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A mammalian nervous-system-specific plasma membrane proteasome complex that modulates neuronal function.

ABSTRACT: In the nervous system, rapidly occurring processes such as neuronal transmission and calcium signaling are affected by short-term inhibition of proteasome function. It is unclear how proteasomes are able to acutely regulate such processes, as this action is inconsistent with their canonical role in proteostasis. Here we describe a mammalian nervous-system-specific membrane proteasome complex that directly and rapidly modulates neuronal function by degrading intracellular proteins into extracellular peptides that can stimulate neuronal signaling. This proteasome complex is closely associated with neuronal plasma membranes, exposed to the extracellular space, and catalytically active. Selective inhibition of the membrane proteasome complex by a cell-impermeable proteasome inhibitor blocked the production of extracellular peptides and attenuated neuronal-activity-induced calcium signaling. Moreover, we observed that membrane-proteasome-derived peptides were sufficient to induce neuronal calcium signaling. Our discoveries challenge the prevailing notion that proteasomes function primarily to maintain proteostasis, and highlight a form of neuronal communication that takes place through a membrane proteasome complex.

SUBMITTER: Ramachandran KV

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5383508 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A mammalian nervous-system-specific plasma membrane proteasome complex that modulates neuronal function.

Ramachandran Kapil V KV Margolis Seth S SS

Nature structural & molecular biology 20170313 4

In the nervous system, rapidly occurring processes such as neuronal transmission and calcium signaling are affected by short-term inhibition of proteasome function. It is unclear how proteasomes are able to acutely regulate such processes, as this action is inconsistent with their canonical role in proteostasis. Here we describe a mammalian nervous-system-specific membrane proteasome complex that directly and rapidly modulates neuronal function by degrading intracellular proteins into extracellu ...[more]

PMID: 28287632

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Project description:The novel neuroproteasome is localized to the neuronal plasma membrane to degrade intracellular proteins into peptides that are released to the extracellular space. Selective inhibition of this neuronal membrane proteasome (NMP) complex ceased the release of peptides and rapidly attenuated neuronal transmission. Based on these findings, we hypothesize that these neuron-specific peptides mediate a novel form of communication through unique peptide-receptor interactions to promote intracellular signaling cascades relevant to neuronal development and function. Our work indicates that NMP peptides can rapidly induce N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-dependent calcium influx from dendrites to the soma, leading to rapid and sustained phosphorylation of the well-defined activity-dependent transcription factor cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB). We also determined that the gene expression program drastically changes upon NMP peptide treatment of neurons with an increase in expression of immediate early genes (e.g., Fos, Npas4, Egr4) known to have critical neuroregulatory roles. These data support our current thinking that NMP peptides are endogenous and selective activators of synaptic NMDA receptors and are critical for promoting activity-dependent gene expression. This pathway is orthogonal to the classic neurotransmitters previously described to activate NMDARs and points to NMP and its resulting peptides as key contributors to the development and function of the nervous system. However, the unique peptide sequences leading to neuronal activation are still poorly understood. Here, we show that the NMP peptides have tremendous sequence diversity through an unbiased peptidomic approach, and the current ongoing effort is to identify unique active peptide sequences with distinct receptor specificity. Elucidating the mechanism of the NMP and its active peptide products is crucial to understanding the role of this novel signaling process in the nervous system.

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A mammalian nervous-system-specific plasma membrane proteasome complex that modulates neuronal function.

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A mammalian nervous-system-specific plasma membrane proteasome complex that modulates neuronal function.

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