Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1911089 Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2007 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

We investigated the role of the single SH3 domain of NOXA1 in NOX1 NADPH oxidase function using wild-type and mutated NOXA1 and the products of two variant NOXA1 transcripts isolated from CaCo2 cells by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The first variant, NOXA1trunc, contained a number of point mutations, including A51T, T261A, and a nonsense mutation at position 274. On transfection into K562 cells stably expressing NOX1 and NOXO1, both NOXA1trunc and an equivalent truncated wild-type NOXA1(1-273) were expressed as ∼ 29-kDa truncated NOXA1 proteins lacking both PB1 and SH3 domains, yet both were as active as wild-type NOXA1 in phorbol-stimulated superoxide generation. Kinetic analysis demonstrated that truncated NOXA1 activated the NOX1 system at an accelerated rate compared with NOXA1. Deletion studies showed that the slower kinetics of wild-type NOXA1 depended primarily on its SH3 domain, suggesting SH3-dependent delay in forming the active NOX1/NOXO1/NOXA1 complex. The second variant, NOXA1inhib, encoded a protein lacking the activation domain due to absence of exons 5 and 6 but including a heptapeptide (EPDVPLA) SH3 domain insertion resulting from alternative splicing in exon 14. NOXA1inhib failed to support superoxide-generating activity and exhibited transdominant inhibition of NOXA1. Insertion of the heptapeptide into the corresponding site in wild-type NOXA1 inhibited its activity by ∼ 90%, rendered it a transdominant inhibitor of wild-type NOXA1, and abrogated binding of its SH3 domain to NOXO1 and p47phox. These studies demonstrate that, in reconstituted NOX1/NOXO1/NOXA1 systems, the NOXA1 SH3 domain is not required for function but, when present, can critically modulate the activity of the enzyme system.

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