Rapid degeneration of rod photoreceptors expressing self-association-deficient arrestin-1 mutant
Arrestin-1 binds light-activated phosphorhodopsin and ensures timely signal shutoff. We show that high transgenic expression of an arrestin-1 mutant with enhanced rhodopsin binding and impaired oligomerization causes apoptotic rod death in mice. Dark rearing does not prevent mutant-induced cell deat...
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Published in | Cellular signalling Vol. 25; no. 12; pp. 2613 - 2624 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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England
Elsevier Inc
01.12.2013
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Summary: | Arrestin-1 binds light-activated phosphorhodopsin and ensures timely signal shutoff. We show that high transgenic expression of an arrestin-1 mutant with enhanced rhodopsin binding and impaired oligomerization causes apoptotic rod death in mice. Dark rearing does not prevent mutant-induced cell death, ruling out the role of arrestin complexes with light-activated rhodopsin. Similar expression of WT arrestin-1 that robustly oligomerizes, which leads to only modest increase in the monomer concentration, does not affect rod survival. Moreover, WT arrestin-1 co-expressed with the mutant delays retinal degeneration. Thus, arrestin-1 mutant directly affects cell survival via binding partner(s) other than light-activated rhodopsin. Due to impaired self-association of the mutant its high expression dramatically increases the concentration of the monomer. The data suggest that monomeric arrestin-1 is cytotoxic and WT arrestin-1 protects rods by forming mixed oligomers with the mutant and/or competing with it for the binding to non-receptor partners. Thus, arrestin-1 self-association likely serves to keep low concentration of the toxic monomer. The reduction of the concentration of harmful monomer is an earlier unappreciated biological function of protein oligomerization.
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•Monomeric arrestin-1 is cytotoxictoxic•Robust self-association of arestin-1 is a cytoprotective mechanism•Monomer toxicity might explain low expression of arrestin-4 in cones•Monomer toxicity might explain self-association of non-visual arrestins |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Present address: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Present address: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, GRJ-904, Boston, MA 02114 Present address: Carroll University, Waukesha, WI 53186 Present address: Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 Present address: Wonkwang University, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 570-749, South Korea These authors equally contributed to this work |
ISSN: | 0898-6568 1873-3913 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cellsig.2013.08.022 |