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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 13, Pages 5055-5069Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.02107-05
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM43880, R37 GM043880, U54 GM069338, GM069338, R01 GM043880] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous studies demonstrated that sphingosine-I-phosphate (SIP) phosphohydrolase I (SPP-1), which is located mainly in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), regulates sphingolipid metabolism and apoptosis (H. Le Stunff et al., J. Cell Biol. 158:1039-1049, 2002). We show here that the treatment of SPP-1-overexpressing cells with SIP, but not with dihydro-SIP, increased all ceramide species, particularly the long-chain ceramides. This was not due to inhibition of ceramide metabolism to sphingomyelin or monohexosylceramides but rather to the inhibition of ER-to-Golgi trafficking, determined with the fluorescent ceramide analog N-(4,4-difluoro-5,7dimethyl-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene-3-pentanoyl)-D-erythro-sphingosine (DMB-Cer). Fumonisin III, an inhibitor of ceramide synthase, prevented S1P-induced elevation of all ceramide species and corrected the defect in ER transport of DMB-Cer, readily allowing its detection in the Golgi. In contrast, ceramide accumulation had no effect on either the trafficking or the metabolism of 6-([N-(7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa- 1,3-diazol-4-yl) amino] hexanoyl)-sphingosine, which rapidly labels the Golgi even at 4 degrees C. Protein trafficking from the ER to the Golgi, determined with vesicular stomatitis virus ts045 G protein fused to green fluorescent protein, was also inhibited in SPP-1-overexpressing cells in the presence of SIP but not in the presence of dihydro-S1P. Our results suggest that SPP-1 regulates ceramide levels in the ER and thus influences the anterograde membrane transport of both ceramide and proteins from the ER to the Golgi apparatus.
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