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(Received for publication, August 25, 1995; and in revised form, January 29, 1996) From the
Cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase is a phosphodiesterase that
cleaves the cyclic bond of cyclic inositol monophosphate. In 1990, Ross et al. (Ross, T. S., Tait, J. F., and Majerus, P. W.(1990) Science 248, 605-607) purified this enzyme from human
placenta and reported that cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase is
identical to annexin III. Independent confirmation of this finding has
not been provided. The relative distribution of annexin III and cyclic
inositol phosphohydrolase activity in rat kidney and spleen indicated
that annexin III can be dissociated from cyclic inositol
phosphohydrolase activity. Rat spleen contains large quantities of
annexin III, but has very little cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase
activity. In contrast, rat kidney, one of the richest sources of cyclic
inositol phosphohydrolase activity, possesses very little
(immunohistochemistry) or no (Western blot) annexin III. Similar to
cytosol of human placenta, cytosol of guinea pig kidney contains both
annexin III and cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase. On SDS-gel
electrophoresis, guinea pig kidney annexin III has a slightly different
mobility than the human placental annexin III. Human placental annexin
III co-migrates with cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase on ion exchange
chromatography, while guinea pig kidney annexin III is clearly
dissociated from cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase on ion exchange
chromatography. Both guinea pig kidney annexin III and human placental
annexin III pellet with the addition of calcium and centrifugation,
while cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase activity in both of these
tissues remains in the supernatant. Our studies clearly show that
cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase and annexin III are two different
proteins. Phospholipase C hydrolysis of phosphoinositide results in the
generation of both cyclic and noncyclic inositol
phosphates(1) . Cyclic inositol mono- and polyphosphate esters
have been observed in intact tissue, and their accumulation in response
to agonist activation has been described in mouse pancreas(2) ,
kidney(3, 4) ,
platelets(5, 6, 7) , parotid
gland(8) , and SV40 transformed cells(9) . Dawson and
co-workers (10) identified a phosphodiesterase that
specifically hydrolyzes the cyclic bond of cyclic inositol
monophosphate (cIP) ( Lipocortin III has also been
referred to as placental anticoagulant protein III(16) ,
calcimedin 35- During
the course of investigating cyclic inositol phosphate metabolism, we
reinvestigated the putative identity of cIPH as annexin
III(13) . Evidence provided in this paper, when taken in
conjunction with data already reported in the literature, clearly
support our conclusion that annexin III and cIPH are two different
proteins. Inositol dehydrogenase, bathophenanthroline, inositol, cyclic
inositol monophosphate, and NAD
Figure 1:
Distribution of
annexin III and cIPH activity in rat spleen and kidney. A,
Western blot-tissue homogenate protein (25 µg) from spleen, renal
medulla, and renal cortex was separated by SDS-PAGE and transferred to
Immobilon. Proteins were probed with annexin III antibody raised
against rat spleen. B, tissue homogenate protein (20 µg)
was assayed for cIPH activity using the nonradioactive assay (see
``Materials and Methods''). Results are calculated as
nanomoles of inositol released per min per mg of protein, based on a
5-min incubation and expressed as mean ± S.D. (n = 3). Similar results were obtained in three other
experiments.
Figure 2:
Immunostaining of rat spleen and kidney
cortex and medulla with annexin III antibody. A, rat spleen
(
Antibody raised against human neutrophil
annexin III recognizes a specific band on the Western blot of both
guinea pig spleen and kidney as well as in human placenta and
neutrophil (Fig. 3A). Presence of annexin III on the
Western blot is consistent with the earlier report indicating that 1%
of the cytosolic protein in neutrophil is annexin III(32) .
Interestingly, while significant cIPH activity is present in both
guinea pig kidney and human placenta, no cIPH activity is detected in
human neutrophil (Fig. 3B). This observation further
dissociates cIPH activity from annexin III.
Figure 3:
Distribution of annexin III and cIPH
activity in guinea pig kidney, guinea pig spleen, human placenta, and
neutrophil. A, annexin III Western blot, cytosol of guinea pig
spleen (GPS), guinea pig kidney (GPK), human placenta (HP), and the homogenate of human neutrophil (HN)
were separated by SDS-PAGE and transferred to Immobilon-P. Proteins
probed with annexin III antibody were raised against human neutrophil
annexin III. B, cIPH activity, guinea pig spleen cytosol (40
µg), guinea pig kidney cytosol (50 µg), human placenta cytosol
(200 µg), and human neutrophil homogenate (200 µg) were assayed
for cIPH activity by nonradioactive assay (see ``Materials and
Methods''). Results are calculated as nmol of inositol released
per min per mg of protein, based on a 15-min
incubation.
