Department of Cell Biology and Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
*Author for correspondence (e-mail: davie{at}hms.harvard.edu)
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Key words: GTPase, Rho family, Actin, Rac, Pak, Dock, Kalirin
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INTRODUCTION |
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Members of the Rho subfamily of small GTPases, including Rho, Rac and Cdc42, play pivotal roles in conveying signals to the cytoskeleton (reviewed by Symons and Settleman, 2000). In a simple interpretation, these molecules act as molecular switches that cycle between an active GTP-bound state and an inactive GDP-bound state brought on by intrinsic hydrolytic activity. When active, Rho family members bind to downstream effectors that ultimately alter actin dynamics and/or localization. In many cases, these effectors are specific to particular Rho family members; for example, the serine-threonine kinase ROK (Rho kinase) is specifically activated by GTP-bound Rho, but not Rac or Cdc42, and phosphorylates myosin light chain phosphatase to increase actin-myosin contractility (reviewed by Amano et al., 2000). In contrast, GTP-bound Cdc42 specifically binds to the WASP (Wiscott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein) family, inducing localized actin polymerization by the Arp2/3 complex (reviewed by Welch, 1999; Takenawa and Miki, 2001). Thus, specificity in effector activation allows different Rho family members to mediate distinct effects on the actin cytoskeleton.
Following inactivation by GTP hydrolysis, Rho family members must release GDP and bind free cytoplasmic GTP in order to be reactivated. This nucleotide replacement is accelerated by guanine-nucleotide-exchange factors (GEFs), a family of molecules that bind to inactive GTPases and induce a conformational change favoring GDP release. GEFs that are specific for the Rho family have in common the Dbl homology (DH) domain, a conserved amino acid sequence that is the main site of exchange activity (Hart et al., 1994). Many Dbl family GEFs also contain other protein-protein interaction domains, which allow GTPases to be activated in specific signal transduction pathways. For example, the Dbl family member Vav contains an SH2 domain that binds to the tyrosine kinase Syk, which phosphorylates and activates the GEF in response to integrin engagement (Deckert et al, 1996; Miranti et al, 1998). The coupling of DH domains to various protein-protein interaction domains represents a means of integrating Rho GTPase activity in response to signals from upstream activators.
Trio, a novel member of the Dbl family, encodes a large protein that has numerous catalytic domains and putative signaling domains and might therefore function in multiple signaling pathways. Indeed, genetic analyses in model systems have exposed roles for Trio homologs in several actin-dependent processes, such as cell migration and neuronal extension. Here, we focus on recent advances in our understanding of the roles of Trio family members in orchestrating cellular responses to developmental cues through activation of Rho family GTPases and their effectors.
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The Trio family |
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Whereas Trio is expressed at moderate levels in all tissues, kalirin expression is specific to the central nervous system in the adult rat (Debant et al., 1996; Alam et al., 1997). Although they possess slight structural differences, it is plausible that kalirin and Trio function in a similar manner in their different tissues. The observations that the N-terminal GEF domain of kalirin is capable of activating Rac1 in vitro and that expression of the domain in cultured fibroblasts results in cell spreading and lamellipodia formation are consistent with this idea (Alam et al., 1997; Mains et al., 1999; Penzes et al, 2000). However, the functions of other Trio/kalirin domains are as yet poorly understood; for example, putative binding partners for the SH3 domains have not yet been reported. Furthermore, it is unclear whether the kinase domains are active or display substrate specificity, although a highly related kinase named Duet is autophosphorylated in vitro (Kawai et al., 1999). Further biochemical studies should identify other signaling partners, shedding light on potential functions of Trio family members.
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Trio function during development |
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The C. elegans mutant unc-73, which displays an uncoordinated motility phenotype in adults, encodes a multidomain protein highly related to Trio (Steven et al., 1998; Fig. 1). As in the vertebrate, UNC-73 possesses an N-terminal GEF domain that activates Rac-like molecules, and a C-terminal GEF specific for Rho (Steven et al., 1998; Merz and Culotti, 2000). In an interesting twist of evolution, UNC-73 differs from vertebrate Trio and kalirin at its C-terminus, encoding a fibronectin-III-like domain rather than a serine/threonine kinase. The functional significance of this difference is dubious because it is not yet clear whether Trio/kalirin kinases are active or what their substrates might be. The fibronectin III domain could potentially interact with other cellular factors to facilitate or influence UNC-73 function, but it remains to be determined what these factors may be and how this might differ from the function of Trio molecules in other species.
