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*Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Munich, 81377 Munich, Germany;
Biozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland; and
Cell Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Submitted September 13, 2007;
Revised March 25, 2008;
Accepted April 2, 2008
Monitoring Editor: Jeffrey Brodsky
| ABSTRACT |
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In the cytosol, the nucleus and the matrix of mitochondria, most cysteine residues are maintained in a reduced state. This is achieved by high concentrations of reduced glutathione that were measured to be around 13 mM in the yeast cytosol (Ostergaard et al., 2004
). The strong reducing capacity of glutathione is conferred to the bulk of cytosolic proteins by a group of enzymes referred to as glutaredoxins (Grant, 2001
; Holmgren et al., 2005
). Glutaredoxins are characterized by conserved thioredoxin-like structures with redox-active Cys-x-x-Cys (in the case of dithiol glutaredoxins) or Cys-x-x-Ser motifs (in the case of monothiol glutaredoxins) in the active center. Glutaredoxins represent a ubiquitous protein family with orthologues in the cytosol, in mitochondria and in the nucleus, whereas no glutaredoxins were found in compartments of the secretory pathway up to date.
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae five glutaredoxins have been described so far, referred to as Grx1 through Grx5 (see Figure 1; Grant, 2001
; Herrero and de la Torre-Ruiz, 2007
; Lillig and Holmgren, 2007
). Grx1 and Grx2 are dithiol glutaredoxins of the cytosol, which counteract oxidative stress especially at higher temperatures. Both proteins share an identity of 64% but appear to interact with distinct populations of substrates so that deletion of each gene shows a characteristic phenotype (Luikenhuis et al., 1998
). The Grx2 protein is expressed in two forms by the use of two alternative start codons (Pedrajas et al., 2002
; Porras et al., 2006
). The shorter form remains in the cytosol and the longer form is translocated into the matrix of mitochondria. The function of monothiol glutaredoxins is less clear because so far no glutaredoxin activity could be measured in vitro for these enzymes, which might point to a high substrate specificity of these components. The monothiol glutaredoxins Grx3 and Grx4 both have an additional N-terminal thioredoxin domain and were found to be predominantly located in the nucleus, where they appear to regulate transcription of a small set of substrate proteins (Lopreiato et al., 2004
; Ojeda et al., 2006
; Pujol-Carrion et al., 2006
). Grx5 is targeted to the mitochondrial matrix, where it plays an ill-defined role in the synthesis or assembly of iron-sulfur clusters (Rodriguez-Manzaneque et al., 2002
; Lill and Mühlenhoff, 2006
).
In contrast to the situation in the cytosol, thiol groups are typically converted to disulfide bonds in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The oxidation system of the ER was studied to quite some detail: it is comprised of the soluble protein disulfide isomerase (Pdi1) and the membrane-associated sulfhydryl oxidase Ero1, which carry out the electron transfer between their substrate proteins and oxygen in a concerted and sequential manner (for review see (Sevier and Kaiser, 2002
; Sitia and Braakman, 2003
; Ellgaard, 2004
; Tu and Weissman, 2004
; Wilkinson and Gilbert, 2004
). This system is very efficient and might oxidize most, if not all, cysteine residues on the polypeptides during or directly after their translocation into the ER lumen. The redox conditions in the other compartments of the secretory pathway, as in the Golgi apparatus, in endosomes or in lysosomes, are not known nor were any redox-active factors identified thus far in these compartments. The ratio of reduced to oxidized glutathione in microsomes is about 3:1 (Hwang et al., 1992
; Bass et al., 2004
), making the reduction of certain initially oxidized proteins possible, but there is no evidence that secreted proteins in general would not remain oxidized.
In this study, we describe two novel closely related glutaredoxins that we named Grx6 (YDL010w) and Grx7 (YBR014c). On the basis of their Cys-x-x-Ser motif in the active center, they belong to the monothiol glutaredoxins, although they differ considerably from so-far characterized representatives of this group, both by their primary sequence and by their much higher glutaredoxin activity in vitro. Interestingly, both proteins are located in the cis-Golgi, as indicated by immunofluorescence and cellular fractionation. Thus, they represent the first redox components of the secretory pathway downstream of the ER. We show Grx6 and Grx7 are critical for the resistance of cells to oxidative stress and discuss potential physiological roles of these proteins.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Expression of Grx6 and Grx7 in Escherichia coli
GRX6 and GRX7 were amplified from base pair 100 and the stop codon by PCR, digested with BamHI and SalI, and cloned into the E. coli expression vector pQE30 (Qiagen, Chatsworth, CA). A cysteine-to-serine mutant of Grx6 (Grx6S) was generated using the QuikChange Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) according to the supplier's instructions. N-terminally His-tagged variants of Grx6, Grx6S, and Grx7 all beginning with Val34 were expressed in E. coli (XL1-Blue). Freshly transformed bacteria were grown at 37°C to an OD600 of 0.5 in LB medium containing 100 µg/ml ampicillin. Expression was induced with 0.5 mM isopropyl-thiogalactopyranoside for 4 h. Cells from 100 ml culture were harvested by centrifugation and resuspended in 20 ml buffer containing 50 mM sodium phosphate, 300 mM NaCl, and 10 mM imidazole, pH 8.0. Cell walls were digested with lysozyme followed by sonication on ice. The suspension was clarified by centrifugation at 4°C (30 min, 10,000 x g) and loaded on a column containing 0.5 ml Ni-NTA. The recombinant protein was eluted with the same buffer containing 250 mM imidazole. PfGrx was purified as described (Rahlfs et al., 2001
).
