title: Ca2+-dependent activator proteins of secretion promote vesicular monoamine uptake.
abstract: Ca(2+)-dependent activator proteins of secretion (CAPS) 1 and 2 are essential regulators of synaptic vesicle and large dense core vesicle priming in mammalian neurons and neuroendocrine cells. CAPS1 appears to have an additional and as yet unexplained function in vesicular catecholamine uptake or storage as CAPS1-deficient chromaffin cells exhibit strongly reduced vesicular catecholamine levels. Here we describe a role of CAPS proteins in vesicular monoamine uptake. Both CAPS1 and CAPS2 promote monoamine uptake and storage mediated by the vesicular monoamine transporters VMAT1 and VMAT2. Monoamine uptake of vesicular preparations from embryonic brains of CAPS1 deletion mutants is decreased as compared with corresponding preparations from wild type littermates, and anti-CAPS1 or anti-CAPS2 antibodies inhibit monoamine sequestration by synaptic vesicles from adult mouse brain. In addition, overexpression of CAPS1 or CAPS2 enhances vesicular monoamine uptake in Chinese hamster ovary cells that stably express VMAT1 or VMAT2. CAPS function has been linked to the heterotrimeric GTPase G(o), which modulates vesicular monoamine uptake. We found that the expression of CAPS1 is decreased in brain membrane preparations from mice lacking G(o2)alpha, which may explain the reduced monoamine uptake by G(o2)alpha-deficient synaptic vesicles. Accordingly, anti-CAPS1 antibodies do not further reduce monoamine uptake by G(o2)alpha-deficient synaptic vesicles, whereas antibodies directed against CAPS2, whose expression is not altered in G(o2)alpha-deficient brain, still reduce monoamine uptake into G(o2)alpha-deficient vesicles. We conclude that CAPS proteins are involved in optimizing vesicular monoamine uptake and storage mediated by VMAT1 and VMAT2.
authors.affiliation: AG Functional Cell Biology, Institute for Integrative Neuroanatomy, Charité Center 2 for Basic Medicine, Philippstr. 12, D-10115 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brunk
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blex
authors.forename: Dina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Speidel
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brose
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ahnert-Hilger
mesh_terms: D000588:Amines / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002460:Cell Line; D044385:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000172:deficiency / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D022142:Secretory Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism*; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000588:Amines; C409027:CADPS protein, human; C538900:CAPS2 protein, rat; C510820:Cadps protein, mouse; D002135:Calcium-Binding Proteins; D044385:GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins