scholarly journals The Subcellular Distribution of Calnexin Is Mediated by PACS-2

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2777-2788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Myhill ◽  
Emily M. Lynes ◽  
Jalal A. Nanji ◽  
Anastassia D. Blagoveshchenskaya ◽  
Hao Fei ◽  
...  

Calnexin is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lectin that mediates protein folding on the rough ER. Calnexin also interacts with ER calcium pumps that localize to the mitochondria-associated membrane (MAM). Depending on ER homeostasis, varying amounts of calnexin target to the plasma membrane. However, no regulated sorting mechanism is so far known for calnexin. Our results now describe how the interaction of calnexin with the cytosolic sorting protein PACS-2 distributes calnexin between the rough ER, the MAM, and the plasma membrane. Under control conditions, more than 80% of calnexin localizes to the ER, with the majority on the MAM. PACS-2 knockdown disrupts the calnexin distribution within the ER and increases its levels on the cell surface. Phosphorylation by protein kinase CK2 of two calnexin cytosolic serines (Ser554/564) reduces calnexin binding to PACS-2. Consistent with this, a Ser554/564 [Formula: see text] Asp phosphomimic mutation partially reproduces PACS-2 knockdown by increasing the calnexin signal on the cell surface and reducing it on the MAM. PACS-2 knockdown does not reduce retention of other ER markers. Therefore, our results suggest that the phosphorylation state of the calnexin cytosolic domain and its interaction with PACS-2 sort this chaperone between domains of the ER and the plasma membrane.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yushu Chen ◽  
Shashank Bharill ◽  
Zeynep Altun ◽  
Robert O'Hagan ◽  
Brian Coblitz ◽  
...  

Caenorhabditis eleganssenses gentle touch via a mechanotransduction channel formed from the DEG/ENaC proteins MEC-4 and MEC-10. An additional protein, the paraoxonase-like protein MEC-6, is essential for transduction, and previous work suggested that MEC-6 was part of the transduction complex. We found that MEC-6 and a similar protein, POML-1, reside primarily in the endoplasmic reticulum and do not colocalize with MEC-4 on the plasma membrane in vivo. As with MEC-6, POML-1 is needed for touch sensitivity, for the neurodegeneration caused by themec-4(d)mutation, and for the expression and distribution of MEC-4 in vivo. Both proteins are likely needed for the proper folding or assembly of MEC-4 channels in vivo as measured by FRET. MEC-6 detectably increases the rate of MEC-4 accumulation on theXenopusoocyte plasma membrane. These results suggest that MEC-6 and POML-1 interact with MEC-4 to facilitate expression and localization of MEC-4 on the cell surface. Thus, MEC-6 and POML-1 act more like chaperones for MEC-4 than channel components.


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 2044-2064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzie J. Scales ◽  
Nidhi Gupta ◽  
Ann M. De Mazière ◽  
George Posthuma ◽  
Cecilia P. Chiu ◽  
...  

BackgroundAPOL1 is found in human kidney podocytes and endothelia. Variants G1 and G2 of the APOL1 gene account for the high frequency of nondiabetic CKD among African Americans. Proposed mechanisms of kidney podocyte cytotoxicity resulting from APOL1 variant overexpression implicate different subcellular compartments. It is unclear where endogenous podocyte APOL1 resides, because previous immunolocalization studies utilized overexpressed protein or commercially available antibodies that crossreact with APOL2. This study describes and distinguishes the locations of both APOLs.MethodsImmunohistochemistry, confocal and immunoelectron microscopy, and podocyte fractionation localized endogenous and transfected APOL1 using a large panel of novel APOL1-specific mouse and rabbit monoclonal antibodies.ResultsBoth endogenous podocyte and transfected APOL1 isoforms vA and vB1 (and a little of isoform vC) localize to the luminal face of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and to the cell surface, but not to mitochondria, endosomes, or lipid droplets. In contrast, APOL2, isoform vB3, and most vC of APOL1 localize to the cytoplasmic face of the ER and are consequently absent from the cell surface. APOL1 knockout podocytes do not stain for APOL1, attesting to the APOL1-specificity of the antibodies. Stable re-transfection of knockout podocytes with inducible APOL1-G0, -G1, and -G2 showed no differences in localization among variants.ConclusionsAPOL1 is found in the ER and plasma membrane, consistent with either the ER stress or surface cation channel models of APOL1-mediated cytotoxicity. The surface localization of APOL1 variants potentially opens new therapeutic targeting avenues.


