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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 13, 13187-13194, April 1, 2005
14-3-3 Proteins Modulate the Expression of Epithelial Na+ Channels by Phosphorylation-dependent Interaction with Nedd4-2 Ubiquitin Ligase*
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, each of which is composed of two transmembrane domains, an extracellular loop, and short N and C termini (1). This channel is distributed widely in salt-reabsorbing epithelia and represents the first and rate-limiting step for transepithelial Na+ transport (2, 3). Previous studies have shown that mutations in ENaC subunits are associated with several heritable human disorders exhibiting abnormal regulation of blood pressure and electrolyte balance. For example, dominant gain-of-function mutations in ENaC cause Liddle's syndrome, an inherited form of hypertension (4). Conversely, loss-of-function mutations cause pseudohypoaldosteronism type I, a salt-wasting hypotensive condition (5). Thus, proper regulation of ENaC activity is critical for maintenance of whole body Na+ homeostasis and for blood pressure control.
The activity of ENaC is regulated by a variety of mechanisms including ubiquitination and phosphorylation. At least two regulatory proteins participate directly in this regulation: the neural precursor cell-expressed, developmentally down-regulated gene 4 isoform (Nedd4-2) and serum, glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1 (Sgk1) (6). Nedd4-2 is a ubiquitin E3 protein ligase composed of four WW domains and a ubiquitin ligase Hect domain (7, 8). Nedd4-2 interacts directly with ENaC by association of its WW domains with the PY motifs present in each ENaC subunit to ubiquitinate the ENaC channel (912). Ubiquitination accelerates the rate of ENaC degradation and reduces the channel copy number at the cell surface (13), ultimately resulting in a drastic decrease in Na+ current in Xenopus laevis oocytes (1012). The importance of this regulation is also suggested by findings that Liddle's syndrome is linked to mutations in ENaC which invariably cause either deletion or alteration of the
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PY motif (14, 15). Sgk1 is an early aldosterone-induced protein kinase that relays signals from the pathways that are transmitted via phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and cAMP-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase A). Sgk1 induces cell surface expression of ENaC and increases Na+ current when both Sgk1 and ENaC are coexpressed in Xenopus oocytes (16, 17). Recently, it was reported that Nedd4-2 is a substrate of Sgk1 and, importantly, that the Sgk1-dependent phosphorylation of Nedd4-2 reduces its affinity for ENaC, thereby reducing the inhibitory effect of Nedd4-2 on ENaC (18, 19). Thus, it appears that Sgk1 and Nedd4-2 are in a common cell signaling pathway that regulates the cell surface density of ENaC by a ubiquitination-dependent mechanism, although Sgk1 may also regulate ENaC activity by phosphorylating its
subunit directly (20). However, the details of the mechanism remain unknown (6).
The 14-3-3 proteins recognize the phosphopeptide consensus sequence motifs RXXpS/TXP and RXXXpS/TXP (where pS/T is phospho-Ser/Thr and X is any amino acid; see Refs. 21 and 22) and bind a variety of enzymes and cell signaling molecules to modulate their activity, conformation, stability, intracellular localization, and function (2326). Here we report that a 14-3-3 protein binds Nedd4-2 (a human KIAA0439 gene product; termed hNedd4-2), when it is phosphorylated at Ser-468 by Sgk1 kinase. The interaction inhibits the dephosphorylation of hNedd4-2, reduces the rate of Nedd4-2-catalyzed ubiquitination of ENaC subunits, and maintains the Sgk1-stimulated increase in ENaC-mediated current. Based on these findings, we propose that a 14-3-3 protein is a cofactor for the regulation of ENaC function via an Sgk-1/Nedd4-2-dependent mechanism.
| EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
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-D-galactopyranoside at 1618 °C for 8 h and purified by glutathione-agarose chromatography (Amersham Biosciences). 14-3-3
was prepared by cleavage of GST-14-3-3
(28) with Factor X (Bio-Rad). Antibodies to PAN-14-3-3 proteins and each 14-3-3 isoform were provided by Santa Cruz and Immuno-Biological Laboratories, respectively. Phosphopeptides were synthesized and purified by C18 reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography.
