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Small GTPase Rab21 regulates cell adhesion and controls endosomal traffic of ß1-integrins
Correspondence to Johanna Ivaska: johanna.ivaska{at}vtt.fi
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Dynamic turnover of integrin cell adhesion molecules to and from the cell surface is central to cell migration. We report for the first time an association between integrins and Rab proteins, which are small GTPases involved in the traffic of endocytotic vesicles. Rab21 (and Rab5) associate with the cytoplasmic domains of
-integrin chains, and their expression influences the endo/exocytic traffic of integrins. This function of Rab21 is dependent on its GTP/GDP cycle and proper membrane targeting. Knock down of Rab21 impairs integrin-mediated cell adhesion and motility, whereas its overexpression stimulates cell migration and cancer cell adhesion to collagen and human bone. Finally, overexpression of Rab21 fails to induce cell adhesion via an integrin point mutant deficient in Rab21 association. These data provide mechanistic insight into how integrins are targeted to intracellular compartments and how their traffic regulates cell adhesion.
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/ß-Integrin heterodimers are key molecules involved in cell adhesion and migration. Binding of cell surface–expressed integrins to specific ligands on the extracellular matrix is relatively well understood (Hynes, 2002). In contrast, much less is known about the turnover of integrin-containing adhesion sites and the intracellular traffic of integrins, although their importance in cell adhesion and migration is being increasingly recognized (Bretscher, 1996; Huttenlocher, 2005). In particular, the mechanisms that target integrins to specific endocytic compartments remain unknown.
Eukaryotic cells internalize cell-surface receptors by endocytosis. Integrins, like several other proteins lacking the AP-2 localization signal are internalized from the cell membrane via nonclathrin-derived structures, and some integrins have been shown to subsequently fuse with compartments containing clathrin-derived cargo proteins (Ng et al., 1999; Naslavsky et al., 2003; Upla et al., 2004; Weigert et al., 2004). The endocytosed receptors are subsequently recycled back to the cell surface or targeted for degradation. Depending on the cell type and the stimulus, integrins have been shown to be transported through caveolin-1–positive structures or early endosomes, either directly or via the perinuclear recycling compartment, back to the plasma membrane (Caswell and Norman, 2006).
Rab proteins are small GTPases that regulate both endocytosis and exocytosis. Several members have been implicated to function on the endocytic pathway, in which the function of Rab5 is understood in more detail (Miaczynska and Zerial, 2002). Rab5 regulates membrane traffic into and between early endosomes as well as vesicle transport along microtubules (Zerial and McBride, 2001).
Integrin traffic is regulated by several kinases (Ng et al., 1999; Roberts et al., 2001, 2003, 2004; Ivaska et al., 2002; Woods et al., 2004) and motor proteins (Zhang et al., 2004). However, very little is known about the mechanisms that target integrins to specific intracellular compartments and how this may be controlled. Although Rab proteins are known to bind a multiplicity of diverse effectors (Zerial and McBride, 2001), only a few examples demonstrate an interaction between a Rab GTPase and a cargo molecule (Seachrist et al., 2002; van IJzendoorn et al., 2002). We identify Rab21 and Rab5 as integrin-associated proteins and positive regulators of integrin traffic.
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2-integrin cytoplasmic domain as bait in a yeast two-hybrid screen. The bait comprised the conserved membrane-proximal sequence shared by most -integrin subunits followed by the 2-specific segment. Several positive clones encoded the COOH-terminal part of Rab21. Rab21 is a ubiquitously expressed and poorly characterized member of the Rab family that has recently been shown to function on the endocytic pathway (Simpson et al., 2004).
