scholarly journals BAIAP3, a C2 domain–containing Munc13 protein, controls the fate of dense-core vesicles in neuroendocrine cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 216 (7) ◽  
pp. 2151-2166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingmin Zhang ◽  
Shan Jiang ◽  
Kelly A. Mitok ◽  
Lingjun Li ◽  
Alan D. Attie ◽  
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Dense-core vesicle (DCV) exocytosis is a SNARE (soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive fusion attachment protein receptor)-dependent anterograde trafficking pathway that requires multiple proteins for regulation. Several C2 domain–containing proteins are known to regulate Ca2+-dependent DCV exocytosis in neuroendocrine cells. In this study, we identified others by screening all (∼139) human C2 domain–containing proteins by RNA interference in neuroendocrine cells. 40 genes were identified, including several encoding proteins with known roles (CAPS [calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion 1], Munc13-2, RIM1, and SYT10) and many with unknown roles. One of the latter, BAIAP3, is a secretory cell–specific Munc13-4 paralog of unknown function. BAIAP3 knockdown caused accumulation of fusion-incompetent DCVs in BON neuroendocrine cells and lysosomal degradation (crinophagy) of insulin-containing DCVs in INS-1 β cells. BAIAP3 localized to endosomes was required for Golgi trans-Golgi network 46 (TGN46) recycling, exhibited Ca2+-stimulated interactions with TGN SNAREs, and underwent Ca2+-stimulated TGN recruitment. Thus, unlike other Munc13 proteins, BAIAP3 functions indirectly in DCV exocytosis by affecting DCV maturation through its role in DCV protein recycling. Ca2+ rises that stimulate DCV exocytosis may stimulate BAIAP3-dependent retrograde trafficking to maintain DCV protein homeostasis and DCV function.

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (26) ◽  
pp. 3870-3880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake H. Hummer ◽  
Noah F. de Leeuw ◽  
Christian Burns ◽  
Lan Chen ◽  
Matthew S. Joens ◽  
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Large dense core vesicles (LDCVs) mediate the regulated release of neuropeptides and peptide hormones. They form at the trans-Golgi network (TGN), where their soluble content aggregates to form a dense core, but the mechanisms controlling biogenesis are still not completely understood. Recent studies have implicated the peripheral membrane protein HID-1 in neuropeptide sorting and insulin secretion. Using CRISPR/Cas9, we generated HID-1 KO rat neuroendocrine cells, and we show that the absence of HID-1 results in specific defects in peptide hormone and monoamine storage and regulated secretion. Loss of HID-1 causes a reduction in the number of LDCVs and affects their morphology and biochemical properties, due to impaired cargo sorting and dense core formation. HID-1 KO cells also exhibit defects in TGN acidification together with mislocalization of the Golgi-enriched vacuolar H+-ATPase subunit isoform a2. We propose that HID-1 influences early steps in LDCV formation by controlling dense core formation at the TGN.


2000 ◽  
Vol 113 (7) ◽  
pp. 1119-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.A. Meunier ◽  
C. Mattei ◽  
P. Chameau ◽  
G. Lawrence ◽  
C. Colasante ◽  
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Trachynilysin, a 159 kDa dimeric protein purified from stonefish (Synanceia trachynis) venom, dramatically increases spontaneous quantal transmitter release at the frog neuromuscular junction, depleting small clear synaptic vesicles, whilst not affecting large dense core vesicles. The basis of this insensitivity of large dense core vesicles exocytosis was examined using a fluorimetric assay to determine whether the toxin could elicit catecholamine release from bovine chromaffin cells. Unlike the case of the motor nerve endings, nanomolar concentrations of trachynilysin evoked sustained Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein Attachment Protein REceptor-dependent exocytosis of large dense core vesicles, but only in the presence of extracellular Ca2+. However, this response to trachynilysin does not rely on Ca2+ influx through voltage-activated Ca2+ channels because the secretion was only slightly affected by blockers of L, N and P/Q types. Instead, trachynilysin elicited a localized increase in intracellular fluorescence monitored with fluo-3/AM, that precisely co-localized with the increase of fluorescence resulting from caffeine-induced release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. Moreover, depletion of the latter stores inhibited trachynilysin-induced exocytosis. Thus, the observed requirement of external Ca2+ for stimulation of large dense core vesicles exocytosis from chromaffin cells implicates plasma membrane channels that signal efflux of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. This study also suggests that the bases of exocytosis of large dense core vesicles from motor nerve terminals and neuroendocrine cells are distinct.


