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Leyva-Leyva M, Sandoval A, Felix R, González-Ramírez R. Biochemical and Functional Interplay Between Ion Channels and the Components of the Dystrophin-Associated Glycoprotein Complex. J Membr Biol 2018; 251:535-550. [PMID: 29779049 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-018-0036-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Dystrophin is a cytoskeleton-linked membrane protein that binds to a larger multiprotein assembly called the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex (DGC). The deficiency of dystrophin or the components of the DGC results in the loss of connection between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix with significant pathophysiological implications in skeletal and cardiac muscle as well as in the nervous system. Although the DGC plays an important role in maintaining membrane stability, it can also be considered as a versatile and flexible molecular complex that contribute to the cellular organization and dynamics of a variety of proteins at specific locations in the plasma membrane. This review deals with the role of the DGC in transmembrane signaling by forming supramolecular assemblies for regulating ion channel localization and activity. These interactions are relevant for cell homeostasis, and its alterations may play a significant role in the etiology and pathogenesis of various disorders affecting muscle and nerve function.
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- Margarita Leyva-Leyva
- Department of Molecular Biology and Histocompatibility, "Dr. Manuel Gea González" General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Faculty of Superior Studies Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Tlalnepantla, Mexico
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- Department of Cell Biology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav-IPN), Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Histocompatibility, "Dr. Manuel Gea González" General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Gawor M, Prószyński TJ. The molecular cross talk of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2017; 1412:62-72. [DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2017] [Revised: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Marta Gawor
- Laboratory of Synaptogenesis; Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology; Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Laboratory of Synaptogenesis; Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology; Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw Poland
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Bhat HF, Mir SS, Dar KB, Bhat ZF, Shah RA, Ganai NA. ABC of multifaceted dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC). J Cell Physiol 2017; 233:5142-5159. [DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Hina F. Bhat
- Division of BiotechnologySher‐e‐Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir SKUAST‐KShuhama, SrinagarJammu and KashmirIndia
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- Department of BiotechnologyUniversity of KashmirHazratbal, SrinagarJammu and KashmirIndia
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- Department of BiochemistryUniversity of KashmirHazratbal, SrinagarJammu and KashmirIndia
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- Division of Livestock Products and TechnologySher‐e‐Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST‐J), R.S. PoraJammuJammu and KashmirIndia
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- Division of BiotechnologySher‐e‐Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir SKUAST‐KShuhama, SrinagarJammu and KashmirIndia
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- Division of BiotechnologySher‐e‐Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir SKUAST‐KShuhama, SrinagarJammu and KashmirIndia
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Actin depolymerization mediated loss of SNTA1 phosphorylation and Rac1 activity has implications on ROS production, cell migration and apoptosis. Apoptosis 2016; 21:737-48. [DOI: 10.1007/s10495-016-1241-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Strakova J, Dean JD, Sharpe KM, Meyers TA, Odom GL, Townsend D. Dystrobrevin increases dystrophin's binding to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex and provides protection during cardiac stress. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2014; 76:106-15. [PMID: 25158611 DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2014.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Revised: 08/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a fatal progressive disease of both cardiac and skeletal muscle resulting from the mutations in the DMD gene and loss of the protein dystrophin. Alpha-dystrobrevin (α-DB) tightly associates with dystrophin but the significance of this interaction within cardiac myocytes is poorly understood. In the current study, the functional role of α-DB in cardiomyocytes and its implications for dystrophin function are examined. Cardiac stress testing demonstrated significant heart disease in α-DB null (adbn(-/-)) mice, which displayed mortality and lesion sizes that were equivalent to those seen in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice. Despite normal expression and subcellular localization of dystrophin in the adbn(-/-) heart, there is a significant decrease in the strength of dystrophin's interaction with the membrane-bound dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex (DGC). A similar weakening of the dystrophin-membrane interface was observed in mice lacking the sarcoglycan complex. Cardiomyocytes from adbn(-/-) mice were smaller and responded less to adrenergic receptor induced hypertrophy. The basal decrease in size could not be attributed to aberrant Akt activation. In addition, the organization of the microtubule network was significantly altered in adbn(-/-) cardiac myocytes, while the total expression of tubulin was unchanged in adbn(-/-) hearts. These studies demonstrate that α-DB is a multifunctional protein that increases dystrophin's binding to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, and is critical for the full functionality of dystrophin.
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- Jana Strakova
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Bhat HF, Baba RA, Adams ME, Khanday FA. Role of SNTA1 in Rac1 activation, modulation of ROS generation, and migratory potential of human breast cancer cells. Br J Cancer 2014; 110:706-14. [PMID: 24434436 PMCID: PMC3915110 DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2013] [Revised: 10/19/2013] [Accepted: 10/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background: Alpha-1-syntrophin (SNTA1) has been implicated in the activation of Rac1. However, the underlying mechanism has not yet been explored. Here, we show that a novel complex, involving SNTA1, P66shc, and Grb2 proteins, is involved in Rac1 activation. Methods: Co-immunoprecipitation assays were used to show the complex formation, while siRNAs and shRNAs were used to downregulate expression of these proteins. Various Rac1 activation assays and functional assays, such as migration assays, in vitro wound healing assays, cell proliferation assays, and ROS generation assays, were also performed. Results: The results showed a significant increase in activation of Rac1 when SNTA1 and P66shc were overexpressed, whereas depletion of SNTA1 and P66shc expression effectively reduced the levels of active Rac1. The results indicated a significant displacement of Sos1 protein from Grb2 when SNTA1 and P66shc are overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines, resulting in Sos1 predominantly forming a complex with Eps8 and E3b1. In addition, the SNTA1/P66shc-mediated Rac1 activation resulted in an increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and migratory potential in human breast cancer cells. Conclusion: Together, our results present a possible mechanism of Rac1 activation involving SNTA1 and emphasise its role in ROS generation, cell migration, and acquisition of malignancy.
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- H F Bhat
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Bhat HF, Adams ME, Khanday FA. Syntrophin proteins as Santa Claus: role(s) in cell signal transduction. Cell Mol Life Sci 2013; 70:2533-54. [PMID: 23263165 PMCID: PMC11113789 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-012-1233-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2012] [Revised: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Syntrophins are a family of cytoplasmic membrane-associated adaptor proteins, characterized by the presence of a unique domain organization comprised of a C-terminal syntrophin unique (SU) domain and an N-terminal pleckstrin homology (PH) domain that is split by insertion of a PDZ domain. Syntrophins have been recognized as an important component of many signaling events, and they seem to function more like the cell's own personal 'Santa Claus' that serves to 'gift' various signaling complexes with precise proteins that they 'wish for', and at the same time care enough for the spatial, temporal control of these signaling events, maintaining overall smooth functioning and general happiness of the cell. Syntrophins not only associate various ion channels and signaling proteins to the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DAPC), via a direct interaction with dystrophin protein but also serve as a link between the extracellular matrix and the intracellular downstream targets and cell cytoskeleton by interacting with F-actin. They play an important role in regulating the postsynaptic signal transduction, sarcolemmal localization of nNOS, EphA4 signaling at the neuromuscular junction, and G-protein mediated signaling. In our previous work, we reported a differential expression pattern of alpha-1-syntrophin (SNTA1) protein in esophageal and breast carcinomas. Implicated in several other pathologies, like cardiac dys-functioning, muscular dystrophies, diabetes, etc., these proteins provide a lot of scope for further studies. The present review focuses on the role of syntrophins in membrane targeting and regulation of cellular proteins, while highlighting their relevance in possible development and/or progression of pathologies including cancer which we have recently demonstrated.
