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Natural vault nanoparticles are ribonucleoprotein particles with a mass of 13 MDa that have been found in a wide variety of eukaryotes. Empty recombinant vaults are assembled from heterologously expressed Major Vault Protein (MVP), forming the barrel-shaped vault shell. These structures are morphologically indistinguishable from natural vault particles. Here, we describe the packaging and purification of exogenous proteins into these recombinant vault particles by mixing with proteins attached to the INT domain that binds to MVP.
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- Meng Wang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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Benner NL, Zang X, Buehler DC, Kickhoefer VA, Rome ME, Rome LH, Wender PA. Vault Nanoparticles: Chemical Modifications for Imaging and Enhanced Delivery. ACS Nano 2017; 11:872-881. [PMID: 28029784 PMCID: PMC5372831 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Vault nanoparticles represent promising vehicles for drug and probe delivery. Innately found within human cells, vaults are stable, biocompatible nanocapsules possessing an internal volume that can encapsulate hundreds to thousands of molecules. They can also be targeted. Unlike most nanoparticles, vaults are nonimmunogenic and monodispersed and can be rapidly produced in insect cells. Efforts to create vaults with modified properties have been, to date, almost entirely limited to recombinant bioengineering approaches. Here we report a systematic chemical study of covalent vault modifications, directed at tuning vault properties for research and clinical applications, such as imaging, targeted delivery, and enhanced cellular uptake. As supra-macromolecular structures, vaults contain thousands of derivatizable amino acid side chains. This study is focused on establishing the comparative selectivity and efficiency of chemically modifying vault lysine and cysteine residues, using Michael additions, nucleophilic substitutions, and disulfide exchange reactions. We also report a strategy that converts the more abundant vault lysine residues to readily functionalizable thiol terminated side chains through treatment with 2-iminothiolane (Traut's reagent). These studies provide a method to doubly modify vaults with cell penetrating peptides and imaging agents, allowing for in vitro studies on their enhanced uptake into cells.
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- Nancy L. Benner
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Wang M, Abad D, Kickhoefer VA, Rome LH, Mahendra S. Vault Nanoparticles Packaged with Enzymes as an Efficient Pollutant Biodegradation Technology. ACS Nano 2015; 9:10931-10940. [PMID: 26493711 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Vault nanoparticles packaged with enzymes were synthesized as agents for efficiently degrading environmental contaminants. Enzymatic biodegradation is an attractive technology for in situ cleanup of contaminated environments because enzyme-catalyzed reactions are not constrained by nutrient requirements for microbial growth and often have higher biodegradation rates. However, the limited stability of extracellular enzymes remains a major challenge for practical applications. Encapsulation is a recognized method to enhance enzymatic stability, but it can increase substrate diffusion resistance, lower catalytic rates, and increase the apparent half-saturation constants. Here, we report an effective approach for boosting enzymatic stability by single-step packaging into vault nanoparticles. With hollow core structures, assembled vault nanoparticles can simultaneously contain multiple enzymes. Manganese peroxidase (MnP), which is widely used in biodegradation of organic contaminants, was chosen as a model enzyme in the present study. MnP was incorporated into vaults via fusion to a packaging domain called INT, which strongly interacts with vaults' interior surface. MnP fused to INT and vaults packaged with the MnP-INT fusion protein maintained peroxidase activity. Furthermore, MnP-INT packaged in vaults displayed stability significantly higher than that of free MnP-INT, with slightly increased Km value. Additionally, vault-packaged MnP-INT exhibited 3 times higher phenol biodegradation in 24 h than did unpackaged MnP-INT. These results indicate that the packaging of MnP enzymes in vault nanoparticles extends their stability without compromising catalytic activity. This research will serve as the foundation for the development of efficient and sustainable vault-based bioremediation approaches for removing multiple contaminants from drinking water and groundwater.
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- Meng Wang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Biological Chemistry, and §California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Biological Chemistry, and §California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Biological Chemistry, and §California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Biological Chemistry, and §California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Biological Chemistry, and §California NanoSystems Institute, University of California , Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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Buehler DC, Marsden MD, Shen S, Toso DB, Wu X, Loo JA, Zhou ZH, Kickhoefer VA, Wender PA, Zack JA, Rome LH. Bioengineered vaults: self-assembling protein shell-lipophilic core nanoparticles for drug delivery. ACS Nano 2014; 8:7723-32. [PMID: 25061969 PMCID: PMC4148163 DOI: 10.1021/nn5002694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We report a novel approach to a new class of bioengineered, monodispersed, self-assembling vault nanoparticles consisting of a protein shell exterior with a lipophilic core interior designed for drug and probe delivery. Recombinant vaults were engineered to contain a small amphipathic α-helix derived from the nonstructural protein 5A of hepatitis C virus, thereby creating within the vault lumen a lipophilic microenvironment into which lipophilic compounds could be reversibly encapsulated. Multiple types of electron microscopy showed that attachment of this peptide resulted in larger than expected additional mass internalized within the vault lumen attributable to incorporation of host lipid membrane constituents spanning the vault waist (>35 nm). These bioengineered lipophilic vaults reversibly associate with a sample set of therapeutic compounds, including all-trans retinoic acid, amphotericin B, and bryostatin 1, incorporating hundreds to thousands of drug molecules per vault nanoparticle. Bryostatin 1 is of particular therapeutic interest because of its ability to potently induce expression of latent HIV, thus representing a preclinical lead in efforts to eradicate HIV/AIDS. Vaults loaded with bryostatin 1 released free drug, resulting in activation of HIV from provirus latency in vitro and induction of CD69 biomarker expression following intravenous injection into mice. The ability to preferentially and reversibly encapsulate lipophilic compounds into these novel bioengineered vault nanoparticles greatly advances their potential use as drug delivery systems.
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- Daniel C. Buehler
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- UCLA−DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- California NanoSystems Institute at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- California NanoSystems Institute at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Address correspondence to ;
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- California NanoSystems Institute at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
- Address correspondence to ;
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Vaults are naturally occurring nanoparticles found widely in eukaryotes. The particles can be produced in large quantities and are assembled in situ from multiple copies of the single structural protein following expression. Using molecular engineering, recombinant vaults can be functionally modified and targeted, and their contents can be controlled by packaging. Here, we review the development of engineered vaults as a platform for a wide variety of therapeutic applications and we examine future directions for this unique nanoparticle system.
