Serves As High-Affinity Substrate for Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferase
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Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 82, pp. 6143-6147, September 1985 Cell Biology (Glu62,Ala30,Tyr8). serves as high-affinity substrate for tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase: A Golgi enzyme (tyrosine sulfation/protein sorting/chromaffin granules/tyrosine phosphorylation/tubulin) RAYMOND W. H. LEE AND WIELAND B. HUTTNER* Department of Neurochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry, 8033 Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany Communicated by Fritz Lipmann, May 10, 1985 ABSTRACT Tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase, the enzyme as substrate are as follows: (i) the only sulfatable hydroxyl catalyzing the sulfation of proteins on tyrosine residues, was group in Glu,Ala,Tyr is on tyrosine, in contrast to physio- characterized by using the acidic polymer containing tyrosine logical protein substrates, which may also contain sulfatable (Glu62,Ala3',Tyr8). (referred to as Glu,Ala,Tyr) as exogenous carbohydrate, serine, and threonine residues; (ii) "protein" substrate. After subcellular fractionation ofa bovine Glu,Ala,Tyr is available in completely unsulfated form in adrenal medulla homogenate, tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase sufficient quantities for enzymological studies, whereas activity was found to be highest in fractions enriched in Golgi physiologically sulfated proteins purified from bi6logical membrane vesicles. Tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase required sources need to be desulfated before being used as sub- the presence of a nonionic detergent for sulfation of exogenous strates; (iii) Glu,Ala,Tyr is likely to contain tyrosine residues Glu,Ala,Tyr, indicating an orientation of the catalytic site of in the vicinity ofacidic amino acid residues. A comparison of the enzyme toward the Golgi lumen. Tyrosylprotein the amino acid sequences surrounding the sulfated tyrosine sulfotransferase was solubilized by Triton X-100, suggesting residues in gastrin (10), cholecystokinin (11), fibrinopeptide that the enzyme was tightly associated with the Golgi mem- B (12), and hirudin (13) shows that these sequences always brane, possibly as an integral membrane protein. The apparent contain acidic amino acids. Using Glu,Ala,Tyr as substrate, Golgi localization of tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase was sup- we characterized tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase from bovine ported by the observation that tyrosine sulfation of proteins in adrenal medullary Golgi fractions. The present results have intact cells was blocked by monensin and was in line with been reported in abstract form (14). previous observations that all tyrosine-sulfated proteins known so far are secretory. Glu,Ala,Tyr was found to have a very high affinity for tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase (apparent Kmi 300 METHODS nM), similar to that reported for certain tyrosylprotein kinases. Cell Cultures. Cells were grown and harvested as described While this may suggest some similarity between these enzymes, (8). Homogenates were prepared by adding 4 vol of Hepes the Golgi localization of tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase segre- solution (10 mM Hepes, pH 7.3/5 mM 2-mercaptoethanol) to gates tyrosine sulfation from the sites of tyrosine phosphoryl- 1 vol of cell pellets, followed by 10 strokes at 3000 rpm in a ation of proteins in the intact cell. If, however, tyrosylprotein glass/Teflon homogenizer. Homogenates were centrifuged sulfotransferase was allowed to react with cytoplasmic proteins for 1 hr at 165,000 x g and aliquots of the resulting pellets by using a nonionic detergent, tyrosine sulfation of tubulin was (total membrane fraction) were used in the standard sulfation observed. reaction described below. Subcellular Frationation. Subcellular fractionation of adult Previous reports from this laboratory have established that bovine adrenal medulla was done essentially as described by sulfation of proteins on tyrosine residues is a ubiquitous Trifaro and Duerr (15), except that 5 mM 2-mercaptoethanol posttranslational modification in animal cells (1-6). Various was used throughout. Briefly, the homogenate was centri- lines of evidence have indicated that tyrosine-sulfated pro- fuged at 800 x g for 10 min, and the resulting postnuclear teins belong mostly, if not exclusively, to one topological supernatant was centrifuged at 20,000 x g for 20 min. The class: the secretory proteins (see refs. 2-7 and references resulting pellet, the crude granule fraction (15), was then therein). One important approach to understanding the role of subfractionated by discontinuous sucrose density gradient tyrosine sulfation ofsecretory proteins is the characterization centrifugation to obtain the