Kalirin, a multifunctional PAM COOH-terminal domain interactor protein, affects cytoskeletal organization and ACTH secretion from AtT-20 cells

J Biol Chem. 1999 Jan 29;274(5):2929-37. doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.5.2929.

Abstract

The production and regulated secretion of bioactive peptides require a series of lumenal enzymes to convert inactive precursors into bioactive peptides plus several cytosolic proteins to govern granule formation, maturation, translocation, and exocytosis. Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), an enzyme essential for biosynthesis of many peptides, is an integral membrane protein with trafficking information in both its lumenal and cytosolic domains. Kalirin, a PAM cytosolic domain interactor protein with spectrin-like repeats and GDP/GTP exchange factor activity for Rac1, is expressed with PAM in neurons but is not expressed in the anterior pituitary or AtT-20 corticotrope cells. Expression of Kalirin alters the cytoskeletal organization of Chinese hamster ovary and AtT-20 cells expressing membrane PAM. Expression of membrane PAM also alters cytoskeletal organization, demonstrating the presence of endogenous proteins that can mediate this effect. Significant amounts of both PAM and Kalirin fractionate with cytoskeletal elements. Since cytoskeletal organization is critical for exocytosis, constitutive-like and regulated secretions were evaluated. Whereas the constitutive-like secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is increased by expression of membrane PAM, regulated secretion is eliminated. Expression of Kalirin in AtT-20 cells expressing membrane PAM restores stimulated secretion of ACTH. Thus, Kalirin or its homologue may be essential for regulated secretion, and the PAM-Kalirin interaction may coordinate intragranular with cytosolic events.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Actins / metabolism
  • Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Blotting, Northern
  • Carrier Proteins*
  • Cricetinae
  • Cytoskeleton / metabolism*
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • GTP-Binding Proteins / metabolism*
  • Golgi Apparatus / metabolism
  • Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors*
  • Mixed Function Oxygenases / metabolism
  • Models, Biological
  • Multienzyme Complexes*
  • Neurons / metabolism
  • Pituitary Gland, Anterior / enzymology
  • Pituitary Gland, Anterior / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured

Substances

  • Actins
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors
  • Kalrn protein, rat
  • Multienzyme Complexes
  • Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
  • Mixed Function Oxygenases
  • peptidylglycine monooxygenase
  • GTP-Binding Proteins