Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 205-218Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12029
Keywords
cholesterol; chromogranin A; peptide hormones; prohormone sorting; secretogranin II; secretogranin III; secretory granule
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Institute for Molecular and Cellular Regulation, Gunma University
- Akita Prefectural University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22590185, 21689007, 24890012] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Prior to secretion, regulated peptide hormones are selectively sorted to secretory granules (SGs) at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) in endocrine cells. Secretogranin III (SgIII) appears to facilitate SG sorting process by tethering of protein aggregates containing chromogranin A (CgA) and peptide hormones to the cholesterol-rich SG membrane (SGM). Here, we evaluated the role of SgIII in SG sorting in AtT-20 cells transfected with small interfering RNA targeting SgIII. In the SgIII-knockdown cells, the intracellular retention of CgA was greatly impaired, and only a trace amount of CgA was localized within the vacuoles formed in the TGN, confirming the significance of SgIII in both the tethering of CgA-containing aggregates and the establishment of the proper SG morphology. Although the intracellular retention of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) was considerably impaired in SgIII-knockdown cells, residual adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)/POMC was still localized to some few remaining SGs together with another granin protein, secretogranin II (SgII), and was secreted in a regulated manner. Biochemical analyses indicated that SgII bound directly to the SGM in a cholesterol-dependent manner and was able to retain the aggregated form of POMC, revealing a latent redundancy in the SG sorting and retention mechanisms, that ensures the regulated secretion of bioactive peptides.
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