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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 9, 6597-6608, March 2, 2007
Src Docks to A-kinase Anchoring Protein Gravin, Regulating
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| ABSTRACT |
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2-adrenergic receptors. Gravin binds to the cell membrane in a Ca2+-sensitive manner and to receptors through well characterized protein-protein interactions. Although the interaction of serine/threonine, cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase with protein kinase A-anchoring proteins is well described and involves a kinase regulatory subunit binding domain in the C terminus of these proteins, far less is known about tyrosine kinase docking to members of this family of scaffolds. The non-receptor tyrosine kinase Src regulates resensitization of
2-adrenergic receptors and docks to gravin. Gravin displays nine proline-rich domains distributed throughout the molecule. One class I ligand for Src homology domain 3 docking, found in the N terminus (10RXPXXP15) of gravin, is shown to bind Src. Binding of Src to gravin activates the intrinsic tyrosine kinase of Src. Mutagenesis/deletion of the class I ligand (P15A,P16A) on the N terminus of gravin abolishes both the docking of Src to gravin as well as the receptor resensitization and recycling catalyzed by gravin. The Src-binding peptide-(151) of gravin behaves as a dominant-negative for AKAP gravin regulation of receptor resensitization/recycling. The tyrosine kinase Src plays an essential role in the AKAP gravin-mediated receptor resensitization and recycling, an essential aspect of receptor biology. | INTRODUCTION |
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2-adrenergic receptor (
2AR) (2). Gravin interacts with the
2AR primarily through a conserved receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the scaffold, whose interaction with the cytoplasmic, C-terminal tail of this GPCR is enhanced by protein phosphorylation catalyzed by the PKA itself docked to the scaffold (3). This receptor-scaffold interaction is obligate for resensitization and recycling of
2AR following classic agonist-induced desensitization and internalization (4). Gravin associates with the inner leaflet of the cell membrane through two types of domains, in addition to the RBD through which it interacts with a heptihelical GPCR (5): i.e. an N-myristoylation site (6); and, three small, positively charged basic domains that bind to negatively charged phospholipids with high affinity (7, 8). Like the RBD-GPCR interaction that is dynamic and regulated by PKA phosphorylation, the cell membrane/positively charged domain-based interactions of gravin are dynamic, in this case readily reversible by increasing the intracellular concentration of Ca2+ in the presence of calmodulin (8).
The role of serine/threonine protein kinases, such as PKA and PKC, in agonist-stimulated desensitization and internalization of members of the GPCR is well known (9). Gravin as well as AKAP79 has been shown to dock protein kinases PKA, PKC, as well as the
2AR, participants in agonist-stimulated receptor desensitization and internalization (10, 11). Far less is known about the docking of members of another major family of protein kinases, the tyrosine kinases, to AKAP scaffolds. Inhibitors of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Src (e.g. PP2) as well as expression of dominant negative versions of Src have been shown to display complex effects of regulation of GPCRs (12). Src family kinases can act as direct effectors of GPCR signaling, interacting with GPCRs (1316), G-protein subunits (17, 18), and
-arrestin (19). Src has been shown to participate in macromolecular complexes with AKAPs and
2AR (4, 16). As gravin has been shown to be a scaffold obligate for the resensitization/recycling of
2AR and Src has been shown to effect both the internalization and recycling arms of receptor trafficking, we test the hypothesis that the AKAP gravin acts as a scaffold for Src regulation of receptor trafficking. We show that Src docks to gravin through a class I ligand for the SH3 domain found in the far N terminus of the scaffold and that its docking and activation are essential for the ability of the AKAP to resensitize and recycle to the cell membrane
2AR that have been internalized in response to agonist-induced desensitization.
| EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
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151), the sense primer was engineered to contain a 5' NheI site and nucleotides encoding the HA tag followed by nucleotides corresponding to 154174. The antisense primers synthesized correspond to the BamHI restriction site in gravin. The PCR products were subcloned into HA-gravin pcDNA3 between NheI and BamHI restriction sites. The proline to alanine substitution mutants of HA-gravin were engineered according to the standard protocol for PCR-mediated mutagenesis. All of the polymerase chain reactions were performed using Pfu polymerase (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA). The identity of the amplified sequences was confirmed by direct DNA sequencing.