2019 ◽  
Vol 218 (7) ◽  
pp. 2215-2231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lou Fourriere ◽  
Amal Kasri ◽  
Nelly Gareil ◽  
Sabine Bardin ◽  
Hugo Bousquet ◽  
...  

To ensure their homeostasis and sustain differentiated functions, cells continuously transport diverse cargos to various cell compartments and in particular to the cell surface. Secreted proteins are transported along intracellular routes from the endoplasmic reticulum through the Golgi complex before reaching the plasma membrane along microtubule tracks. Using a synchronized secretion assay, we report here that exocytosis does not occur randomly at the cell surface but on localized hotspots juxtaposed to focal adhesions. Although microtubules are involved, the RAB6-dependent machinery plays an essential role. We observed that, irrespective of the transported cargos, most post-Golgi carriers are positive for RAB6 and that its inactivation leads to a broad reduction of protein secretion. RAB6 may thus be a general regulator of post-Golgi secretion.


2003 ◽  
Vol 371 (3) ◽  
pp. 775-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas NEWTON ◽  
John P. J. BLACK ◽  
John BUTLER ◽  
Anthony G. LEE ◽  
John CHAD ◽  
...  

The location of sarco/endoplasmic-reticulum calcium ATPase (SERCA) retention/retrieval motifs in the sequence of the SERCA1 has been investigated by examining the subcellular location in COS-7 cells of enhanced-green-fluorescent-protein-tagged calcium-pump chimaeras. These chimaeras have been constructed from the fast-twitch SERCA1 and the plasma-membrane calcium ATPase PMCA3. The N-terminal, central and C-terminal segments of these calcium pumps were exchanged between SERCA1 and PMCA3. The segments exchanged correspond to residues 1–211, 212–711 and 712–994 of SERCA1, and residues 1–264, 265–788 and 789–1159 of PMCA3 respectively. Only chimaeras containing the N-terminal segment of SERCA1 were located in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), whereas chimaeras containing the N-terminal segment from PMCA3 were able to escape from the ER and enter the endomembrane pathway en route for the plasma membrane. Co-localization of SERCA1 in COS-7 cells with the ER/Golgi-intermediate compartment marker ERGIC53 indicates that SERCA1 is maintained in the ER by a process of retrieval. These results indicate that the N-terminal region of SERCA1, containing transmembrane helices M1 and M2, contains an ER-retrieval signal.


2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1012-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Pooler ◽  
Diane P. Hanger

Tau is an abundant microtubule-associated protein which regulates the stability of the cytoskeleton. Tau binds microtubules directly through microtubule-binding domains in its C-terminus. However, tau is not only located in the cytosol of cells, but also associated with other intracellular domains, including the plasma membrane, suggesting that tau may have additional functions other than stabilizing the neuronal cytoskeleton. Localization of tau at the cell surface appears to be dependent on interactions of the N-terminal projection domain of tau. Furthermore, membrane-associated tau is dephosphorylated at serine/threonine residues, suggesting that the phosphorylation state of tau regulates its intracellular trafficking. Dephosphorylation of tau may increase the association of tau with trafficking proteins which target tau to the plasma membrane. Thus it is possible that the hyperphosphoryation of tau may contribute to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease by promoting the formation of neurofibrillary tangles from cytosolic tau, and also by inhibiting additional tau functions through disruption of its targeting to the plasma membrane.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Rouhimoghadam ◽  
Jing Dong ◽  
Peter Thomas ◽  
Edward Joseph Filardo

