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Pu M, Ma L, Ohkusu K, Isobe K, Taguchi R, Ikezawa H, Hamaguchi M, Nakashima I: Direct evidence of involvement of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins in the heavy metal-mediated signal delivery into T lymphocytes. FEBS Lett. 1995 Mar 20;361(2-3):295-8.
The biological significance of the action of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins in cell physiology and pathology when stimulated with their natural agonists is not known. Here we provide evidence that GPI-anchored proteins play a crucial role in the recently defined heavy metal (HgCl2)-triggered signal delivery to T lymphocytes. Thiol-reactive HgCl2, a multi-potent crosslinker of cell membrane proteins, induced heavy aggregation of Thy-1, a representative GPI-anchored protein, on murine thymocytes, and delivered a signal to induce heavy tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins. This rather unusual signal delivery by HgCl2 is diminished by the pre-treatment of cells with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C, which partially cleaved GPI-anchored proteins from the cell surface. Direct evidence for the involvement of GPI or GPI-anchored proteins in the HgCl2-mediated signaling is provided by the loss of signaling in a mutant thymoma cell line defective in the phosphatidylinositol glycan-class A gene (PIG-A), and its restoration in a transfectant with PIG-A. |
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