Translocation Assays
GRX6 and GRX7 genes were subcloned into pGEM4 expression plasmids (Promega, Madison, WI) and used for in vitro transcription/translation in the presence of [35S]methionine in reticulocyte lysate according to the protocol of the manufacturer (Promega, San Luis Obispo, CA). A microsome-containing membrane fraction was essentially purified as described (Wuestehube and Schekman, 1992
) with the exception that zymolyase was used for preparation of spheroplasts and that the sucrose step gradient was omitted, resulting in a fraction containing both microsomes and mitochondria. Typically, 100 µg of this microsome-containing fraction was used per reaction in 0.6 M sorbitol, 0.1 mg/ml BSA, 2 mM potassium phosphate, 50 mM HEPES-KOH, pH 7.4, 2 mM ATP, 2 mM NADH, and 10 µM valinomycin, if not indicated otherwise. Import was stopped by a 10-fold dilution in ice-cold 0.6 M sorbitol, and 20 mM HEPES-KOH, pH 7.4, with 50 µg/ml proteinase K. Signals of radiolabeled proteins were detected by autoradiography on Biomax MR-1 films (Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY).
Halo Assays
Wild-type or mutant cells were grown in liquid culture to midlog phase. Equal amounts of cells were spread onto YP plates containing 2% glucose as carbon source. Filter discs soaked with 10 µl of 9.8 M hydrogen peroxide or 500 mM diamide were placed onto the cell loan. Plates were incubated at 30°C for 2 d.
HEDS Assay
Steady-state kinetics of PfGrx, Grx6, Grx7, and Grx6S were monitored at 340-nm wavelength with a Jasco V-550 UV/Vis double-beam spectrophotometer essentially as described (Holmgren and Aslund, 1995
). The consumption of NADPH in a coupled enzyme reaction was measured. Reactions were carried out in 0.1 M Tris/HCl, and 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0, and contained 0.1 mM NADPH, 0.25 U/ml glutathione reductase, and 1 mM glutathione. The reaction was started with addition of hydroxyethyl disulfide (HEDS) to a final concentration of 736 µM. Measured activities in all assays were corrected by subtracting the absorbance of a reference cuvette containing all components excluding glutaredoxins and by subtracting the slope (
Abs/min) of the baseline.
Ribonuclease Refolding Assay
Renaturation of scrambled RNase A from bovine pancreas (Frickel et al., 2004
) was measured spectrophotometrically by monitoring hydrolysis of its substrate cCMP at 296 nm. The samples contained 100 mM Tris, pH 8.0, 4.5 mM cCMP, 1 mM reduced glutathione, 0.2 mM oxidized glutathione, 1 mM EDTA, 25 µM scrambled RNase, 1 µM Pdi1, and 18 µM Grx7, if not indicated otherwise. The assay was carried out at 25°C.
Immunofluorescence
Cells were grown to early log phase in YP supplemented with 2% glucose and were analyzed by immunofluorescence as described (Chuang and Schekman, 1996
). After fixation and conversion into spheroplasts, the cells were stained with Grx6-, Grx7-, HA- (Sigma) and green fluorescent protein (GFP; Torrey Pines)-specific antibodies. Cy3- and FITC-coupled secondary antibodies were used for visualization (Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories, West Grove, PA).
Subcellular Fractionation
Cells were grown to midlog phase, converted to spheroplasts, and resuspended in 3.5 ml 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, 12.5% sucrose, 1 mM EDTA, and 1 mM PMSF. The spheroplasts were disrupted by 10 strokes with a Dounce homogenizer. The cell debris was removed by spinning twice 5 min at 450 x g. The supernatant was loaded on a sucrose gradient consisting of 1 ml of each 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42, 50, 54, and 60% sucrose (wt/vol) in 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.5, and 1 mM MgCl2. The samples were spun 2.5 h at 4°C and 37,000 rpm in a TST41.14 rotor. Fractions (800 µl) were colleted from the top, and 5 µl/fraction was analyzed by Western blotting.
