* Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110 and Respiratory and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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Abstract |
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The folding and trafficking of tropoelastin is thought to be mediated by intracellular chaperones, although the identity and role of any tropoelastin chaperone remain to be determined. To identify proteins that are associated with tropoelastin intracellularly, bifunctional chemical cross-linkers were used to covalently stabilize interactions between tropoelastin and associated proteins in the secretory pathway in intact fetal bovine auricular chondrocytes. Immunoprecipitation of tropoelastin from cell lysates after cross-linking and analysis by SDS-PAGE showed the presence of two proteins of ~74 kD (p74) and 78 kD (p78) that coimmunoprecipitated with tropoelastin. Microsequencing of peptide fragments from a cyanogen bromide digest of p78 identified this protein as BiP and sequence analysis identified p74 as the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase, FKPB65. The appearance of BiP and FKBP65 in the immunoprecipitations could be enhanced by the addition of brefeldin A (BFA) and N-acetyl-leu-leu-norleucinal (ALLN) to the culture medium for the final 4 h of labeling. Tropoelastin accumulates in the fused ER/Golgi compartment in the presence of BFA if its degradation is inhibited by ALLN (Davis, E.C., and R.P. Mecham. 1996. J. Biol. Chem. 271:3787-3794). The use of BFA and other secretion-disrupting agents suggests that the association of tropoelastin with FKBP65 occurs in the ER. Results from this study provide the first identification of a ligand for an FKBP in the secretory pathway and suggest that the prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity of FKBP65 may be important for the proper folding of the proline-rich tropoelastin molecule before secretion.
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Introduction |
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TROPOELASTIN is a soluble 70-kD protein that is
cross-linked in the presence of extracellular microfibrils to form insoluble elastic fibers. These fibers are an abundant component of the extracellular matrix where they provide the critical function of elasticity to
tissues such as blood vessels, lung, and skin (Mecham and
Davis, 1994). Apart from cleavage of a signal sequence as the
completed polypeptide chain enters the ER (Karr and Foster, 1981
; Saunders and Grant, 1984
; Grosso and Mecham,
1988
), the tropoelastin monomer remains relatively unchanged as it traverses the secretory pathway en route to the
cell surface, with no glycosylation or proteolytic processing.
In a previous study, we reported that tropoelastin undergoes selective degradation in the ER as a consequence
of being retained in that compartment by brefeldin A
(BFA)1 treatment (Davis and Mecham, 1996). Similar to
other proteins that undergo ER-associated degradation
(Inoue et al., 1991
; Wileman et al., 1991
; Thrift et al.,
1992
), the degradation of tropoelastin can be inhibited by
the cysteine protease inhibitor, N-acetyl-leu-leu-norleucinal (ALLN). Because tropoelastin has the property of being able to undergo a phase transition and form a coacervate when at high concentrations under physiological
conditions (Cox et al., 1974
), it was postulated that the accumulation of tropoelastin within the fused ER/Golgi
compartment during BFA treatment may lead to coacervation of the protein and thus its subsequent recognition and degradation as a misfolded protein. Consistent with
this hypothesis was the observation of a lag period during
which time tropoelastin accumulated for 1 h before rapid
degradation of the protein (Davis and Mecham, 1996
).
The increased concentration of tropoelastin in the fused
ER/Golgi compartment may also exhaust an existing supply of chaperones that would normally fold and traffic tropoelastin to the Golgi, again leading to misfolding and
degradation. A protective function for an ER chaperone
has been suggested by the work of Jain and colleagues
(1994) who demonstrated that the interaction of procollagen I with the ER chaperone, colligin/hsp47, protects the
molecule from degradation by a serine protease in the ER.
Because the expression of hsp47 predominates in collagen-secreting cells (Saga et al., 1987) and its synthesis
closely correlates to that of collagen under many conditions (Clarke et al., 1993
), the possibility has been raised
that a population of molecular chaperones may exist that
are specific for certain substrates (Nagata, 1996
).
To investigate the possibility of "substrate-specific"
chaperones, primary cultures of fetal bovine chondrocytes
were studied for the presence of potential molecular chaperones for tropoelastin. In culture, tropoelastin is a major
protein produced by these cells, and is secreted and assembled into an insoluble extracellular elastin matrix. Using
the membrane permeable chemical cross-linkers dithiobis-
(succinimidyl propionate) (DSP) and disuccinimidyl suberate (DSS), we have identified two proteins that coimmunoprecipitate with tropoelastin under cross-linking
conditions in intact cells. Sequence analysis of these proteins has identified them as the ER chaperone BiP and the
65-kD FK506-binding protein FKPB65. FKBP65 is a
member of the highly conserved family of intracellular receptors called immunophilins (Schreiber, 1991; Sigal and
Dumont, 1992
; Galat, 1993
). Based on their ability to bind
either of the two immunosuppressant drugs, cyclosporin A
or FK506, the immunophilins have been divided into two
groups, cyclophilins and FKBPs, respectively. To date, six
members of the FKBP family have been identified and named according to their respective molecular weights:
FKBP12 (Harding et al., 1989
; Siekierka et al., 1989
),
FKBP13 (Jin et al., 1991
), FKBP25 (Galat et al., 1992
; Jin
et al., 1992
; Wiederrecht et al., 1992
), FKBP52 (Peattie et
al., 1992
), FKBP54 (Smith et al., 1993
) and, most recently,
FKBP65 (Coss et al., 1995
). Of these, only FKBP13 has
been specifically localized to the ER (Nigam et al., 1993
).
