Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate optical uncaging potentiates exocytosis

  1. Alexander M Walter  Is a corresponding author
  2. Rainer Müller
  3. Bassam Tawfik
  4. Keimpe DB Wierda
  5. Paulo S Pinheiro
  6. André Nadler
  7. Anthony W McCarthy
  8. Iwona Ziomkiewicz
  9. Martin Kruse
  10. Gregor Reither
  11. Jens Rettig
  12. Martin Lehmann
  13. Volker Haucke
  14. Bertil Hille
  15. Carsten Schultz  Is a corresponding author
  16. Jakob Balslev Sørensen  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  2. Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany
  3. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  4. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
  5. AstraZeneca, United Kingdom
  6. University of Washington, United States
  7. Saarland University, Germany
13 figures, 1 table and 1 additional file

Figures

Synthesis of membrane-permeant and photoactivatable PI(4,5)P2 (cg-PI(4,5)P2).

(a) Synthesis of PI(4,5)P2 derivatives 1a,b and 2a,b. Reagents and conditions: (a) CH2Cl2:HCO2H 4:1, room temperature (rt), 3 hr, 88%; (b) (FmO)2P-NiPr27, 1H-tetrazole, CH2Cl2, rt, 1 hr, then AcO2H, …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.003
Figure 2 with 1 supplement
Characterization of PI(4,5)P2 UV uncaging in-vitro, loading of cg-PI(4,5)P2 into living cells and visualization of PI(4,5)P2 uncaging in several cell types.

(a) Uncaging of cg-PI(4,5)P2 micelles on a glass coverslip results in the relocation of a high affinity PI(4,5)P2 sensor, PLCδ1-PH-EGFP, to micelles following UV light exposure, as seen by a local …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.004
Figure 2—figure supplement 1
PI(4,5)P2 uncaging elevates plasmalemmal PI(4,5)P2.

(a) Confocal imaging of elevated PI(4,5)P2 levels following uncaging of 1a,b. These tsA-201 cells overexpress M1 receptors and the PI(4,5)P2-fluorescence sensor PLCδ1-PH-RFP. Due to the high …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.005
PI(4,5)P2 uncaging increases actin levels near the plasma membrane and recruits the low affinity PI(4,5)P2 sensor PLCδ4-PH-EGFP to plasma membranes of adrenal chromaffin cells.

(a) TIRF imaging of HEK cell footprints transfected with lifeact-RFP to label actin. Cells were either loaded for 30 min at 37°C with 20 µM cg-PI(4,5)P2 (+cg-PI(4,5)P2, top) or not loaded (No …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.006
Figure 4 with 3 supplements
PI(4,5)P2 uncaging potentiates exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells, which depends on the lipid head group but does not alter depolarization-induced currents.

(a) Physiological stimulation paradigm to investigate the effect of PI(4,5)P2 uncaging on exocytosis. Cells were loaded with compounds 1a,b or 2a,b prior to experiments. After a pre-pulse of …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.007
Figure 4—figure supplement 1
Incubation with cg-PI(4,5)P2 does not affect exocytosis.

Chromaffin cells were incubated with either 0.02% pluronic (Control) or 0.02% pluronic +25 µM cg-PI(4,5)P2 (+cg-PI(4,5)P2) for 30 min as described earlier. Reliable uptake of cg- PI(4,5)P2 was …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.008
Figure 4—figure supplement 2
Uncaging of PI(4,5)P2 DOG (compound 1a,b in Figure 1a) does not alter depolarization-induced currents.

Depolarization-induced cumulative currents (charges mostly originating from Ca2+-currents) corresponding to the capacitance traces depicted in Figure 4b during the pre-pulse (left) and the test …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.009
Figure 4—figure supplement 3
Uncaging of PI(4,5)P2 does not cause an increase of intracellular [Ca2+] but enhances the rate of single vesicle fusion events.

All cells were loaded with compound 2a,b, (Figure 1) and analyzed following a depolarization pre-pulse protocol as depicted in Figure 4a (not shown). (a) Measurements (once every second) of …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.010
Figure 5 with 1 supplement
Uncaging of PI(4,5)P2, but not DAG augments exocytosis.

(a) Left panel: mean whole-cell capacitance responses during the test pulse of chromaffin cells loaded with cg-PI(4,5)P2 (data from compounds 1a,b and 2a,b pooled, uncaging group: blue, control …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.011
Figure 5—figure supplement 1
Blocking PI(4,5)P2-degradation to DAG augments recovery of the RRP.

