Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, Vienna Biocenter, University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria
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Abstract |
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Previous studies on the role of microtubule-associated protein 1B (MAP1B) in adapting microtubules for nerve cell-specific functions have examined the activity of the entire MAP1B protein complex consisting of heavy and light chains and revealed moderate effects on microtubule stability. Here we have analyzed the effects of the MAP1B light chain in the absence or presence of the heavy chain by immunofluorescence microscopy of transiently transfected cells. Distinct from all other MAPs, the MAP1B light chain-induced formation of stable but apparently flexible microtubules resistant to the effects of nocodazole and taxol. Light chain activity was inhibited by the heavy chain. In addition, the light chain was found to harbor an actin filament binding domain in its COOH terminus. By coimmunoprecipitation experiments using epitope-tagged fragments of MAP1B we showed that light chains can dimerize or oligomerize. Furthermore, we localized the domains for heavy chain-light chain interaction to regions containing sequences homologous to MAP1A. Our findings assign several crucial activities to the MAP1B light chain and suggest a new model for the mechanism of action of MAP1B in which the heavy chain might act as the regulatory subunit of the MAP1B complex to control light chain activity.
Key words: microtubule-associated protein 1B; microtubules metabolism; nocodazole; actin stress fibers; cytoskeleton ![]() |
Introduction |
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MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED protein 1B (MAP1B)1
was originally identified as a 320-kD protein
that copurified with microtubules from mammalian brain through successive cycles of temperature-dependent polymerization and depolymerization (Greene et al.,
1983; Binder et al., 1984
; Bloom et al., 1984
; Calvert and
Anderton, 1985
; Herrmann et al., 1985
; Riederer et al.,
1986
). MAP1B is expressed at its highest levels in the
brain during early postnatal development (Binder et al.,
1984
; Calvert and Anderton, 1985
; Lewis et al., 1986
; Riederer et al., 1986
; Safaei and Fischer, 1989
; Schoenfeld et al.,
1989
; Garner et al., 1990
). In rodents, expression peaks a
few days after birth and then gradually declines to reach
adult levels. This pattern of expression is reciprocal to that
of the related high molecular mass protein MAP1A, the
expression of which is low at birth and increases during
postnatal development (Schoenfeld et al., 1989
; Garner et
al., 1990
). In the adult, MAP1B expression remains elevated in brain regions that retain a high level of axonal
growth and synaptic plasticity (Schoenfeld et al., 1989
; Tucker et al., 1989
; Nothias et al., 1996
). Detailed immunohistochemical analysis revealed that MAP1B is present
in axons, cell bodies, and dendrites of neurons and in glial
cells (Bloom et al., 1985
; Calvert and Anderton, 1985
;
Riederer et al., 1986
; Garner et al., 1989
; Schoenfeld et al.,
1989
) and immunoelectron microscopy suggested that
MAP1B is a component of a microtubule-associated fibrillar matrix found in axons (Hirokawa et al., 1985
). Studies
using monoclonal antibodies specific to phosphorylated
MAP1B demonstrated that the protein is differentially
phosphorylated on several sites depending on its expression in neurons or glial cells, its subcellular localization in
neurons, and the developmental stage (Sato-Yoshitake et
al., 1989
; Gordon-Weeks et al., 1993
; Harrison et al., 1993
; Riederer et al., 1993
; Ulloa et al., 1994
; Boyne et al., 1995
). Analyses carried out on differentiating neurons in cell culture showed that MAP1B levels and phosphorylation are
particularly high in distal axons (Tanaka et al., 1992
; Black
et al., 1994
; Boyne et al., 1995
; Bush et al., 1996
). Taken together, these findings led to the hypothesis that the protein
might be involved in neuronal differentiation, regulating
microtubule-dynamics in the growing axon.
Cloning of mouse, rat and human MAP1B cDNA revealed highly conserved open reading frames (90% amino
acid identity) of ~2,460 codons, the exact length depending on the species (Noble et al., 1989; Zauner et al., 1992
;
Lien et al., 1994
; Liu and Fischer, 1996
). Among the highest conserved regions of the protein are the NH2-terminal
550 and the COOH-terminal 120 amino acids (98 and
100% identity between mouse and human, respectively).
In addition, MAP1B contains regions of homology to the
distantly related protein MAP1A (Langkopf et al., 1992
).
The two main stretches of homology comprise 300 and 120 amino acids and are located in the conserved NH2 and
COOH termini, respectively. MAP1B mRNA is translated
to give rise to a polyprotein that is subsequently cleaved
into two proteins comprising the NH2-terminal 2,200 amino acids, termed the heavy chain, and the COOH-terminal 250 amino acids, termed the light chain of MAP1B
(Hammarback et al., 1991
). The exact site where the
polyprotein precursor is cleaved is not known but has been
narrowed down to a region of ~20 amino acids around
amino acid 2,200. Heavy chain and light chain form a complex. The binding site for the light chain has been mapped
to a 120 kD region comprising the NH2-terminal half of
the heavy chain (Kuznetsov et al., 1986
; Hammarback et
al., 1991
). A similar post-translational proteolytic processing has been observed for MAP1A (Langkopf et al., 1992
).
