title: Drosophila TRPML forms PI(3,5)P2-activated cation channels in both endolysosomes and plasma membrane.
abstract: Transient Receptor Potential mucolipin (TRPML) channels are implicated in endolysosomal trafficking, lysosomal Ca(2+) and Fe(2+) release, lysosomal biogenesis, and autophagy. Mutations in human TRPML1 cause the lysosome storage disease, mucolipidosis type IV (MLIV). Unlike vertebrates, which express three TRPML genes, TRPML1-3, the Drosophila genome encodes a single trpml gene. Although the trpml-deficient flies exhibit cellular defects similar to those in mammalian TRPML1 mutants, the biophysical properties of Drosophila TRPML channel remained uncharacterized. Here, we show that transgenic expression of human TRPML1 in the neurons of Drosophila trpml mutants partially suppressed the pupal lethality phenotype. When expressed in HEK293 cells, Drosophila TRPML was localized in both endolysosomes and plasma membrane and was activated by phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) applied to the cytoplasmic side in whole lysosomes and inside-out patches excised from plasma membrane. The PI(3,5)P2-evoked currents were blocked by phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2), but not other phosphoinositides. Using TRPML A487P, which mimics the varitint-waddler (Va) mutant of mouse TRPML3 with constitutive whole-cell currents, we show that TRPML is biphasically regulated by extracytosolic pH, with an optimal pH about 0.6 pH unit higher than that of human TRPML1. In addition to monovalent cations, TRPML exhibits high permeability to Ca(2+), Mn(2+), and Fe(2+), but not Fe(3+). The TRPML currents were inhibited by trivalent cations Fe(3+), La(3+), and Gd(3+). These features resemble more closely to mammalian TRPML1 than TRPML2 and TRPML3, but with some obvious differences. Together, our data support the use of Drosophila for assessing functional significance of TRPML1 in cell physiology.
authors.affiliation: From the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, 510150.
authors.forename: Xinghua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yungang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Ching-On
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Pu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jintang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: De
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Guangwei
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Kartik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Venkatachalam
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Michael X
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002412:Cations / Q000378:metabolism; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029721:Drosophila Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster; D011992:Endosomes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D057809:HEK293 Cells; D006801:Humans; D017136:Ion Transport / Q000502:physiology; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008670:Metals / Q000378:metabolism*; D020125:Mutation, Missense; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D008670:Metals; D018129:Phosphatidylinositol Phosphates; C578373:TRPML protein, Drosophila; D050051:Transient Receptor Potential Channels; C060980:phosphatidylinositol 3,4-diphosphate
keywords: Endosomes; Lysosomal Storage Disease; Lysosomes; Mucolipidosis; Mucolipin; Phosphoinositides; TRP Channels