The ability of Rab21 to associate with integrins was further confirmed in human cells. GFP-tagged Rab21 coprecipitated with 2ß1-integrin, a collagen binding molecule (Takada and Hemler, 1989), in cells plated either on collagen or on plastic (Fig. 1 A
), indicating a constant, rather than a matrix adhesion–inducible, association between the two proteins. Furthermore, Rab21 was found to associate with several /ß1-integrin heterodimers. Rab21 coprecipitated with chimeric integrins containing the extracellular domain of 2-integrin fused to the cytoplasmic domains of either 1- or 5-integrin (Fig. 1 B) and endogenous integrins that were immunoprecipitated with antibodies against 1, 2, 5, 6, and ß1 subunits (Fig. 1, B and C; and Table S1, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1). These data suggest that the association involves the shared conserved membrane-proximal segment present in most -subunit cytoplasmic domains. To get evidence for the association with an independent method, we performed yeast two-hybrid studies with -tail mutants. In remating tests, we found that the COOH-terminal part of Rab21 (amino acids 95–222) was able to associate with the cytoplasmic tails of 2- and 11-integrin (Fig. 1 D). Introduction of a proline residue adjacent to the conserved membrane-proximal sequence (2P, to create a conformational change into the 2 tail) markedly weakened the association between the 2 cytoplasmic domain and Rab21, whereas mutagenesis of a conserved positive charge in 2A (K1160) and 11A (R1170) tails had no effect (Fig. 1 D). To further characterize the Rab21–integrin association, we generated several mutants of 2-integrin. All of these mutants were expressed and mediated adhesion to collagen in transiently transfected CHO cells (Fig. 1 E and not depicted; see Fig. 6 E). Mutagenesis of residue R1161 (in 2AA and 2AAKYA, removing another conserved charged residue) to alanine significantly reduced 2 tail association with Rab21 judged by yeast mating tests and immunoprecipitations (Fig. 1, D and E). In addition, F1159A mutation (2AARA, possibly creating a conformational change) showed reduced association in the yeast assays, whereas in immunoprecipitations the reduction was not significant. These data on the mutant integrins suggest that the conformation of the cytoplasmic domain and residue R1161 of 2-integrin are important for the Rab21 association. Finally, endogenous ß1-integrins readily associated with endogenous Rab21 and to some extent Rab5 proteins in vivo. These associations were specific, as Rab7 and Rab11 failed to coprecipitate ß1-integrin from these cells, even though separately all proteins were efficiently immunoprecipitated (Fig. 1 F).
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Rab21 regulates the subcellular localization of ß1-integrins
The cellular localization of endogenous ß1-integrins, Rab5A, and Rab21 was studied in MDA-MB-231 cells. ß1-Integrin was detected by the NH2-terminally binding antibody in the lumen of endogenous Rab5- and Rab21-positive large vesicles (Fig. 1 G, arrowheads). In addition, these cells also harbor large endogenous EEA1-positive endosomes that stained positive for Rab5A but showed very limited overlap with Rab21 (Fig. 1 G, arrows). /ß1- Integrin heterodimers can be expressed in active (extracellular domain detected by a monoclonal antibody HUTS21; active-ß1 antibody) and inactive forms on the cell surface (extracellular domain of both forms detected by P5D2; pan-ß1 antibody; Lenter et al., 1993; Luque et al., 1996). Expression of Rab21 in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells altered the subcellular localization of the total pool of ß1-integrins. Cells expressing GFP-Rab21 contained numerous ß1-integrin–positive vesicles (compare the nontransfected cell [Fig. 2 A, asterisk] and the transfected cell [Fig. 2 B
]). The majority of these had GFP-Rab21 on their limiting membrane (72 ± 8% of pan-ß1–positive vesicles and 68 ± 10% of active-ß1–positive vesicles; n = 20 cells; Fig. 2, B and C). The recruitment of integrins to Rab21-positive intracellular structures was confirmed using two additional antibodies recognizing active-ß1-integrin (12G10 [Mould et al., 1995] and P4G11 [Wayner et al., 1993]; Fig. 2, J and K). Similar to previous observations on breast cancer cells (Ng et al., 1999), the ECM proteins collagen and fibronectin were also detected in the endocytic structures (Fig. 2 L and not depicted). Interestingly, both Rab21 mutants induced marked alterations in the cellular distribution of ß1-integrins. GFP-Rab21GTP showed a tubular- vesicular staining pattern that largely overlaps with the ER (Fig. 2, D and E; and not depicted), and active-ß1-integrin was detected in smaller and more irregularly shaped endocytotic integrin vesicles, whereas the pan-ß1 antibody detected ß1-integrin at the membrane, diffusely in the cytosol and accumulated in the large vacuolar structures. Strikingly, expression of GFP-Rab21GDP induced localization of active-ß1 into large focal adhesions (Fig. 2 F, arrows), which are rarely detected in these highly motile cells endogenously (Fig. 2 A). GFP-Rab21GDP variant but not GFP-Rab21GTP was also seen at membrane ruffles (Fig. 2 G, arrows).
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Rab21 regulates integrin traffic and associates with the internalized ß1-integrin
To analyze the dynamics of integrin internalization, we investigated the ability of different Rabs to coprecipitate surface-labeled integrin before and after internalization. Interestingly, Rab5 and Rab21 antibodies very weakly coimmunoprecipitated biotinylated 
160-kD proteins located on the plasma membrane (Fig. 3 A
, no internalization). After 15 min of internalization, Rab5/21, but not Rab7, associated with biotinylated plasma membrane–derived 160-kD protein (Fig. 3 A, internalization 15 min, lanes 1 and 2). Reimmunoprecipitation revealed that ß1-integrin was present, possibly with other plasma membrane–derived proteins, in the biotinylated Rab5/21 coprecipitating fraction (Fig. 3 A, internalization 15 min, lane 3), indicating that integrins associate with Rabs mainly after internalization. Further colocalization and internalization studies showed that internalized ß1-integrins originally traverse through the same compartment as transferrin but, subsequently, the integrin traffics into separate, mainly GFP-Rab21–positive vesicles that can also contain caveolin, whereas transferrin remains colocalized extensively with GFP-Rab5 (Fig. S1, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1). In these cells, internalized integrin did not colocalize with GFP-Rab11 (not depicted).