Consistent with the observed pattern of MAP1B expression during brain development, the protein appears to play
an important role in neuronal differentiation. The first
such evidence was obtained by antisense oligonucleotide
approaches and showed that ablation of MAP1B expression in PC12 cells or cultured cerebellar macroneurons inhibits or reduces neurite outgrowth (Brugg et al., 1993; DiTella et al., 1996
). More recently, the phenotypic effects of
homozygous MAP1B mutations introduced into the germline of mice by homologous recombination were investigated in two independent studies (Edelmann et al., 1996
;
Takei et al., 1997
). Despite discrepancies concerning the
severity of the effects of MAP1B mutations both studies
demonstrated that MAP1B mutations can lead to an impairment or retardation of brain development. However,
the molecular function of MAP1B during neuronal morphogenesis and its mechanism of action remain unclear
and information about functional domains of the protein is
limited to the characterization of the two microtubule-binding domains. One of these domains is located on the
heavy chain between amino acids 580 to 800 and was identified by expressing MAP1B mutant proteins containing or
missing this domain in tissue culture cells (Noble et al.,
1989
) and by cosedimentation assays in vitro (Zauner et
al., 1992
). The other microtubule-binding domain is located on the light chain in the region spanning amino acids 2,215 to 2,335 (numbering according to the polyprotein
precursor) and was identified by analyzing the capacity of
recombinant MAP1B fragments synthesized in bacteria to
cosediment with microtubules in vitro (Zauner et al.,
1992
).
One approach successfully used to unravel the function
of neuronal MAPs has been the expression of these proteins in nonneuronal cells. However, unlike MAP2, which
induces dramatic effects such as microtubule bundling,
stiffening and stabilization when expressed in nonneuronal cells (Lewis et al., 1989; Takemura et al., 1992
; Weisshaar et al., 1992
; LeClerk et al., 1993
; Weisshaar and Matus, 1993
), MAP1B expression induces only modest effects
(Noble et al., 1989
; Takemura et al., 1992
). MAP1B causes
less efficient stabilization of microtubules than MAP2 and
does not induce microtubule bundling. Likewise, MAP1B
causes microtubule stabilization and nucleation in vitro
but again, less efficiently than MAP2 (Vandecandelaere et
al., 1996
). In all these studies the effects of the entire MAP1B protein complex consisting of heavy and light
chain were analyzed. Here we attempted to investigate
possible effects of the MAP1B light chain on its own to determine which activities, if any, it might have. We chose to
express the light chain or light chain deletion mutants
in nonneuronal cells expressing little or no endogenous
MAP1B to minimize possible interference by the endogenous MAP1B heavy chain. We found that in the absence
of heavy chain the light chain has dramatic and unique effects on microtubules. We identified for the first time light
chain domains for microtubule stabilization and actin filament binding, obtained evidence for light chain oligomerization and determined the importance of the MAP1A homology domains of MAP1B for oligomerization and heavy
chain-light chain interaction. Our findings suggest a new model for MAP1B as a protein complex consisting of a
regulatory subunit, the heavy chain, and an active subunit,
the light chain.
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Materials and Methods |
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cDNA Constructs
The full-length rat MAP1B cDNA was obtained as described (Zauner et
al., 1992; Tögel et al., 1998
). Constructs encoding full-length MAP1B
polyprotein precursor (amino acids 1-2,459), heavy chain (amino acids
1-2,185), light chain (amino acids 2,210-2,459), NH2 terminus (amino acids 1-508), COOH terminus (amino acids 2,336-2,459), or the microtubule
binding domain of the light chain (amino acids 2,210-2,336; see Fig. 1) all
fused in frame to a COOH-terminal myc-tag (amino acid sequence: EQKLISEEDLN; Cravchik and Matus, 1993
) by a variable linker of 1-3 amino
acids containing unique restriction sites were generated using convenient
restriction sites and adapter oligonucleotides. All constructs were cloned into the Tet-Off expression vector pUHD10-3 (Gossen and Bujard, 1992
).
Hemagglutinin (HA)-tagged constructs were obtained by exchanging the
myc-tag against a triple HA-tag (amino acid sequence: ASRYPYDVPDYAGYPYDVPDYAGSYPYDVPDYASR; Field et al., 1988
) flanked
by appropriate restriction sites. For constructs encoding untagged full-length MAP1B or untagged light chain the myc-tagged COOH terminus
was replaced by the untagged COOH terminus from the original cDNA
(Zauner et al., 1992
; Tögel et al., 1998
).
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Antibodies
A rabbit polyclonal anti-light chain antiserum was raised against the synthetic peptide CSKNVDVEFFKRVRS (MAP1B amino acids 2,360-2,373
linked to an NH2-terminal cysteine for convenient linkage to the affinity
matrix; PiChem, Graz, Austria), affinity purified as described (Tögel et
al., 1994) and used at a concentration of 5 µg/ml on immunoblots. The
mouse anti-light chain MAP1B mAb E-12 (Kuznetsov et al., 1986
; Sigma
Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO), the mouse anti-heavy chain MAP1B mAb
AA-6 (Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Mannheim, Germany) and the rat
anti-HA mAb 3F10 (Boehringer Mannheim GmbH) were used at dilutions of 1:1,000, 1:500 and 1:1,000, respectively. The affinity-purified polyclonal rabbit anti-myc antibody (Tögel et al., 1998
) was used at a concentrations of 5 µg/ml on immunoblots and 1 µg/ml for immunofluorescence
microscopy. Intracellular microtubules were decorated with a mixture of
mouse anti-tubulin mAbs (B-5-1-2 [Sigma Chemical Co.] at 1:1,000,
TU-01 [Biodesign, Kennebunk, ME] at 1:50, and anti-
-tubulin [Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Uppsala, Sweden] at 1:25). For the detection of
stress fibers the mouse anti-
-actin mAb AC-15 (Sigma Chemical Co.)
was used at a dilution of 1:400. As secondary antibodies alkaline phosphatase-conjugated goat anti-rabbit, anti-mouse (both Promega, Heidelberg, Germany, dilution 1:7,500), or anti-rat antibodies (dilution 1:5,000,
Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc., West Grove, PA) were used
in immunoblots. Donkey anti-rabbit, anti-mouse, or anti-rat antibodies
(Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, Inc.) preadsorbed against serum proteins from other species (in particular those from which the other
primary antibodies used in the same double or triple immunofluorescence
experiment originated) labeled with Texas red, FITC or AMCA were
used at a dilution of 1:100.
