-52. [PMID: 15814722 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.8.4942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 273] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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TLRs detect specific molecular features of microorganisms and subsequently engage distinct signaling networks through the differential use of Toll/IL-1R (TIR)-domain-containing adapter proteins. In this study, we investigated the control of apoptosis by the TIR domain-containing adapter proteins MyD88, TIR-domain containing adapter protein (TIRAP), TIR-domain-containing adapter-inducing IFN-beta (TRIF), TRIF-related adapter molecule (TRAM), and sterile alpha motifs and beta-catenin/armadillo repeats (SARM). Upon overexpression, TRIF was the sole TIR-adapter to potently engage mammalian cell death signaling pathways. TRIF-induced cell death required caspase activity initiated by the Fas/Apo-1-associated DD protein-caspase-8 axis and was unaffected by inhibitors of the intrinsic apoptotic machinery. The proapoptotic potential of TRIF mapped to the C-terminal region that was found to harbor a receptor interacting protein (RIP) homotypic interaction motif (RHIM). TRIF physically interacted with the RHIM-containing proteins RIP1 and RIP3, and deletion and mutational analyses revealed that the RHIM in TRIF was essential for TRIF-induced apoptosis and contributed to TRIF-induced NF-kappa B activation. The domain that was required for induction of apoptosis could activate NF-kappa B but not IFN regulatory factor-3, yet the activation of NF-kappa B could be blocked by superrepressor I kappa B alpha without blocking apoptosis. Thus, the ability of TRIF to induce apoptosis was not dependent on its ability to activate either IFN regulatory factor-3 or NF-kappa B but was dependent on the presence of an intact RHIM. TRIF serves as an adaptor for both TLR3 and TLR4, receptors that are activated by dsRNA and LPS, respectively. These molecular motifs are encountered during viral and bacterial infection, and the apoptosis that occurs when TRIF is engaged represents an important host defense to limit the spread of infection.
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- William J Kaiser
- Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Matsuguchi T. [Signal transduction of Toll-like receptors]. Nihon Rinsho 2005; 63 Suppl 4:109-14. [PMID: 15861643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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- Tetsuya Matsuguchi
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Dentistry, Department of Developmental Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
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Experiments using mammalian epithelial cell lines have elucidated biosynthetic and recycling pathways for apical and basolateral plasma-membrane proteins, and have identified components that guide apical and basolateral proteins along these pathways. These components include apical and basolateral sorting signals, adaptors for basolateral signals, and docking and fusion proteins for vesicular trafficking. Recent live-cell-imaging studies provide a real-time view of sorting processes in epithelial cells, including key roles for actin, microtubules and motors in the organization of post-Golgi trafficking.
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- Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan
- Margaret Dyson Vision Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021, USA.
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- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/chemistry
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/physiology
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/chemistry
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/chemistry
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- Bacteria/immunology
- Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinases
- Ligands
- Membrane Glycoproteins/chemistry
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Protein Kinases/physiology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Receptors, Cell Surface/immunology
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Receptors, Immunologic/chemistry
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/chemistry
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Toll-Like Receptors
- Viruses/immunology
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- Osamu Takeuchi
- Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
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Li LV, Kandror KV. Golgi-localized, gamma-ear-containing, Arf-binding protein adaptors mediate insulin-responsive trafficking of glucose transporter 4 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Mol Endocrinol 2005; 19:2145-53. [PMID: 15774496 DOI: 10.1210/me.2005-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Small glucose transporter 4 (Glut4)-containing vesicles represent the major insulin-responsive compartment in fat and skeletal muscle cells. The molecular mechanism of their biogenesis is not yet elucidated. Here, we studied the role of the newly discovered family of monomeric adaptor proteins, GGA (Golgi-localized, gamma-ear-containing, Arf-binding proteins), in the formation of small Glut4 vesicles and acquisition of insulin responsiveness in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. In these cells, all three GGA isoforms are expressed throughout the differentiation process. In particular, GGA2 is primarily present in trans-Golgi network and endosomes where it demonstrates a significant colocalization with the recycling pool of Glut4. Using the techniques of immunoadsorption as well as glutathione-S-transferase pull-down assay we found that Glut4 vesicles (but not Glut4 per se) interact with GGA via the Vps-27, Hrs, and STAM (VHS) domain. Moreover, a dominant negative GGA mutant inhibits formation of Glut4 vesicles in vitro. To study a possible role of GGA in Glut4 traffic in the living cell, we stably expressed a dominant negative GGA mutant in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Formation of small insulin-responsive Glut4-containing vesicles and insulin-stimulated glucose uptake in these cells were markedly impaired. Thus, GGA adaptors participate in the formation of the insulin-responsive vesicular compartment from the intracellular donor membranes both in vivo and in vitro.
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- Lin V Li
- Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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- Juan Rivera
- Molecular Inflammation Section, Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 9N228, Bethesda, MD 20892-1820, USA.
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Hu J, Hubbard SR. Structural characterization of a novel Cbl phosphotyrosine recognition motif in the APS family of adapter proteins. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:18943-9. [PMID: 15737992 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m414157200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Cbl adapter proteins typically function to down-regulate activated protein tyrosine kinases and other signaling proteins by coupling them to the ubiquitination machinery for degradation by the proteasome. Cbl proteins bind to specific tyrosine-phosphorylated sequences in target proteins via the tyrosine kinase-binding (TKB) domain, which comprises a four-helix bundle, an EF-hand calcium-binding domain, and a non-conventional Src homology-2 domain. The previously derived consensus sequence for phosphotyrosine recognition by the Cbl TKB domain is NXpY(S/T)XXP (X denotes lesser residue preference), wherein specificity is conferred primarily by residues C-terminal to the phosphotyrosine. Cbl is recruited to and phosphorylated by the insulin receptor in adipose cells through the adapter protein APS. APS is phosphorylated by the insulin receptor on a C-terminal tyrosine residue, which then serves as a binding site for the Cbl TKB domain. Using x-ray crystallography, site-directed mutagenesis, and calorimetric studies, we have characterized the interaction between the Cbl TKB domain and the Cbl recruitment site in APS, which contains a sequence motif, RA(V/I)XNQpY(S/T), that is conserved in the related adapter proteins SH2-B and Lnk. These studies reveal a novel mode of phosphopeptide interaction with the Cbl TKB domain, in which N-terminal residues distal to the phosphotyrosine directly contact residues of the four-helix bundle of the TKB domain.