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In density gradient fractionations, expression of GFP-Rab21 shifted the integrins toward the denser Rab-positive fractions (Hughes et al., 2002), and GFP-Rab21 cofractionated with 2-integrin in fractions 3–9 (Fig. 3 D). A further shift in the endogenous integrin pool (to fractions 5–11) was observed upon expression of GFP-Rab21GTP, and GFP-Rab21GDP was also observed in the denser fractions (Fig. 3 D). In the lighter fractions (3–5), GFP-Rab21 and integrin were found to cosediment with the Golgi-marker GM130, whereas in the denser fractions, cosedimentation was observed with the ER marker P115 (fractions 6–8) and EEA1 (fractions 7–9; Fig. S3 A, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1). This data, together with the abundance of integrin vesicles observed in Rab21-expressing cells (Fig. 2), suggests that Rab21 targets integrins to the endocytic fraction in human cells.
Further characterization of the large intracellular structures induced by GFP-Rab21 overexpression was performed by electron microscopy and immunogold labeling of GFP (Fig. S3, B and C). Overexpressed GFP-Rab21 was found predominantly on the limiting membranes of large multivesicular body (MVB)–like structures and in numerous vesicles surrounding it (Fig. S3, B and C), thus resembling the doughnut-shaped structures observed by immunofluorescence (Fig. 2). In addition, GFP-Rab21 staining was observed in structures with autophagic morphology (<20% of the labeled structures; unpublished data).
Rab21 expression induces motile GFP-integrin vesicles in live cells and displays bidirectional vesicle motility to and from the plasma membrane
We used time-lapse imaging to visualize the kinetics of Rab21 in real time. GFP-Rab21 was detected in large, swollen endosome-resembling structures, as well as in motile, smaller vesicles, which moved bidirectionally between the cytosol and the cell edges at velocity ranging from 0.75–2.25 µm/s (Fig. 4 A
, vesicles B and C; and Video 1, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1). Small vesicles were observed interacting with each other and associating with bright Rab21-containing domains on the larger Rab21-positive structures (Fig. 4 A, vesicle A) identical to the ß1-integrin–containing vesicles seen in our immunofluorescence stainings (Figs. 1 and 2 and Fig. S1). The short-range motion of the Rab21 vesicles at the cell periphery was sensitive to the disruption of actin filaments with 20 µM cytochalasin (unpublished data), and the long-range curvilinear movements observed in the cell body were abolished upon treatment with 5 µM nocodazole (unpublished data), suggesting a role for actin and microtubules. Combined total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM; pseudocolored green) and conventional widefield epifluorescence analysis (pseudocolored red) showed GFP-Rab21 vesicles emanating from the membrane into the cell (changing from green to red/yellow) and back or vice versa (although formally this technique does not exclude the possibility that some vesicles will by chance come closer and further away from the plasma membrane). The intensity plots show rapid changes in the intensities of the signal in the green channel, whereas the signal in the red channel remains constant (Fig. 4 B and Video 2). No obvious diffusion of the bright Rab21 structures was seen using TIRFM, indicating either that the Rab21-labeled structures remain as distinct domains on the plasma membrane or that they do not fuse with the membrane. This former possibility correlates well with the observation that upon binding the small vesicles seem to remain as bright patches on the limiting membranes of the intracellular large Rab21-positive structures (Fig. 4 A). Real-time imaging and TIRFM confirmed that the intact GTP/GDP cycling of Rab21 was crucial for its vesicular traffic because motile small vesicles were not detected in GFP-Rab21GDP–transfected cells and Rab21 was associated with rather static structures at the cell membrane (Fig. 4 C and Video 3). These resemble YFP-talin–positive structures detected by TIRFM (Fig. 4 D) and may represent adhesion structures that have reduced turnover because of the expression of GFP- Rab21GDP and possibly its association with ß1-integrin.
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2-integrin (GFP-2), which is dynamic in vivo, mediates cell adhesion to collagen, is recognized by 2I-domain binding monoclonal antibodies, and is expressed on the cell surface (see Fig. 6 E; not depicted). Upon cotransfection, Renilla luciferase (Rluc)–tagged Rab21 and GFP-2 associated efficiently (Fig. 5 A
). Rab21 expression induced motile GFP–2-integrin–labeled vesicles (Fig. 5 B and Video 4, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1), whereas cells expressing GFP–2-integrin alone or with Rluc-Rab21GDP, showed a vesicular-tubular staining pattern with no obvious vesicles and that partially overlaps with ER tracker stain in live cells (Fig. 5 C, Video 5, and not depicted). Collectively, these data demonstrate that enzymatically active Rab21 is able to target integrins to endocytic vesicles in live cells.
