Department of Pharmacology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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Abstract |
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ERGIC-53, a homo-oligomeric recycling
protein associated with the ER-Golgi intermediate
compartment (ERGIC), has properties of a mannose-selective lectin in vitro, suggesting that it may function
as a transport receptor for glycoproteins in the early secretory pathway. To investigate if ERGIC-53 is involved in glycoprotein secretion, a mutant form of this
protein was generated that is incapable of leaving the
ER. If expressed in HeLa cells in a tetracycline-inducible manner, this mutant accumulated in the ER and
retained the endogenous ERGIC-53 in this compartment, thus preventing its recycling. Mistargeting of
ERGIC-53 to the ER did not alter the gross morphology of the early secretory pathway, including the distribution of '-COP. However, it impaired the secretion of
one major glycoprotein, identified as the precursor of the
lysosomal enzyme cathepsin C, while overexpression of
wild-type ERGIC-53 had no effect on glycoprotein
secretion. Transport of two other lysosomal enzymes and three post-Golgi membrane glycoproteins was unaffected by inactivating the recycling of ERGIC-53. The
results suggest that the recycling of ERGIC-53 is required for efficient intracellular transport of a small
subset of glycoproteins, but it does not appear to be essential for the majority of glycoproteins.
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Introduction |
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SECRETORY proteins are synthesized in the rough endoplasmic reticulum and packaged into COPII-coated transport vesicles budding from the transitional elements of the rough ER (Schekman and Orci, 1996). ER export involves transport signals (Kappeler et al., 1997
; Nishimura and Balch, 1997
), at least one of which directly binds COPII coats (Kappeler et al., 1997
). Signal-
coat interaction, either directly or indirectly, may lead to
the known concentration of proteins during ER export
(Mizuno and Singer, 1993
; Balch et al., 1994
). After losing
their coat, COPII vesicles fuse with the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC)1 (according to the stable
compartment/vesicle hypothesis) or fuse with one another
to form the ERGIC (according to the maturation hypothesis) (for reviews see Bannykh and Balch, 1997
; Farquhar and Hauri, 1997
; Glick et al., 1997
). The ERGIC is now
best defined by the marker protein ERGIC-53 (Hauri and
Schweizer, 1992
, 1997
) and in part also harbors the small
GTPases rab1 (Griffiths et al., 1994
; Saraste et al., 1995
)
and rab2 (Chavrier et al., 1990
), the KDEL receptor (Griffiths et al., 1994
), the SNARE syntaxin 5/Sed5 and rbet1
(Banfield et al., 1994; Zhang et al. 1997
), and p23 (Rojo et al.,
1997
).
Protein transport from ERGIC to cis-Golgi is mediated
by a COPI-dependent step, either reflecting a vesicular
step or maturation (Bannykh and Balch, 1997; Presley
et al., 1997
; Scales et al., 1997
). The ERGIC is the first site
of segregation of anterograde and retrograde transported
proteins (Aridor et al., 1995
; Itin et al., 1995a
; Tang et al.,
1995
). Retrograde transport from ERGIC to ER as well as
from cis-Golgi to ERGIC/ER is mediated by COPI-coated vesicles (Gaynor et al., 1994
; Letourneur et al., 1994
;
Townsley and Pelham, 1994
; Aridor et al., 1995
). Some of
the retrograde transported proteins are packaged into
COPI-coated vesicles by direct interaction of their cytosolic dilysine ER retrieval signal with COPI components
(Cosson and Letourneur, 1994
; Kappeler et al., 1997
; Tisdale et al., 1997
).
It appears unlikely that all membrane proteins directly
interact with COPII during ER exit, and secretory proteins, for reason of topology, are unable to bind cytosolic
coats. Signal-mediated ER export of these proteins therefore requires transport receptors, the nature of which has
remained elusive. Several features of the lectin ERGIC-53
suggest that this nonglycosylated membrane protein may
operate as a transport receptor for glycoproteins in the
early secretory pathway (Itin et al., 1996). ERGIC-53 is synthesized as a homo-oligomeric type I membrane protein
(Schweizer et al., 1988
; Schindler et al., 1993
) and constitutively recycles between the ERGIC and ER (Lippincott-Schwartz et al., 1990
; Saraste and Svensson, 1991
; Aridor
et al., 1995
; Itin et al., 1995a
). The recycling of ERGIC-53
is controlled by a complex interplay of targeting signals,
including a cytosolic dilysine ER retrieval signal interacting with COPI vesicle coat proteins (Schindler et al., 1993
;
Itin et al., 1995b
; Kappeler et al., 1997
; Tisdale et al., 1997
)
and a cytosolic ER exit determinant binding to COPII vesicle coat proteins (Kappeler et al., 1997
). The luminal domain of ERGIC-53 comprises a carbohydrate recognition
domain (CRD) that exhibits homologies to the mammalian post-Golgi vesicle protein VIP36 and to leguminous
lectins over a stretch of ~200 amino acids (Fiedler and
Simons, 1994
). The CRD is more than 90% homologous in
ERGIC-53 from Xenopus, rat, and man (Lahtinen et al.,
1996
). ERGIC-53 preferentially binds mannose in a calcium-dependent way, and mutating conserved amino acids in the
CRD known to be essential for carbohydrate binding in leguminous lectins abolished mannose binding (Arar et al., 1995
;
Itin et al., 1996
). These in vitro binding studies established
ERGIC-53 as a mannose-selective lectin. The carbohydrate
specificity in conjunction with the recycling properties led us
to propose that ERGIC-53 may collect newly synthesized high-mannose glycoproteins in the ER and thereby facilitate
their transport to the ERGIC (Itin et al., 1996
).