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- Junjie Hu
- Structural Biology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine and Department of Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) induces an epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) during both physiological and pathological processes; however, the mechanism underlying this transition is not fully elucidated. Here, we have demonstrated that TGFbeta induces the expression of the adaptor molecule disabled-2 (Dab2) concomitant with the promotion of EMT. We show that TGFbeta induces a transient accumulation of Dab2 to the membrane and increases Dab2 binding to beta1 integrin. Furthermore, small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated silencing of Dab2 expression in mouse mammary gland epithelial cells results in inhibition of integrin activation, shown by a decrease of both TGFbeta-induced focal adhesion kinase phosphorylation and cellular adherence, leading to apoptosis and inhibition of EMT. Forced re-expression of human Dab2, not targeted by the mouse siRNA sequence, rescues cells from apoptosis and restores TGFbeta-mediated integrin activation and EMT. These results are confirmed in the F9 teratocarcinoma cell line, a model for retinoic acid-induced visceral endoderm differentiation in which we demonstrate that ablation of retinoic acid-induced Dab2 expression levels, by stable siRNA silencing of Dab2, blocks visceral endoderm differentiation. Our findings indicate that Dab2 plays an important regulatory role during cellular differentiation and that induction of differentiation in the absence of Dab2 expression commits the cell to apoptosis.
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- Céline Prunier
- Department of Cell Biology, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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Malinin NL, Wright S, Seubert P, Schenk D, Griswold-Prenner I. Amyloid-beta neurotoxicity is mediated by FISH adapter protein and ADAM12 metalloprotease activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:3058-63. [PMID: 15710903 PMCID: PMC549444 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408237102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2004] [Accepted: 01/12/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Based on a variety of genetic, biochemical, and neuropathological evidence, amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) has been suggested to be causal in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Abeta has been shown to mediate neurodegenerative and inflammatory changes associated with amyloid plaques, as well as exert direct neurotoxicity through oligomeric forms of Abeta. The mechanism of Abeta toxicity, however, remains largely unknown. In this work, we show that an early event after exposure of postmitotic neurons to Abeta is tyrosine phosphorylation of FISH adapter protein. FISH binds to and potentially regulates certain ADAM family members. We present evidence that FISH and ADAM12 mediate the neurotoxic effect of Abeta. Expression of an ADAM12 protease-deficient mutant (ADAM12DeltaMP) blocks Abeta-induced neuronal death, and expression of an N-terminal fragment of FISH reduces Abeta toxicity. The C-terminal fragment of FISH containing the ADAMs binding region is found to be sufficient for induction of neuronal death, which is prevented by coexpression of the ADAM12DeltaMP. Abeta treatment, as well as expression of the C-terminal toxic FISH fragment, induces accumulation of ADAM12 N-terminal cleavage product in conditioned medium, demonstrating activation of the ADAM metalloprotease/sheddase activity. ADAM12 protein is reduced in AD brains, pointing to a possible increase in ADAM12 proteolytic activity. These data suggest that Abeta toxicity is mediated by FISH and ADAM12 and may provide insights into therapeutic strategies for AD treatment.
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- Nikolay L Malinin
- Elan Pharmaceuticals, 1000 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA
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Clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) are responsible for the transport of proteins between various compartments of the secretory and endocytic systems. Clathrin forms a scaffold around these vesicles that is linked to membranes by clathrin adaptors. The adaptors simultaneously bind to clathrin and to transmembrane proteins and/or phospholipids and can also interact with each other and with other components of the CCV formation machinery. The result is a collection of proteins that can make multiple, moderate strength (microM Kd) interactions and thereby establish the dynamic regulatable networks to drive vesicle genesis at the correct time and place in the cell. This review focuses on the structure of clathrin adaptors and how these structures provide functional information on the mechanism of CCV formation.
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- David J Owen
- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK.
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Wasserman D, Geijer T, Rozanov V, Wasserman J. Suicide attempt and basic mechanisms in neural conduction: relationships to the SCN8A and VAMP4 genes. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2005; 133B:116-9. [PMID: 15635639 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Family and twin studies show that genetic variation influences suicidal behavior, but do not indicate specific genes. We investigated the relationship between genetic variation and suicide attempt by screening 250 genetic markers using transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) analysis. Analysis of 77 triplets (suicide attempters and both their parents), indicated that gene-variants in, or adjacent to, the sodium channel, voltage gated, type VIII, alpha polypeptide (SCN8A) (P = 0.008), vesicle-associated membrane protein 4 (VAMP4) (P = 0.004), and prenylated Rab acceptor 1 (RABAC1) (P = 0.006) genes are over-transmitted in suicide attempt. Replication in a separate sample, consisting of 190 triplets, confirmed the exploratory data for the SCN8A (P = 0.005) and VAMP4 (P = 0.019) genes, but failed to confirm the data for the RABAC1 gene. Our results indicate that genetic variation in the SCN8A and VAMP4 genes may contribute to risk for suicide attempt, possibly through alterations in neural conduction.
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- D Wasserman
- The National and the Stockholm County Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institute, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Seals DF, Azucena EF, Pass I, Tesfay L, Gordon R, Woodrow M, Resau JH, Courtneidge SA. The adaptor protein Tks5/Fish is required for podosome formation and function, and for the protease-driven invasion of cancer cells. Cancer Cell 2005; 7:155-65. [PMID: 15710328 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2005.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 285] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2004] [Revised: 12/09/2004] [Accepted: 01/11/2005] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Tks5/Fish is a scaffolding protein with five SH3 domains and one PX domain. In Src-transformed cells, Tks5/Fish localizes to podosomes, discrete protrusions of the ventral membrane. We generated Src-transformed cells with reduced Tks5/Fish levels. They no longer formed podosomes, did not degrade gelatin, and were poorly invasive. We detected Tks5/Fish expression in podosomes in invasive cancer cells, as well as in human breast cancer and melanoma samples. Tks5/Fish expression was also required for protease-driven matrigel invasion in human cancer cells. Finally, coexpression of Tks5/Fish and Src in epithelial cells resulted in the appearance of podosomes. Thus, Tks5/Fish appears to be required for podosome formation, for degradation of the extracellular matrix, and for invasion of some cancer cells.
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- Darren F Seals
- Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503, USA
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The Drosophila dynamin-associated protein Dap160, homolog of the vertebrate Intersectins, is thought likely to act as a molecular scaffold in the synaptic periactive zone. New mutant analyses have revealed separable roles for Dap160 in the regulation of vesicular endocytosis and synaptic growth.
