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The Ca2+ sensor protein Swiprosin-1/EFhd2 is present in neurites and involved in kinesin-mediated transport in neurons

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Date
18/08/2014
Author
Purohit, P
Perez-Branguli, F
Prots, I
Borger, Eva
Gunn-Moore, Frank J
Welzel, O
Loy, K
Wenzel, EM
Gromer, TW
Brachs, S
Holzer, M
Buslei, R
Fritsch, K
Regensburger, M
Bohm, KJ
Winner, B
Mielenz, D
Keywords
QH301 Biology
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Abstract
Swiprosin-1/EFhd2 (EFhd2) is a cytoskeletal Ca2+ sensor protein strongly expressed in the brain. It has been shown to interact with mutant tau, which can promote neurodegeneration, but nothing is known about the physiological function of EFhd2 in the nervous system. To elucidate this question, we analyzed EFhd2-/-/lacZ reporter mice and showed that lacZ was strongly expressed in the cortex, the dentate gyrus, the CA1 and CA2 regions of the hippocampus, the thalamus, and the olfactory bulb. Immunohistochemistry and western blotting confirmed this pattern and revealed expression of EFhd2 during neuronal maturation. In cortical neurons, EFhd2 was detected in neurites marked by MAP2 and co-localized with preand post-synaptic markers. Approximately one third of EFhd2 associated with a biochemically isolated synaptosome preparation. There, EFhd2 was mostly confined to the cytosolic and plasma membrane fractions. Both synaptic endocytosis and exocytosis in primary hippocampal EFhd2-/- neurons were unaltered but transport of synaptophysin-GFP containing vesicles was enhanced in EFhd2-/- primary hippocampal neurons, and notably, EFhd2 inhibited kinesin mediated microtubule gliding. Therefore, we found that EFhd2 is a neuronal protein that interferes with kinesin-mediated transport.
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Purohit , P , Perez-Branguli , F , Prots , I , Borger , E , Gunn-Moore , F J , Welzel , O , Loy , K , Wenzel , E M , Gromer , T W , Brachs , S , Holzer , M , Buslei , R , Fritsch , K , Regensburger , M , Bohm , K J , Winner , B & Mielenz , D 2014 , ' The Ca2+ sensor protein Swiprosin-1/EFhd2 is present in neurites and involved in kinesin-mediated transport in neurons ' PLoS One , vol 9 , no. 8 , e103976 . DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103976
Publication
PLoS One
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103976
ISSN
1932-6203
Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2014 Purohit et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Description
This work was supported by grants from the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG; FOR832, to DM), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01GQ113; to BW), the Bavarian Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts in the framework of the Bavarian Molecular Biosystems Reseach Network, the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF, Universitatsklinikum Erlangen; E8, to DM; NIII, to BW; Lab rotation to MR), the ELAN Fonds (Universitatsklinikum Erlangen; 11.08.19.1, to IP), and the Alzheimer’s Research UK (EB, FGM).
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  • Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences Research
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5194

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