In the present study, we asked if ERGIC-53 is required for glycoprotein secretion. To test this, we studied protein secretion in HeLa cells overexpressing a mutant of ERGIC-53 that is unable to leave the ER and compared it with that of HeLa cells overexpressing wild-type ERGIC-53. By using a tetracycline-driven inducible system for transient expression of stably transfected proteins, we observed that mistargeting of ERGIC-53 to the ER impairs the secretion of a major glycoprotein identified as procathepsin C.
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Materials and Methods |
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Reagents
Antibodies used were: mAb G1/93 against human ERGIC-53 (Schweizer
et al., 1988), mAb G1/296 against human p63 (Schweizer et al., 1993
,
1995
), mAb G1/139 against human Lamp1 (Schweizer et al., 1988
), mAb
G1/221 against human transferrin receptor (produced by the mouse hybridoma technique and confirmed by peptide sequencing of the purified antigen [Schweizer et al., 1988
]), mAb HBB 3/153 against human small intestinal aminopeptidase N (Hauri et al., 1985
), mAb A1/118 against monkey
GPP130 (Linstedt et al., 1997
), mAb G1/133 against human giantin (Linstedt and Hauri, 1993
), mAb 9E10 against a c-myc epitope (American
Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD: ATCC CRL 1729), an mAb
against human
-glucosidase (kindly provided by J. Fransen, University of
Nijmegen, The Netherlands), an mAb against human cathepsin D (Calbiochem, La Jolla, CA), rabbit polyclonal antisera against human ERGIC-53
(Itin et al., 1995b
), and rat cathepsin C (kindly provided by E. Kominami,
Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan). The neoglycoprotein fluorescein-
labeled (FITC) Man-BSA was kindly provided by A.C. Roche and
M. Monsigny (University Orléans, France) (Itin et al., 1996
). Concanavalin A (Con A)-Sepharose was from Pharmacia Biotech (Uppsala, Sweden). Protease inhibitors (used concentrations: 1 µg/ml pepstatin, 1 µg/ml aprotinin, 1 µg/ml benzamidin, 1 µg/ml antipain, and 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride) and tetracycline were from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis,
MO), and [35S]methionine was from New England Nuclear (Boston, MA).
Cells
HtTA-1 HeLa cells expressing the chimeric tetracycline (tet) regulatable transcription activator were kindly provided by H. Bujard (Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg, Germany). They were cultured in DME supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FCS, 100 IU/ml penicillin, 100 µg/ml streptomycin, and 400 µg/ml geneticin (GIBCO BRL, Life Technologies, Basel, Switzerland). FAO cells were cultured as HeLa cells but without geneticin.
cDNA Constructs
Myc-tagged ERGIC-53 in pECE vector (p53cmyc; Itin et al., 1995a) is
termed KKFF in this study. An ERGIC-53 construct with its cytoplasmic
tail mutated to R2A6KKAA in pECE (Itin et al.,1995b) was cut with
AccI/XbaI, and the small fragment was subcloned into the AccI/XbaI site
of KKFF. This construct is termed KKAA. Both KKFF and KKAA were
cloned as SalI/XbaI fragments into the EcoRI site of the tetracycline-
inducible expression plasmid pUHD10-3 (kindly provided by H. Bujard).
This plasmid carries a human cytomegalovirus minimal promoter fused to
seven repetitive tet operator sequences (tetO) upstream of the cloning site
(Gossen and Bujard, 1992
; Resnitzky et al., 1994
).
Generation of Stably Transformed HtTa-1 Cell Lines
The procedure of Damke et al. (1995) was followed. Briefly, 1 × 106 cells
were seeded into a 10-cm culture dish the day before transfection. After a
4-h preincubation with 2 µg/ml tet, the cells were transfected with the
cDNA (20 µg) encoding either KKFF or KKAA under the control of the
tTA promoter (pUHD10-3 plasmid) together with the plasmid pBSpac
(1 µg) containing the puromycin resistance gene (de la Luna et al., 1988
)
by using the calcium phosphate precipitation method (Sambrook and Pollack, 1974
). Clones were selected and expanded in the presence of 2 µg/ml
tet, 500 ng/ml puromycin (Fluka AG, Buchs, Switzerland), and 400 µg/ml
geneticin (GIBCO BRL). Puromycin-resistant clones were screened by
immunofluorescence after incubation for 48 h in the absence of tet.
Immunofluorescence Microscopy
All experiments were carried out in eight-well multichamber glass slides
(Miles Labs, Naperville, IL). The cells were plated and cultured for 48 h in
the presence or absence (±) of tet and then fixed with paraformaldehyde,
permeabilized with Triton X-100, and stained with antibodies using the indirect immunofluorescence procedure (Schweizer et al., 1988). For double
immunofluorescence with FITC-Man-BSA and anti-ERGIC-53, the procedure of Itin et al. (1996)
was used.
