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The Sec14-like phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins Sec14l3/SEC14L2 act as GTPase proteins to mediate Wnt/Ca2+ signaling

  1. Bo Gong
  2. Weimin Shen
  3. Wanghua Xiao
  4. Yaping Meng
  5. Anming Meng  Is a corresponding author
  6. Shunji Jia  Is a corresponding author
  1. Tsinghua University, China
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26362
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  1. Bo Gong
  2. Weimin Shen
  3. Wanghua Xiao
  4. Yaping Meng
  5. Anming Meng
  6. Shunji Jia
(2017)
The Sec14-like phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins Sec14l3/SEC14L2 act as GTPase proteins to mediate Wnt/Ca2+ signaling
eLife 6:e26362.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26362
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Abstract

The non-canonical Wnt/Ca2+ signaling pathway plays important roles in embryonic development, tissue formation and diseases. However, it is unclear how the Wnt ligand-stimulated, G protein-coupled receptor Frizzled activates phospholipases for calcium release. Here, we report that the zebrafish/human phosphatidylinositol transfer protein Sec14l3/SEC14L2 act as GTPase proteins to transduce Wnt signals from Frizzled to phospholipase C (PLC). Depletion of sec14l3 attenuates Wnt/Ca2+ responsive activity and causes convergent and extension (CE) defects in zebrafish embryos. Biochemical analyses in mammalian cells indicate that Sec14l3-GDP forms complex with Frizzled and Dishevelled; Wnt ligand binding of Frizzled induces translocation of Sec14l3 to the plasma membrane; and then Sec14l3-GTP binds to and activates phospholipase Cδ4a (Plcδ4a); subsequently, Plcδ4a initiates phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) signaling, ultimately stimulating calcium release. Furthermore, Plcδ4a can act as a GTPase-activating protein to accelerate the hydrolysis of Sec14l3-bound GTP to GDP. Our data provide a new insight into GTPase protein-coupled Wnt/Ca2+ signaling transduction.<sub/>

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  1. Bo Gong

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  2. Weimin Shen

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  3. Wanghua Xiao

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  4. Yaping Meng

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  5. Anming Meng

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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  6. Shunji Jia

    State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Engineering, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (31522035)

  • Shunji Jia

National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371460)

  • Shunji Jia

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2012CB945100)

  • Shunji Jia

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2011CB943800)

  • Anming Meng

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Animal experimentation: Fishes were handled according to the institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols (AP#13-MAM1), which were approved and permitted by the Tsinghua University Animal Care and Use Committee.

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© 2017, Gong et al.

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  1. Bo Gong
  2. Weimin Shen
  3. Wanghua Xiao
  4. Yaping Meng
  5. Anming Meng
  6. Shunji Jia
(2017)
The Sec14-like phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins Sec14l3/SEC14L2 act as GTPase proteins to mediate Wnt/Ca2+ signaling
eLife 6:e26362.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26362

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