Cell CultureHuman epidermoid carcinoma cells (A431) from the ATCC collection were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (HyClone, Logan, UT), penicillin (60 µg/ml), and streptomycin (100 µg/ml) and grown in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2 and 95% air at 37 °C.
Immunoprecipitation and Immunoblotting StudiesFor most studies, A431 cells were transiently transfected with an expression vector harboring the cDNA or an HA-tagged protein. Cells were harvested and treated with a lysis buffer (1% Triton X-100, 0.5% Nonidet P-40, 10 mM dithiothreitol, 5 µg/ml aprotinin, 5 µg/ml leupeptin, 100 µg/ml bacitracin, 100 µg/ml benzamidine, 2 mM sodium orthovanadate, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM EDTA, 50 mM NaF, 40 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 50 mM KH2PO4, 10 mM sodium molybdate, and 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.4) at 4 °C for 20 min to promote cell lysis. After centrifugation of the cell debris at 10,000 x g for 30 min, the lysates were precleared with protein A/G-agarose for 90 min, and subjected to immunoprecipitation for 2 h with antibodies specific to Src itself (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) or to the HA tag. The primary antibodies were linked covalently to a protein A/G-agarose matrix. Immune complexes were washed three times with immune precipitation buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM dithiothreitol, 1% Triton X-100, pH 8.0), then denatured for 5 min at 95 °C and subjected to SDS-PAGE on 10% acrylamide, Laemmli-type gels. Resolved proteins were transferred electrophoretically from the gel to the nitrocellulose membrane ("blot"). The protein and/or peptide blots were stained with specific antibodies. The immune complexes were made visible by staining with a horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody, in combination with the chemiluminescence reagent, and a brief autoradiography of Kodak X-Omat film.
Purification of His-tagged Gravin Fragments by Nickel-Nitrilotriacetic Acid-Agarose Affinity ChromatographyTo generate hexahistidine (His6)-tagged gravin-(1231) or gravin-(50231), primers were synthesized as described earlier (3, 8). Products from PCRs were subcloned into pET-28b(+) between NheI and BamHI restriction sites. His6-tagged gravin fragments were expressed in Escherichia coli by standard procedures. For purification of His6-tagged proteins, 1 ml of His-Bind resin (Novagen, San Diego, CA) was prepared for nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid affinity chromatography using a small disposable column containing resin pre-washed with 3 column volumes of water, 5 column volumes of 50 mM NiSO4, and 3 column volumes of the binding buffer (5 mM imidazole, 0.5 M NaCl, and 20 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.9). The solubilized proteins sample was applied to the column at 4 °C. The column was washed and then eluted with 10 ml of 60 mM imidazole in 20 mM Tris-HCl buffer, pH 7.9, containing 0.5 M NaCl. The eluted peptides were dialyzed in 2 mM Tris-HCl buffer, pH 7.5, and later concentrated by use of a Thermo SpeedVac concentrator.
Src Activity AssaySrc activity was assayed using a kit, following the protocol detailed by the commercial supplier (Upstate Biochemicals; Millipore). In each reaction, a 10-µl aliquot of total cell lysate or an immunoprecipitation sample of gravin was assayed for Src activity in the presence or absence of the Src family inhibitor PP2 (50 nM). The sample of cell lysates, immune precipitate, or gravin fragment were added to a final 30-µl reaction containing the Src/ATP mixture, 10 µCi of [
-32P]ATP, and 150 µM of the Src kinase substrate (KVEKIGEGTYGVVYK, amino acids 620 of p34cdc2). After a 30-min incubation at 30 °C, the reactions were terminated with 20 µl of 40% trichloroacetic acid. A 25-µl aliquot of each reaction mixture was then spotted onto P81 paper blot. The assay blots were washed 5 times for 5 min each with 0.75% phosphoric acid, followed by a final, 3-min wash with acetone. The assay blots were air-dried and transferred to scintillation vials for counting.