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- Hina F Bhat
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Nakamori M, Takahashi MP. The role of α-dystrobrevin in striated muscle. Int J Mol Sci 2011; 12:1660-71. [PMID: 21673914 PMCID: PMC3111625 DOI: 10.3390/ijms12031660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2010] [Revised: 01/29/2011] [Accepted: 02/23/2011] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Muscular dystrophies are a group of diseases that primarily affect striated muscle and are characterized by the progressive loss of muscle strength and integrity. Major forms of muscular dystrophies are caused by the abnormalities of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) that plays crucial roles as a structural unit and scaffolds for signaling molecules at the sarcolemma. α-Dystrobrevin is a component of the DGC and directly associates with dystrophin. α-Dystrobrevin also binds to intermediate filaments as well as syntrophin, a modular adaptor protein thought to be involved in signaling. Although no muscular dystrophy has been associated within mutations of the α-dystrobrevin gene, emerging findings suggest potential significance of α-dystrobrevin in striated muscle. This review addresses the functional role of α-dystrobrevin in muscle as well as its possible implication for muscular dystrophy.
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- Masayuki Nakamori
- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, D-4, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; E-Mail:
- Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 645 URMC, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, D-4, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; E-Mail:
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +81-6-6879-3571; Fax: +81-6-6879-3579
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Iijima S, Masaki H, Wakayama Y, Inoue M, Jimi T, Hara H, Unaki A, Oniki H, Nakano K, Hirayama Y, Kishimoto K. Immunohistochemical detection of dysbindin at the astroglial endfeet around the capillaries of mouse brain. J Mol Histol 2009; 40:117-21. [PMID: 19495999 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-009-9221-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2009] [Accepted: 05/18/2009] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Dysbindin was first identified by the yeast two hybrid assay as a binding partner of dystrobrevin which is a cytoplasmic member of dystrophin glycoprotein complex. Immunolocalization of dystrobrevin in the astrocyte endfeet and endothelial cells in the rat cerebellum was reported. Therefore, we were interested in the expression and localization of dystrobrevin binding protein dysbindin in the mouse brain capillary wall and its surrounding astroglial endfeet. We examined whether the dysbindin expression is present in astroglial endfeet and/or capillary endothelial cells at light and electron microscopic levels. Using brain samples from five normal mice (C57BL/6ScSn), we prepared the anti-dysbindin antibody stained brain samples with immunoperoxidase method at light microscopic level and with immunogold method at ultrastructural level. Immunohistochemistry showed that dysbindin was located in the brain capillary at light microscopic level. Immunogold electron microscopy revealed that dysbindin signal was observed at the inside surface of plasma membrane of glial endfeet which surrounded the brain capillary endothelial cells and pericytes.
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- Shoji Iijima
- Department of Neurology, Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, 1-30 Fujigaoka, Aoba-ku, Yokohama 227-8501, Japan
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Ervasti JM, Sonnemann KJ. Biology of the striated muscle dystrophin-glycoprotein complex. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 2008; 265:191-225. [PMID: 18275889 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(07)65005-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Since its first description in 1990, the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex has emerged as a critical nexus for human muscular dystrophies arising from defects in a variety of distinct genes. Studies in mammals widely support a primary role for the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in mechanical stabilization of the plasma membrane in striated muscle and provide hints for secondary functions in organizing molecules involved in cellular signaling. Studies in model organisms confirm the importance of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex for muscle cell viability and have provided new leads toward a full understanding of its secondary roles in muscle biology.
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- James M Ervasti
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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Alessi A, Bragg AD, Percival JM, Yoo J, Albrecht DE, Froehner SC, Adams ME. gamma-Syntrophin scaffolding is spatially and functionally distinct from that of the alpha/beta syntrophins. Exp Cell Res 2006; 312:3084-95. [PMID: 16857187 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2006] [Revised: 06/06/2006] [Accepted: 06/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The syntrophins are a family of scaffolding proteins with multiple protein interaction domains that link signaling proteins to dystrophin family members. Each of the three most characterized syntrophins (alpha, beta1, beta2) contains a PDZ domain that binds a unique set of signaling proteins including kinases, ion and water channels, and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). The PDZ domains of the gamma-syntrophins do not bind nNOS. In vitro pull-down assays show that the gamma-syntrophins can bind dystrophin but have unique preferences for the syntrophin binding sites of dystrophin family members. Despite their ability to bind dystrophin in vitro, neither gamma-syntrophin isoform co-localizes with dystrophin in skeletal muscle. Furthermore, gamma-syntrophins do not co-purify with dystrophin isolated from mouse tissue. These data suggest that the interaction of gamma-syntrophin with dystrophin is transient and potentially subject to regulatory mechanisms. gamma1-Syntrophin is highly expressed in brain and is specifically localized in hippocampal pyramidal neurons, Purkinje neurons in cerebellum, and cortical neurons. gamma2-Syntrophin is expressed in many tissues including skeletal muscle where it is found only in the subsynaptic space beneath the neuromuscular junction. In both neurons and muscle, gamma-syntrophin isoforms localize to the endoplasmic reticulum where they may form a scaffold for signaling and trafficking.
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- Amy Alessi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, 1959 Pacific ST NE, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA
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Compton AG, Cooper ST, Hill PM, Yang N, Froehner SC, North KN. The syntrophin-dystrobrevin subcomplex in human neuromuscular disorders. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2005; 64:350-61. [PMID: 15835271 DOI: 10.1093/jnen/64.4.350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The syntrophins and alpha-dystrobrevin form a subcomplex with dystrophin at the skeletal muscle membrane, and are also highly concentrated at the neuromuscular synapse. Here we demonstrate that the different syntrophins and alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms have distinct expression patterns during human skeletal muscle development, and are differentially affected by loss of dystrophin anchorage and denervation in human neuromuscular disease. During normal fetal development, and in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and denervation disorders, alpha1-syntrophin and alpha-dystrobrevin are absent or markedly reduced at the sarcolemmal membrane. beta1-Syntrophin is the predominant syntrophin isoform expressed at the muscle membrane during development, and it undergoes upregulation in response to loss of alpha1-syntrophin in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and in denervation. Upregulation of beta1-syntrophin in neuromuscular disorders is associated with re-expression of the fetal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gamma-subunit, cardiac actin, and neonatal myosin, suggesting reversion of muscle fibers to an immature phenotype. We show that denervation specifically affects expression of the syntrophin-dystrobrevin subcomplex and does not affect levels or localization of other members of the dystrophin-associated protein complex. Our results confirm that dystrophin is required for anchorage of the syntrophin-dystrobrevin subcomplex and suggest that expression of the syntrophin-dystrobrevin complex may be independently regulated through neuromuscular transmission.
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- Alison G Compton
- Institute for Neuromuscular Research, Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia
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One important element that defines cell shape is the membrane skeleton. This filamentous network is closely apposed to the cytoplasmic face of the plasma membrane where it gives mechanical support to the membrane, provides specific attachment sites for cytoskeletal components and helps to organize some integral membrane proteins into domains. The membrane skeleton of erythrocytes has been studied extensively by biochemical and ultrastructural methods, but similar structures in other cell types are just beginning to be defined. In this review, David Pumplin and Robert Bloch draw attention to these nonerythroid skeletons and compare and contrast them with the erythrocyte model.
