alpha-Synuclein interacts with phospholipase D isozymes and inhibits pervanadate-induced phospholipase D activation in human embryonic kidney-293 cells.
alpha-Synuclein has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Although the function of alpha-synuclein remains largely unknown, recent studies have demonstrated that this protein can interact with phospholipids. To address the role of alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease, we have investigated whether it ... binds phospholipase D (PLD) and affects PLD activity in human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293 cells overexpressing wild type alpha-synuclein or the mutant forms of alpha-synuclein (A53T, A30P) associated with Parkinson's disease. Tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha-synuclein appears to play a modulatory role in the inhibition of PLD, because mutation of Tyr(125) to Phe slightly increases inhibitory effect of alpha-synuclein on PLD activity. Treatment with pervanadate or phorbol myristate acetate inhibits PLD more in HEK 293 cells overexpressing alpha-synuclein than in control cells. Binding of alpha-synuclein to PLD requires phox and pleckstrin homology domain of PLD and the amphipathic repeat region and non-Abeta component of alpha-synuclein. Although biologically important, co-transfection studies indicate that the interaction of alpha-synuclein with PLD does not influence the tendency of alpha-synuclein to form pathological inclusions. These results suggest that the association of alpha-synuclein with PLD, and modulation of PLD activity, is biologically important, but PLD does not appear to play an essential role in the pathophysiology of alpha-synuclein.
Mesh Terms:
Animals, Blood Proteins, Blotting, Western, Brain, Cell Line, Cytoplasm, DNA, Complementary, Enzyme Activation, Enzyme Inhibitors, Eosinophils, Glutathione Transferase, Humans, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Mutation, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Phospholipase D, Phosphoproteins, Phosphorylation, Precipitin Tests, Protein Binding, Protein Isoforms, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Rats, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Synucleins, Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate, Time Factors, Transfection, Tyrosine, Vanadates, alpha-Synuclein
Animals, Blood Proteins, Blotting, Western, Brain, Cell Line, Cytoplasm, DNA, Complementary, Enzyme Activation, Enzyme Inhibitors, Eosinophils, Glutathione Transferase, Humans, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Mutation, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Phospholipase D, Phosphoproteins, Phosphorylation, Precipitin Tests, Protein Binding, Protein Isoforms, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Rats, Recombinant Fusion Proteins, Synucleins, Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate, Time Factors, Transfection, Tyrosine, Vanadates, alpha-Synuclein
J. Biol. Chem.
Date: Apr. 05, 2002
PubMed ID: 11821392
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