ABSTRACT
Wnt signaling plays an important role in embryogenesis and tumorgenesis. Although the mechanism about how Wnts transduce their signaling from receptor frizzled (Fz) to cytosol has not been understood, dishevelled (Dvl) protein was considered as the intersection of Wnt signal traffic. In this study, we characterized the function of three domains (DIX, PDZ and DEP) of Dvl-1 in canonical Wnt signal transduction and Dvl-1 membrane translocation. It was found both DIX and DEP domain were sufficient to block Wnt-3a-induced LEF-1 transcriptional activity and free cytosol β-catenin accumulation; whereas PDZ domain and a functional mutant form of DEP domain (DEP-KM) had no effect on canonical Wnt signaling. In addition, when cotransfected with Fz-7, DEP domain, but not DIX, PDZ or DEP-KM, translocated and co-localized with Fz-7 to the plasma membrane, which was similar to Dvl-1. Furthermore, it was DEP domain that could block Fz-7-induced membrane translocation of Dvl-1 via a possible competitive mechanism. These results strongly suggest that DEP domain is responsible for the membrane translocation of Dvl-1 protein upon Wnt signal stimulation.
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INTRODUCTION
Wnts are a family of secreted proteins involved in a wide range of developmental processes 1, 2, 3, 4 and have been implicated in tumorigenesis 5, 6. Of the distinct Wnt pathways, the canonical Wnt signaling pathway, which involves the inhibition of GSK-3β activity and stabilization of β-catenin in the cytoplasm, is essential for the specification of cell fate. The noncanonical Wnt pathway, which involves the Rho family of GTPases and JNK, affects planar polarity in the same species 7. And the noncanonical Wnt/Ca2+ pathway stimulates intracellular calcium release in a G protein-dependent manner 8.
Wnt proteins have been shown to bind to members of the frizzled (Fz) family of serpentine receptors 9. Until now, at least nine members have been identified in mammals 3. All Fz proteins have an extracellular cysteine-rich domain followed by seven putative transmembrane segments; their C-terminal cytoplasmic regions may differ significantly in length and in sequence similarity 3. In canonical Wnt signaling, another co-receptor, LRP5/6 have been identified 10, 11, 12, 13. Canonical Wnt signaling is only transduced when both Fz and LRP are in complex with Wnt. By an unknown mechanism, Wnt binds to Fz and transduces signal to cytoplasmic dishevelled (Dvl) protein, leading to inhibition of the activity of GSK-3β. Meanwhile, the scaffold protein of a β-catenin degradation complex—Axin translocates to the membrane where it interacts with the intracellular tail of LRP-5 14. By sequentially destabilizing Axin and inhibiting GSK-3β, β-catenin becomes refractory to degradation. It accumulates in the cytoplasm, eventually translocates to the nucleus and activates TCF/LEF-1 target genes 3. Without canonical Wnt signal, β-catenin is always recruited and phosphorylated by multi-component degradation complexes, including APC/Axin/CKI-α/GSK3β and some PP2A subunits, and then undergo ubiquitylation and proteasomal breakdown 3.
Dvl proteins are composed of an N-terminal DIX domain, a central PDZ domain, and a C-terminal DEP domain 15, 16. It acts downstream of Fz receptors both in planar polarity signalling and in segmental polarity of the epidermis in Drosophila, which are β-catenin independent and dependent, respectively 15, 17, 18, 19. Several lines of evidence suggest that Dvl activates distinct signalling pathways through distinct domains. For example, the C-terminal DEP domain is required for the activation of JNK pathway, while DIX domain is essential for canonical Wnt pathway 15. Dvl is phosphorylated both in vivo and in vitro in response to Wnt and Fz receptors. A functional DEP domain is required for the phosphorylation of Dvl, which is closely related to membrane relocalization, indicating that it is important for the function of Dvl in transducing signalings 19, 20.
To validate how Fz receptor talk with Dvl protein, Umbhauer et al identified a short conserved motif (Lys-Thr-X-X-X-Trp) located two amino acids after the seventh transmembrane domain, which is required for activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and for membrane relocali-zation and phosphorylation of Dvl in Xenopus 21. By using NMR spectroscopy, it was determined that an internal sequence of Fz weakly binds to the conventional peptide-binding site in the PDZ domain of Dvl 22. However, this weak interaction is defined as a previously unknown connection between the membrane-bound receptor and downstream components of the Wnt signaling pathways. The mechanism of how Wnts transduce their signalings from Fz to cytoplasmic Dvl protein is still unclear. In this work, we demonstrated that DEP domain was critically involved in Fz7-induced translocation of Dvl-1 to plasma membrane.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Plasmid constructs
The wild type and mutant forms of mouse Dvl-1, mouse Fz-7, human LEF-1, mouse β-catenin were generated by PCR using the high fidelity thermo-stable DNA polymerase, Pfu (Stratagene, CA). Myc, HA, or flag epitope tags, or GFP protein were introduced to the C-termini of the full-length and mutant molecules. The expression of these molecules was driven by a CMV promoter 15, 23. The LEF-1 reporter gene constructs were kindly provided by Dr. Grosschedl 24.
