Abstract
Background Nucleus free red blood cells are unique to mammals. During their terminal stage of differentiation, mammalian erythroblasts exit the cell cycle and enucleate. We previously found that survivin, a member of the chromosomal passenger complex that is required for cytokinesis, is highly expressed in late non-dividing cells. The role of survivin in enucleating erythroblasts is not known.Design and Methods In order to identify the role of survivin in these late erythroblasts, we performed proteomic analysis on survivin-bound protein complexes purified from murine erythroleukemia cells. Various molecular and cell biological techniques were used to confirm the presence and function of this novel complex. Furthermore, we used survivinfl/fl mice to study the effect of loss of survivin in enucleating erythroblasts.Results We found that survivin failed to co-localize with its known partners' inner centromere protein or Aurora-B in enucleating erythroblasts but rather exists in a multi-protein complex with epidermal growth factor receptor substrate15 and clathrin, two proteins that mediate endocytic vesicle trafficking. As evidence for a direct role of this latter complex in enucleation, we found that knockdown of the genes reduced the efficiency of enucleation of primary human erythroblasts. We also observed that loss of survivin in murine erythroblasts inhibited enucleation and that survivin-deficient cells harbored smaller cytoplasmic vacuoles. Interestingly, vacuolin-1, a small molecule that induces vacuole fusion, rescued the defective enucleation caused by survivin deficiency.Conclusions This study identified a novel role for survivin in erythroblast enucleation through previously unknown protein partners.Introduction
Survivin, a 16.5 kDa member of the inhibitor of apoptosis (IAP) family of proteins, plays an essential role in cell division as a component of the chromosome passenger complex (CPC).1 The CPC, which comprises survivin, aurora B kinase, INCENP (inner centromere protein) and borealin, has essential functions at multiple points and multiple locations during mitosis.2 This complex first binds along the length of chromosomes, re-localizes to centromeres, then migrates to the central spindle in anaphase, and resides in the midbody and cleavage furrow during cytokinesis. Loss of any of the CPC proteins results in delocalization of the partner proteins and multiple cell division defects. For example, knockdown or knockout of survivin leads to G1 arrest, polyploidy, and death by mitotic catastrophe.3 Apart from in normal proliferating cells, survivin is also highly expressed in cancer cells where it likely serves as an inhibitor of apoptosis.4 This high expression level in tumors has encouraged researchers to consider survivin as a molecular target to treat cancer cells.
We previously reported that survivin is abundantly expressed in orthochromatic erythroblasts that have exited the cell cycle and are undergoing nuclear condensation on the way towards enucleation.5 We were surprised to find that survivin is highly expressed in these non-cancerous, non-dividing cells. As evidence for a functional role of survivin in red blood cell maturation, we observed that a subset of survivin heterozygous mice exhibited a decrease in the percentage of enucleated cells as compared to wild-type littermates.6 Together, these findings led us to hypothesize that survivin plays a novel role in enucleation of erythroblasts.
We recently showed that vesicle trafficking, specifically the formation, movement and subsequent coalescence of vacuoles at the junction of the nucleus and the cytoplasm of erythroblast, contributes to enucleation.7 Here, we show that survivin is required for erythroblast enucleation, but instead of acting on cytokinesis via the CPC, survivin contributes to enucleation through an interaction with EPS15 and clathrin, two proteins that mediate endocytic vesicle trafficking. We also demonstrate that survivin overexpression is sufficient to induce enucleation of MEL (murine erythroleukemia) cells, and that in primary erythroblasts it influences the formation of large cytoplasmic vacuoles, which in turn promote the separation of the nascent reticulocyte from the nucleus.