Plasmid ConstructionThe myc-TEV-FLAG (MEF) tag cassette (Supplemental Fig. S1) was generated by DNA synthesis and inserted into the cloning sites in the mammalian expression vector pcDNA3 (Invitrogen; termed pcDNA3-MEF) and retroviral expression vector pLNCX5 (Ref. 29, termed pLNCX5-MEF). To create the MEF-14-3-3
fusion construct, bovine 14-3-3
cDNA was produced by PCR using pAP62 (30) as a template and then inserted into pLNCX5-MEF. To create the myc-TEV (ME)-tagged hNedd4-2 or GST-hNedd4-2 fusion constructs, the human KIAA0439 cDNA was amplified by PCR using the KIAA0439 plasmid (Riken) as a template and inserted into pcDNA3-MEF and pGEX4T-1 (Amersham Biosciences), respectively. The 14-3-3
V180D and hNedd-S468A mutants were generated by site-directed mutagenesis, using the mutagenic primers 5'-GGG CCG TGG CTG AGC TGG AC-3' (for 14-3-3
V180D) and 5'-AGC CTC AGC GCG CCA ACA G-3' (for hNedd-S468A).
PC12 Cell CulturePC12 cells (a gift from Dr. L. A. Greene) were grown on collagen-coated tissue culture plates in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated donor horse and 5% fetal bovine serum, as described previously (31). Retroviral infection was carried out as described previously (29) by adding 0.51 ml of a virus-containing supernatant, recovered from packaging cells (Bosc23), to 50% confluent PC12 cell cultures. Infected cells were cultured for 1 week and then subjected to selection with G418 for at least 1 month. Surviving colonies were isolated and clonally expanded for characterization. The PC12-Mh clone was chosen for biochemical assessment on the basis of protein expression (1020% endogenous 14-3-3 proteins; Supplemental Fig. S2) and similarity with parental cells with regard to cellular morphology (data not shown).
MEF PurificationPC12-Mh cells in six 10-cm dishes (
5 x 107 cells) were lysed in 3 ml of lysis buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 10% (w/v) glycerol, 100 mM NaF, 10 mM EGTA, 1 mM Na3VO4,1% (w/v) Triton X-100, 5 µM ZnCl2, 2 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 10 µg/ml aprotinin, and 1 µg/ml leupeptin). The lysate was centrifuged at 100,000 x g for 20 min at 4 °C. The supernatant was passed through a 5-µm filter, incubated with 150 µl of Sepharose beads for 60 min at 4 °C, and then passed through a 0.65-µm filter. The filtrated supernatant was mixed with 150 µl of anti-myc-conjugated Sepharose beads for the first immunoprecipitation. After incubation for 90 min at 4 °C, the beads were washed five times with 1.5 ml of TNTG buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 10% (w/v) glycerol, 0.1% (w/v) Triton X-100), twice with buffer A (20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, and 0.1% (w/v) Triton X-100), and finally once with TNT buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 150 mM NaCl, 0.1% (w/v) Triton X-100). The washed beads were incubated with 15 units of TEV protease (Invitrogen) in 150 µl of TNT buffer to release bound materials from the beads. After incubation for 60 min at room temperature, the supernatant was pooled, and the beads were washed twice with 75 µl of buffer A. The resulting supernatants were combined together and incubated with 25 µl of FLAG-Sepharose beads for the second immunoprecipitation. After incubation for 60 min at room temperature, the beads were washed three times with 500 µl of buffer A, and proteins bound to the immobilized 14-3-3
on the FLAG beads were dissociated by incubation with 1 mM synthetic phosphopeptides (LSQRQRSTpSTPNVHA, based on amino acids 250265 of cRaf-1; Ref. 20) in buffer A for 120 min at 4 °C. Approximately 3 µg of protein (0.01% of stating materials) was routinely recovered by this procedure.