Cell Culture, Transfection, and Analysis
PC12 cells were cultured as described (Greene and Tischler, 1976).
NIH3T3 and PtK2 cells were grown at 37°C in an atmosphere containing
7.5% CO2 in high glucose DME supplemented with 10% FCS in the absence of tetracycline. 18-20 h before transfection cells were seeded onto
coverslips or plates at densities of 45% (NIH3T3) and 66% (PtK2). Transient transfection was carried out using Lipofectamin (GIBCO BRL) according to the manufacturer's protocol. The ratio of expression plasmid to
transactivator plasmid was 10:1. The transfection mixture was replaced
with fresh growth medium after 5 h and the cells were incubated for an additional 24 h (NIH3T3) or 48 h (PtK2) at 37°C.
For immunofluorescence microscopy PtK2 cells were washed in PBS,
fixed in methanol (20°C, 10 min), equilibrated in PBS, blocked for 30 min with 3% BSA, incubated with the primary antibodies in 1% BSA for
1 h, washed extensively in PBS, incubated for 1 h with the secondary antibody and again washed with PBS. Alternatively, cells were fixed with 4%
paraformaldehyde and 0.2% glutaraldehyde in a buffer containing 5 mM
EGTA, 2 mM MgCl2, and 0.2 M Hepes, pH 7.2. Cells were washed twice
with PBS, incubated for 5 min in 0.1% Triton X-100 in PBS, 3 times for 5 min in 0.5 mg/ml NaBH4 in PBS and 4 times in PBS. Specimens were analyzed by confocal microscopy (MRC600; Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules,
CA) or for triple staining with a cooled CCD-Camera (IP-Lab).
For immunoblot analysis (Sambrook et al., 1989), cells were washed
with PBS, lysed in buffer A, containing 8 M urea, 4% SDS, 0.125 M Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 12 mM EDTA, 0.3% DTT, 10 µM benzamidine, 1 mM
PMSF, 2 µM pepstatin, 2 µM aprotinin, 2 µM leupeptin, and 0.002%
bromphenol blue, sonicated, incubated at 65°C for 10 min and subjected
to SDS-PAGE.
For immunoprecipitation experiments all steps starting with the cell lysis were carried out on ice or at 4°C.
Cell Lysis Protocol A. After washing with PBS the cells were lysed on the plates by incubation for 10 min with lysis buffer B containing 0.5% Triton X-100, 100 mM NaCl, 100 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 10 mM EDTA, 0.1 mM DTT, protease inhibitors as described above, and nucleases (0.5 mg/ml DNase [from bovine pancreas, grade II; Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Mannheim, Germany] and 0.2 mg/ml RNase [from bovine pancreas; Boehringer Mannheim]). The cell lysates were centrifuged for 10 min at 14,000 rpm and the resulting supernatants were transferred to fresh tubes for further processing.
Cell Lysis Protocol B.
The cells were collected by trypsinization and
lysed by Dounce homogenization in lysis buffer C containing PBS, 10 mM
EDTA, 0.1 mM DTT, and protease inhibitors and nucleases as above. The cell lysates were centrifuged for 10 min at 14,000 rpm and the supernatants were transferred to fresh tubes and supplemented with 1/100 vol of
2.5% Tween 20. The resulting supernatants of either cell lysis protocol
were precleared by incubation with 1/10 vol of protein A-Sepharose over
night. After centrifugation for 30 s at 900 rpm in a microcentrifuge the supernatant was transferred into a fresh tube and incubated for 3-5 h with
1/10 vol of protein A-Sepharose containing covalently linked (Harlow and
Lane, 1988) affinity-purified anti-myc antibody. The Sepharose-coupled antibody was collected by centrifugation for 30 s at 900 rpm and was washed twice with a buffer corresponding to the buffer in which the immunoprecipitation was performed. After two additional washes with PBS the
Sepharose-coupled antibody was collected by centrifugation as above and
incubated for 5 min at 95°C in an equivalent volume of sample buffer containing 0.125 M Tris-HCl, pH 6.8, 2 mM EDTA, 4% SDS, and 20% glycerol. After centrifugation the supernatant was supplemented with DTT to
a final concentration of 10 mM and incubated for 10 min at 65°C. Samples
were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting as described (Sambrook et al., 1989
).
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Results |
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Correct Proteolytic Processing of Ectopically Expressed MAP1B in Nonneuronal Cells
To identify domains of MAP1B that might modify the properties of cellular microtubules or might interact with other cytoskeletal components we chose to express full-length MAP1B, the separate heavy and light chains, and potential subdomains (Fig. 1) in PtK2 and NIH3T3 cells. These cells express little or no endogenous MAP1B and thus permit the investigation of MAP1B domains without the interference of endogenous MAP1B heavy and light chains. To verify that MAP1B is processed correctly into heavy and light chain in these nonneuronal cells we expressed myc-tagged and untagged full-length rat MAP1B in PtK2 and NIH3T3 cells and analyzed the electrophoretic mobility of the resulting light chains on immunoblots (Fig. 2). In NIH3T3 cells the ectopic expression of untagged full-length MAP1B led to the generation of a protein reactive with the light chain-specific antibody that was indistinguishable in its electrophoretic mobility from the endogenous light chain expressed in PC12 cells (Fig. 2, lanes 1 and 2). Expression of myc-tagged full-length MAP1B in NIH3T3 or PtK2 cells yielded a slightly larger protein that was detected with antibodies to the light chain or the myc-tag (Fig. 2, lanes 5-10). This slight increase in size was expected from the addition of the 14-amino acid long myc-tag. On separate gels we analyzed generation of the heavy chain in these transfected cells using a heavy chain specific antibody (not shown). From these experiments we estimated that at least 50 and 90% of the ectopically expressed full-length MAP1B was processed in PtK2 and NIH3T3 cells, respectively.
