Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale U332, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, 75014 Paris, France
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Abstract |
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As for most integral membrane proteins, the intracellular transport of retroviral envelope glycoproteins depends on proper folding and oligomeric assembly in the ER. In this study, we considered the hypothesis that a panel of 22 transport-defective mutants of the human T cell leukemia virus type 1 envelope glycoprotein might be defective in ER assembly. Upon cell cotransfection with wild-type envelope, however, the vast majority of these transport-defective mutants (21 of 22) exerted a specific trans-dominant negative effect. This effect was due to random dimerization of the mutated and wild-type glycoproteins that prevented the intracellular transport of the latter. This unexpected result suggests that association of glycoprotein monomers precedes the completion of folding. The only mutation that impaired this early assembly was located at the NH2 terminus of the protein. COOH-terminally truncated, soluble forms of the glycoprotein were also trans-dominant negative provided that their NH2 terminus was intact. The leucine zipper-like domain, although involved in oligomerization of the envelope glycoproteins at the cell surface, did not contribute to their intracellular assembly. We propose that, at a step subsequent to translation, but preceding complete folding of the monomers, glycoproteins assemble via their NH2-terminal domains, which, in turn, permits their cooperative folding.
Key words: protein processing; posttranslational; viral envelope proteins; genes, dominant; human T cell leukemia virus ![]() |
Introduction |
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CELL surface proteins are usually oligomers, and
reach the plasma membrane after they undergo
stepwise processes which ensure their structural
integrity (Hurtley and Helenius, 1989; Einfeld and Hunter,
1991
). Viral envelope glycoproteins have been extensively used as models for defining the main characteristics of the
cellular "quality control" of membrane proteins because,
although encoded by viruses, they follow the normal secretory pathway also used by the cellular proteins of the
plasma membrane (Doms et al., 1993
). Studies of the influenza hemagglutinin (HA)1 precursor HA0 and of the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) G protein showed that, as a
rule, quality control over newly synthesized membrane
proteins is exerted primarily by the ER: only membrane glycoproteins that are correctly folded and oligomerized
can leave the ER and proceed to the Golgi complex and
beyond, whereas proteins with incorrect tertiary or quaternary structure are retained in the ER and eventually degraded. Excess misfolded protein can, however, escape
this ER control, in which case the intermediate compartment and the cis-Golgi intervene as a back-up quality control system to recycle the protein back to the ER via retrograde transport (Hammond and Helenius, 1994
).
Folding of membrane proteins begins during their cotranslational translocation in the ER compartment, and
continues posttranslationally. The rate and efficiency of
folding vary considerably among proteins. Important differences reside in the time required and the nature of the
intermediates formed before the acquisition of the mature oligomeric conformation. For VSV G, but not for HA0,
the normal folding process involves the transient formation of multimolecular complexes (de Silva et al., 1993). In
both cases, the bona fide trimeric assembly is a posttranslational and kinetically late step in the sequence of events
leading to the transport-competent conformation. Indeed,
it occurs after the monomers have reached their fully oxidized form and characteristic immunoreactivity (Copeland
et al., 1988
; de Silva et al., 1993
; Tatu et al., 1993
, 1995
).
This supports the contention that extensive folding must take place for monomeric subunits to recognize each other
as specific assembly partners (Doms et al., 1993
). In the
case of the hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein of
the human parainfluenza virus type 3, however, oligomeric
assembly occurs as an early event that precedes the acquisition of correct intramolecular disulfide bonds and mature immunoreactivity (Collins and Mottet, 1991
).
Retroviral envelope glycoproteins also constitute a good
model for studying the maturation steps required for protein transport out of the ER (Einfeld, 1996). These envelope proteins are first synthesized in the ER as a precursor
membrane protein, which is then transported to the Golgi
apparatus where its cleavage into two mature products occurs, mediated by a furin-like cellular protease. Transport
competence is thus easily monitored by the appearance of
the cleaved viral products, the surface (SU) and the transmembrane (TM) glycoproteins. Among retroviral envelopes, that of the human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), an oncogenic human retrovirus, provides an
interesting model for exploring the limiting steps for the
acquisition of transport competence, because the quality
control exerted over the structural integrity of the precursor glycoprotein is remarkably stringent (Pique et al.,
1990
; Delamarre et al., 1996
). Indeed, most of the mutations that we have artificially introduced in the HTLV-1
glycoprotein result in a lack of precursor cleavage, which
most probably indicates retention of the precursor in the
ER. In the present study, we took advantage of our large
series of mutants to examine whether the defect in intracellular transport exhibited by these glycoproteins might actually reflect a defect in oligomeric assembly. We
designed a dominant negative assay (Herskowitz, 1987
)
in which the retained glycoproteins were systematically
tested for their ability to interfere in trans with the transport and hence function of the wild-type (wt) glycoprotein.
We found, unexpectedly, that the vast majority of the mutated glycoproteins that could not be transported into the
Golgi apparatus and beyond were nevertheless capable of
specific dimeric association with the wt precursor glycoprotein. That incompetence for assembly was rarely responsible for the intracellular retention of these glycoproteins suggests the occurrence of an early assembly step
preceding the completion of folding.