Tandem Mass SpectrometryProteins were separated by 7.5% SDS-PAGE and visualized by silver staining. The stained bands were excised and digested in the gel with Lys-C, and the resulting peptide mixtures were analyzed by the direct nanoflow LC-MS/MS system, equipped with an electrospray interface reversed phase column, a nanoflow gradient device, a high resolution Q-TOF hybrid MS (Q-TOF2, Micromass), and an automated data analysis system (32). All MS/MS spectra were searched against the nonredundant protein sequence data base maintained at the National Center for Biotechnology Information using the Mascot program (Matrixscience) to identify proteins. The MS/MS signal assignments were also confirmed manually.
In Vitro Phosphorylation and Binding AssayPhosphorylation of GST-hNedd4-2 and the hNedd-S468A mutant (1 µg each) was performed at 30 °C for 30 min in a reaction containing 20 mM MOPS, pH 7.2, 15 mM MgCl2, 20 mM
-glycerol phosphate, 1 mM EGTA, 1 mM Na3VO4, 1 mM dithiothreitol, 0.1 mM ATP, 25 ng of Sgk1 (
159, S422D; Upstate Biotechnology), and 2 µg of 14-3-3
in a final volume of 200 µl. When necessary, 5 µCi of [
-32P]ATP was added to the mixture. For binding experiments, glutathione-agarose (
50 µl) was added to the reaction and incubated for 60 min at room temperature. The protein complexes bound to the beads were washed five times with 20 mM Tris-HCl, 150 mM NaCl, 0.1 mM dithiothreitol, pH 7.5, and then analyzed by SDS-PAGE followed by Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining or Western blotting with antibodies to 14-3-3
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Metabolic 32P Labeling and ImmunoprecipitationHEK293 cells transiently expressing ME-hNedd4-2 were incubated in phosphate-free Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium for 20 min and then labeled in the same medium containing 40 µCi/ml 32Pi for 2 h. After incubation, cells were lysed in lysis buffer, and the expressed ME-hNedd4-2 was immunoprecipitated with anti-myc-Sepharose. The immunocomplexes were washed five times in buffer A and once in TNT buffer, and the ME-hNedd4-2 was released from the beads by digestion with TEV protease. For the experiment shown in Fig. 2B (lanes 14), the cells were also placed in fresh serum-free medium for 18 h prior to initiation of the 32P labeling.
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-32P]ATP and then pulled down with
50 µl of glutathione-agarose. After washing, the beads were suspended in 200 µl of 50 mM Tris-HCl, 20 mM MgCl2, 1 mM dithiothreitol, pH 7.5, and incubated with 2 µg of 14-3-3
for 10 min at room temperature. The dephosphorylation reaction was performed at room temperature for 30 min by the addition of 0.5 unit of PP1 catalytic subunit (Sigma).
Electrophysiological Measurements and Immunofluorescence StudiesElectrophysiological studies in Xenopus oocytes were performed as described previously (33, 34). In brief, cRNAs (three human ENaC subunits, 0.1 ng each; Sgk1, 0.2 ng; wild type or V180D mutant 14-3-3
, 0.5 ng) were injected into Xenopus oocytes. Electrophysiological recordings were taken 24 h after injection using a two-electrode voltage clamp technique. The recording solution had an ionic composition of 96 mM NaCl, 2 mM KCl, 1.8 mM CaCl2, 1 mM MgCl2, and 5 mM HEPES, adjusted to pH 7.5 with NaOH. All electrophysiological recordings were performed at room temperature (25 ± 1 °C) at a holding potential of -60 mV. The expression of ENaC was examined by immunohistochemistry using rat
ENaC-FLAG cRNA as reported previously (18). In brief, FLAG-tagged
ENaC and nontagged
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ENaC were expressed in oocytes together with Sgk1 and either 14-3-3
or its V180D mutant. Cryosections (10 µm) of Xenopus oocytes were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer at room temperature for 30 min and then washed with 10 mM phosphate-buffered saline. These sections were pretreated with 5% normal goat serum (Dako) in phosphate-buffered saline at room temperature for 30 min. ENaC-FLAG was detected with 3.3 µg/ml anti-FLAG M2 (Kodak) for 12 h at 4 °C. Sections were rinsed with phosphate-buffered saline and subsequently incubated with 2.0 µg/ml Alexa Fluor 594 goat anti-mouse IgG (Molecular Probes) for 1.5 h at room temperature. These sections were rinsed with phosphate-buffered saline, mounted in Aquatex (Merck), and observed using an Olympus AX70 fluorescent microscope.
