scholarly journals Novel and Converging Ways of NOX2 and SOD3 in Trafficking and Redox Signaling in Macrophages

Antioxidants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Steen Vang Petersen ◽  
Nanna Bach Poulsen ◽  
Cecilie Linneberg Matthiesen ◽  
Frederik Vilhardt

Macrophages and related tissue macrophage populations use the classical NADPH oxidase (NOX2) for the regulated production of superoxide and derived oxidants for pathogen combat and redox signaling. With an emphasis on macrophages, we discuss how sorting into secretory storage vesicles, agonist-responsive membrane trafficking, and segregation into sphingolipid and cholesterol-enriched microdomains (lipid rafts) determine the subcellular distribution and spatial organization of NOX2 and superoxide dismutase-3 (SOD3). We discuss how inflammatory activation of macrophages, in part through small GTPase Rab27A/B regulation of the secretory compartments, mediates the coalescence of these two proteins on the cell surface to deliver a focalized hydrogen peroxide output. In interplay with membrane-embedded oxidant transporters and redox sensitive target proteins, this arrangement allows for the autocrine and paracrine signaling, which govern macrophage activation states and transcriptional programs. By discussing examples of autocrine and paracrine redox signaling, we highlight why formation of spatiotemporal microenvironments where produced superoxide is rapidly converted to hydrogen peroxide and conveyed immediately to reach redox targets in proximal vicinity is required for efficient redox signaling. Finally, we discuss the recent discovery of macrophage-derived exosomes as vehicles of NOX2 holoenzyme export to other cells.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte A. Kelley ◽  
Sasha De Henau ◽  
Liam Bell ◽  
Tobias B. Dansen ◽  
Erin J. Cram

AbstractActomyosin based contractility in smooth muscle and non-muscle cells is regulated by signaling through the small GTPase Rho and by calcium-activated pathways. We use the myoepithelial cells of the Caenorhabditis elegans spermatheca to study the mechanisms of coordinated myosin activation in vivo. Here, we demonstrate that redox signaling regulates RHO-1/Rho activity in this contractile tissue. Exogenous hydrogen peroxide treatment decreases spermathecal contractility by inhibiting RHO-1, which is mediated through a conserved cysteine in its active site (C20). Further, we identify a gradient of oxidation across the spermathecal tissue, which is regulated by the cytosolic superoxide dismutase, SOD-1. SOD-1 functions in the Rho pathway to inhibit RHO-1 through oxidation of C20. Our results suggest that SOD-1 functions to regulate the redox environment and to fine-tune Rho activity across the spermatheca.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Nassari ◽  
Dominique Lévesque ◽  
François-Michel Boisvert ◽  
Steve Jean

ABSTRACTMembrane trafficking is defined as the vesicular transport of molecules into, out of, and throughout the cell. In intestinal enterocytes, defects in endocytic/recycling pathways result in impaired function and are linked to genetic diseases. However, how these trafficking pathways regulate intestinal tissue homeostasis is poorly understood. Using the Drosophila intestine as an in vivo model system, we investigated enterocyte-specific functions for the early endosomal trafficking machinery in gut homeostasis. We focused on the small GTPase Rab21, which regulates specific steps in early endosomal trafficking. Rab21-depleted guts showed severe abnormalities in intestinal morphology, with deregulated homeostasis associated with a gain in mitotic cells and increased cell death. Increases in both apoptosis and yorkie signaling were responsible for compensatory proliferation and tissue inflammation. Using a RNA interference screen, we identified specific regulators of autophagy and membrane trafficking that phenocopied Rab21 loss. We further showed that Rab21-induced hyperplasia was rescued by inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor signaling, and identified improperly trafficked cargoes in Rab21-depleted enterocytes. Our data shed light on an important role for early endosomal trafficking, and particularly Rab21, in enterocyte-mediated intestinal homeostasis.


Author(s):  
Tianli Li ◽  
Gan Ai ◽  
Xiaowei Fu ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Hai Zhu ◽  
...  

The oomycete pathogen Phytophthora capsici encodes hundreds of RXLR effectors to enter plant cells and suppress host defense responses. Only few of them are conserved across different strains and species. Such ‘core effectors’ may target hub immunity pathways that are essential during Phytophthora pathogens interacting with their hosts. However, the underlying mechanisms of core RXLRs-mediated host immunity manipulation are largely unknown. Here, we report the functional characterization of a P. capsici RXLR effector, RXLR242. RXLR242 expression is highly induced during the infection process. Its ectopic expression in Nicotiana benthamiana promotes Phytophthora infection. RXLR242 physically interacts with a group of RAB proteins, which belong to the small GTPase family and function in specifying transport pathways in the intracellular membrane trafficking system. RXLR242 impedes the secretion of PATHOGENESIS-RELATED 1 (PR1) protein to the apoplast by interfering the formation of RABE1-7-labeled vesicles. Further analysis indicated that such phenomenon is resulted from competitive binding of RXLR242 to RABE1-7. RXLR242 also interferes trafficking of the membrane-located receptor FLAGELLIN-SENSING 2 (FLS2) through competitively interacting with RABA4-3. Taken together, our work demonstrates that RXLR242 manipulates plant immunity by targeting RAB proteins and disturbing vesicle-mediated protein transporting pathway in plant hosts.