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- D W Pumplin
- Department of Anatomy, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 660 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Albrecht DE, Froehner SC. DAMAGE, a novel alpha-dystrobrevin-associated MAGE protein in dystrophin complexes. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:7014-23. [PMID: 14623885 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m312205200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Mice rendered null for alpha-dystrobrevin, a component of the dystrophin complex, have muscular dystrophy, despite the fact that the sarcolemma remains relatively intact (Grady, R. M., Grange, R. W., Lau, K. S., Maimone, M. M., Nichol, M. C., Stull, J. T., and Sanes, J. R. (1999) Nat. Cell Biol. 1, 215-220) Thus, alpha-dystrobrevin may serve a signaling function that is important for the maintenance of muscle integrity. We have identified a new dystrobrevin-associated protein, DAMAGE, that may play a signaling role in brain, muscle, and peripheral nerve. In humans, DAMAGE is encoded by an intronless gene located at chromosome Xq13.1, a locus that contains genes involved in mental retardation. DAMAGE associates directly with alpha-dystrobrevin, as shown by yeast two-hybrid, and co-immunoprecipitates with the dystrobrevin-syntrophin complex from brain. This co-immunoprecipitation is dependent on the presence of alpha-dystrobrevin but not beta-dystrobrevin. The DAMAGE protein contains a potential nuclear localization signal, 30 12-amino acid repeats, and two MAGE homology domains. The domain structure of DAMAGE is similar to that of NRAGE, a MAGE protein that mediates p75 neurotrophin receptor signaling and neuronal apoptosis (Salehi, A. H., Roux, P. P., Kubu, C. J., Zeindler, C., Bhakar, A., Tannis, L. L., Verdi, J. M., and Barker, P. A. (2000) Neuron 27, 279-288). DAMAGE is highly expressed in brain and is present in the cell bodies and dendrites of hippocampal and Purkinje neurons. In skeletal muscle, DAMAGE is at the postsynaptic membrane and is associated with a subset of myonuclei. DAMAGE is also expressed in peripheral nerve, where it localizes along with other members of the dystrophin complex to the perineurium and myelin. These results expand the role of dystrobrevin and the dystrophin complex in membrane signaling and disease.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Brain/metabolism
- Carrier Proteins/chemistry
- Carrier Proteins/genetics
- Carrier Proteins/physiology
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/chemistry
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/genetics
- DNA/chemistry
- DNA, Complementary/metabolism
- Dystrophin/chemistry
- Dystrophin-Associated Proteins
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Introns
- Macaca
- Membrane Proteins/chemistry
- Membrane Proteins/genetics
- Mice
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscles/metabolism
- Myelin Sheath/chemistry
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/chemistry
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/genetics
- Nerve Tissue Proteins/physiology
- Neurons/metabolism
- Nuclear Localization Signals
- Peripheral Nervous System/metabolism
- Precipitin Tests
- Protein Binding
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor
- Receptors, Nerve Growth Factor/metabolism
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Signal Transduction
- Tissue Distribution
- Transfection
- Two-Hybrid System Techniques
- X Chromosome
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- Douglas E Albrecht
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7290, USA
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Kulyte A, Navakauskiene R, Treigyte G, Gineitis A, Bergman T, Magnusson KE. Characterization of human alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms in HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells undergoing granulocytic differentiation. Mol Biol Cell 2002; 13:4195-205. [PMID: 12475945 PMCID: PMC138626 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-03-0128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2002] [Revised: 07/30/2002] [Accepted: 09/09/2002] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The biochemical properties and spatial localization of the protein alpha-dystrobrevin and other isoforms were investigated in cells of the human promyelocytic leukemia line HL-60 granulocytic differentiation as induced by retinoic acid (RA). Alpha-dystrobrevin was detected both in the cytosol and the nuclei of these cells, and a short isoform (gamma-dystrobrevin) was modified by tyrosine phosphorylation soon after the onset of the RA-triggered differentiation. Varying patterns of distribution of alpha-dystrobrevin and its isoforms could be discerned in HL-60 promyelocytes, RA-differentiated mature granulocytes, and human neutrophils. Moreover, the gamma-dystrobrevin isoform was found in association with actin and myosin light chain. The results provide new information about potential involvement of alpha-dystrobrevin and its splice isoforms in signal transduction in myeloid cells during induction of granulocytic differentiation and/or at the commitment stage of differentiation or phagocytic cells.
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- Agné Kulyte
- Division of Medical Microbiology, Linköpings Universitet, SE-581 85 Linköping, Sweden.
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Adams ME, Mueller HA, Froehner SC. In vivo requirement of the alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain for the sarcolemmal localization of nNOS and aquaporin-4. J Cell Biol 2001; 155:113-22. [PMID: 11571312 PMCID: PMC2150783 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200106158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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alpha-Syntrophin is a scaffolding adapter protein expressed primarily on the sarcolemma of skeletal muscle. The COOH-terminal half of alpha-syntrophin binds to dystrophin and related proteins, leaving the PSD-95, discs-large, ZO-1 (PDZ) domain free to recruit other proteins to the dystrophin complex. We investigated the function of the PDZ domain of alpha-syntrophin in vivo by generating transgenic mouse lines expressing full-length alpha-syntrophin or a mutated alpha-syntrophin lacking the PDZ domain (Delta PDZ). The Delta PDZ alpha-syntrophin displaced endogenous alpha- and beta 1-syntrophin from the sarcolemma and resulted in sarcolemma containing little or no syntrophin PDZ domain. As a consequence, neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) and aquaporin-4 were absent from the sarcolemma. However, the sarcolemmal expression and distribution of muscle sodium channels, which bind the alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain in vitro, were not altered. Both transgenic mouse lines were bred with an alpha-syntrophin-null mouse which lacks sarcolemmal nNOS and aquaporin-4. The full-length alpha-syntrophin, not the Delta PDZ form, reestablished nNOS and aquaporin-4 at the sarcolemma of these mice. Genetic crosses with the mdx mouse showed that neither transgenic syntrophin could associate with the sarcolemma in the absence of dystrophin. Together, these data show that the sarcolemmal localization of nNOS and aquaporin-4 in vivo depends on the presence of a dystrophin-bound alpha-syntrophin PDZ domain.
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- M E Adams
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Marchand S, Stetzkowski-Marden F, Cartaud J. Differential targeting of components of the dystrophin complex to the postsynaptic membrane. Eur J Neurosci 2001. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2001.01373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Marchand S, Stetzkowski-Marden F, Cartaud J. Differential targeting of components of the dystrophin complex to the postsynaptic membrane. Eur J Neurosci 2001. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2001.01373.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Newey SE, Gramolini AO, Wu J, Holzfeind P, Jasmin BJ, Davies KE, Blake DJ. A novel mechanism for modulating synaptic gene expression: differential localization of alpha-dystrobrevin transcripts in skeletal muscle. Mol Cell Neurosci 2001; 17:127-40. [PMID: 11161474 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2000.0918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Alpha-dystrobrevin is a dystrophin-related and -associated protein that is involved in synapse maturation and is required for normal muscle function. There are three protein isoforms in skeletal muscle, alpha-dystrobrevin-1, -2, and -3 that are encoded by the single alpha-dystrobrevin gene. To understand the role of these proteins in muscle we have investigated the localisation and transcript distribution of the different alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms. Alpha-dystrobrevin-1 and -2 are concentrated at the neuromuscular junction and are both recruited into agrin-induced acetylcholine receptor clusters in cultured myotubes. We also demonstrate that all alpha-dystrobrevin mRNAs are transcribed from a single promoter in skeletal muscle. However, only transcripts encoding alpha-dystrobrevin-1 are preferentially accumulated at postsynaptic sites. These data suggest that the synaptic accumulation of alpha-dystrobrevin-1 mRNA occurs posttranscriptionally, identifying a novel mechanism for synaptic gene expression. Taken together, these results indicate that different isoforms possess distinct roles in synapse formation and possibly in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy.