Golgi-enriched fraction (0.8/1.0 of the enzyme(s) catalyzing this protein modification. We M sucrose interface) (15). The supernatant obtained after the previously described an enzymatic activity in rat pheochro- centrifugation at 20,000 x g was centrifuged at 114,000 x g that transferred sulfate for 70 min to yield the soluble fraction and the crude mocytoma (PC12) cell membranes to microsomal fraction, which was resuspended in sucrose tyrosine residues of proteins, and we designated this enzyme solution (0.3 M sucrose/5 mM 2-mercaptoethanol). Aliquots tyrosylprotein sulfotransferase (8). This enzyme catalyzed ofeach subcellular fraction were stored at -20°C. Galactosyl sulfation of the same proteins that were tyrosine-sulfated by transferase activity in the various subcellular fractions was intact cells (8). The cosubstrate for sulfation was 3'- measured as described (16). phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS), the universal Solubilization of Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferase. Aliquots sulfate donor discovered by Lipmann and colleagues (for ofthe Golgi-enriched fraction were subjected to the following review, see ref. 9). three treatments. (i) The Golgi-enriched fraction (1 ml, In this study, we used the acidic random polymer contain- corresponding to 1.4 mg of protein) was diluted with 9 ml of ing tyrosine, (Glu62,Ala30,Tyr8), (referred to as Glu,Ala,Tyr), Hepes solution and then centrifuged at 165,000 x g for 60 as exogenous "protein" substrate to characterize tyrosyl- min. The supernatant was concentrated to 1 ml by vacuum protein sulfotransferase. The reasons for choosing Glu,Ala,Tyr dialysis against Hepes solution. The pellet was resuspended in 1 ml ofHepes solution. (ii) The Golgi-enriched fraction was The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" Abbreviation: PAPS, 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate. in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. *To whom reprint requests should be addressed. 6143 Downloaded by guest on September 26, 2021 6144 Cell Biology: Lee and Huttner Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82 (1985) treated as in i, except it was diluted with Hepes solution accessibility of PAPS to sulfotransferases, all reactions were containing 150 mM NaCl, and this suspension, prior to performed in the presence of nonionic detergent. In the centrifugation, was sonicated four times for 15 sec on ice at primary subfractions (Fig. 2, lanes A-D), most of the endog- maximum power, using a Branson B 15 Sonifier. (iii) The enous sulfation was found in the crude granule fraction [Fig. Golgi-enriched fraction was treated as in i, except that after 2, lane B(-)]. Subfractionation of the crude granule fraction centrifugation the pellet was resuspended in Hepes solution on a discontinuous sucrose density gradient (Fig. 2, lanes with 30% (wt/vol) glycerol/1% (wt/vol) Triton X-100, to a E-K) showed that most of the endogenous sulfation was protein concentration of 3 mg/ml, kept on ice for 1 hr, and observed in the fraction collected at the 0.8/1.0 M sucrose centrifuged at 165,000 x g for 60 min. The supernatant was interface [Fig. 2, lane G(-)]. This fraction is known to be collected and the pellet was resuspended in Hepes solution enriched in Golgi membrane vesicles, as determined by containing glycerol and Triton X-100 to the volume of the assaying for galactosyl transferase (ref. 15 and Fig. 2 Lower), supernatant. Aliquots (25 1.l) of the supernatant and pellet a trans-Golgi marker (19). A small amount of endogenous from treatments i-iii were then assayed for tyrosylprotein sulfation with a pattern similar to that of the Golgi-enriched sulfotransferase activity as described below. fraction was observed in the fraction collected at the 0.3/0.8 Tyrosylprotein Sulfotransferase Assay. Prior to the assay, M sucrose interface [Fig. 2, lane F(-)]. Approximately 30% the ethanol in [35S]PAPS (New England Nuclear; 0.5-3 of the total 35SO4 incorporated into proteins of the Golgi- Ci/mmol; 1 Ci = 37 GBq) was evaporated under a stream of enriched fraction [Fig. 2, lane G(-)] was recovered as nitrogen. The standard reaction mixture [see Fig. 2, lane tyrosine 35S4. The remaining 70% was alkali labile and was, G(+)] of 100 pl was composed of, in final concentrations, 10 therefore, presumably carbohydrate 35SO4. A different pat- mM Hepes, pH 7.0/5 mM MgCl2/5 mM MnCl2/5 mM tern of endogenous sulfation was observed in the fractions of 2-mercaptoethanol/1 mM NaF/20 1M [35S]PAPS/1% Triton the sucrose gradient enriched in chromaffin granules [Fig. 2, X-100/4 ,M Glu,Ala,Tyr (Sigma, P 3899; average size, 25 lanes J(-) and K(-)]. More than 97% of this incorporated kDa) and 70 ul of Golgi-enriched fraction (0.7-1.5 mg of 35 O4 appeared to be linked to carbohydrate residues. No protein per ml), which was added last to start the reaction. significant endogenous sulfation was observed in fractions The reaction mixture was incubated