Northern Blot Analysis
Yeast RNA, 15–25 µg, was separated on an 1.2% agarose/formaldehyde gel. The RNA was transferred over night onto Hybond N+ membrane (GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI) by capillary blot. The RNA was cross-linked to the membrane and hybridized with an HAC1 probe. To generate the probe an
1000-base pair HAC1 PCR product was labeled with alkaline phosphatase using the AlkPhos Direct labeling and detection kit (GE Healthcare). The Northern blots were developed according to the manufacturer's protocol.
| RESULTS |
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In summary, we conclude that Grx6 and Grx7 are luminal proteins of the cis-Golgi that are tightly anchored into the Golgi membrane, presumably by their N-terminal transmembrane domains (Figure 5D).
Grx6 and Grx7 Show Glutaredoxin Activity In Vitro
The sequences of Grx6 and Grx7 show characteristic monothiol glutaredoxin domains (Herrero and de la Torre-Ruiz, 2007
). Unlike for dithiol glutaredoxins, glutaredoxin activity could not be experimentally attributed to any of the so-far characterized monothiol glutaredoxins by using standard assays (Tamarit et al., 2003
; Deponte et al., 2005
), and their molecular activity therefore remains unclear. To test whether Grx6 and Grx7 exhibit glutaredoxin activity in the standard HEDS assay (Holmgren and Aslund, 1995
), we expressed the proteins recombinantly in bacteria and purified them by affinity chromatography. The HEDS assay couples glutathione-dependent glutaredoxin activity to the glutathione reductase–mediated consumption of NADPH, which can be easily monitored in a photospectrometer (Figure 6A). The method was successfully applied to analyze activity of the dithiol glutaredoxin PfGrx of Plasmodium falciparum (Rahlfs et al., 2001
), which we used for control. As shown in Figure 6B, purified PfGrx showed a high glutaredoxin activity of 0.21 U/nmol enzyme. The activity of Grx6 (0.18 U/nmol) was similar to that of PfGrx, whereas Grx7 was
2.5 times more active (0.51 U/nmol). As control, we expressed a variant of Grx6 in which the single conserved cysteine residue was exchanged for a serine residue (Grx6C136S mutant). This mutant protein did not show any activity in the assay (Figure 6B). The measured activities correlated well with the amounts of added glutaredoxin protein (see Figure 6, C and D, for Grx7). From this result, we conclude that Grx6 and Grx7 both exhibit significant glutaredoxin activity and catalyze the reduction of oxidized substrates by use of reduced glutathione.
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grx6 deletion mutant showed a significantly increased sensitivity toward hydrogen peroxide or diamide (Figure 7, A and B). In contrast, the
grx7 mutant was hardly affected and grew as well as wild-type cells. A more important role of Grx6 is also reflected by its higher abundance in yeast cells: Quantitative Western blotting showed that Grx6 and Grx7 are both expressed and present at concentrations of 40 and 3 µg/100 mg cellular protein, respectively (our unpublished observations).
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grx7 mutants were not hypersensitive to dithiothreitol (DTT) but rather slightly less sensitive than the wild type. Moreover, the loss of Grx6 caused a temperature-dependent growth defect that was even more pronounced in double mutants lacking both Grx6 and Grx7 (Figure 7B). These results indicate a cooperative function of both glutaredoxins that might counteract the deleterious effects of oxidative agents in the secretory pathway.
Loss of Grx6 and Grx7 Does Not Induce the Unfolded Protein Response Pathway
Because the activity of a reducing enzyme (like glutaredoxin) may counteract the activity of oxidizing components (such as Ero1 and Pdi1), we asked whether the overexpression of Ero1 or Pdi1 increases the growth defect observed in
grx6
grx7 cells (Figure 8A). The glutaredoxin-deficient strain showed reduced growth rates that were most pronounced at higher temperatures. However, the overexpression of Pdi1 or Ero1 in these cells did not influence growth. This suggests that Grx6 and Grx7 are not primarily required to counteract the activities of Ero1 and Pdi1.
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grx7, and
grx6
grx7 cells. Consistent with this observation,
grx6
grx7 mutants did not show increased expression levels of Pdi1 and Ero1 (Figure 3A). Moreover, no accumulation of aggregates was found in Golgi fractions of these mutants (our unpublished observations). To investigate whether Grx6 and Grx7 play a role in the oxidative folding of proteins, we used an in vitro assay that monitors the refolding of oxidized scrambled RNAse. In contrast to Pdi1, Grx7 did not significantly accelerate the refolding of RNase over the spontaneous rate of refolding (Figure 8C). In summary, our results suggest that Grx6 and Grx7 are not involved in the general folding of proteins in the secretory pathway nor are they simple antagonists of Ero1 or Pdi1 but rather perform a distinct function that is especially important during oxidative stress conditions.
