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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 13, 9411-9419, March 30, 2007
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Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Received for publication, July 21, 2006 , and in revised form, January 22, 2007.
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Two genes, phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A) and PDE3B, encode PDE3 family enzymes (6, 12). PDE3A mRNA is enriched in cells of the cardiovascular system and in oocytes, whereas PDE3B mRNA is abundant in adipocytes, hepatocytes, and cells of hematopoietic lineage (13). Full-length PDE3A and PDE3B contain two N-terminal hydrophobic regions (NHR1 and NHR2) that target these enzymes to the endoplasmic reticulum and perhaps the plasma membrane (1316). Both PDE3A and PDE3B are substrates of protein kinase A (PKA) or protein kinase B (PKB), and activation of these kinases can result in phosphorylation-mediated activation of these enzymes in some cells (1316).
A consensus has emerged that protein-protein interactions play a central role in regulating cAMP-mediated signaling. Indeed, it is generally accepted that selective subcellular anchorage of PKA, through interaction with A-kinase anchoring proteins, allows selective coordination of PKA-dependent cellular events (17, 18). Subcellular targeting of certain PDEs also has emerged as a mechanism whereby these enzymes can coordinate various cellular effects of cAMP (17, 18). In this context, several individual variants of the phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) family of enzymes interact with proteins including A-kinase anchoring proteins,
-arrestins, and receptor for activated protein kinase C, and these interactions regulate PDE4 subcellular targeting and enzyme activity (17, 18).
Although PDE3 activity can represent a significant fraction of total cAMP hydrolytic capacity in certain cell types (6, 11), little is known concerning how protein-protein interactions coordinate the activity and subcellular targeting of PDE3 enzymes. An HSPDE3B interaction with the insulin receptor in human adipocytes has been reported (19). Recently, rat adipocyte PDE3B was reported to interact with caveolin-1 (20) placing this enzyme in lipid rafts in these cells (20, 21). Disruption of an interaction between the murine PDE3B and phosphoinositide 3-kinase
(PI3K
) (22), likely coordinated by one of its regulatory subunits p87PIKAP (PI3K
adapter protein of 87 kDa) (23), reduced cardiomyocyte contractility (22, 23). Of more immediate relevance to the studies reported here, insulin was reported previously to stimulate a PI3K-dependent interaction between murine PDE3B and 14-3-3
in 3T3-L1 adipocytes (24). Binding of 14-3-3 proteins to numerous proteins, usually following their phosphorylation, allows 14-3-3 proteins to act as regulators, adaptors, or scaffolds for these proteins (25). A PKC-dependent phosphorylation of HSPDE3A also stimulates association of HSPDE3A with 14-3-3 proteins (26).
In this study, we report that PKA-mediated phosphorylation of HSPDE3B at Ser-318 activates this enzyme and promotes its interaction with 14-3-3 proteins. Although PKA is also shown to phosphorylate HSPDE3B at two other sites, Ser-73 and Ser-296, these events neither activated nor promoted HSPDE3B interactions with 14-3-3 proteins. Although PKB activated HSPDE3B, this kinase did not promote 14-3-3 protein binding of HSPDE3B or influence the effects of PKA. Taken together, our data are consistent with the novel hypothesis that PKA-activated, but not PKB-activated, HSPDE3B interacts with 14-3-3 proteins and that this selective protein-protein interaction protects the PKA-activated HSPDE3B from phosphatase-mediated deactivation in cells.
| EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
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ura3-1:URA3 lexAop-ADE2 leu2-3,112 his3-11,15 trp1-1 ade2-1 can1-100) (Dr. C. Boone, University of Toronto, Canada). Briefly, a murine brain expression library in pACT (Clontech) that allowed expression of mouse brain proteins as GAL4 fusions (Clontech) served as "prey." "Bait" constructs were selected fragments of HSPDE3B (GenBankTM accession number NM-000922) in pEG202, which allowed expression of HSPDE3B-LexA fusion proteins. Primers for HSPDE3B fragment amplification were as follows: aa 290 (sense, 5'-ggggatccTGAGGAGGGACGAGCGAGAC-3'; antisense, 5'-ctctcgagTTCCTCTTCATCTGCCTCTTC-3'); aa 257711 (sense, 5'-gcggatcCTGCTGGCCCTGGGGTTGG-3'; antisense, 5'-gcctcgagTTCCAATAAACCAGTGTC-3'); aa 7121000 (sense, 5'-gcggatcCCCACTCAACAATTTATG-3'; antisense, 5'-gcctcgagACACAGGGGACCCACTATG-3'); and aa 9781113 (sense, 5'-gcggatcCGTTCTTCTCCTCAACTAGC-3'; antisense, 5'-cgctcgagTTCCTCTTCATCTGCCTCTTC-3'). Following transformation, yeast was grown in synthetic dropout (SD) media supplemented with tryptophan (72 mg/liter), adenine (110 mg/liter), leucine (327 mg/liter), and histidine (72 mg/liter) as appropriate for selection purposes. Positive clones were initially selected for growth in the absence of adenine and then for the presence of LacZ activity. Plasmids were purified from yeast colonies that met both phenotypic requirements, transformed into Escherichia coli (DH5
), again tested in yeast, and identified by DNA sequencing (CORTEC DNA Service Laboratories, Kingston, Canada).
Expression and Characterization of Glutathione S-Transferase Fusion ProteinsAn amino-terminal FLAG-tagged HSPDE3B expression construct (HSPDE3B(AT)) was generated by ligating an EcoRI-HSPDE3B-digested cDNA (base pairs 11548 inclusively) into EcoRI-digested pCMV tag 2B vector. A carboxyl-terminal FLAG-tagged HSPDE3B expression construct (HSPDE3B(CT)) was generated by ligation of a PstI-digested fragment of HSPDE3B containing base pairs 17953269, inclusively into the PstI-digested pCMV tag 2C. For use in 14-3-3 pulldown experiments, recombinant 14-3-3 (
or
) or HSPDE3B fragments were expressed as glutathione S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins in E. coli. A pGEX-2T plasmid containing human 14-3-3
was a gift from Dr. Q. Medley (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University), and the 14-3-3
- and HSPDE3B-GST fragments were expressed using pGEX-5X-3 (Amersham Biosciences). E. coli (BL21(DE)) expression was induced with 1 mM isopropyl 1-thio-
-D-galactopyranoside at 30 °C for 3 h. Bacterial cell pellets were collected by centrifugation (6000 x g, 15 min) and lysed by sonication in phosphate-buffered saline supplemented with 1% Triton -X-100, 0.02% sodium azide, 100 µM dithiothreitol (DTT), 10 µg/ml lysozyme, 5 mM benzamidine, 1 mM EDTA, 2 µg/ml leupeptin, 5 µg/ml bestatin, 2 µg/ml aprotinin, 10 µg/ml antipain, 10 µM E-64, 2 µg/ml pepstatin A, and 0.1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride. Filtered protein lysates were loaded on reduced glutathione (GSH)-Sepharose 4B (Amersham Biosciences), washed, and eluted with 5 mM free GSH in 10 mM Tris, pH 8.0, and GSH was removed using of Amicon® Centricon® centrifugation filters (Millipore). GST fusion protein yields and purities were assessed by SDS-PAGE.
Mammalian Cell CultureHEK293T (herein 293T) or NIH 3T3 cells were cultured in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, penicillin (100 units/ml), streptomycin (100 µg/ml), 2 mM L-glutamine, and 1 g/liter D-glucose.
