New sorting nexin (SNX27) and NHERF specifically interact with the 5-HT4a receptor splice variant: roles in receptor targeting

J Cell Sci. 2004 Oct 15;117(Pt 22):5367-79. doi: 10.1242/jcs.01379. Epub 2004 Oct 5.

Abstract

The 5-hydroxytryptamine type 4 receptor (5-HT4R) is involved in learning, feeding, respiratory control and gastrointestinal transit. This receptor is one of the G-protein-coupled receptors for which alternative mRNA splicing generates the most variants that differ in their C-terminal extremities. Some 5-HT4R variants (a, e and f) express canonical PDZ ligands at their C-termini. Here, we have examined whether some mouse 5-HT4R variants associate with specific sets of proteins, using a proteomic approach based on peptide-affinity chromatography, two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. We have identified ten proteins that interact specifically with the 5-HT4(a)R and three that only associate with the 5-HT4(e)R. Most of them are PDZ proteins. Among the proteins that associated specifically with the 5-HT4(a)R variant, NHERF greatly modified its subcellular localization. Moreover, NHERF recruited the 5-HT4(a)R to microvilli, where it localized with activated ezrin, consistent with the role of 5-HT4(a)R in cytoskeleton remodelling. The 5-HT4(a)R also interacted with both the constitutive and inducible (upon methamphetamine treatment) forms of the recently cloned sorting nexin 27 (SNX27a and b, respectively). We found that SNX27a redirected part of 5-HT4(a)R to early endosomes. The interaction of the 5-HT4R splice variants with distinct sets of PDZ proteins might specify their cellular localization as well as their signal transduction properties.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Alternative Splicing*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Brain / metabolism
  • Carrier Proteins / metabolism*
  • Carrier Proteins / physiology
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Chromatography
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • Cytoskeleton / metabolism
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
  • Humans
  • Immunoprecipitation
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Methamphetamine / pharmacology
  • Mice
  • Microscopy, Confocal
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • NIH 3T3 Cells
  • Neurons / metabolism
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Phosphoproteins / chemistry
  • Phosphoproteins / metabolism
  • Phosphoproteins / physiology*
  • Plasmids / metabolism
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Proteomics
  • Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT4 / metabolism
  • Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT4 / physiology*
  • Signal Transduction
  • Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers
  • Sorting Nexins
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
  • Transfection
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins

Substances

  • Carrier Proteins
  • Cytoskeletal Proteins
  • Peptides
  • Phosphoproteins
  • Snx27 protein, mouse
  • Sodium-Hydrogen Exchangers
  • Sorting Nexins
  • Vesicular Transport Proteins
  • ezrin
  • sodium-hydrogen exchanger regulatory factor
  • Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT4
  • Methamphetamine