Cell cultures
Human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells were maintained in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone). Wnt-3a-containing conditioned medium were prepared as previously described 14.
Transfection and Reporter gene assay
Transfection was carried out using Lipofectamine Plus as suggested by the manufacturer (Life Technologies, MD). The transfection was stopped after 3 h. For reporter gene assays, cell extracts were collected 24 h later. Cell lysates were measured for fluorescence intensity emitted by GFP proteins in a FL600 fluorometer (BIO-TEK Inc.), and then the luciferase substrate (Boehringer Mannheim Luciferase Assay Kit) was added for determining the luciferase activities using a MicroLumate Plus luminometer (Perkin Elmer Inc.). Luminescence intensity is normalized against fluorescence intensity.
Cell fraction
Cells in 6-well plates were washed once with ice-cold PBS and scraped into hypotonic buffer containing 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.9), 1.5 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EDTA, 10 mM KCl, 0.5 mM DTT and a cocktail of protease inhibitors (Boehringer). After put on ice for 10 min, cells were homogenized in a homogenizer, and then centrifuged at 15,000 g. The supernatant was directly loaded by SDS sample buffer and saved as the cytosol fraction.
Western blotting
Samples were assayed by SDS-PAGE, and proteins were electroblotted to nitrocellulose membranes. Results were visualized using an imaging system with an infrared imaging system (LI-COR Biosciences Inc.). Mouse anti-HA and anti-myc (purchased from Bibco), anti-β-catenin (BD Transduction Laboratories), and anti-β-tubulin (Sigma) mono-antibodies were used to, respectively, detect various samples as described in the text.
Immunofluorescence staining and Microscopy
HEK 293 cells on coverslips were washed once with ice-cold PBS and then fixed for 30 min in PBS containing 4% paraformaldehyde at 4°C. After the fixed cells were incubated in 0.2% Triton X-100 contained PBS at room temperature for 30 min, coverslips were incubated with 1% BSA for 1 h and then with anti-HA antibody (1:100) for another 1 h. Cy3-conjugated anti-mouse IgG (Jackson Immuno-research Laboratories, PA) was used as the second antibody. Cells were examined using a fluorescence microscope (Leica TCS SP2).
RESULTS
Effects of domains of Dvl-1 on the transcriptional activity of Wnt signaling
The cytoplasmic protein Dvl and the receptor Fz are essential in canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling pathways 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. It is believed that Dvl molecule transmits the signal from plasma membrane, and decides which event(s) would occur in Wnt-responsive cells 31. To demonstrate whether and how Dvl protein accepts would upstream signal and/or translocates to plasma membrane, we made four constructions for the three domains of mouse Dvl-1: Dvl-1-DIX (DIX, residues 1∼200), Dvl-1-PDZ (PDZ, residues 201∼375), Dvl-1-DEP (DEP, residues 400∼503), and a functional mutant of Dvl-1-DEP (DEP-KM, K434M mutation in electric dipole on the molecule's surface of DEP domain) 16. The effects of these domains on the canonical Wnt pathway were determined.
In LEF-1 reporter gene assay, Dvl-1 mutants were cotransfected with LEF-1 reporter gene, LEF-1, full-length Dvl-1, and ΔN-β-catenin into HEK 293 cells. After 18 h, Wnt-3a conditioned-medium (CM) was added for an additional 6 h treatment, and then the luciferase activity was determined. As shown in fig. 1, either Wnt-3a CM or two downstream activators, Dvl-1 16 and ΔN-β-catenin 32 could dramatically elevate the luciferase activity of LEF-1 reporter gene. Both DIX and DEP domain had a strong inhibitory effect on Wnt-3a-induced transcriptional activity, whereas PDZ domain alone almost did not have any effect (Fig. 1). Compared with DEP, the mutant DEP-KM suppressed the Wnt-3a-induced LEF activity in a much weaker manner. On the other hand, only DIX but not PDZ and DEP domain, inhibited the transcriptional activity induced by overexpressed Dvl-1 (Fig. 1). However, all these three domains did not have any effects on the LEF reporter activity induced by ΔN-β-catenin (Fig. 1).