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- S E Newey
- Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX, United Kingdom
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Crawford GE, Faulkner JA, Crosbie RH, Campbell KP, Froehner SC, Chamberlain JS. Assembly of the dystrophin-associated protein complex does not require the dystrophin COOH-terminal domain. J Cell Biol 2000; 150:1399-410. [PMID: 10995444 PMCID: PMC2150715 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.150.6.1399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Dystrophin is a multidomain protein that links the actin cytoskeleton to laminin in the extracellular matrix through the dystrophin associated protein (DAP) complex. The COOH-terminal domain of dystrophin binds to two components of the DAP complex, syntrophin and dystrobrevin. To understand the role of syntrophin and dystrobrevin, we previously generated a series of transgenic mouse lines expressing dystrophins with deletions throughout the COOH-terminal domain. Each of these mice had normal muscle function and displayed normal localization of syntrophin and dystrobrevin. Since syntrophin and dystrobrevin bind to each other as well as to dystrophin, we have now generated a transgenic mouse deleted for the entire dystrophin COOH-terminal domain. Unexpectedly, this truncated dystrophin supported normal muscle function and assembly of the DAP complex. These results demonstrate that syntrophin and dystrobrevin functionally associate with the DAP complex in the absence of a direct link to dystrophin. We also observed that the DAP complexes in these different transgenic mouse strains were not identical. Instead, the DAP complexes contained varying ratios of syntrophin and dystrobrevin isoforms. These results suggest that alternative splicing of the dystrophin gene, which naturally generates COOH-terminal deletions in dystrophin, may function to regulate the isoform composition of the DAP complex.
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- G E Crawford
- Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0618, USA
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Cartaud J, Cartaud A, Kordeli E, Ludosky MA, Marchand S, Stetzkowski-Marden F. The torpedo electrocyte: a model system to study membrane-cytoskeleton interactions at the postsynaptic membrane. Microsc Res Tech 2000; 49:73-83. [PMID: 10757880 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0029(20000401)49:1<73::aid-jemt8>3.0.co;2-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Many aspects of the organization of the electromotor synapse of electric fish resemble the nerve-muscle junction. In particular, the postsynaptic membrane in both systems share most of their proteins. As a remarquable source of cholinergic synapses, the Torpedo electrocyte model has served to identify the most important components involved in synaptic transmission such as the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, as well as proteins associated with the subsynaptic cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix involved in the assembly of the postsynaptic membrane, namely the 43-kDa protein-rapsyn, the dystrophin/utrophin complex, agrin, and others. This review encompasses some representative experiments that helped to clarify essential aspects of the supramolecular organization and assembly of the postsynaptic apparatus of cholinergic synapses.
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- J Cartaud
- Biologie Cellulaire des Membranes, Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 9275, CNRS, Universités Paris 6 et Paris7, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Madhavan R, Jarrett HW. Phosphorylation of dystrophin and alpha-syntrophin by Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase II. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1999; 1434:260-74. [PMID: 10525145 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(99)00193-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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A Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase activity (DGC-PK) was previously shown to associate with skeletal muscle dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) preparations, and phosphorylate dystrophin and a protein with the same electrophoretic mobility as alpha-syntrophin (R. Madhavan, H.W. Jarrett, Biochemistry 33 (1994) 5797-5804). Here, we show that DGC-PK and Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II) phosphorylate a common site (RSDS(3616)) within the dystrophin C terminal domain that fits the consensus CaM kinase II phosphorylation motif (R/KXXS/T). Furthermore, both kinase activities phosphorylate exactly the same three fusion proteins (dystrophin fusions DysS7 and DysS9, and the syntrophin fusion) out of a panel of eight fusion proteins (representing nearly 100% of syntrophin and 80% of dystrophin protein sequences), demonstrating that DGC-PK and CaM kinase II have the same substrate specificity. Complementing these results, anti-CaM kinase II antibodies specifically stained purified DGC immobilized on nitrocellulose membranes. Renaturation of electrophoretically resolved DGC proteins revealed a single protein kinase band (M(r) approximately 60,000) that, like CaM kinase II, underwent Ca(2+)-calmodulin dependent autophosphorylation. Based on these observations, we conclude DGC-PK represents a dystrophin-/syntrophin-phosphorylating skeletal muscle isoform of CaM kinase II. We also show that phosphorylation of the dystrophin C terminal domain sequences inhibits their syntrophin binding in vitro, suggesting a regulatory role for phosphorylation.
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- R Madhavan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Tennessee-Memphis, 858 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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Enigk RE, Maimone MM. Differential expression and developmental regulation of a novel alpha-dystrobrevin isoform in muscle. Gene 1999; 238:479-88. [PMID: 10570976 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(99)00358-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Alpha-dystrobrevin is a dystrophin-related protein expressed primarily in skeletal muscle, heart, lung and brain. In skeletal muscle, alpha-dystrobrevin is a component of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex and is localized to the sarcolemma, presumably through interactions with dystrophin and utrophin. Alternative splicing of the alpha-dystrobrevin gene generates multiple isoforms which have been grouped into three major classes: alpha-DB1, alpha-DB2, and alpha-DB3. Various isoforms have been shown to interact with a variety of proteins; however, the physiological function of the alpha-dystrobrevins remains unknown. In the present study, we have cloned a novel alpha-dystrobrevin cDNA encoding a protein (referred to as alpha-DB2b) with a unique 11 amino acid C-terminal tail. Using RT PCR with primers specific to the new isoform, we have characterized its expression in skeletal muscle, heart, and brain, and in differentiating C2C12 muscle cells. We show that alpha-DB2b is expressed in skeletal muscle, heart and brain, and that exons 12 and 13 are alternatively spliced in alpha-DB2b to generate at least three splice variants. The major alpha-DB2b splice variant expressed in adult skeletal muscle and heart contains exons 12 and 13, while in adult brain, two alpha-DB2b splice variants are expressed at similar levels. This is consistent with the preferential expression of exons 12 and 13 in other alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms in skeletal muscle and heart. Similarly, in alpha-DB1 the first 21 nucleotides of exon 18 are preferentially expressed in skeletal muscle and heart relative to brain. We also show that the expression of alternatively spliced alpha-DB2b is developmentally regulated in muscle; during differentiation of C2C12 cells, alpha-DB2b expression switches from an isoform lacking exons 12 and 13 to one containing them. We demonstrate similar developmental upregulation of exons 12, 13, and 18 in alpha-DB1 and of exons 12 and 13 in alpha-DB2a. Finally, we show that alpha-DB2b protein is expressed in adult skeletal muscle, suggesting that it has a functional role in adult muscle. Together, these data suggest that alternatively spliced variants of the new alpha-dystrobrevin isoform, alpha-DB2b, are differentially expressed in various tissues and developmentally regulated during muscle cell differentiation in a fashion similar to that previously described for alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms.
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- R E Enigk
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, State University of New York Health Science Center, Syracuse 13210, USA
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Williams MW, Bloch RJ. Extensive but coordinated reorganization of the membrane skeleton in myofibers of dystrophic (mdx) mice. J Cell Biol 1999; 144:1259-70. [PMID: 10087268 PMCID: PMC2150591 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.144.6.1259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/1998] [Revised: 02/09/1999] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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We used immunofluorescence techniques and confocal imaging to study the organization of the membrane skeleton of skeletal muscle fibers of mdx mice, which lack dystrophin. beta-Spectrin is normally found at the sarcolemma in costameres, a rectilinear array of longitudinal strands and elements overlying Z and M lines. However, in the skeletal muscle of mdx mice, beta-spectrin tends to be absent from the sarcolemma over M lines and the longitudinal strands may be disrupted or missing. Other proteins of the membrane and associated cytoskeleton, including syntrophin, beta-dystroglycan, vinculin, and Na,K-ATPase are also concentrated in costameres, in control myofibers, and mdx muscle. They also distribute into the same altered sarcolemmal arrays that contain beta-spectrin. Utrophin, which is expressed in mdx muscle, also codistributes with beta-spectrin at the mutant sarcolemma. By contrast, the distribution of structural and intracellular membrane proteins, including alpha-actinin, the Ca-ATPase and dihydropyridine receptors, is not affected, even at sites close to the sarcolemma. Our results suggest that in myofibers of the mdx mouse, the membrane- associated cytoskeleton, but not the nearby myoplasm, undergoes widespread coordinated changes in organization. These changes may contribute to the fragility of the sarcolemma of dystrophic muscle.