In Vivo Ubiquitination AssayThe ubiquitination assay was performed according to the procedure described by Staub et al. (13) with slight modifications. HEK293 cells were transiently coexpressed with FLAG-tagged
ENaC or
ENaC (35) together with other protein components as indicated in Fig. 4. After 48 h, cells were lysed in 1% SDS and boiled for 5 min. Samples were subsequently diluted with 9 volumes of lysis buffer and then incubated with anti-FLAG-Sepharose beads for 90 min at room temperature. The beads were washed five times with lysis buffer containing 0.1% SDS, and bound proteins were analyzed by Western blotting with anti-HA (Upstate) or anti-FLAG (Kodak).
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isoform in PC12 cells. The purification strategy employed an original N-terminal affinity tag (termed MEF) composed of two independent epitope tags, myc and FLAG, that were fused in tandem and separated by a spacer sequence containing a TEV protease cleavage site (myc-TEV-FLAG; Supplemental Fig. S1). The MEF cassette was fused to the N terminus of the bovine 14-3-3
isoform, and PC12 cells were transformed with the cDNA to generate a monoclonal cell line (termed PC12-Mh) that stably expressed the MEF-fused version of the 14-3-3
isoform (see "Experimental Procedures" and Supplemental Fig. S2).
After PC12-Mh cells were lysed, the expressed MEF-14-3-3
was recovered with its binding proteins (see "Experimental Procedures" and Supplemental Fig. S3). Ultimately, proteins bound to MEF-
immobilized on the FLAG beads were dissociated with a synthetic phosphopeptide (LSQRQRSTpSTPNVHA) designed to mimic the 14-3-3-binding site of Raf kinase (21). Fig. 1A (lane 2) shows the SDS-PAGE profiles of the dissociated proteins. About 40 proteins with molecular masses between 40 and 300 kDa were reproducibly detected by this procedure, whereas no proteins were detected using a lysate obtained from control cells transformed with vector alone (lane 1). Two controls were used to assess the specificity of this interaction. First, we used a nonphosphorylated peptide (LSQRQRSTSTPNVHA) instead of its phosphorylated form to dissociate the complex (lane 3). In the second control, we performed the procedure using PC12 cells expressing a V180D point mutant of 14-3-3
that replaced Val-180 with Asp, a mutation known to disrupt the interaction of 14-3-3
with a variety of targets including ExoS (36), ASK1 (37) and KLC2 (27) (lane 4). As shown in Fig. 1A (lanes 3 and 4), no protein bands were detected in these controls. The V180D mutant was expressed in PC12 cells at a level similar to the wild type protein (Supplemental Fig. S2 and Fig. 1B, arrow) and appeared to have a structural fold similar to the wild type protein as judged by its ability to form heterodimers with the endogenous wild type 14-3-3 subunits (
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isoforms, as analyzed by SDS-PAGE and LC-MS/MS; see Fig. 1B and data not shown). Thus, we assumed that the proteomic procedure using a MEF tag would yield specific targets of 14-3-3 proteins in PC12 cells. In fact, we found that many known targets of 14-3-3 proteins, including IRS1 and 2, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase class 1, Wee-1, KSR-1, A-raf, B-raf, C-raf, Cdc25C, KHC, KLC2, PFK-2 and tyrosine hydroxylase, were simultaneously isolated by this procedure as revealed by Western blot analyses (data not shown).