Knockdown of Gravin with Antisense Morpholinos Antisense morpholino oligonucleotides (morpholinos) were designed, synthesized, and purified to cell culture grade (Gene Tools, LLC). The morpholinos and protocol for knockdown (KD) of cellular gravin expression were optimized and reported earlier (3, 8). The extent of the suppression of gravin expression by antisense morpholinos in these studies was >75 ± 6.3%. The antisense morpholinos were designed to target the 5'-untranslated region of the mRNA for native gravin and do not recognize gravin mRNA transcribed from the expression vector. Prior to their addition to A431 cell cultures, morpholinos were mixed in a ratio of 1:1 (w/w) with EPEI special delivery solution (Gene Tools, LLC). Cells were treated with the anti-gravin morpholinos (5 µg/ml) for 3 days. Whole cell lysates of the morpholino-treated cells were subjected to SDS-PAGE and the resolved proteins were blotted and stained with anti-gravin antibody. Under standard conditions, morpholinos antisense for gravin suppressed the cellular level of the AKAP by more than 90% (8). An additional treatment with morpholinos antisense to gravin was performed prior to transient transfection of the cells with either wild-type (WT) or mutant forms of gravin. The morpholinos are designed to suppress the expression of endogenous gravin, whereas not interfering with the gravin expressed through use of mammalian expression vectors. Following this protocol, cells were analyzed for
-adrenergic agonist-induced (i.e. Iso, 10 µM) desensitization and internalization of
2AR, as well as the recovery (i.e. resensitization and recycling of
2AR) after washout of agonist.
Desensitization and Internalization of
2ARTwo days prior to the analysis of agonist-induced desensitization, the A431 cells were seeded in 96-well microtiter plates at a density of 25,00050,000 cells/well. Routinely cells were serum-starved overnight, prior to the analysis. Desensitization was accomplished by pretreating the cells with the
-adrenergic agonist Iso (10 µM) for 30 min. Under these conditions, subsequent
-adrenergic stimulation of cyclic AMP accumulation is severely blunted (i.e. desensitized) and cell surface-localized
2AR is reduced precipitously by internalization (9). Further details of the desensitization protocol employed herein as well as the assay of intracellular accumulation of cyclic AMP are described elsewhere (4).
Analysis of
2AR Localization and Recycling to the Cell MembraneThe internalization of
2AR correlates well with the extent of agonist-induced desensitization observed by assay of intracellular accumulation of cyclic AMP. Using radioligand equilibrium binding assays with A431 cells and a cell-impermeant, tritiated antagonist ([3H]CGP-12177), the complement of cell surface-localized
2ARs as well as internalized
2AR (by subtraction) was determined. Cultures of A431 cells were treated with Iso for 30 min (i.e. "desensitized and internalized") or treated with Iso for 30 min then washed free of agonist for 60 min (i.e. "resensitized and recycle"). The cells were then washed with ice-cold phosphate-buffered saline and resuspended in Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium containing 20 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, and the hydrophilic, membrane-impermeant
2-adrenergic antagonist [3H]CGP-12177 (70 nM). Binding was performed at 4 °C for 6 h. The cells then were diluted with cold buffer, collected on GF/C membranes at reduced pressure, and washed twice in rapid succession. The amount of radioligand bound to the washed cell mass collected on the filter provides a direct assay of the cell surface complement of receptors. The amount of bound ligand was quantified by liquid scintillation spectrometry (4, 22).
Statistical AnalysisThe experiments were performed at least in triplicate. All data are expressed as mean ± S.E. for at least three separate experiments. Statistical significance (p value of
0.05) is denoted with an asterisk and is derived from comparison of experimental data with the respective controls by two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures. The InStat statistics program (GraphPad, San Diego, CA) was used for statistical computations.
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2AR/cell and provide a well studied model of agonist-stimulated receptor desensitization and trafficking (23), a hallmark of members of the superfamily of GPCRs (24). Earlier, it had been shown that inhibition of Src activity alters agonist-induced desensitization (15), whereas, little is known about a role of Src, if any, in resensitization and trafficking of GPCRs. We investigated first the effects of the Src family inhibitor 4-amine-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-7-(t-butyl)pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine (PP2) on resensitization of desensitized, internalized
2AR, a process catalyzed by the AKAP gravin (Fig. 1). Cells were treated with
-adrenergic agonist for 30 min to stimulate
2AR internalization. The cells were washed free of agonist and allowed to recycle the internalized
2AR back to the cell membrane, a process that could be followed through equilibrium binding experiments with intact A431 cells and use of a radioligand [3H]CGP-12177, a cell-impermeant ligand able only to bind to those receptors accessible to the bulk solution, i.e. on the exterior of the cell membrane (Fig. 1). The amount of
2AR internalized within 30 min of Iso (10 µM) treatment was
50% (+ Isoproterenol) and the amount of
2AR that remains internalized 60 min following the washout of agonist (W60) was determined. Washout of agonist for 60 min provokes complete recovery of the internalized
2AR trafficking to the cell membrane. When cells are treated with the Src family inhibitor PP2 (50 nM), in contrast, the recycling of internalized
2AR is markedly attenuated, i.e. sequestered
2AR remains internalized. These data identify a critical role of Src in the recycling of agonist-internalized
2AR, a process known to be gravin-dependent.
