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Protein and Vesicle Trafficking, Cytoskeleton

Lin-7 targets the Kir 2.3 channel on the basolateral membrane via a L27 domain interaction with CASK

Department of Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Submitted 24 July 2007 ; accepted in final form 24 September 2007

Polarized expression of the Kir 2.3 channel in renal epithelial cells is influenced by the opposing activities of two different PDZ proteins. Mammalian Lin-7 (mLin-7) directly interacts with Kir 2.3 to coordinate basolateral membrane expression, whereas the tax interacting protein 1 (TIP-1), composed of a single PDZ domain, competes for interaction with mLin-7 and drives Kir 2.3 into the endocytic pathway. Here we show that the basolateral targeting function of mLin-7 depends on its L27 domain, which directs interaction with a cognate L27 domain in the basolateral membrane-anchoring protein, calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase (CASK). In MDCK cells, the expression of an mLin-7 mutant that lacks the L27 domain displaced Kir 2.3 from the mLin-7/CASK complex and caused the channel to accumulate into large intracellular vesicles that partially colocalized with Rab-11. Conversely, transplantation of the mLin-7 L27 domain to TIP-1 conferred CASK interaction and basolateral targeting of Kir 2.3. Expression of the CASK L27 domain redistributed endogenous mLin-7 to an intracellular compartment and caused Kir 2.3 to accumulate in subapical endosomes. Taken together, these data support a model whereby mLin-7 acts as a PDZ-to-L27 adapter, mediating indirect association of Kir 2.3 with a basolateral membrane scaffold and thereby stabilizing Kir 2.3 at the basolateral membrane.

kidney; polarity; PDZ; scaffold; calcium/calmodulin-dependent serine protein kinase

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