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Materials and Methods |
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Plasmids
The HTLV envelope expression vectors used in this study are the previously described plasmids CMV-ENV-1 (Delamarre et al., 1997) and
CMV-ENV-2 (Rosenberg et al., 1998
), which contain the respective
HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 sequences corresponding to the env, tax, and rex
genes, under the control of the simian cytomegalovirus (CMV) promoter.
The CMV-ENV
PvuII and CMV-ENV
PmaCI constructs were used as
the respective negative controls (Delamarre et al., 1997
; Rosenberg et al.,
1998
). The mutated constructs coding for HTLV-1 glycoproteins with single amino acid substitutions were described elsewhere (Delamarre et al.,
1997
; Rosenberg et al., 1997
). The CMV-ENV438-stop plasmid encodes a
soluble form of the HTLV-1 glycoprotein under the control of the CMV
promoter (Pique et al., 1993
; Rosenberg et al., 1997
). The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) envelope expression plasmid pMA243,
which is derived from an HIV-1LAI provirus and has the capacity for encoding the viral proteins Env, Tat, Rev, and Vpu, was a gift from M. Alizon (INSERM U332, ICGM, Paris, France) (Dragic et al., 1992
).
Mutagenesis and Cloning
Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis of the sequence encoding the SU
portion of the HTLV-2 envelope protein was performed as described elsewhere (Rosenberg et al., 1998). The constructs coding for HTLV-1 envelope proteins with truncations or deletions were generated using standard
cloning techniques. Positions in the amino acid sequence of the HTLV-1
envelope protein are numbered from the initiator methionine. The locations of truncations and deletions relative to other features of the HTLV-1
envelope protein are depicted in Fig. 6.
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Cell Lines
COS-1 and HeLa cells were obtained from the American Type Culture
Collection. CosLTRLacZ cells, which are COS cells stably expressing the
bacterial -galactosidase gene (lacZ) under the control of the HIV-1 long
terminal repeat (LTR), and HeLa-Tat cells, which are HeLa cells stably
expressing the HIV-1 tat gene, were a gift from M. Alizon (Dragic et al.,
1992
). Also provided by M. Alizon were the HeLa-P4 cells, which are
HeLa cells stably expressing both the lacZ gene under the control of the
HIV-1 LTR and the human CD4 cDNA (Clavel and Charneau, 1994
). All
cell lines were grown in DME containing 50 µg/ml gentamicin and 5%
FCS, and supplemented with 300 µg/ml hygromycin B (Calbiochem
Corp.) for the CosLTRLacZ cells, or with 500 µg/ml G-418 sulphate (Geneticin, Life Technologies, Inc.) for the HeLa-P4 cells. Cell cultures were
maintained at 37°C in a humidified 5% CO2 atmosphere.
Syncytium Formation Assays
The quantitative assays used to evaluate syncytium formation elicited by
the HTLV-1, HTLV-2, or HIV-1 envelopes have been described elsewhere (Dragic et al., 1992; Delamarre et al., 1997
; Rosenberg et al., 1998
).
In all these assays, the HIV-1 LTR-driven expression of
-galactosidase is
transactivated by the Tat protein upon fusion of envelope-expressing cells
with receptor-bearing indicator cells. To assess the dominant negative effect of the glycoprotein mutants on syncytium formation induced by the
wt HTLV-1 or HTLV-2 glycoproteins, the mutated and wt envelope constructs (total amount: 3 µg DNA) were cotransfected into CosLTRLacZ
cells seeded at 3 × 105 cells per 60-mm-diameter dish the previous day by
a procedure using DEAE-dextran, chloroquine, and dimethyl sulfoxide
(Cullen, 1987
). Immunofluorescence analysis of the cells cotransfected with the constructs for the wt HTLV-1 envelope and for a truncation mutant demonstrated that more than 95% of the cells that expressed one of
the envelope constructs in fact expressed both of them (data not shown).
Radioimmunoprecipitation analysis also assured us that, within the range
of DNA quantities used in this study, the level of protein expressed correlated with the amount of DNA transfected. 1 d (HTLV-2) or 2 d (HTLV-1)
after transfection, 5 × 105 HeLa-Tat cells were added as indicator cells.
After a 24-h coculture, the amount of
-galactosidase was evaluated by a
chemiluminescence assay for detection of the activity of this enzyme in
cell lysates (Galacto-Light; Tropix) with a luminometer (Lumat LB 9501;
Berthold) (Delamarre et al., 1997
; Rosenberg et al., 1998
). To assess the effect of the HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants on syncytium formation induced by the wt HIV-1 envelope, the mutated HTLV-1 envelope constructs (2.25 µg) and the pMA243 plasmid (5 ng) were cotransfected into
COS-1 cells seeded at 3 × 105 cells per 60-mm-diameter dish the previous
day (Cullen, 1987
). 2 d after transfection, 5 × 105 HeLa-P4 cells were
added as indicator cells. After a 24-h coculture, syncytia were stained in
situ and counted under a light microscope as described elsewhere (Dragic
et al., 1992
). For each assay, the syncytium formation index gives the percentage fusion induced by the wt envelope in the presence of the glycoprotein mutant relative to that obtained in its absence.
