Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
Cytoplasmic dynein is a microtubule minus-end-directed motor that is thought to power the transport of vesicles from the TGN to the apical cortex in polarized epithelial cells. Trans-Golgi enriched membranes, which were isolated from primary polarized intestinal epithelial cells, contain both the actin-based motor myosin-I and dynein, whereas isolated Golgi stacks lack dynein but contain myosin-I (Fath, K.R., G.M. Trimbur, and D.R. Burgess. 1994. J. Cell Biol. 126:661-675). We show now that Golgi stacks in vitro bind dynein supplied from cytosol in the absence of ATP, and bud small membranes when incubated with cytosol and ATP. Cytosolic dynein binds to regions of stacks that are destined to bud because dynein is present in budded membranes, but absent from stacks after budding. Budded membranes move exclusively towards microtubule minus-ends in in vitro motility assays. Extraction studies suggest that dynein binds to a Golgi peripheral membrane protein(s) that resists extraction by ice-cold Triton X-100. In the presence of cytosol, these membrane ghosts can move towards the minus-ends of microtubules. Detergent-extracted Golgi stacks and TGN-containing membranes are closely associated with an amorphous matrix composed in part of spectrin and ankyrin. Although spectrin has been proposed to help link dynein to organellar membranes, we found that functional dynein may bind to extracted membranes independently of spectrin and ankyrin.
ENTEROCYTES, like other polarized epithelial cells, possess two distinct plasma membrane domains that
are required for their function in absorption and
ion transport (Louvard et al., 1992 Microtubule depolymerization studies suggest that the
generation and maintenance of epithelial cell membrane
polarity requires intact microtubules for both the direct
and indirect pathways of delivery of newly synthesized
proteins and lipids (recently reviewed by LaFont and Simons, 1996 Although evidence demonstrates roles for kinesin, cytoplasmic dynein and myosins in intracellular transport,
(Bomsel et al., 1990 Another possible mechanism for controlling vesicular
movement is to regulate the binding of specific molecular
motors to specific membranes through the interaction with
a motor binding protein or receptor. An integral membrane protein, kinectin, which is localized to the ER, has
been identified as a kinesin binding protein that may also
bind cytoplasmic dynein (Toyoshima et al., 1992 Although the dynactin complex may mediate the binding of dynein to its intracellular binding sites, because this
complex is mostly soluble (Gill et al., 1991 In this report, we examined the binding of molecular
motors to Golgi membranes isolated from polarized intestinal epithelial cells. We found that functional cytoplasmic
dynein, but not kinesin, binds to a tightly bound Golgi peripheral membrane protein(s) selectively in regions of
Golgi stacks that are destined to bud. Isolated Golgi stacks
and TGN-containing membranes were closely associated
with an amorphous matrix that resisted extraction with cold 1% Triton X-100 (TX-100). By immunoblotting, we
found that this matrix contains the dynactin complex, myosin-I, spectrin and ankyrin, and in TGN-containing membranes, dynein. Although dynein may be tethered to Golgi
membranes indirectly via spectrin and ankyrin, we found
that dynein can bind to these membranes independently of
these matrix components.
Isolation of Golgi Membranes
Golgi membranes were isolated from chicken intestinal epithelial cells as
described previously (Fath and Burgess, 1993 In Vitro Golgi Stack Budding Assay
50 µl of Golgi stacks (~500 µg/ml final concentration) were mixed with 10 µl
of 10× budding buffer (250 mM Hepes, 15 mM Mg-Acetate, 250 mM KCl,
0.25 M sucrose, pH 6.7; Salamero et al., 1990 Dynein Binding to Golgi Stacks
Dynein binding to Golgi stacks was performed as described for the in vitro
budding assay, except that the ATP and the ATP regenerating system
were omitted. In some experiments (see Fig. 1), dynein binding was assayed in conditions that were identical to those used in the in vitro motility
assays described below with the omission of ATP. After incubation at
37°C, membranes were pelleted at 259,000 gmax (TLS-55; Beckman) for 30 min through a 75-µl cushion containing 0.5 M sucrose PKM at 4°C. For
centrifugation, 11 × 34 mm polycarbonate tubes were used as rotor inserts
to hold the 7 × 20 mm polycarbonate tubes, which contained the samples. The smaller tubes were surrounded by a cushion of 50 µl of water to prevent their distortion. The pellet was resuspended and analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting.
Dynein binding was also assayed on flotation gradients. 11 µl of Golgi
stacks (10 µg) were mixed with 5 µl of 10× budding buffer and 10 µl of
clarified cytosol (55 µg). The final volume was adjusted to 50 µl by the addition of PEMS. In the cytosol alone controls, 11 µl PEMS replaced the
Golgi stacks and in the Golgi stack only controls, 10 µl of 0.5 M sucrose/
PKM replaced the cytosol. After incubation at 37°C, samples were made
25% nycodenz by the addition of 50 µl of 50% nycodenz (Sigma) in
PEMS. The samples were overlaid with 100 µl of 20% nycodenz/PEMS
and 50 µl of PEMS in a 7 × 20 mm centrifuge tube and centrifuged at
259,000 gmax (TLS-55; Beckman) for 30 min at 4°C. The materials that
floated to the interface of PEMS and 20% nycodenz interface were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting.
Motility and Directionality Assays
In vitro motility assays were performed on polar arrays of microtubules
that were illuminated with a 100 W Hg lamp and viewed using differential
interference microscopy (Nikon Microphot FX-A; Nikon, Melville, NY)
equipped with a 60× (1.4 NA) planapochromatic objective and a DIC
aplanatic achromat (1.4 NA) condenser. The image was projected using a
4× eyepiece onto a Hamamatsu C2400 CCD camera (Hamamatsu Corp.,
Bridgewater, NJ). Digitization, background subtraction and contrast enhancement were accomplished with a Hamamatsu ARGUS-20 image processor and the resultant images stored in real time on VHS videotape using a JVC HR-S5300 recorder. Microscope perfusion chambers (~7 µl
capacity) were formed with a no. 1 glass coverslip on glass slides with either double-sided adhesive tape or vacuum grease (Apiezon L; Apiezon
Prod. Ltd., London, UK) spacers. Chamber fluids were exchanged by capillary action using filter paper. Salt-extracted sea urchin sperm axonemes
or Chlamydomonas axonemes were adsorbed to the coverslip by inverting
the slide cover slip down for 2-3 min, then the glass surfaces were coated with Gel Electrophoresis, Immunoblotting, and Densitometry
Proteins were separated on 10% SDS-PAGE gels and electroblotted to
PVDF membranes (Fath et al., 1994 The following antibodies were used for immunoblotting: cytoplasmic
dynein IC (mAb 70.1; Sigma Chemical Co., and mAb 74.1; Chemicon International Inc.); p150Glued (mAb 150.1; Gill et al., 1991 Protease Digestion, Salt, Alkaline, and Detergent
Extraction of Golgi Stacks
Approximately 300 µg/ml of Golgi stack protein in PEMS was digested
with 1 µg/ml of papain at 37°C for 10 min. Digestion was stopped by the
addition of a large excess of PMSF, leupeptin, and Golgi stacks and TGN-containing membranes in PEMS were extracted
with 0.6 M KI, 1.0 M NaCl or with 20 vol of 0.1 M Na2CO3 pH 11.5 on ice
for 30 min. Membranes were also extracted with 1% (vol/vol) TX-100
(Surfact-Amps; Pierce, Rockford, IL) in PEMS on ice for 15 min. In some
experiments, Golgi stacks were extracted on ice for 15 min with 1% (vol/
vol) TX-100, then 20 vol of 0.1 M Na2CO3, pH 11.5, were added and the
samples incubated for an additional 30 min. The extracted membranes
were collected by centrifugation through a 0.5 M sucrose-PKM cushion at
259,000 gmax for 30 min at 4°C. Pellets were rinsed and resuspended in
PEMS. Samples were then either immunoblotted or incubated with cytosol as described for dynein binding and immunoblotting. Some detergent-extracted Golgi stacks were analyzed by in vitro motility assays (as described above) either in the presence or absence of added cytosol.
Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA)-Agarose Fractionation
50 µg of isolated Golgi stacks and TGN-containing membranes were incubated in a total volume of 400 µl PEMS with 100 µl of WGA-agarose (settled bead volume; Sigma Chemical Co.) for 16-18 h at 4°C with rotation.
