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Acta Biochim Biophys
Sin 2006, 38: 556-562
doi:10.1111/j.1745-7270.2006.00193.x
Increased Association of
Dynamin II with Myosin II in Ras Transformed NIH3T3 Cells
Soon-Jeong JEONG1,
Su-Gwan KIM2, Jiyun YOO3,
Mi-Young HAN4, Joo-Cheol PARK1,
Heung-Joong KIM5, Seong Soo KANG6,
Baik-Dong CHOI1, Moon-Jin JEONG1*
Departments
of 1 Oral
Histology, 5 Oral
Anatomy, and 2 Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry, Chosun University, Gwangju
501-759, South Korea;
3 Department of
Microbiology/Research Institute of Life Science, Gyeongsang National
University, Jinju 660-701, South Korea;
4 Diagnosis of Gene
Research, Green Cross Reference Laboratory, Seoul 164-10, South Korea;
6 College of Veterinary
Medicine, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, South Korea
Received: February
5, 2006
Accepted: April 25,
2006
*Corresponding
author: Tel, 82-62-2306895; Fax, 82-62-224-3706; E-mail, [email protected]
Abstract Dynamin has been implicated in the
formation of nascent vesicles through both endocytic and secretory pathways.
However, dynamin has recently been implicated in altering the cell membrane
shape during cell migration associated with cytoskeleton-related proteins.
Myosin II has been implicated in maintaining cell morphology and in cellular
movement. Therefore, reciprocal immunoprecipitation was carried out to identify
the potential relationship between dynamin II and myosin II. The dynamin II
expression level was higher when co-expressed with myosin II in Ras transformed
NIH3T3 cells than in normal NIH3T3 cells. Confocal microscopy also confirmed the
interaction between these two proteins. Interestingly, exposing the NIH3T3
cells to platelet-derived growth factor altered the interaction and
localization of these two proteins. The platelet-derived growth factor
treatment induced lamellipodia and cell migration, and dynamin II interacted
with myosin II. Grb2, a 24 kDa adaptor protein and an essential element of the
Ras signaling pathway, was found to be associated with dynamin II and myosin II
gene expression in the Ras transformed NIH3T3 cells. These results suggest that
dynamin II acts as an intermediate messenger in the Ras signal transduction
pathway leading to membrane ruffling and cell migration.
Key words Grb2; dynamin II; myosin II; Ras transformed NIH3T3 cell
Dynamins constitute a superfamily of 100 kDa GTPase that has been
implicated in vesicle trafficking. Many studies have suggested that dynamin is
essential to endocytic membrane fission, caveolae internalization and protein
trafficking in the Golgi apparatus of on several cell types [1–4]. Dynamin I is
expressed exclusively in the brain [5], dynamin II is found in all tissues
[6,7], and dynamin III is limited to the testis, brain, lungs and heart [8,9].
Although there is considerable evidence showing that dynamin is involved in the
skeletal protein functions, most studies reported its relationship with the
actin protein. Recently, dynamin II was reported to be involved in the
formation of podosome rather than the plasmic membrane [10], actin comet
formation [4,11], mediation of cell adhesion and the motility of phagocytic
cells [12,13], suggesting that its function is different from that of dynamin
I. Hence, dynamin II might be involved in the process of cellular change as a
partner of the actin-related molecules. Ras proteins are believed to contribute to the proliferation, invasion
and metastatic properties of transformed cells. It was reported that the
overexpression of Ras protein increases metastatic potential in the NIH3T3
cell line [14] and the rate of HaCaT cell migration [15]. This suggests that
NIH3T3 cells overexpressing Ras migrate faster than normal NIH3T3 cells. It was
previously reported that dynamin II is mainly associated with Grb2 in Ras
overexpressing NIH3T3 cells [16], suggesting that dynamin II might be a
functional molecule on the Ras signaling pathway. This indicates that dynamin
II either mediates different cellular functions or is involved in cell
migration and the cellular morphological changes in Ras overexpressing NIH3T3
cells. Myosins are mechanoenzymes that bind to and move along the actin
filaments towards the end using the energy released by the hydrolysis of
adenosine triphosphate [17]. Myosin II, one of the major components of the cytoskeleton
in non-muscle cells, produces the motive force necessary for cell movement and
cytokinesis through interaction with the actin filament [18]. Migration
requires cell communication with the adjacent cells as well as the
extracellular matrix components, and is triggered by chemotactic factors, such
as platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) [19,20]. Previous studies have shown
that the pathway triggered by PDGF receptor stimulation leads to actin
cytoskeletal reorganization and cell migration [21,22]. From these reports, it
is believed that there might be a link between dynamin II and myosin II in the
actin cytoskeleton and cell migration. In this study, we examined whether or not there is an interaction
between dynamin II and myosin II in NIH3T3 cells which might be associated with
cell migration. The results showed that dynamin II is expressed with myosin II
in NIH3T3 and Ras transformed NIH3T3 [NIH3T3(Ras)] cells, suggesting that
dynamin II might be involved in cell migration with the highly expressed myosin
II in NIH3T3(Ras) cells. Confocal microscopy showed that dynamin II was
associated with myosin II in cell migration. Immunoprecipitation (IP) with
myosin II and Western blot of dynamin II were also carried out to confirm the
confocal microscopic results of the PDGF stimulation in NIH3T3 cells.