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/ß1-integrin heterodimers. Overexpression of GFP-Rab5, -Rab11, -Rab21, or -Rab21GTP did not influence the amount of ß1-integrin detected on the surface of MDA-MB-231 (Fig. 6 C) and PC3 cells (not depicted), suggesting that efficient transport of endocytosed integrins to newly formed sites of adhesion, rather than a change in the steady-state expression of integrins on the cell surface, is the basis of Rab21-induced cell adhesion. Interestingly, GFP-Rab21GDP caused a modest increase in ß1-integrin surface expression in MDA-MB-231 cells (Fig. 6 C). Thus, Rab21GDP both inhibits integrin traffic and increases cell surface levels of integrins. This induction of two counteracting forces further explains the lack of dominant-negative effects on adhesion. Most important, specific silencing of Rab21 with two different RNAi oligos (Fig. 6 D) resulted in a 30% reduction in the adhesion of MDA-MB-231 cells to collagen. As no down-regulation of ß1-integrin was observed, the effect of Rab21 knockdown is most likely due to inefficient integrin traffic. Finally, to demonstrate that Rab21–integrin association is involved in Rab21-induced cell adhesion, we used the mutant 2-integrins with reduced Rab21 binding (Fig. 1, D and E). CHO cells lack endogenous collagen receptors. Transient expression of 2WT, 2AA (deficient Rab21 association), or 2A (unaltered Rab21 association), together with Rluc, enabled equivalent adhesion of these cells to collagen (Fig. 6 E, bottom). Rluc-Rab21 induced adhesion to collagen when coexpressed with 2WT- or 2A-integrins but failed to do so with 2AA-integrin mutant (Fig. 6 E, top). Furthermore, coexpression of Rluc-Rab21 induced vesicular localization of GFP-2WT but had no effect on the cellular distribution of GFP-2AA (Fig. 6 F).
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70–75% of the wound area (Fig. 7 B). Conversely, stable Rab21-shRNA (short hairpin RNA)–transfected cells with reduced Rab21 expression (Fig. 3 C) migrated poorly, covering only sim;59% of the wound area, whereas Scr-shRNA–transfected control cells closed the wound almost completely (Fig. 7 C). During this time, there were no obvious differences in the proliferation of the stable transfected cells (not depicted). These data suggest that expression of Rab21 regulates migration in these cells.
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Although it is clear that the endocytic traffic of integrins involves a complex machinery of kinases, motor proteins, and members of the Rab family of GTPases, how integrins are actually targeted to the intracellular vesicles has remained enigmatic. The identification of integrin association with the putative early endosomal Rab21 led us to identify a functional relationship between integrin association with Rab21 and Rab5 and the regulation of cell adhesion. Several studies have demonstrated integrin endocytosis into intracellular vesicles and their recycling back to the membrane (Bretscher, 1989, 1992). In serum-starved cells stably adhering to tissue culture plastic, integrins have been shown to be transported to a perinuclear recycling compartment. Upon growth factor stimulus, internalized integrins either recycle very rapidly back to the plasma membrane from the perinuclear compartment (ß1-integrins; Powelka et al., 2004) or are completely rerouted to a short-loop trafficking pathway directly back to the membrane (vß3-integrin; Roberts et al., 2004). The existence of a Rab–integrin association, which positively regulates cell adhesion, provides a missing mechanistic link into the orchestration of this complex process. We show on one hand that the motility of Rab21 vesicles close to the plasma membrane requires the actin cytoskeleton and, on the other hand, that expression of Rab21 mutants with impaired GTP binding or membrane localization induce integrin targeting to the membrane and the formation of exaggerated adhesion sites. This is in agreement with the recent finding that integrins in newly forming protrusions travel on actin cables associated to motor protein Myosin X and that normal cell adhesion and spreading during the initial stages of adhesion seem to require the efficient motility of integrins close to the plasma membrane (Zhang et al., 2004).
