アラシキ　ノブト   Arashiki Nobuto   新敷　信人    所属   医学部 医学科    職種   助教
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Membrane skeleton hyperstability due to a novel alternatively spliced 4.1R can account for ellipsoidal camelid red cells with decreased deformability.
掲載誌名	正式名：The Journal of biological chemistry 略　 称：J Biol Chem ISSNコード：1083351X/00219258
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	299(2),pp.102877
著者・共著者	Chen Yuqi, Miyazono Kosuke, Otsuka Yayoi, Kanamori Mariko, Yamashita Aozora, Arashiki Nobuto, Matsumoto Takehisa, Takada Kensuke, Sato Kota, Mohandas Narla, Inaba Mutsumi
発行年月	2023/01
概要	The red blood cells (RBCs) of vertebrates have evolved into two basic shapes, with nucleated nonmammalian RBCs having a biconvex ellipsoidal shape and anuclear mammalian RBCs having a biconcave disk shape. In contrast, camelid RBCs are flat ellipsoids with reduced membrane deformability, suggesting altered membrane skeletal organization. However, the mechanisms responsible for their elliptocytic shape and reduced deformability have not been determined. In the present study, we showed that in alpaca RBCs, protein 4.1R, a major component of the membrane skeleton, contains an alternatively spliced exon 14-derived cassette (e14) not observed in the highly conserved 80 kDa 4.1R of other highly deformable biconcave mammalian RBCs. The inclusion of this exon, along with the preceding unordered proline- and glutamic acid-rich peptide (PE), results in a larger and unique 90 kDa camelid 4.1R. Human 4.1R containing e14 and PE, but not PE alone, showed markedly increased ability to form a spectrin-actin-4.1R ternary complex in viscosity assays. A similar facilitated ternary complex was formed by human 4.1R possessing a duplication of the spectrin-actin-binding domain, one of the mutations known to cause human hereditary elliptocytosis. The e14- and PE-containing mutant also exhibited an increased binding affinity to β-spectrin compared with wild-type 4.1R. Taken together, these findings indicate that 4.1R protein with the e14 cassette results in the formation and maintenance of a hyperstable membrane skeleton, resulting in rigid red ellipsoidal cells in camelid species, and suggest that membrane structure is evolutionarily regulated by alternative splicing of exons in the 4.1R gene.
DOI	10.1016/j.jbc.2023.102877
PMID	36621628