Design and Methods
Materials
For Western blot assays, rabbit polyclonal anti-survivin (R&D Systems and Novus Biologicals), mouse monoclonal anti-EPS15 (BD Transduction Laboratories), mouse monoclonal anti-clathrin heavy chain (clone TD.1 from Covance), mouse anti-HSC-70 (Santa Cruz), and rabbit polyclonal anti-INCENP (Sigma) antibodies were used. For immunofluorescence, mouse monoclonal anti-survivin (Cell Signaling), rabbit polyclonal anti-survivin (Novus Biologicals), rabbit polyclonal anti-EPS15 (Covance), mouse monoclonal anti-clathrin heavy chain (clone X22 from Abcam), rabbit polyclonal anti-Aurora B kinase (Abcam), goat polyclonal anti-lamin B (clone M-20 from Santa Cruz), and rabbit and mouse isotype IgG (Abcam) antibodies were used as primary antibodies. Secondary antibodies used in immunofluorescence included Cy2-conjugated F(ab')2 fragment donkey anti-mouse and anti-rabbit, rhodamine red X-conjugated F(ab')2 fragment donkey anti-mouse and anti-rabbit, and Cy5-conjugated F(ab')2 fragment donkey anti-goat (all purchased from Jackson Immuno Research Laboratories). Rhodamine phalloidin, Syto 16, Syto 64, SytoX blue, SytoX red and Slowfade Gold anti-fade reagents were purchased from Molecular Probes. Annexin V-Cy5 was purchased from BioVision. pEF1αBiotag and pEF1αBirA vectors were kind gifts of Dr. Alan Cantor. Blebbistatin and vacuolin-1 were purchased from Calbiochem (EMD Biosciences). Monensin was provided by Dr. Piers Nash.
Further detailed information concerning study design and methods is available in the Online Supplementary Appendix.
Results
Survivin overexpression promotes enucleation of differentiating erythroblasts
In order to test our hypothesis that survivin plays a role in enucleation, we utilized the murine erythroleukemia (MEL) cell line to examine whether high survivin expression induced enucleation. MEL cells proliferate as proerythroblasts, but can be induced to differentiate through the orthochromatic stage by the addition of DMSO. This differentiation is accompanied by proliferation arrest and upregulation of erythroid genes such as β-globin (Figure 3A). Compared to primary human cells, which show persistent survivin expression through late stages, MEL cells show a striking reduction in survivin mRNA following DMSO treatment (Figure 3A). Since the reduction in survivin expression is accompanied by a failure of DMSO-induced MEL cells to enucleate, we asked whether ectopic expression of survivin would be sufficient to promote enucleation. We utilized an in vivo biotinylation strategy to stably over-express biotin-conjugated survivin in MEL cells. Multiple clones that over-expressed biotinylated survivin, or control clones that only expressed the biotag, were selected (Figure 3B and Online Supplementary Figure S2A) and subjected to differentiation. In the absence of DMSO, both control and survivin over-expressing clones failed to enucleate to an appreciable extent (Figure 3D and F). In contrast, four days after the addition of DMSO, nearly 15% of the survivin over-expressing clones, but less than 2% of the control infected clones, underwent enucleation (Figure 3D-F). Even though survivin is known to play a role in mitosis, its overexpression did not increase or block proliferation of MEL cells (Figure 3C). We observed a similar phenotype in multiple MEL cell clones engineered to express untagged survivin or HA-tagged survivin (Online Supplementary Figure S2B and C and data not shown). These results reveal that overexpression of survivin promotes enucleation of erythroblasts in a differentiation dependent fashion.
EPS15 and clathrin are novel partners of survivin
Next, to gain insights into the mechanism of action of survivin in late erythroblasts, we tried to identify its protein partners in erythroid cells. We utilized an in vivo biotinylation strategy to stably over-express biotin-conjugated survivin in MEL cells and a proteomic approach to identify survivin interacting proteins (Figure 2A). Prior to large-scale purification of biotinylated protein complexes from MEL clones that over-expressed biotinylated survivin or biotag-control, we first confirmed that biotinylated survivin formed the same complexes as endogenous survivin. Whole cell extracts from these clones were separated by S-200 gel filtration chromatography and subjected to Western blot analysis or silver staining. This analysis revealed that the endogenous and biotinylated forms of survivin eluted in the same manner (Figure 2B, Online Supplementary Figure S1), indicating that the biotin conjugation did not alter the ability of survivin to enter into its endogenous complexes.
