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Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan;
Department of Molecular Biology, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304; and
Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Hon-cho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
Intracellular calcium regulates events controlling nuclear translocation of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NF-AT). Calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin (CN) plays a central role in this process. Structural and functional analyses of the N-terminal domain of murine NF-ATx1, a member of the NF-AT family, have defined two distinct CN binding regions (CNBRs), CNBR1 and CNBR2, which are located in the region preceding the SP boxes of serine/proline-rich sequences and the region between the SP boxes and Rel similarity domain, respectively. The binding of murine NF-ATx1 (mNF-ATx1) to CN was abolished by deletion of these two regions, yet was unaffected by the individual deletion. In contrast, the nuclear translocation of mNF-ATx1 was much reduced when only CNBR2 was removed. Luciferase assay revealed that both regions are required for mNF-ATx1-dependent activation of the murine IL-2 promoter. Most importantly, recombinant CNBR2 bound CN with a higher affinity, and when expressed in Jurkat cells, it functioned as a dominant negative mutant that prevented the transcription driven by exogenous mNF-ATx1, probably by interfering with the function of CN. We propose that activation of mNF-ATx1 can be modulated through two distinct CN target regions. Our findings provide a new opportunity for pharmacological intervention with Ca2+-dependent signaling events.
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