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Since the exact NH2 terminus of the light chain is not
known, we initially expressed three candidate constructs in
NIH3T3 cells, encoding amino acids 2,185-2,459, 2,210-
2,459, or 2,222-2,459 (numbers referring to the amino acid
position in the full-length polyprotein precursor). The construct encoding untagged amino acids 2,210-2,459 gave
rise to a protein that reacted with the light chain-specific
mAb E-12 (Kuznetsov et al., 1986) and was indistinguishable in size from the endogenous light chain expressed in
PC12 cells (Fig. 2, lanes 1 and 3). In addition, the protein encoded by this construct corresponds in its NH2 terminus
to the NH2 terminus of the MAP1B light chain as predicted by amino acid sequence data (Hammarback et al.,
1991
). Therefore, this protein comprising amino acids
2,210-2,459 is henceforth referred to as the light chain of
MAP1B in this report. The construct encoding amino acids 2,185-2,459 gave rise to a protein larger than the endogenous light chain of PC12 cells, and the construct encoding amino acids 2,222-2,459 gave rise to a protein that
did not react with the light chain-specific mAb E-12 (data
not shown), indicating that the E-12 epitope is localized at
the NH2 terminus of the light chain between amino acids
2,210 and 2,222. The faint band detected with anti-light
chain antibody in untransfected NIH3T3 and PtK2 cells
(Fig. 2, lanes 4 and 7) may have represented endogenous light chain or a related protein expressed in these cells at
low levels (Hammarback et al., 1991
; Domínguez et al.,
1994
).
The Light Chain of MAP1B Has Microtubule Stabilizing Activity
It has previously been shown by in vitro cosedimentation
assays that one of the two microtubule binding domains of
MAP1B is located between amino acids 2,210 and 2,331 (Zauner et al., 1992). This region of the full-length polyprotein precursor constitutes the NH2-terminal half of the
light chain. Expression of the light chain in PtK2 cells revealed that it can bind to microtubules in vivo and that it
can induce a change in cellular microtubule arrangement
(Fig. 3, C and D). Many microtubules assumed a wavy appearance with a relatively high density of closely spaced
wavy microtubules about halfway between the nucleus
and the periphery. This altered microtubule arrangement
was characteristic for the MAP1B light chain and has not
been observed with other MAPs such as MAP1A (Cravchik et al., 1994
), MAP2 (Weisshaar et al., 1992
), or MAP4
(Olson et al., 1995
; Nguyen et al., 1997
). Full-length MAP1B consisting of heavy and light chain did not induce
this change in microtubule appearance (Fig. 3, A and B).
Full-length MAP1B displayed diffuse and fibrillar localization, the latter colocalizing with microtubules, consistent with published observations (Noble et al., 1989
).
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We next analyzed whether the MAP1B light chain can
induce microtubule stabilization by conducting experiments with nocodazole. Nocodazole prevents the de novo
polymerization of tubulin heterodimers and thus leads to
depolymerization of microtubules owing to their dynamic
instability (Hoebeke et al., 1976). In nontransfected cells
and in cells transfected with full-length MAP1B comprising heavy and light chain nocodazole treatment at 10 µg/
ml for 1 h before fixation caused the depolymerization of
most microtubules and led to a diffuse cytoplasmic tubulin
staining with the occasional detection of remaining microtubules (Fig. 4, A and B). Only ~5% of cells displayed stable microtubules. In contrast, when the light chain on its
own was ectopically expressed, stabilization of microtubules against the effects of nocodazole was observed in
about 60% of the cells (Fig. 4, C and D). In addition to
stabilization, the light chain induced the characteristic
changes of the microtubule network with many microtubules assuming a wavy, sometimes looped appearance.
These results show that the light chain is capable of inducing microtubule stabilization and that this light chain activity is inhibited in the presence of the heavy chain.
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We also tested the effect of taxol in cells expressing
MAP1B light chain. Taxol reduces the critical concentration of tubulin polymerization and induces de novo polymerization of centrosome-independent microtubules (de
Brabander et al., 1981). Treatment of cells with 5 µM taxol
for 7 h before fixation induced multiple centrosome-independent microtubule bundles at the periphery of nontransfected cells, and expression of full-length MAP1B did
not prevent this effect of taxol (Fig. 5, A and B). In
contrast, in cells expressing the light chain only taxol
treatment failed to induce formation of centrosome-independent, peripheral microtubule bundles. Instead, microtubules again displayed the characteristic light chain-
induced wavy and looped appearance (Fig. 5, C and D).
Thus, the results of both, nocodazole or taxol treatment of
cells indicated that the MAP1B light chain can inhibit microtubule depolymerization.