To identify survivin partners in erythroid cells, we purified biotinylated survivin and its associated proteins from MEL cell extracts by streptavidin affinity chromatography followed by gel filtration chromatography. In order to minimize the background, and to identify the specific proteins that interact with survivin forming a supernumerary complex of more than 600 kDa, we used a novel approach of passing the purified survivin protein complexes through S-200 gel filtration chromatography and pooled the eluted protein that coincided with large and small molecular weight survivin complexes. We then performed mass spectrometry analysis on those fractions (Figure 2C) and analyzed the proteomic data with Spectrum Mill and Mascot (Online Supplementary Table S1). Our analysis revealed that the top scoring peptides were derived from EGFR-pathway-substrate-15 (EPS15), a protein that is involved in endocytic vesicle formation, progression and trafficking.8-11 Furthermore, our proteomic data analysis showed that peptides derived from clathrin were also present in the purified fractions. Neither of these proteins was isolated from the control samples. Given that EPS15 interacts with clathrin adaptors, such as AP-1 and AP-2, and is a component of clathrin-coated pits,9,11,12 our results suggest that survivin associates with both EPS15 and clathrin in erythroid cells.
To confirm an endogenous interaction among survivin, EPS15 and clathrin in human cells, we performed coimmunoprecipitation studies in the K562 cell line and in primary human erythroblasts. We found that antibodies against EPS15 or clathrin heavy chain co-immunoprecipitated endogenous survivin in human K562 cells that were differentiated 72 h with 1 μM ara-C (Figure 2D). We also detected an interaction between survivin and EPS15 in undifferentiated K562 cells, but only when we used 2.5 times as much input lysates for the immunoprecipitation (Figure 2E). Even though the interaction is less abundant, it is important to note that survivin-EPS15 interaction also exists in undifferentiated proliferating erythroblasts (Figure 2E). It is worth mentioning here that an intact vesicle trafficking pathway is essential for the completion step of cytokinesis in addition to providing required membrane for the dividing daughter cells,13,14 and that a role for survivin- EPS15-clathrin complex in this stage is possible in dividing cells. Next, with respect to primary cells, we confirmed the survivin-EPS15 interaction by performing endogenous EPS15 immunoprecipitation in lysates from Day 12 primary human enucleating erythroblasts, a time point at which more than 95% of the erythroblasts have exited the cell cycle and are in a stage prior to enucleation (Figure 2F). We therefore demonstrate that EPS15 and clathrin are novel binding partners of survivin in erythroblasts.
Survivin co-localizes with EPS15 but fails to co-localize with CPC proteins in primary human enucleating cells
Since we did not detect aurora B kinase or inner centromere proteins (INCENP, proteins that partner with survivin in CPC) in the survivin-containing protein complexes by proteomic analysis, and also since multiple attempts of immunoprecipitation of endogenous aurora B kinase did not co-precipitate survivin in erythroblasts (data not shown), we decided to compare the localization patterns of survivin with respect to aurora B kinase, INCENP, EPS15, clathrin and actin in enucleating erythroblasts. To do this, we cultured human primary CD34 progenitors ex vivo under conditions to generate enucleated reticulocytes.15 After 14 days of culture, after which 30-40% of the cells are reticulocytes, we stained cells with various fluorescently labeled antibodies (against survivin, lamin B, aurora B kinase, INCENP, EPS15 and/or clathrin) or phalloidin (that stains actin) and studied the cells under confocal microscopy. In order to obtain an unbiased calculation of the percentage of co-localization between proteins, we used a software pluggin for ImageJ called Co-localisation Threshold pluggin (Figure 1F and G and Online Supplementary Appendix). The method used for threshold identification of channel intensity and quantification, and the validity, effectiveness and statistical significance of this software has been reported by Costes et al.16 As expected, survivin co-localized with INCENP and aurora-B in dividing cells within the midbody region (Figure 1A and B). In stark contrast, survivin failed to co-localize with either aurora B (19.5%) or INCENP (17.8%) in erythroblasts undergoing enucleation (Figure 1A, B, F and G and Online Supplementary Figure S3A and B). Within enucleating cells, survivin was largely restricted to the cytoplasm where it co-localized with EPS15 (56.7%) and actin (60.6%) (Figure 1C, E-G and Online Supplementary Figure S3C and E). In addition, we also saw a partial overlap between the localization of survivin and clathrin (37.2%). On the other hand, aurora B and INCENP were localized within the nucleus (enclosed within lamin B staining), or the nucleus and cytoplasm, respectively, in regions that did not overlap with survivin (Figure 1A and B and Online Supplementary Figure S3A and B). These findings demonstrate that aurora B and INCENP do not exist within the supernumerary protein complex containing survivin, EPS15 and clathrin in enucleating erythroblasts.