Abstract GPER bears structural and functional characteristics shared by members of the G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, the largest class of cell surface receptors, with more than 800 members encoded in the human genome. GPER is localized predominately in intracellular membranes, in many but not all cell types, and its surface expression is modulated by steroid hormones and during tissue homeostasis. An intracellular staining pattern is not unique among GPCRs, which deploy a diverse array of posttranslational regulatory mechanisms to determine cell surface expression, effectively regulating cognate ligand binding and activity. Here, we show nascent GPER undergoes strict quality control via endoplasmic reticulum associated degradation (ERAD) requiring direct poly-ubiquitinylation of GPER and valosin-containing protein VCP/p97-mediated segregation of misfolded proteins from the ER membrane to the cytoplasm for delivery to the 26S proteasome. Specifically, we find that inhibition of p97 using the pharmacological compound, CB-5083, or by doxycycline-inducible p97 shRNA results in the accumulation of immature glycosylated GPER in the ER. Inhibition of proteasome function facilitates anterograde trafficking with the transport of nonfunctional GPER to the plasma membrane as indicated by no increase in specific estrogen binding using 3H-17β-estradiol in a radioreceptor assay. The forward trafficking of misfolded GPER requires transit through the Golgi as treatment with brefeldin A (BFA) prevents GPER plasma membrane expression. Substitution of all three lysines (K333, K342, and K357) encoded in the cytoplasmic tail of GPER with arginines blunts its polyubiquitinylation and allows GPER to evade degradation by quality control but does not result in increased plasma membrane expression suggesting that additional structural motifs encoded within GPER control its anterograde trafficking. In contrast, functional GPER is recovered at the plasma membrane of human SKBR3 breast cancer cells treated with either 17β-estradiol or the GPER selective antagonist, G15, in the presence of cycloheximide resulting in increased surface GPER. Thus, our findings suggest that estrogens, both natural and synthetic, can function as pharmacochaperones capable of promoting the correct folding of GPER and enhanced expression of functional GPER at the plasma membrane.


1980 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
J E Rothman ◽  
H Bursztyn-Pettegrew ◽  
R E Fine

The G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus is a transmembrane glycoprotein that is transported from its site of synthesis in the rough endoplasmic reticulum to the plasma membrane via the Golgi apparatus. Pulse-chase experiments suggest that G is transported to the cell surface in two successive waves of clathrin-coated vesicles. The oligosaccharides of G protein carried in the early wave are of the "high-mannose" (G1) form, whereas the oligosaccharides in the second, later wave are of the mature "complex" (G2) form. the early wave is therefore proposed to correspond to transport of G in coated vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus, and the succeeding wave to transport from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane. The G1- and G2-containing coated vesicles appear to be structurally distinct, as judged by their differential precipitation by anticoated vesicle serum.


2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1129-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Shi Liu ◽  
Morihisa Fujita

Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) is a glycolipid added to the C-terminus of a large variety of proteins in eukaryotes, thereby anchoring these proteins to the cell surface. More than 150 different human proteins are modified with GPI, and GPI-anchored proteins (GPI-APs) play critical roles in embryogenesis, neurogenesis, immunity, and fertilization. GPI-APs are biosynthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and transported to the plasma membrane via the Golgi apparatus. During transport, GPI-APs undergo structural remodeling that is important for the efficient folding and sorting of GPI-APs. Asparagine-linked glycan-dependent folding and deacylation by PGAP1 work together to ensure that correctly folded GPI-APs are transported from the ER to the Golgi. Remodeling of the GPI lipid moiety is critical for the association of GPI-APs with lipid rafts. On the cell surface, certain GPI-APs are cleaved by GPI cleavage enzymes and released from the membrane, a key event in processes such as spermatogenesis and neurogenesis. In this review, we discuss the enzymes involved in GPI-AP biosynthesis and the fate of GPI-APs in mammalian cells, with a focus on the assembly, folding, degradation, and cleavage of GPI-APs.


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