The presence of a putative signal sequence, glycosylation sites and an ER retention sequence (HEEL; Pelham,
1990
) at the COOH terminus of FKBP65 (Coss et al.,
1995
), however, predicts that this protein will also be contained within the ER.
Apart from the property of peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerization, which is common to all immunophilins, no specific function or ligand for FKBPs in the ER has been identified. Results from this study thus provide the first identification of a ligand for an FKBP in the secretory pathway. That this ligand is tropoelastin, a protein with a large percentage of proline residues, suggests that the prolyl isomerase activity of FKBP65 may be important for tropoelastin folding, trafficking, and ultimate assembly into elastic fibers.
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Materials and Methods |
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Cells and Reagents
Bovine ears were obtained from fetuses of 160-180 d of gestation at a local slaughterhouse. Fetal bovine chondrocytes (FBCs) were obtained by
collagenase digestion of the auricular cartilage as previously described
(Mecham, 1987). All experiments were conducted with first passage cells
grown in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with L-glutamine, nonessential amino acids, antibiotics, and 10% fortified bovine
calf serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT).
For metabolic labeling, [4,5-3H]L-leucine (1 mCi/ml) and [35S]L-cysteine, (10 mCi/ml) were purchased from ICN Biomedicals, Inc. (Irvine,
CA) and Pro-mix L-[35S] in vivo cell labeling mix (14.3 mCi/ml) was purchased from Amersham Corp. (Arlington Heights, IL). Dialyzed FBS was
purchased from Hyclone. Protease inhibitors, -amino-n-caproic acid,
phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid, and
N-ethylmaleimide were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis,
MO) and used in the lysis buffer at final concentrations of 10 mM, 2.5 mM, 5 mM, and 5 mM, respectively. Immune complexes were precipitated using a 1:1 slurry of protein A immobilized on Trisacryl (Pierce, Rockford,
IL) in lysis buffer.
Reagents used during metabolic labeling included ALLN, BFA, monensin, and bafilomycin A1 (Sigma Chemical Co.). ALLN and BFA were
both used at a final concentration of 10 µg/ml from 10 mg/ml stocks stored
at 20°C in ethanol or DMSO, respectively. Monensin was prepared fresh
as a 10-mM stock in ethanol and used at a final concentration of 10 µM.
Bafilomycin A1 was stored at
20°C as 100 µM stock in DMSO and used
at a final concentration of 1 µM. For chemical cross-linking, DSP and DSS
were purchased from Pierce and made fresh as 0.1 M stocks in DMSO immediately before use.
Antibodies
For immunoprecipitation experiments and Western blot analysis, a monoclonal tropoelastin antibody, BA-4, raised to bovine -elastin (Wrenn et al.,
1986
) and a polyclonal FKBP65 antipeptide antibody were used. For production of the FKBP65 antibody, a synthetic peptide to the COOH terminus of mouse FKBP65 (Coss et al., 1995
) was prepared using FastMoc
chemistry on an ABI 431A peptide synthesizer. The sequence of the peptide was confirmed using an ABI 473 protein sequencer. The peptide
made was C-LKSDEDQERVHEEL and thus targets the same antigenic
epitope as the Pep 4 antibody prepared by Coss and colleagues (Coss et al.,
1995
). Antibody production from the synthetic peptide was performed as
previously described (Mariencheck et al., 1995
). The antibody was used as
an IgG fraction without further purification.