Metabolic Labeling, Immunoprecipitation, and Immunoblotting
Cells plated into 6-cm dishes were incubated ± tet (2 µg/ml) for 48 h and
labeled with 100 µCi [35S]methionine for 30 min followed by a chase of
varying length in the presence of 10 mM unlabeled methionine. ERGIC-53 was immunoprecipitated from Triton X-100-solubilized cells with
mAb G1/93 against ERGIC-53 or mAb 9E10 against c-myc according to
Schweizer et al. (1988). For the immunoprecipitation of cathepsin C,
PBS-washed cells were solubilized in 10 mM phosphate, pH 7.4, 1% Triton
X-100, 0.2% SDS, 0.2 mM PMSF (solubilization buffer) for 1 h on ice and
centrifuged at 50,000 g for 1 h at 4°C. The resulting supernatant was incubated for 2 h with 2 µl of anti-rat cathepsin C antibody prebound to protein A-Sepharose CL4B beads, and the beads were washed three times
with solubilization buffer. Cathepsin C was also immunoprecipitated from
either methanol-precipitated culture medium or from a glycoprotein fraction prepared from the culture medium (see below). Immunoisolated proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE and visualized by fluorography using
Kodak X-omat AR films (Rochester, NY).
Digestion with Endoglycosidases
Immunoprecipitated proteins were boiled for 3 min in endoglycosidase H (endo H) buffer (1% SDS, 100 mM Na-citrate, pH 5.3) or N-glycosidase F (endo F) buffer (50 mM Na2HPO4, pH 7.2, 10 mM EDTA, 0.1% SDS, 1% Triton X-100). After cooling to room temperature, the samples were supplemented with additional buffer containing protease inhibitors, incubated with 3 µl of endo H or endo F for 24 h at 37°C, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE.
Isolation and Analysis of Secreted Glycoproteins
The cells were cultured in 6-cm dishes for 48 h ± tet (2 µg/ml) and subjected to the pulse-chase [35S]methionine labeling procedure. The chase
medium was serum-free DME containing 10 mM methionine. Tetracycline was present or not during the preincubation, labeling, and chase periods, depending on whether noninducible or inducible conditions were
studied. At the end of the chase, the medium was collected and centrifuged for 10 min at 10,000 rpm in a microfuge to remove cell debris. The
medium was then incubated under constant agitation for 1 h at room temperature with 30 µl Con A beads in 1 ml Con A buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl,
pH 7.5, 500 mM NaCl, 1 mM of CaCl2, MnCl2 and MgCl2). The beads
were washed four times with 1 ml Con A buffer, and glycoproteins were
eluted by incubating the beads for 30 min at room temperature with 100 µl
of 0.5 M -methyl-mannoside in Con A buffer under constant agitation.
Glycoproteins were separated by one-dimensional SDS-PAGE and visualized by fluorography. Alternatively, secreted glycoproteins were analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The glycoproteins were isolated with Con A beads, precipitated with methanol, and separated in the
first dimension for 15 h on a 110-mm pH 3-10 linear isoelectric focusing
immobiline gradient gel DryStrip according to the instructions of the manufacturer (Pharmacia Biotech). A 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel run with
constant voltage was used in the second dimension.
Isolation and Microsequencing of the 57-kD Glycoprotein
Cells overexpressing the KKFF construct were plated into six 15-cm
dishes. At 80% confluence, the cells were incubated with serum-free
DME for 24 h. The medium was collected, centrifuged, and incubated
with Con A beads as above. Eluted glycoproteins were separated on a
7-10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel and blotted onto a polyvinyl difluoride
membrane (Millipore Corp., Bedford, MA) in 25 mM Tris, 190 mM glycine, 10% methanol for 3 h. Glycoproteins were stained with Coomassie
blue R-250 for 1 h and destained in 50% methanol. The 57-kD area was
excised and incubated with trypsin (Fernandez et al., 1992). Tryptic peptides were separated on a 1.0-mm Vydac218TP51 reverse-phase column in
0.1% TFA-acetonitrile and sequenced on a pulse-liquid phase sequencer
(model 477A; PE Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) (Jenö et al.,
1995
).
Subcellular Fractionation
HeLa cells were fractionated by Nycodenz gradient centrifugation (Kappeler et al., 1997). Briefly, cells of four ~80% confluent 15-cm plates were
homogenized with a ball-bearing homogenizer and the postnuclear supernatant was loaded onto a 13-29% (wt/vol) linear Nycodenz gradient. After centrifugation at 25,500 rpm for 3 h (model TST-28.17 rotor; Kontron
Elektronik GmbH, Eching, Germany), 14 fractions were collected, and
organelle marker proteins were analyzed by SDS-PAGE followed by immunoblotting with specific antibodies (ECL procedure).
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Results |
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Approach to Study the Involvement of ERGIC-53 in Protein Secretion
If ERGIC-53 operates as a transport receptor for glycoproteins in the early secretory pathway, mutations affecting its localization and recycling properties may lead to
impaired glycoprotein secretion. In this study, we have
tested this notion by mislocalizing ERGIC-53 to the ER.
We have previously described a cytoplasmic tail mutant of
ERGIC-53 (termed GMAA) that is unable to leave the
ER. In this mutant, the two COOH-terminal phenylalanines were mutated to alanines, which inactivates the ER
exit determinant of ERGIC-53 (Kappeler et al., 1997).