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- Kendal Broadie
- Department of Biological Sciences, Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
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Yamamoto M, Akira S. TIR Domain-Containing Adaptors Regulate TLR Signaling Pathways. Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation X 2005; 560:1-9. [PMID: 15932015 DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24180-9_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Masahiro Yamamoto
- Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan
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Memapsin 2 (BACE, beta-secretase) is a membrane-associated aspartic protease that initiates the hydrolysis of beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) leading to the production of amyloid-beta (A beta) and the progression of Alzheimer disease. Both memapsin 2 and APP are transported from the cell surface to endosomes where APP is cleaved by memapsin 2. We described previously that the cytosolic domain of memapsin 2 contains an acid cluster-dileucine motif (ACDL) that binds the VHS (Vps-27, Hrs, and STAM) domain of Golgi-localized gamma-ear-containing ARF-binding (GGA) proteins (He, X., Zhu, G., Koelsch, G., Rodgers, K. K., Zhang, X. C., and Tang, J. (2003) Biochemistry 42, 12174-12180). Here we report that GGA proteins colocalize in the trans-Golgi network and endosomes with memapsin 2 and a memapsin 2 chimera containing a cytosolic domain of a mannose-6-phosphate receptor. Depleting cellular GGA proteins with RNA interference or mutation of serine 498 to stop the phosphorylation of ACDL resulted in the accumulation of memapsin 2 in early endosomes. A similar change of memapsin 2 localization also was observed when a retromer subunit, VPS26, was depleted. These observations suggest that GGA proteins function with the phosphorylated ACDL in the memapsin 2-recycling pathway from endosomes to trans-Golgi on the way back to the cell surface.
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- Xiangyuan He
- Protein Studies Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA
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Anti-viral host defense harbors a variety of strategies to coup with viral infection. Recent findings suggested that Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and their signaling pathways involve type I IFN induction in response to virus-specific molecular patterns. TLR 3 and TLR 4 in myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) recognize viral dsRNA and putative viral products, respectively, to induce IFN-beta via IRF-3 activation. On the other hand, TLR 7 and TLR 9 in plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) induce IFN-alpha in response to their ligands, U/G-rich ssRNA and non-methylated CpG DNA. We identified TICAM-1 which is recruited to the cytoplasmic domain (designated TIR) of TLR 3 and allows to select the pathway to activation of IRF-3. We also identified TICAM-2 which binds TLR 4 and together with TICAM-1 activates IRF-3. TICAM-1 knockdown by RNAi supported the key role of TICAM-1 in IFN-beta induction. Hence, the IFN-beta induction in mDCs appears in part due to the function of TICAM-1. Viruses are known to activate kinases that directly activate IRF-3 inside the cells, and this pathway may merge with the TLR 3-TICAM-1 pathway. Here we review the relationship between the TLR 3-TICAM-1 pathway and viral infection.
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- Tsukasa Seya
- Department of Immunology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, 537-8511, Japan.
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Toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been established to play an essential role in the activation of innate immunity by recognizing specific patterns of microbial components. TLR signaling pathways arise from intracytoplasmic TIR domains, which are conserved among all TLRs. Recent accumulating evidence has demonstrated that TIR domain-containing adaptors, such as MyD88, TIRAP, and TRIF, modulate TLR signaling pathways. MyD88 is essential for the induction of inflammatory cytokines triggered by all TLRs. TIRAP is specifically involved in the MyD88-dependent pathway via TLR2 and TLR4, whereas TRIF is implicated in the TLR3- and TLR4-mediated MyD88-independent pathway. Thus, TIR domain-containing adaptors provide specificity of TLR signaling.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- Carrier Proteins/physiology
- DNA-Binding Proteins/physiology
- Humans
- I-kappa B Kinase
- Immunity, Innate/immunology
- Immunity, Innate/physiology
- Interferon Regulatory Factor-3
- Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinases
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Models, Biological
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Nuclear Proteins/physiology
- Protein Kinases/physiology
- Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/physiology
- Proteins/physiology
- Receptors, Cell Surface/immunology
- Receptors, Cell Surface/physiology
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Interleukin-1/physiology
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- TNF Receptor-Associated Factor 6
- Toll-Like Receptor 2
- Toll-Like Receptor 3
- Toll-Like Receptor 4
- Toll-Like Receptors
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases
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- Kiyoshi Takeda
- Department of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, and ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, 3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Zhu YX, Benn S, Li ZH, Wei E, Masih-Khan E, Trieu Y, Bali M, McGlade CJ, Claudio JO, Stewart AK. The SH3-SAM adaptor HACS1 is up-regulated in B cell activation signaling cascades. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:737-47. [PMID: 15381729 PMCID: PMC2211965 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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HACS1 is a Src homology 3 and sterile alpha motif domain–containing adaptor that is preferentially expressed in normal hematopoietic tissues and malignancies including myeloid leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. Microarray data showed HACS1 expression is up-regulated in activated human B cells treated with interleukin (IL)-4, CD40L, and anti–immunoglobulin (Ig)M and clustered with genes involved in signaling, including TNF receptor–associated protein 1, signaling lymphocytic activation molecule, IL-6, and DEC205. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that HACS1 is up-regulated by IL-4, IL-13, anti-IgM, and anti-CD40 in human peripheral blood B cells. In murine spleen B cells, Hacs1 can also be up-regulated by lipopolysaccharide but not IL-13. Induction of Hacs1 by IL-4 is dependent on Stat6 signaling and can also be impaired by inhibitors of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, protein kinase C, and nuclear factor κB. HACS1 associates with tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins after B cell activation and binds in vitro to the inhibitory molecule paired Ig-like receptor B. Overexpression of HACS1 in murine spleen B cells resulted in a down-regulation of the activation marker CD23 and enhancement of CD138 expression, IgM secretion, and Xbp-1 expression. Knock down of HACS1 in a human B lymphoma cell line by small interfering ribonucleic acid did not significantly change IL-4–stimulated B cell proliferation. Our study demonstrates that HACS1 is up-regulated by B cell activation signals and is a participant in B cell activation and differentiation.
