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Vol. 19, Issue 7, 2870-2875, July 2008
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Program in Cell Dynamics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605
Submitted February 7, 2008;
Revised March 19, 2008;
Accepted April 23, 2008
Monitoring Editor: Wendy Bickmore
| ABSTRACT |
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| INTRODUCTION |
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Nucleostemin (NS) is a nucleolar protein required for embryogenesis and cell cycle progression (Beekman et al., 2006
; Zhu et al., 2006
), but its mode of action is unclear. NS shuttles between the nucleolus and surrounding nucleoplasm based on its state of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) binding (Tsai and McKay, 2005
). A likely key to understanding the action of NS would be to define the proteins with which it interacts. An interaction between N-terminal basic region of NS and the tumor suppressor p53 was initially observed by pull-down and coimmunoprecipitation experiments (Tsai and McKay, 2002
), and subsequently we demonstrated a role of p53 in the arrest of cell cycle progression in NS-depleted cells (Ma and Pederson, 2007
). Moreover, the regulatory subunit B of human protein phosphatase-2 (PPP2R5A) has been identified as an NS-interactive protein by yeast two-hybrid experiments (Yang et al., 2005
). In addition, the protein RSL1D1, which contains a ribosomal protein-homologous element, was found to interact with both the N-terminal basic domain and the GTP binding domain of NS and also was found to be important for the nucleolar location of NS (Meng et al., 2006
). Finally, NS has also been found to interact with telomeric repeat-binding factor 1 (TRF1) and to negatively regulate the stability of TRF1 via ubiquitination (Zhu et al., 2006
).
Nucleophosmin (NPM, also known as B23 protein) is an abundant and multifunctional nucleolar phosphoprotein that has been implicated in rRNA processing, ribosome assembly, centrosome duplication, cell proliferation, and malignancy (Grisendi et al., 2006
; Naoe et al., 2006
). NPM has been variously reported to have either oncogenic or tumor suppressor-like activities, and these difference are thought to be attributable, at least in part, to the p53 expression status of the cell (e.g., Colombo et al., 2002
). In the present investigation, we have found that NPM directly interacts with NS in the nucleoli of living human tumor cells.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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Plasmids
The plasmid encoding red fluorescent human nucleostemin (pmRFP-hNS-C1) was described previously (Ma and Pederson, 2007
). pEGFP-B23-C1 was kindly provided by Sui Huang (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; Chen and Huang, 2001
). pEGFP-rNS was kindly provided by Robert Tsai (Texas A&M Health Science Center, Houston, TX; Tsai and McKay, 2002
). The nucleostemin (rNS) coding region was cloned into pEGFP-N1, and the resulting rNS-GFP coding region was subcloned into the pcDNA4/TO vector to generate pcDNA4-rNS-GFP-TO for construction of the NS-GFP–inducible stable cell line (see above). The yeast two-hybrid plasmids were kindly provided by Peter Pryciak (University of Massachusetts Medical School). DNA fragments encoding human NPM, wild-type human NS, human NS mutants consisting of amino acids 1–46 (NSB), amino acids 1–267 (NSBG), amino acids 47-549 (NSdB), or amino acids 268–549 (NSdBG) were inserted into the vector containing the activation domain to obtain pAD-NPM, pAD-NS, pAD-NSB, pAD-NSBG, pAD-NSdB, and pAD-NSdBG. NPM was inserted into the vector containing the DNA binding domain and reporter genes to obtain pBD-NPM. Yeast transformation and filter β-galactosidase assays were performed as described previously (Winters and Pryciak, 2005
). Parental BiFC plasmids were kindly provided by Tom Kerppola (Hu et al., 2002
) and modified by insertion of cyan fluorescent protein (CFP) and monomeric red fluorescent protein (mRFP) into the YN and YC vectors, respectively, to obtain pBiFC-CFP-YN and pBiFC-mRFP-YC. DNA fragments encoding wild-type NS, the N-terminal 46 amino acids (NSB), or NS lacking the 46-amino acid N-terminal domain (i.e., amino acids 47-549) (NSdB) were inserted into pBiFC-CFP-YN to obtain pBiFC-NS-CFP-YN, pBiFC-NSB-CFP-YN, and pBiFC-NSdB-CFP-YN. The DNA fragment encoding NPM was inserted into pBiFC-mRFP-YC to obtain pBiFC-NPM-mRFP-YC.