There is only limited data available on the dynamics of integrins in cells. One study demonstrates the internalization of GFP-tagged integrin in live cells (Laukaitis et al., 2001). However, no integrin movements back to the plasma membrane were seen. Although the role of Rab proteins was not addressed in the study of Laukaitis et al. (2001), it is intriguing to note that the large vesicles they described are remarkably similar to the structures induced here by the overexpression of GFP-Rab21. We show here that these large structures resemble MVBs. MVBs are generally thought of as being major protein sorting stations in the endocytic pathway. Proteins at their limiting membrane can be packaged into transport vesicles destined to the cell surface or to the TGN. Alternatively, proteins can be targeted to inwardly budding vesicles of the MVBs. These latter are considered to be the exosomes secreted after fusion of MVBs with the plasma membrane (Fevrier and Raposo, 2004). The observation that overexpressed GFP-Rab21 is seen mainly in the limiting membrane and vesicles surrounding the MVBs points to an involvement of the MVBs in recycling vesicles back to the plasma membrane. The enlargement of the MVBs and accumulation of the vesicles most likely is the result of overexpression of the Rab21 protein, indicating its role in traffic to the MVBs. Our data does not unambiguously show whether integrins and Rabs interact directly. The facts that the association was detected from a yeast two-hybrid screen and that it is abrogated by mutagenesis of the -cytoplasmic domain suggest that it may be direct. However, we cannot rule out the possibility that as-yet-unknown proteins that are capable of binding to the integrin may serve as linkers between Rab21 and integrins. We were unable to detect direct interaction of GST-Rab21 with synthetic integrin cytoplasmic tail peptides. However, this does not necessarily mean that the interaction is not direct. It is possible that the peptides are not presented in a correct conformation for the interaction to occur. Evidence from detailed biochemical and nuclear magnetic resonance studies (Stefansson et al., 2004; Vinogradova et al., 2004) indicates that upon integrin activation the membrane-proximal regions of the integrin cytoplasmic tails move out of the membrane into the cytoplasm, revealing the highly conserved residues to the cytoplasmic face and involving substantial structural changes in the cytoplasmic tails. We show that Rab21–integrin association occurs downstream of the internalization step and that a substantial portion of the internalized integrin is in an active conformation as detected by the activation epitope–specific antibodies. This is in line with our data showing that the association is mediated via the membrane proximal–conserved segment of the -subunit COOH terminus, with conserved residue R1161 being especially important, and that the association seems to be -tail conformation sensitive.
Prenylation-dependent membrane targeting of Rabs is crucial for Rab function as regulators of vesicle fusion in intracellular protein trafficking (Desnoyers et al., 1996). We show that the mutagenesis of the putative prenylation motif in Rab21 results in complete loss of its vesicular localization. At the same time, this variant shows reduced association with ß1-integrins and upon overexpression induces integrin localization on the plasma membrane and in large focal adhesions (by targeting the integrins or by blocking the internalization).
Rab21 and integrin internalization routes
Endocytosis encompasses several routes of internalization. The entry route of integrins remains somewhat unclear and may vary between different heterodimers. Integrins have been shown to internalize in a dynamin and PKC-dependent manner after ligand binding (Ng et al., 1999). Internalized ß1-integrins are then targeted to caveosomes (Upla et al., 2004) or transferrin-positive endosomes (Laukaitis et al., 2001) depending on the heterodimer, the cell type, and the stimulus used. Recent data showing that the caveolar and endosomal pathways intersect (Pelkmans et al., 2004) and our data showing caveolin-1–positive domains on Rab5- and Rab21-positive integrin–containing vesicles provide a possible explanation for these variable integrin trafficking routes. We show that several different integrin heterodimers associate with Rab21. This association may serve to target integrins that initially enter the cell via different routes to the same trafficking pathway.
From the live-cell TIRFM studies, it is obvious that Rab21-positive structures traffic from the cell body to the plasma membrane, possibly delivering integrins to adhesion sites. This correlates well with the previous work showing that 5-integrin engagement initiates the newly forming adhesions and serves to organize proteins like paxillin in these sites (Laukaitis et al., 2001).
We show here that Rab21 expression induces cell motility and adhesion to collagen and to human bone in vitro. Importantly, Rab21 is also able to induce the endosomal traffic of integrins. Interestingly, emerging evidence implicates alterations in the Rab small GTPases and their associated regulatory proteins and effectors in multiple human diseases, including cancer (Cheng et al., 2004). In conclusion, the identification of Rab21–integrin association opens new opportunities for investigating the detailed mechanisms underlying the adhesion and migration of cells in vivo in diseases like cancer metastasis.
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5-integrin (BIIG2), EGFR (151-IgG; all from the Drosophila Studies Hybridoma Bank), 2 (mAb MCA2025; Serotec), pAb AB1934 (Chemicon), 1 (MAB1973; Chemicon), 6 (MAB699; Chemicon), ß1 (HUTS-21 [BD Biosciences] and MAB2252 [Chemicon]), collagen type 1 (RAHC11; Imtek), GFP polyclonal antibody, fluorescently conjugated secondary antibodies, Cell Tracker dyes, and labeled transferrin (all from Invitrogen).