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- M W Williams
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
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Kameya S, Miyagoe Y, Nonaka I, Ikemoto T, Endo M, Hanaoka K, Nabeshima Y, Takeda S. alpha1-syntrophin gene disruption results in the absence of neuronal-type nitric-oxide synthase at the sarcolemma but does not induce muscle degeneration. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:2193-200. [PMID: 9890982 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.4.2193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 143] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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alpha1-Syntrophin is a member of the family of dystrophin-associated proteins and is strongly expressed in the sarcolemma and the neuromuscular junctions. All three syntrophin isoforms have a PDZ domain that appears to participate in protein-protein interactions at the plasma membrane. alpha1-Syntrophin has additionally been shown to associate with neuronal nitric-oxide synthase (nNOS) through PDZ domains in vitro. These observations suggest that alpha1-syntrophin may work as a modular adaptor protein that can link nNOS or other signaling enzyme to the sarcolemmal dystrophin complex. In the sarcolemma, nNOS regulates the homeostasis of reactive free radical species and may contribute to the oxidative damage to muscle protein in muscle disease such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. In this study, we generated alpha1-syntrophin knock-out mice to clarify the interaction between alpha1-syntrophin and nNOS in the skeletal muscle. We observed that nNOS, normally expressed in the sarcolemma, was largely absent from the sarcolemma, but considerably remained in the cytosol of the knock-out mice. Even though the distribution of nNOS was altered, the knock-out mice displayed no gross histological changes in the skeletal muscle. We also discovered that muscle contractile properties have not been influenced in the knock-out mice.
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- S Kameya
- Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawa-higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
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Nawrotzki R, Loh NY, Ruegg MA, Davies KE, Blake DJ. Characterisation of alpha-dystrobrevin in muscle. J Cell Sci 1998; 111 ( Pt 17):2595-605. [PMID: 9701558 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.111.17.2595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Dystrophin-related and associated proteins are important for the formation and maintenance of the mammalian neuromuscular junction. Initial studies in the electric organ of Torpedo californica showed that the dystrophin-related protein dystrobrevin (87K) co-purifies with the acetylcholine receptors and other postsynaptic proteins. Dystrobrevin is also a major phosphotyrosine-containing protein in the postsynaptic membrane. Since inhibitors of tyrosine protein phosphorylation block acetylcholine receptor clustering in cultured muscle cells, we examined the role of alpha-dystrobrevin during synapse formation and in response to agrin. Using specific antibodies, we show that C2 myoblasts and early myotubes only produce alpha-dystrobrevin-1, the mammalian orthologue of Torpedo dystrobrevin, whereas mature skeletal muscle expresses three distinct alpha-dystrobrevin isoforms. In myotubes, alpha-dystrobrevin-1 is found on the cell surface and also in acetylcholine receptor-rich domains. Following agrin stimulation, alpha-dystrobrevin-1 becomes re-localised beneath the cell surface into macroclusters that contain acetylcholine receptors and another dystrophin-related protein, utrophin. This redistribution is not associated with tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha-dystrobrevin-1 by agrin. Furthermore, we show that alpha-dystrobrevin-1 is associated with both utrophin in C2 cells and dystrophin in mature skeletal muscle. Thus alpha-dystrobrevin-1 is a component of two protein complexes in muscle, one with utrophin at the neuromuscular junction and the other with dystrophin at the sarcolemma. These results indicate that alpha-dystrobrevin-1 is not involved in the phosphorylation-dependent, early stages of receptor clustering, but rather in the stabilisation and maturation of clusters, possibly via an interaction with utrophin.
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- R Nawrotzki
- Genetics Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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Balasubramanian S, Fung ET, Huganir RL. Characterization of the tyrosine phosphorylation and distribution of dystrobrevin isoforms. FEBS Lett 1998; 432:133-40. [PMID: 9720911 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00804-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Dystrobrevin, a member of the dystrophin family of proteins, was initially identified as a major tyrosine phosphorylated synaptic protein in the electric organ of Torpedo californica. In this paper, we show that the major sites of tyrosine phosphorylation of Torpedo dystrobrevin are within its C-terminus, on Tyr-693 and Tyr-710. Cloning of the mammalian homologue of dystrobrevin has recently shown that this phosphotyrosine containing tail, or PYCT, is subject to alternative splicing. To compare the expression and distribution of PYCT- and PYCT+ splice variants, we generated antibodies against different regions of dystrobrevin. Here we show that the PYCT- isoform of 62 kDa is expressed at high levels in all tissues examined. In contrast, PYCT+ isoforms are expressed primarily in brain and muscle, where they are concentrated at synapses. Moreover, PYCT+ isoforms associate more tightly with the membrane and with syntrophin, another synaptically enriched protein. These results suggest that PYCT+ isoforms of dystrobrevin are specialized components of the dystroglycan complex which render the complex sensitive to regulation by tyrosine kinases.
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- S Balasubramanian
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185, USA
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Cartaud A, Coutant S, Petrucci TC, Cartaud J. Evidence for in situ and in vitro association between beta-dystroglycan and the subsynaptic 43K rapsyn protein. Consequence for acetylcholine receptor clustering at the synapse. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:11321-6. [PMID: 9556625 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.18.11321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The accumulation of dystrophin and associated proteins at the postsynaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction and their co-distribution with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) clusters in vitro suggested a role for the dystrophin complex in synaptogenesis. Co-transfection experiments in which alpha- and beta-dystroglycan form a complex with AChR and rapsyn, a peripheral protein required for AChR clustering (Apel, D. A., Roberds, S. L., Campbell, K. P., and Merlie, J. P. (1995) Neuron 15, 115-126), suggested that rapsyn functions as a link between AChR and the dystrophin complex. We have investigated the interaction between rapsyn and beta-dystroglycan in Torpedo AChR-rich membranes using in situ and in vitro approaches. Cross-linking experiments were carried out to study the topography of postsynaptic membrane polypeptides. A cross-linked product of 90 kDa was labeled by antibodies to rapsyn and beta-dystroglycan; this demonstrates that these polypeptides are in close proximity to one another. Affinity chromatography experiments and ligand blot assays using rapsyn solubilized from Torpedo AChR-rich membranes and constructs containing beta-dystroglycan C-terminal fragments show that a rapsyn-binding site is present in the juxtamembranous region of the cytoplasmic tail of beta-dystroglycan. These data point out that rapsyn and dystroglycan interact in the postsynaptic membrane and thus reinforce the notion that dystroglycan could be involved in synaptogenesis.
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- A Cartaud
- Biologie Cellulaire des Membranes, Département de Biologie Supramoléculaire et Cellulaire, Institut Jacques Monod, UMR 9922, CNRS et Université Paris VII, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cédex 05, France
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Puca AA, Nigro V, Piluso G, Belsito A, Sampaolo S, Quaderi N, Rossi E, Di Iorio G, Ballabio A, Franco B. Identification and characterization of a novel member of the dystrobrevin gene family. FEBS Lett 1998; 425:7-13. [PMID: 9540997 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00097-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A new member of the dystrobrevin gene family was identified using a bioinformatics approach. Sequence analysis indicates that this gene, named DTN-B, is highly homologous to the rabbit A0, the previously described dystrobrevin (DTN), Torpedo 87 kDa and to the C-terminus of dystrophin. The coiled-coil domain, shown to be the site of interaction between dystrobrevins and dystrophin, is highly conserved. Immunostaining studies indicate that DTN-B and DTN expression is absent in affected muscle fibers from DMD patients and carriers.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2
- DNA, Complementary
- Dystrophin-Associated Proteins
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscular Dystrophies/genetics
- Neuropeptides/genetics
- RNA Splicing
- Rabbits
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- A A Puca
- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Milan, Italy
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Iwata Y, Pan Y, Yoshida T, Hanada H, Shigekawa M. Alpha1-syntrophin has distinct binding sites for actin and calmodulin. FEBS Lett 1998; 423:173-7. [PMID: 9512352 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(98)00085-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Overlay and co-sedimentation assays using recombinant alpha1-syntrophin proteins revealed that two regions of alpha1-syntrophin, i.e. aa 274-315 and 449-505, contain high-affinity binding sites for F-actin (Kd 0.16-0.45 microM), although only a single high-affinity site (Kd 0.35 microM) was detected in the recombinant full-length syntrophin. We also found that actomyosin fractions prepared from both cardiac and skeletal muscle contain proteins recognized by anti-syntrophin antibody. These data suggest a novel role for syntrophin as an actin binding protein, which may be important for the function of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex or for other cell functions. We also found that alpha1-syntrophin binds calmodulin at two distinct sites with high (Kd 15 nM) and low (Kd 0.3 microM) affinity.