The beads were allowed to settle by gravity and the supernatant removed.
The pellets were resuspended with 300 µl of PEMS and allowed to resettle
by gravity. The supernatants were combined and centrifuged at 259,000 gmax for 30 min at 4°C to collect any membranes not binding to WGA-agarose. The distribution of specific proteins in the WGA-agarose bound and
unbound fractions was calculated by quantitation of immunoblots. We
could not determine the amount of total protein in the bound fraction because of WGA, therefore the amount of total protein in the WGA-agarose unbound fraction was compared with the amount in the unbound
fraction after incubation with unconjugated CL-4B Agarose (Sigma
Chemical Co.). The CL-4B Agarose served as a control to assess the
amount of membrane binding to Agarose and for the amount of membranes trapped in the bead pellets. Protein concentrations were determined using the Bio-Rad protein assay (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Richmond, CA) using IgG as the protein standard.
Electron Microscopy
Isolated Golgi membranes were fixed in suspension with an equal volume
of 2% glutaraldehyde-PEMS for 60 min on ice, then pelleted and processed for thin sectioning as described previously (Fath et al., 1994 Cytosolic Dynein Binds to Golgi Stacks In Vitro
We have shown previously that cytoplasmic dynein is
present on isolated TGN-containing membranes (possessing TGN 38/41, but lacking Cytosolic dynein was also shown to bind to and partition
with Golgi stacks on discontinuous nycodenz flotation gradients. Nycodenz was used to form iso-osmotic gradients
with low viscosity. Golgi stacks that were incubated with
cytosol, as described for the pelleting assays, were made
25% nycodenz/PEMS, overlaid with 20% nycodenz/PEMS
and PEMS. After centrifugation, the membranes that floated
to the interface of PEMS and 20% nycodenz/PEMS were collected and immunoblotted for Dynein Binds to Golgi Stacks in Regions That Are
Destined to Bud in an In Vitro Budding Assay
To examine further the regulation of dynein binding to
membranes, we adapted an in vitro Golgi budding assay
that was developed for isolated rat liver Golgi membranes
(Salamero et al., 1990
To establish biochemically the extent of budding in
these reactions, we followed the disappearance of alkaline
phosphatase (AP) from Golgi stacks after budding (10,000-g
pellet) and its appearance on budded membranes (259,000-g
pellet). AP was used as a marker for budding, because it is
an abundant protein that is processed throughout the
Golgi apparatus and targeted to the apical plasma membrane. We found that efficient budding required ATP; the
omission of ATP, addition of apyrase to hydrolyze any cytosolic ATP, or the replacement of ATP with ADP decreased the amount of AP in the budded membrane pellet.
We calculated the relative amount of AP-containing membranes in the budded fraction by quantitation of linear immunoblots of AP (Fig. 2 C) and by measuring AP enzymatic activity. Although there was a background level of
AP in the 259,000-g pellet when stacks were incubated in
buffer alone (Fig. 2 A), we calculated by either method
that there was a 4-5-fold increase in AP in the 259,000-g
pellet when in the presence of complete budding reactions
(Fig. 2 A, Cytosol + ATP). The ATP requirement suggests
that the increase in AP on budded membranes is the result
of the active budding of vesicles from Golgi stacks.
To establish whether cytosolic dynein was bound to
Golgi stacks and/or the budded membranes in this assay,
stacks after budding and budded membranes were immunoblotted for dynein (Fig. 2 A). Dynein was not detectable
on Golgi stacks that were incubated in buffer lacking cytosol; however, upon the addition of cytosol in the absence
of ATP, dynein was present on Golgi stacks, which did not
bud efficiently (as measured by AP levels; Fig. 2 C). The
addition of ATP plus cytosol, which promotes efficient
budding, resulted in the accumulation of dynein on the
budded membranes but none on the stacks. This result
suggests that dynein binds to regions of Golgi stacks destined to bud, and that upon addition of ATP, dynein remains associated with budded membranes. Most of the dynein remained associated with stacks under conditions that do not promote efficient budding, such as the removal
of endogenous ATP with apyrase or the replacement of
ATP with ADP (Fig. 2 A), or if a complete reaction is incubated on ice (data not shown).
The actin-based motor myosin-I is present on isolated
Golgi stacks (Fath et al., 1994 Cytosolic Dynein Binds Functionally to Golgi Stacks
To assess whether the cytosolic dynein that bound in vitro
to Golgi membranes was functional, we performed in vitro
motility assays with these membranes on polarized arrays
of microtubules. In these assays, microtubules were polymerized from the ends of axonemes from sea urchin sperm
or Chlamydomonas flagella in a microscope slide chamber. Then budded membranes containing dynein were perfused into the chamber either in the presence or absence of cytosol. Budded membranes bound to and translocated
along microtubules as observed using video-enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy. We found that
the addition of cytosol stimulated the frequency of moving
membranes. Budded membranes in the presence of cytosol translocated at 1.64 ± 0.5 µm/s (mean ± SD; n = 81; 25°C). Motility assays were also performed using Golgi
stacks. Stacks in the absence of cytosol occasionally bound
to microtubules; however, they were never observed to
move (data not shown). This inability to move is consistent
with the lack of dynein and kinesin (Fig. 1 A; and Fath et
al., 1994
The microtubules in the motility chambers were polymerized off the ends of axonemes, therefore we could determine microtubule polarity and thus the directionality of
membrane movements (Fig. 3). Only minus-end-directed
movement was observed in the stacks plus cytosol preparations. For example, in two experiments we counted a total of 49 membranes moving towards the minus-ends of
microtubules and zero plus-end-directed movements. The
presence of minus-end-directed movements and absence
of plus-end-directed movements suggests that dynein and
not kinesin is the active motor in these assays.
Although no kinesin was detected binding to Golgi membranes, several kinesin-related proteins are minus-end-
directed motors (see review by Endow, 1995 Cytosolic Dynein Binds to a Golgi Peripheral
Membrane Protein That Is Extracted at Alkaline pH,
but Resists Extraction with Cold TX-100
To establish whether cytosolic dynein bound to stacks via
a Golgi surface protein, stacks were incubated with the
protease papain. Digestion was stopped using protease inhibitors on ice and the membranes were washed free of
papain by pelleting through sucrose. The stacks were resuspended, incubated with cytosol to allow cytosolic dynein binding, and repelleted through sucrose. Quantitation of immunoblots probed with a dynein IC antibody
showed that papain-treated membranes bound only 25 ± 13% (mean ± SD; n = 5) as much dynein as did untreated
membranes. These data suggest that a Golgi stack surface
protein is necessary for dynein binding. It is unlikely that
residual protease digested cytosolic dynein or other cytosolic factors required for dynein binding. Immunoblots detected no lower molecular weight immunoreactive bands
indicative of dynein proteolysis and there was an equal
amount of dynein IC in the supernatants containing cytosol after incubation in both the mock and protease-treated
samples (data not shown).
To assess the nature of the association between a putative dynein binding protein(s) and Golgi membranes, isolated stacks were stripped of peripheral membrane proteins by incubation in high salt or 0.1 M sodium carbonate
(pH 11.5) before monitoring dynein binding from added
cytosol (Fig. 4 A). Cytosolic dynein bound to control
stacks and stacks from which weakly bound peripheral membrane proteins were stripped with 0.6 M KI (Fig. 4 B)
or 1.0 M NaCl (data not shown). In contrast, cytosolic dynein did not bind to stacks that had all peripheral membrane proteins stripped at pH 11.5 (Fig. 4 B). Therefore, it
is likely that a tightly bound Golgi stack peripheral membrane protein is required for dynein binding.
It has been proposed that the dynactin complex may
link dynein either directly or indirectly to organelle membranes (Vaughan and Vallee, 1995 Next we wished to determine whether the presence of
the dynactin complex correlated with the ability of Golgi
stacks to bind cytosolic dynein. Therefore, we immunoblotted salt or alkaline-treated stacks after incubation with
cytosol to ascertain whether the complex was present on
membranes to which cytosolic dynein bound (control and
KI-stripped) and absent from those to which dynein did
not bind (alkaline-stripped). These immunoblots showed
that cytosolic dynein bound to control and KI-stripped
stacks, which contain both p150Glued and Arp1 (Fig. 4 B).