Immunofluorescence Microscopy
The envelope constructs were transfected into COS-1 or HeLa cells by the
calcium phosphate precipitation method. 1 d after transfection, the cells
were seeded onto glass slides (Lab-Tek; Nunc, Inc.) at 4 × 104 cells per
80-mm2 well. The next day, cultures were rinsed in PBS and fixed with 4%
paraformaldehyde for 15 min at room temperature, followed by quenching in 0.1 M glycine in PBS. Permeabilization and saturation were
achieved by a 2-h incubation in PBS containing 0.05% saponin and 0.2%
BSA, and all subsequent steps were performed in this buffer at room temperature. The cells were incubated for 90 min with the primary antibodies.
These were mAb 1C11 (1:100; Epitope), which is a murine mAb directed
to the HTLV-1 SU (Palker et al., 1989), and rabbit polyclonal antibodies
directed to the
subunit of translocating chain-associating membrane
protein (1:500, kindly provided by T.A. Rapoport, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) or to Rab1 (1:25, kindly
provided by B. Goud, CNRS UMR 144, Institut Curie, Paris, France). Excess antibody was removed with five washes, and the secondary antibodies were allowed to bind for 60 min. These were FITC-conjugated goat anti-
mouse IgG (1:400; Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) and cyanin 3-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:300; Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.). After five washes, the slides were mounted in Mowiol
and observed with a confocal laser scanning microscope (MRC-1000; Bio-Rad Laboratories, with a 60× objective; Nikon Inc.). The pinhole aperture was such that optical section thickness was 0.6 µm. "Bleed-through"
from the FITC to the cyanin channel was negligible. Images were processed using the Laser Sharp software. Colocalization appeared as yellow
pixels after merging sections recorded at the same z level in each channel.
Radioimmunoprecipitation Assays
Immunoprecipitations of the HTLV-1 envelope glycoproteins were performed as described in our previous studies (Pique et al., 1990), using protein A-Sepharose CL-4B beads (Pharmacia Biotechnology) coated with a
pool of sera from HTLV-1-infected individuals (provided by J. Coste,
CRTS, Montpellier, France). For coimmunoprecipitation experiments,
protein A-Sepharose beads were coated with rabbit anti-mouse Ig (Dako
SA) plus purified 4D4 mAb, which is a murine mAb raised against a synthetic peptide covering the COOH-terminal domain (amino acids 287-
311) of the HTLV-1 SU (kindly donated by C. Desgranges and M.-P.
Grange, INSERM U271, Lyon, France) (Grange et al., 1998
). Immunoprecipitates were electrophoresed in SDS-13% polyacrylamide gels under
reducing conditions (except where otherwise stated), and visualized by autoradiography.
Velocity Gradient Sedimentation
The envelope constructs were transfected into COS-1 cells (2.8 × 106) by
the calcium phosphate precipitation method. 2 d after transfection, the
cells were lysed in 0.8 ml of 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, containing 100 mM
NaCl, 1 mM CaCl2, and 250 mM n-octyl--D-glucopyranoside (Sigma
Chemical Co.). The clarified lysates, together with 50 µl of size markers
(kD): 66 BSA, 141 alcohol dehydrogenase, and 250 catalase, each at 9 mg/ml
(Sigma Chemical Co.), were loaded onto continuous sucrose gradients (10 ml,
5-35% sucrose in 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, containing 100 mM NaCl, 1 mM
CaCl2, and 40 mM n-octyl-
-D-glucopyranoside) and centrifuged for 20 h
at 4°C in an SW41 rotor at 38,000 rpm before fractionation from the bottom of the tube into 18 fractions of 600 µl. To analyze size markers, 60-µl
aliquots were removed from the fractions and were separated by SDS-PAGE, followed by Coomassie blue staining. The remainders of the fractions were subjected to immunoprecipitation with a pool of sera from
HTLV-1-infected individuals as described above. Immunoprecipitates
were electrophoresed in SDS-10% polyacrylamide gels under reducing
conditions, and proteins were transferred onto membranes (Immobilon-P;
Millipore Corp.). After saturation in PBS containing 0.05% Tween-20 and
5% skim milk, the membranes were incubated with a 1:3,000 dilution of
the mAb 4D4 (Grange et al., 1998
) for 90 min at room temperature. Excess antibody was removed with six washes, and a 1:1,000 dilution of the
second-step antibody (peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG; Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) was allowed to bind for 60 min.
After eight washes, immunoreactive spots were detected by enhanced
chemiluminescence (Amersham Buchler GmbH).
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Results |
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Negative Dominance as a Tool to Study Determinants of Envelope Precursor Assembly
We have previously described a series of HTLV-1 envelope glycoprotein mutants that are defective in cleavage
of the precursor into the mature SU and TM products
(Delamarre et al., 1997; Rosenberg et al., 1997
). The cleavage of the HTLV-1 glycoprotein precursor, which is required for envelope-mediated function, normally takes place in the Golgi apparatus (Pique et al., 1992
). As for
most integral membrane glycoproteins, transport into the
Golgi apparatus is thought to be strictly dependent on
proper folding and oligomeric assembly in the ER (Doms
et al., 1993
). We thus considered the hypothesis that our
HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants with defects in precursor
cleavage might actually be defective in precursor assembly. We designed a dominant negative assay (Herskowitz,
1987
) in which these cleavage-defective mutants were coexpressed with the wt HTLV-1 glycoprotein in transfected
COS cells. In this approach, an assembly-competent mutant would be expected to dominantly interfere with wt
envelope-mediated function by titrating the wt precursor in the formation of transport-defective heterocomplexes;
in contrast, an assembly-defective mutant would spare the
intracellular maturation of the wt glycoprotein and hence
its function. Transfected cells expressing the wt HTLV-1
envelope at the cell surface are able to induce fusion with
indicator cells expressing the receptor, leading to the formation of syncytia. Syncytium formation was thus chosen
as a convenient assay to account for intracellular transport
and hence function of the HTLV-1 envelope.