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- Leonard H Rome
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Vault is the largest nonicosahedral cytosolic nucleoprotein particle ever described. The widespread presence and evolutionary conservation of vaults suggest important biologic roles, although their functions have not been fully elucidated. X-ray structure of vault from rat liver was determined at 3.5 Å resolution. It exhibits an ovoid shape with a size of 40 × 40 × 67 nm(3). The cage structure of vault consists of a dimer of half-vaults, with each half-vault comprising 39 identical major vault protein (MVP) chains. Each MVP monomer folds into 12 domains: nine structural repeat domains, a shoulder domain, a cap-helix domain and a cap-ring domain. Interactions between the 42-turn-long cap-helix domains are key to stabilizing the particle. The other components of vaults, telomerase-associated proteins, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases and small RNAs, are in location in the vault particle by electron microscopy.
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- Hideaki TANAKA
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- PRESTO, JST, Saitama, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan
- Correspondence should be addressed: T. Tsukihara, Department of Life Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Koto, Kamighori, Akoh, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan (e-mail: )
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Han M, Kickhoefer VA, Nemerow GR, Rome LH. Targeted vault nanoparticles engineered with an endosomolytic peptide deliver biomolecules to the cytoplasm. ACS Nano 2011; 5:6128-37. [PMID: 21740042 PMCID: PMC3163598 DOI: 10.1021/nn2014613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Vault nanoparticles were engineered to enhance their escape from the endosomal compartment by fusing a membrane lytic peptide derived from adenovirus protein VI (pVI) to the N-terminus of the major vault protein to form pVI-vaults. We demonstrate that these pVI-vaults disrupt the endosomal membrane using three different experimental protocols including (1) enhancement of DNA transfection, (2) co-delivery of a cytosolic ribotoxin, and (3) direct visualization by fluorescence. Furthermore, direct targeting of vaults to specific cell surface epidermal growth factor receptors led to enhanced cellular uptake and efficient delivery of vaults to the cytoplasm. This process was monitored with fluorescent vaults, and morphological changes in the endosomal compartment were observed. By combining targeting and endosomal escape into a single recombinant vault, high levels of transfection efficiency were achieved using low numbers of vault particles. These results demonstrate that engineered vaults are effective, efficient, and nontoxic nanoparticles for targeted delivery of biomaterials to the cell cytoplasm.
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- Muri Han
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095
- California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095
- Address correspondence to
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The vault nanoparticle is one of the largest known ribonucleoprotein complexes in the sub-100 nm range. Highly conserved and almost ubiquitously expressed in eukaryotes, vaults form a large nanocapsule with a barrel-shaped morphology surrounding a large hollow interior. These properties make vaults an ideal candidate for development into a drug delivery vehicle. In this study, the first example of using vaults towards this goal is reported. Recombinant vaults are engineered to encapsulate the highly insoluble and toxic hydrophobic compound all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) using a vault-binding lipoprotein complex that forms a lipid bilayer nanodisk. These recombinant vaults offer protection to the encapsulated ATRA from external elements. Furthermore, a cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) reconstruction shows the vault-binding lipoprotein complex sequestered within the vault lumen. Finally, these ATRA-loaded vaults show enhanced cytotoxicity against the hepatocellular carcinoma cell line HepG2. The ability to package therapeutic compounds into the vault is an important achievement toward their development into a viable and versatile platform for drug delivery.
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- Daniel C. Buehler
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, 615 Charles E. Young Dr. South, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering Program, 609 Charles E. Young Dr. South, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, 615 Charles E. Young Dr. South, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering Program, 609 Charles E. Young Dr. South, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, 615 Charles E. Young Dr. South, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; California Nanosystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095
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Tanaka H, Kato K, Sumizawa T, Yamashita E. [Elucidation of the function based on the whole structure of rat liver vault, the largest ribonucleo-protein particle]. Seikagaku 2011; 83:392-395. [PMID: 21706874] [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: 05/31/2023]
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- Hideaki Tanaka
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Szaflarski W, Nowicki M, Zabel M. [The structure of cellular vaults, their role in the normal cell and in the multidrug resistance of cancer]. Postepy Biochem 2011; 57:266-273. [PMID: 22235652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The cellular vaults have been described for the first time in 1986 as ribonucleoprotein complexes composed of three proteins, MVP, TEP1 and vPARP and several vRNA strains. Biochemical and structural studies revealed their ubiquitous existence in the cytoplasm of many eukaryotic cells and their barrel-like structure indicating their engagement in the intracellular transport. Furthermore, the high homology between MVP and LRP which was already known to be involved in multidrug resistance mechanism opened a discussion about the role of vaults in both normal and cancer cells. The histopathology research demonstrated an increased amount of MVP/LRP proteins in the cancer as well as showed translocation possibility between cytoplasm and nuclear envelope, which can be of crucial point in the prevention of nucleus against anticancer drugs.
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- Witold Szaflarski
- Katedra i Zakład Histologii i Embriologii, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. K. Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu, Poznań.
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Yang J, Kickhoefer VA, Ng BC, Gopal A, Bentolila LA, John S, Tolbert SH, Rome LH. Vaults are dynamically unconstrained cytoplasmic nanoparticles capable of half vault exchange. ACS Nano 2010; 4:7229-7240. [PMID: 21121616 PMCID: PMC3020078 DOI: 10.1021/nn102051r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Vaults are naturally occurring ribonucleoprotein particles with an enormous interior volume, large enough to encapsulate hundreds of proteins. They are highly conserved and are present in nearly all eukaryotic cells ranging from 10(4) to 10(7) particles per cell. Recombinant vaults can be produced in vitro and engineered to allow cell targeting and protein packaging. These nanometer-sized particles have many desirable characteristics that may give them advantages for use as drug delivery vehicles. Using photoactivatable green fluorescent protein (PAGFP) labeled vaults, we demonstrate that the particles rapidly diffuse throughout the cytoplasm following single pixel photoactivation in live cells. Their in vivo movement remained relatively unchanged despite exposure to a variety of cellular stresses, suggesting that vaults are largely unconstrained in the cytoplasm. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) was observed from polyethylene glycol (PEG) fused hybrid cells that expressed either CFP or YFP labeled vaults, indicating that vaults can exchange major vault protein (MVP) subunits in vivo. Investigation into the mechanism of this exchange in vitro using recombinant vaults demonstrated that they were capable of rapidly separating at the particle waist and reassembling back into whole vaults, supporting a half vault exchange mechanism. This data suggests a means whereby vaults can functionally interact with their cellular environment and deliver materials packaged within their interior.