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- Yuan Xiao Zhu
- Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, McLaughlin Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada
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Sato N, Takahashi N, Suda K, Nakamura M, Yamaki M, Ninomiya T, Kobayashi Y, Takada H, Shibata K, Yamamoto M, Takeda K, Akira S, Noguchi T, Udagawa N. MyD88 but not TRIF is essential for osteoclastogenesis induced by lipopolysaccharide, diacyl lipopeptide, and IL-1alpha. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:601-11. [PMID: 15353553 PMCID: PMC2212746 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20040689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88) plays essential roles in the signaling of the Toll/interleukin (IL)-1 receptor family. Toll-IL-1 receptor domain-containing adaptor inducing interferon-beta (TRIF)-mediated signals are involved in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced MyD88-independent pathways. Using MyD88-deficient (MyD88-/-) mice and TRIF-deficient (TRIF-/-) mice, we examined roles of MyD88 and TRIF in osteoclast differentiation and function. LPS, diacyl lipopeptide, and IL-1alpha stimulated osteoclastogenesis in cocultures of osteoblasts and hemopoietic cells obtained from TRIF-/- mice, but not MyD88-/- mice. These factors stimulated receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappaB ligand mRNA expression in TRIF-/- osteoblasts, but not MyD88-/- osteoblasts. LPS stimulated IL-6 production in TRIF-/- osteoblasts, but not TRIF-/- macrophages. LPS and IL-1alpha enhanced the survival of TRIF-/- osteoclasts, but not MyD88-/- osteoclasts. Diacyl lipopeptide did not support the survival of osteoclasts because of the lack of Toll-like receptor (TLR)6 in osteoclasts. Macrophages expressed both TRIF and TRIF-related adaptor molecule (TRAM) mRNA, whereas osteoblasts and osteoclasts expressed only TRIF mRNA. Bone histomorphometry showed that MyD88-/- mice exhibited osteopenia with reduced bone resorption and formation. These results suggest that the MyD88-mediated signal is essential for the osteoclastogenesis and function induced by IL-1 and TLR ligands, and that MyD88 is physiologically involved in bone turnover.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Animals
- Antigens, Differentiation/physiology
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Bone Marrow Cells/metabolism
- Bone and Bones/pathology
- Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation
- Coculture Techniques
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Heterozygote
- Interleukin-1/metabolism
- Ligands
- Lipopolysaccharides/metabolism
- Macrophages/metabolism
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Biological
- Myeloid Differentiation Factor 88
- Osteoblasts/metabolism
- Osteoclasts/cytology
- Osteoclasts/metabolism
- Osteoporosis/pathology
- Osteoprotegerin
- Peptides/chemistry
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RANK Ligand
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptor Activator of Nuclear Factor-kappa B
- Receptors, Cell Surface/metabolism
- Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/metabolism
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor
- Signal Transduction
- Toll-Like Receptors
- Transcription, Genetic
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- Nobuaki Sato
- Dept. of Biochemistry, Matsumoto Dental University, 1780 Gobara, Hiro-oka, Shiojiri, Nagano 399-0781, Japan
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Linker for activation of B cells (LAB, also called NTAL; a product of wbscr5 gene) is a newly identified transmembrane adaptor protein that is expressed in B cells, NK cells, and mast cells. Upon BCR activation, LAB is phosphorylated and interacts with Grb2. LAB is capable of rescuing thymocyte development in LAT-deficient mice. To study the in vivo function of LAB, LAB-deficient mice were generated. Although disruption of the Lab gene did not affect lymphocyte development, it caused mast cells to be hyperresponsive to stimulation via the FcɛRI, evidenced by enhanced Erk activation, calcium mobilization, degranulation, and cytokine production. These data suggested that LAB negatively regulates mast cell function. However, mast cells that lacked both linker for activation of T cells (LAT) and LAB proteins had a more severe block in FcɛRI-mediated signaling than LAT−/− mast cells, demonstrating that LAB also shares a redundant function with LAT to play a positive role in FcɛRI-mediated signaling.
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- Minghua Zhu
- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Volná P, Lebduska P, Dráberová L, Símová S, Heneberg P, Boubelík M, Bugajev V, Malissen B, Wilson BS, Horejsí V, Malissen M, Dráber P. Negative regulation of mast cell signaling and function by the adaptor LAB/NTAL. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:1001-13. [PMID: 15477348 PMCID: PMC2211846 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Engagement of the Fcepsilon receptor I (FcepsilonRI) on mast cells and basophils initiates signaling pathways leading to degranulation. Early activation events include tyrosine phosphorylation of two transmembrane adaptor proteins, linker for activation of T cells (LAT) and non-T cell activation linker (NTAL; also called LAB; a product of Wbscr5 gene). Previous studies showed that the secretory response was partially inhibited in bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMCs) from LAT-deficient mice. To clarify the role of NTAL in mast cell degranulation, we compared FcepsilonRI-mediated signaling events in BMMCs from NTAL-deficient and wild-type mice. Although NTAL is structurally similar to LAT, antigen-mediated degranulation responses were unexpectedly increased in NTAL-deficient mast cells. The earliest event affected was enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of LAT in antigen-activated cells. This was accompanied by enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation and enzymatic activity of phospholipase C gamma1 and phospholipase C gamma2, resulting in elevated levels of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and free intracellular Ca2+. NTAL-deficient BMMCs also exhibited an enhanced activity of phosphatidylinositol 3-OH kinase and Src homology 2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-2. Although both LAT and NTAL are considered to be localized in membrane rafts, immunogold electron microscopy on isolated membrane sheets demonstrated their independent clustering. The combined data show that NTAL is functionally and topographically different from LAT.
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- Petra Volná
- Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic
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The endocytosis of membrane receptors is a complex and tightly controlled process that is essential for maintaining cellular homoeostasis. The removal of receptors from the cell surface can be constitutive or ligand-induced, and occurs in a clathrin-dependent or -independent manner. The recruitment of receptors into specialized membrane domains, the formation of vesicles and the trafficking of receptors together with their ligands within endocytic compartments are regulated by reversible protein modifications, and multiple protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions. Recent reports describe a variety of multidomain molecules that facilitate receptor endocytosis and function as platforms for the assembly of protein complexes. These scaffold proteins typically act in a cargo-specific manner, recognizing one or more receptor types, or function at the level of endocytic cellular microcompartments by controlling the movement of cargo molecules and linking endocytic machineries to signalling pathways. In the present review we summarize present knowledge on endocytic scaffold molecules and discuss their functions.