The similar mutant KKAA used in the present study behaves identically to GMAA. It also accumulates in the ER
(Kappeler, F., and H.-P. Hauri, unpublished). KKAA and
wild-type ERGIC-53, termed KKFF, were tagged with a
c-myc epitope at the NH2 terminus. It is important to note
that the two constructs differed only in their cytosolic domain, whereas the luminal and transmembrane domains
were identical (Fig. 1 A). Since ERGIC-53 is a homo-
oligomeric protein, overexpression of KKAA in the ER
can be expected to block the recycling of endogenous ERGIC-53 by mixed oligomer formation and thereby inactivate its (putative) transport receptor function.
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To minimize a possible upregulation of a compensatory
mechanism for the lack of functional ERGIC-53, the mutants were expressed in the tet-controlled inducible system
of Gossen and Bujard (1992). cDNAs encoding KKFF or
KKAA were subcloned into the plasmid pUHD10-3 downstream of a human cytomegalovirus minimal promoter fused to seven repetitive tetO sequences (Damke
et al., 1996). This vector allows inducible expression of
cDNAs when transfected into HtTA-1 HeLa cells expressing constitutively a chimeric transactivator (tTA). In these
cells and in the absence of tet, tTA binding to tetO efficiently activates transcription of the gene. In contrast, when tet is present, a conformational change in the tet repressor domain prevents tTA from binding to the tetO sequences, and the promoter is silent. Both constructs were
transfected into HtTA-1 cells together with a puromycin-selectable marker (de la Luna et al., 1988
). After selection
and subcloning under noninducible conditions, positive
clones were screened by immunofluorescence microscopy
for the expression of recombinant protein 48 h after withdrawal of tet using an mAb against the c-myc epitope exclusively present on the transgenes.
Inducible Expression of KKAA in the ER
To analyze the inducibility of the ERGIC-53 constructs,
stably transfected clones were incubated ± tet for 48 h and
metabolically labeled with [35S]methionine for 30 min.
ERGIC-53 was immunoprecipitated with an mAb and analyzed by SDS-PAGE (Fig. 1 B). Under inducible conditions (tet), the rate of synthesis of both constructs was several-fold higher when compared with the endogenous ERGIC-53:
up to fivefold for KKFF and up to 10-fold for KKAA. Similar values were obtained when total amounts of ERGIC-53
proteins were quantified by immunoblotting with a polyclonal antibody against ERGIC-53 (not shown). In the presence of tet, no (KKFF) or very little (KKAA) recombinant
protein was detectable, demonstrating the tightness of the
expression system under noninducible conditions.
We next analyzed by subcellular fractionation if the
envisaged mislocalization of the KKAA construct to the
ER was achieved. Postnuclear supernatants of KKFF or
KKAA cells cultured for 48 h ± tet were separated by Nycodenz gradient centrifugation, and the positions of ERGIC-53, p63 (a marker for the ER; Schweizer et al., 1995),
and GPP130 (a marker for cis/medial-Golgi; Linstedt et
al., 1997
) were determined by SDS-PAGE followed by immunoblotting. Fig. 2 A shows that the gradient, run with
the KKFF (+tet) sample, separated ER from cis/medial-Golgi. Membranes containing endogenous ERGIC-53
cofractionated in part with ER but also appeared in a position overlapping with cis/medial-Golgi membranes, presumably representing the ERGIC. In the absence of tet,
the KKFF protein was induced (recognizable by its slightly
reduced electrophoretic mobility due to the additional
presence of a myc epitope), but its fractionation was identical to that of endogenous ERGIC-53 (Fig. 2 B). Obviously, overexpressed KKFF together with the endogenous ERGIC-53 distributed normally among the organelles of
the early secretory pathway. In noninduced KKAA cells
(+tet), the endogenous ERGIC-53 also partitioned between ER and post-ER fractions (Fig. 2 C). The signal in
the ER tended to be stronger than in post-ER fractions,
presumably because of low level expression of the KKAA protein, which accumulated in ER fractions and may have
retained some endogenous ERGIC-53 by mixed oligomer
formation. Under inducible conditions (
tet), both the
KKAA construct and endogenous ERGIC-53 cofractionated with the ER marker at the bottom of the gradient, and there was no indication for the presence of KKAA in
post-ER fractions (Fig. 2 D). We conclude that both the
KKAA protein and endogenous ERGIC-53 are retained
in the ER under these conditions.
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Immunofluorescence microscopy confirmed the strikingly different localization of the KKAA and KKFF constructs (Fig. 3 A). KKAA gave a typical ER pattern, while
KKFF resulted in a pattern that is characteristic for the
ERGIC with some ER staining because of the continuous
recycling of this construct (Schweizer et al., 1988; Kappeler
et al., 1997
). KKAA was unable to recycle, as tested by immunofluorescence analysis of its localization in cells incubated for 3 h at 15°C and after rewarming from the 15°C
block. The pattern of KKAA was unchanged by these temperature manipulations, very much in contrast to that of
KKFF, which changed in a way that is characteristic for
ERGIC-53's recycling (not shown; Lippincott-Schwartz et
al., 1990
; Itin et al. 1995b
; Kappeler et al., 1997
).
