title: Novel role for STIM1 as a trigger for calcium influx factor production.
abstract: STIM1 has been recently identified as a Ca(2+) sensor in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and an initiator of the store-operated Ca(2+) entry (SOCE) pathway, but the mechanism of SOCE activation remains controversial. Here we focus on the early ER-delimited steps of the SOCE pathway and demonstrate that STIM1 is critically involved in initiating of production of calcium influx factor (CIF), a diffusible messenger that can deliver the signal from the stores to plasma membrane and activate SOCE. We discovered that CIF production is tightly coupled with STIM1 expression and requires functional integrity of its intraluminal sterile alpha-motif (SAM) domain. We demonstrate that 1) molecular knockdown or overexpression of STIM1 results in corresponding impairment or amplification of CIF production and 2) inherent deficiency in the ER-delimited CIF production and SOCE activation in some cell types can be a result of their deficiency in STIM1 protein; expression of a wild-type STIM1 in such cells was sufficient to fully rescue their ability to produce CIF and SOCE. We found that glycosylation sites in the ER-resident SAM domain of STIM1 are essential for initiation of CIF production. We propose that after STIM1 loses Ca(2+) from EF hand, its intraluminal SAM domain may change conformation, and via glycosylation sites it can interact with and activate CIF-producing machinery. Thus, CIF production appears to be one of the earliest STIM1-dependent events in the ER lumen, and impairment of this process results in impaired SOCE response.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Csutora
authors.forename: Krisztina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Peter
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kilic
authors.forename: Kristen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Vladislav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zarayskiy
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gwozdz
authors.forename: Victoria M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Bolotina
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D015536:Down-Regulation; D006031:Glycosylation; D054522:Group VI Phospholipases A2 / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011817:Rabbits
chemical_list: D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D054522:Group VI Phospholipases A2; D002118:Calcium