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JCS ePress online publication date 23 Dec 2002
doi: 10.1242/jcs.00267

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Deletion of exon 4 from human surfactant protein C results in aggresome formation and generation of a dominant negative


Wen-Jing Wang, Surafel Mulugeta, Scott J. Russo, and Michael F. Beers*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: mfbeers{at}mail.med.upenn.edu)

Human surfactant protein C (hSP-C) is synthesized by the alveolar type 2 cell as a 197 amino acid integral membrane proprotein and proteolytically processed to a secreted 3.7 kDa mature form. Although the SP-C null mouse possesses a non-lethal phenotype, a heterozygous substitution of A for G in the first base of intron 4 of the human SP-C gene (c.460+1A>G) has been reported in association with familial interstitial lung disease and absence of mature protein. This mutation produces a splice deletion of exon 4 ({Delta}Exon4) resulting in removal of a positionally conserved cysteine in the C-terminal flanking propeptide. Based on a prior study showing that an identical deletion in the rat isoform diverted mutant protein to stable aggregates, we hypothesized that expression of the {Delta}Exon4 mutation would result in disruption of intracellular trafficking of both mutant and wild-type proSP-C. We tested this in vitro using fusion proteins of EGFP conjugated either to wild-type SP-C (EGFP/hSP-C1-197) or to SP-C deleted of Exon4 (EGFP/hSP-C{Delta}Exon4). Fluorescence microscopy showed that EGFP/hSP-C1-197 transfected into A549 cells was expressed in a punctuate pattern in CD63 (+) cytoplasmic vesicles, whereas EGFP/hSP-C{Delta}Exon4 accumulated in ubiquitinated perinuclear inclusions linked to the microtubule organizing center. A similar juxtanuclear pattern was observed following transfection of SP-C cDNA lacking only cysteine residues in the C-terminal propeptide encoded by Exon 4 (EGFP/hSP-CC120/121G). To evaluate whether mutant proSP-C could function as a dominant negative, EGFP/hSP-C{Delta}Exon4 was cotransfected with HA-tagged hSP-C1-197 and resulted in the restriction of both forms to perinuclear compartments. Addition of Na+ 4-phenylbutyrate, a facilitator of trafficking of other misfolded proteins, attenuated the aggregation of EGFP/hSP-C{Delta}Exon4. We conclude that c.460+1A>G mutation of human SP-C results in disruption of disulfide-mediated folding encoded by Exon 4 leading to diversion of unprocessed proSP-C to aggresomes. The heterotypic oligomerization of hSP-C1-197 and hSP-C{Delta}Exon4 provides a molecular mechanism for the dominant-negative effect observed in vivo.




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