Materials and Methods
Cell culture
NIH3T3 cell line purchased from American Type Culture Collection)
Manassas, USA) and H-Ras transformed NIH3T3 cell line kindly provided by Dr. J.
S. GUTKIND (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) were maintained in
Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum
(Gibco BRL, Grand Island, USA), penicillin G (100 U/ml), streptomycin sulfate
(100 mg/ml), amphotericin B (0.25 mg/ml) and 2-mercaptoethanol
(50 mM) at 37 ?C in a 5% CO2 humidified incubator. The
cells were detached by incubation with 0.05% trypsin-EDTA (Gibco BRL) at 37 ?C
for 10 min.
Chemical treatment
The NIH3T3 cells were plated on glass cover slips in either a six
well plate or 100 mm dish until the culture reached 60% confluence. After 24 h, the culture medium was replaced
by fresh Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium and the cells were cultured for an
additional 18 h before being stimulated with PDGF. Then the cells were treated
with 30 ng/ml PDGF-BB (Sigma, St. Louis, USA) for 5–30 min at 37 ?C.
Preparation of the cell lysate
Preparation of the cell lysate
The cells were collected by centrifugation and washed twice with
phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) (137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 4.3 mM Na2HPO4, 1.4 mM KH2PO4, pH 7.4). Approximately 2?107 cells were suspended in 1 ml of the lysis buffer (50 mM HEPES, pH
7.5, 10% glycerol, 1% Nonidet P-40, 0.5 mM EDTA, 5 mM Na3VO4, 10 mg/ml leupeptin and aprotinin, 5 mg/ml pepstatin
and 0.5 mM phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride). The lysates were incubated on ice for
60 min and centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 10 min. The supernatant was used as
the whole cell lysate.
Immunoprecipitation and
Western blot analysis
As described above, the cells were washed twice using ice-cold PBS
and lysed in an ice-cold lysis buffer. After 60 min incubation on ice, the
lysate was cleared by centrifugation at 13,000 rpm for 20 min (Eppendorf,
Hamburg, Germany) and the protein concentration was determined using an assay
kit (Bio-Rad, Hercules, USA). The protein G (KPL, Gaithersburg, USA) bead
slurry was washed three times using PBS, and 500 ml of the lysate was added.
The cell lysates with the protein G beads in the lysis buffer were incubated
with anti-dynamin II (Hudy-2; Upstate Biotechnology, Lake Placid, USA) or
anti-myosin II (hSM-V; Sigma) antibody for 2 h at 4 ?C. After incubation, the
protein-bead-antibody complexes were washed with PBS and centrifuged at 10,000 g
for 5 min. The immunoprecipitates were boiled for 5 min in a reducing sodium
dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) sample buffer,
loaded onto SDS polyacrylamide gel (15%) and blotted onto nitrocellulose
filters (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham, UK). The filters were blocked
with 5% skim milk in PBST. The primary antibody was anti-dynamin II,
anti-myosin II or anti-Grb2 (Transduction Laboratory, Lexington, USA) antibody.
After incubation with the horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody
(Upstate Biotechnology), the signals were visualized using an enhanced
chemiluminescence kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech). The intensities of the
expressed bands were measured using NIH Scion Image software (version 1.1;
Scion, Frederick, USA).