Heterologous Expression of HSPDE3B ConstructsA cDNA encoding HSPDE3B (Dr. V. C. Manganiello, National Institutes of Health) was cloned into the mammalian expression vector pCMV-Tag2C (Stratagene) using BamHI. This construct was used to express HSPDE3B. In experiments in which HSPDE3B was expressed heterologously, transfections were carried out with amounts of plasmid to limit overexpression of HSPDE3B to levels not exceeding 4-fold those of endogenous HSPDE3B. With full-length HSPDE3B, levels of expression were determined by PDE activity assays. Point mutations that allowed substitution of alanine (Ala) for serine (Ser) at positions 73, 295, 296, or 318 within HSPDE3B were generated using the Quick-Change site-directed mutagenesis kit (Clontech) according to the manufacturer's protocol. Plasmids encoding wild type (WT), membrane-associated (MA), or dominant negative (DN) PKB were provided by Dr. D. Alessi (University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK). HSPDE3B constructs were transiently expressed in 293T or NIH 3T3 cells following transfection using FuGENE 6 (Roche Applied Science).
In Vitro Phosphorylation of HSPDE3BGST- or FLAG-tagged proteins were purified by conventional approaches using GSH-Sepharose or M2-agarose. HSPDE3B proteins were incubated with recombinant PKA catalytic subunit or activated recombinant PKB
(Upstate%20Biotechnology">Upstate Biotechnology, Inc., Lake Placid, NY) in a buffer without or with 200 µM ATP or 200 µM ATP supplemented with [
-32P]ATP (10 µCi per reaction; 3000 Ci/mmol stock) for 1 h at 30 °C. For reference, reactions were carried out with neither kinase nor ATP, with kinase or ATP alone, or with both ATP and kinase. At the completion of these reactions, proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE (1012% gels).
Treatment of Cells with Pharmacological Agents and Cell ProcessingConfluent cultures of 293T or NIH 3T3 cells were incubated at 37 °C for 20 min in serum-free media containing forskolin (1100 µM; Calbiochem), 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX; 10100 µM; Sigma), or vehicle (Me2SO, 0.2% v/v; Fisher). When used, protein kinase inhibitors, H89, Bis-1, LY22945 (110 µM) (Sigma), were added 30 min prior to the test agent. At the end of the incubation period, cells were either flash-frozen until use or immediately processed. Treated cell cultures were homogenized with a Tenbroeck tissue grinder in a lysis buffer composed of 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 5 mM benzamidine, 100 mM DTT, 1 mM EDTA, 100 µM EGTA, 1% Triton X-100, 2 µg/ml leupeptin, 5 µg/ml bestatin, 2 µg/ml aprotinin, 10 µg/ml antipain, 10 µM E-64, 2 µg/ml pepstatin A, 0.1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, 10 mM sodium orthovanadate, 10 mM sodium fluoride, 5 mM sodium pyrophosphate, and 10 mM sodium glycerophosphate. Cellular debris was removed by centrifugation (1,000 x g; 5 min), and cleared supernatants were used in the experiments. Protein concentrations were measured by the bicinchoninic acid protein assay (Pierce).
