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1 Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2026, USA
2 Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Reprint requests to: Sophie A. Lelièvre, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Purdue University, 625 Harrison Street, LYNN, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2026, USA; e-mail: lelievre{at}purdue.edu; fax: (765) 494-0781.
(RECEIVED June 1, 2004; FINAL REVISION June 1, 2004; ACCEPTED July 11, 2004)
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3-integrin and Her2, suggesting that NuMA-CTDP may have a primarily
fold structure. These data indicate that NuMA-CTDP may represent an important functional sequence conserved in vertebrates, where it may act as a receptor to coordinate cellular events.
Keywords: nuclear mitotic apparatus protein;
3-integrin; chordate; mammary epithelial cells; differentiation
Abbreviations: ESTs, expressed sequence tags HMM, hidden Markov model NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information NuMA, nuclear mitotic apparatus protein NuMA-CT, NuMA C terminus NuMA-CTDP, distal portion of NuMA CT NuMA-NT, NuMA N terminus RAR, retinoic acid receptor RCSB, Research Collaboratory for Structural Biology SAM, Sequence Alignment and Modeling.
Article and publication are at http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/doi/10.1110/ps.04906804.
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| Results and Discussion |
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3-integrin
3-integrin (1m1x
[PDB]
). The sequence of this region of
3-integrin is highly conserved in human
1- and
6-integrins. The next highest scoring protein was another membrane protein, oncoprotein receptor tyrosine kinase Her2 (1n8y
[PDB]
). Although the scores of 1m1x
[PDB]
and 1n8y
[PDB]
against the NuMA-CTDP HMM were not statistically significant (E values above 1.0), the results are of biological interest because the regions of similarity correspond to largely
extracellular domains that regulate protein interactions and are involved in signaling (Borges et al. 2000; Hynes 2002). These results suggest that the three-dimensional structure of NuMA-CTDP might be primarily
, and that this region could be a site of intermolecular interaction(s).
If NuMA-CTDP is a site of interaction with other proteins, then by analogy with
3-integrin, potential binding partners may include proteins located at the plasma membrane. More specifically, this observation suggests that in addition to its known location in the nucleus, NuMA could be present at or near the cell membrane. Indeed, full-length NuMA is observed in the cytoplasm of cells expressing oncogenic fusion protein NuMA-RAR (Hummel et al. 2002). Furthermore NuMA binds to protein 4.1R, a protein that participates in tethering the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane in addition to being located at the poles of the mitotic spindle (Mattagajasingh et al. 1999). Although NuMA could be detected in the cytoplasm of S1 cells differentiated into acini, as seen on electron micrographs (not shown), it was not located at the cell membrane and was not present in preparations of crude membrane extracts that include the plasma membrane, Golgi apparatus, and rough endoplasmic reticulum (Fig. 3
). To rule out the possibility that the absence of NuMA in membrane fractions was a characteristic of acinar differentiation, we performed the same analysis using collagen I culture of S1 cells, which induces the formation of incorrectly polarized acini, and HMT-3522 T42 malignant cells derived from S1 cells. T42 cells form disorganized tumor nodules when cultured in Matrigel (Weaver et al. 1997). NuMA was still absent from crude membrane fractions prepared under these conditions (Fig. 3
). Thus, it seems unlikely that NuMA interacts with proteins at the cell surface.
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helix structure (Haren and Merdes 2002). In our study, we describe a potential structural similarity between NuMA-CTDP and the extracellular domain of
3-integrin, which has a largely
structure. The
strand is considered to bring maximum exposure for ligand binding and may lead to intermolecular linkage (Chow et al. 2004). This secondary structure has been identified as a critical recognition element in physiological processes (Glenn and Fairlie 2002) and is present in numerous proteins involved in signal transduction. These data suggest that NuMA may also function to orchestrate cellular events.
Given that NuMA has a role in differentiation (Lelièvre et al. 1998; Sukhai et al. 2004), one hypothesis is that NuMA-CTDP may be associated with the control of gene expression. This hypothesis is supported by the fact that expression of NuMA truncated at its C terminus and antibodies directed against NuMA-CT induce alterations in chromatin organization (Gueth-Hallonet et al. 1998; Lelièvre et al. 1998). Recently proteins bearing actin-binding domains have been proposed to play a critical role in the control of gene expression by providing a structural framework that facilitates and integrates molecular cross-talk within the nucleus (Shumaker et al. 2003). Thus, with its calponin homology domain at the N terminus and a possible
structure for NuMA-CTDP, NuMA may provide a structural platform for the transduction and coordination of signals involved in the regulation of gene expression.
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Cell culture
HMT-3522 nonneoplastic (S1) and malignant (T42) cells were cultured in H14 medium (Weaver et al. 1997). To induce differentiation into acini and the formation of tumor-like nodules, we cultured S1 and T42 cells, respectively, for 10 d on 40 µL/cm2 Matrigel (BD Biosciences)-coated surfaces in the presence of culture medium containing 5% Matrigel. Collagen I culture of S1 cells was performed as previously described (Lelièvre et al. 1998).
Crude membrane extract preparation
Cellular structures were collected as described earlier (Lelièvre et al. 1998) and crude membrane fractionations were performed according to standard procedures. Briefly, after dissociation of nuclei and cytoplasms, cytoplasms were deposited on top of 10 mL of a buffer containing 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), 1 mM ethylene glycol-bis(
-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, and 2 mM MgCl2 and centrifuged (4°C, 114,000g) for 75 min to separate cytoplasmic (supernatant) from crude membrane (pellet) proteins. Crude membrane fractions were analyzed by Western blot using antibodies against lamin B and NuMA (clone 204.4; Oncogene Research Products) and
-catenin and epidermal growth factor receptor (BD Transduction Laboratories).
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