title: Multiple motifs regulate apical sorting of p75 via a mechanism that involves dimerization and higher-order oligomerization.
abstract: The sorting signals that direct proteins to the apical surface of polarized epithelial cells are complex and can include posttranslational modifications, such as N- and O-linked glycosylation. Efficient apical sorting of the neurotrophin receptor p75 is dependent on its O-glycosylated membrane proximal stalk, but how this domain mediates targeting is unknown. Protein oligomerization or clustering has been suggested as a common step in the segregation of all apical proteins. Like many apical proteins, p75 forms dimers, and we hypothesized that formation of higher-order clusters mediated by p75 dimerization and interactions of the stalk facilitate its apical sorting. Using fluorescence fluctuation techniques (photon-counting histogram and number and brightness analyses) to study p75 oligomerization status in vivo, we found that wild-type p75-green fluorescent protein forms clusters in the trans-Golgi network (TGN) but not at the plasma membrane. Disruption of either the dimerization motif or the stalk domain impaired both clustering and polarized delivery. Manipulation of O-glycan processing or depletion of multiple galectins expressed in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells had no effect on p75 sorting, suggesting that the stalk domain functions as a structural prop to position other determinants in the lumenal domain of p75 for oligomerization. Additionally, a p75 mutant with intact dimerization and stalk motifs but with a dominant basolateral sorting determinant (Δ250 mutant) did not form oligomers, consistent with a requirement for clustering in apical sorting. Artificially enhancing dimerization restored clustering to the Δ250 mutant but was insufficient to reroute this mutant to the apical surface. Together these studies demonstrate that clustering in the TGN is required for normal biosynthetic apical sorting of p75 but is not by itself sufficient to reroute a protein to the apical surface in the presence of a strong basolateral sorting determinant. Our studies shed new light on the hierarchy of polarized sorting signals and on the mechanisms by which newly synthesized proteins are segregated in the TGN for eventual apical delivery.
authors: Renal-Electrolyte Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. rty4@pitt.edu
authors: Robert T
authors: RT
authors: Youker
authors: Jennifer R
authors: JR
authors: Bruns
authors: Simone A
authors: SA
authors: Costa
authors: Youssef
authors: Y
authors: Rbaibi
authors: Frederick
authors: F
authors: Lanni
authors: Ossama B
authors: OB
authors: Kashlan
authors: Haibing
authors: H
authors: Teng
authors: Ora A
authors: OA
authors: Weisz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D004285:Dogs; D037161:Galectins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006031:Glycosylation; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D008954:Models, Biological; D009154:Mutation; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D021381:Protein Transport; D034622:RNA Interference; D020800:Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D021601:trans-Golgi Network / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D037161:Galectins; D020800:Receptor, Nerve Growth Factor; D049452:Green Fluorescent Proteins
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