Metabolic Labeling and Chemical Cross-linking
Confluent monolayers of FBCs, grown in P-100 tissue culture plates, were washed with leucine-free or cysteine/methionine-free medium containing 5% dialyzed FBS and incubated in this medium for 1 h. Each dish of cells was metabolically labeled with either 50 µCi of [3H]leucine in 3 ml of leucine-free medium containing 5% dialyzed FBS for tropoelastin labeling, or 60 µCi of [35S]cysteine plus 60 µCi of [35S]Pro-mix in cysteine/methionine-free medium for labeling of cross-linked proteins. Any treatment of cells during the pulse with BFA, ALLN, monensin, or bafilomycin A1 is as indicated in the text and figure legends. After metabolic labeling, the medium was removed and cell layers were washed with room temperature PBS. To each dish, 1 ml of PBS was added and the cell layers scraped up, transferred to microfuge tubes, and pelleted at 1,000 g. The cell pellets were then resuspended in 100 µl of PBS and 2 µl of either DSP stock, DSS stock, or DMSO (carrier), was added. Cross-linking was carried out at room temperature with periodic gentle vortexing. After 45 min, 900 µl of PBS was added to each tube and the cross-linking reaction was quenched by the addition of 20 µl/ml of a 1-M glycine stock (pH 9.2). The samples were vortexed and left at room temperature for 10 min before the addition of 10 µl/ml of a 1-M glycine stock (pH 7.2) to lower the pH. After a wash in PBS, 1 ml of cold lysis buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40) with protease inhibitors was added to each tube and the tubes were rotated at 4°C for 30 min. Cellular debris was pelleted by centrifugation and the cell lysates transferred to clean microfuge tubes for immunoprecipitation.
Sucrose Density Gradient Analysis
For analysis of DSP cross-linked complexes, two P-100 culture dishes of postconfluent FBCs were metabolically labeled with [35S]cysteine and [35S]Pro-mix for 18 h, chemically cross-linked with DSP, and then lysed as described above. The lysate (1 ml) was precleared by incubation with 10 µg/ml normal mouse IgG for 2 h followed by an additional hour with 25 µl of protein A immobilized on Trisacryl. The protein A-Trisacryl was pelleted by centrifugation and the lysate was layered over a 10-ml gradient of 5-25% sucrose prepared with a buffer of 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0) containing 150 mM NaCl and 0.1% Triton X-100. The gradient was spun in a Beckman SW-41 rotor at 288,000 g for 34 h at 4°C. After centrifugation, 32 fractions of 350 µl each were collected from the top of the gradient and immunoprecipitated for tropoelastin as described below.
Immunoprecipitation
Lysates were precleared by incubation with 10 µg/ml normal mouse IgG for 2 h followed by an additional hour with 25 µl of protein A immobilized on Trisacryl. The protein A-Trisacryl was pelleted by centrifugation and the supernatants transferred to clean tubes containing 100 µl of 50 mg/ml BSA in lysis buffer and 10 µg of BA-4 antibody or 50 µg of FKBP65 antibody. Lysates were incubated overnight at 4°C with gentle agitation. The following day, 40 µl of protein A-Trisacryl was added to each tube and incubated for 1 h at 4°C with gentle agitation. The immune complexes were pelleted and the pellets washed three times with 50 mM Tris-HCl, and 400 mM NaCl (pH 8.0), and one time with 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 6.8). After the final wash, each pellet was resuspended in 35 µl of Laemmli sample buffer containing DTT and incubated at 100°C for 6 min. The samples were electrophoresed on SDS-polyacrylamide gels and then fixed and treated with EN3HANCE (NEN Research Products, Boston, MA) for 1 h for 3H-containing gels and 1 M salicylic acid in 15% methanol for 30 min for 35S-containing gels. Gels were then dried and exposed to Kodak XAR-5 X-ray film. Exposure times were ~24 h for all gels except the sucrose density gradient (Fig. 3) that was exposed for 2 wk. All immunoprecipitation experiments were conducted a minimum of three times to ensure reproducibility of results. For densitometric quantitation, autoradiographic bands were scanned using NIH image. Each band for each of the three proteins was scanned four times with different sized areas to ensure accurate and consistent measurements. The same four areas were used for each experimental condition. The average of the four measurements was plotted.
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Western Blot Analysis
After electrophoresis, cross-linked samples were transferred to nitrocellulose and nonspecific-binding sites were blocked with 5% dry milk in TBS
(20 mM Tris base, 137 mM NaCl [pH 7.6]) containing 0.1% Tween-20
overnight at 4°C. All remaining rinses, washes, and antibody dilutions
were in 2% dry milk, 0.05% Tween-20 in TBS. The next day, the blot was
rinsed and incubated in primary antibody for 1 h. After two quick rinses
and 1 × 15 min and 2 × 5 min washes, the blot was then incubated for 1 h
with HRP-linked sheep anti-mouse F(ab)2 (Amersham Corp.) for detection of tropoelastin, or HRP-linked donkey anti-rabbit F(ab
)2 for detection of FKBP65. After a wash, as described above, and final rinse in TBS,
the blot was incubated with enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL) detection reagents (Amersham Corp.) according to the manufacturer's directions.
Cyanogen Bromide Treatment and Microsequencing
To obtain sufficient protein for microsequencing, tropoelastin was immunoprecipitated from FBCs in six P-100 culture dishes after cross-linking
with DSP, as described above. The sample was loaded in a single lane,
electrophoresed, and transferred to ProBlott membrane (Applied Biosystems Inc., Foster City, CA) according to the manufacturer's directions.
After the transfer, the membrane was rinsed in several changes of distilled
water, stained with 0.1% Coomassie blue R-250 in 50% methanol for 2 min, and destained with several changes of 50% methanol containing 10%
acetic acid. The membrane was then rinsed with several changes of distilled water and air dried. Each band to be sequenced was excised from the dry
membrane, cut into 2-3 mm2 pieces and placed in a microfuge tube. To
each tube, 150 µl of 150 mM cyanogen bromide (CNBr) in 70% (vol/vol)
formic acid was added and the tubes were incubated overnight in the dark
at room temperature. Excess reagent was removed by vacuum centrifugation, and when dry, the slices were washed with 50 µl deionized water by
vortexing and redried. The dried pieces of the blot were then loaded into
the reaction chamber of an ABI 473 protein sequencer for sequence analysis. Sequence obtained from the CNBr digest was confirmed with the
o-phthalaldehyde (OPA) blocking technique (Brown-Augsburger et al.,
1995), a way of sequencing a single peptide in a peptide mixture.
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Results |
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To identify molecular chaperones that assist in the secretion and assembly of tropoelastin, FBCs were chosen because these cells continue to synthesize and secrete tropoelastin monomers when established in primary culture.
Unlike many elastogenic cell types, FBCs in culture also
assemble the monomers into an insoluble extracellular
elastic fiber (Lee et al., 1994). It is hypothesized, therefore,
that within these cells, the protein must associate with an
appropriate series of folding and trafficking chaperones to
allow for ultimate assembly outside the cell.
Tropoelastin Is Cross-linked into Higher Molecular Weight Complexes by DSS
Because tropoelastin is rapidly secreted (Davis and Mecham, 1996), initial experiments were conducted with BFA
to accumulate the protein within the cell and allow for
maximal interaction with potential molecular chaperones.
In all instances, the cysteine protease inhibitor ALLN was
included with BFA to inhibit the selective degradation of
tropoelastin that occurs as a result of its retention in the
fused ER/Golgi compartment (Davis and Mecham, 1996
).
With an abundance of leucine residues, and only two cysteines and no methionines, [3H]leucine was used to metabolically label tropoelastin in FBCs for 4 h in the presence
of BFA and ALLN. After cross-linking with DSP, immunoprecipitation of tropoelastin from the cell lysate revealed one wide band at ~70 kD upon separation by SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions (Fig. 1 A). Two isoforms
of tropoelastin are expressed by these cells, thus the wide
band actually represents a doublet (see Figs. 4 A and 6).
When the nonreducible cross-linker DSS was used, the
tropoelastin band was reduced in density and four additional high molecular weight bands were evident (Fig. 1 A).
To determine if these bands represented tropoelastin monomers cross-linked by DSS into higher molecular weight
complexes, the experiment was repeated under nonradioactive conditions and the proteins were transferred and
probed for tropoelastin by Western analysis. As seen in
Fig. 1 B, the identical pattern of four bands was revealed
in the DSS sample, whereas no immunoreactive bands for
tropoelastin were observed in the DSP sample.
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Metabolic Labeling with [35S]Cysteine/Methionine Reveals Two Proteins Cross-linked to Tropoelastin in the Secretory Pathway
Although tropoelastin was detected in high molecular weight complexes after cross-linking with DSS, no additional protein(s) were evident on the autoradiograph in the DSP cross-linked sample. It was assumed, therefore, that the protein(s) to which tropoelastin was cross-linked was not efficiently labeled. For this reason, the experiment was repeated using [35S]cysteine/methionine as the radiolabel. To ensure that the cross-linking of tropoelastin to another protein in the secretory pathway was not a brefeldin A-induced event, the experiment was first conducted in the absence of any secretion-disrupting drug. After cross-linking with DSP, cell lysates immunoprecipitated for tropoelastin demonstrated the presence of a thin, faint band at 78 kD (p78) and a more prominent band at 74 kD (p74) (Fig. 2 A). The band of tropoelastin at 70 kD was barely discernible because tropoelastin is not well labeled by [35S]cysteine/methionine. In the cell lysate from the DSS cross-linked sample, no bands at these molecular weights were observed, indicating that p74 and p78 were cross-linked to tropoelastin in higher molecular weight complexes.