Precipitation of Cellular Proteins with Immobilized GST Fusions or M2-AgaroseInteractions between HSPDE3B, or its fragments or mutants, with GST-14-3-3 proteins were studied using precipitation by pulldown or immunoprecipitation assays with GST-14-3-3
, GST-14-3-3
, or anti-FLAG(M2)-coupled agarose. For immobilized GST pulldown experiments, 50 µl (bed volume) of GSH-Sepharose-4B beads were saturated with GST, GST-14-3-3
, or GST-14-3-3
at 4 °C for 1 h, washed, and incubated for 16 h at 4 °C with cell extracts, prepared as described above. For M2-agarose pulldowns, cell lysates were similarly incubated for 16 h at 4 °C. Following the incubations, Sepharose or agarose beads were centrifuged (6,000 x g; 2 min) and washed repeatedly with 1% Triton X-100-containing lysis buffer. cAMP PDE activities in pulldowns was measured following resuspension of beads in lysis buffer (1:1 volume ratio) using an assay described previously (28). Cilostamide (1 µM) or Ro20-1724 (10 µM) was used to inhibit PDE3 and PDE4 activities, respectively (28). For immunoblotting, pellets were suspended in SDS-PAGE loading buffer. HSPDE3B, as well as other proteins of interest in these pellets, were detected using several antisera, including a monoclonal antibody specific for HSPDE3B (281K; 1:3000 dilution), a monoclonal antisera specific for PDE4D (1:4000) (all gifts from Drs. S. Wolda and V. Florio, ICOS Corp., Bothell, WA), or nonspecies selective anti-PDE3B polyclonal antibodies (sc-11835 and sc-11838; Santa Cruz Biotechnology) as we described previously (29). Levels of PKA-phosphorylated HSPDE3B in cells were detected using an antiserum directed at phosphorylated PKA substrates (Upstate%20Biotechnology">Upstate Biotechnology, Inc.). Detection of 14-3-3 proteins was carried out by immunoblot analysis using antisera directed against 14-3-3 isoforms (sc-629; pan-reactive; rabbit and goat polyclonals; 1:1000; Santa Cruz Biotechnology).
Statistical AnalysisSome of the data describing protein-protein interactions are shown as representative immunoblots. In all cases, data consistent with that shown in the representative immunoblot were obtained in at least three additional separate experiments. Numerical data are presented as means ± S.E. and are from at least four independent experiments. Statistical differences were assessed using unpaired analysis of variance, with a Tukey post hoc test, or unpaired Student's t test, as appropriate, with a value of p < 0.05 considered statistically significant.
MaterialsYeast and bacteria culture reagents were obtained from Difco (yeast nitrogenous base without amino acids), Fisher (peptone, tryptone, and dextrose), Qbiogene (complete supplement mixture His Leu Ade Trp), and Sigma (adenine, hisitidine, leucine, tryptophan, and o-nitrophenyl
-D-galactopyranoside). Restriction enzymes, TaqDNA polymerase, Superscript Moloney murine leukemia virus-reverse transcriptase, isopropyl 1-thio-
-D-galactopyranoside, Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium, RPMI 1640, antibiotic/antimycotic solution, trypsin-EDTA, bovine serum albumin, 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-
-D-galactopyranoside, and fetal bovine serum were from Invitrogen. Plasmid purification was achieved using QIAprep spin columns, and MIDI columns were from Qiagen. [3H]cAMP (25 Ci/mmol), 5'-[14C]AMP (590.4 mCi/mmol), [
-32P]ATP (3000 Ci/mmol), and enhanced chemiluminescence reagents (Western Lightning) were from PerkinElmer Life Sciences. DTT, Triton X-100, EDTA, EGTA, PIPES, acrylamide, bisacrylamide, TEMED, and ammonium persulfate were purchased from ICN Biomedicals. Sodium azide, Tris, trisodium citrate dihydrate, citric acid monohydrate, HEPES, NaCl, and Tween 20 were from Fisher. Benzamidine-HCl, leupeptin hemisulfate, aprotinin, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, and G418 antibiotic were purchased from Calbiochem. All other reagents, salts, and enzymes were obtained from Sigma.
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(GenBankTM accession number NM-0011738), were isolated using bait-1 (Fig. 1, AD). Expressed alone in yeast, HSPDE3B "baits" or the 14-3-3
isolates did not promote adenine synthesis nor LacZ activity (Fig. 1, AD). When other fragments of HSPDE3B were tested for their ability to interact with 14-3-3
, fragments encoding amino acids 257711, 7121000, or 9781113 did not possess such potential (not shown). Binding of 14-3-3 proteins usually requires that the binding partner be phosphorylated (25). Consistent with the idea that phosphorylation could have promoted the interaction of bait-1 with 14-3-3
in yeast, bait-1 encodes several basophilic Ser/Thr kinase sites (30), and this fragment was phosphorylated by the PKA catalytic (C) subunit in an in vitro kinase assay (Fig. 1E).