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40 were known and
60 were unknown targets of 14-3-3 (data not shown), including hNedd4-2 reported here. The identification of hNedd4-2 was based on six independent MS/MS spectra derived from six doubly charged peptide ions, each corresponding to the unique amino acid sequence within KIAA0439 (Supplemental Table S1). Western blotting using Nedd4 antibodies confirmed that the protein preparation contained hNedd4-2 (Fig. 1C, arrow), whereas another member of the Nedd4 family, Nedd41 (11), was not detected in this study (data not shown). We confirmed that the 14-3-3
/hNedd4-2 complex was endogenous to PC12 cells because the immunoprecipitate pulled down from the cell extract with anti-Nedd4 contained endogenous 14-3-3
(Fig. 1D), and a number of 14-3-3 isoforms other than
, such as
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, also formed a complex with hNedd4-2 (Fig. 1E).
14-3-3 Binds hNedd4-2 Phosphorylated by Sgk1 Kinase Previous studies showed that Nedd4-2 is a substrate of Sgk1 kinase (18, 19). Because 14-3-3 binds phosphorylated targets in most known cases, we examined whether the interaction between 14-3-3
and hNedd4-2 depends on the Sgk1-mediated phosphorylation of hNedd4-2. A GST-hNedd4-2 fusion protein was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the purified protein was assayed for 14-3-3 binding before and after phosphorylation by Sgk1 kinase. As shown in Fig. 2A (lanes 4 and 6, bottom panel), the phosphorylated form of GST-hNedd4-2 bound directly to 14-3-3
, whereas the nonphosphorylated protein did not.
Sgk1 phosphorylates X. laevis Nadd42 at Ser-444 and, to a lesser extent, at Ser-338, thereby inhibiting the interaction of xNedd4-2 with ENaC (18). The Xenopus Nedd4-2 Ser-444 and Ser-338 residues correspond to hNedd4-2 Ser-468 and Ser-362, respectively. We found that both of these residues are highly conserved among Nedd4-2 homologs in various species, and interestingly, the sequence surrounding Ser-468 in hNedd4-2 matches the reported consensus sequence motif required for binding to 14-3-3 (RXXpSXP; Supplemental Table S2). Thus, we prepared a point mutant of hNedd4-2 that replaces Ser-468 with Ala (termed hNedd-S468A) to examine whether the mutant could bind 14-3-3
. As shown in Fig. 2A (lanes 5 and 7), the hNedd-S468A mutant was phosphorylated by Sgk1, possibly at Ser-362 (see middle panel), but did not bind 14-3-3
in either the phosphorylated or nonphosphorylated form (bottom panel). Thus, 14-3-3 selectively binds hNedd4-2 only when the protein is phosphorylated at Ser-468.
To examine further whether the hNedd4-2/14-3-3 interaction is physiologically relevant, we prepared HEK293 cells transfected with a construct expressing ME-tagged hNedd4-2. The transformed cells were labeled with 32Pi and stimulated by insulin or insulin-like growth factor I, both of which provide an upstream signal to activate Sgk1 kinase (38, 39). The ME-hNedd4-2 protein was then recovered from the cells, separated by SDS-PAGE, and analyzed by autoradiography to measure the extent of ME-hNedd4-2 phosphorylation and by Western blotting with antibodies to PAN-14-3-3 proteins to detect the interaction between ME-hNedd4-2 and endogenous 14-3-3s. As shown in Fig. 2B (lanes 14), both the phosphorylation reaction and complex formation were enhanced significantly by stimulation with insulin and insulin-like growth factor I. hNedd4-2/14-3-3 complex formation was enhanced after transfection of Sgk1 cDNA into the cell (Fig. 2B, lanes 57), suggesting that Sgk1 is responsible for triggering the interaction. Furthermore, ME-hNedd4-2 was found to be indeed phosphorylated at Ser-468 in HEK293 cells as demonstrated by mass spectrometric analysis (Fig. 2C). However, we could not exclude the possibility that other protein kinases activated by insulin or insulin-like growth factor I, such as Sgk2 and Sgk3 (39), also contribute to the complex formation.