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- Y Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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Sadoulet-Puccio HM, Rajala M, Kunkel LM. Dystrobrevin and dystrophin: an interaction through coiled-coil motifs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:12413-8. [PMID: 9356463 PMCID: PMC24974 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.23.12413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related and -associated protein, has been proposed to be important in the formation and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction. Dystrobrevin coprecipitates with both the acetylcholine receptor complex as well as the dystrophin glycoprotein complex. Although the nature of dystrobrevin's association with the dystrophin glycoprotein complex remains unclear, it is known that dystrobrevin binds directly to the syntrophins, a heterologous group of dystrophin-associated proteins. Using the yeast two-hybrid system to identify protein-protein interactions, we present evidence for the heterodimerization of dystrobrevin directly with dystrophin. The C terminus of dystrobrevin binds specifically to the C terminus of dystrophin. We further refined this site of interaction to these proteins' homologous coiled-coil motifs that flank their respective syntrophin-binding sites. We also show that the interaction between the dystrobrevin and dystrophin coiled-coil domains is specific and is not due to a nonspecific coiled-coil domain interaction. From the accumulated evidence of protein-protein interactions presented here and elsewhere, we propose a partially revised model of the organization of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex.
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Peters MF, Adams ME, Froehner SC. Differential association of syntrophin pairs with the dystrophin complex. J Cell Biol 1997; 138:81-93. [PMID: 9214383 PMCID: PMC2139947 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.138.1.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/1997] [Revised: 05/29/1997] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The syntrophins are a multigene family of intracellular dystrophin-associated proteins comprising three isoforms, alpha1, beta1, and beta2. Based on their domain organization and association with neuronal nitric oxide synthase, syntrophins are thought to function as modular adapters that recruit signaling proteins to the membrane via association with the dystrophin complex. Using sequences derived from a new mouse beta1-syntrophin cDNA, and previously isolated cDNAs for alpha1- and beta2-syntrophins, we prepared isoform-specific antibodies to study the expression, skeletal muscle localization, and dystrophin family association of all three syntrophins. Most tissues express multiple syntrophin isoforms. In mouse gastrocnemius skeletal muscle, alpha1- and beta1-syntrophin are concentrated at the neuromuscular junction but are also present on the extrasynaptic sarcolemma. beta1-syntrophin is restricted to fast-twitch muscle fibers, the first fibers to degenerate in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. beta2-syntrophin is largely restricted to the neuromuscular junction. The sarcolemmal distribution of alpha1- and beta1-syntrophins suggests association with dystrophin and dystrobrevin, whereas all three syntrophins could potentially associate with utrophin at the neuromuscular junction. Utrophin complexes immunoisolated from skeletal muscle are highly enriched in beta1- and beta2-syntrophins, while dystrophin complexes contain mostly alpha1- and beta1-syntrophins. Dystrobrevin complexes contain dystrophin and alpha1- and beta1-syntrophins. From these results, we propose a model in which a dystrophin-dystrobrevin complex is associated with two syntrophins. Since individual syntrophins do not have intrinsic binding specificity for dystrophin, dystrobrevin, or utrophin, the observed preferential pairing of syntrophins must depend on extrinsic regulatory mechanisms.
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- M F Peters
- Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7545, USA
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Ambrose HJ, Blake DJ, Nawrotzki RA, Davies KE. Genomic organization of the mouse dystrobrevin gene: comparative analysis with the dystrophin gene. Genomics 1997; 39:359-69. [PMID: 9119373 DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.4515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Dystrobrevin, the mammalian orthologue of the Torpedo 87-kDa postsynaptic protein, is a member of the dystrophin gene family with homology to the cysteine-rich carboxy-terminal domain of dystrophin. Torpedo dystrobrevin copurifies with the acetylcholine receptors and is thought to form a complex with dystrophin and syntrophin. This complex is also found at the sarcolemma in vertebrates and defines the cytoplasmic component of the dystrophin-associated protein complex. Previously we have cloned several dystrobrevin isoforms from mouse brain and muscle. Here we show that these transcripts are the products of a single gene located on proximal mouse chromosome 18. To investigate the diversity of dystrobrevin transcripts we have determined that the mouse dystrobrevin gene is organized into 24 coding exons that span between 130 and 170 kb at the genomic level. The gene encodes at least three distinct protein isoforms that are expressed in a tissue-specific manner. Interestingly, although there is only 27% amino acid identity between the homologous regions of dystrobrevin and dystrophin, the positions of 8 of the 15 exon-intron junctions are identical.
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- H J Ambrose
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Blake DJ, Nawrotzki R, Peters MF, Froehner SC, Davies KE. Isoform diversity of dystrobrevin, the murine 87-kDa postsynaptic protein. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:7802-10. [PMID: 8631824 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.13.7802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Dystrophin-related and -associated proteins are important in the formation and maintenance of the mammalian neuromuscular junction. We have characterized mouse cDNA clones encoding isoforms of the dystrophin-homologous 87-kDa postsynaptic protein, dystrobrevin. In Torpedo, the 87-kDa protein is multiply phosphorylated and closely associated with proteins in the postsynaptic cytoskeleton, including the acetylcholine receptor. In contrast to Torpedo, where only a single transcript is seen, the mouse expresses several mRNAs encoding different isoforms. A 6.0-kilobase transcript in brain encodes a 78-kDa protein (dystrobrevin-2) that has a different C terminus, lacking the putative tyrosine kinase substrate domain. In skeletal and cardiac muscle, transcripts of 1.7 and 3.3/3.5 kilobases predominate and encode additional isoforms. Alternative splicing within the coding region and differential usage of untranslated regions produce additional variation. Multiple dystrobrevin-immunoreactive proteins copurify with syntrophin from mouse tissues. In skeletal muscle, dystrobrevin immunoreactivity is restricted to the neuromuscular junction and sarcolemma. The occurrence of many dystrobrevin isoforms is significant because alternative splicing and phosphorylation often have profound effects upon the biological activity of synaptic proteins.
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- D J Blake
- Molecular Genetics Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Brenman JE, Chao DS, Gee SH, McGee AW, Craven SE, Santillano DR, Wu Z, Huang F, Xia H, Peters MF, Froehner SC, Bredt DS. Interaction of nitric oxide synthase with the postsynaptic density protein PSD-95 and alpha1-syntrophin mediated by PDZ domains. Cell 1996; 84:757-67. [PMID: 8625413 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81053-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1259] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) is concentrated at synaptic junctions in brain and motor endplates in skeletal muscle. Here, we show that the N-terminus of nNOS, which contains a PDZ protein motif, interacts with similar motifs in postsynaptic density-95 protein (PSD-95) and a related novel protein, PSD-93.nNOS and PSD-95 are coexpressed in numerous neuronal populations, and a PSD-95/nNOS complex occurs in cerebellum. PDZ domain interactions also mediate binding of nNOS to skeletal muscle syntrophin, a dystrophin-associated protein. nNOS isoforms lacking a PDZ domain, identified in nNOSdelta/delta mutant mice, do not associate with PSD-95 in brain or with skeletal muscle sarcolemma. Interaction of PDZ-containing domains therefore mediates synaptic association of nNOS and may play a more general role in formation of macromolecular signaling complexes.
