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RECEPTORS AND SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION

Tropomyosin interacts with phosphorylated HSP27 in agonist-induced contraction of smooth muscle

Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Submitted 22 October 2003 ; accepted in final form 27 January 2004

Displacement of the contractile protein tropomyosin from actin filament exposes the myosin-binding sites on actin, resulting in actin-myosin interaction and muscle contraction. The objective of the present study was to better understand the interaction of tropomyosin with heat shock protein (HSP)27 in contraction of smooth muscle cells of the colon. We investigated the possibility of a direct protein-protein interaction of tropomyosin with HSP27 and the role of phosphorylated HSP27 in this interaction. Immunoprecipitation studies on rabbit smooth muscle cells indicate that upon acetylcholine-induced contraction tropomyosin shows increased association with HSP27 phosphorylated at Ser82 and Ser78. Transfection of smooth muscle cells with HSP27 phosphorylation mutants indicated that the association of tropomyosin with HSP27 could be affected by HSP27 phosphorylation. In vitro binding studies with glutathione S-transferase (GST)-tagged HSP27 mutant proteins show that tropomyosin has greater direct interaction to phosphomimic HSP27 mutant compared with wild-type and nonphosphomimic HSP27. Our data suggest that, in response to a contractile agonist, HSP27 undergoes a rapid phosphorylation that may strengthen its interaction with tropomyosin.

acetylcholine; fusion proteins; serine

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