Although both p150Glued and Arp1 were stripped from
Golgi stack membranes at alkaline pH (Fig. 4 A), cytosolic
Arp1 rebound to these stacks at levels nearly that of unextracted stacks (Fig. 4 B). We also found that a small
amount of cytosolic p150Glued rebound to the alkaline-stripped stacks, with the 150-kD isoform being more prevalent. However, we cannot determine whether the Arp1
and p150Glued rebinding to the stripped membrane was native. Because cytosolic dynein did not bind to alkaline-stripped stacks that contained Arp1, these data suggest
that Arp1 alone is not sufficient for dynein binding and
further suggest that a peripheral membrane protein, perhaps the 135-kD p150Glued component of the dynactin
complex, is required for dynein binding to membranes.
Golgi stacks were also extracted with 1% TX-100 on ice
(releasing 75% of total protein, see below) and analyzed for
the presence of dynactin complex and for cytosolic dynein
binding (Fig. 4 A). The detergent released most of the Arp1
from the membrane, while little, if any, of the p150Glued
was extracted. Immunoblots showed that cytosolic dynein
could bind to stacks that were solubilized with cold 1%
TX-100 (Fig. 4 B). Cytosolic dynein binding to detergent-extracted stacks was physiologically relevant as shown by
two methods. First, the cytosolic dynein that bound to the
stack ghosts was functional and could move these membranes on microtubules in in vitro motility assays (Fig. 5 A)
at rates of 1.1 ± 0.2 µm/s (mean ± SD; n = 12; at 25°C); rates that were indistinguishable from the rates of unextracted membranes at 1.2 ± 0.5 µm/s (mean ± SD; n = 8;
at 25°C) from the same preparation. In the absence of
added cytosol, these membrane ghosts neither bound to
nor moved on microtubules in these assays. Second, as
with the native Golgi stacks, the dynein binding protein(s) on Triton membrane ghosts was extracted at alkaline pH.
Cytosolic dynein did not bind to Golgi stacks that had
been sequentially extracted with TX-100 and pH 11.5 (Fig.
5 B). These two independent assays suggest that cytosolic
dynein is binding to the same peripheral membrane protein(s) in intact and detergent-extracted Golgi stacks.
Identification of a Golgi Matrix
In our motility studies, Golgi stack detergent ghosts appeared intact in the light microscope. To examine these
structures in more detail, Golgi stacks were extracted with
cold 1% TX-100, then separated from solubilized protein
by sedimentation onto a sucrose pad and analyzed by electron microscopy. As we have shown previously (Fath et al.,
1994
In addition to a bilayer, the detergent-resistant membrane cisternae (and TGN-containing membranes, data
not shown) were covered with a dense material or matrix
(Fig. 6 B). To begin characterization of the nature of this
matrix that was intimately associated with the Golgi membrane detergent ghosts, Golgi stacks or TGN-containing membranes were extracted for 15 min with 1% TX-100 on
ice. The extracts were then separated into soluble and insoluble fractions by ultracentrifugation. The supernatants
and pellets were analyzed by immunoblotting, which was
quantitated by densitometry. The basolateral integral
membrane protein Na+K+-ATPase was used to monitor
the efficacy of extraction. In stacks (lacking dynein) and
TGN-containing membrane fractions (possessing dynein)
(Fath et al., 1994 Spectrin and Ankyrin Are Associated with a
Golgi Matrix
We wished to establish whether the matrix, identified both
ultrastructurally and biochemically, that remains associated with the Golgi membrane detergent ghosts, was composed of members of the recently identified Golgi spectrin
matrix (Beck et al., 1994
To demonstrate that spectrin and ankyrin were associated with Golgi membranes and not with potential contaminating plasma membranes, stacks and TGN-containing
membranes were incubated with WGA conjugated to agarose. Fractionation on WGA-agarose leads to a differential partitioning of Golgi- and plasma membrane-derived vesicles because the lectin will bind to plasma membranes
that vesiculate right-side out, but not to intact Golgi-
derived membranes whose lectin binding sites are lumenal, and thus inaccessible (Persson et al., 1991 To determine the mode of association of spectrin and
ankyrin with the Golgi membrane, isolated membranes
were extracted with 0.6 M KI or at pH 11.5. We found that
Based on their in vitro binding properties, it has been
proposed that dynein may attach to intracellular membranes by binding to the dynactin complex, which in turn is
bound to a membrane spectrin-based skeleton (Holleran
et al., 1996 In this study we found that Golgi stacks isolated from polarized intestinal epithelial cells, which lack dynein as isolated, can bind soluble dynein from cytosol. When Golgi
stacks are incubated with cytosol plus ATP, 50-200-nm
vesicles are shed or budded from the stacks. These budded
membranes contain the apical plasma membrane enzyme
AP, possess TGN 38/41, lack We have shown previously that the actin-based motor
myosin-I is found on isolated Golgi stacks and TGN-containing membranes, whereas dynein is found only on the
TGN-containing membranes, and absent from stacks as
isolated (Fath et al., 1994 Table I.
Comparison of the Relative Levels of Dynein, TGN
38/41 and ). The protein and lipid
components of the plasma membrane and the organization of the underlying cytoskeleton are distinct for these domains. The development and maintenance of the apical
and basolateral domains requires the correct sorting of intracellular vesicles at the level of the TGN (Danielsen and
Cowell, 1985
; Griffiths and Simons, 1986
; Bennett et al.,
1988
; Danielsen, 1995
) and the vectorial transport of specific proteins and lipids to the plasma membrane. In enterocytes, delivery to the apical membrane can be direct,
from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane, or indirect, by transcytosis via the basolateral membrane and
then on to the apical surface, whereas delivery to the basolateral surface is direct (Achler et al., 1989
; Trahair et al.,
1989
).
). The microtubules of polarized epithelia in
vivo are collected into parallel bundles with their minus-ends
in the apical cytoplasm and their plus-ends towards the
basal cytoplasm (Sandoz et al., 1985
; Drenckhahn and Dermietzel, 1988
; Achler et al., 1989
; Bacallao et al., 1989
; Gilbert et al., 1991
; Fath et al., 1994
). There is also a transverse network of microtubules of mixed polarity in the
apical cytoplasm subjacent to the terminal web (Bacallao
et al., 1989
). The Golgi apparatus in fully polarized MDCK
cells is a convoluted tubular structure that extends between the nucleus and the apical cytoplasm (Bacallao et al.,
1989
) and immediately supranuclear in intestinal epithelial cells (Achler et al., 1989
; Drenckhahn et al., 1996
). Such
orientation of microtubules relative to the Golgi apparatus
would predict that a minus-end-directed motor, such as
cytoplasmic dynein (Paschal and Vallee, 1987
), powers the
transport of newly synthesized materials from the Golgi
apparatus to the apical plasma membrane, and a plus-end-
directed kinesin-related motor (Vale et al., 1985
) in the
transport of basolaterally destined vesicles. Consistent with the minus-ends of microtubules being found in the apical
cytoplasm of intestinal epithelia (Achler et al., 1989
; Fath
et al., 1994
), we have found that apically targeted Golgi
derived vesicles isolated from intestinal epithelial cells
possess cytoplasmic dynein on their surface (Fath et al.,
1994
). Immunodepletion studies of dynein or kinesin from
cytosol in in vitro transport assays with permeabilized
MDCK (a canine kidney cell line) cells suggest that kinesin is required for basolateral transport along the longitudinal and transverse microtubules, whereas both dynein
and kinesin are necessary for efficient apical transport
(Lafont et al., 1994
). The apically targeted vesicles may
use dynein to move apically on the longitudinal microtubules, then kinesin and/or dynein to traverse the apical
transverse network of microtubules to reach the apical cytoplasm.
; Corthésy-Theulaz et al., 1992
; Lafont
et al., 1994
; Mermall et al., 1994
; Govindan et al., 1995
),
less is known about how the activity of these motors is regulated or how motors associate with membranes. Observations that mitochondria move bidirectionally in axons (Morris and Hollenbeck, 1993
), and other observations of the
bidirectional movement of pigment granules in melanophores (Haimo and Thaler, 1994
), suggest that both dynein and kinesin are present on the same vesicle, and that
vesicular movement may be directed by regulating the activity of the motors (Thaler and Haimo, 1996
).