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- Jian Yang
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
- California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Laboratories, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
- California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
- California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 90095
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Xia Y, Ramgopal Y, Li H, Shang L, Srinivas P, Kickhoefer VA, Rome LH, Preiser PR, Boey F, Zhang H, Venkatraman SS. Immobilization of recombinant vault nanoparticles on solid substrates. ACS Nano 2010; 4:1417-24. [PMID: 20146454 DOI: 10.1021/nn901167s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Native vaults are nanoscale particles found abundantly in the cytoplasm of most eukaryotic cells. They have a capsule-like structure with a thin shell surrounding a "hollow" interior compartment. Recombinant vault particles were found to self-assemble following expression of the major vault protein (MVP) in a baculovirus expression system, and these particles are virtually identical to native vaults. Such particles have been recently studied as potential delivery vehicles. In this study, we focus on immobilization of vault particles on a solid substrate, such as glass, as a first step to study their interactions with cells. To this end, we first engineered the recombinant vaults by fusing two different tags to the C-terminus of MVP, a 3 amino acid RGD peptide and a 12 amino acid RGD-strep-tag peptide. We have demonstrated two strategies for immobilizing vaults on solid substrates. The barrel-and-cap structure of vault particles was observed for the first time, by atomic force microscopy (AFM), in a dry condition. This work proved the feasibility of immobilizing vault nanoparticles on a material surface, and the possibility of using vault nanoparticles as localized and sustainable drug carriers as well as a biocompatible surface moiety.
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- Yun Xia
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798
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Goldsmith LE, Pupols M, Kickhoefer VA, Rome LH, Monbouquette HG. Utilization of a protein "shuttle" to load vault nanocapsules with gold probes and proteins. ACS Nano 2009; 3:3175-3183. [PMID: 19775119 DOI: 10.1021/nn900555d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Vaults are large protein nanocapsules that may be useful as drug delivery vehicles due to their normal presence in humans, their large interior volume, their simple structural composition consisting of multiple copies of one protein, and a recombinant production system that also provides a means to tailor their structure. However, for vaults to be effective in such applications, efficient means to load the interiors of the capsules must be demonstrated. Here we describe the use of a domain derived from a vault lumen-associated protein as a carrier to target both gold nanoclusters and heterologous His-tagged proteins to specific binding sites on the vault interior wall.
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- Lisa E Goldsmith
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, California 90095, USA
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Kato K, Tanaka H. [X-ray structure of vault: the largest ribonucleoprotein complex]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 2009; 54:1159-1165. [PMID: 19588879] [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: 05/28/2023]
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Lai CY, Wiethoff CM, Kickhoefer VA, Rome LH, Nemerow GR. Vault nanoparticles containing an adenovirus-derived membrane lytic protein facilitate toxin and gene transfer. ACS Nano 2009; 3:691-699. [PMID: 19226129 PMCID: PMC2707358 DOI: 10.1021/nn8008504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Nonviral methods of gene delivery possess several advantages over that of viral-based vectors, including having increased safety. However, the ability to achieve effective transport of therapeutic molecules across host cell membranes via nonviral methods remains a significant goal. Cell-derived nanoparticles known as vaults have been proposed as novel candidate transfer vehicles for various foreign molecules. Recombinant vault particles enter cells via macropinocytosis or phagocytosis but lack demonstrable membrane penetrating activity. To explore the feasibility of improving vault penetration into target cells, we incorporated the membrane lytic domain of adenovirus protein VI (pVI) into the interior of recombinant vault particles via fusion to the vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (VPARP) interaction domain. The membrane lytic activity of the pVI domain was retained upon incorporation into vault particles. Moreover, internalization of vault-pVI complexes into murine macrophages promoted co-delivery of a soluble ribotoxin or a cDNA plasmid encoding GFP. These findings indicate that vault particles can be modified to enhance cell transfer of selected biomolecules.
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- Cheng-Yu Lai
- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 92037 USA
- DuPont Central R&D, Experimental Station - E328/203L, Wilmington, Delaware, 19880-0328 USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois, 60153 USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine and California NANOSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine and California NANOSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA
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- Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 92037 USA
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Anderson DH, Kickhoefer VA, Sievers SA, Rome LH, Eisenberg D. Draft crystal structure of the vault shell at 9-A resolution. PLoS Biol 2007; 5:e318. [PMID: 18044992 PMCID: PMC2229873 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2006] [Accepted: 10/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vaults are the largest known cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein structures and may function in innate immunity. The vault shell self-assembles from 96 copies of major vault protein and encapsulates two other proteins and a small RNA. We crystallized rat liver vaults and several recombinant vaults, all among the largest non-icosahedral particles to have been crystallized. The best crystals thus far were formed from empty vaults built from a cysteine-tag construct of major vault protein (termed cpMVP vaults), diffracting to about 9-Å resolution. The asymmetric unit contains a half vault of molecular mass 4.65 MDa. X-ray phasing was initiated by molecular replacement, using density from cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). Phases were improved by density modification, including concentric 24- and 48-fold rotational symmetry averaging. From this, the continuous cryo-EM electron density separated into domain-like blocks. A draft atomic model of cpMVP was fit to this improved density from 15 domain models. Three domains were adapted from a nuclear magnetic resonance substructure. Nine domain models originated in ab initio tertiary structure prediction. Three C-terminal domains were built by fitting poly-alanine to the electron density. Locations of loops in this model provide sites to test vault functions and to exploit vaults as nanocapsules. Vaults are large barrel-shaped particles found in the cytoplasm in all mammalian cells, which may function in innate immunity. As naturally occurring nanoscale capsules, vaults may be useful objects to engineer as delivery vehicles. In this study, we propose an atomic structure for the thin outer shell of the vault. Using x-ray diffraction and computer modeling, we have inferred a draft atomic model for the major vault protein, which forms the shell-like enclosure of the vault. The shell is made up of 96 identical protein chains, each of 873 amino acid residues, folded into 14 domains. Each chain forms an elongated stave of half the vault, as well as the cap of the barrel-like shell. Our draft atomic model is essentially an atomic-level model for the entire 9.3-MDa vault shell, which offers a guide for protein engineering to test vault functions and to exploit vault particles as nanocapsules. A draft atomic structure has been determined for the 9.3-MDa protein shell of the vault cytoplasmic particle, revealing stave-like polypeptides forming the barrel-like structure of the vault.
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- Daniel H Anderson
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Vaults are barrel-shaped ribonucleoprotein particles that are abundant in certain tumors and multidrug resistant cancer cells. Prokaryotic relatives of the major vault protein, MVP, have not been identified. We used sequence analysis and molecular modeling to show that MVP and the toxic anion resistance protein, TelA of Rhodobacter sphaeroides strain 2.4.1, share a novel fold that consists of a three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet. Because of this strong structural correspondence, we examined whether mammalian cell vaults respond to tellurite treatment. In the presence of the oxyanion tellurite, large vault aggregates, or vaultosomes, appear at the cell periphery in 15 min or less. Vaultosome formation is temperature-dependent, reversible, and occurs in normal human umbilical vein endothelial cells as well as transformed HeLa cervical cancer cells. Vaultosome formation is not restricted to tellurite and occurs in the presence of other toxic oxyanions (selenate, selinite, arsenate, arsenite, vanadate). In addition, vaultosomes form independently from other stress-induced ribonucleoprotein complexes, stress granules and aggresomes. Vaultosome formation is therefore a unique cellular response to an environmental toxin.
