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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1999//995 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 147, Number 5, , 1999 995-1008

Ankyrin-B Is Required for Intracellular Sorting of Structurally Diverse Ca²⁺ Homeostasis Proteins

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, 363 Carl Bldg., Res Drive, Box 3892, Durham, NC 27710-0001.(919) 684-3590(919) 684-3538

benne012{at}mc.duke.edu

This report describes a congenital myopathy and major loss of thymic lymphocytes in ankyrin-B (–/–) mice as well as dramatic alterations in intracellular localization of key components of the Ca²⁺ homeostasis machinery in ankyrin-B (–/–) striated muscle and thymus. The sacoplasmic reticulum (SR) and SR/T-tubule junctions are apparently preserved in a normal distribution in ankyrin-B (–/–) skeletal muscle based on electron microscopy and the presence of a normal pattern of triadin and dihydropyridine receptor. Therefore, the abnormal localization of SR/ER Ca ATPase (SERCA) and ryanodine receptors represents a defect in intracellular sorting of these proteins in skeletal muscle. Extrapolation of these observations suggests defective targeting as the basis for abnormal localization of ryanodine receptors, IP3 receptors and SERCA in heart, and of IP3 receptors in the thymus of ankyrin-B (–/–) mice. Mis-sorting of SERCA 2 and ryanodine receptor 2 in ankyrin-B (–/–) cardiomyocytes is rescued by expression of 220-kD ankyrin-B, demonstrating that lack of the 220-kD ankyrin-B polypeptide is the primary defect in these cells. Ankyrin-B is associated with intracellular vesicles, but is not colocalized with the bulk of SERCA 1 or ryanodine receptor type 1 in skeletal muscle. These data provide the first evidence of a physiological requirement for ankyrin-B in intracellular targeting of the calcium homeostasis machinery of striated muscle and immune system, and moreover, support a catalytic role that does not involve permanent stoichiometric complexes between ankyrin-B and targeted proteins. Ankyrin-B is a member of a family of adapter proteins implicated in restriction of diverse proteins to specialized plasma membrane domains. Similar mechanisms involving ankyrins may be essential for segregation of functionally defined proteins within specialized regions of the plasma membrane and within the Ca²⁺ homeostasis compartment of the ER.

Key Words: calcium homeostasis • IP3 receptor • ankyrin • sarcoplasmic reticulum • gene knockout

© 1999 The Rockefeller University Press

S. Tuvia and M. Buhusi contributed equally to this paper.

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