The neuropeptide proctolin induces phosphorylation of a 30 kDa protein associated with the thin filament in crustacean muscle
1 Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany, and
2 Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
*Author for correspondence (e-mail: s.kreissl{at}uni-konstanz.de)
Accepted May 14, 2001
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Key words: Idotea emarginata, nervous system, motoneurone, modulation, actin, myosin, troponin I, contraction, caffeine.
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Introduction |
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The mechanisms underlying the potentiations involve both pre- and postsynaptic actions. Presynaptically, proctolin can increase transmitter output at some neuromuscular endings (Belanger and Orchard, 1993; Pasztor and Golas, 1993; Rathmayer et al., 2001). Postsynaptically, proctolin closes non-voltage-dependent K+ channels (Erxleben et al., 1995; Baines et al., 1996; Walther et al., 1998) resulting in an increase of input resistance and time constant of the muscle membrane and thus in stronger summation of excitatory junctional potentials. It also stimulates an influx of Ca2+ into muscle fibres (Baines and Downer, 1992; Wilcox and Lange, 1995) by increasing the open probability of voltage-sensitive sarcolemmal Ca2+ channels (Bishop et al., 1991a; Erxleben and deSantis, 1998). The pre- and postsynaptic effects of proctolin add synergistically to potentiate contractions of muscle fibres (for summary of the combined effects in muscle fibres of the isopod Idotea emarginata and Idotea baltica, see) (Rathmayer et al., 2001).
There is some indication that the effects of proctolin on sarcolemmal ion channels may be mediated by protein phosphorylation via a cAMP signalling pathway: activators or inhibitors of this pathway mimic or inhibit the effects of proctolin, respectively (Evans, 1984; Bishop et al., 1991a; Erxleben et al., 1995; Erxleben and deSantis, 1998). In some muscles, however, proctolin increases inositol trisphosphate (InsP3) and may activate protein kinase C because InsP3 and phorbol esters mimic the potentiating effect of proctolin on contractions (Baines and Downer, 1992; Lange and Nykamp, 1996; Wegener and Nässel, 2000). The action of proctolin on sarcolemmal ion channels with different ion selectivity, the variety of possible signalling pathways and the finding that multiple proctolin receptor subtypes exist in insect visceral muscles (Baines et al., 1996; Mazzocco-Manneval et al., 1998) suggest that additional intracellular targets could be involved in mediating the proctolin-induced potentiation of contractions. Since it is now widely accepted that muscle contractions are modulated by reversible phosphorylation of target proteins in the sarcolemma, sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and myofilaments, for example, myosin light chains (Bárány and Bárány, 1980; Horowitz et al., 1996, for review), we studied the effect of proctolin on phosphorylation of myofibrillar proteins in a crustacean.
The marine isopod I. emarginata has the advantage that several neuropeptides can be localised in identified motoneurones (Kreissl et al., 1999; Rathmayer et al., 2001) and the effect of modulators on isolated membrane currents under voltage-clamp conditions and the effects on contractions can be analysed in single identified muscle fibres (Erxleben et al., 1995; Kreissl et al., 1999; Rathmayer et al., 2001). In the present study we show that proctolin also potentiates muscle contractures elicited by caffeine, which is known to induce Ca2+ release from internal stores via activation of the ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ channel of the SR of crustacean muscles (Lea, 1996; Zhang et al., 1999). By studying phosphorylation of myofibrillar proteins we show that proctolin induces phosphorylation of an intramuscular 30kDa protein. After separation of myofilaments, a 30kDa protein was found only in the thin filament fraction. This protein is phosphorylated and detected by an antiserum against lobster troponin I3. We also show that proctolin immunoreactivity is associated with extensor muscle fibres of I. emarginata and identify two single motoneurones as the centre of origin of this peptidergic innervation.
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For all experiments, the saline had a composition of (in mmoll-1): 490 NaCl, 8 KCl, 10 CaCl2, 12 MgCl2, 10 Hepes. Proctolin (Sigma, Deisenhofen, Germany) was dissolved in distilled water at a concentration of 1mmoll-1. Samples of the stock solution were stored at -20°C and diluted in saline prior to experiments.