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- Kathy A Suprenant
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.
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Nottbohm AC, Dothager RS, Putt KS, Hoyt MT, Hergenrother PJ. A colorimetric substrate for poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1, VPARP, and tankyrase-1. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2007; 46:2066-9. [PMID: 17299820 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200603988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Amanda C Nottbohm
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, 600 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Vaults are self-assembled ribonucleoprotein nanocapsules that consist of multiple copies of three proteins (major vault protein, VPARP, and TEP1) and an untranslated RNA. Although their function has not been determined, vaults are found in nearly all eukaryotic cells. This study describes the use of fluorescence spectroscopy, multiangle laser light scattering (MALLS), and the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) as tools in investigating recombinant vault conformational change in response to a varied solution pH. Identification of conditions for reversible vault disassembly and reassembly could enable application of these nanocapsules in drug delivery and in nanomaterials synthesis. Initial monitoring of changes in the intrinsic fluorescence intensity of vaults showed a 60% increase at pH 3.4 compared to that at pH 6.5, suggesting vaults exhibit a more open conformation at low pH. Fluorescence quenching studies provided further evidence of a vault structural change at low pH. MALLS data suggested a decrease in molecular mass accompanied by a clear increase in the radius of gyration as the solution pH was shifted from 6.5 to 3.4. This result prompted the hypothesis that vaults dissociate at least partially at low pH. Using the QCM to study adsorption of the vault onto self-assembled monolayers, data that suggest vault dissociation at low pH, even when the vault is in an adsorbed state, were also obtained. Finally, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of negatively stained vaults at pH 6.5 and 3.4 confirmed the fluorescence spectroscopy, MALLS, and QCM findings by providing visual evidence that vaults disassemble into halves as the solution pH is lowered from 6.5 to 3.4.
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- Lisa E Goldsmith
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Minaguchi T, Waite KA, Eng C. Nuclear localization of PTEN is regulated by Ca(2+) through a tyrosil phosphorylation-independent conformational modification in major vault protein. Cancer Res 2007; 66:11677-82. [PMID: 17178862 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-2240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We have recently shown in MCF-7 cells that nuclear phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) down-regulates phosphorylation of p44/42 and cyclin D1 and induces G(1) cell cycle arrest, whereas cytoplasmic PTEN down-regulates phosphorylation of Akt, up-regulates p27, and induces apoptosis. In this manner, nucleocytoplasmic partitioning of PTEN seems to differentially regulate the cell cycle and apoptosis. We have also reported that PTEN has nuclear localization signal-like sequences required for major vault protein (MVP)-mediated nuclear translocation. To date, several other proteins are reported to interact with MVP, including extracellular signal-regulated kinases and steroid receptors, suggesting that MVP is likely to be involved in signal transduction through nucleocytoplasmic transport. However, the exact mechanism of MVP-mediated nucleocytoplasmic shuttling remains elusive. PTEN reportedly interacts in vitro with the EF hand-like motif of MVP in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. The current study shows that small interfering RNA-mediated MVP silencing decreases the nuclear localization of PTEN and increases phosphorylation of nuclear p44/42. We show in situ that PTEN-MVP interaction is Ca(2+) dependent and is abolished by Mg(2+). Nuclear localization of PTEN is decreased by increasing Ca(2+) levels in culture medium in a dose-dependent manner. Ca(2+) ionophore A23187 increases nuclear localization of PTEN and decreases phosphorylation of nuclear p44/42. Finally, we show that Ca(2+)-dependent PTEN-MVP interaction is not related to MVP's tyrosil phosphorylation but rather due to its conformational modification. Our observations suggest that Ca(2+) regulates PTEN's nuclear entry through a tyrosil phosphorylation-independent conformational change in MVP. Collectively, our data present evidence of a novel crosstalk between the Ca(2+) signaling-mediated regulation of the cell cycle and MVP-mediated nuclear PTEN localization and function.
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- Takeo Minaguchi
- Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA
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Poderycki MJ, Kickhoefer VA, Kaddis CS, Raval-Fernandes S, Johansson E, Zink JI, Loo JA, Rome LH. The vault exterior shell is a dynamic structure that allows incorporation of vault-associated proteins into its interior. Biochemistry 2006; 45:12184-93. [PMID: 17002318 PMCID: PMC2538551 DOI: 10.1021/bi0610552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Vaults are 13 million Da ribonucleoprotein particles with a highly conserved structure. Expression and assembly by multimerization of an estimated 96 copies of a single protein, termed the major vault protein (MVP), is sufficient to form the minimal structure and entire exterior shell of the barrel-shaped vault particle. Multiple copies of two additional proteins, VPARP and TEP1, and a small untranslated vault RNA are also associated with vaults. We used the Sf9 insect cell expression system to form MVP-only recombinant vaults and performed a series of protein-mixing experiments to test whether this particle shell is able to exclude exogenous proteins from interacting with the vault interior. Surprisingly, we found that VPARP and TEP1 are able to incorporate into vaults even after the formation of the MVP vault particle shell is complete. Electrospray molecular mobility analysis and spectroscopic studies of vault-interacting proteins were used to confirm this result. Our results demonstrate that the protein shell of the recombinant vault particle is a dynamic structure and suggest a possible mechanism for in vivo assembly of vault-interacting proteins into preformed vaults. Finally, this study suggests that the vault interior may functionally interact with the cellular milieu.
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- Michael J. Poderycki
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- *To whom all correspondence should be addressed: Leonard H. Rome, Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 33-131 CHS mail code #173717, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095-1737, Tel. 310 825-0709; Fax. 310 206-5272;
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Kozlov G, Vavelyuk O, Minailiuc O, Banville D, Gehring K, Ekiel I. Solution Structure of a Two-repeat Fragment of Major Vault Protein. J Mol Biol 2006; 356:444-52. [PMID: 16373071 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.11.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2005] [Revised: 11/18/2005] [Accepted: 11/21/2005] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Major vault protein (MVP) is the main constituent of vaults, large ribonucleoprotein particles implicated in resistance to cancer therapy and correlated with poor survival prognosis. Here, we report the structure of the main repeat element in human MVP. The approximately 55 amino acid residue MVP domain has a unique, novel fold that consists of a three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet. The solution NMR structure of a two-domain fragment reveals the interdomain contacts and relative orientations of the two MVP domains. We use these results to model the assembly of 672 MVP domains from 96 MVP molecules into the ribs of the 13MDa vault structure. The unique features include a thin, skin-like structure with polar residues on both the cytoplasmic and internal surface, and a pole-to-pole arrangement of MVP molecules. These studies provide a starting point for understanding the self-assembly of MVP into vaults and their interactions with other proteins. Chemical shift perturbation studies identified the binding site of vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, another component of vault particles, indicating that MVP domains form a new class of interaction-mediating modules.