21 of 22 Cleavage-defective Glycoprotein Mutants Are Trans Dominant
Because several reports have suggested that the oligomerization domain of retroviral envelopes lies in the TM glycoprotein (Einfeld and Hunter, 1988, 1994
; Earl et al.,
1990
; Rey et al., 1990
; Thomas et al., 1991
), we first investigated the abilities of HTLV-1 glycoproteins with mutations in the TM portion to interfere with wt envelope-mediated function. We have previously described eight
single amino acid substitutions in the HTLV-1 TM that result in a lack of precursor cleavage and, consequently, in a
complete loss of syncytium-forming ability (Rosenberg et
al., 1997
) (see Table I). The mutated envelope expression
plasmids were cotransfected with the wt envelope expression plasmid (CMV-ENV-1) at a ratio of 3:1, and syncytium formation was monitored. Each of the eight cleavage-defective TM mutants exerted a marked dominant negative effect over the wt envelope, manifested by inhibition of
syncytium formation (Table I).
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That all of the glycoproteins mutated in the TM portion
were able to interfere in trans with wt envelope-mediated
function prompted us to test for negative dominance of
glycoproteins mutated in the SU portion. We have previously described 14 single amino acid substitutions distributed throughout the HTLV-1 SU that abolish precursor
cleavage and hence envelope-mediated function (Delamarre et al., 1997) (see Table II). A marked dominant negative
effect on the syncytium-forming activity of wt envelope
was documented for 13 of these 14 SU mutants (Table II).
Thus, the vast majority of HTLV-1 envelope mutants with
defects in cleavage of the precursor glycoprotein are trans-dominant negative.
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Specificity of the Trans-dominant Negative Effect
We examined whether the inhibitory effect exerted by the
mutants was specific for the HTLV-1 envelope. For this
purpose, we cotransfected each HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutant construct with an expression vector encoding the wt
envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1 (pMA243), and we scored
the number of syncytia elicited by the HIV-1 envelope. In
contrast to their drastic effect on syncytium formation induced by the wt HTLV-1 envelope, the HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants failed to interfere with syncytium formation
induced by the wt HIV-1 envelope, even upon cotransfection of a 450-fold excess of the HTLV-1 plasmid (Tables I
and II). As a positive control, coexpression of CD4 with
the HIV-1 glycoprotein gave the expected inhibition of
syncytium formation (Bour et al., 1991; data not shown).
The dominant negative effect was thus specific, and could
not be accounted for by some general alteration of the intracellular maturation or transport of membrane proteins.
Random Dimerization of wt and Mutated Glycoproteins
It has been shown that aggregation occurs in the ER of
cells synthesizing misfolded proteins (Hurtley et al., 1989)
and is not restricted to products from a single polysome
(Marquardt and Helenius, 1992
). It could thus be argued
that the mutated glycoproteins might titrate the wt glycoprotein in the formation of large heteroaggregates rather
than in a bona fide dimeric assembly process. To decide between these two hypotheses, we combined different approaches.
We first examined the oligomeric structure of the envelope glycoproteins from transfected cell lysates by velocity
sedimentation on sucrose gradients. Consistent with previous data (Paine et al., 1994), most of the wt HTLV-1 envelope precursor glycoprotein was recovered in a peak at the
position expected for the dimeric form of this 61-kD protein (Fig. 1). A small amount of faster-sedimenting material was also detected that might correspond to tetramer
formation. A similar pattern of sedimentation was detected in lysates from cells coexpressing the wt glycoprotein plus a threefold excess of a cleavage-defective dominant negative mutant (see the examples of the TM mutant
Arg379-Gly and of the SU mutant Asp171-Tyr in Fig. 1).
Notably, the position of the envelope glycoproteins did not shift towards the bottom of the gradient, as would
have been expected if aggregation had occurred. We also
used nonreducing SDS-PAGE to analyze the envelope
products radioimmunoprecipitated from lysates of cotransfected cells, because interchain disulfide-bonded complexes often arise in the ER of cells synthesizing misfolded proteins. No such complexes were detected (data not
shown), further arguing against an aggregation bias.
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In addition to these biochemical approaches, we examined the extent of the trans-dominant negative interference exerted by the cleavage-defective mutants as a function of the mutant:wt ratio (Fig. 2). In a cell that coexpresses the wt glycoprotein and an assembly-competent mutant, three dimer combinations are expected: homodimers of wt precursor subunits, homodimers of mutant precursor subunits, and heterodimers consisting of both subunit types. If dimerization is random, the distribution between these three combinations can be calculated for a variety of expression ratios (Fig. 2 a). Cells were transfected with a constant amount of DNA containing various ratios of mutant to wt HTLV-1 envelope constructs (3:1, 1:1, and 1:3), and the resulting syncytium-forming activity was compared with that observed after transfection of the wt construct alone. As shown in Fig. 2 b for two TM and two SU mutants, the experimental indices of syncytium formation at each ratio approached the theoretical values for the corresponding proportions of wt homodimers expected from a random dimerization process. This corroborates our biochemical findings, since trapping of wt glycoprotein in a higher-order structure would have shifted the experimental curves to the right. Therefore, the trans-dominant negative effect most likely reflects random dimeric assembly of mutant and wt glycoproteins, with wt homodimers being the sole functional combination.