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2AR. To facilitate analysis of these putative SH3 binding domains, we expressed gravin and targeted fragments of gravin as fusion proteins tagged with the HA antigen. The HA tag enabled isolation and quantification of expression of full-length and mutant gravin fragments (Fig. 2B).
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Inspection of the protein sequence of the N-terminal 151 region of gravin reveals two PRS, both potential sites for Src binding (Fig. 3). The more N-terminal of the two sites with the sequence 10RXPXXP15 is a classic type 1 ligand for SH3 domains (25). Addition of a C-terminal Pro residue (Pro16) may influence the interaction with an SH3 domain (25). The second of the two N-terminal sites with the sequence 22PXXPXP27 may also dock an SH3 domain. The next PRS to be encountered is at 284PXXP287 and six more are found C-terminal in the 511783 primary sequence. The deletion of the gravin-(521783) region that harbors seven PRS did not alter the ability of the gravin to dock Src. If the results from the Src binding studies to gravin and its fragments are correct, either the loss (truncations) or mutagenesis of the N-terminal region harboring the two PRS should influence gravin biology. This premise was tested functionally using two independent assays of gravin function.
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2AR (26, 27). To probe the functional role of the 151 N terminus of gravin, we measured in a time course the ability of a washout of agonist (Iso, 10 µM) to reverse the desensitization of the cyclic AMP response (Fig. 4A). In the control, Iso stimulates a maximal desensitization within 5 min, desensitization persists for 30 min. Following the washout of agonist, the amplitude of the desensitization declines by more than 70% within 30 min (W30, not shown) and declines by more than 90% within 60 min (W60, Fig. 4A).
Next we sought to examine the resensitization response of A431 cells made deficient in gravin. Cells treated with morpholinos antisense to human gravin (targeting the 5'-untranslated region of gravin mRNA) for 3 days displayed a knockdown of more than 75% of the cellular complement of gravin (gravin KD, Fig. 4A). In the gravin-deficient cells, desensitization in response to Iso proceeded normally, whereas the resensitization of the cyclic AMP response to Iso was abolished, even following a 60-min washout (W60) of agonist, when recovery is normally complete. Transient transfection of the gravin KD cells with an expression vector harboring WT gravin (not susceptible to suppression by the antisense morpholinos) effectively rescues the resensitization response absent in gravin-deficient cells (Fig. 4A). In sharp contrast, if the gravin-deficient cells were transfected with the same expression vector harboring the
151 truncate of gravin, no such rescue was observed. These data suggest that unlike the case for the gravin, expression of the
151 gravin truncate is not able to rescue the resensitization of the
2AR in cells made deficient of gravin. Thus, KD of gravin by antisense morpholinos, like treatment with the Src family inhibitor PP2 (Fig. 1), blocks the resensitization of the desensitized
2AR (Fig. 4A).
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2AR resensitization, i.e. that the loss of the 151 N-terminal region of gravin abolishes the ability of the AKAP to support the resensitization response. To assess function as recovery (i.e. "recycling") of agonist-internalized
2AR, we first treated cells with Iso (10 µM for 30 min; +Isoproterenol) to promote agonist-induced desensitization and internalization of
2AR (Fig. 4B). Cells made deficient of gravin (gravin KD) fail to display recycling of agonist-stimulated, internalized
2AR, as measured by radioligand binding experiments with the cell-impermeant
-adrenergic antagonist [3H]CGP-12177, a radioligand that can access only cell surface-localized
2AR.