Full-length Rab21 was subcloned from Rab21 murine cDNA (clone 6490069; IMAGE) by PCR amplification and ligated into pRluc-C2 (PerkinElmer) and in pEGFP-C2 (CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc.). Rab21GTP (Q76L), Rab21GDP (T31N), and CCSS (residues 218 and 219) mutants were generated using QuikChange Site-directed mutagenesis kit (Stratagene). Rab21 COOH-terminal–deletion mutant was generated by introducing a stop codon after E144. Plasmids encoding GFP-Rab5a, GFP-Rab7, YFP-Rab9, and GFP-Rab11 have been described (Wilcke et al., 2000; Barbero et al., 2002; Lebrand et al., 2002; Gomes et al., 2003), and YFP-mouse talin was provided by D. Critchley (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK). 2-Integrin was subcloned from the 2 cDNA in pawneo2 vector (Ivaska et al., 1999) into pEGFP-C2 vector. The signal sequence of 2-integrin (annealed synthetic oligos corresponding to nucleotides 43–129 in the published sequence [Takada and Hemler, 1989] was inserted to the NheI site in the vector to enable correct targeting to the plasma membrane. The GFP–2-integrin cytoplasmic tail mutants were generated by using QuikChange Site-directed mutagenesis kit. All clones were verified by sequencing.
Immunoprecipitations
Rluc-tagged Rab21 constructs alone or with GFP-2 variants (CHO cells that lack endogenous collagen binding integrins) were transfected into 95% confluent cells using Lipofectamine 2000 and incubated for 18 h. For immunoprecipitations with endogenous proteins, confluent MDA-MB-231 cells (20 x 106) were collected from plastic plates with cold PBS. For analysis of association with cell surface–labeled integrin, MDA-MB-231 cells were plated on collagen-coated dishes for 1 h and surface biotinylated with cleavable biotin (0.5 mg/ml EZ-sulfo-NHS-SS-biotin in HANKS buffer) for 30 min on ice. After washings, cells were either lysed immediately or warmed for 15 min in HANKS +37°C to allow internalization. Cells were lysed in IP buffer (PBS with 1% octylglycoside, 0.5% BSA, 1mM CaCl2, 1mM MgCl2, and protease inhibitor cocktail [Roche]) on ice for 15 min. Postcentrifugation supernatant was precleared with BSA-blocked (IP buffer) protein G–agarose beads and divided into five aliquots for immunoprecipitations with different anti-Rab antibodies or a control antibody and protein G beads (90-min rotation at 4°C). After three washings (IP buffer containing 0.3% octylglycoside), SDS sample buffer was added and the proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE (4%/10%) and immunoblotted for ß1-integrin (MAB2252). Reimmunoprecipitations were performed as described earlier (Mattila et al., 2005). For the luminescent immunoprecipitations, the beads were transferred into white microtiter plate wells (96-well) and treated with Rluc substrate (5 µg/ml coelenterazine [Nanolight Technologies]), and the luminescence was measured with a multilabel HTS counter (Victor2V; PerkinElmer).
Integrin internalization and recycling assay
These were performed as described previously (Roberts et al., 2001; Ivaska et al., 2002) with some modifications. After 1 h of adhesion to collagen-coated dishes, the transfected cells were placed on ice, washed once with cold PBS, and surface labeled with 0.5 mg/ml cleavable NHS-SS-biotin (Pierce Chemical Co.). After washings, prewarmed (+37°C) HANKS medium was added, and protein traffic (internalization and recycling) was allowed to occur for the times indicated. Biotin was removed from cell surface proteins by MesNa reduction and iodoacetamide quenching on ice. The cells were lysed (200 mM NaCl, 75 mM Tris, 15 mM NaF, 1.5 mM Na3VO4, 7.5 mM EDTA, 7.5 mM EGTA, 1.5% Triton-X-100, and Complete), and the amount of biotinylated integrin was assayed using the anti–ß1-integrin antibody AIIB2 to capture the integrins and HRP anti-biotin antibody for ELISA detection. As control, the cells were lysed after the labeling to determine the amount of total biotinylated integrin.
Immunoelectron microscopy
Stable MDA-MB-231–expressing GFP-Rab21 cells were fixed in 1% PFA with or without 0.01% glutaraldehyde in 100 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, for 2 h at RT. Next, cells were pelleted in 10% gelatine and postfixed in 1% PFA for another 24 h. Ultrathin cruosections were prepared on a cryochamber (EM FCS; Leica), and thawed sections were incubated with a polyclonal antiserum raised against EGFP followed by incubation with protein A complexed to 5-nm gold particles according to standard procedures. Sections were observed in an electron microscope (model 1010; JEOL) operating at 80 kV.
Sucrose gradient fractionations
HeLa cells were transiently transfected with GFP, GFP-Rab21, or GFP-Rab21GTP using Lipofectamine 2000 as described in the Immunoprecipitations section. 48 h after transfection, the cells were harvested and fractionated on a sucrose density gradient and analyzed by Western blotting as described previously (Hughes et al., 2002).