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Trans-dominant Negative Mutants Prevent the Intracellular Transport of the wt Precursor Glycoprotein
The design of the dominant negative assay was based on the assumption that a cleavage-defective mutant with competence for assembly would prevent the wt glycoprotein from being transported to, and consequently cleaved in, the Golgi apparatus. We used two complementary approaches to ascertain that this was indeed the inhibitory step.
First, we performed in situ immunofluorescence analyses to examine the intracellular localization of the wt HTLV-1 glycoprotein expressed in the absence or presence of a cleavage-defective mutant (Fig. 3). When the wt envelope construct was transfected alone, most of the positive cells were committed to the formation of syncytia, and a granular staining scattered throughout the cytoplasm was detected (Fig. 3 b). In contrast, the staining was confined to the perinuclear space in cells expressing any of the cleavage-defective mutants (see the example of the Arg379-Gly mutant in Fig. 3 c). We performed double-label immunofluorescence experiments to identify the mutant-retaining organelles. As shown in Fig. 4, the staining for HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutant showed partial colocalization both with that for translocating chain-associating membrane protein (Fig. 4 a), an ER marker, and with that for Rab1 (Fig. 4 b), an intermediate compartment and cis-Golgi marker. The pattern of staining observed in cells coexpressing the wt glycoprotein and a cleavage-defective dominant negative mutant was similar to that in cells expressing the mutant alone (see Fig. 3 d). These results indicate intracellular retention of wt glycoprotein in the presence of a trans-dominant negative mutant.
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We next verified that the mutants that by themselves were defective in precursor cleavage also impaired in trans the cleavage of the wt envelope precursor (Fig. 5). Indeed, when expressed in the absence of mutant, the wt precursor gave rise to its mature products as appreciated by detection of the 20-kD band corresponding to the TM glycoprotein (Fig. 5, a, lane 2, and b, lane 2), whereas in the presence of any of the cleavage-defective dominant negative mutants, the TM-gp20 was barely or not detected (Fig. 5, a, lanes 3-10, and b, lanes 4-16).
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Taken together, these data confirm our hypothesis that the dominant negative effect exerted by cleavage-defective mutants results from their ability to prevent it from being transported to and cleaved in the Golgi apparatus.
The Only Mutation that Impairs Precursor Assembly Is Located at the NH2 Terminus of the Glycoprotein
Among the 22 cleavage-defective HTLV-1 glycoprotein
mutants, the SU mutant Ser25-Arg represented a notable
exception: it spared 72% of the syncytium formation elicited by the wt envelope (Table II). Immunofluorescence
microscopy showed that the Ser25-Arg mutant, like the
other cleavage-defective mutants, was defective in intracellular transport (Fig. 3 e). Upon its coexpression with wt
glycoprotein, however, giant multinucleated cells with a
granular staining scattered throughout the cytoplasm were
detected (Fig. 3 f). The Ser25-Arg mutant thus failed to
abolish in trans the intracellular transport of the wt glycoprotein, in sharp contrast with the other cleavage-defective HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants. Furthermore, we confirmed that the cleavage of the wt glycoprotein was only
partially inhibited by coexpression of a threefold excess of
the Ser25-Arg mutant (Fig. 5 b, lane 3). We also verified
that the phenotype of the Ser25-Arg mutant was not due
to a greater instability of this glycoprotein compared with
the dominant negative mutants (data not shown). Thus,
assembly of the HTLV-1 envelope precursor is impaired
by a single amino acid substitution located at the NH2 terminus of the glycoprotein (the serine at position 25 is the
fifth amino acid of the protein after removal of the signal
peptide; Lee et al., 1984).
The HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 Glycoproteins Have a Similar Determinant of Precursor Assembly
We asked whether HTLV-2, a human retrovirus phylogenetically related to HTLV-1, has comparable requirements for envelope precursor assembly. We mutated the
serine residue at position 21 of the HTLV-2 envelope protein, equivalent to the serine at position 25 in HTLV-1
(Sodroski et al., 1984; Rosenberg et al., 1998
). Like the
Ser25-Arg HTLV-1 mutant, the Ser21-Arg HTLV-2 mutant by itself exhibited a cleavage-defective phenotype
(Table III). It also failed to abolish wt envelope-mediated
function when expressed in a threefold excess with the wt
HTLV-2 glycoprotein, sparing 85% of the syncytium-forming activity (Table III). This shows that, in both HTLVs, the
substitution of one serine at the NH2 terminus of the glycoprotein is sufficient to impair precursor assembly.
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A COOH-Terminally Truncated, Soluble Form of the Glycoprotein Is Trans-dominant Negative
We generated mutants with truncations or deletions to map the HTLV-1 glycoprotein domains involved in precursor assembly (Fig. 6). We verified that none of them elicited syncytium formation when expressed alone (data not shown), and we tested them for negative dominance.