2AR internalized in response to
-adrenergic agonist is recycled back to the cell membrane within 60 min of a washout of the agonist (W60). At 60 min post-washout of Iso, gravin-KD cells failed to recycle internalized
2AR (Fig. 4B). The ability of expression of WT gravin versus that of the
151 mutant gravin to rescue the recycling of internalized
2AR that is absent in gravin-KD cells was investigated. Expression of gravin, but not the
151 gravin truncate, reconstitutes the ability of the gravin-deficient cells to recycle the internalized
2AR (Fig. 4B). These observations are in agreement with the results obtained in the direct assay of accumulation of intracellular cyclic AMP for resensitization of the
-adrenergic responsiveness (Fig. 4A). Thus, the functional capacity of this AKAP (resensitization and recycling of
2AR) requires at least one or perhaps both PRSs in the N-terminal region. Src Binds to and Functions through a Type I Class of SH3 Ligand Sequence of GravinThe presence of two potential sites of Src docking in the N-terminal region of gravin fostered further analysis aimed at establishing if the 12PXXP15 (site 1), the 22PXXP25 (site 2), or both, were bona fide ligands for the SH3 domain of Src. We engineered mutant forms of gravin with Pro to Ala substitutions at Pro1516 and Pro22, employing a double mutation on site 1 (P15A, P16A) to ensure that the site was disrupted. A431 cells were transfected with expression constructs harboring either the P15A,P16A HA-tagged gravin or the P22A HA-tagged gravin or the full-length wild-type HA-gravin (Fig. 5A). Immune complexes of the HA-tagged proteins were prepared from whole cell lysates, subjected to SDS-PAGE, and the resolved proteins transferred to blots. Staining of the blots of the immune complexes of HA-gravin with anti-Src antibody revealed, as shown earlier, positive staining for Src. Those immune complexes prepared from the HA-tagged P22A mutant also stained positive for Src. Immune complexes prepared from the HA-tagged P15A,P16A mutant, in contrast, did not stain positive for Src. The most N-terminal PRS in gravin, a class I type ligand for SH3 interactions, binds Src. We further tested these observations by direct assays of gravin function.
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2AR back to the cell membrane (Fig. 5C) in gravin-KD cells. Whereas gravin deficiency blocks both responses (Fig. 4, A and B), the expression of the P22A gravin, like that of gravin, but not that of the P15A mutant (Fig. 5, B and C), was able to rescue each of these functional responses absent in gravin-KD cells.
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If Src docks to the class 1 ligand sequence of gravin, then one might expect a change in the activity of Src reflecting release from the autoinhibitory control of this tyrosine kinase. We probed this premise by testing the ability of purified gravin fragments to activate Src in vitro employing whole cell lysates of A431 cells. An N-terminal fragment of gravin that harbors the N-terminal 12PXXP15 site (i.e. gravin 1231) as well as a gravin fragment devoid of the N-terminal 51 residues (i.e. gravin 52231) were expressed in bacteria, purified, and employed in these experiments. Each of the fragments was added directly to whole cell lysates and the Src activity measured using a Src-specific substrate (amino acids 620 of p34cdc2, Fig. 6B). The peptides were added to the lysates at equivalent molar concentrations and the amount of Src activity determined. Src activity was observed (set to 100% control) in the whole cell lysates (Fig. 6B). Inclusion of the Src family inhibitor PP2 suppresses the activity of Src by
50%. Addition of purified gravin-(1231) fragment harboring the N-terminal 12PXXP15 site stimulates increased Src activity (Fig. 6B). This increased Src activity stimulated by the addition of the gravin fragment harboring the N-terminal 12PXXP15 also was sensitive to inhibition by PP2. Addition of the purified 151 truncate of the gavin-(1231) fragment (i.e. 52231) to the whole cell lysates, in contrast, did not alter Src activity (Fig. 6B). Although competing with endogenous gravin present in these whole cell lysates, the purified gravin-(1231) fragment added was able to stimulate Src increased activity, providing support for the notion that docking of Src to the AKAP scaffold leads to activation of Src. This observation is in agreement with the mechanism by which class 1 ligands of SH3 domains would release Src from autoinhibition (28).