Preparation and protocols for immunocytochemistry
Anatomy and preparation of the dorsal extensor muscles have been described previously (Kreissl et al., 1999). Specimens were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde, 0.5% glutaraldehyde in 100mmoll-1 Tris (pH 7.4) for 3h at room temperature (approximately 22°C) and washed in saline-substituted Tris buffer (SST: 160mmoll-1 NaCl, 50mmoll-1 Tris, pH 7.6) with 0.1% Triton X-100 (TRX; washing buffer) with a last wash continued overnight. The preparation was enzymatically permeabilised for 20min with 0.5mg collagenase, 0.5mg hyaluronidase in 1ml 10mmoll-1 Tris (pH 7.4), and extensively rinsed in washing buffer for 6h. Non-specific binding of the primary antiserum was blocked by preincubation in blocking solution (SST, 0.1% TRX, 0.5% BSA) for 1h and microbial contamination of the specimens was prevented by adding 0.02% sodium azide (Fluka, Buchs, Switzerland) to incubation and washing solutions. Incubation of the specimens in the polyclonal anti-proctolin serum, diluted 1:20,000 in blocking solution, was continued for 48h. The antiserum was a kind gift from H.-J. Agricola (University of Jena) and was previously used for crayfish (Utting et al., 2000). After washing for 2.5h, the biotinylated anti-rabbit secondary antibody (ABC kit, Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) was applied at a dilution of 1:1,000 in blocking solution overnight. After three washing cycles in washing buffer without sodium azide, 2h each, the horseradish peroxidase-containing ABC-complex (each compound diluted 1:500 in washing buffer) was allowed to bind for 12h. Colour development was obtained with 0.001% diaminobenzidine and 0.002% ammonium nickel sulphate (Fluka, Buchs, Switzerland) in 10mmoll-1 Sorensens phosphate buffer (pH 7.6) and in the presence of 0.0001% H2O2. Omitting the anti-proctolin serum and preincubating the primary serum with 10µmol l-1 proctolin resulted in no staining. Backfills of motoneurones with Lucifer Yellow and immunofluorescent labelling were performed as described previously (Kreissl et al., 1999). Conventional micrographs were taken using epifluorescence with the appropriate filter combinations. To merge images of double-stained tissue, the micrographs were digitised and modified only to enhance contrast using Adobe Photoshop.
Contraction measurements
Isometric contraction measurements were performed at 18°C with the short extensor fibres 1 and 2 of pereion segment 7 as described previously (Erxleben et al., 1995; Kreissl et al., 1999). Contractions were evoked by application of 10mmoll-1 caffeine (Sigma, Deisenhofen, Germany) in saline. After each caffeine contracture, the fibres were kept for 20min in saline to allow Ca2+ reloading into the SR. Before each proctolin application, at least three control measurements were taken. Only preparations with an equal peak amplitude of caffeine contractures were used. When caffeine contractures in the presence of proctolin were performed, the muscles were incubated in proctolin (1µmoll-1) for 25min before the addition of caffeine.
Preparation of dorsal extensor fibres for biochemistry
For biochemical investigations the animals were chilled and the sternites of the pereion, with attached flexor muscles, and the ventral nerve cord were cut away. The gut, the tubes of the digestive gland, the gonads with the vasa deferentia and the heart were removed. After exposure of the extensor muscle fibres, saline was replaced for 15min with fresh saline at 18°C, which contained either 1µmoll-1 proctolin in tests or no proctolin in controls. Subsequently, the preparation was cooled on ice and the long fibres 5 (for nomenclature and anatomy, see Kreissl et al., 1999) were dissected and immediately frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen.
SDS electrophoresis
Fibres of the controls and tests were pooled in separate groups. The fibres were homogenised for 20min in ice-cold extraction buffer (inmmoll-1: 100 Na4P2O7, 2.5 EDTA, 15 MgCl2, 1 Pefabloc, 5 DTT; modified according to) (Martinez et al., 1990). Ten fibres homogenised in 140µl extraction buffer, yielded a protein concentration of 34mgml-1. After homogenisation, the homogenate was centrifuged for 4min at 1200g to remove insoluble material. The supernatant was analysed for protein content (Bradford, 1976). The protein concentration of different samples on each gel was kept identical in order to enable comparisons between the samples. The supernatant of the homogenate was mixed with extraction buffer to obtain the desired protein concentration. Sample buffer (60mmoll-1 Tris, 10% glycerol, 5% SDS, 400mmoll-1 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid (MESNA), 0.04% Bromophenol Blue; pH 6.8) was added in a ratio of 1:1. In addition, 100mmoll-1 Pefabloc and 490mmoll-1 DTT were added in a ratio of 1:100. To solubilize proteins, samples were heated to 100°C for 10min. Prior to electrophoresis, the samples were centrifuged for 3min at 1200g.