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Key Words
- cargo
- endocytosis
- microcompartment
- scaffold
- alix, alg-2 (apoptosis-linked gene 2)-interacting protein x
- anth domain, ap180 n-terminal homology domain
- ap-2, adaptor protein-2
- arh, autosomal recessive hypercholesterolaemia
- bar domain, bin/amphiphysin/rvs domain
- cd2ap, cd2-associated protein
- cin85, cbl-interacting protein of 85 kda
- dab2, disabled-2
- eea1, early endosome antigen 1
- egfr, epidermal growth factor receptor
- eh domain, eps15 homology domain
- enth domain, epsin n-terminal homology domain
- escrt, endosomal sorting complexes required for transport
- fyve, fab1p, yotb, vac1p and eea1
- gap, gtpase-activating protein
- gpcr, g-protein-coupled receptor
- hrs, hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate
- lbpa, lysobiphosphatidic acid
- ldl, low-density lipoprotein
- lnx, ligand of numb protein x
- mvb, multivesicular body
- nak, numb-associated kinase
- nsf, n-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein
- pon, partner of numb
- ptb domain, phosphotyrosine-binding domain
- rtk, receptor tyrosine kinase
- sh3, src homology 3
- snare, soluble nsf attachment protein receptor
- stam, signal-transducing adaptor molecule
- tcr, t-cell receptor
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- Iwona Szymkiewicz
- *Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany
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- †Department of Neuroscience, CEDB, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- *Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany
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Bougnères L, Girardin SE, Weed SA, Karginov AV, Olivo-Marin JC, Parsons JT, Sansonetti PJ, Van Nhieu GT. Cortactin and Crk cooperate to trigger actin polymerization during Shigella invasion of epithelial cells. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 166:225-35. [PMID: 15263018 PMCID: PMC2172305 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200402073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Shigella, the causative agent of bacillary dysentery, invades epithelial cells in a process involving Src tyrosine kinase signaling. Cortactin, a ubiquitous actin-binding protein present in structures of dynamic actin assembly, is the major protein tyrosine phosphorylated during Shigella invasion. Here, we report that RNA interference silencing of cortactin expression, as does Src inhibition in cells expressing kinase-inactive Src, interferes with actin polymerization required for the formation of cellular extensions engulfing the bacteria. Shigella invasion induced the recruitment of cortactin at plasma membranes in a tyrosine phosphorylation–dependent manner. Overexpression of wild-type forms of cortactin or the adaptor protein Crk favored Shigella uptake, and Arp2/3 binding–deficient cortactin derivatives or an Src homology 2 domain Crk mutant interfered with bacterial-induced actin foci formation. Crk was shown to directly interact with tyrosine-phosphorylated cortactin and to condition cortactin-dependent actin polymerization required for Shigella uptake. These results point at a major role for a Crk–cortactin complex in actin polymerization downstream of tyrosine kinase signaling.
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- Laurence Bougnères
- Unité de Pathogénie Microbienne Moléculaire, INSERM U389, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
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Dhe-Paganon S, Werner ED, Nishi M, Hansen L, Chi YI, Shoelson SE. A phenylalanine zipper mediates APS dimerization. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2004; 11:968-74. [PMID: 15378031 DOI: 10.1038/nsmb829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2004] [Accepted: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The APS, SH2-B and LNK proteins are adapters that activate and modulate receptor tyrosine kinase and JAK/STAT signaling. We now show that a conserved N-terminal domain mediates APS homodimerization. We determined the crystal structure of the dimerization domain at a resolution of 1.7 A using bromide ion MAD phasing. Each molecule contributes two helices to a compact four-helix bundle having a bisecting-U topology. Its most conspicuous feature is a stack of interdigitated phenylalanine side chains at the domain core. These residues create a new motif we refer to as a 'phenylalanine zipper,' which is critical to dimerization. A newly developed bridging yeast tri-hybrid assay showed that APS dimerizes JAK2, insulin receptor and IGF1 receptor kinases using its SH2 and dimerization domains. Dimerization via the phenylalanine zipper domain provides a mechanism for activating and modulating tyrosine kinase activity even in the absence of extracellular ligands.
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- Sirano Dhe-Paganon
- Joslin Diabetes Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Cella M, Fujikawa K, Tassi I, Kim S, Latinis K, Nishi S, Yokoyama W, Colonna M, Swat W. Differential requirements for Vav proteins in DAP10- and ITAM-mediated NK cell cytotoxicity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 200:817-23. [PMID: 15365099 PMCID: PMC2211968 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Natural killer (NK) cells express multiple activating receptors that initiate signaling cascades through DAP10- or immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif–containing adapters, including DAP12 and FcRγ. Among downstream signaling mediators, the guanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav1 carries out a key role in activation. However, whether Vav1 regulates only some or all NK cell–activating pathways is matter of debate. It is also possible that two other Vav family molecules, Vav2 and Vav3, are involved in NK cell activation. Here, we examine the relative contribution of each of these exchange factors to NK cell–mediated cytotoxicity using mice lacking one, two, or all three Vav proteins. We found that Vav1 deficiency is sufficient to disrupt DAP10-mediated cytotoxicity, whereas lack of Vav2 and Vav3 profoundly impairs FcRγ- and DAP12-mediated cytotoxicity. Our results provide evidence that these three Vav proteins function specifically in distinct pathways that trigger NK cell cytotoxicity.
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- Marina Cella
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Terme M, Tomasello E, Maruyama K, Crépineau F, Chaput N, Flament C, Marolleau JP, Angevin E, Wagner EF, Salomon B, Lemonnier FA, Wakasugi H, Colonna M, Vivier E, Zitvogel L. IL-4 confers NK stimulatory capacity to murine dendritic cells: a signaling pathway involving KARAP/DAP12-triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 2 molecules. J Immunol 2004; 172:5957-66. [PMID: 15128777 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.10.5957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Dendritic cells (DC) regulate NK cell functions, but the signals required for the DC-mediated NK cell activation, i.e., DC-activated NK cell (DAK) activity, remain poorly understood. Upon acute inflammation mimicked by LPS or TNF-alpha, DC undergo a maturation process allowing T and NK cell activation in vitro. Chronic inflammation is controlled in part by Th2 cytokines. In this study, we show that IL-4 selectively confers to DC NK but not T cell stimulatory capacity. IL-4 is mandatory for mouse bone marrow-derived DC grown in GM-CSF (DC(GM/IL-4)) to promote NK cell activation in the draining lymph nodes. IL-4-mediated DAK activity depends on the KARAP/DAP12-triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 2 signaling pathway because: 1) gene targeting of the adaptor molecule KARAP/DAP12, a transmembrane polypeptide with an intracytoplasmic immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif, suppresses the DC(GM/IL-4) capacity to activate NK cells, and 2) IL-4-mediated DAK activity is significantly blocked by soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 2 Fc molecules. These data outline a novel role for Th2 cytokines in the regulation of innate immune responses through triggering receptors expressed on myeloid cells.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/biosynthesis
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Adoptive Transfer
- Animals
- Cell Communication/genetics
- Cell Communication/immunology
- Cells, Cultured
- Coculture Techniques
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/genetics
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/immunology
- Dendritic Cells/metabolism
- Dendritic Cells/transplantation
- Female
- Inflammation/genetics
- Inflammation/immunology
- Interleukin-4/physiology
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology
- Lymphocyte Activation/genetics
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, SCID
- Receptors, Immunologic/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/physiology
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/immunology
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/pharmacology
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- Magali Terme
- ERM0208 Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Department of Clinical Biology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
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Circumstantial evidence places the p66 isoform of the adapter protein Shc in a position to mediate the accelerated aging phenotype displayed by mice expressing shortened forms of the tumor suppressor protein p53. We present a model in which p66(shc) may be responsible for integrating signals from the p53 pathway with signals from the insulin-like growth factor-1/Daf pathway in mammals. A full understanding of how interactions between p53 and p66(shc) affect longevity will require the production of animals with mutations in the genes encoding both proteins.