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Both Grx6 and Grx7 contain N-terminal signal sequences and are translocated into purified microsomes in an ATP-dependent manner. Immunofluorescence and cellular subfractionation indicated their presence in the lumen of the cis-Golgi. To our knowledge, redox-active enzymes were not identified so far in a compartment of the secretory pathway beyond the ER.
Cysteine residues in proteins transported along the secretory pathway of eukaryotic cells are typically oxidized during their insertion into the ER and are believed to stay in an oxidized state. It was therefore unexpected to find glutaredoxin enzymes in the cis-Golgi where they might counteract the activity of the oxidizing machinery of the ER. The discovery of glutaredoxins in the secretory pathway shows that secreted proteins are not only exposed to significant amounts of reduced glutathione (Hwang et al., 1992
) but also to specific enzymes that use the glutathione pool to catalyze the reduction of disulfide bridges. Because it is well established that secreted proteins are maintained in an oxidized state, it can be excluded that Grx6 and Grx7 antagonize protein oxidation in general. In consistence, we found no genetic interaction of the glutaredoxins with the oxidation machinery. In the absence of Grx6 and Grx7 we did not observe an increased aggregation of proteins in the Golgi or changes in the pattern of secreted proteins (our unpublished observations). Moreover,
grx6
grx7 mutant cells did not induce the UPR pathway, whereas mutants in Pdi1 or Ero1 lead to a strong UPR response (Pollard et al., 1998
; Norgaard et al., 2003
).
If not the general reduction of disulfide bonds, what might then be the specific function of Grx6 and Grx7? We regard it as very likely that these enzymes are critical for the reduction of specific cysteine residues in certain substrate proteins in the secretory pathway that require reduced thiol residues for their functionality. Candidates for these proteins might be enzymes with thiol groups in their active center (like cysteine proteases), proteins using thiol groups as ligands for cofactors like metals, heme groups or iron sulfur clusters, or components in which cysteine residues need to be posttranslationally modified. Biochemical analyses of Grx6 and Grx7 indeed suggest a role of these proteins in the formation of metal-containing reaction centers (Mesecke et al., 2008
). In all these cases, the reduction of potential disulfide bridges will be critical, especially under oxidizing growth conditions, explaining the observed sensitivity of
grx6
grx7 mutant cells to hydrogen peroxide and diamide. It will be interesting to trace these specific substrate proteins in the future.
Originally, the ER was regarded as an oxidizing environment that favors the formation of disulfide bonds simply by the presence of considerable concentrations of oxidized glutathione (Hwang et al., 1992
). Over the last decade it became clear, however, that proteins are oxidized by a dedicated set of components, namely Ero1 and Pdi1. These components contain intramolecular disulfide bridges with high transfer potentials, and transport the electrons from their substrates to molecular oxygen (Sevier et al., 2001
; Tu and Weissman, 2002
). Although the concentration of reduced glutathione in microsomes is lower than in the cytosol, the "chemical" environment in the secretory pathway is still reducing, which makes a glutaredoxin-catalyzed reduction of substrates possible.
We measured a significant reducing activity with purified Grx6 and Grx7. This is in striking contrast to observations with other monothiol glutaredoxins for which no activity in standard HEDS assays could be detected (Tamarit et al., 2003
; Deponte et al., 2005
). Also structurally, Grx6 and Grx7 are clearly distinct from other monothiol glutaredoxins in yeast and more closely related to the dithiol glutaredoxins Grx1 and Grx2 (Figure 1B). The reaction mechanism by which monothiol glutaredoxins catalyze the reduction of their substrates is still not clear. One plausible model suggests that monothiol glutaredoxins initially form mixed disulfides with their substrates. These complexes then need to be released in a reaction in which electrons are transferred from reduced glutathione to the intermolecular disulfide bond between the substrate and the enzyme. The possibility to analyze the activity of Grx6 and Grx7 in vitro should allow the biochemical dissection of their reaction cycle in order to unravel the working mode of this ubiquitous class of enzymes in the future.
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Address correspondence to: Johannes M. Herrmann (hannes.herrmann{at}biologie.uni-kl.de)
Abbreviations used: ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GFP, green fluorescent protein; HA, hemagglutinin; HEDS, hydroxyethyl disulfide; UPR, unfolded protein response.
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