Survivin and EPS-15 are required for enucleation
siRNA mediated knockdown of clathrin inhibits enucleation of primary human erythroblasts, supporting our model that endocytic vesicle trafficking plays an important role in this process.7 To evaluate the contributions of survivin and EPS15 to enucleation, we knocked each gene down in primary human erythroblasts derived from CD34 cells.15 In this system, the majority of cells have reached the orthochromatic stage and exited the cell cycle by Day 12; by Day 14 approximately 30-40% of the cells have enucleated. In the design and during this experiment, we were careful not to expose proliferating erythroblasts to survivin and EPS15 knockdown. We transfected erythroblasts on Days 10 and 11 of culture with siRNAs against survivin, EPS15, or a control siRNA, measured the extent of protein knock-down on Day 13, and quantified the numbers of enucleated cells on Day 14 (Figure 4). Since we transfect the siRNA on Days 10 and 11, we expect a decrease in protein levels on Day 12, by which time more than 95% of the erythroblasts have exited the cell cycle and have reached the orthochromatic stage. We discovered that knockdown of survivin or EPS15 significantly inhibited enucleation without affecting the survival or differentiation of erythroblasts (Figure 4). From these data, we conclude that survivin and EPS15 are each required for optimal human erythroblast enucleation.
Loss of survivin inhibits enucleation by disrupting formation of cytoplasmic vacuoles
To further demonstrate the requirement for survivin in enucleation, we deleted survivin from primary murine fetal liver erythroblasts and monitored enucleation. Fetal liver erythroblasts were harvested from E14.5 survivin-floxed (Sur) embryos and incubated with TAT-Cre fusion protein, an unrelated TAT-scrambled protein, or media alone (Figure 5A). After 36 h of culture, we quantified the extent of survivin gene excision and the level of survivin protein in the different populations. We observed a 27% reduction in survivin protein in the TAT-Cre treated cells, an effect that was consistent with the 34% excision of the survivin gene as determined by PCR analysis (Figure 5B). Neither the scrambled TAT, nor the media control sample led to excision of the survivin gene. Next, after 48 h of culture, we determined the proportion of erythroblasts that underwent enucleation by flow cytometry after staining with Syto 64 and Ter119. We found that deletion of survivin caused a significant decrease in the enucleation of fetal liver erythroblasts, but did not affect cell number, differentiation or nuclear condensation (Figure 5C and D and Online Supplementary Figure S4). Furthermore, the addition of 400 nM monensin, a lipid soluble Na ionophore that impairs vesicle trafficking through multiple pathways,7,17 led to a further 30% reduction in the extent of enucleation of Sur progenitors. These results confirm that survivin is required for enucleation of primary murine erythroblasts.