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Coimmunoprecipitation experiments were performed to test if the KKAA construct can form disulfide-linked oligomers with the endogenous ERGIC-53. KKAA cells were cultured in tet-free medium containing [35S]methionine for 3 or 15 h followed by immunoprecipitation with the mAb against the myc epitope, which was present on the KKAA construct but not on the endogenous ERGIC-53. Although the immunoprecipitation with anti-myc was less efficient than that with the anti-ERGIC-53 mAb, the anti-myc antibody precipitated some endogenous ERGIC-53 together with the KKAA construct, suggesting that KKAA can form disulfide-linked mixed oligomers with endogenous ERGIC-53 (Fig. 1 C).
The restriction of the KKAA construct to the ER is not
due to misfolding since the kinetics of oligomerization of
KKAA and KKFF to dimers and hexamers were identical
and comparable to that of endogenous ERGIC-53 (not
shown, Schweizer et al., 1988). Additional evidence for correct folding was obtained by lectin binding experiments. Lectin binding was tested by a morphological binding assay
using FITC-Man-BSA (Itin et al., 1996
). 48 h after incubation with or without tet, the cells were simultaneously fixed
and detergent-permeabilized and then double-stained with
anti-myc and FITC-Man-BSA. Fig. 3 A shows colabeling
for c-myc and FITC-Man-BSA binding sites predominantly at post-ER locations for KKFF and in the ER for KKAA. It
should be noted that most of the immunofluorescence signal originated from the overexpressed constructs, since
mock transfected cells exhibited almost no FITC-Man-BSA
binding (not shown; Itin et al., 1996
).
The KKAA construct has a functional dilysine ER
retrieval signal (Jackson et al., 1990, 1993
). Such dilysine
signals are known to bind COPI vesicle coat proteins
(Cosson and Letourneur, 1994
). Based on the observation
that an antibody to the ERGIC-53 cytoplasmic domain
blocked the membrane recruitment of COPI in permeabilized cells and inhibited the transport of vesicular stomatitis virus G (VSV G) from ERGIC to Golgi, it was suggested that ERGIC-53 may be the major receptor for
COPI in ERGIC and cis-Golgi and thereby controls ER to
Golgi transport (Tisdale et al., 1997
). In view of these findings, overexpression of the KKAA construct in the ER in
conjunction with the retention of endogenous ERGIC-53 in this compartment may impair the organization of the
early secretory pathway, since under these conditions the
ERGIC would be depleted of ERGIC-53 because of its
uninhibited retrograde transport. We tested this prediction by comparing the distribution of the coatomer subunit
'-COP in induced and noninduced KKAA cells by double immunofluorescence microscopy using a polyclonal
antibody against
'-COP and an mAb against the c-myc
epitope to visualize induction of the KKAA construct
(Fig. 3 B). Surprisingly, the distribution of
'-COP was
identical with the two conditions: Anti-
'-COP gave a
strong signal in the Golgi area and labeled discrete dots in the cytoplasm (Fig. 3 B, a and c) known to represent ERGIC clusters (Oprins et al., 1993
; Itin et al., 1995a
; Rowe
et al., 1996
). The cis/medial-Golgi was also unchanged as
visualized with an mAb against giantin (not shown). Thus,
the mistargeting of ERGIC-53 does not result in gross
morphological changes of the early secretory pathway.
Glycoprotein Secretion in KKAA and KKFF Cells
Pulse-chase experiments were performed to test whether
overexpression of the KKAA and KKFF constructs affects
the secretion of glycoproteins. After a 48-h incubation ± tet, stably transfected cells were labeled with [35S]methionine for 30 min followed by a chase for up to 3 h. Secreted glycoproteins were affinity-isolated from the medium with
Con A-Sepharose, eluted with 0.5 M -methylmannoside,
and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and fluorography. Fig. 4 A
shows the pattern of secreted glycoproteins obtained for
the KKAA and the KKFF cell lines. Endo F digestion ascertained that these proteins were indeed glycoproteins since all of them underwent a mobility shift (not shown).
Within 1 h of chase, a major 57-kD glycoprotein showed
reduced secretion in cells overexpressing KKAA (
tet),
while the other major secreted glycoproteins were unaffected under these conditions. Similarly, at 2 and 3 h of
chase, the 57-kD protein was the only major glycoprotein affected by overexpressing KKAA. Laser scanner densitometry of the fluorograms was used to quantify the difference in 57-kD secretion of induced versus noninduced
cells. As indicated in Fig. 4 B, the secretion of this protein
was reduced eightfold after 1 h, fourfold after 2 h, and
twofold after 3 h of chase. To investigate if the reduced
amounts of the 57-kD protein in the medium of KKAA cells is due to a delay of secretion or to reduced biosynthesis, pulse-chase experiments with extended chase times
were performed. Fig. 4 C shows that the difference in secretion of the 57-kD protein gradually disappeared with
time. It was still detectable after 6 h (2.5-fold reduction)
and 12 h (1.7-fold reduction) but no longer after 24 h of
chase, supporting the interpretation of a secretion delay.
Cells overexpressing the KKFF construct exhibited normal glycoprotein secretion including the 57-kD protein
(Fig. 4 A). Prolonged tet withdrawal for up to 9 d resulted
in the same secretion phenotype (not shown). Thus, mistargeting of ERGIC-53 to the ER resulted in a selective
secretion phenotype that did not affect the viability of
HeLa cells.