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or GST-14-3-3
but not with immobilized native GST. Consistent with an important regulatory role for HSPDE3B phosphorylation in regulating this interaction, prior in vitro incubation of HSPDE3B with the C-subunit of PKA and ATP, but not the C-subunit alone, increased markedly these interactions (Fig. 2, A and B). In contrast, although in vitro incubation of HSPDE3B with purified recombinant-activated PKB and ATP increased HSPDE3B activity by
90 ± 15% (n = 3), it did not promote HSPDE3B binding to GST-14-3-3
proteins (Fig. 2B). Overall these data are consistent with the idea that HSPDE3B and 14-3-3 proteins interact directly in vitro and that phosphorylation of HSPDE3B by PKA, but not PKB, promoted this direct interaction. The modest HSPDE3B binding caused by ATP alone (Fig. 2A) was likely because of the presence of trace amounts of kinase activity in the purified HSPDE3B.
To investigate if PKA-mediated phosphorylation of HSPDE3B also promoted 14-3-3 binding in cells, we used a cell line that expressed HSPDE3B endogenously, namely HEK293T, "293T." Incubation of 293T cells with a combination of forskolin and IBMX (F/I) markedly increased HSPDE3B binding to GST-14-3-3
and, when tested by immunoprecipitation of HSPDE3B, the amount of 14-3-3
that associated with HSPDE3B (Fig. 2, C and D). Consistent with a role for PKA in coordinating the effects of F/I, prior incubation of cells with a PKA inhibitor (H89, 10 µM) ablated this effect (Fig. 2D). Addition of a PKC inhibitor (5 µM Bis-1; Fig. 2D) or a PI3K inhibitor (10 µM LY294002; data not shown) did not alter F/I-induced HSPDE3B binding to GST-14-3-3
. Addition of either the exchange proteins activated by cAMP-selective activator (10 µM; 8-(4-chlorophenylthio)-2'-O-methyl-cAMP), insulin (100 nM; data not shown), or of an activator of conventional PKCs (100 nM PMA; Fig. 2D) did not impact HSPDE3B binding to GST-14-3-3
. Taken together, these data are consistent with the idea that endogenous 293T HSPDE3B interacts with 14-3-3 proteins in a PKA-dependent manner and that this interaction is independent of activation, or inhibition, of exchange proteins activated by cAMP, insulin-dependent signaling, PKC, PI3K, or PKB.
An Amino-terminal Fragment of HSPDE3B Interacts with GST-14-3-3
A FLAG-tagged HSPDE3B amino-terminal fragment, containing amino acids 1518, HSPDE3B(AT), bound to GST-14-3-3
in a PKA-dependent manner in 293T cells (Fig. 3). In contrast, a FLAG-tagged HSPDE3B carboxyl-terminal fragment comprising amino acids 5191112, HSPDE3B(CT), did not (Fig. 3). These data indicate that 14-3-3 proteins interacted with HSPDE3B through sequences contained within the amino-terminal domain of HSPDE3B.
An in silico analysis (30) identified several potential PKA phosphorylation consensus sites within HSPDE3B(AT), and three of these (Ser-73, Ser-296, and Ser-318) were selected for analysis. HSPDE3B Ser-318 was studied because PKA phosphorylation of the equivalent site in murine PDE3B (MMPDE3B-Ser-296) activated this enzyme (31). Ser-73 was within a predicted PKA consensus sequence in the 90-amino acid fragment used in the yeast two-hybrid analyses. Ser-296 was within a PKA consensus sequence that allowed 14-3-3 proteins to traffic the two-pore domain potassium channel protein TASK-1 (32). Another potential PKA site identified in silico, Ser-13, was not studied. We also studied the involvement of Ser-295 in HSPDE3B because PKB-dependent phosphorylation of this site in MMPDE3B (Ser-273) activated the enzyme (31) and was suggested to promote its association with 14-3-3 in murine adipocytes (24).
