Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21103556
Keywords
TRPV4; protein-protein interaction; ZC4H2; Ca2+ signaling; channel turnover
Funding
- KU Leuven Research Council (C1-TRPLe)
- Belgian Science Policy BELSPO [IUAP P7/13]
- VIB
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The Ca2+-permeable Transient Receptor Potential channel vanilloid subfamily member 4 (TRPV4) is involved in a broad range of physiological processes, including the regulation of systemic osmotic pressure, bone resorption, vascular tone, and bladder function. Mutations in the TRPV4 gene are the cause of a spectrum of inherited diseases (or TRPV4-pathies), which include skeletal dysplasias, arthropathies, and neuropathies. There is little understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying these variable disease phenotypes, but it has been hypothesized that disease-causing mutations affect interaction with regulatory proteins. Here, we performed a mammalian protein-protein interaction trap (MAPPIT) screen to identify proteins that interact with the cytosolic N terminus of human TRPV4, a region containing the majority of disease-causing mutations. We discovered the zinc-finger domain-containing protein ZC4H2 as a TRPV4-interacting protein. In heterologous expression experiments, we found that ZC4H2 increases both the basal activity of human TRPV4 as well as Ca2+ responses evoked by ligands or hypotonic cell swelling. Using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, we further showed that ZC4H2 accelerates TRPV4 turnover at the plasma membrane. Overall, these data demonstrate that ZC4H2 is a positive modulator of TRPV4, and suggest a link between TRPV4 and ZC4H2-associated rare disorders, which have several neuromuscular symptoms in common with TRPV4-pathies.
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