We also sought to determine whether the pulldowns from A431 cells of gravin that bind Src display Src activity (Fig. 6C). Immune complexes of gravin were prepared from A431 cells and the Src activity measured using the Src-specific substrate. Pulldown reactions performed with A/G-agarose chemically coupled with anti-HA antibody (+) or with uncoupled A/G-agarose (as a control (-)) from A431 whole cell lysates were assayed for Src activity. Increased Src activity was observed in the gravin pulldowns from A431 cells (Fig. 6C). This increased Src activity associated with gravin also was effectively inhibited by PP2.
An in vitro phosphorylation reaction was employed to examine if addition of purified Src to pulldowns of HA-tagged gravin from whole cell lysates catalyzed phosphorylation of gravin itself (Fig. 6D). Purified Src was added to the pulldowns of gravin from whole cell lysates, the phosphorylation reaction was performed, and the reaction mixture subjected to SDS-PAGE, electrophoretic blotting, and autoradiography. Phosphorylation of gravin was readily increased by the addition of purified Src (Fig. 6D), suggesting that gravin docks and activated the Src. The gravin scaffold itself docks Src and also appears to act as a substrate for Src, in a manner very similar to that in which gravin docks PKA and also acts as a substrate for PKA (3).
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2AR (Tyr350) observed in response to stimulation by Iso (29, 30). Suppression of Src as well as treatment with PP2 can suppress tyrosine phosphorylation of the
2AR that occurs rapidly in response to stimulation with Iso (31). Unlike the effects of Src on resensitization/recycling of
2AR observed 3060 min after the desensitization and internalization response, tyrosine phosphorylation of the
2AR in response to Iso peaks within 15 min (Fig. 7A). To test whether or not the AKAP gravin (which binds Src) participates in agonist-stimulated tyrosine phosphorylation of the
2AR, we performed the same experiments in gravin-KD cells. The agonist-stimulated increase in the phosphotyrosine content of the
2AR was unaffected by the deficiency of gravin (Fig. 7B). Src functioning in the early phase of
2AR activation/phosphorylation thus may be docked elsewhere in the complex, not at gravin.
Expression of the Src-binding Domain of AKAP Gravin Acts as a Dominant-Negative of
2AR Resensitization and RecoveryWe explored whether or not expression of the Src-binding domain of gravin would influence the ability of the scaffold to function in
2AR resensitization. HA-tagged gravin-(151) fragment was expressed transiently in A431 cells and resensitization of
2AR-mediated, Iso-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation was investigated following agonist-induced desensitization (Fig. 8A). Expression of gravin-(151) yields a dominant-negative effect on the resensitization process of
2AR-mediated cyclic AMP accumulation following Iso-induced desensitization. Resensitization of the
2AR-mediated response was essentially blocked in cells expressing the HA-tagged gravin-(151) fragment. Similarly, we tested the effect of expression of the gravin-(151) fragment on the ability of desensitized, internalized
2AR to recycle to the cell membrane (Fig. 8B). Expression of the gravin-(151) fragment likewise abolished recycling to the cell membrane of
2AR internalized in response prior to agonist treatment. These two independent sets of data argue for a critical role of the N-terminal Src-binding domain of gravin for the proper resensitization and recycling of
2AR. We also explored if the expression of the gravin RBD (554938, Fig. 2A), like that of the Src-binding domain (Fig. 3), would act as a dominant-negative in assays of
2AR resensitization (Fig. 8A) and recycling (Fig. 8B), post-agonist-induced desensitization and internalization. Expression of the RBD of gravin was found to block the resensitization of the desensitized,
2AR-mediated cyclic AMP response as well as the recycling of the internalized
2AR.
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2AR (11) fostered our thinking that the enigmatic effects of Src inhibitors on resensitization/recycling of
2AR (16, 31, 32) might reflect a role of the scaffold in this aspect of the overall trafficking of receptors. Inspection of the protein sequence of gravin revealed nine proline-rich domains with a PXXP motif (33). Although these PRS are distributed largely along the length of this AKAP molecule, analysis of Src docking revealed that only the most N-terminal PRS was essential for Src binding. Targeted mutagenesis of this Src docking site on gravin confirmed the docking data in functional terms through study of the resensitization of the cyclic AMP response and recycling of internalized
2AR. In the basal state, Src binding to AKAP gravin is observed and in response to activation of the
2AR by
-adrenergic agonist increased Src binding to the scaffold is observed. The most N-terminal Src binding site displays a sequence, 10RXPXXP15, flanked on the C-terminal side by an additional prolyl residue, constituting a class I ligand for SH3 domains, as that found in Src (25). C-terminal to this class 1 ligand site is a second PXXP site that, in sharp contrast, does not bind Src. The 10RXPXXP15 docking site was shown by two independent functional assays to be essential for the ability of AKAP gravin to resensitize and to recycle the internalized
2AR, a prototypic GPCR.