Confocal laser scanning
microscopy
Double immunofluorescence staining of the NIH3T3 and NIH3T3(Ras)
fibroblasts was performed with the antibodies to dynamin II and myosin II
(M7648; Sigma) in order to test the hypothesis that dynamin II and myosin II
interact within intact cells. Two secondary antibodies, fluorescein-conjugated
goat anti-mouse IgG and TRITC-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (Biosource,
Camarillo, USA), were used to distinguish these two proteins. The NIH3T3 cells
were grown on glass cover slips for 48 h until the culture reached
approximately 60% confluence. The NIH3T3 cells were stimulated with PDGF by
rinsing the cover slips bearing the cells briefly in PBS and fixing the cells
by immersing them in 4% paraformaldehyde fixative for 20 min at 37 ?C, followed
by permeabilization with 0.1% Triton X-100. The cells were blocked with 1.0%
bovine serum album in PBS, and incubated with anti-dynamin II or anti-myosin II
diluted in PBS containing 1.0% bovine serum album as the primary antibody for
1 h at 37 ?C. After washing three times using PBS, the cover slips were
incubated with the affinity isolated secondary antibody. The cover slips were
washed three times with PBS and mounted in fluorescent mounting medium. The
cells were observed for their epifluorescence using confocal laser scanning
microscopy (TCS400; Leica, Wetzlar, Germany). The acquired images were
manipulated with ScanWare 5.0 (Leica) and digitized using Adobe Photoshop
software (version 7.0, Adobe Photo Systems, Mountain View, USA).
Statistical analysis
Statistical differences were determined using t-test or anova
with origin version 7.5 statistical software (Microcal Software,
Northampton, USA). P<0.05 was considered significant.
Results and Discussion
Increased dynamin II
interaction with myosin II in NIH3T3(Ras) cells
NIH3T3(Ras) cells, NIH3T3 cells overexpressing Ras protein, lose the
contact inhibition characteristic and show morphological changes [23,24].
Previous studies confirmed that the Ras proteins were overexpressed in
NIH3T3(Ras) cells compared with NIH3T3 cells [16]. In addition, many cell
processes and spindles were observed in NIH3T3(Ras) cells using scanning
electron microscopy (data not shown). As shown in Fig. 1, IP-based screening of fibroblast
homogenates was carried out using the antibodies to dynamin and myosin to
define the components of the cytoskeleton-related protein that is associated
with dynamin. In particular, the dynamin II and myosin II immunoprecipitates
were subjected to SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis with corresponding antibody
to dynamin II or myosin II. The anti-myosin antibody precipitated with a 100
kDa polypeptide that was recognized by the anti-dynamin antibody. Myosin II
was also detected in the dynamin II immunoprecipitate. Interestingly, the
expression level of dynamin increased in the presence of myosin in NIH3T3(Ras)
cells compared with NIH3T3 cells [Fig. 1(A)]. In addition, the myosin
expression level was also increased in the presence of dynamin in NIH3T3 cells
[Fig. 1(B)]. Although several minor bands were observed, the pattern of
the total proteins precipitated with either dynamin or myosin, when detected
by Coomassie blue staining, was not different from that of the Western blot
analysis (data not shown).Dynamin contains a number of functional domains, including a GTPase
domain at the amino-terminal, a pleckstrin homology (PH) domain, a coiled-coil
domain and a proline-rich domain [1,25]. Among these, the PH domain is found in
many intracellular signaling and cytoskeletal proteins [26,27]. In particular,
it has been reported that myosin II is a binding partner to the PH domain in
CHO cells [28]. Overall, it is possible that dynamin II and myosin II have a
direct interaction through the PH domain of dynamin II. In addition, the higher
level of dynamin II co-expression with myosin II might be accompanied with Ras
overexpression in NIH3T3(Ras) cells. However, more investigations are required.These IP-based results were confirmed by examining whether or not
dynamin II is co-localized with myosin II in NIH3T3 and NIH3T3(Ras) cells. Fig.
2 shows the confocal immunofluorescence images of cells detected with the
corresponding antibody of dynamin and myosin. In normal NIH3T3 cells, when the
localization of dynamin II was examined, a punctuated staining pattern was
observed throughout the cell with particularly strong intensity near the
nucleus and peripheral region of the cell membrane [Fig. 2(A)]; and a
similar pattern of myosin was also observed in the NIH3T3 cells [Fig. 2(B)].
The intensity of these two co-localized proteins was higher in the NIH3T3(Ras)
cells [Fig. 2(D–F)] than that in the NIH3T3 cells [Fig.