A Dominant Negative 14-3-3 Mutant Inhibits Sgk1-stimulated ENaC ExpressionSgk1 phosphorylates Nedd4-2 and inhibits its interaction with ENaC subunits, which ultimately results in a significant increase in ENaC channel activity in X. laevis oocytes or Fischer rat thyroid cells (19, 40, 41). To examine whether the Nedd4-2/14-3-3 interaction affects the activity of ENaC, the V180D point mutant of 14-3-3
was injected into Xenopus oocytes together with three ENaC subunits (
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) and Sgk1. We used V180D as a dominant negative mutant of 14-3-3
because it forms biologically inactive heterodimers with endogenous 14-3-3 subunits in the cell and disrupts the hNedd4-214-3-3 interaction (Fig. 1B and data not shown).
As shown in Fig. 3A, the expression of
ENaC induced the 10 µM amiloride-sensitive current at the holding potential of -60 mV in Xenopus oocytes (683 ± 36 nA, n = 9). This current was increased significantly by coexpression of Sgk1 kinase with
ENaC (1,617 ± 115 nA, n = 9, p < 0.01; Fig. 3B), which is consistent with the previous observation that Sgk1 interferes with Nedd4-2-dependent suppression of ENaC activity (18, 19). We found, however, that coexpression of the V180D mutant completely abolished the stimulatory effect of Sgk1 on the ENaC-dependent Na+ current (311 ± 33 nA, n = 9, p < 0.01 versus ENaC + Sgk1; Fig. 3D), whereas little effect was observed with the wild type 14-3-3
(1,457 ± 103 nA, n = 9; Fig. 3C) (see also Fig. 3E). We further examined whether the interaction of 14-3-3 and Nedd4-2 affects the cell surface density of ENaC by means of immunohistochemical detection of FLAG-tagged ENaC on the cryosections of Xenopus oocytes (see also "Experimental Procedures"). Consistent with the electrophysiological experiments, the cell surface density of ENaC was increased significantly by coexpression with Sgk1, whereas the effect of Sgk1 was completely abolished by coexpression of the V180D mutant but not the wild type 14-3-3
(data not shown). Taken together, these findings suggest that 14-3-3 participates in Sgk1-dependent control of the ENaC level through a phosphorylation-dependent interaction with hNedd4-2.
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ENaC subunit and HA-tagged ubiquitin, together with the wild type or V180D 14-3-3
mutant. After 2 days in culture, the FLAG-
ENaC was immunoprecipitated from the cells with monoclonal anti-FLAG, and the precipitate was analyzed by Western blotting with an HA polyclonal antibody to detect HA-ubiquitinated FLAG-
ENaC. As shown in Fig. 4A (lane 4), FLAG-
ENaC was heavily ubiquitinated when expressed with the dominant negative V180D mutant of 14-3-3, as observed by a smear of high molecular weight species of HA-ubiquitin. However, the HA-ubiquitinated FLAG-
ENaC was not detected or was observed at much lower levels when expressed with the wild type 14-3-3
(lane 6), as well as in a series of control cells transfected with HA-ubiquitin plus V180D without
ENaC,
ENaC alone, or HA-ubiquitin plus
ENaC without V180D (lanes 13, n = 4). We found that the V180D mutant also stimulated the ubiquitination of
ENaC (Fig. 4B; n = 2). Taken together, these results suggest that 14-3-3 modulates the ubiquitination of ENaC subunits by associating with phosphorylated Nedd4-2 ubiquitin ligase.