Annexin III from both
guinea pig kidney and spleen, on SDS-gel electrophoresis consistently
(five different experiments) migrate slightly slower than the annexin
III obtained from human neutrophil and placenta (Fig. 3A). Interestingly, a slower migrating form of
annexin III has also been observed in human monocytes(33) .
Guinea pig annexin III appears to be immunologically distinct from rat
annexin III, as rat spleen annexin III antibody fails to recognize
annexin III in either guinea pig spleen or kidney (data not shown).
Figure 4:
Fractionization of human placental cytosol
on ion exchange chromatography. Human placental cytosol (10 mg of
protein) was injected onto a perceptive ion exchange chromatography
(POROS HQ/H) attached to a Biosprint HPLC. Sample (3 ml) in Tris/MES pH
7.0 buffer was loaded onto the column, followed by washing with 5
column volumes of buffer and elution with 30 column volumes of a linear
gradient to 0.2 M sodium chloride. Flow rate was 4 ml/min, and
0.5-min fractions were collected. Fractions 5 to 16 (0.5-min fractions)
were assayed for both annexin III and cIPH activity. A,
annexin III Western blot. L and S refer to the
original sample prior to injection and the standard annexin III,
respectively. B, cIPH activity of the ion exchange fractions
by radioactive method. 100 µl of the fraction were incubated with
55 µM labeled cIP for 60 min. Results are shown as
disintegrations/min of inositol released in the
supernatant.
Figure 5:
Fractionization of guinea pig kidney
cytosol by ion exchange chromatography. Guinea pig kidney cytosol (10
mg of protein) was injected onto a perceptive ion exchange
chromatography (POROS HQ/H) attached to a Biosprint HPLC, conditions
identical with that in Fig. 4. Fractions 5 to 16 (0.5-min
fractions) were assayed for both annexin III and cIPH activity. A, annexin III Western blot. L and S refer
to the original sample prior to injection and the standard annexin III,
respectively. B, cIPH activity of the ion exchange fractions
by radioactive method. 100 µl of the fraction were incubated with
55 µM labeled cIP for 60 min. Results are shown as
disintegrations/min of inositol released in the
supernatant.
Figure 6:
Distribution of annexin III and cIPH
activity following calcium precipitation. Cytosol from guinea pig
kidney and human placenta were treated with calcium and centrifuged as
described under ``Materials and Methods.'' A,
annexin III Western blot, protein (10 µg) from both guinea pig
kidney and placenta for each of the three fractions, S (untreated cytosol), CaP, and CaS are pellet and
supernatant obtained following calcium treatment and 100,000
Ross and Majerus (12) in 1986 purified cIPH from
human placenta and reported in 1990 that cIPH is identical with annexin
III(13) . In a later publication, they reported having
expressed cyclic inositol phosphohydrolase activity by transfecting
annexin III cDNA(14) . Consistent with the earlier
observations(10, 11) , renal homogenate possessed
significant cIPH activity (Fig. 1B), but to our
surprise failed to bind rat annexin III antibody on a Western blot (Fig. 1A). The same antibody clearly recognized annexin
III from rat spleen (Fig. 1A). Rat spleen, which is
rich in annexin III and gives a strong positive signal both on Western
blot and immunohistochemical staining with annexin III antibody, has
20-fold lower cIPH activity compared to the kidney. The above results
were fully consistent with what was reported in the literature. In an
earlier study (17) (where annexin III has been referred to as
calcimedin 35- A closer look at the original (12, 13) purification scheme suggests that the first
ion exchange chromatography step may have had poor resolution capacity.
