Biosynthesis and Secretion of Parathyroid Hormone Are Sensitive
to Proteasome Inhibitors in Dispersed Bovine Parathyroid Cells*
Amos M.
Sakwe
,
Åke
Engström,
Mårten
Larsson, and
Lars
Rask
From the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology,
Uppsala Biomedical Center, Uppsala University,
SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
Preproparathyroid hormone (prepro-PTH) is one of
the proteins abundantly synthesized by parathyroid chief cells; yet
under normal growth conditions, little or no prepro-PTH can be detected in these cells. Although this may be attributed to effective
cotranslational translocation and proteolytic processing,
proteasome-mediated degradation of PTH precursors may be important in
the regulation of the levels of these precursors and hence PTH
secretion. The effects of N-acetyl-Leu-Leu-norleucinal,
N-acetyl-Leu-Leu-methional, carbobenzoxy-Leu-Leu-leucinal (MG132),
benzyloxycarbonyl-Ile-Glu(t-butyl)-Ala-leucinal (proteasome inhibitor I), and lactacystin on the biosynthesis and
secretion of PTH were examined in dispersed bovine parathyroid cells.
We demonstrate that treatment of these cells with proteasome inhibitors
caused the accumulation of prepro-PTH and pro-PTH. Compared with
mock-treated cells, the processing of pro-PTH to PTH was delayed, and
the secretion of intact PTH decreased in proteasome inhibitor-treated
cells. Relieving the inhibition of the proteasome by chasing
MG132-treated cells in medium without the inhibitor led to the rapid
disappearance of the accumulated prepro-PTH, and the rate of PTH
secretion was restored to levels comparable to those in mock-treated
cells. Furthermore, overexpression of the Hsp70 family of molecular
chaperones was observed in proteasome inhibitor-treated cells, and we
show that PTH/PTH precursors interact with these molecular chaperones.
These data suggest the involvement of parathyroid cell proteasomes in
the quality control of PTH biosynthesis.
*
This work was supported in part by grants from the Swedish
Medical Research Council.The costs of publication of this
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