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Secretogranin III Directs Secretory Vesicle Biogenesis in Mast Cells in a Manner Dependent upon Interaction with Chromogranin A This information is current as of October 4, 2021. Prerna Prasad, Angel A. Yanagihara, Andrea L. Small-Howard, Helen Turner and Alexander J. Stokes J Immunol 2008; 181:5024-5034; ; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.7.5024 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/181/7/5024 Downloaded from References This article cites 42 articles, 15 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/181/7/5024.full#ref-list-1 http://www.jimmunol.org/ Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! Every submission reviewed by practicing scientists • Fast Publication! 4 weeks from acceptance to publication by guest on October 4, 2021 *average Subscription Information about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: http://jimmunol.org/subscription Permissions Submit copyright permission requests at: http://www.aai.org/About/Publications/JI/copyright.html Email Alerts Receive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at: http://jimmunol.org/alerts The Journal of Immunology is published twice each month by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc., 1451 Rockville Pike, Suite 650, Rockville, MD 20852 Copyright © 2008 by The American Association of Immunologists All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0022-1767 Online ISSN: 1550-6606. The Journal of Immunology Secretogranin III Directs Secretory Vesicle Biogenesis in Mast Cells in a Manner Dependent upon Interaction with Chromogranin A1 Prerna Prasad,2*§ Angel A. Yanagihara,2‡ Andrea L. Small-Howard,2* Helen Turner,2,3*† and Alexander J. Stokes2*†¶ Mast cells are granular immunocytes that reside in the body’s barrier tissues. These cells orchestrate inflammatory responses. Proinflammatory mediators are stored in granular structures within the mast cell cytosol. Control of mast cell granule exocytosis is a major therapeutic goal for allergic and inflammatory diseases. However, the proteins that control granule biogenesis and abundance in mast cells have not been elucidated. In neuroendocrine cells, whose dense core granules are strikingly similar to mast cell granules, granin proteins regulate granulogenesis. Our studies suggest that the Secretogranin III (SgIII) protein is involved in secretory granule biogenesis in mast cells. SgIII is abundant in mast cells, and is organized into vesicular structures. Our results Downloaded from show that over-expression of SgIII in mast cells is sufficient to cause an expansion of a granular compartment in these cells. These novel granules store inflammatory mediators that are released in response to physiological stimuli, indicating that they function as bona fide secretory vesicles. In mast cells, as in neuroendocrine cells, we show that SgIII is complexed with Chromogranin A (CgA). CgA is granulogenic when complexed with SgIII. Our data show that a novel non-granulogenic truncation mutant of SgIII (1–210) lacks the ability to interact with CgA. Thus, in mast cells, a CgA-SgIII complex may play a key role in secretory granule biogenesis. SgIII function in mast cells is unlikely to be limited to its partnership with CgA, as our interaction trap analysis http://www.jimmunol.org/ suggests that SgIII has multiple binding partners, including the mast cell ion channel TRPA1. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 5024–5034. he granin family (Chromogranin A (CgA),4 Chromo- pacity, low affinity, calcium binding proteins that are closely as- granin B (CgB), Secretogranin (Sg) II, and the less well sociated with calcium-regulated intracellular ion channels T studied Secretogranins III-VII) comprises a group of (10–13). Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that these pro- acidic proteins that are present in the secretory granules of a wide teins play an active role in directing the biosynthesis of secretory variety of endocrine and neuro-endocrine cells (1–4). The molec- granules. This biological role for granins has been proposed on the by guest on October 4, 2021 ular functions of the granins are poorly understood. There is evi- basis of work in neuroendocrine cells, where several granin pro- dence that granins may be the precursors of biologically active teins are expressed and have been shown to cooperatively contrib- peptides (3, 5–9). However, granins cannot be considered simply ute to secretory vesicle biogenesis (14, 15). This cooperation is as precursors of granule cargo. They may act as helper proteins in exemplified by the interaction between SgIII and CgA (15, 16). In the packaging of peptide hormones and neuro-peptides (3, 5–9). this study, an intermolecular interaction between the two granins is The EF-hand containing CgA and CgB may also act as high ca- needed for their targeting to secretory granules. Courel and coau- thors (15) have described a “granulogenic domain” in CgA that promotes the biogenesis of secretory granules probably through *Center for Biomedical Research at