SDS-gel electrophoresis was performed using 15% polyacrylamide gels. For each sample, about 30µg of protein were electrophoretically separated. Electrophoresis was run in a Mini-Protean II chamber (Bio-Rad, München, Germany) at 180V and at room temperature. Gels were silver stained (Heukeshoven and Dernick, 1988).
Preparation of actomyosin, myosin and thin filaments
The preparation of actomyosin is a variant of the technique of Offer et al. (Offer et al., 1973). 25 identified muscle fibres (fibre 5) were transferred after dissection into 400µl slightly modified GubaStraub solution (in mmoll-1: 300 NaCl, 100 NaH2PO4, 50 Na2HPO4, 1 MgCl2, 10 Na4P2O7, 10 EDTA, 15 NaN3, 100 MESNA); 12µl Pefabloc (100mmoll-1) was added and the fibres were homogenised for 15min on ice. The extraction was continued by vigorous stirring for 90min at 4°C. The muscle homogenate was then centrifuged at 15000g for 10min. The supernatant fluid was removed and 4ml of 1mmoll-1 EDTA, 100mmoll-1 MESNA were added to the supernatant. The proteins were allowed to precipitate at 4°C for 1h. Following precipitation, the homogenate was centrifuged again for 10min at 15000g, the pellet was dissolved in 500µl 100mmoll-1 Na4P2O7, 4mmoll-1 EDTA, 3mmoll-1 DTT, 12mmoll-1 ATP and gently stirred for 1h at 4°C. Following centrifugation for 2h at 105000g, the supernatant, which contained actomyosin, was prepared for SDS gel electrophoresis as described above.
Myosin and myosin light chains were isolated according to the method of Kendrick-Jones et al., for invertebrate muscle fibres, with slight modifications (Kendrick-Jones et al., 1976). 50 fibres (fibre 5) were homogenised in 100µl 6moll-1 guanidine-HCl, 5mmoll-1 DTT, 2mmoll-1 EDTA, 10mmoll-1 (pH 8.0) for 10min. The extract was then stirred overnight at 4°C. The extract was mixed with 100µl cold distilled water and 800µl cold ethanol was added slowly to precipitate the myosin heavy chains. After stirring for 30min at 4°C, the homogenate was centrifuged for 30min at 3200g and 4°C. The pellet contained the myosin (mostly myosin heavy chains and less myosin light chains) and was dissolved in cold extraction buffer (in mmoll-1: 100 Na4P2O7, 2.5 EDTA, 15 MgCl2, 1 Pefabloc, 5 DTT; modified according to the protocol of) (Martinez et al., 1990). To obtain the myosin light chains, the ethanol was removed from the supernatant with a rotary evaporator at room temperature, and guanidine-HCl was removed by dialysis against 25mmoll-1 Tris-HCl, pH8.0, 0.5mmoll-1 DTT.
Proteins of the thin filament were prepared following the procedure for crayfish abdominal muscle (Watanabe et al., 1982). The fibres were homogenised in 50mmoll-1 KCl, 1mmoll-1 MgCl2, 6.7mmoll-1 sodium phosphate buffer, 100µmol l-1 EDTA, 5mmoll-1 ATP (pH 6.0). The extract was centrifuged at 85000g for 20min and the supernatant was further centrifuged at 105000g for 2h. The pellet was suspended in 50mmoll-1 KCl, 1mmoll-1 MgCl2, 100µmoll-1 CaCl2, 500µmoll-1 DTT, 10mmoll-1 Tris (pH6.8).
Immunoblotting
After electrophoresis, proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes (NC membranes) using a Trans-Blot SD Semi-Dry Transfer Cell (1h at room temperature, 0.8mAcm-2; Bio-Rad, München, Germany). The NC membrane was equilibrated for 5min in Tris-saline-Tween (TST: 100mmoll-1 Tris, pH 7.6, 0.9% NaCl, 0.01% Tween 20) and then kept in blocking buffer for 2h.
