Oku Teruaki, Kaneko Yutaka, Murofushi Koki, Seyama Yoshiyuki, Toyoshima Satoshi, Tsuji Tsutomu
Department of Microbiology, Hoshi University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan.
J Biol Chem. 2008 Oct 24;283(43):28918-25. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M709990200. Epub 2008 Aug 7.
The p57/coronin-1 protein is a member of the coronin family of actin-binding proteins, which are characterized by the presence of WD (tryptophan/aspartic acid) repeats and a coiled-coil motif in the molecule. It is selectively expressed in immune cells and has been suggested to play crucial roles in leukocyte functions, including cell migration and phagocytosis. In this study we examined the effects of p57/coronin-1 phosphorylation on the association of the protein with actin. Treatment of HL60 human leukemic cells or p57/coronin-1-transfected HEK293 cells with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) reduced the association of p57/coronin-1 with the actin cytoskeleton, as indicated by cell fractionation experiments and by fluorescence microscopic observation. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of HL60 cell lysate revealed that p57/coronin-1 was phosphorylated upon PMA stimulation of the cells, giving two major and two minor spots of phosphorylated forms, each with distinct isoelectric points. The p57/coronin-1 molecules associated with the cytoskeleton in PMA-treated HL60 cells were phosphorylated at lower levels than those recovered in the cytosolic fraction. In addition, p57/coronin-1 co-sedimented with F-actin polymerized in vitro had lower phosphorylation levels than the molecules remaining in the supernatant. By affinity chromatographic analysis using anti-p57/coronin-1 antibody-conjugated Sepharose, p57/coronin-1 derived from PMA-treated HL60 cells showed lower affinity for actin than that from untreated cells. Finally, recovery of p57/coronin-1 in the actin cytoskeleton-rich fraction from neutrophil-like differentiated HL60 cells decreased during phagocytosis, concomitant with enhanced phosphorylation of p57/coronin-1. These results strongly suggest that the phosphorylation of p57/coronin-1 down-regulates its association with actin and modulates the reorganization of actin-containing cytoskeleton.
p57/冠蛋白-1蛋白是肌动蛋白结合蛋白冠蛋白家族的成员,其分子特征是存在WD(色氨酸/天冬氨酸)重复序列和卷曲螺旋基序。它在免疫细胞中选择性表达,并被认为在白细胞功能中起关键作用,包括细胞迁移和吞噬作用。在本研究中,我们检测了p57/冠蛋白-1磷酸化对该蛋白与肌动蛋白结合的影响。用佛波酯12-肉豆蔻酸酯13-乙酸酯(PMA)处理HL60人白血病细胞或p57/冠蛋白-1转染的HEK293细胞,细胞分级分离实验和荧光显微镜观察表明,这降低了p57/冠蛋白-1与肌动蛋白细胞骨架的结合。HL60细胞裂解物的二维凝胶电泳显示,PMA刺激细胞后p57/冠蛋白-1发生磷酸化,产生两个主要和两个次要的磷酸化形式斑点,每个斑点具有不同的等电点。与PMA处理的HL60细胞中细胞骨架相关的p57/冠蛋白-1分子的磷酸化水平低于在细胞质部分中回收的分子。此外,与体外聚合的F-肌动蛋白共沉降的p57/冠蛋白-1的磷酸化水平低于上清液中剩余的分子。通过使用抗p57/冠蛋白-1抗体偶联的琼脂糖进行亲和色谱分析,来自PMA处理的HL60细胞的p57/冠蛋白-1对肌动蛋白的亲和力低于未处理细胞的p57/冠蛋白-1。最后,在吞噬作用期间,来自嗜中性粒细胞样分化的HL60细胞的富含肌动蛋白细胞骨架部分中p57/冠蛋白-1的回收率降低,同时p57/冠蛋白-1的磷酸化增强。这些结果强烈表明,p57/冠蛋白-1的磷酸化下调其与肌动蛋白的结合并调节含肌动蛋白细胞骨架的重组。