RRC ID 44634
著者 den Engelsman J, van de Schootbrugge C, Yong J, Pruijn GJ, Boelens WC.
タイトル Pseudophosphorylated αB-crystallin is a nuclear chaperone imported into the nucleus with help of the SMN complex.
ジャーナル PLoS One
Abstract The human small heat shock protein αB-crystallin (HspB5) is a molecular chaperone which is mainly localized in the cytoplasm. A small fraction can also be found in nuclear speckles, of which the localization is mediated by successional phosphorylation at Ser-59 and Ser-45. αB-crystallin does not contain a canonical nuclear localization signal sequence and the mechanism by which αB-crystallin is imported into the nucleus is not known. Here we show that after heat shock pseudophosphorylated αB-crystallin mutant αB-STD, in which all three phosphorylatable serine residues (Ser-19, Ser-45 and Ser-59) were replaced by negatively charged aspartate residues, is released from the nuclear speckles. This allows αB-crystallin to chaperone proteins in the nucleoplasm, as shown by the ability of αB-STD to restore nuclear firefly luciferase activity after a heat shock. With the help of a yeast two-hybrid screen we found that αB-crystallin can interact with the C-terminal part of Gemin3 and confirmed this interaction by co-immunoprecipitation. Gemin3 is a component of the SMN complex, which is involved in the assembly and nuclear import of U-snRNPs. Knockdown of Gemin3 in an in situ nuclear import assay strongly reduced the accumulation of αB-STD in nuclear speckles. Furthermore, depletion of SMN inhibited nuclear import of fluorescently labeled recombinant αB-STD in an in vitro nuclear import assay, which could be restored by the addition of purified SMN complex. These results show that the SMN-complex facilitates the accumulation of hyperphosphorylated αB-crystallin in nuclear speckles, thereby creating a chaperone depot enabling a rapid chaperone function in the nucleus in response to stress.
巻・号 8(9)
ページ e73489
公開日 2013-1-1
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0073489
PII PONE-D-13-21703
PMID 24023879
PMC PMC3762725
MeSH Active Transport, Cell Nucleus Cell Nucleus / metabolism* DEAD Box Protein 20 / metabolism HeLa Cells Humans Phosphorylation SMN Complex Proteins / metabolism* alpha-Crystallin B Chain / metabolism*
IF 2.74
引用数 13
WOS 分野 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
リソース情報
ヒト・動物細胞 anti-αB-crystallin(RCB1304)