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- J E Brenman
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Fancisco, California 94143, USA
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Ahn AH, Freener CA, Gussoni E, Yoshida M, Ozawa E, Kunkel LM. The three human syntrophin genes are expressed in diverse tissues, have distinct chromosomal locations, and each bind to dystrophin and its relatives. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:2724-30. [PMID: 8576247 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.5.2724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The syntrophins are a biochemically heterogeneous group of 58-kDa intracellular membrane-associated dystrophin-binding proteins. We have cloned and characterized human acidic (alpha 1-) syntrophin and a second isoform of human basic (beta 2-) syntrophin. Comparison of the deduced amino acid structure of the three human isoforms of syntrophin (together with the previously reported human beta 1-syntrophin) demonstrates their overall similarity. The deduced amino acid sequences of human alpha 1- and beta 2-syntrophin are nearly identical to their homologues in mouse, suggesting a strong functional conservation among the individual isoforms, Much like beta 1-syntrophin, human beta 2-syntrophin has multiple transcript classes and is expressed widely, although in a distinct pattern of relative abundance. In contrast, human alpha 1-syntrophin is most abundant in heart and skeletal muscle, and less so in other tissues. Somatic cell hybrids and fluorescent in situ hybridization were both used to determine their chromosomal locations: beta 2-syntrophin to chromosome 16q22-23 and alpha 1-syntrophin to chromosome 20q11.2. Finally, we used in vitro translated proteins in an immunoprecipitation assay to show that, like beta 1-syntrophin, both beta 2- and alpha 1-syntrophin interact with peptides encoding the syntrophin-binding region of dystrophin, utrophin/dystrophin related protein, and the Torpedo 87K protein.
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- A H Ahn
- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Chapter 12 Regulation of Membrane Protein Organization at the Neuromuscular Junction. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2161(08)60392-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Dwyer TM, Froehner SC. Direct binding of Torpedo syntrophin to dystrophin and the 87 kDa dystrophin homologue. FEBS Lett 1995; 375:91-4. [PMID: 7498489 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)01176-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Syntrophin, a 58-kDa membrane-associated protein, is one component of a protein complex associated with dystrophin and other members of the dystrophin family, including the 87-kDa homologue (87K protein). To characterize interactions between synthrophin and 87K protein, we used an in vitro overlay binding assay. We demonstrate that purified Torpedo syntrophin binds directly to dystrophin and 87K. By expressing overlapping regions of the 87K protein as bacterial fusion proteins for binding targets, we show that a 52-amino acid region of 87K (residues 375-426) is sufficient for binding syntrophin.
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- T M Dwyer
- Department of Physiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7545, USA
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Yoshida M, Yamamoto H, Noguchi S, Mizuno Y, Hagiwara Y, Ozawa E. Dystrophin-associated protein A0 is a homologue of the Torpedo 87K protein. FEBS Lett 1995; 367:311-4. [PMID: 7607329 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(95)00574-s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We raised a monoclonal antibody, MA0, which reacts with A0, a 94-kDa rabbit skeletal muscle dystrophin-associated protein (DAP) bound to the syntrophin-binding domain of dystrophin. The antibody also reacted with the 62-kDa DAP which was moved to the locus close to beta-syntrophins by 2-dimensional PAGE, but the DAP did not coincide with any known beta-syntrophins. We have cloned a fragment of cDNA which codes the protein reacting with MA0 from a neonatal rabbit heart cDNA library. Based on the coincidence of cDNA sequences and the similarity in molecular mass, we concluded that the proteins reacting with MA0 are rabbit homologues of the Torpedo 87K protein.
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- M Yoshida
- Department of Cell Biology, National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo, Japan
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Apel ED, Roberds SL, Campbell KP, Merlie JP. Rapsyn may function as a link between the acetylcholine receptor and the agrin-binding dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex. Neuron 1995; 15:115-26. [PMID: 7619516 DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90069-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The 43 kDa AChR-associated protein rapsyn is required for the clustering of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) at the developing neuromuscular junction, but the functions of other postsynaptic proteins colocalized with the AChR are less clear. Here we use a fibroblast expression system to investigate the role of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) in AChR clustering. The agrin-binding component of the DGC, dystroglycan, is found evenly distributed across the cell surface when expressed in fibroblasts. However, dystroglycan colocalizes with AChR-rapsyn clusters when these proteins are coexpressed. Furthermore, dystroglycan colocalizes with rapsyn clusters even in the absence of AChR, indicating that rapsyn can cluster dystroglycan and AChR independently. Immunofluorescence staining using a polyclonal antibody to utrophin reveals a lack of staining of clusters, suggesting that the immunoreactive species, like the AChR, does not mediate the observed rapsyndystroglycan interaction. Rapsyn may therefore be a molecular link connecting the AChR to the DGC. At the neuromuscular synapse, rapsyn-mediated linkage of the AChR to the cytoskeleton-anchored DGC may underlie AChR cluster stabilization.
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- E D Apel
- Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Aciculin is a recently identified 60-kDa cytoskeletal protein, highly homologous to the glycolytic enzyme phosphoglucomutase type 1, (Belkin, A. M., Klimanskaya, I. V., Lukashev, M. E., Lilley, K., Critchley, D., and Koteliansky, V. E. (1994) J. Cell Sci. 107, 159-173). Aciculin expression in skeletal muscle is developmentally regulated, and this protein is particularly enriched at cell-matrix adherens junctions of muscle cells (Belkin, A. M., and Burridge, K. (1994) J. Cell Sci. 107, 1993-2003). The purpose of our study was to identify cytoskeletal protein(s) interacting with aciculin in various cell types. Using immunoprecipitation from cell lysates of metabolically labeled differentiating C2C12 muscle cells with anti-aciculin-specific antibodies, we detected a high molecular weight band (M(r) approximately 400,000), consistently coprecipitating with aciculin. We showed that this 400 kDa band comigrated with dystrophin and immunoblotted with anti-dystrophin antibodies. The association between aciculin and dystrophin in C2C12 cells was shown to resist Triton X-100 extraction and the majority of the complex could be extracted only in the presence of ionic detergents. In the reverse immunoprecipitation experiments, aciculin was detected in the precipitates with different anti-dystrophin antibodies. Immunodepletion experiments with lysates of metabolically labeled C2C12 myotubes showed that aciculin is a major dystrophin-associated protein in cultured skeletal muscle cells. Double immunostaining of differentiating and mature C2C12 myotubes with antibodies against aciculin and dystrophin revealed precise colocalization of these two cytoskeletal proteins throughout the process of myodifferentiation in culture. In skeletal muscle tissue, both proteins are concentrated at the sarcolemma and at myotendinous junctions. In contrast, utrophin, an autosomal homologue of dystrophin, was not codistributed with aciculin in muscle cell cultures and in skeletal muscle tissues. Analytical gel filtration experiments with purified aciculin and dystrophin showed interaction of these proteins in vitro, indicating that their association in skeletal muscle is due to direct binding. Whereas dystrophin was shown to be a major aciculin-associated protein in skeletal muscle, immunoblotting of anti-aciculin immunoprecipitates with antibodies against utrophin showed that aciculin is associated with utrophin in cultured A7r5 smooth muscle cells and REF52 fibroblasts. Immunodepletion experiments performed with lysates of metabolically labeled A7r5 cells demonstrated that aciculin is a major utrophin-binding protein in this cell type. Taken together, our data show that aciculin is a novel dystrophin- and utrophin-binding protein. Association of aciculin with dystrophin (utrophin) in various cell types might provide an additional cytoskeletal-matrix transmembrane link at sites where actin filaments terminate at the plasma membrane.