; Yu et al.,
1992
). Another protein that has been proposed to link dynein to membranes is the dynactin complex. This multisubunit complex activates dynein motility on membranes
in in vitro motility assays (Gill et al., 1991
; Schroer and
Sheetz, 1991
). One of the components of this complex,
p150Glued, binds to dynein intermediate chains (IC)1 in
vitro (Karki and Holzbaur, 1995
; Vaughan and Vallee,
1995
), and is codistributed with dynein on small membranes throughout the cytoplasm (Gill et al., 1991
; Clark
and Meyer, 1992
; Paschal et al., 1993
). There is also genetic evidence that dynein and the dynactin complex interact in vivo in the same pathway in Neurospora (reviewed
by Holzbaur and Vallee, 1994
). Our previous work has shown that Golgi stacks isolated from enterocytes lack dynein, whereas TGN-containing membranes possess dynein
(Fath et al., 1994
). In addition, ~70% of the cytoplasmic
dynein is soluble in these cells, with the remaining dynein
bound to membranes or microtubules (Fath et al., 1994
).
These observations suggest that dynein binding to Golgi
membranes may be regulated and specific, perhaps because of a dynein binding protein present on these membranes.
) with no evidence of a direct interaction with membranes, another
protein(s) more intimately associated with the membrane
may bind to dynactin. In the past few years, work from
several laboratories has provided biochemical and morphological evidence for a matrix containing a homologue of erythroid
-spectrin (
I
I or
I
*) and ankyrin that is
associated with Golgi membranes in several polarized and
nonpolarized cell types (Beck et al., 1994
; Devarajan et al.,
1996
; Holleran et al., 1996
; Beck et al., 1997
). Spectrin and
ankyrin are typically associated with the plasma membrane, where they are thought to play a role in the maintenance of membrane structure and organization (Bennett,
1990
). Because the dynactin complex contains a short F-actin-like filament containing Arp1 (Schafer et al., 1994
), the complex may bind to Golgi membranes via the actin
binding site on spectrin (Brenner and Korn, 1979
). Support for such an interaction comes from transfection studies. The overexpression of the dynactin complex component p50 causes Golgi apparatus fragmentation and dispersal
(Burkhardt, J.K., C.J. Echeverri, and R.B. Vallee. 1995. Mol. Biol. Cell. 6:266a), however, the overexpression of Arp1 (centractin) causes the alignment of Golgi markers and
spectrin along novel Arp1 filaments (Holleran et al., 1996
).
Materials and Methods
), with several modifications.
Intestinal epithelial cells were homogenized in ice-cold 0.5 M sucrose-PKM buffer (100 mM potassium phosphate, pH 6.5, 5 mM MgCl2, and 3 mM KCl) with a hand-held tissue grinder (Tissue
Tearor; BioSpec Products, Inc., Bartlesville, OK) for 90 s at a setting of 2. The following steps
were performed at 4°C. Nuclei and any intact cells were pelleted by a 10-min centrifugation at 600 gave. The postnuclear supernatant was layered
onto a step gradient containing 1.3 M sucrose-PKM and 0.7 M sucrose-PKM, then centrifuged at 105,000 gmax (SW41 rotor; Beckman Instruments, Corp., Palo Alto, CA) for 60 min. The supernatant, termed cytosol, was frozen in liquid nitrogen, stored at
80°C, and then used as a source
of dynein and other soluble proteins. Before use, the cytosol was thawed
rapidly and clarified at 200,000 gmax for 30-40 min. Membranes that concentrated at the 0.7/1.3 M sucrose interface were collected and adjusted to
1.25 M sucrose-PKM. The membranes were overlaid with 1.1 M sucrose-PKM, 0.5 M sucrose-PKM, and then centrifuged at 90,000 gmax (SW41 rotor) for 90 min. Golgi membranes were collected at the 0.5/1.1 M interface, adjusted to 0.7 M sucrose-PKM, and then centrifuged at 10,000 gmax
for 15 min to pellet Golgi stacks. Small TGN-containing membranes remaining in the supernatant (Fath et al., 1994
) were collected by centrifugation at 259,000 gmax for 30 min. Membranes were resuspended in PEMS
(10 mM Pipes pH 7.0, 1 mM EGTA, 2 mM MgCl2, and 0.25 M sucrose)
with the addition of the protease inhibitors PMSF, aprotinin and leupeptin, frozen in liquid nitrogen, and then stored at
80°C.
), 10 µl of creatine-phosphokinase (0.8 mg/ml), 6.6 µl of 80 mM phosphocreatine, 10 µl of clarified cytosol (~1-2 mg/ml final concentration), and 1 µl of 200 mM ATP. The final volume was adjusted to 100 µl by the addition of 0.25 M sucrose-PKM.
In experiments not shown, by immunoblotting we found that actin, tubulin, dynein, and p150Glued pelleted in the absence of membranes when the
final cytosol concentrations was increased to
5 mg/ml. Therefore, these
assays were performed at cytosol concentration
2 mg/ml. In controls either lacking cytosol, or ATP and the ATP regenerating system, an equal
volume of the appropriate buffer was used in their place. In some experiments, 4 U/ml apyrase (Sigma Chem. Co., St. Louis, MO) was used to deplete any ATP present in cytosol, or ADP was used in place of ATP. The mixture was incubated at 37°C for 15 min, chilled on ice, and centrifuged
at 10,000 gave for 15 min through a 100-µl 0.5 M sucrose cushion. This pellet represents the stacks after budding. The resulting supernatant was then
centrifuged at 259,000 gmax for 30 min at 4°C through a 100-µl 0.5 M sucrose cushion to pellet budded membranes. The supernatant and sucrose
cushion were removed, the membrane pellets resuspended in SDS sample
buffer, and then analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting (Fath et al.,
1994
). The budded membranes were quantitated by scanning densitometry of immunoblots probed with alkaline phosphatase antibodies or by enzymatic assay (Weiser, 1973
) that was adapted for 96-well microtiter plates.
Fig. 1.
Cytosolic dynein, but not kinesin, binds to isolated
Golgi stacks. (A) Isolated Golgi stacks, which lack dynein and kinesin, were incubated for 15 min at 37°C in motility buffers (in
the absence of ATP) or with buffer including cytosol. A third tube contained cytosol, but no membranes. The samples were then
chilled and pelleted through 0.5 M sucrose to separate stacks and
bound material from cytosol. All of each pellet and one-half of
the supernatant were immunoblotted with a mixture of dynein IC
and kinesin heavy chain mAbs. Pelleted Golgi stacks incubated in
buffer (Stacks) contained no cytosolic dynein (DIC, dynein IC) or
kinesin (KHC, kinesin heavy chain). Soluble cytosolic kinesin and
dynein remained in the supernatant in cytosol-alone controls (Cytosol). Pelleted stacks that were incubated with cytosol (Stacks + Cytosol) bound dynein, but not kinesin. (B) Cytosolic dynein
binding to Golgi stacks was also demonstrated on flotation gradients. Golgi stacks and cytosol were incubated as described in A,
then made 25% nycodenz. The samples were overlaid with 20%
nycodenz/PEMS and PEMS. After centrifugation, immunoblots
show that both Golgi cisternae, as indicated by the presence of
-mannosidase II, and cytosolic dynein were present at the 20%
nycodenz/PEMS interface in samples containing both Golgi
stacks and cytosol (Stacks + Cytosol). Dynein was not detected at
this interface in samples containing Golgi stacks incubated in
buffer (Stacks) or in cytosol alone controls (Cytosol).
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-casein (19 mg/ml) for 5 min. The casein was washed out with several chamber volumes of motility buffer (25 mM Pipes, 0.5 mM MgCl2,
0.5 mM EGTA, pH 7.0). Then 3 µl of 13 mg/ml phosphocellulose-purified tubulin and 1.6 mM GTP were perfused into the chamber (approximately twofold dilution with motility buffer already in the chamber) and the extent of microtubule polymerization from the ends of the axonemes determined in the microscope. When sufficient polymerization from the plus
ends of the axonemes was achieved, ~2 min at 25°C, unpolymerized tubulin was removed by addition of the motility samples. The membrane motility samples were: 12.5 µl mixture containing 0.2-0.4 mg/ml Golgi stacks,
1-5 mg/ml clarified cytosol, 4 mM ATP, 20 µM taxol, 0.27 mg/ml
-casein,
in motility buffer. Final concentration of Mg-ATP was 4 mM and temperature 21-25°C. In some experiments the Mg-ATP was replaced with 4 mM
Mg-5
-adenylylimidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) or contained 4 mM each of
Mg-ATP and Mg-AMP-PNP. Some membranes were preincubated in
complete motility buffers lacking ATP but containing 2 mM N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) for 15 min at room temperature. ATP was then added to the
samples before viewing. Images were recorded using background subtraction and a rolling average of four video frames. Translocation rates were
measured on traverses greater than 1 µm using ARGUS-20 software. Images were captured using an AV-equipped Macintosh (Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA) and processed in Adobe Photoshop (Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View, CA).
