Localization of Grp78 to Mitochondria Under the Unfolded Protein Response.
From: Department of Life Science, Institute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, ROC.
The Biochemical journal
- Publish Date: May 2006
- ISSN: 1470-8728
- Volume: 396
- Issue: 1
- Pages: 31-9
- Medium: Internet
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Sun Fang-Chun, Wei Shou, Li Chia-Wei, et al. Localization of Grp78 to Mitochondria Under the Unfolded Protein Response.. Biochem. J. May 2006;396:31-9
Abstract
The ubiquitously expressed molecular chaperone GRP78 (78 kDa glucose-regulated protein) generally localizes to the ER (endoplasmic reticulum). GRP78 is specifically induced in cells under the UPR (unfolded protein response), which can be elicited by treatments with calcium ionophore A23187 and sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor TG (thapsigargin). By using confocal microscopy, we have demonstrated that GRP78 was concentrated in the perinuclear region and co-localized with the ER marker proteins, calnexin and PDI (protein disulphide-isomerase), in cells under normal growth conditions. However, treatments with A23187 and TG led to diminish its ER targeting, resulting in redirection into a cytoplasmic vesicular pattern, and overlapping with the mitochondrial marker MitoTracker. Cellular fractionation and protease digestion of isolated mitochondria from ER-stressed cells suggested that a significant portion of GRP78 is localized to the mitochondria and is protease-resistant. Localizations of GRP78 in ER and mitochondria were confirmed by using immunoelectron microscopy. In ER-stressed cells, GRP78 mainly localized within the mitochondria and decorated the mitochondrial membrane compartment. Submitochondrial fractionation studies indicated further that the mitochondria-resided GRP78 is mainly located in the intermembrane space, inner membrane and matrix, but is not associated with the outer membrane. Furthermore, radioactive labelling followed by subcellular fractionation showed that a significant portion of the newly synthesized GRP78 is localized to the mitochondria in cells under UPR. Taken together, our results indicate that, at least under certain circumstances, the ER-resided chaperone GRP78 can be retargeted to mitochondria and thereby may be involved in correlating UPR signalling between these two organelles.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Brain Neoplasms, Calcimycin, Calcium, Cell Line, Tumor, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Heat-Shock Proteins, Microscopy, Confocal, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Mitochondria, Molecular Chaperones, Neoplasm Proteins, Protein Folding, Protein Transport, Rats, Thapsigargin
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