A Protein Associated with Toll-Like Receptor 4 (PRAT4A) Regulates Cell Surface Expression of TLR4
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A Protein Associated with Toll-Like Receptor 4 (PRAT4A) Regulates Cell Surface Expression of TLR4 This information is current as Yasutaka Wakabayashi, Makiko Kobayashi, Sachiko of September 25, 2021. Akashi-Takamura, Natsuko Tanimura, Kazunori Konno, Koichiro Takahashi, Takashi Ishii, Taketoshi Mizutani, Hideo Iba, Taku Kouro, Satoshi Takaki, Kiyoshi Takatsu, Yoshiya Oda, Yasushi Ishihama, Shin-ichiroh Saitoh and Kensuke Miyake Downloaded from J Immunol 2006; 177:1772-1779; ; doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.177.3.1772 http://www.jimmunol.org/content/177/3/1772 http://www.jimmunol.org/ References This article cites 30 articles, 15 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/177/3/1772.full#ref-list-1 Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision by guest on September 25, 2021 • No Triage! 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The Journal of Immunology A Protein Associated with Toll-Like Receptor 4 (PRAT4A) Regulates Cell Surface Expression of TLR41 Yasutaka Wakabayashi,*2 Makiko Kobayashi,*2 Sachiko Akashi-Takamura,* Natsuko Tanimura,* Kazunori Konno,* Koichiro Takahashi,* Takashi Ishii,* Taketoshi Mizutani,† Hideo Iba,† Taku Kouro,‡ Satoshi Takaki,‡ Kiyoshi Takatsu,‡ Yoshiya Oda,§ Yasushi Ishihama,§ Shin-ichiroh Saitoh,* and Kensuke Miyake*¶3 TLRs recognize microbial products. Their subcellular distribution is optimized for microbial recognition. Little is known, how- ever, about mechanisms regulating the subcellular distribution of TLRs. LPS is recognized by the receptor complex consisting of TLR4 and MD-2. Although MD-2, a coreceptor for TLR4, enhances cell surface expression of TLR4, an additional mechanism regulating TLR4 distribution has been suggested. We show here that PRAT4A, a novel protein associated with TLR4, regulates Downloaded from cell surface expression of TLR4. PRAT4A is associated with the immature form of TLR4 but not with MD-2 or TLR2. PRAT4A knockdown abolished LPS responsiveness in a cell line expressing TLR4/MD-2, probably due to the lack of cell surface TLR4. PRAT4A knockdown down-regulated cell surface TLR4/MD-2 on dendritic cells. These results demonstrate a novel mechanism regulating TLR4/MD-2 expression on the cell surface. The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 177: 1772–1779. nnate immunity is the first line of defense against microbial LPS, one of the most immunostimulatory glycolipids constitut- http://www.jimmunol.org/ infection (1). The Toll family of receptors plays an essential ing the outer membrane of the Gram-negative bacteria, is recog- I role in innate recognition of microbial products (2). TLRs are nized by the receptor complex consisting of TLR4 and MD-2 (3, type I transmembrane proteins that contain a large, leucine-rich 11–14). MD-2 is an extracellular molecule that is associated with repeat in an extracellular region and a Toll/IL-1 receptor homology the extracellular domain of TLR4 and is indispensable for LPS domain in a cytoplasmic region (3). Cell surface TLRs, including recognition by TLR4 (15–18). TLR4/MD-2 is similar to TLR9 in TLR1, TLR2, TLR4, TLR5, and TLR6, recognize bacterial prod- that LPS can be recognized at the two distinct sites. TLR4/MD-2 ucts, whereas TLR3, TLR7, TLR8, and TLR9 reside in intracel- is expressed on the cell surface, and LPS recognition occurs on the lular organella and recognize microbial nucleic acids. These sub- cell surface in macrophage cells (19–21). In intestinal epithelial cells, cellular distributions of TLRs are optimized for microbial TLR4/MD-2 resides in the Golgi apparatus and recognizes internal- by guest on September 25, 2021 recognition. TLR5, e.g., is expressed exclusively on the basolateral ized LPS (20). Little is known about differences between LPS recog- surface of intestinal epithelia where pathogenic Salmonella, but nition/signaling on the cell surface and that in the Golgi apparatus. not commensal Escherichia coli, translocate TLR5 ligand flagellin Considering roles for TLR9 subcellular distribution in CpG recogni- across epithelia (4). The subcellular distribution of TLR9 is im- tion, it is possible that these LPS responses are distinct from each portant for sensing viral infection and differential recognition of other with regard to specificity or cytokine production. two distinct types of TLR9 ligands (5–8). A/D-type CpG is re- The subcellular distribution of TLR4 is reported to be regulated tained for long periods in the endosomal vesicles of plasmacytoid by two molecules, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperon gp96 dendritic cells (DCs),4 together with the complex consisting of and