Antibody staining and GFP fusions show that UNC-73 is expressed generally in the developing embryo, with highest levels being observed in the nervous system (Steven et al., 1998). unc-73 mutants show extensive abnormalities in neural development, including axonal extension, fasciculation and guidance defects (Hedgecock et al., 1987; Desai et al., 1988; McIntire et al., 1992). Defects are also observed in cell migrations and asymmetric cell divisions, which may be analogous to the brain abnormalities observed in trio-/- mice (Hedgecock et al., 1987; Desai et al., 1988; Way et al., 1992). The upstream signals that utilize UNC-73 signaling in these diverse contexts are as yet unreported; however, Rac activation appears to be critical for UNC-73 function, given that a point mutation abolishing exchange activity of the N-terminal GEF domain produces a strong loss-of-function mutant (Steven et al., 1998). The role of Rho activation is less clear; although a minigene lacking the sequence that encodes the C-terminal GEF domain rescues several unc-73 mutants, it appears that these alleles still express C-terminal portions of the gene from alternative start sites and thus retain Rho exchange activity (Steven et al., 1998; R. Steven and T. Pawson, personal communication).
Adding a new chapter to the story, several research groups have recently described a Drosophila Trio homolog. As in the worm, Drosophila trio is expressed throughout the developing embryo, and high levels are observed in nervous tissues (Awasaki et al., 2000; Bateman et al., 2000; Liebl et al., 2000). Mutations in trio produce pleiotropic axonal phenotypes in both the embryonic nervous system and retinal axon projections, including stalling, missed targets and inappropriate fasciculation (Awasaki et al., 2000; Bateman et al., 2000; Liebl et al., 2000; Newsome et al., 2000). These defects are similar to those observed in unc-73 mutants, which suggests some conservation of cellular functions across evolutionary lines.
As in other species, the N-terminal GEF domain of Drosophila Trio has specific exchange activity for Rac family GTPases in vitro (Newsome et al., 2000). However, no in vitro exchange activity has been observed for GEF2 on several GTPases, including DRhoA. Consistent with this, in vivo rescue experiments show that GEF1, but not GEF2, activity is required for correct pathfinding of retinal axons (Newsome et al., 2000). Furthermore, a partial loss of trio function suppresses a gain-of-function retinal morphology phenotype of Drac1 but not DrhoA (Bateman et al., 2000). Thus, the Rac-specific GEF1 appears to be the major signaling domain for retinal developmental processes that require Drosophila Trio, highlighting the importance of a signaling pathway involving Rac.
The retinal axon defects observed in Drosophila trio mutants are similar to those of the previously identified mutant Pak-kinase (Pak), which encodes the Drosophila homolog of the p21-activated kinase PAK (Hing et al., 1999; Newsome et al., 2000). In both trio and Pak mutants, retinal axons fail to recognize their appropriate synaptic targets, instead improperly fasciculating and extending into deeper regions of the brain. Dosage-sensitive genetic interactions between trio and Pak suggest that they may operate in a common pathway to regulate retinal axon guidance (Newsome et al., 2000). Indeed, previous studies of the vertebrate homolog PAK have shown that it is a downstream effector of Rho family GTPases; activation of PAK kinase activity requires prior binding of its p21-binding domain by GTP-bound Rac or Cdc42, which unleashes the kinase domain from a sterically hindered conformation (Daniels and Bokoch, 1999; Hoffman and Cerione, 2000). Activated PAK then phosphorylates substrates that affect the actin cytoskeleton. For example, PAK phosphorylation of myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) decreases phosphorylation of the regulatory subunit of myosin, altering actin-myosin contractility (Sanders et al., 1999). Such changes in cytoskeletal dynamics might then aid in guiding a growth cone towards its appropriate target region (Lin et al., 1996; reviewed in Jay, 2000). Although genetic evidence in the Drosophila retina is consistent with a Pak pathway for Trio signaling, it is also possible that Pak activation occurs independently of Trio through activation of Rac by other GEFs such as PIX (Manser et al., 1998). Future experiments should address the GEF specificity of Pak activation in different developmental events.