). Immunoblots were incubated with
appropriate primary antibodies followed by incubation with peroxidase-labeled secondary antibodies and visualized using enhanced chemiluminescence reagents (Amersham Corp., Arlington Heights, IL) on X-OMAT
AR film (Eastman-Kodak Co., Rochester, NY) and developed with GBX
(Eastman-Kodak). Autoradiography films were digitized using transmitted light on a flatbed scanner (Envisions 24 Pro; UMAX) driven by
Adobe Photoshop. To assure quantitative accuracy, the absence of digitized image saturation was shown by ensuring that all bands of interest
had pixel values between 10 and 245 as determined in Photoshop. The linear response of the film and antibody binding was shown by immunoblotting a dilution series of purified dynein. Exposures within the linear range
of the film were exported in TIFF format for quantitation using Scan
Analysis software (BIOSOFT, Cambridge, UK). Molecular weight markers were prestained proteins in the SDS-7B kit from Sigma Chemical Co.
);
-COP (mAb
M3A5; Sigma Chemical Co.); TGN-38/41; (Luzio et al., 1990
); brush border myosin-I (Fath et al., 1994
); alkaline phosphatase (Chemicon, Intl.
Inc., Temecula, CA); Arp1, (RPV; Lees-Miller et al., 1992
); Na+K+-ATPase, (
-subunit; Nelson and Meshnock, 1986
); affinity purified
-spectrin,
(
spec-1; Beck et al., 1994
);
-mannosidase II (Velasco et al., 1993
); brain
spectrin (Burridge et al., 1982
); ankyrin (chicken RBC; Calbiochem-Novabiochem, La Jolla, CA); kinesin heavy chain (SUK4 mAb; Ingold et al.,
1988
).
-macroglobulin and
chilling on ice. Controls were treated in a similar manner except that no
papain was added. The stacks were centrifuged through a 0.5 M sucrose-PKM cushion to remove any papain, resuspended in PEMS, incubated
with cytosol and analyzed for the presence or absence of dynein binding
by immunoblotting.
). Budded Golgi membrane pellets were negative stained as described previously (Fath et al., 1994
).
Results
-COP), whereas both kinesin
and dynein are absent from isolated Golgi stacks (Fath et
al., 1994
). We wished to establish whether isolated stacks
were competent to bind soluble dynein or kinesin supplied
by cytosol. Therefore, isolated Golgi stacks were incubated with cytosol as a source of soluble motors in the absence of ATP at 37°C. The stacks were then separated
from cytosol by pelleting at 259,000 g through a 0.5 M sucrose pad and assayed for dynein binding by immunoblotting with antibodies recognizing the 74-kD cytoplasmic dynein IC or for the kinesin heavy chain (Fig. 1). Although
there was no detectable dynein on stacks as isolated (Fig. 1
A, Stacks P; and Fath et al., 1994
), dynein pelleted with
stacks after incubation with cytosol (Fig. 1 A, Stacks + Cytosol P). Quantitative densitometry of this immunoblot
shows that ~5% of the cytosolic dynein bound to membranes. Using purified 20 S rat testis cytoplasmic dynein as
a reference standard on immunoblots (generous gift of Dr.
David Asai, Purdue University), we calculated that the
clarified cytosol, at a protein concentration of 7.85 mg/ml,
contained 31 µg/ml dynein. In binding studies with Golgi
stacks incubated with maximum workable concentrations
of cytosol, we determined that dynein bound at 0.65 pmol/
µg stack protein. These calculations assume that the molecular mass of cytoplasmic dynein is 1,200 kD (Vallee et al.,
1988
). Such binding is consistent with the binding of purified cytoplasmic dynein to isolated synaptic vesicles (Lacey
and Haimo, 1992
) that saturates at 1 pmol/µg vesicle protein. In contrast, no dynein pelleted when cytosol at this
concentration was centrifuged in the absence of stacks under similar buffer conditions (Fig. 1 A, Cytosol P). We were
unable to perform complete saturation studies due to the fact that when cytosol was used at higher concentrations,
microtubules polymerized and dynein and dynactin pelleted in the absence of membranes (data not shown). Attempts to inhibit microtubule polymerization with nocodazole did not prevent dynein and dynactin pelleting from
higher concentrations of cytosol. Although there was
abundant cytosolic kinesin (Fig. 1 A, Cytosol S), kinesin
was not detected on stacks either in the presence or absence of cytosol (Fig. 1 A). These data suggest that cytosolic dynein, but not kinesin can bind to and pellet with
Golgi stacks in in vitro binding assays done in the absence
of ATP.
-mannosidase II as a
marker for Golgi cisternae (Velasco et al., 1993
). Golgi
stacks, being less dense then 20% nycodenz (Hammond
and Helenius, 1994
), floated to the interface of PEMS and
20% nycodenz/PEMS (Fig. 1 B). On the same gradients,
dynein was detected at the interface of PEMS and 20% nycodenz/PEMS in the complete binding reactions (Stacks + Cytosol), but not in the incomplete reactions (Stacks or
Cytosol ) alone. These data, in conjunction with the pelleting assays, suggests strongly that cytosolic dynein can bind
to Golgi stacks in vitro.
). Golgi stacks were incubated in the
presence or absence of cytosol and ATP at 37°C in buffers
that promote budding. Electron microscopy confirmed the
appearance of buds from the ends of stack membranes in
this assay (Fig. 2 B). The post-budding stacks were separated from budded membranes and cytosol by pelleting
the stacks through a sucrose pad at 10,000 g. The budded
membranes, which remained in the supernatant, were subsequently separated from cytosol by pelleting at 259,000 g
through sucrose. Negative stain electron microscopy of the
budded membrane pellet shows that the budded membranes are comprised of 50-200-nm vesicles (Fig. 2 D) and
are approximately the same size as the buds at the ends of
Golgi stacks observed in thin sections (Fig. 2 B).
Fig. 2.
Cytoplasmic dynein binds to stacks in an in vitro Golgi
stack budding assay and remains associated specifically with the
budded membranes. (A) Golgi stacks were incubated in various
conditions at 37°C, then pelleted through a 0.5-M sucrose pad at
10,000 g for 15 min (left). The budded membranes that were released from the stacks and remained in the low-speed supernatant were collected by centrifugation through a 0.5 M sucrose
cushion at 259,000 g for 30 min (right). Pelleted stacks and budded membranes were immunoblotted for AP, dynein IC, and myosin-I. Golgi stacks were incubated in the presence or absence of
cytosol and ATP or with the addition of apyrase to hydrolyze
ATP, or ADP in place of ATP as indicated above each lane. (B)
Thin section electron micrograph of Golgi stacks that were incubated with cytosol and ATP to initiate budding. Budded vesicles
(arrow) are visible at the ends of the Golgi stacks. (C) The immunoblots in A suggested that ATP was required for efficient budding, therefore to quantify budding we measured the relative levels of the plasma membrane protein AP in budded membranes in
various conditions. The level of AP present in the budded membranes in each condition as determined by quantitative immunoblotting is expressed relative to the levels in the complete budding mixture (Cytosol + ATP), which was set at 100%. The
omission of ATP, the inclusion of apyrase or ADP, decreased the
level of AP in budded membranes 4-5-fold. (D) Negative stain
electron micrograph showing that budded membrane pellets contained 50-200-nm vesicles. Bars: 100 nm.
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). When the same blots of the
in vitro budding reaction were analyzed for the presence
of myosin-I, it is interesting that most of the myosin-I was
lost from the stacks after budding, and enriched in the
budded membranes, along with dynein (Fig. 2 A). This result supports our hypothesis that both dynein and myosin-I
are bound to apically targeted Golgi-derived membranes
(Fath et al., 1994
).
) on isolated stacks. In contrast, when stacks were
preincubated with cytosol plus ATP for several minutes
before perfusion under the coverslip, membranes bound to and moved along microtubules at 1.69 ± 0.4 µm/s
(mean ± SD; n = 110; 25°C) (Fig. 3).
Fig. 3.
