ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2009
Identification of the penta-EF-hand protein ALG-2 as a Ca2+-dependent interactor of mucolipin-1.
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Abstract
Loss of function mutations in mucolipin-1 (MCOLN1) have been linked to mucolipidosis type IV (MLIV), a recessive lysosomal storage disease characterized by severe neurological and ophthalmological abnormalities. MCOLN1 is an ion channel that regulates membrane transport along the endolysosomal pathway. It has been suggested that MCOLN1 participates in several Ca(2+)-dependent processes, including fusion of lysosomes with the plasma membrane, fusion of late endosomes and autophagosomes with lysosomes, and lysosomal biogenesis. Here, we searched for proteins that interact with MCOLN1 in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. We found that the penta-EF-hand protein ALG-2 binds to the NH-terminal cytosolic tail of MCOLN1. The interaction is direct, strictly dependent on Ca(2+), and mediated by a patch of charged and hydrophobic residues located between MCOLN1 residues 37 and 49. We further show that MCOLN1 and ALG-2 co-localize to enlarged endosomes induced by overexpression of an ATPase-defective dominant-negative form of Vps4B (Vps4B(E235Q)). In agreement with the proposed role of MCOLN1 in the regulation of fusion/fission events, we found that overexpression of MCOLN1 caused accumulation of enlarged, aberrant endosomes that contain both early and late endosome markers. Interestingly, aggregation of abnormal endosomes was greatly reduced when the ALG-2-binding domain in MCOLN1 was mutated, suggesting that ALG-2 regulates MCOLN1 function. Overall, our data provide new insight into the molecular mechanisms that regulate MCOLN1 activity. We propose that ALG-2 acts as a Ca(2+) sensor that modulates the function of MCOLN1 along the late endosomal-lysosomal pathway.
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