PAK activation also involves the SH2-SH3 adapter protein Nck (Bokoch et al., 1996; Lu et al., 1997). In response to extracellular cues, Nck binds to activated receptors at the cell surface through its SH2 domain, while simulaneously binding PAK through one of its three SH3 domains (reviewed in McCarty, 1998). The subsequent recruitment to the membrane is important for PAK activation; artificial targeting of PAK to the membrane by myristilation can lead to activation of its kinase activity (Lu et al., 1997). This relationship holds true in Drosophila, in which the Nck homolog Dreadlocks (dock) is required for proper development of retinal axons (Garrity et al., 1996). As is the case for Pak and trio, mutations in dock cause axons to improperly fasciculate and extend past their appropriate targets. Again, the primary function of Dock is presumably to bring Pak to the membrane, because axonal defects observed in dock mutants can be rescued by myristilated PAK (Hing et al., 1999). In theory, Pak localization to the membrane then facilitates its activation by GTPases through local GEFs such as Trio.
Although the interaction between Pak and Dock is conserved in the Drosophila retina, the upstream receptors and signals that localize and activate Trio and Dock, and thus ultimately guide neurons, are as yet unknown. In vertebrates, the Dock homolog Nck binds to receptor tyrosine kinases such as EphB1 and the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R; Park and Rhee, 1992; Li et al., 1992; Stein et al., 1998), but those receptors have not been implicated in retinal axon guidance in Drosophila. However, the cell-surface protein Dscam has recently been shown to bind to Dock in Drosophila, and mutations in Dscam, dock and Pak cause identical defects in the guidance of Bolwigs nerve in the Drosophila embryo (Schmucker et al., 2000). It will be interesting to determine whether Trio also functions in this particular guidance system. Similarly, mutants of the LAR family phosphatase Dptp69D have an axonal phenotype resembling that of trio and dock in loss-of-function mutant retinas, which suggests that the phosphatase participates in similar signaling events (Garrity et al., 1999). The physical interaction of LAR and Trio in humans provides an attractive model for RPTP signaling, but it is not clear whether this relationship exists in Drosophila, because the C-terminal portions of Trio that are responsible for phosphatase binding are not conserved in the fly (Debant et al., 1996; Fig. 1). However, embryonic phenotypes caused by mutations in the LAR homolog Dlar are exacerbated by loss of either trio or Drac1, which indicates that the Trio/Rac pathway is important for RPTP signaling (Kaufmann et al., 1998; Bateman et al., 2000). Perhaps Drosophila RPTPs signal through Trio via other cellular factors (e.g. Abl, see below), rather than through a direct physical interaction.
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Other signaling partners |
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The activity of the Trio Rac-specific GEF itself suggests that PAK-independent signaling must occur. In Drosophila, GEF1 not only activates the Rac homologs Rac1 and Rac2 but also activates a close relative of the Rac genes, MIG-2-like (Mtl; Newsome et al., 2000). This novel GTPase is the Drosophila homolog of MIG-2, which is required for several cell migrations in C. elegans (Hedgecock et al., 1987; Zipkin et al., 1997). MIG-2 seems to be a significant in vivo target for UNC-73 signaling, because defects observed in weak loss-of-function unc-73 mutants are enhanced by mutations in mig-2 and suppressed by increasing the genetic dose of mig-2 (Zipkin et al., 1997; Honigberg and Kenyon, 2000). Despite significant sequence similarity between Rac and MIG-2 homologs, Mtl does not bind to Pak (Newsome et al., 2000), and therefore must signal through other downstream effectors that could be unique to MIG-2/Mtl or shared by activated Rac. Alternatively, MIG-2/Mtl may activate other GTPases, as observed for RhoG in vertebrates, although it is currently unclear whether these molecules are analogous in function.
Genetic data from the Drosophila retina seem to preclude a role for Rho activation in Drosophila trio signaling, but other observations suggest that Rho-like proteins are involved. First, expression of Drosophila Trio GEF2 in rat embryo fibroblast (REF) cells causes formation of stress fibres, which implies that the ability to activate Rho-like GTPases is conserved (Newsome et al., 2000). Furthermore, loss-of-function mutations in trio cause a dramatic overextension of neurites in the mushroom bodies of the developing brain, a phenotype observed in loss-of-function clones of rhoA (Awasaki et al., 2000; Lee et al., 2000). Perhaps Drosophila Trio is an activator of RhoA only in a particular cellular context that is irrelevant in the retina but required in other tissues. Alternatively, Trio might display exchange activity for other uncharacterized Rho-like proteins but not RhoA itself. Further biochemical and genetic experiments must be undertaken if we are to distinguish between these possibilities.