For blots probed with the anti-phosphoserine antibody, a blocking buffer with 0.5% bovine serum albumin (BSA), 1% polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP), 1% polyethylene glycol (PEG 3500), 0.2% Tween 20, 10mmoll-1 NaF in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS: 1.9mmoll-1 NaH2PO4, 8.1mmoll-1 Na2HPO4, 154mmoll-1 NaCl, pH 7.4) was used. After removal of the blocking buffer, the NC membrane was incubated overnight at room temperature in blocking buffer containing 1µgml-1 anti-phosphoserine monoclonal antibody (clone 4A3; Biomol, Hamburg, Germany). The NC membrane was then washed for 1h with TST and incubated for 90min at room temperature in biotinylated anti-mouse immunoglobulin M diluted in blocking buffer (1:500). The NC membrane was washed again for 1h with TST and treated with an avidinbiotinhorseradish peroxidase complex (ABC kit, Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) diluted in TST (1:500). Subsequently, the NC membrane was washed with Tris-saline for 1h, incubated with a developing solution (ECL, Pierce, Rockford, IL, USA) for 5min and placed against autoradiographic film for exposure. The densitometric evaluation of the phosphorylated bands was carried out according to the BIOMETRA evaluation-technique allowing the determination of the extinction of a fixed area. This area was constant for all the evaluated proteins. Deviations were calculated as standard deviations (S.D.). Statistical evaluation was carried out using a Students t-test, assuming statistical significance when P<0.05.
For blots probed with the anti-troponin I3 antiserum (Sohn et al., 2000) a blocking buffer with 5% nonfat milkpowder in TST was used. After blocking, blots were incubated for 1h with the anti-troponin I3 antibody, diluted 1:5000 in TST. The binding of the troponin I3 antibody was detected as above, using a biotinylated anti-rabbit secondary antibody (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA, USA) and ECL.
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Proctolin potentiates caffeine-induced contractures
When isolated short extensor muscle fibres of I. emarginata were exposed to 10mmoll-1 caffeine, a contracture of the fibres resembling that described for other crustacean muscles was observed (Huddart, 1969; Chiarandini et al., 1970). The contracture persisted as long as caffeine was present (50s). During a washing period of 20min, tension returned to the starting values, before further caffeine exposure. Proctolin (1µmoll-1) increased the rate of development and the amplitude of the caffeine-induced contracture (Fig.2A). After washing for 35min with saline, the amplitude of subsequent caffeine-induced contractures returned to the level recorded before proctolin treatment (Fig.2A,B). Although the maximal amplitude of caffeine contractures varied between experiments, this potentiating effect was consistently observed. On average, the amplitudes of caffeine contractures were significantly increased by 27±7.6% (mean ± S.D., N=4, P<0.05 Students t-test) in the presence of proctolin. Application of proctolin (1µmoll-1) alone had no effect on resting tension.
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Mechanisms of proctolin-induced potentiation of contraction
Proctolin enhances contraction by synergistic pre- and postsynaptic effects. In I. emarginata the postsynaptic effects induced by concentrations of proctolin in the range of 2nmoll-1 to 1µmoll-1 include an increase in the input resistance of the sarcolemma by closure of non-voltage-dependent K+ channels and an increase of inward current through L-type Ca2+ channels (Erxleben et al., 1995; Rathmayer et al., 2001). The involvement of intracellular signalling pathways (Lange and Nykamp, 1996) (for review) (Rathmayer et al., 2001) suggests that, in addition to the effects on sarcolemmal ion channels, proctolin may also modulate Ca2+ release from the SR and/or Ca2+ sensitivity of sarcoplasmic proteins. In this study we show that proctolin, when applied at the concentration that was most effective in previous studies on this preparation (1µmoll-1), enhances caffeine contractures of I. emarginata extensor muscle fibres and induces the phosphorylation of a 30kDa protein. The proctolin-induced activation of Ca2+ channels does not contribute to the proctolin-induced enhancement of caffeine contractures. Caffeine contractures, which develop without membrane depolarisations, are not accompanied by Ca2+ currents through voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels (Huddart, 1969; Chiarandini et al., 1970). Caffeine contractures are thought to be due to its effect on the ryanodine receptor engaged in Ca2+ release from the SR. Since in locust oviduct and foregut muscles proctolin causes an increase in InsP3, and injection of InsP3 and phorbol esters mimicked the effect of proctolin (Baines and Downer, 1992; Lange and Nykamp, 1996; Hinton et al., 1998), it was suggested by these authors that the potentiation of contractions by proctolin is mediated by activation of InsP3-induced Ca2+ release from the SR. At present we have not investigated a possible potentiating effect of proctolin on caffeine contractures caused by a change in Ca2+ release.