Golgi stacks incubated with cytosol move only
towards microtubule minus-ends in in vitro motility assays. To determine whether the cytosolic dynein that
bound to Golgi stacks was
functional, Golgi membranes were incubated with
cytosol and with microtubules that were polymerized
from the ends of axonemes.
This series of video frames
shows three numbered Golgi
membranes moving towards the minus-end of a microtubule. This microtubule was
one of several that polymerized from the plus-end of a
sea urchin sperm axoneme. Bar, 1 µm.
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). Because
these or other kinesin-related proteins may not be recognized by the SUK4 mAb that we used, but could be
present in cytosol, motility assays were done in the presence of the nonhydrolyzable ATP analogue AMP-PNP.
This analogue, when present equimolar with ATP, inhibits
the motor activity of all kinesins so far tested (Walker and
Sheetz, 1993
), but not dynein. Consistent with movement
directed by dynein, Golgi membranes translocated on microtubules in motility assays in buffers containing 4 mM
Mg-ATP and 4 mM Mg-AMP-PNP. We observed no microtubule-based membrane movements in buffers containing 4 mM Mg-AMP-PNP in the absence of ATP. Furthermore, AMP-PNP did not induce a pronounced rigor linkage
of membranes to microtubules as would be expected if
membranes contained kinesin (Schnapp et al., 1992
). Because dynein, but not kinesin, is inactivated by 2 mM
NEM (Vale et al., 1985
), in another series of experiments
we performed motility assays in the presence of NEM.
Consistent with dynein-driven motility, we found that all
movements were inhibited by inclusion of 2 mM NEM in
our assays. Therefore, it is unlikely that a functional kinesin is bound to Golgi membranes in these preparations.
Fig. 4.
Cytosolic dynein binds to a Golgi peripheral membrane
protein. (A) To examine the mode of association of a putative dynein binding protein(s) with Golgi membranes, isolated stacks
were incubated with PEMS buffer (Control), 0.6 M KI, 0.1 M
Na2CO3 pH 11.5, or with ice-cold 1% TX-100. The stacks were
separated from extracted proteins by centrifugation through a 0.5 M
sucrose pad, then analyzed by immunoblotting for dynein IC,
p150Glued and Arp1(Extracted Golgi Stacks). (B) Extracted stacks
were also incubated with cytosol and immunoblotted for dynein
IC to determine the effects of extraction on dynein binding (Extracted Golgi Stacks + Cytosol). Cytosolic dynein bound to stacks
that were extracted with 0.6 M KI or 1% TX-100, but not to
stacks that were extracted at pH 11.5. Endogenous p150Glued and
Arp1 were stripped from the membrane at alkaline pH; cytosolic Arp1 rebound to these membranes to nearly control levels,
whereas only a small amount of p150Glued rebound. TX-100 extracted Arp1, but not p150Glued, from stack membranes; cytosolic
Arp1 rebound to these membranes to control levels.
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; Echeverri et al., 1996
;
Holleran et al., 1996
). As a first step in assessing whether
the dynactin complex may link dynein to components of
the Golgi membrane, we immunoblotted Golgi membranes
to determine whether the dynactin complex was present.
We found that two members of the dynactin complex,
p150Glued (Gill et al., 1991
) and Arp1 (actin-related protein
1; Lees-Miller et al., 1992
), were present on isolated Golgi
stacks (Fig. 4 A). The p150Glued mAb recognized only a
150/135-kD doublet as is commonly seen in other organisms (Holzbaur and Vallee, 1994
). The Arp1 antibody was
specific for Arp1 and did not recognize conventional actin (data not shown). Because the putative Golgi stack dynein
receptor is a tightly bound peripheral membrane protein,
we wished to establish whether the dynactin complex,
which has been shown to be a peripheral membrane complex in other cells, is also peripherally associated with
Golgi membranes. Therefore, stacks were incubated with
high salt or pH 11.5 to strip them of peripheral membrane
proteins. Immunoblots showed that little Arp1 was solubilized by 0.6 M KI (Fig. 4 A) or 1 M NaCl (data not
shown). By contrast, 0.6 M KI (Fig. 4 A) or 1 M NaCl
(data not shown) released the majority of the p150Glued
135-kD isoform with a lesser amount of the p150Glued 150-kD isoform being extracted. When stacks were stripped of tightly associated peripheral membrane proteins with the
more stringent pH 11.5, both Arp1 and p150Glued were
nearly entirely released from the membrane (Fig. 4 A).
Thus, the dynactin complex behaves as a Golgi stack peripheral membrane protein.
Fig. 5.
Cytosolic dynein binding to TX-100-extracted Golgi
stacks is physiologically relevant. (A) Cytosolic dynein that
bound to detergent-extracted Golgi stacks was functional in in
vitro motility assays. Golgi stacks were extracted with 1% TX-100 on ice, pelleted and resuspended in buffer. In a motility
chamber, the detergent ghosts were incubated with cytosol and
with microtubules that were polymerized from the ends of axonemes. This series of video frames shows a membrane ghost (arrow) moving along a microtubule. (B) Dynein binding protein(s)
are extracted from Golgi stack detergent ghosts at alkaline pH.
Golgi stacks were incubated on ice with PEMS (Control); 1%
TX-100 (TX); or 1% TX-100 followed by 0.1 M Na2CO3 (TX pH 11.5). The membranes were collected by centrifugation, resuspended in PEMS, incubated with cytosol to allow dynein binding, and repelleted through 0.5 M sucrose. This immunoblot
shows that cytosolic dynein could bind to both unextracted and
TX-100-extracted Golgi membranes, but not to stacks that were
sequentially extracted with TX-100 and Na2CO3.
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), isolated enterocyte Golgi stacks contain many archetypal Golgi apparatus profiles (Fig. 6). We found that
distinct cisternae remained after TX-100 extraction, although the detergent vesiculated many of the stacks. These
cisternae were clearly formed of a bilayer consistent with
glycosphingolipid-rich Golgi membrane microdomains being resistant to cold TX-100 (Brown and Rose, 1992
).
Fig. 6.
Ultrastructural identification of a Golgi matrix. Unextracted Golgi fraction contained many classical Golgi stack profiles as seen by thin-section electron microscopy. Although
~75% of the total protein was extracted by ice-cold 1% TX-100
(Fig. 7), a matrix remained that preserved the shape of the Golgi
cisternae. Bars: (unextracted) 250 nm; (extracted) 100 nm.
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Fig. 7.
Characterization of Golgi membrane protein solubility
in cold TX-100. Golgi membranes were extracted on ice for 15 min with 1% TX-100 and collected by centrifugation. Equivalent
volumes of supernatants and pellets were analyzed by immunoblotting, and the percentage of detergent insoluble protein was
determined by quantitative scanning densitometry. Except for
dynein*, which is absent from stacks, the data are representative
of both stacks and TGN-containing membranes, because there
were no significant differences between the two membrane fractions. The percentage of total protein was determined by protein
assay. Each data point is an average of three or more independent experiments (± SD).
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), >75% of total protein (as determined by protein assay) and 72% of Na+K+-ATPase were solubilized by TX-100 (Fig. 7). Because TX-100 Golgi membrane
ghosts can move on microtubules in motility assays, pellets from both membrane fractions were also immunoblotted
for molecular motors. We found that dynein (on TGN-containing membranes), p150Glued and myosin-I were insoluble in TX-100. In agreement with the blots shown on Fig.
4, we found that 64% of Arp1 was extracted by TX-100, in
contrast to p150Glued, which was completely unextracted by
cold TX-100 (Fig. 7).
; Devarajan et al., 1996
). Therefore, we first immunoblotted intact, isolated Golgi stacks
and TGN-containing membranes to determine whether
spectrin and ankyrin are present on the unextracted membranes. For spectrin, we used either the affinity-purified
spec-1 polyclonal antibody that recognizes
I
*-spectrin
(Beck et al., 1994
) or a polyclonal antibody that was raised
against bovine brain fodrin (
/
-spectrin; Burridge et al.,
1982
). For ankyrin, we immunoblotted with a polyclonal
antibody raised against chicken erythrocyte ankyrin. Both
spectrin antibodies recognized spectrin in the stack and
TGN-containing membrane fractions as an ~220-230-kD
polypeptide(s) (Fig. 8 A). Due to the decreased resolution
at high molecular masses on the 10% SDS-polyacrylamide
gels used in this study, it is not possible to assign exact
molecular masses, nor is it possible to discern whether
both
-and
-spectrin are detected by the fodrin antibody.