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Identification of the Inefficiently Secreted 57-kD Glycoprotein as Procathepsin C
To identify the 57-kD protein, it was purified from the culture medium of KKFF cells 24 h after plating the cells. Glycoproteins were isolated by Con A-Sepharose, separated by SDS-PAGE, and blotted onto a polyvinyl difluoride membrane. The 57-kD region was excised and subjected to tryptic digestion. Tryptic peptides were isolated by reverse-phase column chromatography and sequenced. The sequence of three peptides was established, all of which were found to belong to the sequence of procathepsin C, a precursor of the lysosomal enzyme cathepsin C, by database searches (Fig. 5).
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Because the 57-kD region may include several glycoproteins, it was important to establish if the inefficiently secreted glycoprotein was indeed procathepsin C. To test
this, an antibody against rat cathepsin C was used (Muno
et al., 1993), since no antibody against human cathepsin C
was available. This antibody was found to cross-react with
the human enzyme (Fig. 6 A). It precipitated a protein of ~57-kD from metabolically labeled FAO rat hepatoma
cells and human HeLa (KKAA) cells in reasonable agreement with the known molecular mass of procathepsin C
(Muno et al., 1993
). In the next step, we analyzed the culture media for secreted procathepsin C. KKAA cells were
cultured ± tet for 48 h, labeled with [35S]methionine for 30 min, and chased for 2 h with unlabeled methionine in excess. Glycoproteins were isolated with Con A-Sepharose,
immunoprecipitated with anti-procathepsin C, and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and fluorography. This experiment
identified the inefficiently secreted 57-kD band as procathepsin C (Fig. 6 A, Cat C). Direct immunoprecipitation of the antigen from the medium omitting the Con A step
gave identical results (Fig. 6 B, lanes 3 and 4) and showed
that the majority of the glycoprotein in the 57-kD region
of the gel is due to secreted procathepsin C. That the tet-dependent decrease of procathepsin C in the medium was
not due to reduced synthesis was confirmed by metabolic
labeling. After a 10-min pulse with [35S]methionine, identical amounts of metabolically labeled procathepsin C were
immunoprecipitable from cells cultured ± tet (not shown). The inefficient secretion of procathepsin C was not due to
clonal variation since three independent KKAA clones exhibited the same phenotype (Fig. 7).
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The secreted glycoproteins were also analyzed by two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis. To this end, cells
cultured ± tet were labeled with [35S]methionine for 30 min and chased for 3 h with unlabeled methionine in excess. Secreted glycoproteins were isolated with Con A
beads and separated by isoelectric focusing in the first dimension followed by SDS-PAGE in the second dimension. To identify procathepsin C, the protein was immunoprecipitated from a KKAA culture (+tet) labeled in
parallel and also subjected to the 2D gel electrophoresis. Fig. 8 confirms that the major glycoprotein affected by tet
withdrawal is procathepsin C. On 2D gels, procathepsin C
appeared as a cohort of spots in the pI range 6 to 7, which
is in reasonable agreement with the calculated pI 7.0 deduced from the primary sequence of human procathepsin
C (Paris et al., 1995). The secretion of a few minor glycoproteins of unknown identity, e.g., in the 45-kD/pI 7 range,
also appeared to be reduced in the absence of tet.
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To further confirm the identity of the 57-kD protein, the
antigen was immunoprecipitated from the culture medium
and digested with endo F and endo H. Endo F digestion
reduced the apparent molecular mass to ~5 kD (Fig. 6 B,
lane 7). Endo H treatment resulted in several bands, suggesting considerable endo H sensitivity of the secreted
form (Fig. 6 B, lane 6). Limited digestion with Endo H of
the protein immunoprecipitated from cell extracts produced up to five bands (Fig. 6 B, lane 9). These results suggest that the 57-kD protein recognized by the anticathepsin antibody carries four N-linked glycans. Consistent with
this, the cDNA of procathepsin C has four consensus sites
for N-glycosylation (Paris et al., 1995).
Is delayed secretion associated with ERGIC-53's mislocalization a specific feature of lysosomal enzymes? This
does not appear to be the case. Cathepsin D, known to
carry two N-glycosidic side chains (Hasilik and Neufeld,
1980), was secreted with identical kinetics in KKAA cells ± tet (Fig. 9 B).
-Glucosidase, a lysosomal enzyme having
seven potential N-glycosylation sites (Hermans et al., 1993
)
was not secreted into the culture medium. Previous studies
suggested that this enzyme is membrane bound (Fransen et
al., 1988
; Wisselaar et al., 1993
). Transport of
-glucosidase to lysosomes was unchanged by overexpressing KKAA in
the ER, as indicated by the kinetics of appearance of the
different maturation forms of the protein (Fig. 9 C). We
next studied the transport of the endosomal marker transferrin receptor, a membrane glycoprotein with three
N-linked glycans, one of which remains in a high mannose form (Enns et al., 1991
). Transport from ER to medial-Golgi was found to be unaffected by overexpressing KKAA
in the ER as monitored by the acquisition of endo H resistance (Fig. 9 A). Likewise, the transport of the plasma
membrane protein aminopeptidase N (10 N-glycosylation
sites; Olsen et al., 1988
) and the lysosomal membrane glycoprotein Lamp 1 (18 N-glycans; Carlsson et al., 1988
) was not
affected by mislocalizing ERGIC-53 to the ER (not shown).