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- A M Belkin
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7090
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Yang B, Jung D, Rafael JA, Chamberlain JS, Campbell KP. Identification of alpha-syntrophin binding to syntrophin triplet, dystrophin, and utrophin. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:4975-8. [PMID: 7890602 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.10.4975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Syntrophin represents three cytoplasmic components of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex that links the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix in skeletal muscle. alpha-Syntrophin has now been translated in vitro and shown to associate directly with all three components of the syntrophin triplet and with dystrophin. The in vitro translated 71-kDa non-muscle dystrophin isoform, containing the cystein-rich/C-terminal domain, can also interact with the syntrophin triplet. The syntrophin binding motif in dystrophin was localized to exons 73 and 74 including amino acids 3447-3481 by comparing the interactions of alpha-syntrophin and seven overlapping human dystrophin fusion proteins. More than one syntrophin interaction site in this binding motif was suggested. alpha-Syntrophin also interacts directly with a C-terminal utrophin fusion protein. alpha-Syntrophin is localized to the muscle sarcolemma as well as to the neuromuscular junction in control mouse muscle. However, similar to utrophin, alpha-syntrophin is only present at the neuromuscular junction in mdx mouse muscle in which dystrophin is absent. Our data suggest that alpha-syntrophin binds all syntrophin isoforms, and syntrophin directly interacts with dystrophin through more than one binding site in dystrophin exons 73 and 74 including amino acids 3447-3481.
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- B Yang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242
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- R G Roberts
- Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, United Medical and Dental Schools, London, United Kingdom
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Hardwick JC, Parsons RL. Requirement of a colchicine-sensitive component of the cytoskeleton for acetylcholine receptor recovery. Br J Pharmacol 1995; 114:442-6. [PMID: 7533619 PMCID: PMC1510242 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb13246.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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1. The effect of colchicine treatment on acetylcholine receptor function was examined in potassium depolarized, voltage-clamped snake twitch fibre endplates. Receptor function was assessed by analysis of miniature endplate currents (m.e.p.c.) as well as acetylcholine (ACh)-induced single channel currents. 2. Pretreatment of snake muscle fibres with colchicine (10 microM to 100 microM) for 16-18 h had no effect on m.e.p.c. amplitude or decay rates. At higher concentrations (1 mM), there was a slight decrease in the average m.e.p.c. amplitude. 3. Colchicine produced a concentration-dependent decrease in the extent of m.e.p.c. amplitude recovery following a 10 min exposure to 540 microM carbachol. Exposure of 100 microM colchicine-treated preparations to 0.5 microM staurosporine further reduced the extent of m.e.p.c. amplitude recovery following carbachol exposure. 4. The decrease in m.e.p.c. amplitude following carbachol exposure was not due to a shift in the m.e.p.c. reversal potential. In addition, the distribution of m.e.p.c. amplitudes remained unimodal in both control and colchicine (100 microM)-treated preparations following carbachol exposure. 5. In addition to the normal, large conductance (approximately 48 pS) ACh-activated channels, a population of small conductance (approximately 29 pS) channels was observed in colchicine-treated preparations following exposure to carbachol. In preparations treated with both colchicine and staurosporine and then exposed to carbachol, the conductance of these small channels was identical to that of colchicine or staurosporine alone. 6. We suggest that prolonged exposure of snake twitch fibre endplates to agonist results in the activation and desensitization of ACh receptors. Furthermore, we propose that for a subpopulation of the inactivated receptors, restoration of function requires both the integrity of a subsynaptic cytoskeletal component and phosphorylation by a staurosporine-sensitive protein kinase. One plausible mechanism is that some receptors become destabilized in the membrane and phosphorylation of a cytoskeletal component, whose distribution may depend on an intact microtubular system, is required to re-anchor these receptors. If this anchoring process is inhibited either by disruption of the cytoskeleton with colchicine, or inhibition of the kinase by staurosporine, these receptors remain activatable, but have a reduced conductance.
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- J C Hardwick
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405
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Fabbrizio E, Pons F, Robert A, Hugon G, Bonet-Kerrache A, Mornet D. The dystrophin superfamily: variability and complexity. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 1994; 15:595-606. [PMID: 7706416 DOI: 10.1007/bf00121067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- E Fabbrizio
- INSERM U300, Faculté de Pharmacie, Montpellier, France
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Neurally released agrin is thought to cluster acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and other synaptic proteins in the postsynaptic membrane during synaptogenesis at the neuromuscular junction. We have examined the binding of nerve and muscle agrins, which have dramatically different abilities to cluster AChRs, to the membrane proteins of Torpedo electric organ and C2 myotubes. Both bound with approximately nanomolar affinity to a single component identified as alpha-dystroglycan: agrin binding was blocked by antibodies to alpha-dystroglycan, and agrin bound to purified alpha-dystroglycan. Dystroglycan was altered in two genetic variants of C2 muscle cells that fail to form spontaneous clusters of AChRs and that show a diminished response to agrin. Antibodies that blocked alpha-dystroglycan binding, however, failed to block the clustering of AChRs by neural agrin. Although alpha-dystroglycan is the major agrin-binding protein in Torpedo and myotube membranes, its physiological role is unclear.
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- J Sugiyama
- Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0444
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Campanelli JT, Roberds SL, Campbell KP, Scheller RH. A role for dystrophin-associated glycoproteins and utrophin in agrin-induced AChR clustering. Cell 1994; 77:663-74. [PMID: 8205616 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90051-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 304] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Synapse formation is characterized by the accumulation of molecules at the site of contact between pre- and postsynaptic cells. Agrin, a protein implicated in the regulation of this process, causes the clustering of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs). Here we characterize an agrin-binding site on the surface of muscle cells, show that this site corresponds to alpha-dystroglycan, and present evidence that alpha-dystroglycan is functionally related to agrin activity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that alpha-dystroglycan and adhalin, components of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex, as well as utrophin, colocalize with agrin-induced AChR clusters. Thus, agrin may function by initiating or stabilizing a synapse-specific membrane cytoskeleton that in turn serves as a scaffold upon which synaptic molecules are concentrated.
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- J T Campanelli
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, California 94305
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Wagner KR, Huganir RL. Tyrosine and serine phosphorylation of dystrophin and the 58-kDa protein in the postsynaptic membrane of Torpedo electric organ. J Neurochem 1994; 62:1947-52. [PMID: 7512621 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62051947.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Dystrophin associates with a 58-kDa and an 87-kDa protein in the postsynaptic membrane of the Torpedo electric organ. We have previously shown that the 87-kDa protein is a major phosphotyrosine-containing protein in these membranes. Immunoprecipitation of the 87-kDa protein from phosphorylated postsynaptic membranes results in coimmunoprecipitation of additional phosphorproteins. These phosphorproteins are identified as dystrophin and the 58-kDa protein. Monoclonal antibodies to dystrophin and the 58-kDa protein immunoprecipitate phosphorylated forms of these proteins from postsynaptic membranes phosphorylated in vitro. Phosphoamino acid analysis reveals that dystrophin and the 58-kDa protein are phosphorylated on serine and tyrosine residues. In addition, both dystrophin and the 58-kDa protein are shown to be phosphorylated on tyrosine residues in vivo. These results suggest that the synaptic function of dystrophin and its associated proteins, the 58-kDa and 87-kDa proteins, may be modulated by tyrosine and serine protein phosphorylation.
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- K R Wagner
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185
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Yang B, Ibraghimov-Beskrovnaya O, Moomaw C, Slaughter C, Campbell K. Heterogeneity of the 59-kDa dystrophin-associated protein revealed by cDNA cloning and expression. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37566-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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