Yeast two-hybrid screen and yeast mating tests
The 2-integrin COOH-terminal tail (28 residues) Gal4 DNA binding domain fusion (pGBKT7 vector) was used to screen a mouse E17 Matchmaker cDNA library (CLONTECH Laboratories, Inc.) as described previously (Mattila et al., 2005). In yeast mating tests, pGADT7-Rab21 (95–222) prey was transformed in Y187 host strain and cytoplasmic tails of 2- and 11-integrin (pGBKT7-2 and -11) and their variants in AH109 host strain. Point mutants were generated with the QuikChange Site-directed mutagenesis kit and confirmed by sequencing. The negative and positive controls in yeast mating tests were pGBKT7-53/pGADT7-T and pGBKT7/pGADT7, respectively.
Cell lines and RNAi transfections
MDA-MB-231 cells (American Type Culture Collection) were grown in DME + 1% nonessential amino acids and 10% FBS. Saos-2, HeLa, HT1080, and HEK293T cells (American Type Culture Collection) were grown in DME + 10% FBS, and PC3 cells (American Type Culture Collection) were grown in F12 medium + 10% FBS. CHO cells (American Type Culture Collection) were grown in MEM Alpha Medium + 5% FBS. Saos-2 cells express no endogenous 2 (Ivaska et al., 1999). Stable Saos-2 cells expressing equal levels of chimeric integrins (extracellular domain of 2 fused with 1 or 5 cytoplasmic tails; Ivaska et al., 1999) have been described (Mattila et al., 2005). Two different annealed siRNAs targeting Rab21 (sense, ggcaucauucuuaacaaagtt and ggucaagagagauuccaugtt; Ambion) or scramble control siRNA (Silencer Negative control #1 siRNA; Ambion) were transfected at a 100-nM concentration to MDA-MB-231 or PC3 cells using Oligofectamine (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's protocol (48-h culture). pSilencer 4.1-CMV hygro vector (Ambion) was used to express shRNAs. Annealed DNA oligos (Scr sense strand, gatcccgcgaatcctacaagcgcgcttgatatccggcgcgctttgtaggattcgttttttccaaa; Rab21 sense strand, gatccggtcaagagagagettccatgttcaagagacatggaatctctcttgacctga) were ligated to the vector between BamHI and HindIII sites. Plasmids were verified by sequencing. shRNA plasmids and transfected into MDA-MB-231 cells using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen), and stable cell clones were generated with hygromycin selection.
Adhesion and migration assays
96-well plates were coated with collagen or fibronectin (0.25 µg/ml) overnight and blocked with 0.1% BSA (1 h, 37°C). Transiently transfected cells (GFP-Rabs or siRNA) were harvested, trypsin inhibited with 0.2% (wt/vol) Soybean trypsin inhibitor, and stained (only siRNA-transfected cells) with CellTracker Green CMFDA (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Cells were suspended in 0.5% BSA in serum-free DME, seeded (5,000 cells/well) on the plates, and allowed to adhere for 30 min at 37°C. After one washing with PBS, cells were fixed (4% PFA, 10 min). Adhesion was measured by counting the number of green fluorescent cells using Acumen Assay Explorer 488 nm. The total number of GFP-positive cells was assayed after adhesion to collagen for 4 h in the presence of 10% FBS. Adhesion assays with CHO cells were done by cotransfecting GFP-2WT or GFP-2CYTOKR1160/61AA mutant together with Rluc-Rab21 or Rluc alone. The assays were done as described earlier in this paragraph, except that the specific adhesion time on collagen was lengthened to 1 h and 45 min.
For the scratch wound assay, stable MDA-MB-231 cells expressing GFP, GFP-Rab21, GFP-Rab21GTP, or GFP-Rab21GDP were generated. The cells were seeded onto collagen-coated 96-well plates at 35,000 cells/well and allowed to adhere overnight in the presence of 10% FBS. The wound was generated by scratching with a plastic tip. Images were taken from each well immediately and after 20 h, and the wound areas were analyzed using AxioVision 4.3 software (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.). The number of live cells (proliferation) was scored at 0 and 20 h from identical wells using WST-1 (Roche).
For the human bone adhesion assay, transfected PC3 cells were resuspended in serum-free DME, seeded 10,000 cells/well (Cambrex OsteoAssay plate [PA-1000]), and allowed to adhere for 45 min before fixation as described earlier in this section. Green fluorescent cells were counted using a widefield epifluorescence microscope (narrow GFP filter and 20x objective). The total number of transfected cells was assayed as described earlier in this section.