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In these experiments, tropoelastin was continually being secreted during the 16-h labeling period, so the amount of radiolabeled tropoelastin within the cell would be constant and its association with any chaperone protein would be relatively short-lived in control (untreated) cells. To retain more tropoelastin inside the cell and potentially enhance the association of tropoelastin with p74 and p78, FBCs were labeled for 16 h with [35S]cysteine/methionine and treated with BFA and ALLN during the final 4 h of the labeling period. Under these conditions, a prominent band of tropoelastin was observed in the DSP cross-linked cell lysates together with increased amounts of p74 and p78 (Fig. 2 B). This result suggests that the p74 and p78 proteins are present with tropoelastin in the fused ER/Golgi compartment. As expected with the nonreducible cross-linker DSS, the tropoelastin band was reduced in amount and higher molecular weight bands of cross-linked proteins similar to those seen in Fig. 1 were observed. In addition, no p74 was observed in the DSS cross-linked lysate, indicating that all of this protein was immunoprecipitated by being cross-linked to tropoelastin. A small amount of p78, however, was evident suggesting that some p78 could be coimmunoprecipitated with tropoelastin without being directly cross-linked to it. This is supported by the observation that a similar amount of p78 is seen in cell lysates incubated with DMSO alone (Fig. 2 B).
Sedimentation Analysis of the DSP Cross-linked Proteins
To investigate the nature of the tropoelastin complex and
associated proteins, a DSP cross-linked lysate was sedimented over a 5-25% sucrose density gradient. Fractions
were collected, immunoprecipitated for tropoelastin, and
separated on a reducing gel. Fig. 3 shows that a considerable proportion of tropoelastin was present in the light
fractions. This indicates that a population of intracellular tropoelastin was either not associated with any other protein in the cell or unaffected by this particular type of
cross-linker. This result is consistent with the presence of a
band of tropoelastin in immunoprecipitations of DSS cross-linked lysates (Fig. 2 B). Although only weakly labeled by
the [35S]cysteine/methionine, tropoelastin was also observed in the center of the gradient together with p74 and
p78. In addition, the sedimentation analysis showed several other bands that distributed in the same fractions. Increasing evidence suggests that BiP may be part of a set of
resident ER chaperones that complex together with secretory proteins as they fold and assemble in the ER (Lin et
al., 1993; Nigam et al., 1994
; Kuznetsov et al., 1997
). This
"folding complex" is reported to include BiP, ERp72,
grp94, and grp170. The molecular weights of two of the
bands that cosediment with the tropoelastin-p74-p78 complex are similar to those expected for the two ER chaperones, grp94 and grp170. The identity of these proteins,
however, remains to be determined. Note that the cells for
this experiment were not treated with BFA and ALLN at
the end of the labeling period. This provides evidence that
the association of p74 and p78 with tropoelastin occurs under normal conditions of tropoelastin trafficking and is not
a consequence of BFA-induced accumulation of tropoelastin in the fused ER/Golgi compartment.
The Association of Tropoelastin with p74 and p78 Occurs within Early Compartments of the Secretory Pathway
The association of p74 and p78 with tropoelastin as it travels through the secretory pathway was investigated by using several different secretion disrupting agents to block
the path of tropoelastin in various compartments within
the cell during the final 4 h of the labeling period. In control cells, a strong band of p74 and a diffuse band of p78
were observed in the DSP cross-linked sample despite the
tropoelastin band being barely evident (Fig. 4 A). This result is consistent with Fig. 2 A and confirms that the association of tropoelastin with p74 and p78 occurs under normal conditions when the trafficking of tropoelastin is unimpeded. When BFA was used together with ALLN, there
was a concurrent increase in both the amount of tropoelastin and associated proteins, p74 and p78, in the DSP cross-linked cells as compared to untreated cells. Monensin,
which blocks transport of proteins from the cis to trans
side of the Golgi (Tartakoff, 1983), also resulted in a proportional increase in both tropoelastin and the associated proteins as determined by coimmunoprecipitation. Unlike
brefeldin A, monensin does not cause retrograde fusion of
the Golgi cisternae with the ER and thus the results obtained indicate that the association of tropoelastin with
p74 and p78 is not induced by the brefeldin A alteration of
cell organelle architecture. In contrast to brefeldin A and
monesin, treatment of cells with bafilomycin A1 for the final 4 h of the pulse did not enhance the amount of p74
or p78 that was cross-linked to tropoelastin over that obtained in control cells despite more tropoelastin being immunoprecipitated under these conditions. This observation
was confirmed by densitometric scanning of the radiolabeled bands (Fig. 4 B). Because bafilomycin A1 results in
the accumulation of secreted proteins at the level of the
trans-Golgi network (Henomatsu et al., 1993
), these results suggest that both p74 and p78 are localized in early
compartments of the secretory pathway. Note that the use
of ALLN in the monensin and bafilomycin A1 incubations
was not necessary, as tropoelastin readily accumulates in
the Golgi without any apparent degradation by the ER-
associated, ALLN-sensitive mechanism (Davis, E.C., and
R.P. Mecham, manuscript submitted for publication).