Hereafter, we will call the polypeptide(s) that react with
the fodrin antibody
/
-spectrin. In avians, a common 240-kD
-spectrin is found in all spectrin heterodimers (see review
by Bement and Mooseker, 1996
). The ankyrin antibody recognized an ~225-240-kD polypeptide in both membrane fractions (Fig. 8 A), which comigrated with a similar-sized polypeptide from chicken RBC membrane ghosts
(data not shown). There was also consistently an ~160-kD
ankyrin immunoreactive peptide that may be constitute a
second ankyrin isoform (Beck et al., 1997
; Devarajan et al.,
1996
) or an ankyrin proteolytic breakdown product.
Fig. 8.
Ankyrin and spectrin are Golgi peripheral membrane
proteins. (A) Isolated Golgi stacks were immunoblotted with
polyclonal antibodies recognizing ankyrin or spectrin to determine whether these proteins are associated with the Golgi apparatus. We found that spectrin was associated with Golgi membranes using antibodies either recognizing /
-spectrin (Control)
or
I
*-spectrin (not shown). Ankyrin was also bound to Golgi
stacks (Control). To examine the mode of association of ankyrin
and spectrin with Golgi membranes, isolated membranes were incubated with PEMS buffer (Control), 0.6 M KI, 0.1 M Na2CO3
pH 11.5, or cold 1% TX-100. The membranes were separated
from extracted proteins by centrifugation through a 0.5 M sucrose pad, then analyzed by immunoblotting. These blots indicate
that both ankyrin and spectrin are tightly bound peripheral membrane proteins that are resistant to extraction with KI and cold
1% TX-100, but are released from the membrane at alkaline pH.
(B) We also immunoblotted the Golgi membranes for ankyrin and spectrin following incubation with cytosol. In the presence of
added cytosol, spectrin and ankyrin are present on control and
0.6 M KI-extracted membranes, but are absent from membranes that were extracted at pH 11.5 or with cold 1% TX-100.
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; Beck et al.,
1994
). We found that 87% of the Golgi stack fraction
I
*-spectrin, and 80%
/
-spectrin was associated with
membranes that did not bind to the lectin-coated beads. In
the TGN-containing membrane fractions, 80% of
I
*spectrin, 70% of
/
-spectrin, and 92% of the ankyrin was associated with membranes that did not bind to the WGA-agarose. These data suggest that spectrin and ankyrin are
associated with Golgi membranes and not with any possible contaminating plasma membranes.
/
-spectrin and ankyrin were strongly associated peripheral membrane proteins that remained bound to the membrane in the presence of KI, but were stripped from the
membrane at alkaline pH (Fig. 8 A). To determine whether spectrin and ankyrin are associated with the detergent-stable Golgi matrix, Golgi membranes were also solubilized
with cold 1% TX-100 and immunoblotted for these components. We found that both
/
-spectrin and ankyrin are
part of the Triton Golgi membrane ghosts (Fig. 8 A).
; Vallee and Sheetz, 1996
). Although dynein
may be tethered to Golgi membranes indirectly through
such a matrix, we found that functional cytosolic dynein may
also bind to Golgi membranes by peripheral membrane
proteins other than a spectrin/ankyrin membrane skeleton. In our Golgi extraction studies, ankyrin and spectrin
are associated with cold 1% TX-100 membrane ghosts
(Fig. 8 A). Quite surprisingly, spectrin and the ~225-240-kD ankyrin were solubilized when these ghosts were incubated with cytosol (Fig. 8 B), conditions which also allow
for cytosolic dynein binding (Fig. 4 B). The lower molecular weight ankyrin immunoreactive polypeptide was released to a lesser extent. The absence of spectrin and
ankyrin from these membranes did not reflect the nonspecific removal of all membrane proteins because this immunoblot, which was reprobed here, was previously shown to
contain both p150Glued and Arp1 (Fig. 4). In that motility
supporting cytosolic dynein bound to these Triton-treated
membranes, we propose that functional dynein can also
bind to Golgi membranes independent of an ankyrin/spectrin matrix.
Discussion
-COP, and are highly enriched for dynein relative to the stacks from which they
budded. Thus, we propose that there is a regulated binding
of dynein to regions of Golgi stacks that are destined to
bud. Cytosolic dynein binds to the Golgi membrane via a
tightly bound peripheral membrane protein(s), for this
binding moiety is sensitive to protease digestion on intact
membranes and is extracted from the membrane by alkaline pH, but not by high salt nor by cold TX-100. The
bound dynein is functional and can move Golgi membranes towards the minus-ends of microtubules in in vitro
motility assays.
). Thus, the binding of dynein to
the Golgi apparatus and Golgi-derived membranes may
be regulated both spatially and temporally. Therefore, we
began a series of studies focusing on the in vitro binding of
cytosolic dynein to Golgi stacks by using an in vitro budding assay (Salamero et al., 1990
). We monitored the extent of budding by quantifying the release of membranes
containing AP from stacks. We chose AP because it is an
abundant apical plasma membrane protein in polarized
epithelial cells. In complete budding reactions containing both ATP and cytosol, there is efficient release of 50-200-nm vesicles containing dynein and AP (Fig. 2). There is,
however, little dynein (Table I and Fig. 2 A) remaining
bound to the stacks after budding. These results suggest
that dynein binds to regions of the Golgi stacks that are
destined to bud and, more importantly, suggest that dynein
binding is a late event in the budding process, occurring
when vesicles are budding from the TGN. By quantifying immunoblots, we found that there is a fivefold de-enrichment of
-COP and a fivefold enrichment of TGN 38/41 in
the budded membranes in comparison to stacks (Table I).
The partitioning of these proteins suggests that budded
membranes are not enriched in intracisternal Golgi vesicles (containing
-COP); instead they are enriched in vesicles budded from the TGN. These data also argue that
buds form preferentially from the small amount of TGN
38/41 present in the stack preparation. Our results are consistent with the results obtained by Salamero et al. (1990)
,
that budding occurs predominantly from the TGN, and argue that the budded membranes are not simply the result
of Golgi stack fragmentation or vesiculation. Thus, a motor thought to be required for the movement of apically targeted membranes may bind to and bud with these membranes from the TGN. It is also possible that this bound
dynein may assist in the budding process by providing the
force required to pull the membrane into the shape of a bud.
-COP in Golgi Membrane Fractions
Isolated Golgi stacks rarely bound and never moved on
microtubules in in vitro motility studies. The lack of motility is consistent with our immunoblot results that kinesin
and dynein are absent from isolated Golgi stacks. In the
presence of cytosol and ATP, membranes in the Golgi
stack fraction and isolated budded membranes moved
along microtubules with an average velocity of 1.6 µm/s. These movements are consistent with the binding of dynein that we observe by immunoblotting by being microtubule minus-end-directed (Fig. 3) and inhibited by 2 mM
NEM. It is unlikely that these movements are driven by a
microtubule minus-end-directed kinesin-like protein. First,
although kinesin was present in cytosol, no kinesin could
be detected on Golgi stacks (Fig. 1 A). Second, membrane transport continued in buffers containing an equimolar
mixture of AMP-PNP and ATP. When equimolar with
ATP, AMP-PNP inhibits the motor activity of all kinesins
examined to date (Walker and Sheetz, 1993).
Although cytosolic dynein remained tightly bound to
Golgi membranes and could pellet with these membranes
through 0.5 M sucrose in buffers identical to those used in
motility assays, we found that membranes washed free of
cytosol moved only infrequently in motility assays. Because dynein (and the dynactin complex) could bind tightly
to these membranes, it is unlikely that the continuous
presence of cytosol is necessary for supplying additional dynein to replace dynein that might be lost from the membrane. We also found that TGN-containing membranes
that contain dynein as isolated (Fath et al., 1994) can translocate on microtubules in motility assays in the absence of
cytosol, however, the frequency of movement also greatly
increased when cytosol was added with the membranes
(data not shown). In that we cannot compare the amount
of dynein that is bound in the presence of cytosol with the
amount that remains bound in the absence of cytosol, it is possible that sufficient dynein is lost from the membrane
to decrease the frequency of membrane movements. A
similar decrease in minus-end motility by vesicles isolated
from squid axoplasm that were separated from cytosol on
flotation gradients has been seen previously (Muresan et
al., 1996
).