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The MAP1B Light Chain Binds to the Heavy Chain and Can Oligomerize via Its COOH-terminal MAP1A Homology Domain
The results presented above demonstrated that the MAP1B light chain had distinct effects on the morphological appearance and stability of microtubule networks as long as it was expressed in the absence of the heavy chain. Coexpression of heavy and light chains by transfecting cells with a construct encoding the full-length polyprotein precursor that is cleaved to give rise to heavy and light chains had little or no effect on microtubules, suggesting that the heavy chain might inhibit light chain activity. Similar results were obtained when heavy and light chain were coexpressed in the same cells from two separate constructs, one encoding a myc-tagged heavy chain and the other encoding an HA-tagged light chain. Cells coexpressing both proteins displayed both diffuse and fibrillar localization of heavy and light chain (Fig. 6, A and B), reminiscent of what had been observed in cells expressing heavy and light chains generated by precursor cleavage (Fig. 3 A). Triple immunofluorescence analysis revealed that the intracellular fibers decorated by anti-myc and anti-HA antibodies were microtubules (Fig. 6 C). Thus, heavy and light chain colocalized with each other and with microtubules. When the heavy chain was expressed in the absence of the light chain, only diffuse staining was observed (Fig. 6 D), indicating that the light chain is necessary for efficient microtubule binding of the heavy chain-light chain complex. Furthermore, no significant changes of microtubule appearance or stability were observed in cells expressing the heavy chain only (not shown). In populations of cells coexpressing heavy and light chain from separate constructs (cotransfection at a molar ratio of 2:1) the number of cells displaying changes in microtubule arrangement or stability against nocodazole or taxol was reduced to 40% or less compared with cells expressing the light chain only. These results provided further evidence that the heavy chain has little or no effect on its own but can inhibit the effect of the light chain on microtubule appearance and stability.
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An analogous cotransfection experiment was carried out using a construct encoding an NH2-terminal fragment of the heavy chain instead of the entire heavy chain. This fragment contained the NH2-terminal MAP1A homology domain of the MAP1B heavy chain but lacked its microtubule binding domain (Fig. 1). As with the entire heavy chain, we observed that the NH2 terminus, when expressed on its own, showed diffuse cytoplasmic distribution (Fig. 7 D) and had no effect on microtubules (not shown). In contrast, when the NH2 terminus was coexpressed with the light chain, NH2 terminus (Fig. 7 A) and light chain (Fig. 7 B) colocalized on microtubules (Fig. 7 C). In addition, both proteins displayed diffuse cytoplasmic distribution (Fig. 7, A and B) but apparently to a lesser extend than when the entire heavy chain and the light chain were coexpressed (compare Fig. 7, A and B with Fig. 6, A and B). In populations of cells coexpressing NH2 terminus and light chain (cotransfection at a molar ratio of 4:1) the number of cells displaying stabilization of microtubules against nocodazole was reduced to 66% compared with cells expressing the light chain alone. Taken together these results indicated that the light chain can form a complex with the NH2-terminal 508 amino acids of the heavy chain and that this complex can bind to microtubules via the microtubule binding domain of the light chain. Binding of the NH2 terminus led to a reduction of the light chains activity to induce changes in microtubule appearance and stability but did not appear to block its binding to microtubules.
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To confirm heavy chain-light chain interactions observed by immunofluorescence microscopy and to more precisely define the interacting domains we performed coimmunoprecipitation experiments using lysates of NIH3T3 cells cotransfected with constructs encoding the myc-tagged NH2 terminus of the heavy chain and the HA-tagged COOH terminus of the light chain. The latter comprises the most COOH-terminal MAP1A homology domain of MAP1B (Fig. 1). Lysates of transfected cells were subjected to immunoprecipitation using anti-myc antibodies and the precipitates were analyzed by immunoblotting for the presence of NH2 terminus and COOH terminus using antibodies directed against the myc- and the HA-tag, respectively. Precipitation of the NH2-terminal fragment with anti-myc antibodies (Fig. 8, lane 1) led to the coprecipitation of the COOH terminus of the light chain that was detected on immunoblots using anti-HA antibodies (Fig. 8, lane 3). From lysates of control cells expressing only the COOH terminus of the light chain (Fig. 8, lane 4) this fragment could not be precipitated with the anti-myc antibody (Fig. 8, lane 5) demonstrating the specificity of precipitation. Equivalent results were obtained when the experiment was performed with HA- instead of myc-tagged NH2 terminus and myc- instead of HA-tagged COOH terminus. Thus, we have narrowed down the location of MAP1B heavy chain-light chain interaction domains to the NH2-terminal 508 amino acids of the heavy chain and the COOH-terminal 125 amino acids of the light chain.
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We also investigated whether individual light chain molecules can directly or indirectly associate with each other, a feature that could have important implications for their mechanism of action. NIH3T3 fibroblasts were cotransfected with two constructs both encoding the COOH terminus of the light chain either in its HA-tagged or in its myc-tagged (Fig. 9). After transient expression of the constructs the cells were lysed and the lysates were subjected to immunoprecipitation using the anti-myc antibody. The precipitates were analyzed on immunoblots using either the anti-myc antibody (Fig. 9, lane 1) or the anti-HA antibody (Fig. 9, lane 2). This analysis showed that both proteins were expressed and that precipitation of the myc-tagged COOH terminus with anti-myc antibodies led to coprecipitation of the HA-tagged COOH terminus. For controls, cells were cotransfected with constructs encoding the HA-tagged COOH terminus and the myc-tagged microtubule binding domain of the light chain. Immunoprecipitation with the anti-myc antibody led to the precipitation of the myc-tagged microtubule binding domain (Fig. 9, lane 4) but not the HA-tagged COOH terminus (Fig. 9, lane 5) despite the presence of this protein in the extracts (Fig. 9, lane 3). This demonstrated the specificity of coprecipitation as the anti-myc antibody precipitated the HA-tagged COOH terminus only when cells had been cotransfected with myc-tagged COOH terminus (Fig. 9, lane 2) but not with other myc-tagged proteins (Fig. 9, lane 5). At the same time it showed the specificity of the interaction of the COOH terminus with itself but not with other coexpressed proteins. Similar results were obtained when coprecipitation experiments were performed using cells coexpressing the entire untagged light chain and the myc-tagged COOH terminus, ruling out that light chain oligomerization is artificially induced by truncation or epitope tagging of the protein (not shown). Moreover, we observed colocalization of the untagged light chain and the myc-tagged COOH terminus by immunofluorescence microscopy (not shown) providing independent evidence for light chain oligomerization. Thus, our experiments demonstrated that light chain molecules can form complexes with each other by specific interaction through a domain located in their COOH-terminal 125 amino acids.