Microsequence Analysis Identifies p78 as BiP and p74 as Bovine FKBP65
The DSP cross-linked lysate was scaled up approximately
sixfold to obtain sufficient protein for microsequence analysis. After immunoprecipitation with the tropoelastin antibody, proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and transferred to PVDF membrane. After staining with Coomassie
blue R-250, the p78 and p74 bands were easily recognized.
The p74 band, however, was diffuse and often appeared as
two bands (Fig. 5 A). Initial attempts to sequence protein
from these bands failed due to a blocked amino terminus, most likely the consequence of the cross-linking reagent
interacting with the amino group. To obtain internal sequence, the p74 and p78 bands were cut from the blot and
the proteins were cleaved in situ with CNBr. The resulting
peptide mixture was then sequenced and, as expected, multiple sequences were obtained for both proteins. For p78,
the definitive location of proline residues in the peptide mixture was determined. Using additional bands of CNBr-cleaved p78, the mixture was then sequenced again until a
proline residue was exposed at the amino terminus. OPA
was then used to selectively block the primary amines at
the ends of each peptide in the mixture. Because OPA
does not react with secondary amines, the peptide with the
NH2-terminal proline remained unblocked and could be independently sequenced (Brown-Augsburger et al., 1995
).
The resulting sequences from several proline-containing
peptides sequenced in this manner allowed the identification of p78 as the ER chaperone, BiP.
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Independent microsequencing after CNBr cleavage of
each of the two bands that form the p74 doublet showed
that both bands were the same protein. Remarkably, when
the CNBr digest of p74 was sequenced, a clear single sequence was distinguished against a minor background of
residues, even though the digest contained a peptide mixture. The derived sequence was used to search GenBank/ EMBL/DDBJ and a high degree of homology was obtained with the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (PPIase) domains of the mouse FK506-binding protein, FKBP65
under accession number L07063 (Coss et al., 1995). From
the sequence of mouse FKBP65, it was evident that the
strong sequence that was obtained for p74 was a result of
the high degree of homology between the four PPIase domains in FKBP65 (Fig. 5 B).
Tropoelastin Is Cross-linked to FKBP65 in the Secretory Pathway of FBCs
To detect FKBP65 in FBCs and investigate its association
with tropoelastin, a peptide antibody was made to the
COOH terminus of the protein using the published sequence of mouse FKBP65 (Coss et al., 1995). The association
of the two proteins was investigated by Western analysis
after cross-linking and immunoprecipitation. Immunoblotting of DSP cross-linked lysates with the FKBP65 antibody after immunoprecipitation with the same antibody showed
the doublet of FKBP65 at 74 kD and an additional band at
100 kD (Fig. 6). The appearance of FKBP65 as a doublet is
consistent with the studies of Coss and colleagues (1995).
The identity of the 100-kD protein that cross-reacts with
the antibody is unknown. When immunoprecipitation of
DSP cross-linked lysates was carried out with the tropoelastin antibody and subsequently blotted for FKBP65, a
prominent wide band was observed at a molecular weight
identical to that seen by blotting with the FKBP65 antibody. In contrast, if the nonreducible cross-linker DSS was
used, the 74-kD band was absent and a weak band of immunoreactivity was observed at a higher molecular weight (Fig. 6). This result provides direct evidence that tropoelastin is associated with FKBP65 in the secretory pathway. The ability of the FKBP65 antibody to coimmunoprecipitate tropoelastin with FKBP65 after cross-linking
was verified by the detection of a tropoelastin doublet in
DSP cross-linked lysates following FKBP65 immunoprecipitation (Fig. 6). Because only that amount of tropoelastin in association with FKBP65 would be immunoprecipitated by the FKBP65 antibody following cross-linking, a
relatively weak signal was expected as compared to when
tropoelastin was blotted from a tropoelastin immunoprecipitation. To get a strong enough signal, therefore, the
amount of cells used was increased and the ECL times extended for blots probed with antibodies that differ from those used for immunoprecipitation (Fig. 6, lanes 2, 3, and
5). When the nonreducible cross-linker DSS was used instead of DSP and the cell lysate immunoprecipitated with
the FKBP65 antibody, no immunoreactive tropoelastin
could be detected on the blot (not shown). This was expected as the already weak tropoelastin signal would likely
be distributed in several areas of high molecular weight
due to the various complexes formed among tropoelastin, FKBP65, and other proteins.
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Discussion |
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The present study has identified BiP and FKBP65 as molecular chaperones for tropoelastin in the secretory pathway of FBCs using chemical cross-linking in intact cells. Although in some experiments brefeldin A was used to retain the tropoelastin within the cell and enhance the tropoelastin-chaperone interactions, the association of BiP and FKBP65 with tropoelastin was also shown to occur in untreated cells. This observation demonstrates that the tropoelastin-chaperone interactions are physiologically significant and not a result of distorting the secretory pathway or disrupting the transport of secreted proteins.