Immunofluorescence
Cells were plated on acid-washed glass coverslips coated with 5 µg/ml collagen type I, allowed to adhere for 1 h, washed in PBS, and PFA fixed. After permeabilization (PBS/0.02% saponin/10% FBS, 15 min), cells were stained with primary antibodies (in the same buffer) for 1 h at RT. After three washings, Alexa 488–, Alexa 555–, or Alexa 647–conjugated secondary antibodies were added (in the same buffer). Slides were examined using an inverted fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) or a confocal laser-scanning microscope (Axioplan 2 with LSM 510; Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) equipped with 100x/1.4 Plan-Apochromat oil-immersion objectives. Confocal images represent a single z section of 1.0 µm. ß1-Integrin and transferrin internalization were studied as described previously (Powelka et al., 2004).
Live-cell microscopy
A multilaser microscope (IX81; Olympus) equipped with a 488-nm TIRF condensor and a 60x/1.4 Plan-Apochromat oil-immersion objective was used for TIRFM. TIRFM was combined with conventional widefield epifluorescence microscopy and time-lapse series (frame rate 2/s) Widefield images were pseudocolored red and TIRFM images green. Transiently transfected GFP-Rab21 cells were plated on acid-washed glass-bottomed dishes (MatTek Corporation) coated with 10 µg/ml collagen type I and allowed to adhere for 1 h before microscopy. Clear medium with 2.2 g/l NaHCO3 was used for imaging in heat (37°C) and CO2 (5%) stable environment box.
The Axioplan 2 microscope equipped with Plan-Apochromat 63x (NA 1.4) objective and a camera (Orca 2; Hamamatsu Photonics) was used for widefield epifluorescence time-lapse imaging at a rate of 2 frames/s. GFP-Rab21 and its mutant variants (or Rluc-Rab21 and GFP–2-integrin in the cotransfection studies) were transfected to MDA- MB-231 adenocarcinoma cells. Clear DME 4500 supplemented with 1% L-glutamine, 0.5% BSA, and 30 mM Hepes was used as imaging medium. Microscopy was performed in a heat-stable environment for no longer than 1 h. MetaMorph imaging software (Universal Imaging Corp.) was used in image analysis.
Statistical analysis
Fluorescence intensities for TIRFM and widefield epifluorescence microscopy were measured and analyzed with MetaMorph software. Vesicle intensities from time-lapse series were background corrected in each time point with the formula (IB – IV) x (AV/[AB – AV]), where I is integrated intensity for region area A. B stands for background and V for vesicle. Region for vesicle (AV) was created just around vesicle and region for background (AB) just around the vesicle region. Results from two groups were compared using a t test, and statistical significance was set at P < 0.05.
Online supplemental material
Fig. S1 shows the cellular localization of endogenous ß1-integrin, caveolin-1, Rab21, and EEA1 in MDA-MB-231 cells expressing GFP-Rab5 or -Rab21 and internalization of ß1-integrin antibody and labeled transferrin in GFP-Rab5– and GFP-Rab21–expressing cells. Fig. S2 shows that overexpression of Rab21 does not influence the traffic of labeled transferrin in cells or the adhesion of cells to matrixes other than type I collagen. Fig. S3 shows the localization of organelle markers on the sucrose gradient–fractionated GFP-Rab21–expressing HeLa cells and immunogold electron micrographs of GFP-Rab21–positive structures in MDA-MB-231 cells. Table S1 demonstrates the association of Rab21WT and its variants with /ß1-integrin heterodimers in HT1080 cells. Video 1 shows MDA-MB-231 cells expressing GFP-Rab21, adhering to collagen recorded on GFP channel. Video 2 shows a combined widefield epifluorescence and TIRFM analysis of MDA-MB-231 cells expressing GFP-Rab21, adhering to collagen. Video 3 shows a combined widefield epifluorescence and TIRFM analysis of MDA-MB-231 cells expressing GFP-Rab21GDP mutant, adhering to collagen. Video 4 shows MDA-MB-231 cells cotransfected with GFP–2-integrin and Rluc-Rab21WT, adhering to collagen recorded on GFP channel. Video 5 shows MDA-MB-231 cells transfected with GFP–2-integrin alone adhering to collagen recorded on GFP channel. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200509019/DC1.
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This work was supported by grants from the Academy of Finland, the Sigrid Juselius Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation, and Finnish Cancer Organizations.
Submitted: 6 September 2005
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, not significant). (F) Endogenous proteins were immunoprecipitated from MDA-MB-231 cells using the indicated antibodies and blotted with anti-ß1 or anti-Rab antibodies. Shown is a representative experiment of five with similar results. (G) Nontransfected MDA-MB-231 cells were analyzed with three-color immunofluorescence staining (Rab5 or Rab21, green; EEA1, red; and ß1-integrin, blue). Shown are 1-µm confocal sections. Arrows point to EEA1 and arrowheads to ß1-integrin–positive vesicles. Bar, 5 µm.