2(A–C)]. The confocal laser scanning
microscopy analysis revealed an identical pattern to that reported elsewhere
(data not shown) [18]. Fig. 2(C,F)
shows the overlapping images highlighting the co-localization of these two
proteins. Except for the localization at the periphery of the nucleus, the
co-localization observed near the peripheral cell membrane is believed to
indicate the region of the leading lamellipodial extension [29]. The
co-localization indicated by confocal microscopy is consistent with the
biochemical data shown in Fig. 1.
Increased interaction of
dynamin II with myosin II in PDGF-treated NIH3T3 cells
The NIH3T3 cells were stimulated with PDGF, which is involved in the
Ras signaling pathway through the Rac molecule, to determine why increased
interaction between these two proteins took place in NIH3T3(Ras) cells [29].
Immunofluorescence staining was carried out using antibodies of dynamin and
myosin to determine whether dynamin II is co-localized with myosin in the
PDGF-stimulated NIH3T3 cells (Fig. 3). In the starved cells, dynamin
was localized in the cortical rim along the cell periphery and punctuated spots
on the plasma membrane. These cells displayed only modest co-localization
between dynamin and myosin in the cortex [Fig. 3(A)]. However, after
stimulation with PDGF, the NIH3T3 cells assumed a polarized morphology that is
characteristic of motile cells [Fig. 3(B)] [30,31]. The dramatic change
was reflected in the distribution of dynamin and myosin staining, which became
more concentrated at the ruffling edge of the cells. This rearrangement of
dynamin showed the accumulation of dynamin in the peripheral region of the
PDGF-treated cells [4]. IP experiments were carried out on the PDGF-stimulated
NIH3T3 cells using the myosin antibody. Dynamin II was detected in Western blot
using anti-dynamin II antibody in NIH3T3 cells treated with or without PDGF.
The amount of dynamin II that immunoprecipitated with the anti-myosin II
antibody increased (Fig. 4). An identical amount of myosin II was
co-immunoprecipitated under these conditions (data not shown). Interestingly,
the dynamin II expression level observed in the anti-myosin immunoprecipitates
was increased by approximately 30% (after 30 min) compared with that of the
starved NIH3T3 cells (Fig. 4). Grb2 is essential for multiple cellular functions, but is most well
known for its ability to link the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase
to the activation of Ras and its downstream kinases, extracellular regulated
kinase 1 and 2 [32]. The Ras proteins belong to the large Ras superfamily of
monomeric GTPase, which contains two other subfamilies, Rho and Rac proteins.
The Rho family is involved in relaying signals from the cell surface receptors
to the actin cytoskeleton, and the Rab family is involved in regulating the
traffic of intracellular transport vesicles [33]. The activation of the PDGF
receptor induces Shc expression and forms a complex with increased Grb2
expression [34]. IP was carried out prior to Western blot analysis of Grb2, in
order to examine the binding of dynamin to myosin occurring around Grb2 in the
signal transduction pathways. These results showed that Grb2 is largely
expressed with dynamin II in NIH3T3(Ras) compared with NIH3T3 cells (Fig. 5),
which is in agreement with previous results [16]. There was no significant
difference between NIH3T3 and NIH3T3(Ras) cells when the anti-myosin antibody
was used by IP. However, the amount of Grb2 binding to myosin was similar to
that of anti-dynamin IP in the NIH3T3(Ras) cells (Fig. 5). Overall,
these results suggest that dynamin II is associated with myosin II as a
signaling molecule involved in cell migration within the Ras-Grb2 signaling
pathway. In summary, the domains of dynamin are known to be important for
membrane localization. However, its function in cell migration including
actin-related proteins has not been reported. Myosin II is possibly a new
binding partner of dynamin II. The in vivo binding of dynamin II and
myosin II was confirmed in NIH3T3 cells using confocal microscopy. Exposing the
NIH3T3 cells to PDGF induced a change in the co-localization of dynamin and
myosin from the peripheral region of the nucleus to the ruffled lamellapodial extension, which induced cell migration and actin
cytoskeleton formation. A molecular connection of Grb2 was found between
dynamin II and myosin II, suggesting that dynamin II might act as an
intermediate messenger in the Ras signaling transduction pathway, leading to
membrane ruffling and cell migration. However, future studies will be needed to
determine the relationship between FAK and PI3K in PDGF signaling in order to
identify the interactions between actin and myosin, and the relationship
between dynamin II and myosin inhibitors.
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