MD-2. Randow and Seed (22) described a pre-B cell line downstream signaling molecules (8), whereas the B/K-type CpG is deficient in the gp96 in which TLR4 failed to associate with MD-2, recognized by TLR9 in the lysosome (9, 10). get to the cell surface, and respond to LPS (22). We previously demonstrated that TLR4 alone is little expressed on the cell surface Ϫ/Ϫ *Division of Infectious Genetics, †Division of Host-Parasite Interaction, and ‡Divi- in MD-2 embryonic fibroblasts and that most TLR4s reside in sion of Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Ja- ER or the Golgi apparatus without mature glycosylation, revealing pan; §Laboratory of Seeds Finding Technology, Eisai Co. Ltd., Tsukuba, Japan; and ¶ an important role for MD-2 in cell surface expression of TLR4 Core Research for Engineering, Science, and Technology, Japan Science and Tech- 526 nology Corporation, Tokyo, Japan (16). MD-2 association permits TLR4 glycosylation at Asn or 575 Received for publication February 15, 2006. Accepted for publication May 5, 2006. Asn , which facilitates cell surface expression of TLR4 (23). Despite an important role for MD-2 in cell surface expression of The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance TLR4, several studies claimed that TLR4 alone may be expressed with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. on the cell surface without MD-2 in a human kidney cell line (10, 1 This study was supported by Special Coordination Funds of the Ministry of Edu- 24, 25), suggesting that another MD-2-like molecule regulates cation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese Government, Uehara TLR4 trafficking to the cell surface. In this study we addressed this Memorial Foundation, the Takeda Foundation, and the Naito Foundation. issue and described a novel molecule that is associated with TLR4 2 Y.W. and M.K. contributed equally to this study. and regulates its expression on the cell surface. 3 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Kensuke Miyake, Division of Infectious Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shiro- kanedai, Minatoku, Tokyo 108-8639, Japan. E-mail address: [email protected] Materials and Methods tokyo.ac.jp Reagents, cells, and mice 4 Abbreviations used in this paper: DC, dendritic cell; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; FH, Flag/His6 epitope; HPRT, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase; siRNA, Anti-Flag Ab and anti-Flag-agarose were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. small interfering RNA; shRNA, short hairpin RNA. Rat anti-mouse TLR4 mAb (MTS510 and Sa15-21) and rat anti-mouse Copyright © 2006 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc. 0022-1767/06/$02.00 The Journal of Immunology 1773 CD14 (Sa2-8) were established in our laboratory and described previously ican Qualex) and goat anti-rat IgG-alkaline phosphatase conjugate (American (19). Pre-made Northern blot for mouse normal tissues was purchased from Qualex). Seegene. HEK293 cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 10% FCS and antibiotics. IL-3-dependent Ba/F3 cells were cultured in 10% Small interfering RNA FCS-RPMI 1640 supplemented with antibiotics, 100 M 2-ME, and re- To investigate the biological function of PRAT4A, we purchased an RNA ϳ combinant murine IL-3 ( 70 U/ml) at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere of interference duplex (Invitrogen Life Technologies). The oligonucleotide 5% CO2. A rat was immunized with the GST-PRAT4A (protein associated sequences of target sequences for human and mouse PRAT4A were ggag with TLR4A) fusion protein and used for hybridoma production. The anti gaagaccugacugaauuccuc (sense strand sequence for human PRAT4A, no.9) PRAT4A mAb (542; rat IgG) can be used for immunoprobing. Ϫ/Ϫ and accugacugaauuccucugcgccaa (sense strand sequence for mouse C57BL/6 mice were purchased from Japan SLC. TLR4 mice were PRAT4A, no.11). Sequence-scrambled negative controls for no.9 and kindly provided by Dr. S. Akira (Osaka University, Osaka, Japan), and Ϫ/Ϫ no.11 were ggaagaaguccgucauuaacggcuc and accgucauuaacuccgcgucgu MD-2 mice were established in our own laboratory (16). These mice caa, respectively. HEK293 transfectants were seeded onto 24- or 6-well were maintained in the animal facility at the Institute of Medical Science, plates in antibiotic-free medium on the day before RNA interference the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Bone marrow-derived DCs and transfection. LipofectAMINE 2000 (Invitrogen Life Technologies) was macrophages were prepared as described previously (16). Briefly, bone used as a transfection reagent. Cells were collected 3–4 days after trans- ϫ 6 marrow cells were plated at 1 10 cells/ml in 24-well plates with 10% fection and used for further analyses.