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- Florent M Martin
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Wu JN, Jordan MS, Silverman MA, Peterson EJ, Koretzky GA. Differential requirement for adapter proteins Src homology 2 domain-containing leukocyte phosphoprotein of 76 kDa and adhesion- and degranulation-promoting adapter protein in FcepsilonRI signaling and mast cell function. J Immunol 2004; 172:6768-74. [PMID: 15153494 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.6768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The adapter molecule Src homology 2 (SH2) domain-containing leukocyte phosphoprotein of 76 kDa (SLP-76) is essential for FcepsilonRI-mediated signaling, degranulation and IL-6 production in mast cells. To test the structural requirements of SLP-76 in mast cell signaling and function, we have studied the functional responses of murine bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMCs) expressing mutant forms of SLP-76. We found that the N-terminal tyrosines as well as the central proline-rich region of SLP-76 are required for participation of SLP-76 in FcepsilonRI-mediated signaling and function. The C-terminal SH2 domain of SLP-76 also contributes to optimal function of SLP-76 in mast cells. Another adapter molecule, adhesion- and degranulation-promoting adapter protein (ADAP), is known to bind the SH2 domain of SLP-76, and cell line studies have implicated ADAP in mast cell adhesion and FcepsilonRI-induced degranulation. Surprisingly, we found that mast cells lacking ADAP expression demonstrate no defects in FcepsilonRI-induced adhesion, granule release, or IL-6 production, and that ADAP-deficient mice produce a normal passive systemic anaphylactic response. Thus, failure to bind ADAP does not underlie the functional defects exhibited by SLP-76 SH2 domain mutant-expressing mast cells.
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- Jennifer N Wu
- Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Karikó K, Bhuyan P, Capodici J, Weissman D. Small interfering RNAs mediate sequence-independent gene suppression and induce immune activation by signaling through toll-like receptor 3. J Immunol 2004; 172:6545-9. [PMID: 15153468 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.6545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 350] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Small interfering (si) and short hairpin (sh) RNAs induce robust degradation of homologous mRNAs, making them a potent tool to achieve gene silencing in mammalian cells. Silencing by siRNAs is used widely because it is considered highly specific for the targeted gene, although a recent report suggests that siRNA also induce signaling through the type I IFN system. When human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK293) or keratinocyte (HaCaT) cell lines or human primary dendritic cells or macrophages were transfected with siRNA or shRNAs, suppression of nontargeted mRNA expression was detected. Additionally, siRNA and shRNA, independent of their sequences, initiated immune activation, including IFN-alpha and TNF-alpha production and increased HLA-DR expression, in transfected macrophages and dendritic cells. The siRNAs induced low, but significant, levels of IFN-beta in HEK293 and HaCaT cells. Secretion of these cytokines increased tremendously when HEK293 cells overexpressed Toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3), and the increased secretion of IFN-beta was inhibited by coexpression of an inhibitor of TIR domain-containing adapter-inducing IFN-beta, the TLR3 adaptor protein linked to IFN regulatory factor 3 signaling. Although siRNA and shRNA knockdown of genes represents a new and powerful tool, it is not without nonspecific effects, which we demonstrate are mediated in part by signaling through TLR3.
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- Katalin Karikó
- Division of Neurosurgery and Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Activation of Ret, the receptor-tyrosine kinase for the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family ligands (GFLs), results in the recruitment and assembly of adaptor protein complexes that function to transduce signals downstream of the receptor. Here we identify Dok-6, a novel member of the Dok-4/5 subclass of the p62 Dok family of intracellular adaptor molecules, and characterize its interaction with Ret. Expression analysis reveals that Dok-6 is highly expressed in the developing central nervous system and is co-expressed with Ret in several locations, including sympathetic, sensory, and parasympathetic ganglia, as well as in the ureteric buds of the developing kidneys. Pull-down assays using the Dok-6 phosphotyrosine binding (PTB) domain and GDNF-activated Ret indicate that Dok-6 binds to the phosphorylated Ret Tyr(1062) residue. Moreover, ligand activation of Ret resulted in phosphorylation of tyrosine residue(s) located within the unique C terminus of Dok-6 predominantly through a Src-dependent mechanism, indicating that Dok-6 is a substrate of the Ret-Src signaling pathway. Interestingly, expression of Dok-6 potentiated GDNF-induced neurite outgrowth in GDNF family receptor alpha1 (GFRalpha1)-expressing Neuro2A cells that was dependent upon the C-terminal residues of Dok-6. Taken together, these data identify Dok-6 as a novel Dok-4/5-related adaptor molecule that may function in vivo to transduce signals that regulate Ret-mediated processes such as axonal projection.