The association of BiP with a secretory protein in the
ER is not surprising. This observation does, however, provide validity for the cross-linking technique because BiP
and tropoelastin would be in the same compartment during the synthesis of tropoelastin and, based on the properties of BiP as a molecular chaperone (Gething and Sambrook, 1992) and the hydrophobic nature of tropoelastin, it would be highly probable that the two proteins would interact. The association of tropoelastin with FKBP65 is a
novel finding and represents the first ligand to be identified for an FK506-binding protein in the secretory pathway. FKBP65 was initially cloned and sequenced from a
JB6 murine epidermal cell cDNA expression library (Coss
et al., 1995
) and, to date, represents the sixth FKBP to be
identified. Sequence analysis predicts the protein to contain a potential membrane-spanning region and four PPIase signature domains. FKBP65 was also shown to be a
glycoprotein and to contain a putative signal sequence at
its amino terminus. A potential ER retention sequence at
the COOH terminus (Coss et al., 1995
) predicts that FKBP65
is located in the ER. The association of FKBP65 with tropoelastin, a soluble secreted protein, provides indirect evidence to support this localization. The extent to which
FKBP65 may move from the ER to other compartments
along the secretory pathway remains to be determined.
Although the predicted molecular mass of FKBP65 is
64,683 D based on the open reading frame of the clone and
60,576 after cleavage of the predicted NH2-terminal signal
sequence (Coss et al., 1995), immunoprecipitation and
Western blotting of bovine FKBP65 revealed a doublet
that migrated at ~74 kD by SDS-PAGE. This result is
consistent with the findings of Coss and colleagues (1995)
who suggest that the reason for the decrease in mobility after SDS-PAGE, results from glycosylation of the protein
and unique protein structure resulting from nine proline-
proline sequences. The reason for migration of the protein
as two bands is more uncertain. The upper band was identified to be phosphorylated, however, and thus could account for at least part of the difference (Coss et al., 1995
).
The biological role in the ER of the two FKBP PPIases,
FKBP13 (Nigam et al., 1993) and FKBP65, is largely unknown. Because PPIases are known to catalyze the otherwise slow conversion between cis- and trans-isomers of
peptidyl-prolyl bonds in peptides and proteins, they have
been assigned the general function of molecular chaperones in that they likely assist in protein folding. Until our
identification of an association between FKBP65 and tropoelastin, however, no known ligand for these proteins
had been identified. Although PPIase activity of an FKBP
on a ligand in the ER has not been demonstrated, isomerization of cis- to trans-peptide bonds by a member of the
cyclophilin family of PPIases, cyclophilin B (Smith et al.,
1995
), has been shown to be critical for the formation of
the triple helical structure of procollagen. In nascent type I
collagen, it has been estimated that 16% of the X-proline and 8% of the X-hydroxyproline bonds are in the cis-conformation (Sarkar et al., 1984
). In order for collagen to assemble, all of these bonds must be converted to the trans-conformation. The necessity of this conformational change
was demonstrated by the ability of cyclosporin A, which
competes with procollagen for cyclophilin B, to disrupt the
stability, folding, and assembly of collagen (Steinmann et al.,
1991
; Bächinger et al., 1993
). Interestingly, FKBP65 shows
a restricted tissue expression (Coss et al., 1995
) that is in
contrast to the ubiquitous expression of all other FKBPs.
This observation suggests that FKBP65 may have a specific role in certain cell types rather than generalized function as a PPIase.
A role for a protein isomerase in the folding of tropoelastin is attractive, based on the fact that ~12% of the
residues in tropoelastin are proline. In contrast to procollagen, little is known concerning the conformational state
of these X-proline bonds. The proline residues in tropoelastin are, however, in domains within the primary sequence that are important for secondary and tertiary
structure of the molecule. In many of these sequences, proline residues are found at the corner of a turn that is
stabilized by a hydrogen bond between the C-O of residue
1 and the N-H of residue 4 (Urry, 1983
). In order for this
hydrogen bond to form, the proline must be in the trans-configuration. One important proline-containing sequence
is a pentapeptide, GVGVP, that repeats 11 times near the
center of bovine tropoelastin (Indik et al., 1990
). The repeating
turns formed by the pentapeptide sequences stack into a
spiral that itself has interesting mechanical
properties (Urry et al., 1995
). By disrupting the
turn substructure, a single cis-proline could alter the formation of
the
spiral and hence prevent the proper folding of tropoelastin or alter its elastomeric properties.
Other regions of tropoelastin where PPIase activity may be important are cross-linking domains that consist of lysine pairs separated by one or more proline residues and flanked by additional prolines. Because the presence of proline residues between and around the lysine residues destined for cross-linking would place steric restrictions on the conformation of the cross-linking domains, the activity of a PPIase on the bonds associated with these prolines may be of considerable importance for the formation of the cross-links. On a larger scale, the cis-trans configuration of the X-proline bonds may ultimately play a role in the overall folding of each monomer, such that cross-linking domains between monomers are aligned.