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Binding of the MAP1B Light Chain COOH Terminus to Actin Stress Fibers
Amino acid sequence comparison of MAP1B and MAP1A
revealed two remarkable features about the COOH terminus of the MAP1B light chain. First, this region of MAP1B
is among those highest conserved between human, mouse
and rat (Fig. 1) and secondly, this region comprises one of
the three longer stretches of homology between MAP1B
and MAP1A (Fig. 1; Langkopf et al., 1992). To investigate whether this part of the light chain contains functional domains in addition to those identified above we transiently
expressed the COOH terminus in PtK2 cells and analyzed
its intracellular localization by immunofluorescence microscopy (Fig. 10). In addition to diffuse intracellular distribution we observed colocalization of the myc-tagged
COOH terminus with actin stress fibers (Fig. 10, A and B).
Decoration of the stress fibers by the anti-myc antibody occurred in a punctate manner, regardless of whether the
cells had been fixed with methanol or paraformaldehyde
before incubation with the antibody. Anti-myc staining
was not detected at the most peripheral segments of actin
stress fibers indicating that binding of the COOH terminus
was reduced or absent in these regions.
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Since the COOH terminus of the light chain harbors the domain for the binding of the light chain to the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain (Fig. 8) we examined whether binding of the COOH terminus to the heavy chain or to stress fibers interfere with each other. PtK2 cells were cotransfected with constructs encoding the HA-tagged NH2 terminus of the heavy chain and the myc-tagged COOH terminus of the light chain and analyzed by triple immunofluorescence microscopy using anti-HA and anti-myc antibodies (Fig. 10, C and D), and anti-actin antibodies (not shown). The COOH terminus again displayed punctate localization on stress fibers in addition to diffuse cytoplasmic distribution. Remarkably, the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain, which when expressed on its own displayed diffuse cytoplasmic distribution (Fig. 7 D), was found to colocalize with the COOH terminus on stress fibers. This observation confirmed our results obtained by coimmunoprecipitation analysis (Fig. 8) and showed that the COOH terminus of the light chain can bind to the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain in vivo. Furthermore, these results demonstrated that binding of the COOH terminus to the heavy chain and to stress fibers were not mutually exclusive and that the COOH terminus can target the otherwise diffusely distributed MAP1B NH2 terminus to stress fibers.
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Discussion |
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Previous studies on the effects of MAP1B on microtubule
organization and function have used the MAP1B protein
complex consisting of heavy and light chains. In these
studies the observed effects of MAP1B on microtubule
stabilization were weak when compared with those of
MAP2 (Lewis et al., 1989; Noble et al., 1989
; Takemura et
al., 1992
; Weisshaar et al., 1992
; LeClerk et al., 1993
; Weisshaar and Matus, 1993
; Pedrotti and Islam, 1995
) and assay
systems for a molecular analysis of MAP1B function based
on induction of dramatic phenotypic changes in cellular
microtubule networks have not been described previously.
In the present study we attempted to identify functional
domains and possible activities of the MAP1B light chain
without the interference by the heavy chain. For this purpose we chose to use as the experimental system cultured
nonneuronal cells that have a low background of endogenous MAP1B. This enabled us to study effects of the light
chain when it is not complexed by the heavy chain. In this
system we were able to show for the first time that the
light chain of MAP1B indeed has function(s) on its own. It
bound to microtubules in vivo and effectively stabilized microtubules in a manner distinct from other microtubule-stabilizing proteins or drugs. We have also demonstrated
that light chains can oligomerize and have narrowed down
the regions of MAP1B necessary for light chain-heavy
chain interaction. In addition, we have identified a novel
functional domain of the MAP1B light chain that mediates
binding of the COOH terminus of the light chain to actin
stress fibers. Our results show that many activities of
MAP1B previously observed in in vivo and in vitro assays
using the entire MAP1B protein complex can be attributed to the light chain and are unmasked and enhanced by
expressing the light chain in the absence of the heavy
chain. Apart from the microtubule binding domain, all
light chain activities identified here were found to be localized in the COOH terminus that is among those regions of
MAP1B most highly conserved in evolution. This region of ~120 amino acid residues is also found in the COOH
terminus of the light chain of the related protein MAP1A
(Langkopf et al., 1992
). On the other hand, the NH2-terminal half of the MAP1B light chain that contains the microtubule binding domain (Zauner et al., 1992
) has no corresponding counterpart in the light chain of MAP1A. These
results suggest that the light chains of MAP1B and
MAP1A might have overlapping but distinct sets of activities.
Expression of the MAP1B light chain induced a unique
change in the appearance of microtubules that had not
been observed previously with any other MAP including
MAP2 (Weisshaar et al., 1992), MAP4 (Olson et al., 1995
;
Nguyen et al., 1997
), and MAP1A (Cravchik et al., 1994
).