In the study of Ross and Majerus(12) , 816 mg of human
placental cytosol protein was loaded on a Bio-Gel TSK DEAE 5 PW HPLC
anion exchange column. Even though it is a preparative column, the
total load was severalfold higher than the maximum column capacity for
that column. Direct loading of such a large amount of the crude
preparation, without preliminary purification, on an HPLC will likely
lead to poor resolution. When we loaded 10 mg of crude cytosolic
placental protein (the maximum capacity for this column) onto a
perceptive ion exchange column, to determine whether it is able to
resolve annexin III and cIPH, human placental annexin III and cIPH
appeared in the same fractions (Fig. 4). Interestingly, under
identical conditions, in guinea pig kidney, annexin III cannot be
detected in Western blot in fractions demonstrating cIPH activity (Fig. 5). In their original report, Ross et al.(13) identified the cIPH activity as annexin III based on
a single Western blot following final purification, with polyclonal
antibody generated against a 12-amino acid amino-terminal peptide of
annexin III. One of the well established properties of annexins is that
they precipitate with calcium. When guinea pig kidney cytosol and human
placental cytosol were treated with calcium, cIPH activity remained in
the supernatant, while annexin III is seen in the pellet (Fig. 6). But the pellet containing annexin III had no cIPH
activity. We suggest that misidentification of cIPH as annexin III
resulted because human placenta contains both cIPH and annexin III in
cytosol, which comigrated during purification (not unusual), and the
purification procedure did not employ any specific step to deplete
annexin III. We have no logical explanation for the small cIPH
activity (0.02 µmol/min/mg of protein) reported with purified
annexin III (13) or the small amount of activity detected
following transfection of Swiss 3T3 cells with the cDNA of annexin
III(14) . As the assay conditions used in the transfections
studies (14) were reported to be similar to their original
paper(12) , we can make the following calculations from their
work. The total amount of substrate, based on a final substrate
concentration of 75 µM and the incubation volume of 25
µl, was 1.87 nmol of cIP. In the only time course
reported(14) , the annexin III transfected cells were reported
to generate 30 nmol of inositol monophosphate per mg of protein, over
the entire incubation period of 120 min. If we assume they used 0.3 mg
of protein (based on Fig. 1of (15) ), this amounts to 9
nmol of cIP being hydrolyzed during the 120-min incubation, which is
5-fold higher than the total cIP present at the beginning of the
incubation. These calculations make it highly unlikely that they were
measuring true cIPH activity. Neutrophil provides an interesting
test case. If annexin III indeed possessed cIPH activity, one would
expect a very high level of cIPH activity in neutrophils, as 1% of the
neutrophil cytosolic protein is annexin III(32) . In a single
observation, Ross and Majerus (34) reported that neutrophils
have a cIPH activity of 12,000 pmol/min/mg of protein, which would be
consistent with the above hypothesis. However, the authors do not
describe the exact conditions used for this single point measurement.
If we assume that incubation conditions were similar to those described
earlier (10-min incubation in the presence of 0.3 mg of protein), it
would result in consumption of 36,000 pmol of substrate during the
course of this incubation, 19-fold higher substrate than what was
actually provided at the beginning of the assay. In our hands, three
different experiments with neutrophils (Fig. 2) as well as time
course studies (data not shown) detected no cIPH activity, which is
consistent with our finding that annexin III and cIPH are two different
proteins. Further support for such a conclusion is obtained from the
work of Riddle et al.(
Volume 271,
Number 14,
Issue of April 5, 1996 pp. 8295-8299
©1996 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION
MATERIALS AND METHODS
RESULTS
DISCUSSION
FOOTNOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
)to yield inositol 1-phosphate. It is
currently believed that cyclic inositol polyphosphate is first
converted to cyclic inositol monophosphate by stepwise
dephosphorylation, before the cyclic bond is cleaved by cyclic inositol
phosphohydrolase (cIPH). Kidney has the highest activity of
cIPH(10, 11) . More recently, Ross and Majerus (12) have purified and characterized cIPH from human placenta
and later identified the placental cIPH as identical with lipocortin
III(13) . They have further reported increased cIPH activity
following transfection of lipocortin III (14) and reported
identification of another phosphodiesterase that converts cIP to
inositol 2-phosphate(15) .
(17) , and annexin
III(18, 19) . In accordance with recent agreement
among 41 researchers working in this field(19) , this protein
will be referred to as annexin III. Annexin III is one of the 12
members of the annexin family of proteins that have been identified so
far. Proteins belonging to this family have the following two
characteristics: (a) Conserved 70-amino acid domain repeated
either four or eight times in the overall structure and (b)
ability to bind to phospholipids in a calcium-dependent manner.
Annexins have been implicated in various cellular functions such as
exocytosis(20) , formation(21, 22) or
modulation of ion channels(23) , and membrane attachment of
cytoskeletal elements(24, 25, 26) .
were obtained from
Sigma; phenazine was from Aldrich; ferric chloride was from
Mallinckrodt; rabbit polyclonal antibody to rat spleen annexin III was
a gift from Dr. John Dedman, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH;
and rabbit polyclonal antibody raised against human neutrophil annexin
III was a gift from Dr. Joel Ernst, University of California at San
Francisco. All other reagents and chemicals used were of analytical
grade. Kidney and spleen were obtained from Sprague-Dawley male rats
(100-150 g), guinea pig tissues were obtained from male albino
(350-450 g), and human placenta following normal delivery.Cyclic Inositol Phosphohydrolase Assay
Two cyclic
inositol phosphohydrolase assays were performed; one using a
radioactive substrate and the other a nonradioactive cIP substrate.
