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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 279, Issue 46, 48038-48047, November 12, 2004

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The Leber Congenital Amaurosis Protein AIPL1 Modulates the Nuclear Translocation of NUB1 and Suppresses Inclusion Formation by NUB1 Fragments^*

Jacqueline van der Spuy and Michael E. Cheetham

From the Division of Pathology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom

Mutations in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein-like 1 (AIPL1) cause the blinding disease Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). The similarity of AIPL1 to AIP has led to suggestions that AIPL1 could function in a similar manner to AIP in facilitating protein translocation and as a component of chaperone complexes. AIPL1 interacts with the cell cycle regulator NEDD8 ultimate buster protein 1 (NUB1). As AIPL1 is predominantly cytoplasmic and NUB1 is predominantly nuclear, we tested the hypothesis that AIPL1 could modulate the nuclear translocation of NUB1. Co-transfection of AIPL1 with GFP-NUB1 resulted in a shift of GFP-NUB1 subcellular distribution toward the cytoplasm. Interestingly, AIPL1 was able to act in a chaperone-like fashion to efficiently suppress inclusion formation by NUB1 fragments. Co-transfection of AIPL1 with GFP-NUB1-N and GFP-NUB1-C resulted in an AIPL1-dependent suppression of GFP-NUB1-N perinuclear inclusions and GFP-NUB1-C intranuclear inclusions leading to the redistribution of these fragments in the cytoplasm. This chaperone-like function of AIPL1 was specific for NUB1, since AIPL1 was unable to suppress the inclusion formation by unrelated aggregation-prone proteins and AIP had no effect on NUB1 localization or inclusion formation. We examined the effect of a range of pathogenic and engineered mutations on the ability of AIPL1 to modulate NUB1 localization or inclusion formation. With the exception of W278X, which formed non-functional SDS-insoluble inclusions, all of the pathogenic mutations studied were soluble and could modulate NUB1 with varying efficiency compared with the wild-type protein. The effect of AIPL1 on NUB1 required the C-terminal region of AIPL1, as engineered C-terminal truncation mutations had no effect on NUB1. These data show that AIPL1 can modulate protein translocation and act in a chaperone-like manner and suggest that AIPL1 is an important modulator of NUB1 cellular function.

Received for publication, July 13, 2004 , and in revised form, August 16, 2004.

^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

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