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- Guennadi Kozlov
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montréal, Que., Canada
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Fukushima K, Okai Y, Matsuura S, Tsujimoto H, Endo Y. Molecular Cloning of Feline Lung Resistance-Related Protein (LRP) cDNA and its Expression in a Feline Lymphoma Cell Line and Adriamycin-Resistant Subline. J Vet Med Sci 2006; 68:885-90. [PMID: 16953094 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.68.885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 11/22/2022] Open
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Molecular cloning of feline lung resistance-related protein (LRP) was performed to evaluate the relationship between its expression level and drug resistance against chemotherapeutics. The nucleotide sequence of the coding region of feline LRP cDNA was found to be 2670-bp long and to show 84.2-92.6% homology to its human, mouse, and rat counterparts. The expression level of feline LRP mRNA was relatively high in lung, jejunum, and colon. An adriamycin (ADM)-resistant feline lymphoma subline, FT-1/ADM, showed a high level of MDR1 mRNA expression compared with parental FT-1 cells. However, no relationship was observed between the drug-resistant phenotype and the LRP mRNA expression level. Although no direct contribution of LRP to the development of the drug-resistant phenotype was observed, further investigation is advisable.
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- Kenjiro Fukushima
- Laboratory of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University, Korimoto, Kagoshima, Japan
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Querol-Audí J, Perez-Luque R, Fita I, Lopéz-Iglesias C, Castón JR, Carrascosa JL, Verdaguer N. Preliminary analysis of two and three dimensional crystals of vault ribonucleoprotein particles. J Struct Biol 2005; 151:111-5. [PMID: 15964767 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2005.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2005] [Revised: 04/13/2005] [Accepted: 04/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein particles found in a wide variety of eukaryotes. When imaged by electron-microscopy vaults present a strikingly conserved barrel-shaped structure with an invaginated waist and two protruding caps. In this work, we present two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) crystals of naturally produced vaults in murine and monkey cells, respectively. The 2D-crystals presented a hexagonal packing with the lattice parameter defined by the diameter of the vault barrel. Fourier transforms from images of the negatively stained 2D-crystals showed spots till about 45 A resolution. The 3D-crystals reached about 0.15 x 0.15 x 0.02 mm3 in size and presented a flat triangular morphology with well-developed faces. The preliminary characterization of these 3D-crystals, which diffract very weakly to approximately 10 A resolution, suggests a trigonal packing with the R32 space group symmetry. The 3D-crystals appear to be formed by adding layers of vaults, which retain the hexagonal organization seen in the 2D-crystals, with relative shifts that maximize the interdigitation of particles in adjacent layers. Accurate crystal symmetry in the 2D- and 3D-crystals requires neighbor particles interacting according to a 6-fold and a 3-fold dihedral symmetry, respectively. Compatibility with the reported 8-fold symmetry would imply multiples of 24-fold rotational symmetry, in agreement with the recently proposed 48-fold dihedral symmetry for reconstituted recombinant vaults.
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- Jordi Querol-Audí
- Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC-Parc Científic), Josep-Samitier 1-5, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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Human vaults are the largest cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein and are overexpressed in cancer cells. Vaults reportedly function in the extrusion of xenobiotics from the nuclei of resistant cells, but the interactions of xenobiotics with the vault-associated proteins or non-coding RNAs have never been directly observed. In the present study, we show that vault RNAs (vRNAs), specifically the hvg-1 and hvg-2 RNAs, bind to a chemotherapeutic compound, mitoxantrone. Using an in-line probing assay (spontaneous transesterification of RNA linkages), we have identified the mitoxantrone binding region within the vRNAs. In addition, we analyzed the interactions between vRNAs and mitoxantrone in the cellular milieu, using an in vitro translation inhibition assay. Taken together, our results clearly suggest that vRNAs have the ability to bind certain chemotherapeutic compounds and these interactions may play an important role in vault function, by participating in the export of toxic compounds.
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- Supramolecular Biology, International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University1-7-29 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- Supramolecular Biology, International Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yokohama City University1-7-29 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
- Genome Science Center, RIKEN1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
- PRESTO, JSTJapan
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 298 61 6085; Fax: +81 298 61 6095;
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Kickhoefer VA, Garcia Y, Mikyas Y, Johansson E, Zhou JC, Raval-Fernandes S, Minoofar P, Zink JI, Dunn B, Stewart PL, Rome LH. Engineering of vault nanocapsules with enzymatic and fluorescent properties. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:4348-52. [PMID: 15753293 PMCID: PMC555531 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500929102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [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: 11/18/2022] Open
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One of the central issues facing the emerging field of nanotechnology is cellular compatibility. Nanoparticles have been proposed for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, including drug delivery, gene therapy, biological sensors, and controlled catalysis. Viruses, liposomes, peptides, and synthetic and natural polymers have been engineered for these applications, yet significant limitations continue to prevent their use. Avoidance of the body's natural immune system, lack of targeting specificity, and the inability to control packaging and release are remaining obstacles. We have explored the use of a naturally occurring cellular nanoparticle known as the vault, which is named for its morphology with multiple arches reminiscent of cathedral ceilings. Vaults are 13-MDa ribonucleoprotein particles with an internal cavity large enough to sequester hundreds of proteins. Here, we report a strategy to target and sequester biologically active materials within the vault cavity. Attachment of a vault-targeting peptide to two proteins, luciferase and a variant of GFP, resulted in their sequestration within the vault cavity. The targeted proteins confer enzymatic and fluorescent properties on the recombinant vaults, both of which can be detected by their emission of light. The modified vaults are compatible with living cells. The ability to engineer vault particles with designed properties and functionalities represents an important step toward development of a biocompatible nanocapsule.
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- Valerie A Kickhoefer
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Stewart PL, Makabi M, Lang J, Dickey-Sims C, Robertson AJ, Coffman JA, Suprenant KA. Sea urchin vault structure, composition, and differential localization during development. BMC Dev Biol 2005; 5:3. [PMID: 15710043 PMCID: PMC550661 DOI: 10.1186/1471-213x-5-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2004] [Accepted: 02/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background Vaults are intriguing ribonucleoprotein assemblies with an unknown function that are conserved among higher eukaryotes. The Pacific coast sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, is an invertebrate model organism that is evolutionarily closer to humans than Drosophila and C. elegans, neither of which possesses vaults. Here we compare the structures of sea urchin and mammalian vaults and analyze the subcellular distribution of vaults during sea urchin embryogenesis. Results The sequence of the sea urchin major vault protein (MVP) was assembled from expressed sequence tags and genome traces, and the predicted protein was found to have 64% identity and 81% similarity to rat MVP. Sea urchin MVP includes seven ~50 residue repeats in the N-terminal half of the protein and a predicted coiled coil domain in the C-terminus, as does rat MVP. A cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) reconstruction of isolated sea urchin vaults reveals the assembly to have a barrel-shaped external structure that is nearly identical to the rat vault structure. Analysis of the molecular composition of the sea urchin vault indicates that it contains components that may be homologs of the mammalian vault RNA component (vRNA) and protein components (VPARP and TEP1). The sea urchin vault appears to have additional protein components in the molecular weight range of 14–55 kDa that might correspond to molecular contents. Confocal experiments indicate a dramatic relocalization of MVP from the cytoplasm to the nucleus during sea urchin embryogenesis. Conclusions These results are suggestive of a role for the vault in delivering macromolecules to the nucleus during development.