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- Robert J Crowder
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Huang CL, Cheng JC, Liao CH, Stern A, Hsieh JT, Wang CH, Hsu HL, Tseng CP. Disabled-2 is a negative regulator of integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3)-mediated fibrinogen adhesion and cell signaling. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:42279-89. [PMID: 15280374 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m402540200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Disabled-2 (DAB2) is an adapter protein that is up-reg-ulated during megakaryocytic differentiation of hematopoietic cells and is abundantly expressed in platelets. In this study, the role of DAB2 in integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3)-mediated matrix protein fibrinogen adhesion and cell signaling was investigated. In K562 cells differentiating to the megakaryocytic lineage, down-regulation of DAB2 by DAB2 small interfering RNA augmented integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3) activation and resulted in an increase in cell adhesion to fibrinogen. Ectopic expression of DAB2 reversed the DAB2 small interfering RNA effect or, by itself, decreased fibrinogen adhesion of K562 cells. Mutational analysis revealed that a DAB2 Ser(24) phosphorylation mutant (S24A) abrogated the inhibitory function of DAB2. The spatial and temporal association/interaction of DAB2 and platelet integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3) (CD61) in both megakaryocytic cells and platelets led us to examine the effect of Ser(24) phosphorylation on the interaction between DAB2 and integrin beta(3). Through cellular localization and co-immunoprecipitation analysis, we demonstrate for the first time that Ser(24) phosphorylation promotes membrane translocation of DAB2 and its subsequent interaction with integrin beta(3), thereby defining a mechanism for DAB2 in regulating integrin alpha(IIb)beta(3) activation and inside-out signaling. Consistent with the effect on fibrinogen adhesion, Ser(24) phosphorylation of DAB2 was also involved in the negative regulation of alpha(IIb)beta(3)-induced T cell factor transcriptional activity. In contrast, the S24A mutant acted like wild-type DAB2 and inhibited both beta-catenin- and plakoglobin-mediated T cell factor transactivation. Hence, DAB2 elicits distinct regulatory mechanisms in alpha(IIb)beta(3) and beta-catenin/plakoglobin signaling in a Ser(24) phosphorylation-dependent and -independent manner, respectively. These findings indicate Ser(24) phosphorylation as a molecular basis for DAB2 acting as a negative regulator in alpha(IIb)beta(3) inside-out signaling and contribute to our understanding of DAB2 in megakaryocytic differentiation and platelet function.
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- Chien-Ling Huang
- Graduate Institutes of Medical Biotechnology and Natural Products, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Osteoclasts are macrophage derived cells and as such are subject to regulation by molecules impacting other members of the immune system. Dap12 is an adaptor protein expressed by NK cells and B and T lymphocytes. Dap12 also mediates maturation of myeloid cells and is expressed by osteoclasts which are dysfunctional in its absence. We find Dap12-/- osteoclast precursors fail to differentiate, in vitro, and the abnormality is partially rescued by high dose M-CSF. The relative paucity of osteoclast number, even in presence of high dose cytokine, is attended by dampened proliferation of precursor cells and their failure to normally migrate towards the osteoclast-recognized matrix protein, osteopontin. Furthermore, Dap12-/- osteoclasts generated in high dose M-CSF fail to normally organize their cytoskeleton. The incapacity of Dap12 null cells to undergo normal osteoclast differentiation is not due to blunted stimulation of major RANK ligand (RANKL) or M-CSF induced signaling pathways. On the other hand, when plated on osteopontin, Dap12-/- pre-osteoclasts do not activate the tyrosine kinase, Syk, which normally binds to the adaptor protein and transmits downstream signals. Attesting to the importance of the Dap12/Syk complex, Syk deficient macrophages do not undergo normal osteoclastogenesis. Furthermore, the same cells plated onto osteopontin, adhere poorly and fail to phosphorylate c-Src or Pyk2, two kinases central to organization of the osteoclast cytoskeleton.
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- Roberta Faccio
- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Research within the last 10 years has provided compelling evidence that adaptor proteins regulate the major pathways of lymphocyte activation. Based upon their differential subcellular localization, transmembrane adaptors and cytosolic adaptors can be distinguished. Here we review some of the most recent findings about both types of adaptor proteins which have facilitated our understanding how immunoreceptors control lymphocyte activation and differentiation.
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- Mauro Togni
- Institute of Immunology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
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Matsuyama W, Wang L, Farrar WL, Faure M, Yoshimura T. Activation of discoidin domain receptor 1 isoform b with collagen up-regulates chemokine production in human macrophages: role of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and NF-kappa B. J Immunol 2004; 172:2332-40. [PMID: 14764702 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.4.2332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Macrophages produce an array of proinflammatory mediators at sites of inflammation and contribute to the development of inflammatory responses. Important roles for cytokines, such as IL-1 or TNF-alpha, and bacterial products, such as LPS, in this process have been well documented; however, the role for the extracellular matrix proteins, such as collagen, remains unclear. We previously reported that discoidin domain receptor 1 (DDR1), a nonintegrin collagen receptor, is expressed during differentiation of human monocytes into macrophages, and the interaction of the DDR1b isoform with collagen facilitates their differentiation via the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway. In this study, we report that the interaction of DDR1b with collagen up-regulates the production of IL-8, macrophage inflammatory protein-1alpha, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in human macrophages in a p38 MAPK- and NF-kappaB-dependent manner. p38 MAPK was critical for DDR1b-mediated, increased NF-kappaB trans-activity, but not for IkappaB degradation or NF-kappaB nuclear translocation, suggesting a role for p38 MAPK in the modification of NF-kappaB. DDR1b-mediated IkappaB degradation was mediated through the recruitment of the adaptor protein Shc to the LXNPXY motif of the receptor and the downstream TNFR-associated factor 6/NF-kappaB activator 1 signaling cascade. Taken together, our study has identified NF-kappaB as a novel target of DDR1b signaling and provided a novel mechanism by which tissue-infiltrating macrophages produce large amounts of chemokines during the development of inflammatory diseases. Intervention of DDR1b signaling may be useful to control inflammatory diseases in which these proteins play an important role.
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- Wataru Matsuyama
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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gp91(phox) (Nox2), the catalytic subunit of the superoxide-generating respiratory burst oxidase, is regulated by subunits p47(phox) and p67(phox). Nox1, a homolog of gp91(phox), is regulated by NOXO1 and NOXA1, homologs of p47(phox) and p67(phox), respectively. For both Nox1 and gp91(phox), an organizer protein (NOXO1 or p47(phox)) cooperates with an activator protein (NOXA1 or p67(phox)) to regulate the catalytic subunit. Herein, we investigate the subunit regulation of Nox3 compared with that of other Nox enzymes. Nox3, like gp91(phox), was activated by p47(phox) plus p67(phox). Whereas gp91(phox) activity required the protein kinase C activator phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), Nox3 activity was already high without PMA, but was further stimulated approximately 30% by PMA. gp91(phox) was also activated by NOXO1/NOXA1 and required PMA for high activity. gp91(phox) regulation required an intact activation domain in the activator protein, as neither p67(phox)(V204A) nor NOXA1(V205A) were effective. In contrast, p67(phox)(V204A) was effective (along with p47(phox)) in activating Nox3. Unexpectedly, Nox3 was strongly activated by NOXO1 in the absence of NOXA1 or p67(phox). Nox3 activity was regulated by PMA only when p47(phox) but not NOXO1 was present, consistent with the phosphorylation-regulated autoinhibitory region in p47(phox) but not in NOXO1. Deletion of the autoinhibitory region from p47(phox) rendered this subunit highly active in the absence of PMA toward both gp91(phox) and Nox3, and high activity required an activator subunit. The unique regulation of Nox3 supports a model in which multiple interactions with regulatory subunits stabilize an active conformation of the catalytic subunit.