The finding that cytoplasmic dynein IC can bind p150Glued
in vitro (Karki and Holzbaur, 1995; Vaughan and Vallee,
1995
) and that the dynactin complex stimulates the in vitro
motility of membranes (Schroer and Sheetz, 1991
), suggests that dynactin may mediate the binding of dynein to
intracellular membranes. Although purified cytoplasmic
dynein can bind to artificial phospholipid vesicles (Lacey
and Haimo, 1994
), lipid-bound dynein is presumably not a
functional motor without other components such as the
dynactin complex (Gill et al., 1991
). We found that Golgi
stacks that are capable of binding cytosolic dynein contain
at least two members of the dynactin complex, p150Glued
and Arp1 (Fig. 4 A). Being peripheral membrane proteins,
both p150Glued and Arp1 were stripped from the membrane at alkaline pH. When these stripped membranes
were incubated with cytosol, nearly control levels of Arp1
rebound, while only a small portion of p150Glued rebound
(Fig. 4 B). We found that the 150-kD isoform of p150Glued
rebound to higher levels than did the 135-kD isoform. Because the incubated membranes were pelleted through a
0.5 M sucrose cushion, it is possible that both components
of the dynactin complex bound to membranes, but a
weakly bound p150Glued was stripped off by the sucrose.
These data are in agreement with the apparently weak
binding of cytosolic p150Glued and the stronger binding of
cytosolic Arp1 to KI-stripped membranes that were isolated from squid axoplasm (Muresan, V., and B.J. Schnapp.
1996. Mol. Biol. Cell. 7:402a). We also found that when Golgi stacks were extracted with cold 1% TX-100, conditions
allowing dynein binding, Arp1 but not p150Glued, was released from the membrane ghosts (Fig. 4 A). These data suggest that members of the dynactin complex may interact with the Golgi membrane independently. Moreover,
because detectable levels of dynein did not bind to alkali-stripped Golgi membranes lacking the 135-kD isoform of
p150Glued, these data are consistent with the hypothesis that
p150Glued may be required for dynein binding.
Recently, it has been proposed that dynein and dynactin
may be linked indirectly to intracellular membranes via an
organelle membrane skeleton that contains spectrin and
ankyrin (see Introduction). Ankyrin and spectrin have
been localized to the Golgi complex by immunofluorescence in a number of polarized and unpolarized cell lines
(Beck et al., 1994; Devarajan et al., 1996
; Holleran et al.,
1996
) and by immunoblotting of isolated rat liver Golgi membranes (Beck et al., 1994
). We found that Golgi stacks
and TGN-containing membranes that were isolated from
polarized intestinal epithelia also contain a spectrin and
ankyrin matrix. We have detected Golgi spectrin with an
antibody specific for an erythroid
-spectrin (
spec-1) and
with a polyclonal antibody that recognizes fodrin (
- and
nonerythroid
-spectrin). On the 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gels that we used in this study, it was difficult to discern whether the fodrin antibody recognized
-spectrin,
which is found in all avian spectrin heterodimers, or the
nonerythroid
-spectrin. Spectrin and ankyrin are tightly
bound peripheral membrane proteins that resist extraction
from Golgi membranes by 0.6 M KI and cold 1% TX-100,
but are extracted at alkaline pH (Fig. 8). We found, however, that spectrin and ankyrin were released from detergent-extracted Golgi membranes by incubation with cytosol. Because cytosolic dynein bound to these membrane
ghosts, these results suggest that functional dynein can
bind to Golgi detergent ghosts independent of a spectrin
matrix. Moreover, these results suggest that a component of cytosol may release this matrix from detergent-extracted
membranes. In contrast, spectrin and ankyrin were not released from Golgi membranes that were preincubated in
buffer or with 0.6 M KI before adding cytosol.
What may be a role for a matrix on the cytoplasmic face
of the Golgi complex? We found that although >75%
(Fig. 7) of total Golgi protein is extracted with ice-cold 1%
TX-100, these membrane ghosts were closely associated
with an amorphous framework (Fig. 6). These structures
suggest that the characteristic Golgi morphology may be
maintained in part by a Golgi matrix in combination with glycosphingolipid-rich membrane domains (which are not
extracted by cold TX-100), because no curved, stacked
structures were evident after extraction with the detergent
n-octylglucoside (data not shown and Garcia et al., 1993).
This framework may be similar to a matrix that has been
identified biochemically as a detergent and salt resistant
matrix from purified rat liver Golgi stacks, which has been
proposed to establish a functional polarity of the Golgi
stack (Nakamura et al., 1995
) or to maintain Golgi structure.
This matrix may also contain in part members of the
Golgi-associated coats (e.g., clathrin and COPs) that are
thought to have roles in regulating Golgi membrane traffic. There is a growing list of vesicle coats that have been
associated with secretory processes (Schekman and Orci,
1996; Robinson, 1997
). Support for a role of a spectrin and
ankyrin matrix as a Golgi coat comes from studies in
which the Golgi apparatus is disrupted by drug treatment.
When the Golgi apparatus structure and function are abolished with the drug brefeldin A,
I
*-spectrin,
-COP
(Beck et al., 1994
), and ankyrin (Beck et al., 1997
) become
diffusely distributed in the cytoplasm. In contrast, when
the Golgi apparatus structure, but not function, is disrupted
by depolymerizing microtubules with nocodazole,
-spectrin and ankyrin remain associated with the dispersed Golgi
membranes. These data suggest that spectrin may be important in Golgi biosynthetic processing and/or packaging.
In addition to maintaining Golgi apparatus structural integrity and regulating carrier vesicle formation, a Golgi
matrix may also possess the binding sites for the specific
molecular motors required for delivery of the vesicle to
the plasma membrane. In this scenario, motors bind to the
budding vesicle via a component of a surface matrix (Holleran et al., 1996; Vallee and Sheetz, 1996
). The organelle
with its surface skeleton and attached motor then translocate to the plasma membrane along cytoskeletal tracks. Our observations that motor components, such as dynein,
p150Glued and myosin-I, are present in a detergent insoluble fraction associated with TGN-containing membranes
is consistent with the idea that a Golgi matrix organizes or
couples the placement of motors with budding membranes. A matrix could therefore organize not only the
structure, but the recruitment or placement of specific receptors at certain sites such as regions of the Golgi stacks
that are destined to bud. Consistent with a directed placement, it has been reported that the movement of Golgi
membrane tubules along microtubules in vitro occurs at
the tips of these tubules (Allan and Vale, 1994
).
The association of dynein with the Golgi complex of
both fibroblasts and enterocytes in which the Golgi apparatus is nearer microtubule minus- or plus-ends, respectively, suggests that dyneins may have multiple roles in
Golgi function. The production of isoform-specific dynein
antibodies (Vaisberg et al., 1996) may now allow us to begin to explore the roles for dynein in different cellular
compartments. We are also only beginning to understand
how dynein-based motility may be regulated. Data suggest
that dynein-based transport may be directed by regulating
the binding of the motor to the membrane by the phosphorylation of dynein heavy- (Lin and Collins, 1992
) or
light-intermediate chain (Niclas et al., 1996
) and by regulating motor activity through differential phosphorylation
of the dynein heavy chain (Dillman and Pfister, 1994
). Undoubtably, the binding of dynein (and other molecular
motors) to membranes is regulated at multiple levels. As
we begin to discover the components of the binding machinery, we will begin to understand further how motors
are targeted to selected membranes and how multiple motors on the same organelle are regulated in different regions of the cytoplasm.
.
1. Abbreviations used in this paper: AP, alkaline phosphatase; AMP-PNP, 5We thank Dr. T. Schroer (Johns Hopkins Univ.) for mAb 150.1; Dr. K. Howell (Univ. of Colorado) for TGN 38/41 antiserum; Drs. W.J. Nelson
and K. Beck for Na+K+-ATPase and I
*antiserum (Stanford Univ.); Dr.
Kelley Moremen (University of Georgia) for
-mannosidase II antiserum;
and Dr. D. Helfman for the antiserum against Arp1 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). We thank Dr. David Asai for purified rat testis dynein (Purdue University). Purified tubulin and sea urchin axonemes were a gift
from Dr. T. Salmon (University of North Carolina). We thank Dr. L. Cassimeris (Lehigh University) for Chlamydomonas axonemes and for
advice on motility assays. We also thank Dr. S. Gilbert (University of
Pittsburgh) for purified tubulin and Tom Harper for assistance with electron microscopy.
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