However, proctolin may have yet another mechanism of action that is downstream of the Ca2+ release from the SR, by changing the Ca2+ sensitivity of regulatory proteins through phosphorylation.
Proctolin induces phosphorylation of an intramuscular protein
As the present study demonstrates, proctolin induces serine phosphorylation of a muscle protein with the apparent molecular mass of 30kDa. No other protein shows a consistent change in its degree of serine phosphorylation on exposure to proctolin. However, considerable variability in the proctolin-induced phosphorylation can be detected, which may reflect different endogenous proctolin levels. Erxleben et al. (Erxleben et al., 1995) reported a considerable variability among preparations of I. baltica for the proctolin-induced enhancement of contraction. Sometimes proctolin even failed to exert any effect on membrane properties or contraction amplitudes. The effects of proctolin was also shown to vary seasonally in crayfish (Bishop et al., 1991b).
To study phosphorylation of muscle proteins, we chose an extraction method that would isolate sarcoplasmic proteins in the range 15200kDa. Therefore, membrane-bound proteins such as ion channels were not present in the homogenates. In myofibrillar proteins, phosphorylation of myosin regulatory light chains, which is common in vertebrate muscle and regulates force generation (Sweeney et al., 1993; Horowitz et al., 1996, for review), has been detected in several insects (Winkelman and Bullard, 1980; Takano-Ohmuro et al., 1986). Lange and Nykamp (Lange and Nykamp, 1996) reported that a 20kDa light chain of a locust visceral muscle is phosphorylated after proctolin exposure (10nmoll-1). In Drososphila flight muscle phosphorylation of a light chain enhanced both calcium-activated and magnesium-activated ATPase activities (Takahashi et al., 1990). We show that the 30kDa protein of I. emarginata muscles, the phosphorylation of which is modulated by proctolin, is not a myosin light chain because the protein is not present in the myosin preparations (Fig.5A). In the opener muscle of lobster walking legs, the biogenic amines serotonin and octopamine, but not proctolin, were found to induce phosphorylation of a 29kDa protein (Goy et al., 1984). Although the molecular mass of this protein is similar to that of the I. emarginata protein, the lobster protein is soluble and not associated with myofibrils and therefore not likely to correspond to the I. emarginata 30kDa protein.
In crustacean muscles, thin filament regulatory proteins in the 30kDa range have been classified as troponin I because they inhibit actomyosin-ATPase activity (Regenstein and Szent-Györgyi, 1975; Nishita and Ojima, 1990). Five different troponin I isoforms, with molecular masses between 27 and 30kDa, were found in lobster fast and slow muscles (Mykles, 1985a; Mykles, 1985b; Miegel et al., 1992; Neil et al., 1993). By applying an anti-troponin I3 antiserum that was made against lobster troponin I3 but which reacts with other troponin I isoforms, we provide evidence that I. emarginata muscle contains at least two troponin I isoforms. Both are phosphorylated but proctolin increases the phosphorylation of only the 30kDa protein.
A functional role of troponin I phosphorylation is well known from studies of vertebrate heart muscle (for review see Perry, 1999). In parallel with the ß-adrenergic-positive inotropic effect, the phosphorylation of troponin I leads to an reduction of the Ca2+ sensitivity of troponin C (Reiffert et al., 1996; Jaquet et al., 1998). It is not known if phosphorylation of troponin I in crustacean muscle takes place in vivo. If the analogy with vertebrate heart muscle is valid this effect of proctolin in I. emarginata muscle fibres would counteract the other effects of this peptide in this preparation.
However, possible serine phosphorylation sites of troponin I from the crayfish Astacus leptodactylus are not thought to contribute to a control mechanism equivalent to the negative feedback mechanism in vertebrate heart muscle (Kobayashi et al., 1989). In addition, recent studies in an insect muscle showed that phosphorylation of a thin filament-associated 30kDa protein actually increased Ca2+ sensitivity of the actomyosin ATPase (Weitkamp et al., 1998). The identity of this 30kDa protein is not known but the authors assume it to be a troponin I on the basis of its molecular mass.
If the phosphorylation of the I. emarginata 30kDa thin-filament-associated protein also increases Ca2+ sensitivity of the ATPase, this would contribute to the proctolin-induced potentiation of contractures and would be synergistic to all other effects of proctolin in this preparation.
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