This distinctness of MAP1B light chain effects is reflected
by the primary structure of its microtubule binding domain, a basic region without pronounced repetitive motifs,
lacking sequence homology to the microtubule binding
domains of other MAPs (Zauner et al., 1992
). Microtubules in light chain-expressing cells were stabilized against
the effects of nocodazole (Fig. 4), but did not form the
straight peripheral bundles seen in the presence of MAP2,
indicating that MAP1B does not have microtubule nucleating activity. This interpretation is consistent with results obtained in in vitro assays that demonstrated that MAP1B
has a weaker nucleating activity than MAP2 (Pedrotti et
al., 1996a
). Instead of forming peripheral bundles, many
microtubules in MAP1B light chain-expressing cells displayed a wavy appearance, perhaps due to excessive
length. This observation suggests that microtubules were
stabilized but retained considerable flexibility. The wavy appearance of microtubules in the presence of the MAP1B
light chain is of particular interest for two reasons. First, it
has been demonstrated that MAP1B induces the formation of long, "bendy" microtubules in vitro and that this
property of MAP1B distinguishes it from MAP1A and
MAP2 (Pedrotti et al., 1996a
). Our results obtained in vivo
in PtK2 cells are consistent with these findings. More importantly, bent microtubules and microtubule loops have
been detected in growth cones of extending neurites in
vivo (Tsui et al., 1984
; Sabry et al., 1991
; Tanaka and Kirschner, 1991
; Challacombe et al., 1996
) where they are believed to be instrumental in growth cone migration and
guidance. The detection of phosphorylated MAP1B at
high concentrations in distal axons and growth cones has
led to the suggestion that growth cones might be an important site of action of MAP1B (Tanaka et al., 1992
;
Black et al., 1994
; Boyne et al., 1995
; Bush et al., 1996
).
Taken together, these observations raise the possibility
that MAP1B, acting in growth cones, might be involved in
the induction of bent microtubules and microtubule loops
in vivo. Our finding that the MAP1B light chain can induce wavy microtubules in PtK2 cells lends support to this
hypothesis. MAP1B light chain effects on microtubules
also differed from those of the microtubule stabilizing
drug taxol (de Brabander et al., 1981
). Expression of the
MAP1B light chain prevented taxol-induced formation of
centrosome-independent microtubule bundles, indicating that in the presence of the light chain the concentration of
free tubulin heterodimers was lowered below the critical
concentration for taxol-induced tubulin polymerization. It
will be interesting to investigate whether the MAP1B light
chain-induced stabilization of microtubules differs from
taxol stabilization in that it might be resistant to changes
in microtubule dynamics taking place when cells enter mitosis.
We have obtained evidence that MAP1B light chains
can form dimers or oligomers either directly or through
binding to additional factors (Fig. 9). Our results have
been obtained in the absence of the MAP1B heavy chain
and the question arises whether light chain oligomerization can at all occur in neurons where the light chain is expressed together with the heavy chain. However, it has
been shown previously that the MAP1B protein complex
purified from rat or calf brain contains a two- to threefold
molar excess of light chains over the heavy chain (Schoenfeld et al., 1989; Pedrotti et al., 1996b
). This is consistent
with the interpretation that light chain oligomerization
could occur in the presence of heavy chain in neurons and
glial cells. Light chain dimers or oligomers could have microtubule cross-linking activity, leading to the formation
of microtubule bundles. However, at this point we have no
clear indication that microtubules, which sometimes appeared closely spaced in light chain-expressing cells, form bundles. Although it has been demonstrated that MAP1B
can cross-link microtubules in vivo and in vitro (Hirokawa
et al., 1985
; Sato-Yoshitake et al., 1989
), in previous studies using full-length MAP1B no microtubule bundling activity was observed in NIH3T3, HeLa or COS cells (Noble
et al., 1989
; Takemura et al., 1992
) in agreement with the
results shown here. It is tempting to speculate that oligomerization of the light chain might have an alternative
purpose. Bringing together two or more microtubule binding domains could mimic the arrangement found in other
MAPs, where three or more microtubule binding domains
are found in tandem on a single polypeptide chain. If light
chain oligomerization were necessary for efficient binding
to single or multiple microtubules through closely spaced binding domains, binding of the light chains to microtubules should be reduced under conditions where oligomerization is inhibited. In preliminary experiments we found
that binding of the light chain to microtubules can be inhibited by simultaneous overexpression of the COOH terminus of the light chain (not shown). The COOH terminus
contains the oligomerization domain but lacks the microtubule binding site and thus might prevent the formation
of light chain oligomers containing multiple microtubule
binding sites by replacing one or more light chains in the
oligomers.
It has previously been shown that the MAP1B light
chain binds to a 120-kD fragment of the NH2 terminus of
the heavy chain that includes the NH2-terminal microtubule binding site (Kuznetsov et al., 1986). Here we have
further narrowed down the sites of interaction between
heavy and light chains. Coexpression of the light chain and
a fragment of the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain (amino
acids 1-508) that lacks the NH2-terminal microtubule
binding domain revealed that the light chain can bind to
this fragment in vivo (Fig. 7). Further experiments showed
that the domain on the light chain responsible for interaction with the heavy chain is located in its COOH-terminal
120 amino acids (Figs. 8 and 10). Both regions of MAP1B
shown here to be sufficient for heavy chain-light chain interaction contain long stretches of homology to MAP1A (Fig. 1). Our findings raise the possibility that the MAP1A
homology domains in the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain
and the COOH terminus of the light chain of MAP1B are
in fact the heavy chain-light chain interaction domains.