A truncation mutant lacking the membrane-anchorage
and intracytoplasmic domains (ENV438-stop) abolished
the syncytium-forming activity of the wt HTLV-1 envelope (Fig. 6). As for point mutants, the trans-dominant
negative effect was specific, because the truncated HTLV-1
glycoprotein mutant did not interfere with the syncytium formation elicited by the wt HIV-1 envelope (data not
shown). It also followed the titration curve expected from
a random dimeric association of the two glycoproteins
(Fig. 2 c). The cleavage of the wt envelope precursor was
greatly impaired in cells coexpressing the ENV438-stop
mutant (Fig. 7, compare lane 2 + with 1 +). Conversely, secretion of the soluble products (SU of normal size and
truncated TM) of the ENV438-stop mutant was reduced in
the supernatant of these cells (data not shown). We concluded that (a) the ectodomain of the HTLV-1 envelope
protein contains structural information that is sufficient
for precursor subunit association, and (b) the heterodimers formed by the full-length wt glycoprotein and a
COOH-terminally truncated, soluble mutant are defective
in intracellular transport even though both subunits by
themselves are competent for this process (Pique et al.,
1993; Rosenberg et al., 1997
).
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The NH2 Terminus of the SU Portion Is Critical for Precursor Assembly
We further sought to determine which regions within the
HTLV-1 glycoprotein ectodomain are critical for intracellular assembly. A major role could be attributed to the SU
portion, because a truncated mutant lacking all the TM sequences (SU313-stop) was sufficient to exert a strong
dominant negative effect (Fig. 6). The phenotype remained unchanged after further truncations of the SU that
removed its COOH-terminal third (SU201-stop) or even its COOH-terminal half (SU163-stop). Again, titration of
wt glycoprotein followed the theoretical curve expected
from a random dimerization process (Fig. 2 c). The cleavage of the wt envelope precursor was also greatly impaired
in cells coexpressing any of these three truncated proteins
(Fig. 7, lanes 3+, 4+, and 5+). In contrast, an SU glycoprotein deleted of its NH2-terminal half (SU26-164) was
less effective in trans-inhibition of wt function, sparing 45% of the syncytium formation (Fig. 6). It was also less
effective in trans-inhibition of wt glycoprotein cleavage
(see Fig. 7, lane 6+; the labeling of the mutated protein
was fainter than that of the other mutants because the deletion removed 10 of the 14 cysteine residues of the SU
glycoprotein). Therefore, the integrity of the NH2-terminal domain of the SU was both necessary and sufficient for
full trans-dominant inhibition of the intracellular transport and hence the function of the wt envelope. These findings
underscore the importance of the NH2-terminal domain in
the intracellular assembly of the glycoprotein.
The TM Portion Contributes to Precursor Assembly, but Not via the Leucine Zipper-like Domain
We reasoned that removal of the SU might unmask a potential contribution of the TM portion in precursor assembly. Indeed, a deletion mutant lacking most of the SU sequences (TM284-488) exerted a partial dominant negative
effect on wt function (coexpression in a 3:1 ratio resulted
in 40% syncytium-forming activity; Fig. 6). The effect
seemed mostly due to the COOH-terminal region of the
ectodomain, and not to the leucine zipper-like domain, because an NH2-terminally deleted protein lacking the leucine zipper-like motif (TM384-488) still exerted a dominant negative effect, whereas a TM protein deleted of the
COOH-terminal half of the ectodomain (TM382-441)
was ineffective in trans-inhibition (Fig. 6). Thus, in addition to the contribution of the NH2-terminal domain of the
SU, a role in intracellular assembly could be attributed to the COOH-terminal region of the TM ectodomain.
Physical Interaction between HTLV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins Having an Intact NH2 Terminus
Finally, we took advantage of truncation mutants to provide direct demonstration of the physical interaction between HTLV-1 envelope proteins having an intact NH2-terminal domain. We used the 4D4 mAb, which is directed
to the COOH-terminal domain (amino acids 287-311) of
the HTLV-1 SU (Grange et al., 1998), to perform coimmunoprecipitation experiments (Fig. 8). The 4D4 mAb was
able to immunoprecipitate similar amounts of precursor
glycoproteins for the wt envelope, the Ser25-Arg mutant,
or a trans-dominant mutant, Arg379-Gly (Fig. 8, lanes 2-4),
but did not allow immunoprecipitation of the COOH-terminally truncated envelope protein SU163-stop, which
does not contain the 4D4 epitope (Fig. 8, lane 1+). However, the 4D4 mAb did coimmunoprecipitate the SU163-stop protein together with the wt precursor glycoprotein in
cells coexpressing the two proteins (Fig. 8, lane 2+).
Therefore, the dominant negative effect displayed by the
SU163-stop mutant could indeed be accounted for by the
physical association of the truncated protein with the wt
precursor glycoprotein in the coexpressing cell. A comparable level of SU163-stop protein was also coimmunoprecipitated together with a trans-dominant glycoprotein,
Arg379-Gly, confirming that competence for assembly resulted in coimmunoprecipitation (Fig. 8, lane 4+). In contrast, a smaller amount of SU163-stop protein was brought
down from cells coexpressing the Ser25-Arg mutated glycoprotein (Fig. 8, lane 3+). Similar results were obtained when the SU201-stop mutant was tested instead of the
SU163-stop mutant (data not shown). These data provide
direct evidence that competence for assembly is impaired
by a single amino acid substitution in the NH2-terminal
domain of the glycoprotein.