Principles underlying the methods are similar to that described in (12) , with some modifications. Tissue was homogenized in 10
volumes of 20 mM Tris, 20 mM MES, pH 7.8, containing
1 mM EDTA, 10 mM benzamidine, 3 mM sodium
azide, 1 mg/liter aprotinin, and 0.25 mM diisopropyl
fluorophosphate. Protein (20-100 µg) was incubated with cIP
and alkaline phosphatase (120 milliunits) in 20 mM Tris, 10
mM MgCl
(pH 8.3) buffer in a Microfuge tube (total
incubation volume 290 µl). cIP concentration in radioactive and
nonradioactive assays were 55 µM and 135 µM,
respectively. Incubation was terminated by the addition with 0.8 ml of
Dowex-formate resin (radioactive assay) or 0.5 ml of 50% w/v
Dowex-formate resin (nonradioactive assay). Tubes were centrifuged for
5 min at 14,000 rpm in an Eppendorf centrifuge. Inositol present in the
supernatant was determined either by counting radioactivity in the
supernatant following addition of scintillation fluid or by the
colorimetric method described below.Inositol Determination
Inositol level in the
supernatant was determined colorimetrically by a slight modification of
the method described by Dolhofer and Wieland(27) . Assay was
carried out in a 96-well plate, and absorbances were read at 550 nm by
Ceres 900 plate reader. Color reagent was freshly prepared by mixing
2:2:1 by volume of NAD
(16.5 mg/ml in 1 M potassium phosphate buffer, pH 9.0), bathophenanthroline (9.8
mg/ml in ferric chloride 4 mM), and phenazine methosulfate
(0.019 mg/ml in water). Inositol dehydrogenase was prepared by
dissolving 10 units in 20 µl of 20 mM potassium phosphate
buffer (pH 7.0) and aliquoted into 2-µl fractions and stored at
-20 °C. Standard (50 µl containing 0-3 nmol) or
unknown inositol samples were added to wells of the 96-well plate,
followed by water to give a total volume of 150 µl. After addition
of 50 µl of color agent, reaction was started by the addition of
inositol dehydrogenase (0.005 unit in 10 µl). Assay was carried out
at room temperature and absorbance was read at 550 nm after 18 h.SDS-Gel Electrophoresis and Immunoblotting
Protein
samples were separated under reducing conditions by SDS-PAGE. Laemmli
buffer (5) was added to the protein sample and immersed into
boiling water bath for 5 min. Proteins were separated on a 10% SDS-PAGE
polyacrylamide gel with a 6% stacking gel, under constant current
conditions. Proteins were transferred to Immobilon-P membranes.
Immunodetection was performed with either polyclonal rabbit antibody to
rat annexin III (1:500 dilution) or polyclonal antibody to human
annexin III at (1:5000 dilution). A nonimmune serum was used as control
at appropriate dilution. Binding was detected by Bio-Rad alkaline
phosphatase kit.
Immunohistochemistry
Immunohistochemical staining
was done by methods similar to that described previously(28) .
Briefly, immunohistochemistry was performed on 4-µm thick paraffin
sections of rat kidney and spleen. Slices were incubated with either 1%
rabbit serum or annexin III antibody (1:400 dilution) for 30 min at 37
°C in a humidity chamber. Following removal of the excess antibody
by washing, antibody was localized using an anti-rabbit ABC peroxide
kit from Dako, Catalog No. 685.Calcium Precipitation of Annexin III
Addition of
calcium has been shown to precipitate phospholipid-binding proteins in
several different tissues and cells (29) and has been used in
the purification of annexins(30, 31) . As annexin III
precipitation has not been reported under similar conditions,
therefore, we investigated the effect of calcium on the precipitability
of annexin III and cIPH. To 250 ml of the cytosolic extract of guinea
pig kidney and human placenta, calcium (3 mM final
concentration) was added and stirred at 4 °C for 30 min. The
mixture was centrifuged at 100,000 g for 15 min, and
the pellet was resuspended in 5 ml of cytosolic buffer. cIPH activity
and annexin III by Western blot were determined in cytosol,
supernatant, and the pellet.