To investigate the mechanism by which loss of survivin inhibits enucleation, we analyzed the morphology of benzidine/hematoxylin stained cells collected from Sur fetal liver cultures treated with TAT-Cre and TAT-Scr. After 48 h of culture, we observed that the majority of erythroid cells treated with TAT-Scr (control) harbored relatively large vacuoles in their cytoplasm, whereas the preponderance of cells treated with TAT-Cre did not show similarly sized vacuoles (Figure 5E). To assess the difference in vacuole size between the two groups, we used ImageJ software and measured the area of the largest vacuoles in 100 benzidine positive cells from each condition. Using the benchmark of 100 pixels as the size of a large vacuole, we found that the TAT-Cre culture had 40% fewer cells with 100 or more pixels vacuole when compared to control (n=5, P=0.015). In addition, the average size of the vacuoles within cells was smaller after TAT-Cre than control TAT protein. Loss of survivin, however, did not affect the average number of vacuoles per cell (Online Supplementary Figure S5).
Electron microscopy confirmed that there were marked differences in the composition of erythroid cells cultured with TAT-Cre versus TAT-Scr (Figure 5F). The majority of erythroid cells in the TAT-Scr conditions (∽90%) harbored multiple, large vacuoles in the cytoplasm. In contrast, only half of the erythroid cells within the TAT-Cre cultures harbored vacuoles with a similar appearance. Furthermore, approximately 40% of erythroid cells treated with TAT-Cre harbored vesicles that were filled with undegraded organelles resembling autophagosomes (Figure 5F). These results demonstrate that the enucleation defect caused by survivin knockout is associated with aberrant vacuole formation and/or fusion.
Survivin knockout-induced enucleation defect is reversed by vacuolin-1
We then asked whether the enucleation block observed in survivin deficient cells is genuinely due to its effect on enucleation per se or to cell death and cell cycle arrest. We previously reported that vacuolin-1, a chemical that induces vacuole formation by homotypic fusion of endosomes and lysosomes,18,19 when added to the fetal liver erythroblast culture at 36 h after plating, increases enucleation of erythroblasts without affecting the cell cycle, apoptosis or differentiation.7 If survivin knockout caused cell death in erythroblasts, then adding vacuolin-1 at 36 h would not rescue the phenotype. We found that vacuolin- 1 rescued the enucleation defect of Sur fetal liver erythroblasts deleted for survivin with TAT-Cre (Figure 6A). Also, if vacuolin-1 can drive the erythroblasts towards enucleation while bypassing a cell cycle block, it should rescue enucleation efficiency in erythroblasts that are blocked in cell cycle, for example blebbistatin, which arrests dividing cells in cytokinesis.20 Indeed, vacuolin-1 failed to rescue the enucleation block caused by addition of blebbistatin (Figure 6B). The fact that vacuolin-1 rescues the enucleation block caused by survivin deletion, but not the cytokinetic block induced by earlier addition of blebbistatin, serves as further evidence that survivin participates in enucleation in a manner that is distinct from its cell cycle function.
Discussion
Enucleation is the final step in the derivation of reticulocytes from mammalian erythroblasts. We recently showed that asymmetric cytokinesis, one possible mechanism of enucleation, is not playing a major part in this process.7 Rather we discovered that vesicle trafficking and fusion of vesicles/vacuoles in the region between the nuclei and incipient reticulocyte contributes to completing enucleation. Indeed, when comparing the processes of cytokinesis with enucleation,21 except for the completion step of cytokinesis, in which vesicle trafficking is important, all other stages are significantly different. Although earlier components of cytokinesis are not involved in the mechanism of enucleation, here we reveal that survivin, an essential component of the CPC that has many different functions,4 is required for enucleation. Since neither nocodazole nor colchicine affected enucleation,7 it is unlikely that survivin promotes enucleation by affecting microtubule dynamics.22,23 Rather, our identification of an interaction among survivin, EPS15 and clathrin supports our model that survivin has a novel function in vesicle trafficking and enucleation.
