de Kreuk Bart-Jan, Gingras Alexandre R, Knight James Dr, Liu Jian J, Gingras Anne-Claude, Ginsberg Mark H
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States.
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Elife. 2016 Jan 19;5:e11394. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11394.
Heart of Glass (HEG1), a transmembrane receptor, and Rasip1, an endothelial-specific Rap1-binding protein, are both essential for cardiovascular development. Here we performed a proteomic screen for novel HEG1 interactors and report that HEG1 binds directly to Rasip1. Rasip1 localizes to forming endothelial cell (EC) cell-cell junctions and silencing HEG1 prevents this localization. Conversely, mitochondria-targeted HEG1 relocalizes Rasip1 to mitochondria in cells. The Rasip1-binding site in HEG1 contains a 9 residue sequence, deletion of which abrogates HEG1's ability to recruit Rasip1. HEG1 binds to a central region of Rasip1 and deletion of this domain eliminates Rasip1's ability to bind HEG1, to translocate to EC junctions, to inhibit ROCK activity, and to maintain EC junctional integrity. These studies establish that the binding of HEG1 to Rasip1 mediates Rap1-dependent recruitment of Rasip1 to and stabilization of EC cell-cell junctions.
跨膜受体“玻璃之心”(HEG1)和内皮细胞特异性Rap1结合蛋白Rasip1对心血管发育均至关重要。在此,我们对新型HEG1相互作用蛋白进行了蛋白质组学筛选,并报告HEG1直接与Rasip1结合。Rasip1定位于正在形成的内皮细胞(EC)细胞间连接,而沉默HEG1会阻止这种定位。相反,靶向线粒体的HEG1会使细胞中的Rasip1重新定位于线粒体。HEG1中的Rasip1结合位点包含一个9个残基的序列,缺失该序列会消除HEG1招募Rasip1的能力。HEG1与Rasip1的中央区域结合,缺失该结构域会消除Rasip1结合HEG1、转运至EC连接、抑制ROCK活性以及维持EC连接完整性的能力。这些研究表明,HEG1与Rasip1的结合介导了Rap1依赖性的Rasip1募集至EC细胞间连接并使其稳定。