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binding of this protein, F/I treatment of 293T cells expressing HSPDE3B(AT) forms encoding S73A, S295A, or S296A mutants did promote their interactions with 14-3-3
(Fig. 4A). Obviating effects because of differences in the responses of cells expressing these constructs to F/I treatments, endogenous HSPDE3B expressed in these cells interacted with GST-14-3-3
identically, irrespective of the HSPDE3B(AT) fragments expressed (Fig. 4A). Similar results were obtained when HSPDE3B(AT) constructs were expressed in NIH 3T3 cells even thought these cells do not express MMPDE3B endogenously (not shown).
Interestingly, trace amounts (
5%) of the HSPDE3B(AT) S318A, S73A/S318A, or S296A/S318A mutants were recovered in GST-14-3-3
pulldowns when 293T cells were incubated with F/I (Fig. 4A). These findings were consistent with data from unrelated studies in which we show that HSPDE3B(AT) can dimerize with endogenous full-length HSPDE3B in 293T cells.3 Indeed, when S318A mutants of HSPDE3B(AT) were expressed in NIH 3T3 cells, a cell type that does not express MMPDE3B, these constructs were not detected in GST-14-3-3
pulldowns (not shown).
Full-length HSPDE3B Variants Encoding an S318A Mutation Do Not Bind GST-14-3-3
Incubation of 293T cells expressing full-length S73A (not shown) or S296A HSPDE3B mutants with F/I promoted their interactions with GST-14-3-3
(Fig. 4B). In contrast, F/I treatment of cells expressing an HSPDE3B S318A mutant did not (Fig. 4B). Again, these data are consistent with the idea that Ser-318 is the sole relevant phospho-acceptor site that promotes PKA-dependent interactions between HSPDE3B and GST-14-3-3
. In addition to representing the HSPDE3B phosphorylation site responsible for coordinating HSPDE3B/14-3-3
binding (Fig. 4) and enzyme activation (Table 1), by using an antiserum directed against phosphorylated PKA substrates we found that Ser-318 may also represent a major site of PKA phosphorylation of HSPDE3B in cells incubated with F/I (Fig. 5). Because it is currently unknown if this antiserum reacts with similar affinity to all phosphorylation consensus sequences, a more detailed analysis will be required to quantify the absolute levels of phosphate at each of these sites. Although in silico analysis (30) identified other potential PKA consensus sites within HSPDE3B, our data are consistent with the idea that only Ser-318 was required for 14-3-3
binding in 293T cells.
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in murine adipocytes (24). In marked contrast to this earlier report, although our data unequivocally confirm that PKB can activate HSPDE3B (see above), they are completely inconsistent with the idea that phosphorylation of HSPDE3B by PKB at Ser-295, or any other site, promotes binding of this enzyme with 14-3-3
. Similarly, our data are inconsistent with the idea that PKB-mediated actions on HSPDE3B alter the ability of PKA phosphorylation at Ser-318 to promote 14-3-3
binding (Fig. 6). Indeed, expression of wild type PKB (WT PKB), a membrane-targeted and constitutively activated PKB (MA PKB), or a dominant negative and "kinase-dead" PKB (DN PKB) in 293T cells did not alter either the basal levels of endogenous HSPDE3B binding to GST-14-3-3
in these cells nor the ability of F/I treatment to promote this binding (Fig. 6). Consistent with their state of activation, immunoblot analysis with a phospho-PKB antiserum indicated that a large fraction of the heterologously expressed wild type or activated PKBs were phosphorylated and that the DN PKB, which is kinase-dead was not (not shown). Similarly, because F/I treatment promoted S295A-HSPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
(Fig. 4A), it is also unlikely that Ser-295 was involved in coordinating the PKA-dependent binding of HSPDE3B to 14-3-3
in these cells.