Whereas the importance of a PPIase to act as a proline
isomerase is obvious, increasing evidence suggests that
these enzymes may play additional, or alternative, roles in
the cell. In Drosophila, the ninaA gene codes for an ER
localized cyclophilin homologue that is specific for photoreceptor cells. Despite the presence of a potential ER retention signal, ninaA colocalizes with its substrate, Rh1
rhodopsin, in both the ER and in postGolgi secretory vesicles (Colley et al., 1991). Because mutations in the ninaA gene block the transport of Rh1 rhodopsin to the cell surface and lead to an accumulation of the protein in the ER,
an intracellular trafficking function for ninaA has been
suggested. FKBP52 (also called Hsp56) has also been implicated in a trafficking or targeting event. This PPIase is
present in the cytosol where it binds to Hsp90 and forms a
heterocomplex with untransformed glucocorticoid receptors (Czar et al., 1994
; Owens-Grillo et al., 1995
). The role
played by FKBP52 in steroid receptor action is uncertain, particularly because PPIase activity is not required for heterocomplex formation nor for proper folding of the hormone-binding domain (Owens-Grillo et al., 1995
). Several
lines of evidence, however, including nuclear localization
of FKBP52, have suggested that FKBP52 functions to target steroid receptor movement to the nucleus rather than
acting as an enzyme (Pratt et al., 1993
; Owens-Grillo et al.,
1996
). In light of these studies, it will now be important to
determine the extent to which FKBP65 plays a role in the
trafficking of tropoelastin through post-ER compartments
and in the ultimate assembly of the elastic fiber in the extracellular matrix.
An interesting question is how FKBP65 relates to the
67-kD elastin-binding protein (EBP67) described in earlier studies. EBP67 was originally characterized as a component of a protein complex thought to play a role in elastic fiber assembly on the cell surface (Wrenn et al., 1988).
To date, the identity of this protein remains unclear. Candidate proteins include the 67-kD high affinity laminin receptor, galactosyltransferase, 5 nucleotidase, and several others (for review see Mecham and Hinek, 1996
). More
recently, Hinek et al. (1993
, 1994, 1995) have suggested
that a catalytically inactive alternatively spliced form of
-galactosidase is the 67-kD elastin-binding protein and
that this protein functions as an intracellular chaperone.
They propose that this galactosidase variant transports
tropoelastin through the secretory pathway, mediates elastic fiber assembly at the plasma membrane, and then recycles back to the intracellular endosomal compartment
where it reassociates with newly synthesized tropoelastin
and shuttles it to the cell surface (Hinek et al., 1995
).
There are fundamental differences between FKBP65 and
the 67-kD protein described by Hinek et al. (1995)
, however, that support separate roles for these proteins within
the cell. FKBP65 appears to be localized to early compartments of the secretory pathway consistent with the presence
of a putative ER retention signal. It also does not contain a
lectin-like domain that could interact with galactose-containing glycoconjugates. Furthermore, there is no evidence
that FKBP65 acts to shuttle any protein to the cell surface
and may function solely as a folding chaperone in the ER.
The experiments in the present study were originally designed to investigate whether a "substrate-specific" chaperone for tropoelastin is present in cells committed to the production of elastic fiber components. It seems unlikely that FKBP65 is specific for tropoelastin, as recent data has shown several high molecular weight bands that coimmunoprecipitate with FKBP65 even in the absence of cross-linker (Davis, E.C., unpublished observation). Whether these bands represent additional substrates for FKBP65 or other molecular chaperones has yet to be determined. Of particular interest will be to determine if FKBP65 is part of a "chaperone complex" or whether it acts independently to assist in the folding and/or trafficking of tropoelastin.
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Received for publication 25 June 1997 and in revised form 14 November 1997.
Address all correspondence to Elaine C. Davis, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75235-9039. Tel.: (214) 648-2319. Fax: (214) 648-8694. E-mail: davis16{at}utsw.swmed.eduThe authors thank David Schettler and Clarina Tisdale (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) for cell culture assistance. E.C. Davis was an American Lung Association Research Fellow during initial phases of this work.
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants (HL 41926, HL 53325, and AR 41474) to R.P. Mecham and by a Beginning Grant-in-Aid from the American Heart Association - Missouri Affiliate to E.C. Davis.
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Abbreviations used in this paper |
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ALLN, N-acetyl-leu-leu-norleucinal; BFA, brefeldin A; CNBr, cyanogen bromide; DSP, dithiobis-(succinimidyl propionate); DSS, disuccinimidyl suberate; ECL, enhanced chemiluminescence; FBCs, fetal bovine chondrocytes; OPA, o-phthalaldehyde; PPIase, peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase.
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