2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2673-2689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjon Audhya ◽  
Michelangelo Foti ◽  
Scott D. Emr

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae possesses two genes that encode phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) 4-kinases,STT4 and PIK1. Both gene products phosphorylate PtdIns at the D-4 position of the inositol ring to generate PtdIns(4)P, which plays an essential role in yeast viability because deletion of either STT4 orPIK1 is lethal. Furthermore, although both enzymes have the same biochemical activity, increased expression of either kinase cannot compensate for the loss of the other, suggesting that these kinases regulate distinct intracellular functions, each of which is required for yeast cell growth. By the construction of temperature-conditional single and double mutants, we have found that Stt4p activity is required for the maintenance of vacuole morphology, cell wall integrity, and actin cytoskeleton organization. In contrast, Pik1p is essential for normal secretion, Golgi and vacuole membrane dynamics, and endocytosis. Strikingly,pik1tscells exhibit a rapid defect in secretion of Golgi-modified secretory pathway cargos, Hsp150p and invertase, whereas stt4tscells exhibit no detectable secretory defects. Both single mutants reduce PtdIns(4)P by ∼50%; however,stt4ts/pik1tsdouble mutant cells produce more than 10-fold less PtdIns(4)P as well as PtdIns(4,5)P2. The aberrant Golgi morphology found in pik1tsmutants is strikingly similar to that found in cells lacking the function of Arf1p, a small GTPase that is known to regulate multiple membrane trafficking events throughout the cell. Consistent with this observation, arf1 mutants exhibit reduced PtdIns(4)P levels. In contrast, diminished levels of PtdIns(4)P observed in stt4tscells at restrictive temperature result in a dramatic change in vacuole size compared with pik1tscells and persistent actin delocalization. Based on these results, we propose that Stt4p and Pik1p act as the major, if not the only, PtdIns 4-kinases in yeast and produce distinct pools of PtdIns(4)P and PtdIns(4,5)P2that act on different intracellular membranes to recruit or activate as yet uncharacterized effector proteins.


2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 5785-5793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Micheli Lamberti Jobim ◽  
Verônica Farina Azzolin ◽  
Charles Elias Assmann ◽  
Vera Maria Melchiors Morsch ◽  
Ivana Beatrice Mânica da Cruz ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-272
Author(s):  
Erik Nielsen

Small GTP-binding proteins represent a highly conserved signaling module in eukaryotes that regulates diverse cellular processes such as signal transduction, cytoskeletal organization and cell polarity, cell proliferation and differentiation, intracellular membrane trafficking and transport vesicle formation, and nucleocytoplasmic transport. These proteins function as molecular switches that cycle between active and inactive states, and this cycle is linked to GTP binding and hydrolysis. In this review, the roles of the plant complement of small GTP-binding proteins in these cellular processes are described, as well as accessory proteins that control their activity, and current understanding of the functions of individual members of these families in plants—with a focus on the model organism Arabidopsis—is presented. Some potential novel roles of these GTPases in plants, relative to their established roles in yeast and/or animal systems, are also discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocío Rojo ◽  
Anna Raper ◽  
Derya D. Ozdemir ◽  
Lucas Lefevre ◽  
Kathleen Grabert ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Lennicke ◽  
Jette Rahn ◽  
Rudolf Lichtenfels ◽  
Ludger A. Wessjohann ◽  
Barbara Seliger

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea L. Marat ◽  
Maria S. Ioannou ◽  
Peter S. McPherson

The small GTPase Rab35 regulates endosomal membrane trafficking but also recruits effectors that modulate actin assembly and organization. Differentially expressed in normal and neoplastic cells (DENN)–domain proteins are a newly identified class of Rab guanine-nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that are grouped into eight families, each activating a common Rab. The members of one family, connecdenn 1–3/DENND1A–C, are all GEFs for Rab35. Why Rab35 requires multiple GEFs is unknown. We demonstrate that connecdenn 3 uses a unique C-terminal motif, a feature not found in connecdenn 1 or 2, to directly bind actin. This interaction couples Rab35 activation to the actin cytoskeleton, resulting in dramatic changes in cell shape, notably the formation of protrusive membrane extensions. These alterations are specific to Rab35 activated by connecdenn 3 and require both the actin-binding motif and N-terminal DENN domain, which harbors the GEF activity. It was previously demonstrated that activated Rab35 recruits the actin-bundling protein fascin to actin, but the relevant GEF for this activity was unknown. We demonstrate that connecdenn 3 and Rab35 colocalize with fascin and actin filaments, suggesting that connecdenn 3 is the relevant GEF. Thus, whereas connecdenn 1 and 2 activate Rab35 for endosomal trafficking, connecdenn 3 uniquely activates Rab35 for its role in actin regulation.


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