This interpretation is supported by reports locating the
light chain binding domain on the MAP1A heavy chain in
the corresponding NH2-terminal region of MAP1A and it has been shown that the heavy chain of MAP1A can bind
the light chain of MAP1B (Schoenfeld et al., 1989
).
Earlier studies using purified MAP1B in in vitro experiments have shown that MAP1B and in particular the
MAP1B light chain can bind to actin filaments (Fujii et al.,
1993; Pedrotti and Islam, 1996
). Here we were able to confirm and extend these results by demonstrating that binding to actin stress fibers can occur in vivo (Fig. 10). In addition, we found that the COOH terminus of the light chain
can efficiently target the NH2 terminus of the heavy chain
to stress fibers, suggesting that heavy chain-light chain interaction per se might not be incompatible with binding of
MAP1B to actin filaments. Our results indicate that the
domain responsible for binding to stress fibers is located in
the 120 COOH-terminal amino acids of the light chain. As
pointed out above, the COOH terminus of the MAP1B
light chain corresponds to one of the three long MAP1A
homology domains of MAP1B. Interestingly, actin binding
has also been reported for MAP1A and its light chain (Fujii et al., 1993
; Pedrotti and Islam, 1996
). At this point it
is not clear whether binding of the COOH terminus to
stress fibers is due to an interaction with actin or with actin
filament-associated proteins. The amino acid sequence of
the COOH terminus does not contain an actin binding site
of the type found in spectrin and dystrophin (Matsudaira,
1991
). On the other hand, we observed that the COOH
terminus did not bind to the most peripheral segments of
stress fibers, suggesting that stress fiber-associated proteins might be involved in mediating or inhibiting binding.
Our experiments revealed that the COOH-terminal fragment of the MAP1B light chain can associate with stress
fibers whereas the entire light chain consisting of the NH2-terminal microtubule binding domain and the COOH terminus could not be detected on stress fibers and was found
to colocalize with microtubules instead. One possible explanation for this observation is that the COOH-terminal actin filament binding domain is masked in the full-length
protein and as a consequence the protein binds to microtubules through the microtubule binding domain. If the
NH2-terminal half of the light chain is removed, the
COOH-terminal domain could be exposed leading to association with stress fibers. Such results have been obtained, for example, for ezrin, an 80-kD actin binding protein that mediates plasma membrane-actin cytoskeleton
interactions (Algrain et al., 1993). Subsequently it has
been shown that masking of the COOH-terminal actin
binding site in ezrin by the NH2 terminus is part of the regulatory mechanism controlling ezrin activity. In vivo, unmasking of the actin binding domain of ezrin is achieved by phosphorylation. A similar mechanism could be involved in MAP1B light chain action. It has recently been
demonstrated that phosphorylation of MAP1B on sites yet
to be identified influences its binding to microfilaments in
vitro (Pedrotti and Islam, 1996
).
The comparison of MAP1B light chain activities in the
absence and presence of the heavy chain revealed that
binding to microtubules and microtubule stabilization
were greatly reduced in the presence of the heavy chain
(Figs. 3-5). This inhibition was not due to incomplete processing of the polyprotein precursor that was used in these experiments as a convenient means to express both heavy
and light chain in the same cell, because similar results
were obtained when heavy and light chain were coexpressed in the same cell from separate constructs. We hypothesize that one function of he heavy chain might be to
act as a regulatory subunit to control light chain activity.
We found that heavy chain-light chain interaction does
not per se inhibit light chain microtubule binding capacity and only partially reduces its microtubule stabilization
activity. Thus, a separate regulatory domain could be
present in the heavy chain and might act on bound light
chains. In our experiments we were able to observe light
chain activity, because we expressed the light chain in the
absence of this hypothetical regulatory domain. Under
physiological conditions, when heavy and light chains are
present at similar levels other regulatory mechanisms
would need to be involved. There is ample evidence in the
literature that in brain and cultured neurons there is a
large soluble cytoplasmic pool of MAP1B (Bloom et al.,
1985; Díaz-Nido et al., 1990
; Tanaka et al., 1992
; Ulloa et
al., 1993a
; Keating and Asai, 1994
) and that binding of
MAP1B to microtubules in vivo (Díaz-Nido et al., 1990
;
Ulloa et al., 1993a
,b) and to microfilaments in vitro
(Pedrotti and Islam, 1996
) is regulated by phosphorylation. It is conceivable that phosphorylation of MAP1B at
specific sites leads to a conformational change that liberates the light chain from the inhibitory influence of the
regulatory domain. This would provide neurons with a
mechanism to regulate a transient association of soluble
MAP1B with microtubules and thus transient microtubule
stabilization and perhaps interaction with actin filaments
in individual cellular and axonal compartments in response to extra- and/or intracellular signals (Pigino et al.,
1997
).
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Footnotes |
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Received for publication 4 June 1998 and in revised form 6 August 1998.
M. Tögel is recipient of a Ph.D. fellowship from the Vienna Biocenter
Ph.D. Program funded by the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur
Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung [FWF]). This research was
supported by grants from the Austrian Science Fund (Project No. F607).
Address all correspondence to Friedrich Propst, Institute of Biochemistry
and Molecular Cell Biology, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
Tel.: 43 1 4277 52858. Fax: 43 1 4277 52854. E-mail: friedrich.propst{at}univie.ac.at
We are grateful to L. Greene for kindly providing PC12 cells and to W. Zauner for providing helpful technical suggestions.
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Abbreviations used in this paper |
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HA, hemagglutinin; MAP, microtubule-associated protein.
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