ΔN-β-catenin was a constitutively active form of β-catenin. Due to the lack of N-terminal GSK-3β and CKIα phosphorylation sites, the protein level of this mutant cannot be regulated by the upstream components of canonical Wnt pathway 32. DEP and DIX domains only affect Wnt-induced, but not ΔN-β-catenin-induced LEF-1 transcriptional activity, indicating that these fragments of Dvl-1 may regulate the process of β-catenin accumulation.
To verify if and how these Dvl-1 domains affect Wnt-3a CM-induced free β-catenin accumulation, HEK 293 cells were transfected with various Dvl-1 domains, respectively. After 18 h, cells were treated with Control CM, Wnt-3a CM or a chemical inhibitor of GSK3β, Li+ (LiCl) 3 for additional 6 h. Then the cells were harvested for preparation of cell fraction and Western blotting analysis. Quantified by Odyssey v1.2 software supported by LI-COR Biosciences Inc and normalized with the level of endogenous-tubulin, the level of endogenous free cytosol β-catenin was found to be elevated in 4.8 (Wnt-3a CM) or 15.4 (LiCl) folds respectively. Both DIX and DEP domain almost completely abolished the accumulation of free β-catenin induced by Wnt-3a, whereas DEP-KM had much weaker effect and PDZ had no effect (Fig. 2). These results are in consistent with the results found in LEF-1 reporter gene assay (Fig. 1). At the same time, none of Dvl-1 domains changed β-catenin accumulation (Fig. 2) and the transcriptional activity of LEF-1 reporter gene induced by LiCl (data not shown).
DEP domain translocates to plasma membrane with Fz-7
After the characterization of three domains of Dvl-1 in canonical Wnt signal pathway, we can briefly conclude that DIX domain and DEP domain have inhibitory influence on the Wnt signaling at the upstream of β-catenin and GSK, and that DEP domain obviously mediates the the talk upstream but not the downstream of Dvl-1.We were interested to further see whether DEP was involved in Dvl membrane translocation mediated by Wnt or Fz in mammalian cells.
Full-length Dvl-1 and its three domains were tagged with GFP protein and transfected into HEK 293 cells respectively. The distribution of GFP fusion form of Dvl-1 was restrictedly located in cytoplasm (Fig. 3A) and partially associated with cytosolic vesicle, which is similar to that of endogenous Dvl as previously reported 33. DIX domain was also mainly distributed in the cytoplasm (Fig. 3B), but GFP-fused PDZ, DEP or DEP-KM was mainly localized in nuclei (Fig. 3C, D, E).
To test if Fz receptor could affect the distribution of Dvl-1 and its domains, all these GFP-fused proteins were respectively cotransfected with HA-tagged Fz-7 in HEK 293 cells. We found that none of these GFP-fused proteins could change the predominant membrane location of Fz-7 (Fig. 3F-J). As similar as its Xenopus ortholog, mouse Fz-7 induced the membrane translocation of Dvl-1 (Fig. 3F). And it obviously showed a colocalization of Dvl-1 and Fz-7-HA. Interestingly, DEP domain was also colocalized with Fz-7 on plasma membrane (Fig. 3I). However, none of the GFP-fused DIX, PDZ, or K434M mutant of DEP could be translocated to cytoplasmic membrane by or colocalized with Fz-7-HA (Fig. 3G, H, J).
DEP domain attenuates Fz-7-induced Dvl-1membrane translocation
Among the three domains of Dvl-1 only DEP was shown to be colocalized with Fz-7 as well as the full-length Dvl-1, suggesting that the DEP domain of Dvl-1 may be responsible for the colocalization of Dvl-1 and Fz-7. To give more evidences for this hypothesis, we further tested the effects of various domains of Dvl-1 on its translocation to the plasma membrane in the presence of transfected Fz-7 As shown in fig. 4, when cotransfected with Fz-7 into HEK 293 cells, Dvl-1-HA was localized on the plasma membrane, similar to Dvl-1-GFP when cotransfected with Fz-7-HA (Fig. 3F). As control, GFP alone has no effect on this colocalization (Fig. 4A). DEP domain, as shown in Fig. 4D, replaced the location of Dvl-1, and totally distributed around the plasma membrane, indicating that DEP could disrupt the colocalization of Dvl-1 with Fz-7 in the membrane. We suppose that this is due to a competitive colocalization with Fz-7 between DEP domain and Dvl-1 molecule. DIX domain could be visualized with an obviously colocalization with Dvl-1 on the membrane, but as same as PDZ domain, it could not affect the localization of Dvl-1 (Fig. 4B, C). Compared with DFP domain, DEP-KM could not effectively attenuate the membrane translocation of Dvl-1 (Fig. 4E).