14-3-3 Keeps hNedd4-2 Phosphorylated14-3-3 exerts a variety of effects on phosphorylated targets, including protection from dephosphorylation (24, 25). For example, the binding of 14-3-3 to Raf-1 maintains Raf-1 in a phosphorylated, inactive form by reducing the rate of dephosphorylation (42). Likewise, the binding of 14-3-3 to NUDEL prevents the dephosphorylation (and inactivation) of NUDEL, a protein associated with the pathology of Miller-Dieker syndrome (43). To test the effect of 14-3-3 on cellular levels of phosphorylated hNedd4-2 protein, a series of transformants was prepared with HEK293 cells expressing ME-tagged hNedd4-2, ME-Nedd4-2 plus 14-3-3
, or ME-Nedd4-2 plus V180D 14-3-3
mutant. Each group of cells was labeled metabolically with 32Pi, and the level of phosphorylation was monitored by measuring 32P incorporation into ME-hNedd4-2 that was pulled down from the transformed cells. As shown in Fig. 5A, the level of 32P incorporated into ME-hNedd4-2 recovered from cells overexpressing wild type 14-3-3 was approximately equivalent to that recovered from control cells, whereas the same protein recovered from V180D-expressing cells contained only
50% of the level of 32P in six independent analyses (compare lane 3 with lanes 1 and 2; p < 0.01). In addition, we found that the levels of phosphorylated ME-hNedd4-2 increased severalfold in response to 1 µM okadaic acid, a potent inhibitor of PP1 and PP2A, included in the culture medium during the metabolic labeling step (data not shown).
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. As shown in Fig. 5B (lanes 13), PP1 efficiently dephosphorylated the Sgk1-phosphorylated GST-hNedd4-2 in the absence of 14-3-3. Notably, however, the rate of PP1-catalyzed dephosphorylation was reduced significantly in the presence of 14-3-3 (lanes 46). This effect of 14-3-3 on PP1-catalyzed dephosphorylation appeared to result from the direct binding of 14-3-3
to phosphorylated hNedd4-2 via Ser-468 because PP1 rapidly dephosphorylated the S468A mutant of GST-hNedd4-2 (GST-Nedd-S468A; lanes 712), a mutant that is phosphorylated with Sgk1 possibly at Ser-362 but no longer binds to 14-3-3 (see Fig. 2A) even in the presence of 14-3-3
. We also found that the V180D 14-3-3 mutant did not prevent the PP1-catalyzed dephosphorylation of either the phosphorylated GST-hNedd4-2 or its S468A mutant (lanes 1315 and data not shown). These results suggest that 14-3-3 inhibits hNedd4-2 dephosphorylation both in vitro and in vivo. | DISCUSSION |
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Our strategy to identify hNedd4-2 as a 14-3-3-binding partner was based on the MS-based proteomics technology combined with a novel tandem affinity purification tag, called MEF. The general strategy of MEF-mediated purification is similar to previously published protocols using TAP (46) and CHH (47) and has the following characteristics: (i) the MEF tag introduces a relatively small polypeptide into the bait protein; (ii) the specific antibodies are commercially available to pull down both myc- and FLAG-tagged protein complexes; and (iii) the purification procedure does not require specific divalent cations such as Ca2+ and Ni2+ for affinity selection. These factors may be efficient for purification of multiprotein complexes to homogeneity and to avoid contaminants caused by nonspecific interaction. In fact, no background proteins were detectable in the final fraction of the candidates of 14-3-3-binding partners as analyzed by SDS-PAGE and silver staining (Fig. 1A, lane 1). Because the FLAG peptide is available to dissociate specifically the resultant FLAG-tagged protein complex from an immobilized support,2 the MEF purification procedure, coupled with highly sensitive direct nanoflow LC-MS/MS technology (32), will be similarly useful to characterize many physiological multiprotein complexes in vivo beyond the 14-3-3 complexes reported here.