Immunofluorescence
Cells grown on coverslips were fixed for 12 min in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) containing 4% formaldehyde, followed by permeabilization with 0.5% Triton X-100 for 5 min. Coverslips were then incubated with primary antibodies in PBS, 1% bovine serum albumin for 1–2 h before washing and incubation with the appropriate secondary antibodies. All these steps were carried out at room temperature. Coverslips were mounted in Prolong Antifade (Invitrogen), and two- or three-dimensional images were captured and in some cases subjected to deconvolution as described previously (Ma and Pederson, 2007
). The primary antibodies and dilutions were as follows: rabbit anti-human NS polyclonal antibody (1:200; Millipore Bioscience Research Reagents, Temecula, CA) and mouse anti-human NPM monoclonal antibody (1:500; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA).
Immunoprecipitation and Immunoblotting
U2OS cells were lysed on ice in 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.0, 150 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, and 0.5% NP-40, containing 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and a protease inhibitor cocktail (Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN) as specified by the manufacturer. Protein concentration was determined using the bicinchoninic acid assay (Pierce Chemical, Rockford, IL). Samples were incubated with antibody for human NPM (see below) or with nonimmune human immunoglobulin G (IgG) (2 µg/each) at 4°C for overnight, and then protein A- or protein G-agarose beads were added for an additional 2 h. The beads were washed and the eluted proteins were separated by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by transfer to Immobilon-P membranes (Millipore, Billerica, MA) which were then incubated with specific primary antibodies followed by their detection with appropriate horseradish peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibodies and enhanced chemiluminescence substrate (Pierce Chemical). The primary antibodies and dilutions used for immunoblotting were rabbit anti-human NS (1:5000; Millipore Bioscience Research Reagents) and mouse anti-human NPM (1:5000; Santa Cruz Biotechnology).
Time-Lapse Fluorescence Microscopy of Mitotic Cells
The U2OSiNS-GFP cell line was grown on Lab-Tek chambered coverglasses (Nalge Nunc Intlernational, Rochester, NY) and transfected with pBiFC-NPM-mRFP-YC by using standard procedures. The microscope and chamber were kept in 37°C and 5% CO2 during observation and imaging. A Leica DM-IRB microscope, equipped with a 100x objective (numerical aperture 1.4), a Quantix 57 charge-coupled device camera (Photometrics, Tucson, AZ), the appropriate filter sets, and MetaMorph acquisition software (Molecular Devices, Sunnyvale, CA) were used, as detailed previously (Jacobson and Pederson, 1997
; Politz et al., 2007
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Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) Imaging in Living Cells
U2OS cells grown on a Lab-Tek chambered coverglasses were cotransfected with plasmids encoding the desired fusion proteins. Twenty-four to 48 h after transfection, cells were washed with PBS, and then they were incubated at 30°C (5% CO2) for 2–6 h. Fluorescence was observed in living cells as described above using a Leica DM-IRB microscope equipped with the appropriate filter sets: CFP (436/20, BP480/40), mRFP (546/14, LP580), and yellow fluorescent protein (YFP0 (510/20, BP560/40). BiFC signal was evaluated only in cells exhibiting similar levels of CFP and mRFP expression. Controls established that there was no spectral cross-talk between channels at the exposure times used in these experiments.
| RESULTS AND DISCUSSION |
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50% due to small interfering RNA knockdown (Korgaonkar et al., 2005
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670-kDa) complexes with the Myb-binding protein 1a in HeLa cells (Yamauchi et al., 2008
The present study does not address whether NS and NPM function in a dimeric/multimeric form to control the cell cycle, nor whether the initially reported interactivity of NS with p53, in coimmunoprecipitation and pull-down assays (Tsai and McKay, 2005
), means there are heterotrimeric complexes of NS, NPM, and p53. Beyond the obvious need for further studies on these protein–protein interactions, there is the vexing problem of the conflicting reports on the role of NPM in the cell cycle, with some studies suggesting an oncoprotein-like function and others a tumor suppressor-like property. It has been suggested that these disparate findings on NPM reflect differences in the levels of p53 expression in the cell types investigated (Colombo et al., 2002
), but it is also plausible that variations in the expression levels of other NPM-interactive proteins, including proteins yet to be discovered, may modulate its cell cycle progression activity, and, of course, the same point applies to NS-interactive proteins. The conceptual landscape should now envision these two nucleolar proteins as potential binding partners in any cell cycle control scenarios investigated, with the possibility of a multitude of additional proteins co-residing with them in complex machines.
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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| Footnotes |
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Address correspondence to: Hanhui Ma (hanhui.ma{at}umassmed.edu) or Thoru Pederson (thoru.pederson{at}umassmed.edu)
Abbreviations used: BiFC, bimolecular fluorescence complementation; NPM, nucleophosmin; NS, nucleostemin; PNB, prenucleolar body.
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