Endocrinology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 811-815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsutaka Kubosaki ◽  
Shinichiro Nakamura ◽  
Anne Clark ◽  
John F. Morris ◽  
Abner L. Notkins

Female infertility is a worldwide problem affecting 10–15% of the population. The cause of the infertility in many cases is not known. In the present report, we demonstrate that alterations in two transmembrane structural proteins, IA-2 and IA-2β, located in dense core secretory vesicles (DCV) of many endocrine and neuroendocrine cells, can result in female infertility. IA-2 and IA-2β are best known as major autoantigens in type 1 diabetes, but their normal function has remained an enigma. Recently we showed in mice that deletion of IA-2 and/or IA-2β results in impaired insulin secretion and glucose intolerance. We now report that double knockout (DKO), but not single knockout, female mice are essentially infertile. Vaginal smears showed a totally abnormal estrous cycle, and examination of the ovaries revealed normal-appearing oocytes but the absence of corpora lutea. The LH surge that is required for ovulation occurred in wild-type mice but not in DKO mice. Additional studies showed that the LH level in the pituitary of DKO female mice was decreased compared with wild-type mice. Treatment of DKO females with gonadotropins restored corpora lutea formation. In contrast to DKO female mice, DKO male mice were fertile and LH levels in the serum and pituitary were within the normal range. From these studies we conclude that the DCV proteins, IA-2 and IA-2β, play an important role in LH secretion and that alterations in structural proteins of DCV can result in female infertility.


2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 4134-4149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gayoung A. Han ◽  
Nancy T. Malintan ◽  
Ner Mu Nar Saw ◽  
Lijun Li ◽  
Liping Han ◽  
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Munc18-1 plays pleiotropic roles in neurosecretion by acting as 1) a molecular chaperone of syntaxin-1, 2) a mediator of dense-core vesicle docking, and 3) a priming factor for soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor–mediated membrane fusion. However, how these functions are executed and whether they are correlated remains unclear. Here we analyzed the role of the domain-1 cleft of Munc18-1 by measuring the abilities of various mutants (D34N, D34N/M38V, K46E, E59K, K46E/E59K, K63E, and E66A) to bind and chaperone syntaxin-1 and to restore the docking and secretion of dense-core vesicles in Munc18-1/-2 double-knockdown cells. We identified striking correlations between the abilities of these mutants to bind and chaperone syntaxin-1 with their ability to restore vesicle docking and secretion. These results suggest that the domain-1 cleft of Munc18-1 is essential for binding to syntaxin-1 and thereby critical for its chaperoning, docking, and secretory functions. Our results demonstrate that the effect of the alleged priming mutants (E59K, D34N/M38V) on exocytosis can largely be explained by their reduced syntaxin-1–chaperoning functions. Finally, our data suggest that the intracellular expression and distribution of syntaxin-1 determines the level of dense-core vesicle docking.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 1690-1701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Kuliawat ◽  
Elena Kalinina ◽  
Jason Bock ◽  
Lloyd Fricker ◽  
Timothy E. McGraw ◽  
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In pancreatic β-cells, the syntaxin 6 (Syn6) soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor is distributed in the trans-Golgi network (TGN) (with spillover into immature secretory granules) and endosomes. A possible Syn6 requirement has been suggested in secretory granule biogenesis, but the role of Syn6 in live regulated secretory cells remains unexplored. We have created an ecdysone-inducible gene expression system in the INS-1 β-cell line and find that induced expression of a membrane-anchorless, cytosolic Syn6 (called Syn6t), but not full-length Syn6, causes a prominent defect in endosomal delivery to lysosomes, and the TGN, in these cells. The defect occurs downstream of the endosomal branchpoint involved in transferrin recycling, and upstream of the steady-state distribution of mannose 6-phosphate receptors. By contrast, neither acquisition of stimulus competence nor the ultimate size of β-granules is affected. Biosynthetic effects of dominant-interfering Syn6 seem limited to slowed intragranular processing to insulin (achieving normal levels within 2 h) and minor perturbation of sorting of newly synthesized lysosomal proenzymes. We conclude that expression of the Syn6t mutant slows a rate-limiting step in endosomal maturation but provides only modest and potentially indirect interference with regulated and constitutive secretory pathways, and in TGN sorting of lysosomal enzymes.


FEBS Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 279 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsushi Sadakata ◽  
Yukiko Sekine ◽  
Megumi Oka ◽  
Makoto Itakura ◽  
Masami Takahashi ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 2101-2112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Tsuboi ◽  
Mitsunori Fukuda

Synaptotagmin-like protein 4-a (Slp4-a)/granuphilin-a is specifically localized on dense-core vesicles in certain neuroendocrine cells and negatively controls dense-core vesicle exocytosis through specific interaction with Rab27A. However, the precise molecular mechanism of its inhibitory effect on exocytosis has never been elucidated and is still a matter of controversy. Here we show by deletion and chimeric analyses that the linker domain of Slp4-a interacts with the Munc18-1·syntaxin-1a complex by directly binding to Munc18-1 and that this interaction promotes docking of dense-core vesicles to the plasma membrane in PC12 cells. Despite increasing the number of plasma membrane docked vesicles, expression of Slp4-a strongly inhibited high-KCl–induced dense-core vesicle exocytosis. The inhibitory effect by Slp4-a is absolutely dependent on the linker domain of Slp4-a, because substitution of the linker domain of Slp4-a by that of Slp5 (the closest isoform of Slp4-a that cannot bind the Munc18-1·syntaxin-1a complex) completely abrogated the inhibitory effect. Our findings reveal a novel docking machinery for dense-core vesicle exocytosis: Slp4-a simultaneously interacts with Rab27A and Munc18-1 on the dense-core vesicle and with syntaxin-1a in the plasma membrane.


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