Distribution of Annexin III and cIPH
Western
blot with annexin III antibody to rat spleen shows a strong signal with
rat spleen but no detectable band is observed in rat kidney and medulla (Fig. 1A). This is in complete contrast to the cIPH
activity in the same tissues (Fig. 1B). The specific
activity of cIPH in rat spleen was 1 nmol/mg of protein/min, and that
in rat kidney medulla and cortex was 10- and 21-fold higher than that
of spleen. Immunohistochemistry of annexin III with rat spleen antibody
shows intense staining in rat spleen all across the red pulp (marked by arrows, Fig. 2, A and B). The red
pulp is that area of the spleen that is composed of a network of
stromal cords and vascular sinusoids lined with endothelial cells and
containing numerous macrophages. In contrast in rat kidney, there is a
very weak staining in the Bowman's capsule of glomerulus (Fig. 2C, marked by arrows) and in the
collecting duct region of renal medulla (Fig. 2D,
marked by arrows).
100) stained for annexin III using a polyclonal antibody and
Biogenix detection system; arrows point toward staining of red
pulp. B, higher magnification of A (
200); arrow points toward staining of red pulp. C, rat
kidney cortex (
200) stained for annexin III using a polyclonal
antibody and biogenix detection system; arrow demonstrates the
only staining in Bowman's capsule of the glomerulus. D,
rat kidney medulla (
400) stained for annexin III; arrow demonstrates a small amount of staining in basal area of
collecting ducts.
Ion Exchange Chromatography of Placental Cytosol and
Guinea Pig Kidney Cytosol
The first step in the purification of
cIPH by Ross et al. (13) employed separation on an
HPLC anion exchange column. We injected 10 mg of crude cytosolic
protein from human placenta (Fig. 4) and guinea pig kidney (Fig. 5) on perceptive anion exchange column. Fractions adjacent
to the cIPH activity fractions were probed on Western blot with annexin
III antibody. Under these experimental conditions, placental annexin
III and cIPH activity appeared in the same fractions (Fig. 4),
whereas in guinea pig kidney, fractions containing cIPH activity did
not show any annexin III binding on the Western blot (Fig. 5).
This indicates that placental annexin III has ion exchange
chromatographic characteristics similar to that of cIPH, and,
therefore, a different approach is required to dissociate these two
proteins.
Calcium Precipitation of Annexin III
To further
test whether annexin III and cIPH were identical in human placenta, we
employed calcium precipitation which precipitates phospholipid-binding
proteins and has been used in the purification of annexin
I(30) . Both guinea pig kidney cytosol and human placental
cytosol contains annexin III (Fig. 6A, S) and
cIPH (Fig. 6B, S). When 3 mM calcium
was added to the cytosol and mixed at 4 °C for 30 min, followed by
centrifugation at 100,000 g, annexin III appears
almost entirely in the pellet in both guinea pig kidney and human
placenta (Fig. 6A, CaP), while cIPH activity
remains in the supernatant (Fig. 6B, CaS). The
annexin III-enriched pellet has no cIPH activity in both guinea pig
kidney and human placenta (Fig. 6B, CaP). In
contrast, cIPH-enriched supernatants have little or no annexin III by
immunoblot (Fig. 6A, CaS).
g spin, probed with antibody to human neutrophil annexin III. B, cIPH assay performed on the same fractions, S, CaP, and CaS by nonradioactive cIPH assay (see
``Materials and Methods''). Protein (50 µg) used for
guinea pig kidney and (100 µg) for human placental samples. Results
are calculated as nanomoles of inositol released per min per mg of
protein, based on a 30-min incubation. Similar results were obtained in
two other experiments.
), a significant amount of annexin III could be
detected on a Western blot of rat spleen, but none could be detected on
the Western blot of rat kidney. The above discrepancy in the relative
distribution of cIPH and annexin III, as well as the fact that none of
the groups working with annexin III have independently confirmed the
cIPH activity of annexin III, raised the possibility that cIPH may have
been misidentified as annexin III.
)where overexpression of the
gene coding annexin III in Escherichia coli is not accompanied
by enhanced cIPH activity. Annexin III is much better characterized
protein (36) than cIPH, and this ``presumed
identity'' between cIPH and annexin III has dampened progress in
understanding the role of cIPH and cyclic inositol phosphate
metabolism. The importance of our finding is that it paves the way for
purification, characterization, cloning, and determining the real
sequence of cIPH. Such studies should provide impetus to clarify the
role of cIPH in kidney and placenta as well as determine its
significance in cell growth and proliferation.
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We wish to acknowledge the technical assistance of
Reginald Berry and Cecil Stockard.
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