The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96813; †Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, John A. Burns School of Med- exerting control over cholesterol sequestration and the dynamics of icine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813; ‡Pacific Bioscience Research Cen- intracellular vesicle budding/fusion. The potential contribution of ter, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96922; §Graduate Program in Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822; and ¶Program in Molecular Biosciences granins to the granularity of secretory immunocytes has not been and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 addressed. Received for publication April 26, 2007. Accepted for publication July 23, 2008. Mast cells are densely granular, secretory leukocytes that reside The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page in tissues (17, 18). In response to a variety of stimuli, including charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance immunological challenge, exposure to secretagogues and exposure with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. to physical stimuli, mast cells release preformed, and de novo syn- 1 This work was supported by the Leahi Fund for Pulmonary Research (awards to thesized, inflammatory mediators into their surrounding tissues. H.T. and A.J.S.), McKee Fund (to A.J.S.), NIH RO1 GM 070634 (to H.T.) and NCRR INBRE P20RR016467 (sub-award to H.T.). The preformed mediators are housed within membrane-delimited 2 Current affiliations: H.T., Chaminade University of Honolulu; A.J.S., Center for secretory granules. The contents of mast cell secretory granules Cardiovascular Research, John. A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii; include inflammatory mediators such as histamine, serotonin, P.P., Institute for Biogenesis Research, John. A. Burns School of Medicine, Univer- ␣ sity of Hawaii; A. S.-H., AMDL, Tustin, CA. platelet activating factor, some cytokines (TNF- ), and matrix- 3 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Helen Turner, Castle Science active proteases of the chymase and tryptase families (17, 18). Center 116, Chaminade University, 3140 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu HI 96816. Together, these mediators exert diverse proinflammatory effects E-mail address: [email protected] or [email protected] upon tissue. These include the promotion of vasodilation, induc- 4 Abbreviations used in this paper: CgA, chromogranin A; CgB, chromogranin B; Sg, tion of inflammatory pain, and recruitment of other immunocytes secretogranin; w/v, weight-to-volume ratio; RT, room temperature. to the inflammatory site. The central role of these granules in in- Copyright © 2008 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/08/$2.00 flammation has led to an intense interest in the signaling www.jimmunol.org The Journal of Immunology 5025 mechanisms that control granule exocytosis, because targets for anti- For production of TRex HEK293 cells with inducible expression of inflammatory therapeutics could lie within this system. Moreover, the SgIII constructs, parental cells were electroporated with 15 g of plasmid mechanisms that control the biogenesis and abundance of these gran- DNA in a 500 l volume of DMEM/10% FBS/2 mM glutamine. Electro- porations were performed at 280 V/950 F in a 4-mm path length cuvette ules are also of therapeutic interest, but remain poorly studied. (BioRad). Clonal cell lines were selected by limiting dilution in 400 g/ml Mast cell granules are structurally, and functionally, related to zeocin and 5 g/ml blasticidin, and screened by immunoprecipitation and the dense core vesicles of neuro-endocrine cells and neurons. Western blot. Transfected gene expression was induced using 1 g/ml There has been no published analysis of the expression, or func- tetracycline for 16 h at 37°C. Whenever stable cell lines were produced, steps were taken to avoid the tion, of granins in the mast cell system, although their involvement possibility that experiments would be performed on progeny cells derived in secretory vesicle biogenesis in other neuroendocrine cells and from an original parental clone. After electroporation, a brief (12–14 h) neurons has been established (6, 7, 14, 19–23). In the current re- recovery period for the cells was used such that no discernable cell division port, we tested the idea that SgIII drives the production of mast cell took place. Recovered cells were trypsinized to a single cell suspension to secretory granules. Moreover, we propose that its interaction with disperse any potential daughter cell pairs. The trypsinized cell suspension was subjected to a limiting dilution (plated in a 96-well plate at less than CgA is critical to this biological role. Although SgIII and CgA one cell per well, (i.e., 0.5 cells per 250 l medium)). Each well is there- proteins are abundant in various mast cells, we show that SgIII is fore unlikely to have more than one cell, but of course across the 960 wells depleted from the cytosol after stimulation of mast cells via either plated there will occasionally be wells where more than one cell is dis- pharmacological or immunological methods.