Nedd4-2 associates with ENaC via direct interaction of its WW domains with the PY motif located in the C-terminal portion of each ENaC subunit (912, 18, 48). The WW domain is a widespread, tryptophan-based protein-protein interaction module comprising
40 amino acids that serve as a surface for hydrophobic interaction with a variety of proline-containing motifs, including the PY motif (49, 50). Previous studies showed that the interaction between a subset of WW domains and proline-containing motifs is regulated by site-specific phosphorylation of a Ser/Thr or Tyr residue within the WW domain or the proline-containing motif. For example, the interaction of Wwox, a tumor suppressor protein containing two WW domains, with the p53 homolog p73 is enhanced significantly by Tyr phosphorylation within the first WW domain (51). It is also known that the mitotic prolyl isomerase Pin1 can bind the microtubule-associated protein tau only when tau is phosphorylated at Thr within the p(S/T)P motif (52, 53). From this perspective, the regulatory mechanism of the Nedd4-2/ENaC interaction reported here appears unique in that the phosphorylation occurs at a residue located between the WW domains. Moreover, this phosphorylation triggers the complex formation with a 14-3-3 protein. We propose that 14-3-3 stabilizes the conformation of phosphorylated Nedd4-2 or induces a conformational change in phosphorylated hNedd4-2 by associating with phosphoserine 468. A previous crystallographic study indicated that the complex between 14-3-3
and the synthetic phosphopeptide MARSHpSYPAKK (based on the polyomavirus middle T antigen) is stabilized by salt bridges or hydrogen bonds between four residues in the 14-3-3 dimer (Arg-56, Arg-127, Lys-49, and Tyr-128) and phosphoserine, Lys-120 and a proline at the +2 position in the peptide (22). Interestingly, the proline residue is fixed in all-cis configuration within the complex (22). These data suggest that 14-3-3 might exert its biological activity by inducing a conformational change in hNedd4-2 through proline 470 isomerization or by stabilizing this proline in a cis configuration against its cis-trans equilibrium. Future studies will explore this hypothesis.
Many ion channels or proteins other than ENaC have been identified as substrates of Nedd4-2 ubiquitin ligase, including voltage-gated Na+ channel (Nav1.5; Ref. 54), K+ channel (Kv1.3; Ref. 55), Cl- channel (CIC-2; Ref. 56), phosphate co-transporter (NaPi IIb; Ref. 57), glucose transporter (SGLT1; Ref. 58), glutamate transporter (EATT1; Ref. 59), glutamine transporter (SN1; Ref. 60), NABP5A (61), CNrasGEF (62), and several virus proteins including LDI-1 and LMP2A (6366). In each case, the Nedd4-2 WW domains mediate substrate binding. Our study identifies 14-3-3 as a binding partner of Nedd4-2; however, 14-3-3 appears not to be a substrate but rather a cofactor for this ubiquitin ligase. In fact, the interaction between these proteins was strictly regulated by site-specific phosphorylation of Nedd4-2, and the binding site was distinct from the WW domains, that is, within the RXRXXpSXP segment including phosphoserine 468, spanning domains WW2 and WW3. Thus, the 14-3-3 family represents a novel class of Nedd4-2-binding proteins that affect how Nedd4-2 interacts with ENaC, a paradigm that may hold for other potential Nedd4-2 substrates as well.
AddendumNedd4-2 was also identified recently as a 14-3-3-binding protein by comprehensive proteomic analysis (67, 68).
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The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains Supplemental Figs. S1S3 and Tables S1 and S2. ![]()
To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan. Tel.: 81-426-77-2543; Fax: 81-426-77-2525; E-mail: ichimura{at}mial.comp.metro-u.ac.jp.
1 The abbreviations used are: ENaC, epithelial Na+ channel; E3, ubiquitin-protein isopeptide ligase; GST, glutathione S-transferase; HA, hemagglutinin; HEK293, human embryonic kidney 293; hNedd4-2, human Nedd4-2 isoform (KIAA0439); LC, liquid chromatography; ME, myc-TEV; MEF, myc-TEV-FLAG; MOPS, 4-morpholinepropanesulfonic acid; MS, mass spectrometry; MS/MS, tandem mass spectrometry; Nedd4-2, neural precursor cell-expressed, developmentally down-regulated gene 4 isoform 2; PP1 and PP2A, protein phosphatase 1 and protein phosphatase 2A, respectively; PY motif, PPXY sequence; Sgk1, serum, glucocorticoid-inducible kinase 1. ![]()
2 T. Ichimura and T. Isobe, unpublished data. ![]()
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