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- Phoebe L Stewart
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN USA
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
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Poderycki MJ, Rome LH, Harrington L, Kickhoefer VA. The p80 homology region of TEP1 is sufficient for its association with the telomerase and vault RNAs, and the vault particle. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:893-902. [PMID: 15701761 PMCID: PMC549401 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2004] [Revised: 01/10/2005] [Accepted: 01/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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TEP1 is a protein component of two ribonucleoprotein complexes: vaults and telomerase. The vault-associated small RNA, termed vault RNA (VR), is dependent upon TEP1 for its stable association with vaults, while the association of telomerase RNA with the telomerase complex is independent of TEP1. Both of these small RNAs have been shown to interact with amino acids 1-871 of TEP1 in an indirect yeast three-hybrid assay. To understand the determinants of TEP1-RNA binding, we generated a series of TEP1 deletions and show by yeast three-hybrid assay that the entire Tetrahymena p80 homology region of TEP1 is required for its interaction with both telomerase and VRs. This region is also sufficient to target the protein to the vault particle. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays using the recombinant TEP1 RNA-binding domain (TEP1-RBD) demonstrate that it binds RNA directly, and that telomerase and VRs compete for binding. VR binds weakly to TEP1-RBD in vitro, but mutation of VR sequences predicted to disrupt helices near its central loop enhances binding. Antisense oligonucleotide-directed RNase H digestion of endogenous VR indicates that this region is largely single stranded, suggesting that TEP1 may require access to the VR central loop for efficient binding.
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- Michael J. Poderycki
- Department of Biological Chemistry and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1737, USA
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto620 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1737, USA
- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto620 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada
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- Department of Medical Biophysics, Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto620 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 310 794 4873; Fax: +1 310 206 5272;
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Mikyas Y, Makabi M, Raval-Fernandes S, Harrington L, Kickhoefer VA, Rome LH, Stewart PL. Cryoelectron microscopy imaging of recombinant and tissue derived vaults: localization of the MVP N termini and VPARP. J Mol Biol 2004; 344:91-105. [PMID: 15504404 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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] [Received: 06/28/2004] [Revised: 09/03/2004] [Accepted: 09/14/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The vault is a highly conserved ribonucleoprotein particle found in all higher eukaryotes. It has a barrel-shaped structure and is composed of the major vault protein (MVP); vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (VPARP); telomerase-associated protein 1 (TEP1); and small untranslated RNA (vRNA). Although its strong conservation and high abundance indicate an important cellular role, the function of the vault is unknown. In humans, vaults have been implicated in multidrug resistance during chemotherapy. Recently, assembly of recombinant vaults has been established in insect cells expressing only MVP. Here, we demonstrate that co-expression of MVP with one or both of the other two vault proteins results in their co-assembly into regularly shaped vaults. Particles assembled from MVP with N-terminal peptide tags of various length are compared. Cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) and single-particle image reconstruction methods were used to determine the structure of nine recombinant vaults of various composition, as well as wild-type and TEP1-deficient mouse vaults. Recombinant vaults with MVP N-terminal peptide tags showed internal density that varied in size with the length of the tag. Reconstruction of a recombinant vault with a cysteine-rich tag revealed 48-fold rotational symmetry for the vault. A model is proposed for the organization of MVP within the vault with all of the MVP N termini interacting non-covalently at the vault midsection and 48 copies of MVP forming each half vault. CryoEM difference mapping localized VPARP to three density bands lining the inner surface of the vault. Difference maps designed to localize TEP1 showed only weak density inside of the caps, suggesting that TEP1 may interact with MVP via a small interaction region. In the absence of atomic-resolution structures for either VPARP or TEP1, fold recognition methods were applied. A total of 21 repeats were predicted for the TEP1 WD-repeat domain, suggesting an unusually large beta-propeller fold.
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- Yeshi Mikyas
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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Liu Y, Snow BE, Kickhoefer VA, Erdmann N, Zhou W, Wakeham A, Gomez M, Rome LH, Harrington L. Vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase is associated with mammalian telomerase and is dispensable for telomerase function and vault structure in vivo. Mol Cell Biol 2004; 24:5314-23. [PMID: 15169895 PMCID: PMC419898 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.24.12.5314-5323.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [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] [Received: 12/26/2003] [Revised: 03/07/2004] [Accepted: 03/22/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vault poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (VPARP) was originally identified as a minor protein component of the vault ribonucleoprotein particle, which may be involved in molecular assembly or subcellular transport. In addition to the association of VPARP with the cytoplasmic vault particle, subpopulations of VPARP localize to the nucleus and the mitotic spindle, indicating that VPARP may have other cellular functions. We found that VPARP was associated with telomerase activity and interacted with exogenously expressed telomerase-associated protein 1 (TEP1) in human cells. To study the possible role of VPARP in telomerase and vault complexes in vivo, mVparp-deficient mice were generated. Mice deficient in mVparp were viable and fertile for up to five generations, with no apparent changes in telomerase activity or telomere length. Vaults purified from mVparp-deficient mouse liver appeared intact, and no defect in association with other vault components was observed. Mice deficient in mTep1, whose disruption alone does not affect telomere function but does affect the stability of vault RNA, showed no additional telomerase or telomere-related phenotypes when the mTep1 deficiency was combined with an mVparp deficiency. These data suggest that murine mTep1 and mVparp, alone or in combination, are dispensable for normal development, telomerase catalysis, telomere length maintenance, and vault structure in vivo.
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- Yie Liu
- Ontario Cancer Institute/Advanced Medical Discovery Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada.