These experiments measure exocytosis (capacitance changes) induced by sudden intracellular Ca2+ elevations. (a) Ca2+ uncaging (at arrow) stimulates fast and slow components of exocytosis. The …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.012
Figure 6 with 1 supplement
Exocytosis potentiation by PI(4,5)P2 uncaging requires synaptotagmin-1 and Munc13-2, but not CAPS.

(a–c) All cells were loaded with cg-PI(4,5)P2 prior to experiments and subjected to the stimulation paradigm shown in Figure 4a. Average whole-cell capacitance responses during the test pulse are …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.013
Figure 6—figure supplement 1
Uncaging cg-PI(4,5)P2 in-between the pre-pulse and the test pulse enhances exocytosis during the test-pulse.

Supplementary data figure of electrophysiological experiments depicted in Figures 5 and 6. (a) Loading protocol. Cells were incubated with cg-PI(4,5)P2 for 30 min leading to reliable uptake of …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.014
Figure 7 with 1 supplement
Uncaging PI(4,5)P2 induces rapid exocytosis.

(a) PI(4,5)P2 uncaging rapidly increased membrane capacitance measured during the first uncaging flash (stimulation protocol: see Figure 4a), indicative of fast vesicle fusion. Averaged capacitance …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.015
Figure 7—figure supplement 1
Fast release of vesicles upon first PI(4,5)P2 uncaging event in wild type chromaffin cells.

Our uncaging protocol in chromaffin cells included four sequential uncaging pulses every 15 s. Figure 7 shows only the average capacitance traces during the first uncaging. Here, the membrane …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.016
Uncaging PI(4,5)P2 distinguishes mechanism of lipid-binding.

Two different roles of lipid-binding proteins can be distinguished by lipid uncaging: protein A (e.g. CAPS) binds to PI(4,5)P2 in order to bring it to the vesicle and fusion machinery (localization …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.017
Chemical structure 1
Synthesis of head group 10a,b.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.018
Chemical structure 4
Structure determination of 4- and 5-isomers.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.021
Chemical structure 5
Synthesis of 7-diethylamino-4-hydroxymethyl-2-oxo-2H-chromen 20.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30203.022

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DesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
strain, strain
background
(Mus.musculus)
CD1Department of Experimental Medicine,
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences,
Unviersity of Copenhagen.
genetic reagent
(M.musculus)
Syt-1 nul allele
(gene symbol: syt1)
Geppert et al., 1994PMID: 18308932
genetic reagent
(M.musculus)
Munc13-2 null allele
(gene symbol: Unc13b)
Varoqueaux et al., 2002PMID: 12070347
genetic reagent
(M.musculus)
CAPS1 null allele
(gene symbol: Cadps)
Speidel et al., 2005PMID: 15820695
genetic reagent
(M.musculus)
CAPS2 null allele
(gene symbol:
Cadps2)
Jockusch et al., 2007PMID: 18022372
cell line (HEK 293T)HEK 293TATCCCRL-1573Experiments in Figure 2b
cell line (HEK 293T)HEK 293TA gift from Dr. Theres Schaub
and Prof Victor Tarabykin, Institute
of Cell Biology and Cell Biology,
Charité Berlin
Experiments Figure 3a
cell line (COS-7)COS-7ATCCCRL-1651
cell line (tsA201)tsA201Sigma-aldrichSigma-aldrich: 96121229
transfected lentiviral
construct (p156rrl-pCMV-
PLCδ4PH-EGFP)
PLCδ4-PH-GFPThis paperLocal reference: 131plasmid with PLCδ4 received
from Thomas F. J. Martin
(Department of Biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin)
transfected construct
(pCMV-PLCδ1-PH-EGFP)
PLCδ1-PH-GFPMichael Krauss (Leibniz-
Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare
Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany).
transfected construct
(pCMV-PLCδ1-PH-RFP)
PLCδ1-PH-RFPKen Mackie (The Gill Center for
Biomolecular Science,
Bloomington, Indiana)
transfected construct
(pCMV-mcherry-INPP5E)
mCh-INPP5EPosor et al., 2013
transfected construct
(pCMV-mRFPruby-
N1*Lifeact)
lifeact-RFPGeerd van den Bogaart (Radboud
University Medical Center,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
PMID: 18536722
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