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In this study, we designed a dominant negative assay to explore the basis for the transport defect of a series of mutants of the HTLV-1 envelope, a glycoprotein which is
subject to a very tight quality control (Pique et al., 1990;
Delamarre et al., 1996
). To our surprise, we found that,
provided the NH2 terminus was intact, all mutated forms
of the glycoprotein were capable of interfering in trans
with the wt. Incompetence for assembly thus cannot explain the incompetence for transport of a large series of retained glycoproteins. It should be noted here that the mutated HTLV-1 glycoproteins were not retained in the ER
alone, since we also observed partial colocalization with an
intermediate compartment and cis-Golgi marker. This is
reminiscent of the retention of a VSV G mutant, which has
been shown to involve cycling between the ER, intermediate compartment, and cis-Golgi (Hammond and Helenius, 1994
).
It could be argued that, rather than resulting from an assembly process, the trans-dominant interference exerted by the HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants might be due to a nonspecific effect, such as the titration of a factor required for the intracellular transport of membrane proteins. This is very unlikely, however, because the HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants had no effect on another retroviral glycoprotein, that of HIV-1. Moreover, coimmunoprecipitation experiments provided direct demonstration of a physical interaction between mutated glycoproteins exerting a dominant negative effect and the wt HTLV-1 precursor glycoprotein. Another caveat with the dominant negative approach is that it could reflect the constitution of aggregates rather than a true competence for oligomeric assembly. Although this hypothesis seemed unlikely because of the specificity of the trans inhibition, we addressed it directly by showing that the HTLV-1 glycoproteins from cotransfected cells were not recovered as aggregates in sucrose gradients. Moreover, for all mutants tested, the experimental titration curves for the dominant negative effect followed the theoretical curve expected from a dimeric assembly of the wt and mutated glycoproteins. We infer from these observations that our dominant negative assay reveals a specific dimeric assembly process taking place between HTLV-1 envelope precursor glycoproteins in the living cell.
For most membrane-anchored glycoproteins studied so
far, assembly in the ER is a late step which takes place after folding of the monomeric subunits (Doms et al., 1993).
We therefore expected that the majority of the transport-defective HTLV-1 glycoprotein mutants would be non-
trans dominant, due either to a defect in the assembly step
per se or to a defect in a previous folding step necessary
for assembly. We found, on the contrary, that incompetence for assembly was rarely responsible for the intracellular retention of the mutated glycoproteins: 21 of the 22 glycoproteins incapable of transport were nevertheless capable of dimeric association with the wt precursor. These
data suggest that the assembly process unraveled here is
unlikely to occur as a late event in the acquisition of transport competence. The apparent discrepancy between our results and the previous studies reviewed in Doms et al.
(1993)
can be resolved if one considers the methodology
employed in each case. In the kinetic analyses that suggested that the essentially complete folding of monomers
is a prerequisite to oligomerization, velocity gradient sedimentation was generally used as the assembly assay. Such
a technique can only pick those oligomers that are stable
enough to withstand detergent solubilization and centrifugation (Einfeld and Hunter, 1988
; Doms, 1990
). Alternatively, monoclonal antibodies have been employed, but
they too may detect only the mature, stable oligomer. An
assembly assay based on negative dominance is complementary to these biochemical methods, because it evaluates the functional consequences of an interaction having
occurred between subunits within the cell, but which
would not necessarily have withstood the experimental
manipulations involved in protein isolation and may not
necessarily correspond to the ultimate oligomeric conformation. With this in mind, our results suggest the occurrence of an early and transient assembly step of the glycoprotein, preceding the appearance of the stable oligomer
having the quaternary structure required for transport.
Studies with HA (Copeland et al., 1986
) have also suggested that the intracellular assembly of membrane-anchored proteins is in fact a multistep process, although
it is detected as a discrete event when studied by a single method.
Even though the association of HTLV-1 envelope precursor subunits is presumed here to occur early in the maturation process, it is a posttranslational event. Indeed, our
titration curves were consistent with a random association
of monomers having arisen from different polysomes. This
feature is shared by the HA glycoprotein (Boulay et al.,
1988), and is likely to be a general rule of the assembly of
membrane proteins, because their confinement to the ER
compartment and their oriented state in the plane of the
membrane facilitate spatial proximity between subunits
(Grasberger et al., 1986
). By contrast, a posttranslational
mechanism is unlikely to be adopted by cytosolic oligomeric proteins (Gilmore et al., 1996
).