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Aronica E, Gorter JA, Ramkema M, Redeker S, Ozbas-Gerçeker F, van Vliet EA, Scheffer GL, Scheper RJ, van der Valk P, Baayen JC, Troost D, Ozbas-Gerçerer F. Expression and cellular distribution of multidrug resistance-related proteins in the hippocampus of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia 2004; 45:441-51. [PMID: 15101825 DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.57703.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [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: 11/29/2022]
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PURPOSE This study investigated the cellular distribution of different multidrug resistance (MDR)-related proteins such as P-glycoprotein (P-gp), the multidrug resistance-associated proteins (MRP) 1 and 2, and the major vault protein (MVP) in normal and sclerotic hippocampus of patients with medically refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE). METHODS Single- and double-label immunocytochemistry was used on brain sections of control hippocampus and of hippocampus of refractory MTLE patients. RESULTS In TLE cases with hippocampal sclerosis (HS), all four MDR proteins examined that had low or no expression in control tissue were upregulated, albeit with different cellular distribution patterns. P-gp immunoreactivity (IR) was observed in astrocytes in regions with diffuse reactive gliosis. In 75% of HS cases, strong P-gp IR was detected in blood vessels, with prominent endothelial labeling. Reactive astrocytes displayed low MRP1 IR. However, glial MRP1 expression was noted in glial endfoot processes around blood vessels. Neuronal MRP1 expression was observed in hypertrophic hilar neurons and in a few residual neurons of the CA1 region. Hippocampal MRP2 expression was observed in the large majority of HS cases in blood vessels. Hypertrophic hilar neurons and blood vessels within the sclerotic hippocampus expressed major vault protein (MVP). CONCLUSIONS These findings indicate that MDR proteins are upregulated in concert in the hippocampus of patients with refractory MTLE, supporting their role in the mechanisms underlying drug resistance. The specific cell-distribution patterns within the sclerotic hippocampus suggest different cellular functions, not necessarily linked only to clinical drug resistance.
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MESH Headings
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/analysis
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 1/metabolism
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Blood Vessels/chemistry
- Blood Vessels/metabolism
- Brain Diseases/metabolism
- Chemokines, CC/analysis
- Chemokines, CC/metabolism
- Drug Resistance, Multiple
- Endothelium, Vascular/cytology
- Endothelium, Vascular/metabolism
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/metabolism
- Female
- Hippocampus/blood supply
- Hippocampus/chemistry
- Hippocampus/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Membrane Transport Proteins/analysis
- Membrane Transport Proteins/metabolism
- Middle Aged
- Multidrug Resistance-Associated Protein 2
- Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins/analysis
- Multidrug Resistance-Associated Proteins/metabolism
- Pyramidal Cells/chemistry
- Pyramidal Cells/metabolism
- Sclerosis
- Tissue Distribution
- Up-Regulation
- Vault Ribonucleoprotein Particles/chemistry
- Vault Ribonucleoprotein Particles/metabolism
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- Eleonora Aronica
- Department of (Neuro) Pathology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Vaults are ribonucleoprotein particles found in the cytoplasm of eucaryotic cells. The 13 MDa particles are composed of multiple copies of three proteins: an M(r) 100 000 major vault protein (MVP) and two minor vault proteins of M(r) 193 000 (vault poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase) and M(r) 240 000 (telomerase-associated protein 1), as well as small untranslated RNA molecules of approximately 100 bases. Although the existence of vaults was first reported in the mid-1980s no function has yet been attributed to this organelle. The notion that vaults might play a role in drug resistance was suggested by the molecular identification of the lung resistance-related (LRP) protein as the human MVP. MVP/LRP was found to be overexpressed in many chemoresistant cancer cell lines and primary tumor samples of different histogenetic origin. Several, but not all, clinico-pathological studies showed that MVP expression at diagnosis was an independent adverse prognostic factor for response to chemotherapy. The hollow barrel-shaped structure of the vault complex and its subcellular localization indicate a function in intracellular transport. It was therefore postulated that vaults contributed to drug resistance by transporting drugs away from their intracellular targets and/or the sequestration of drugs. Here, we review the current knowledge on the vault complex and critically discuss the evidence that links vaults to drug resistance.
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- Marieke H Mossink
- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Background Ribonucleoproteins carry out a variety of important tasks in the cell. In this study we show that a number of these contain a novel module, that we speculate mediates RNA-binding. Results The TROVE module – Telomerase, Ro and Vault module – is found in TEP1 and Ro60 the protein components of three ribonucleoprotein particles. This novel module, consisting of one or more domains, may be involved in binding the RNA components of the three RNPs, which are telomerase RNA, Y RNA and vault RNA. A second conserved region in these proteins is shown to be a member of the vWA domain family. The vWA domain in TEP1 is closely related to the previously recognised vWA domain in VPARP a second component of the vault particle. This vWA domain may mediate interactions between these vault components or bind as yet unidentified components of the RNPs. Conclusions This work suggests that a number of ribonucleoprotein components use a common RNA-binding module. The TROVE module is also found in bacterial ribonucleoproteins suggesting an ancient origin for these ribonucleoproteins.
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- Alex Bateman
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Department of Biological Chemistry and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, The David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1737, USA
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Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein particles found in eukaryotic cells. They are composed of multiple copies of a Mr 100,000 major vault protein and two minor vault proteins of Mr 193,000 and 240,000, as well as small untranslated RNAs of 86-141 bases. The vault components are arranged into a highly characteristic hollow barrel-like structure of 35 x 65 nm in size. Vaults are predominantly localized in the cytoplasm where they may associate with cytoskeletal elements. A small fraction of vaults are found to be associated with the nucleus. As of yet, the precise cellular function of the vault complex is unknown. However, their distinct morphology and intracellular distribution suggest a role in intracellular transport processes. Here we review the current knowledge on the vault complex, its structure, components and possible functions.
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- A van Zon
- Department of Hematology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Kathy A Suprenant
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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van Zon A, Mossink MH, Schoester M, Scheffer GL, Scheper RJ, Sonneveld P, Wiemer EAC. Structural domains of vault proteins: a role for the coiled coil domain in vault assembly. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 291:535-41. [PMID: 11855821 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2002.6472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 11/22/2022]
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Vaults consist of multiple copies of three proteins (MVP, VPARP, and TEP1) and several untranslated RNAs. The function of vaults is unknown but the typical and evolutionary conserved structure indicates a role in intracellular transport. Although all vault components have been identified and characterized, not much is known about vault protein assembly. In this study we identified and analyzed structural domains involved in vault assembly with emphasis on protein-protein interactions. Using a yeast two-hybrid system, we demonstrate within MVP an intramolecular binding site and show that MVP molecules interact with each other via their coiled coil domain. We show that purified MVP is able to bind calcium, most likely at calcium-binding EF-hands. No interactions could be detected between TEP1 and other vault proteins. However, the N-terminal half of MVP binds to a specific domain in the C-terminus of VPARP. Furthermore, VPARP contains amino acid stretches mediating intramolecular binding.
