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First published online 6 September 2005
doi: 10.1242/jcs.02559
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1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
2 School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, Peoples Republic of China
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: jforte{at}berkeley.edu)
Accepted 23 June 2005
Phosphorylation of the membrane-cytoskeleton linker protein ezrin has been functionally linked to acid secretion and vesicle recruitment to the apical secretory membrane in gastric parietal cells. Phosphorylation of the conserved T567 residue of ezrin has been shown to alter the N/C oligomerization of ezrin and promote the formation of actin-rich surface projections in other cells. To test the importance of T567 as a regulatory site for ezrin in parietal cell activation, we incorporated wild-type (WT) and mutant forms of ezrin, including the nonphosphorylatable T567A mutation and a mutant mimicking permanent phosphorylation, T567D. All ezrin constructs included C-terminal cyan-fluorescent protein (CFP) and were incorporated into adenoviral constructs for efficient introduction into cultured parietal cells from rabbit stomach. Fluorescence microscopy was used to localize CFP-ezrin and monitor morphological responses. Accumulation of a weak base (aminopyrine) was used to monitor receptor-mediated acid secretory response of the cultured cells. Similar to endogenous ezrin, WT and T567A CFP-ezrin localized heavily to apical membrane vacuoles with considerably lower levels associated with the surrounding basolateral membrane. Interestingly, H,K-ATPase within cytoplasmic tubulovesicles was incorporated into the apical vacuoles along with WT and T567A mutant ezrin. In these parietal cells secretagogue stimulation produced a striking vacuolar expansion associated with HCl secretion and the secretory phenotype. Expression of T567D CFP-ezrin was quite different, being rarely associated with apical vacuoles. T567D was more typically localized to the basolateral membrane, often associated with long spikes and fingerlike projections. Moreover, the cells did not display secretagogue-dependent morphological changes and, to our surprise, H,K-ATPase was recruited to the T567D CFP-ezrin-enriched basolateral projections. We conclude that T567 phosphorylation, which is probably regulated through Rho signaling pathway, may direct ezrin to membrane-cytoskeletal activity at the basolateral membrane and away from apical secretory activity. The large basolateral expansion is predicted to recruit membranes from sources not normally targeted to that surface.
Key words: ERM proteins, Acid secretion, Cytoskeleton, Rho, Rho kinase
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