Two-hybrid screens using the GEF1 domain of human Trio as bait have identified two actin-binding proteins (ABPs) that could mediate aspects of Trio signaling. In one study, the PH domain of GEF1 was shown to bind filamin (Bellanger et al., 1998b; Bellanger et al., 2000), a large ABP that mediates actin crosslinking (Hartwig and Stossel, 1975) and interacts with several signaling proteins (Sharma et al., 1995; Marti et al., 1997). Genetic analysis has shown that filamin is necessary for cell migrations in Dictyostelium (Cox et al., 1992) and the vertebrate cortex (Fox et al., 1998) and for proper formation of actin structures during Drosophila oogenesis (Li et al., 1999; Sokol and Cooley, 1999). A functional link between filamin and human Trio was established by expression of Trio GEF1 in cells lacking filamin; in this case, the normal formation of actin-rich lamellipodia is abolished, which demonstrates that filamin is required for Trio GEF1 effects on the actin cytoskeleton (Bellanger et al., 2000). However, in vitro exchange assays show that filamin does not directly affect GEF1 exchange activity on RhoG. Filamin might play a role in Trio signaling by localizing it to actin-rich sites of the cell in response to guidance cues or through local recruitment of other cytoskeletal factors.
In another two-hybrid screen and subsequent coimmunoprecipitation studies, the novel actin-binding protein Tara was shown to interact with the GEF1 domain of human Trio (Seipel et al., 2001). Tara contains a PH domain and a coiled-coil domain, either of which might mediate interactions with other cellular factors. Ectopic expression of Tara in Hela cells results in an increase in cell spreading, which may be mediated in part by stabilizing latrunculin-B-sensitive actin structures (Seipel et al., 2001). However, as is the case with filamin, Tara does not affect Trio exchange activity in vitro. Future experiments aimed at the functional relationship between Tara and Trio should improve our understanding of Trio signaling mechanisms and its influence on the actin cytoskeleton.
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Conclusions and perspectives |
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Much attention has been given to the role of Trio in neural development, but evidence for a function in the adult nervous system also exists. For example, kalirin is abundant in the adult rat brain, and the isoform kalirin-7 localizes to postsynaptic densities (Alam et al., 1997; Penzes et al., 2000). Similarly, Drosophila Trio is present in the mushroom bodies of the adult brain and localizes to dendritic terminals of the lamina (Awasaki et al., 2000). This expression pattern is consistent with a role in synaptic function, perhaps in actin-mediated processes such as receptor clustering (Dai et al., 2000) or in Rho-family-dependent control of dendritic arborization (Nakayama et al., 2000; Li et al, 2000). Indeed, recent work has shown that overexpression of kalirin-7 in primary cortical neurons causes an increase in spine-like structures that is dependent upon GEF1 activity (Penzes et al., 2001). Furthermore, kalirin 7 contains a C-terminal motif that mediates interactions with PDZ-domain proteins that are involved in receptor clustering (Sheng and Pak, 1999; Penzes et al., 2001). However, the PDZ-binding motif does not appear to be conserved in other Trio family members, and thus this function may not be universal across species. Alternatively, Trio might function at the synapse in receptor internalization. Consistent with this is the finding that kalirin binds to an 18-residue region of PAM that is necessary and sufficient for recycling from the cell surface to the trans Golgi network (Alam et al., 1997). Internalization of cell surface components by Trio could again be mediated by GTPase activation, given that both Rac and Rho have been implicated in endocytic pathways (reviewed by Ellis and Mellor, 2000).
Roles for Trio in the adult nervous system highlight a multiplicity of functions observed in many molecules implicated in signaling to the actin cytoskeleton. Although actin dynamics must be regulated during development in order to achieve a specified cell architecture, the cytoskeleton must then be continually remodeled post-development in response to signals from neighbors in the adult cellular community. Our understanding of Trio and other actin modulators is aided by the combined exploration of these different avenues of study, providing insight into various biological processes required for normal cell biology and homeostasis.
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