Our work allowed us to map the structural domain involved in the ER association of HTLV-1 envelope precursor subunits to the NH2 terminus of the glycoprotein. This
conclusion was drawn from a number of concordant observations. First, of the 22 point mutants tested, the only one
that spared the intracellular transport of the wt precursor
had a single amino acid substitution at the NH2 terminus
of the glycoprotein. Second, this mutant did not allow coimmunoprecipitation of an assembly-competent glycoprotein, whereas a trans-dominant mutant did. Third, the
use of truncation and deletion mutants showed that the
NH2-terminal half of the SU was both necessary and sufficient for full trans-dominant inhibition. Finally, we also
showed that HTLV-2 has a similar NH2-terminal determinant of envelope precursor assembly. To our knowledge, this study is the first to demonstrate the involvement of
the SU portion of retroviral glycoproteins in ER assembly
of the precursor. This feature was probably obscured by
the fact that mature TM glycoproteins of retroviruses have
always been found as stable oligomers (Einfeld and Hunter,
1988, 1994
; Pinter et al., 1989
; Schawaller et al., 1989
; Earl
et al., 1990
; Rey et al., 1990
; McGuire et al., 1992
), whereas
mature SU glycoproteins have usually been detected as
monomers (Einfeld and Hunter, 1988
, 1994
; Earl et al.,
1990
; Thomas et al., 1991
). It should be noted, however, that oligomers of mature SU glycoproteins were observed
in some studies (Owens and Compans, 1990
; Weiss et al.,
1990
; Tucker et al., 1991
). Whatever the contribution of
SU to the oligomerization of the mature envelope glycoproteins may be, our study brings to light an SU requirement for the ER assembly of the HTLV-1 envelope precursor, and underscores that domains involved in the ER
assembly of precursor glycoproteins should not be directly
inferred from those defined for the mature oligomers.
The difficulties in interpreting structural data for proteins that adopt different conformations in their lifetimes
are further exemplified by the study of the leucine zipper-like motif present in the TM. Retroviral envelopes undergo at least two successive oligomerization events: the
first is the assembly of the precursor glycoprotein in the
ER, while the second is the formation of the fusion-competent oligomer triggered by receptor recognition at the
cell surface. Although it was first thought that the zipper motif might fold into a coiled coil in the context of the precursor molecule, the leading hypothesis now is that it
drives only the second oligomerization event (Dubay et al.,
1992; Chen et al., 1993
; Wild et al., 1994
). Using an in vivo
experimental strategy, our study with the HTLV-1 envelope glycoprotein further corroborates the idea that the
leucine zipper-like domain is not required for ER assembly, since glycoproteins with deletions encompassing the corresponding region were still capable of intracellular association with the wt precursor.
Collectively, our data indicate that the NH2-terminal domain of the HTLV-1 envelope glycoprotein determines its
ER assembly at a step that is not the last one in the acquisition of transport competence. The phenotype exhibited
by most of our HTLV-1 envelope mutants (i.e., transport
deficiency despite competence for oligomeric assembly)
was previously observed with mutants of HA0 (Gething et al., 1986), VSV G (Doms et al., 1988
), and the envelope
of the Moloney murine leukemia virus (Kamps et al.,
1991
). Thus, oligomerization per se is not sufficient to
meet the quality control of the ER. The possibility of additional events in the maturation process was also suggested
by the observation of a significant time lag between the
ER dimerization of the HIV-1 envelope precursor and its
Golgi cleavage (Earl et al., 1991
). What is the exact nature
of these postoligomerization events? It is possible that significant folding of the subunits proceeds within the framework of the oligomer. Consistent with this hypothesis, the
HIV-1 envelope precursor has been found to acquire reactivity to stringent conformational antibodies only after its
oligomeric assembly (Otteken et al., 1996
). Studies on the
reovirus cell attachment protein
1, a cytosolic protein,
have revealed a schema of protein maturation that may also apply to membrane proteins in the ER. The maturation of this protein involves an initial trimerization of the
NH2 terminus that, in turn, permits the trimerization of
the COOH terminus and completion of folding; the trans-dominant negative effects exerted by COOH-terminally
truncated mutants led to the proposal that the folding of
the NH2-terminally assembled subunits is a cooperative
process requiring the integrity of all subunits (Leone et al.,
1992
). A similar mechanism is likely to account for the trans-dominant negative effects observed in our study of
the HTLV-1 glycoprotein. It is indeed noteworthy that not
only the heterodimers formed by the wt and any of the
transport-defective mutants but also those formed by the
wt and any of the COOH-terminally truncated, transport-competent mutants were defective in transport. Together with previous findings, our study thus emphasizes that the
condition imposed on membrane proteins by the cellular
quality control is not simply the acquisition of an oligomeric status as such, but rather the attainment of the correct quaternary structure. We propose that this process
involves the cooperative folding of "preassembled" subunits.
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Footnotes |
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Address correspondence to Arielle R. Rosenberg, INSERM U332, ICGM, 22 rue Méchain, 75014 Paris, France. Tel.: 33 1 40 51 64 52. Fax: 33 1 40 51 77 49. E-mail: arielle{at}cochin.inserm.fr
Received for publication 21 August 1998 and in revised form 2 March 1999.
We are grateful to L.L. Pritchard and M. Bomsel for critical reading of the manuscript and helpful suggestions, to I. Bouchaert for excellent assistance with confocal microscopy, and to C. Boivin and C. Raguénès-Nicol for help in editing the images. We thank C. Desgranges and M.-P. Grange for their gift of the 4D4 mAb, J. Coste for repeatedly providing us with sera from infected individuals, and M. Alizon for the HIV-1 plasmid and the cell lines used in the syncytium formation assays.
This work was supported by grants from the Association Nationale pour la Recherche sur le SIDA (ANRS, Paris, France) and from the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC, Villejuif, France), as well as by equipment grants from the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM, Paris, France).
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Abbreviations used in this paper |
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CMV, cytomegalovirus; HA, influenza virus hemagglutinin; HTLV, human T cell leukemia virus; SU, surface glycoprotein; TM, transmembrane glycoprotein; VSV, vesicular stomatitis virus; wt, wild-type.
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