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Alters Its Susceptibility to Phosphate-catalyzed Dephosphorylation and InactivationBecause our data showed that PKA phosphorylation of Ser-318 in HSPDE3B activated this enzyme and promoted its binding to 14-3-3
, we hypothesized that this interaction might alter the susceptibility of this fraction of HSPDE3B to be dephosphorylated and inactivated by phosphatases. Our data are completely consistent with this novel idea. Indeed, although a 20-min incubation of M2-agarose-precipitated HSPDE3B from F/I-treated cells with calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase (CIAP) resulted in substantial dephosphorylation (Fig. 7) and enzyme inactivation (Table 2), this identical CIAP treatment of the PKA-activated, GST-14-3-3
-bound HSPDE3B did not result in substantial dephosphorylation (Fig. 7) or enzyme inactivation (Table 2). Because PKB phosphorylation of HSPDE3B did not promote GST-14-3-3
binding (Fig. 2), nor influence the extent of 14-3-3
binding of this enzyme caused by F/I (Fig. 6), it is highly unlikely that PKB-activated HSPDE3B would be similarly protected from phosphatase-mediated dephosphorylation and inactivation. A scheme depicting these concepts is presented in Fig. 8.
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in an insulin- and PI3K activation-dependent manner. Indeed, in this earlier study, it was suggested that phosphorylation of Ser-279 or Ser-302, sites equivalent to Ser-295 and Ser-318 in HSPDE3B, coordinated this interaction (24). Herein we presented data demonstrating that members of the 14-3-3 protein family of scaffolding proteins (14-3-3
or 14-3-3
) interact with HSPDE3B in human cells, and these interactions are markedly potentiated by incubation of these cells with cAMP-elevating agents. Moreover, using a strategy of selective PKA inhibition, we identified PKA as the cAMP effector coordinating this cAMP-mediated effect. In addition to establishing that 14-3-3 proteins interacted with HSPDE3B in cells expressing these proteins endogenously, and demonstrating that these events were coordinated through cAMP-mediated activation of PKA, we also made use of a combination of genetic screens and in situ site-directed mutagenesis studies to identify the HSPDE3B residue(s) coordinating this interaction. Our data identify two potential 14-3-3 protein-binding sites within HSPDE3B. First, based on our yeast two-hybrid analysis, we identified a 14-3-3-binding domain within the first 90 amino acids of HSPDE3B. Although this HSPDE3B domain contained potential PKA phosphorylation consensus sites and was phosphorylated by PKA in vitro, our mutagenesis studies indicated that site(s) within this domain were unlikely to be involved in coordinating the increase in 14-3-3 protein binding in mammalian cells in response to cAMP. More likely, based on the fact that this interaction was initially identified in yeast in which PKA had not been experimentally stimulated, this 14-3-3 protein interacting domain of HSPDE3B may be involved in coordinating basal levels of 14-3-3 protein-HSPDE3B binding observed in our studies. This proposal is consistent with a basal level of 14-3-3 protein binding with HSPDE3B in cells that was not sensitive to H89 or the activation of PKB in our experiments. Examples of similar 14-3-3 interactions that were not dependent on protein phosphorylation have been reported (3738). Whether phosphorylation of Ser-13 and Ser-73 in cells plays a role in organizing cellular HSPDE3B complexes at a step not investigated in our studies remains possible and will form the basis of future work in our laboratory. From our site-directed mutagenesis studies we identified a dominant role for one HSPDE3B residue, namely Ser-318, in coordinating the direct, PKA-dependent, interaction between HSPDE3B and 14-3-3 proteins. Indeed, binding of the S318A mutant of HSPDE3B was not increased when cells were incubated with cAMP-elevating agents. Our data also rule out a direct role for phosphorylation of either of the other HSPDE3B PKA phospho-acceptor sites (Ser-73 and Ser-296) or the PKB phospho-acceptor residues (Ser-295) in coordinating PKA-dependent HSPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
. Indeed, HSPDE3B, in which multiple PKA sites were mutated, interacted with immobilized GST-14-3-3