In analyzing the role of survivin in enucleation, we discovered that deletion of survivin was associated with multiple erythroblast defects. Most prominent among these defects was a reduction in the number and size of cytoplasmic vacuoles. In addition, electron micrographs suggest that the composition of the vacuoles in control and survivin-deleted cultures differ. Vacuoles within the vast majority of TAT-Scr cultures resemble autophago-lysosomes, which participate in degradation of cellular organelles such as mitochondria. In contrast, fewer than half of the erythroblasts within the TAT-Cre culture harbored vacuoles with a similar autophago-lysosome appearance. Instead, many TAT-Cre treated cells harbored smaller vesicles that resemble autophagosomes, which contain undegraded organelles. Although autophagosomes play an essential role in removing organelles from nascent reticulocytes, recent reports suggest that autophagy is not required for enucleation.24,25 We, therefore, conclude that a general defect in the endosome/lysosomal trafficking pathway is manifested as an increase in autophagosomes in the absence of survivin. Our study provides evidence for a function of late endosomes, lysosomes and autophagolysosomes, and for coordination between enucleation and organelle degradation in enucleating cells (Figure 6C). Studies to determine the role of survivin in specific components of vesicle trafficking, and the extent to which survivin contributes to membrane reorganization in normal cytokinesis, are warranted.
EPS15 is a well conserved protein that has three N-terminal EH (EPS15-homology)-domains, a coiled coil middle region determined by heptad repeats and a C-terminal region containing DPR repeats and a proline rich region.26 Even though there is speculation about its possible non-vesicle trafficking roles, such as the neoplastic transformation of cells,8 the role of EPS15 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis is widely accepted.11,27 EPS15 is bound to clathrin adapters AP-2 (plasma membrane to endosome traffic) and AP-1 (trans-golgi network to endosome traffic), and participates in clathrin mediated vesicle trafficking (Figure 6C). Also, it has been shown that AP-2 containing clathrin coats are assembled as patches around lysosomes and induce formation of vesicle buds from them under physiological conditions in vitro.28 Here we show that survivin interacts with EPS15 and clathrin, and that all three genes are required for optimal enucleation. It is important to note here that these proteins are in a supernumerary complex of more than 600 kDa molecular weight and we only know three proteins in that complex. Furthermore, it is not yet known whether survivin and EPS15 bind to each other directly or indirectly. Since around 60% of actin localization pattern coincides with survivin (Figure 1E-G), and since actin has known roles in vesicle trafficking,7,29-31 we can assume a collaborative role for survivin, EPS15 and actin in enucleating erythroblasts.
How does survivin function in vesicle trafficking and enucleation? Survivin may be involved in the movement of vesicles, endosomes or lysosomes, or could also play a role in vesicle fusion along with EPS15. Alternatively, instead of having a general role in vesicle formation, similar to clathrin and EPS15, survivin might function as a selective trafficking agent for a subset of proteins or organelles. Further studies are needed to address these issues.
Acknowledgments
the authors thank Jonathan Licht, Gerd Blobel and Mitchell Weiss for discussions and critical reading of the manuscript. We also thank Wei-Jen Tang and Yuequan Shen for their assistance with protein purification, Don Wolfgeher for the mass spectrometry analysis, Ed Conway and Astar Winoto for the survivin floxed mice, and Vitas Bindokas, William Russin and Teng Leong Chew for their assistance in microscopy.
Funding: this work was supported by grants from NIDDK (DK074693 to JDC), the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (to JDC), NCI (CA98550 to AW) and the Giving Tree Foundation (to AW), and by the Katten Muchin Rosenman Travel Scholarship Award from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Imaging work was performed at the Northwestern University Cell Imaging Facility supported by NCI CCSG P30 CA060553 awarded to the Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. We acknowledge use of the Leica EM-PACT2 highpressure freezer and AFS2 freezesu-bstitution instruments in the Biological Imaging Facility (Northwestern University) funded by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant (SRR022494A)
Footnotes
- The online version of this article has a Supplementary Appendix.
- Authorship and Disclosures: The information provided by the authors about contributions from persons listed as authors and in acknowledgments is available with the full text of this paper at www.haematologica.org. Financial and other disclosures provided by the authors using the ICMJE (www.icmje.org) Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests are also available at www.haematologica.org.
- Received December 26, 2011.
- Revision received March 9, 2012.
- Accepted March 26, 2012.
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