Alternative splicing of dystrobrevin regulates the stoichiometry of syntrophin binding to the dystrophin protein complex

Newey, Sarah E., Benson, Matthew A., Ponting, Chris P., Davies, Kay E. and Blake, Derek J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5005-4731 2000. Alternative splicing of dystrobrevin regulates the stoichiometry of syntrophin binding to the dystrophin protein complex. Current Biology 10 (20) , pp. 1295-1298. 10.1016/S0960-9822(00)00760-0

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Abstract

Dystrophin coordinates the assembly of a complex of structural and signalling proteins that is required for normal muscle function. A key component of the dystrophin-associated protein complex (DPC) is ?-dystrobrevin, a dystrophin-related and -associated protein whose absence results in muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular junction defects. The current model of the DPC predicts that dystrophin and dystrobrevin each bind a single syntrophin molecule. The syntrophins are PDZ-domain-containing proteins that facilitate the recruitment of signalling proteins such as nNOS (neuronal nitric oxide synthase) to the DPC. Here we show, using yeast two-hybrid analysis and biochemical binding studies, that ?-dystrobrevin in fact contains two independent syntrophin-binding sites in tandem. The previously undescribed binding site is situated within an alternatively spliced exon of ?-dystrobrevin, termed the variable region-3 (vr3) sequence, which is specifically expressed in skeletal and cardiac muscle. Analysis of the syntrophin-binding region of dystrobrevin reveals a tandem pair of predicted ? helices with significant sequence similarity. These ? helices, each termed a syntrophin-binding motif, are also highly conserved in dystrophin and utrophin. Together these data show that there are four potential syntrophin-binding sites per dystrophin complex in skeletal muscle: two on dystrobrevin and two on dystrophin or utrophin. Furthermore, alternative splicing of dystrobrevin provides a mechanism for regulating the stoichiometry of syntrophin association with the DPC. This is likely to have important consequences for the recruitment of specific signalling molecules to the DPC and ultimately for its function.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Cell Press
ISSN:	0960-9822
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 11:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49259

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