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Overexpression of KKAA Delays ER Exit of Procathepsin C
Is the inefficient secretion of procathepsin C due to a delay in ER-Golgi transport? Because procathepsin C was found to remain endo H sensitive during its passage through the Golgi apparatus (not shown), we were unable to approach this question by monitoring the acquisition of complex glycans. Likewise, a morphological approach failed since the antibody was not useful for immunofluorescence microscopy. Therefore, we used subcellular fractionation. KKAA cells cultured for 48 h ± tet were pulsed for 15 min with [35S]methionine and chased for 30 and 60 min. Postnuclear supernatants were separated on Nycodenz gradients, the ER fractions (fractions 1-5) were pooled, and procathepsin C was immunoprecipitated and its radioactivity quantified by densitometric scanning after SDS-PAGE (Fig. 10). Under noninducible conditions, 25% of the initially synthesized procathepsin C disappeared from the pooled ER fractions after 30 min of chase and 59% after 60 min. Under inducible conditions, these values were 4% after 30 min and 35% after 60 min. These data suggest that overexpression of the KKAA construct delays transport of procathepsin C from the ER, although they do not indicate whether or not ER exit is the only rate-limiting transport step.
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In this study, we report that mistargeting of ERGIC-53 to the ER by overexpressing the KKAA construct led to a limited secretion phenotype resulting in the delayed secretion of procathepsin C from HeLa cells, while overexpression of KKFF, a myc-tagged wild-type ERGIC-53, had no effect on glycoprotein secretion.
The rationale of our approach was to mistarget an exogenous mutant ERGIC-53 to the ER and due to overexpression and mixed oligomer formation block the recycling of endogenous ERGIC-53 in this compartment. If
ERGIC-53 is essential for glycoprotein transport, such a
functional inactivation of ERGIC-53 should result in a secretion phenotype. To minimize the possibility of upregulation of a mechanism that may compensate for the functional inactivation of ERGIC-53, an inducible expression
system was chosen. Our results suggest that in the KKAA
clone the expected mistargeting of both KKAA and endogenous ERGIC-53 was indeed achieved under inducible conditions (tet). Immunofluorescence microscopy and
density gradient analysis suggest that both the KKAA and
endogenous ERGIC-53 were apparently quantitatively retained in the ER. That KKAA constructs are unable to
leave the ER has also been noted in other cell types (Kappeler et al., 1997
).
The precise mechanism by which the KKAA construct
retained endogenous ERGIC-53 in the ER remains to be
elucidated. We assume that mixed oligomer formation is a
major mechanism by which this is achieved. It is unlikely,
however, that disulfide bond-mediated oligomerization
entirely accounts for this effect. Only the newly synthesized but not the already existing endogenous ERGIC-53, which has a rather long half-life (Schweizer et al., 1988),
can form disulfide bonds with the KKAA construct during
induction. ERGIC-53 may form higher order oligomers
that are not covalently linked and therefore do not survive
coimmunoprecipitation as used in the present study. We
also noted some downregulation of the endogenous ERGIC-53 by overexpressing the KKAA constructs (not shown).
ERGIC-53's cytosolic domain can bind COPI because
of its KKFF dilysine ER retrieval signal (Schindler et al.,
1993; Kappeler et al., 1997
; Tisdale et al., 1997
). An antibody against this domain was reported to block the recruitment of COPI to the ERGIC in permeabilized cells
and to inhibit transport of VSV G glycoprotein from ERGIC to Golgi (Tisdale et al., 1997
). The authors proposed that ERGIC-53 is required for selective transport through
the early secretory pathway by serving as a major COPI-binding receptor in ERGIC and cis-Golgi. If ERGIC-53
would operate as the major receptor, its depletion from the
ERGIC should lead to COPI dissociation from the membranes of the early secretory pathway. At variance with this
notion, by immunofluorescence microscopy we find no change in the localization of COPI when ERGIC-53 is
absent from post-ER sites by the mistargeting of KKAA to
the ER. Indeed, our immunofluorescence experiments did
not reveal any gross morphological changes of the early
secretory pathway under these conditions. In particular,
ERGIC clusters visualized by
'-COP were equally abundant in KKAA cells ± tet. The apparent discrepancy between Tisdale et al. (1997)
and our data are not easy to explain but may be caused by experimental differences. While
the study of Tisdale et al. (1997)
was performed with semi-intact cells, our present study is based on intact cells and
hence is closer to physiology. Clearly, cells not expressing
any ERGIC-53 will be required to resolve the discrepancy.
Mistargeting of ERGIC-53 to the ER resulted in a
rather limited secretion phenotype. It appears that in
HeLa cells, the recycling of ERGIC-53 is essential for the
efficient secretion of one major glycoprotein, procathepsin
C, and a few minor glycoproteins, as indicated by our 2D
gel analysis, whereas it is not essential for the majority of
glycoproteins. Cathepsin D and -glucosidase, two other
lysosomal enzymes, were not affected by ERGIC-53's mistargeting. Likewise, locking ERGIC-53 to the ER did not
impair the transport from ER to medial-Golgi of the
plasma membrane protein aminopeptidase N, the endosomal membrane protein transferrin receptor, and the lysosomal membrane protein lamp1. That the transport of
lamp1 was unaffected is particularly noteworthy since this
protein carries 18 N-linked glycans (Carlsson et al., 1988
).