in a manner consistent with the singular importance of Ser-318. Also, because the interaction between the S295A-HSPDE3B mutant used in our studies and 14-3-3
was stimulated by activation of PKA, this site is unlikely to have contributed to 14-3-3 binding. Because expression of a constitutively activated PKB or of a kinase-dead dominant negative PKB had no impact on basal or PKA-dependent HSPDE3B-14-3-3 protein binding, we suggest that HSPDE3B does not interact with 14-3-3 proteins in a PKB-dependent fashion in 293T cells. In unpublished data, we have similarly shown that PKB does not stimulate HSPDE3B binding to 14-3-3 proteins in either the pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line (REH) or U937 cells, a human cell line established from a diffuse histiocytic lymphoma that displays several monocytic characteristics.4
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Our data obviating the possible involvement of PKB in fostering HSPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
are unequivocal. Indeed, we found no evidence to support a role for PKB in mediating either basal levels of HSPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
or in promoting association between these proteins in response to increases in cellular cAMP. In relation to insulin-mediated stimulation of RNPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
in adipocytes (24), it may be significant that insulin can activate adenylyl cyclase in several cell types and that this latter effect was PI3K-inhibitor-sensitive (39). Whether insulin stimulated RNPDE3B binding to 14-3-3
in rat adipocytes through an insulin-mediated activation of adenylyl cyclase, thus involving PKA, or whether a direct effect of PI3K was involved, which was not tested in our study, remains to be established. Perhaps the use of a site-directed mutation-based approach similar to that employed here, rather than the use of high concentrations of phosphorylated peptides, as was done in the earlier work (24), would be beneficial in future studies.
To our mind, the most interesting finding of this study relates to our demonstration that the 14-3-3
-bound, PKA-activated form of HSPDE3B was protected from phosphatase-catalyzed inactivation. Indeed, 14-3-3-bound HSPDE3B was less sensitive to phosphatase-based inactivation when compared with unbound PKA-activated HSPDE3B or with PKB-activated HSPDE3B. Of course, the PKB-activated HSPDE3B was not 14-3-3-bound. Indeed, we suggest that this difference in phosphatase-catalyzed inactivation of the PKA-versus PKB-activated forms of HSPDE3B may represent a novel mechanism by which cells can differentiate activation of HSPDE3B by these two kinases (Fig. 8). Similarly, earlier works by others (40, 41) have shown that 14-3-3 protein binding to some, but not all, phosphorylated binding partners reduces their rate of dephosphorylation. Ongoing studies in our laboratory are aimed at assessing the impact that 14-3-3 protein-mediated "protection" against dephosphorylation of the PKA-activated enzyme, but not that activated by PKB, may have on intracellular cAMP levels and the signaling events associated with HSPDE3B activation in cells.
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1 Career Investigator of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. To whom correspondence should be addressed: Botterell Hall, Rm. 229, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. Tel.: 613-533-6000 (Ext. 75089); Fax: 613-533-6412; E-mail: mauriced{at}post.queensu.ca.
2 The abbreviations used are: PDE, phosphodiesterase; HSPDE3B, human cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 3B; PKA, protein kinase A; PKB, protein kinase B; GST, glutathione S-transferase; WT, wild type; DTT, dithiothreitol; IBMX, 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine; aa, amino acid; TEMED, N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine; PIPES, 1,4-piperazinediethanesulfonic acid; PI3K, phosphoinositide 3-kinase
; PKC, protein kinase C; CIAP, calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase; C, catalytic; F/I, forskolin/IBMX; MA, membrane-associated; DN, dominant negative. ![]()
3 D. R. Raymond and D. H. Maurice, unpublished observations. ![]()
4 L. S. Wilson and D. H. Maurice, unpublished observations. ![]()
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