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- Arend van Zon
- Institute of Hematology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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It is assumed that modern life forms arose from a molecular ancestor in which RNA molecules both stored genetic information and catalyzed biochemical reactions. In modern cells, these functions are carried out, respectively, by DNA and proteins, but diverse cellular RNAs are also involved in key cellular functions. In this paper, we review the cellular RNAs that are ubiquitous and/or that perform essential biological functions, and we discuss the evolutionary relationships of such RNAs with a prebiotic RNA world. This unexpected biological diversity of cellular RNAs and the crucial functions they perform in cellular metabolism demonstrate the complexity of an RNA-driven metabolism in an ancient RNA world and in modern life. Cellular RNAs are involved in translation (tRNA and rRNA) but also in ribosome maturation (snoRNA) and more generally in RNA processing (snRNA and snoRNA), replication (telomerase RNA), editing, protein translocation (SRP RNA), cellular transport (vRNA) and translation quality control (tmRNA). In addition, the function of many other cellular RNAs has not yet been determined. Future investigations of RNA function will allow us to better understand not only early evolutionary biological processes but also the central metabolism of modern cells.
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- M Meli
- Evolutionary Biochemistry and Molecular Adaptation, Jacques Monod Institute, Paris, France
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The vault complex is a ubiquitous 13-MDa ribonucleoprotein assembly, composed of three proteins (TEP1, 240 kDa; VPARP, 193 kDa; and MVP, 100 kDa) that are highly conserved in eukaryotes and an untranslated RNA (vRNA). The vault has been shown to affect multidrug resistance in cancer cells, and one particular component, MVP, is thought to play a role in the transport of drug from the nucleus. To locate the position of the vRNA, vaults were treated with RNases, and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) was performed on the resulting complexes. Using single-particle reconstruction techniques, 3,476 particle images were combined to generate a 22-A-resolution structure. Difference mapping between the RNase-treated vault and the previously calculated intact vault reconstructions reveals the vRNA to be at the ends of the vault caps. In this position, the vRNA may interact with both the interior and exterior environments of the vault. The finding of a 16-fold density ring at the top of the cap has allowed modeling of the WD40 repeat domain of the vault TEP1 protein within the cryo-EM vault density. Both stoichiometric considerations and the finding of higher resolution for the computationally selected and refined "barrel only" images indicate a possible symmetry mismatch between the barrel and the caps. The molecular architecture of the complex is emerging, with 96 copies of MVP composing the eightfold symmetric barrel, and the vRNA together with one copy of TEP1 and four predicted copies of VPARP comprising each cap.
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- L B Kong
- Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Biological Imaging, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, 90095-1770, USA
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Vaults are large cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein complexes of undetermined function. Mammalian vaults have two high molecular mass proteins of 193 and 240 kDa. We have identified a partial cDNA encoding the 240-kDa vault protein and determined it is identical to the mammalian telomerase-associated component, TEP1. TEP1 is the mammalian homolog of the Tetrahymena p80 telomerase protein and has been shown to interact specifically with mammalian telomerase RNA and the catalytic protein subunit hTERT. We show that while TEP1 is a component of the vault particle, vaults have no detectable telomerase activity. Using a yeast three-hybrid assay we demonstrate that several of the human vRNAs interact in a sequence-specific manner with TEP1. The presence of 16 WD40 repeats in the carboxyl terminus of the TEP1 protein is a convenient number for this protein to serve a structural or organizing role in the vault, a particle with eight-fold symmetry. The sharing of the TEP1 protein between vaults and telomerase suggests that TEP1 may play a common role in some aspect of ribonucleoprotein structure, function, or assembly.
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- V A Kickhoefer
- Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA School of Medicine and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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Arts HJ, Katsaros D, de Vries EG, Massobrio M, Genta F, Danese S, Arisio R, Scheper RJ, Kool M, Scheffer GL, Willemse PH, van der Zee AG, Suurmeijer AJ. Drug resistance-associated markers P-glycoprotein, multidrug resistance-associated protein 1, multidrug resistance-associated protein 2, and lung resistance protein as prognostic factors in ovarian carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 1999; 5:2798-805. [PMID: 10537344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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Intrinsic and/or acquired resistance to chemotherapy is the major obstacle to overcome in the treatment of patients with ovarian carcinoma. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prognostic value of drug resistance-associated proteins P-glycoprotein (P-gp), multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 (MRP1), canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter (c-MOAT/MRP2), and lung resistance protein (LRP) in ovarian carcinoma. Expression of P-gp, MRP1, MRP2, and LRP was determined by immunohistochemistry of frozen tissue sections of 115 ovarian carcinoma patients and related to clinicopathological factors, response to chemotherapy, and progression-free survival. P-gp expression was observed in 20 of 115 (17%), MRP1 in 51 (44%), MRP2 in 19 (16%), and LRP in 85 (74%) tumors. Expression of MRP1 was related to MRP2 (P<0.0001) and P-gp (P<0.001) expression, whereas LRP expression was more frequently observed in patients with early stage (P<0.01), lower grade (P<0.05), and smaller residual tumor (P<0.05). Early stage (P<0.001), smaller residual tumor (P<0.001), and lower differentiation grade (P<0.05) were related to longer (progression-free) survival. P-gp, MRP1, MRP2, and LRP expression were neither related to response to first-line chemotherapy in 59 evaluable patients nor to progression-free survival in all patients. On multivariate analysis, only stage and residual tumor were independent prognostic factors for survival. In conclusion, in ovarian carcinoma, MRP1 expression is associated with MRP2 and P-gp expression, whereas LRP expression is associated with favorable clinicopathological characteristics. Assessment of P-gp, MRP1, MRP2, or LRP does not allow prediction of response to chemotherapy or survival in ovarian carcinoma.
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- H J Arts
- Department of Gynecological Oncology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands
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Mammalian vaults are ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes, composed of a small ribonucleic acid and three proteins of 100, 193, and 240 kD in size. The 100-kD major vault protein (MVP) accounts for >70% of the particle mass. We have identified the 193-kD vault protein by its interaction with the MVP in a yeast two-hybrid screen and confirmed its identity by peptide sequence analysis. Analysis of the protein sequence revealed a region of approximately 350 amino acids that shares 28% identity with the catalytic domain of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP). PARP is a nuclear protein that catalyzes the formation of ADP-ribose polymers in response to DNA damage. The catalytic domain of p193 was expressed and purified from bacterial extracts. Like PARP, this domain is capable of catalyzing a poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation reaction; thus, the 193-kD protein is a new PARP. Purified vaults also contain the poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation activity, indicating that the assembled particle retains enzymatic activity. Furthermore, we show that one substrate for this vault-associated PARP activity is the MVP. Immunofluorescence and biochemical data reveal that p193 protein is not entirely associated with the vault particle, suggesting that it may interact with other protein(s). A portion of p193 is nuclear and localizes to the mitotic spindle.
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- V A Kickhoefer
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-1737, USA.
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