How does the retention of ERGIC-53 in the ER affect
the transport of procathepsin C? Consistent with its mannose-selective lectin activity in vitro, ERGIC-53 may be
required for the efficient export of procathepsin C from
the ER. This notion is supported by our finding that ER
exit of procathepsin C is delayed by overexpressing the
KKAA protein, although the data do not allow us to conclude that ER exit is the only delayed transport step. It is
interesting to note that procathepsin C is a tetramer
(Muno et al., 1993), in contrast to the nonaffected lysosomal enzymes cathepsin D and
-glucosidase, which are
monomers (Hasilik and Neufeld, 1980
). It is conceivable,
therefore, that proteins carrying many N-linked glycans
require ERGIC-53 for efficient transport. A tetramer of cathepsin C would amount to 16 glycans. However, the absolute number of oligosaccharide side chains may not be
the only criterion since the transport of Lamp1 carrying 18 N-linked glycans was unaffected by the mistargeting of
ERGIC-53. Our attempts to demonstrate direct interaction of procathepsin C and ERGIC-53 by coimmunoprecipitation have been unsuccessful, suggesting that this interaction, if existent, must be of low affinity. Alternatively,
the effect on procathepsin C transport may be indirect.
ER-retained ERGIC-53 may bind and disturb a glycoprotein cofactor required for the maturation or transport of
cathepsin C. Whatever the precise mechanism, the result
with cathepsin C demonstrates the first lectin effect of ERGIC-53 in vivo.
The role of carbohydrates in ER-to-Golgi traffic remains unclear. Even though ERGIC-53 does not appear to
be essential for the transport of most glycoproteins in
HeLa cells, the hypothesis of lectin-mediated transport
(Fiedler and Simons, 1995; Itin et al., 1996
) remains attractive. Carbohydrate-dependent transport may involve more
than one lectin, so that the inactivation of one of them, as
in the case of ERGIC-53, may be compensated largely by
other lectins. If such lectins are not homologous to ERGIC-53 and VIP36, they may be difficult to detect. ERGIC-53 and VIP36 are so far the only members of this
novel family of animal lectins. ERGIC-53 is conserved all
the way from Caenorhabditis elegans to Xenopus, rat, and
man. Of particular importance, this conservation includes
the CRD in which the amino acids critical for sugar binding in leguminous lectins are invariant, and the cytosolic
tail carrying ER export and ER retrieval signals (Kappeler
et al., 1997
). In a recent study, mutations in ERGIC-53
were found to lead to an autosomal recessive bleeding disorder in humans termed combined deficiency of coagulation factors V and VIII (Nichols et al., 1998
). Although the
mechanism by which ERGIC-53 is required for maintaining appropriate serum levels of the homologous coagulation factors V and VIII remains to be elucidated, this study
is in agreement with our conclusion drawn from a cell culture system that ERGIC-53 is required for efficient secretion of a limited set of glycoproteins. ERGIC-53 may act
as a traffic chaperone for these proteins. That ERGIC-53
is already expressed in C. elegans (our unpublished observations) strongly suggests that this protein has functions in
addition to regulating blood coagulation.
The effect of inactivation of ERGIC-53 is reminiscent of
a deletion of emp24 gene in yeast leading to a selective secretion phenotype involving the two proteins invertase
and Gas1p (Schimmöller et al., 1995). This finding led to
the hypothesis that Emp24p may act as a transport receptor for these proteins, but it is unknown if Emp24p directly
binds these cargo proteins, and hence this suggestion remains to be proven.
In summary, while the precise function of ERGIC-53 remains to be established, the present study suggests that this protein is essential for the efficient transport of at least one glycoprotein in HeLa cells. Furthermore, mistargeting of ERGIC-53 to the ER does not alter the gross morphology of the early secretory pathway, indicating that this protein is not required for the maintenance of the ERGIC.
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Received for publication 9 February 1998 and in revised form 5 June 1998.
Address all correspondence to Hans-Peter Hauri, Department of Pharmacology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. Tel.: +41-61 267 2222 (or 2229). Fax: +41-61 267 2208. E-mail: Hauri{at}ubaclu.unibas.chWe thank Käthy Bucher for excellent technical assistance, Dieter
Klopfenstein for help with the 2D gel electrophoresis, Paul Jenö for peptide sequencing, Hermann Bujard for the HtTA cells and the pUHD10-3
plasmid, Hanna Damke for the pBSpac plasmid and for discussions,
Adrian Wiestner for the FAO cells, Eiki Kominami for the cathepsin C
antibody, Jack Fransen for the -glucosidase antibody, Thomas Kreis for
the
'-COP antibody, and Annie-Claude Roche and Michel Monsigny for
the FITC-Man-BSA. We are grateful to Graham Warren for many helpful
comments and to Helena Andersson for reading the manuscript.
This study was supported by grants from the Kantons of Basel and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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2D, two-dimensional; Con A, concanavalin A; CRD, carbohydrate recognition domain; endo H, endoglycosidase H; ERGIC, ER-Golgi intermediate compartment; tet, tetracycline; tetO, tetracycline operator sequence.
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