DISCUSSION
Highly conserved signaling protein Dvl is required for the transduction and diversity of Wnt signaling. Genetic analysis in Drosophila melanogaster has shown that Dvl plays an important role in both cell fate determination and cell polarity 31. It is demonstrated that Fz transduces the canonical Wnt signaling from membrane to cytoplasm via a Dvl-dependent manner, even if the canonical Wnt signal from co-receptor LRP-6 is transduced via a Dvl-independent manner 23. The overexpresssion of some Fz proteins in Xenopus could lead to the duplication of D-V Axis, and the membrane translocation of Dvl could be detected at the same time 21. Beyond canonical Wnt pathway, genetic evidence suggests that the prototypic Drosophila Fz-1 is required for the establishment of tissue polarity through the JNK-1 pathway via Dvl and RhoA, and the membrane translocation of Dvl is required for this process 17, 34, 35, 36, 37. Similarly, vertebrate Fz homologues have also been shown to activate noncanonical Wnt pathway and induce the membrane translocation of Dvl (Fig. 3A, and unpublished data). The overexpression of Dvl and these Fz proteins could also induce JNK activation and Ca2+ signaling in mammalian cells [38, 39, and unpublished data]. These results suggest that the membrane translocation of Dvl may take part in more pathways besides canonical Wnt signaling.
Previously, Wong et al 22 reported that DEP-containing mutants inhibit Wnt-induced, but not Dvl-induced activation of the transcription factor LEF-1, as we showed in this study and before 23. NMR structure of DEP domain suggests that this domain could interact with regulators upstream of Dvl via a strong electric dipole on the molecule's surface created by K434, D445 and D448 16. A Dvl mutant, lacking the C-terminal DEP domain, could not enhance LEF-1 reporter gene activity, unless it was added with a myristate signal (unpublished data). A myristate shorter form of Dvl, but not DIX domain alone, has also been reported to activate canonical Wnt signaling 40. These results strongly suggest that DEP domain is critically involved in receiving the signaling from membrane.
In this work, we found that mammalian Dvl as well as its DEP domain could be translocated to plasma membrane when cotransfected with mouse Fz-7 (Fig. 3I). This membrane location of DEP could compete with Fz-7-induced membrane localization of full-length Dvl in mammalian cells (Fig. 4D). And these functions of DEP domain were dramatically weakened by its K434M mutation (Fig. 3J, 4E), which also show a weak inhibitory effect on Wnt3a-induced transcriptional activity and free β-catenin accumulation (Fig. 1 and 2). Here we could briefly conclude that DEP domain is responsible for membrane translocation of Dvl-1. It is very interesting to see if there is a direct interaction between Fz-7 and DEP domain, and such work is in progress.
Although both DIX domain and PDZ domain were verified to be critical for Dvl in the transduction of canonical Wnt signaling 15, 41, none of them could be relocalized to plasma membrane by overexpressed Fz-7 (Fig. 3G, H), or influence Fz-7-induced membrane translocation of Dvl-1 (Fig. 4B, C). Because DIX domain obviously inhibits the transcriptional activity of LEF-1 induced by Wnt-3a CM and overexpressed Dvl-1, its function should be defined at the downstream of Dvl. Colocalization of DIX-GFP with Dvl-1 on membrane which is induced by Fz-7 (Fig. 4B) suggests that dimerization of Dvl has no effect on its membrane location. Although the physical association of PDZ domain and C-terminal motif of Fz were discovered recently 22, we did not see any effects of PDZ domain alone on the Wnt-induced LEF-1 transcriptional activity (Fig. 1) or the colocalization of Fz and Dvl-1 (Fig. 3H, 4C). We suppose that the function of PDZ is not to decide the membrane translocation of Dvl, but its binding to Fz in a weak affinity may help to distinguish the distinct Wnt signaling.
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We thank Xiao Qing GAN and Wei BIAN for technical help. This work was supported by grants from the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2003AA221050), the Major State Basic Research Development program of China (2002CB513000), National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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PAN, W., PANG, S., HUANG, T. et al. Characterization of Function of Three Domains in Dishevelled-1: DEP Domain is Responsible for Membrane Translocation of Dishevelled-1. Cell Res 14, 324–330 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.cr.7290232
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