Several features of Src deserve mention in the context of the current studies. Src, like gravin, is N-myristoylated and harbors short positively charged domains (positively charged domain, see Fig. 2A) that target this non-receptor tyrosine kinase to the cell membrane (35). Src is catalytically least active in the "basal" state, reflecting autoinhibition by phospho-Tyr530, which neutralizes the SH2 domain (36) and a proline-rich domain adjacent to the kinase domain that neutralizes the SH3 domain. Src is shown to associate with the AKAP gravin in the unstimulated state, in a manner that requires PRS in the far N terminus of the scaffold. Stimulating cells with
-adrenergic agonist leads to the well known desensitization/internalization of
2AR (9, 37), a process that includes participation by PKA, G protein-coupled receptor kinases, and the adaptor molecule
-arrestin (38). Src docking to AKAP gravin leads to increased Src activity and this activity is necessary for receptor resensitization and recycling of
2AR to the cell membrane. The gravin molecule itself is phosphorylated in response to stimulation by
-adrenergic agonist, whereas the
2AR itself does not appear to be a substrate for Src. Gravin is shown to be phosphorylated in vitro by purified, constitutively active Src kinase. These data extend the central role of protein phosphorylation, well known for agonist-induced desensitization/internalization of GPCRs (32, 39), to the second part of the overall response, i.e. resensitization/recycling of
2AR (9).
Finally, these data revealing Src docking to and activation by the gravin scaffold, add to the broadening understanding of the repertoire of Src interactions that are known to support GPCR function and trafficking (14, 18, 19, 39, 41). Using the prototypic GPCR
2AR as the model, Src can be depicted as itself being regulated by three classes of interactions: (i) proline-rich motif docking of Src via the SH3 domain; (ii) phosphotyrosine docking via the SH2 domain; and (iii) a less well understood interaction that directly involves the kinase domain of Src (20). In the basal state, gravin docks to
2AR, but at a relatively low level (15, 31). Upon stimulation with a
-adrenergic agonist, the amount of gravin bound to the receptor via PKA-catalyzed phosphorylation of the RBD of the scaffold and of the C terminus of the receptor increases 3-fold (3). Stimulation of agonist provokes increased
-arrestin association during desensitization (42). The proline-rich domains of gravin as well as
-arrestin appear to provide essential binding sites for the SH3 domain of Src. The phosphorylation of Tyr350 in the C terminus of the
2AR creates a ligand that interacts with SH2 domains and Src, as well as the Grb2 adaptor (34) and regulatory subunit (p85) of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (4). This Tyr350 residue of the
2AR is directly phosphorylated by the insulin receptor kinase in response to insulin, both in vivo and in vitro (21, 29) and is obligate for the counterregulatory effects of insulin on
-catecholamine action. It has been shown that Src can be activated by interaction with the GTP-liganded form of
-subunits of specific heterotrimeric G proteins (e.g. Gs (20, 40)). Taken together, the results of the current study and those of earlier studies provide insight into the rich repertoire of functions that are catalyzed by Src on GPCR-based signaling, both in the desensitization and internalization of GPCRs, but also the newly discovered role of catalyzing (via an AKAP scaffold) the resensitization and recycling of
2AR.
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1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: 631-444-7873; Fax: 631-444-7696; E-mail: craig{at}pharm.sunysb.edu.
2 The abbreviations used are: AKAP, A-kinase anchoring protein; PKA, protein kinase A; GPCR, G protein-coupled receptors;
2AR,
2-adreneric receptor; RBD, receptor-binding domain; HA, hemagglutinin; KD, knockdown; WT, wild type; Iso, isoproterenol; PP2, 4-amine-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-7-(t-butyl)pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidine; PRS, proline-rich sequence; SH3, Src homology domain 3. ![]()
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