The extracellular domain of angulin-1 and palmitoylation of its cytoplasmic region are required for angulin-1 assembly at tricellular contacts.

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Abstract
Tricellular tight junctions (tTJs) create paracellular barriers at tricellular contacts (TCs), where the vertices of three polygonal epithelial cells meet. tTJs are marked by the enrichment of two types of membrane proteins, tricellulin and angulin family proteins. However, how TC geometry is recognized for tTJ formation remains unknown. In the present study, we examined the molecular mechanism for the assembly of angulin-1 at the TCs. We found that clusters of cysteine residues in the juxtamembrane region within the cytoplasmic domain of angulin-1 are highly palmitoylated. Mutagenesis analyses of the cysteine residues in this region revealed that palmitoylation is essential for localization of angulin-1 at TCs. Consistently, suppression of Asp-His-His-Cys motif-containing palmitoyltransferases (DHHCs) expressed in EpH4 cells significantly impaired the TC localization of angulin-1. Cholesterol depletion from the plasma membrane of cultured epithelial cells hampered the localization of angulin-1 at TCs, suggesting the existence of a lipid membrane microdomain at TCs that attract highly palmitoylated angulin-1. Furthermore, the extracellular domain of angulin-1 was also required for its TC localization, irrespective of the intracellular palmitoylation. Taken together, our findings suggest that both angulin-1's extracellular domain and palmitoylation of its cytoplasmic region are required for its assembly at TCs.
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Authors Oda, Yukako;Sugawara, Taichi;Fukata, Yuko;Izumi, Yasushi;Otani, Tetsuhisa;Higashi, Tomohito;Fukata, Masaki;Furuse, Mikio;
Journal The Journal of biological chemistry
Year 2020
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jbc.RA119.010491
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Keywords
cholesterol tight junction post-translational modification (ptm) epithelial cell angulin cell junction cell-cell interaction lipid raft tricellulat tight junction

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