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- Guangjie Cheng
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Michaely P, Li WP, Anderson RGW, Cohen JC, Hobbs HH. The modular adaptor protein ARH is required for low density lipoprotein (LDL) binding and internalization but not for LDL receptor clustering in coated pits. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:34023-31. [PMID: 15166224 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m405242200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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ARH is an adaptor protein required for efficient endocytosis of low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors (LDLRs) in selected tissues. Individuals lacking ARH (ARH-/-) have severe hypercholesterolemia due to impaired hepatic clearance of LDL. Immortalized lymphocytes, but not fibroblasts, from ARH-deficient subjects fail to internalize LDL. To further define the role of ARH in LDLR function, we compared the subcellular distribution of the LDLR in lymphocytes from normal and ARH-/- subjects. In normal lymphocytes LDLRs were predominantly located in intracellular compartments, whereas in ARH-/- cells the receptors were almost exclusively on the plasma membrane. Biochemical assays and quantification of LDLR by electron microscopy indicated that ARH-/- lymphocytes had >20-fold more LDLR on the cell surface and a approximately 27-fold excess of LDLR outside of coated pits. The accumulation of LDLR on the cell surface was not due to failure of receptors to localize in coated pits since the number of LDLRs in coated pits was similar in ARH-/- and normal cells. Despite the dramatic increase in cell surface receptors, LDL binding was only 2-fold higher in the ARH-/- lymphocytes. These findings indicate that ARH is required not only for internalization of the LDL.LDLR complex but also for efficient binding of LDL to the receptor and suggest that ARH stabilizes the associations of the receptor with LDL and with the invaginating portion of the budding pit, thereby increasing the efficiency of LDL internalization.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport/physiology
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Membrane/chemistry
- Coated Pits, Cell-Membrane/chemistry
- Coated Pits, Cell-Membrane/metabolism
- Endocytosis
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Humans
- Hypercholesterolemia/blood
- Immunohistochemistry
- Iodine Radioisotopes
- Lipoproteins, LDL/blood
- Lymphocytes/ultrastructure
- Microscopy, Electron
- Receptors, LDL/analysis
- Receptors, LDL/blood
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Affiliation(s)
- Peter Michaely
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, USA
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Eugster A, Pécheur EI, Michel F, Winsor B, Letourneur F, Friant S. Ent5p is required with Ent3p and Vps27p for ubiquitin-dependent protein sorting into the multivesicular body. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:3031-41. [PMID: 15107463 PMCID: PMC452561 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-11-0793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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At the late endosomes, cargoes destined for the interior of the vacuole are sorted into invaginating vesicles of the multivesicular body. Both PtdIns(3,5)P(2) and ubiquitin are necessary for proper sorting of some of these cargoes. We show that Ent5p, a yeast protein of the epsin family homologous to Ent3p, localizes to endosomes and specifically binds to PtdIns(3,5)P(2) via its ENTH domain. In cells lacking Ent3p and Ent5p, ubiquitin-dependent sorting of biosynthetic and endocytic cargo into the multivesicular body is disrupted, whereas other trafficking routes to the vacuole are not affected. Ent3p and Ent5p are associated with Vps27p, a FYVE domain containing protein that interacts with ubiquitinated cargoes and is required for protein sorting into the multivesicular body. Therefore, Ent3p and Ent5p are the first proteins shown to be connectors between PtdIns(3,5)P(2)- and the Vps27p-ubiquitin-driven sorting machinery at the multivesicular body.
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- Anne Eugster
- Laboratoire de Transport et Compartimentation Intracellulaire, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR5086 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Fédératif de Recherche 128 BioSciences Lyon-Gerland, 69367 Lyon, France
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Davenport RJ. Lethal leak. Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2004; 2004:nf43. [PMID: 15103054 DOI: 10.1126/sageke.2004.16.nf43] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Goda S, Quale AC, Woods ML, Felthauser A, Shimizu Y. Control of TCR-Mediated Activation of β1 Integrins by the ZAP-70 Tyrosine Kinase Interdomain B Region and the Linker for Activation of T Cells Adapter Protein. J Immunol 2004; 172:5379-87. [PMID: 15100278 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.9.5379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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One of the earliest functional responses of T lymphocytes to extracellular signals that activate the Ag-specific CD3/TCR complex is a rapid, but reversible, increase in the functional activity of integrin adhesion receptors. Previous studies have implicated the tyrosine kinase zeta-associated protein of 70 kDa (ZAP-70) and the lipid kinase phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, in the activation of beta(1) integrins by the CD3/TCR complex. In this report, we use human ZAP-70-deficient Jurkat T cells to demonstrate that the kinase activity of ZAP-70 is required for CD3/TCR-mediated increases in beta(1) integrin-mediated adhesion and activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. A tyrosine to phenylalanine substitution at position 315 in the interdomain B of ZAP-70 inhibits these responses, whereas a similar substitution at position 292 enhances these downstream signals. These mutations in the ZAP-70 interdomain B region also specifically affect CD3/TCR-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation of residues 171 and 191 in the cytoplasmic domain of the linker for activation of T cells (LAT) adapter protein. CD3/TCR signaling to beta(1) integrins is defective in LAT-deficient Jurkat T cells, and can be restored with expression of wild-type LAT. Mutant LAT constructs with tyrosine to phenylalanine substitutions at position 171 and/or position 191 do not restore CD3/TCR-mediated activation of beta(1) integrins in LAT-deficient T cells. Thus, these studies demonstrate that the interdomain B region of ZAP-70 regulates beta(1) integrin activation by the CD3/TCR via control of tyrosine phosphorylation of tyrosine residues 171 and 191 in the LAT cytoplasmic domain.
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- Seiji Goda
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Center for Immunology, Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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