Abstract
In recent years many new members of the family of TRP ion channels have been identified. These channels are classified into several subgroups and participate in many sensory and physiological functions. TRPV channels are important for the perception of pain, temperature sensing, osmotic regulation, and maintenance of calcium homeostasis, and much recent research concerns the identification of protein domains involved in mediating specific channel functions. Recent literature on TRPV channel subunit composition, protein domains required for subunit assembly, trafficking, and regulation will be reviewed and discussed.
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Introduction
TRP channels have evolved as a family of ion channels initially defined by their relatedness to their seminal member, the Drosophila Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) channel (Hardie and Minke 1992; Montell and Rubin 1989). Their 27 mammalian homologs are currently grouped into the subfamilies TRPC, TRPM, TRPV, TRPA, TRPP, TRPN (no mammalian homolog) and TRPML. Members of the TRP family are involved in many sensory processes such as invertebrate vision and hearing, mammalian temperature-, pain-, gustatory and auditory sensation. These senses are often restricted to very specialized cells, but many TRP family members are also involved in more ubiquitous processes such as sensing osmotic stress or regulating the intracellular magnesium concentration (for review see Clapham 2003; Montell 2001; Vriens et al. 2004a). With the rate of new publications defining pathways that involve TRP channel function, a current summary is soon outdated. Rather than trying to cover functions of TRP channels in general, this review will focus on a more detailed structure-function analyses mainly of TRPV channels and will only include some pertinent data from other TRP subfamily members. Reviews on the function of TRPC channels can be found in this issue (Dietrich et al. 2005; Gosling et al. 2005; Groschner and Rosker 2005; Plant and Schaefer 2005; Zufall 2005). So far almost all of the TRP channel proteins form cation conducting ion pores with a range of different selectivities, for reviews see (Clapham 2003; Montell 2001).
TRPC, TRPA, TRPN and TRPV channels contain multiple ankyrin (ANK) repeats within their intracellular N-termini. Although ANK repeats are common modular protein-interaction motifs, not much is known whether or not their specific sequence and/or number of repeats are required to form specialized interactions or about their role in the assembly of ion channels (see below). The general topology of a TRP subunit as shown in experimental detail for TRPC channels (Vannier et al. 1998) includes intracellular – and C-terminal regions of variable length and six transmembrane spanning domains with a pore loop between transmembrane domain 5 and 6. The localization of the pore loop has been confirmed by mutational analyses of residues within the pore for TRPV5 and TRPV6, TRPV1 and TRPV4 (Garcia-Martinez et al. 2000; Nilius et al. 2001; Voets et al. 2002, 2003). In analogy to voltage gated potassium channels it is thought that four subunits need to assemble to form a functional channel. Experimental evidence for tetramer formation exists for TRPV1, TRPV2, and TRPV5/6 (Hoenderop et al. 2003; Jahnel et al. 2001; Kedei et al. 2001). Of the three major subfamilies of TRP channels, TRPV, TRPC, and TRPM, it has been shown that some members within the TRPC and within the TRPV family can form heteromeric channels (Amiri et al. 2003; Goel et al. 2002; Hoenderop et al. 2003; Hofmann et al. 2002; Montell 1997; Strubing et al. 2001, 2003). In some cases, however, it remains to be seen whether the subunits forming these heteromeric channels in expression systems are indeed coexpressed in the same native cells and results drawn from using concatameric constructs need to be critically evaluated in light of their propensity to form lower order byproducts (Nicke et al. 2003).
Ankyrin repeats
Ankyrin (ANK) repeats have originally been defined as a ∼33 amino acid repeated motif in the sequence of Swi6p and CDC10p (yeast cell cycle regulators) as well as Notch and Lin-12 (Breeden and Nasmyth 1987). Their name stems from finding 24 of these motifs in the ankyrin protein (Lux et al. 1990). ANK repeats are rather variable in primary sequence, but show a high degree of conservation regarding their secondary and tertiary structure (for review see Mosavi et al. 2004; Sedgwick and Smerdon 1999). Mosavi et al. analyzed ∼4,000 ANK repeat containing proteins and used the consensus information to design an idealized ANK repeat (Mosavi et al. 2002) and to define amino acids necessary for structure versus more variable surface residues that may confer specificity upon the interaction with other proteins.
Each individual ANK repeat represents a helix–turn–helix motif where the first helix (seven to eight residues) contains a mostly conserved TPLH motif and the second helix (nine to ten residues) usually two highly conserved leucine residues which might play an important structural role in stabilizing the turn of the L-shaped ANK repeat cross-section formed by antiparallel α-helices and the extended β-hairpin loop at an approximately right angle (Yuan et al. 2004). Multiple ANK repeats can create a hydrophobic core that creates a long-range communication: Mutation of a single residue within an individual repeat can thus affect the entire three dimensional core structure. For a review of the effects of mutations on the structure of the ANK repeats within the Notch protein see (Lubman et al. 2004). Because the sequence homology often is quite weak, it is difficult to unambiguously define the number of ANK repeats in a given protein, i.e., for TRPV6 the number of repeats given by different authors range from three repeats (Peng et al. 2000) to at least six (Wissenbach et al. 2001).
Although a number of studies have demonstrated interactions between ANK repeats and various interacting proteins, such as spectrin (Platt et al. 1993), erythroid anion exchanger (Michaely and Bennett 1995) and IP3 receptor (Bourguignon et al. 1993) among others, not much is known about a role for ANK repeats in the multimerization of proteins. For the chloroplast protein SRP43 it has been shown that its third and fourth ANK repeats are involved in dimerization of the protein (Jonas-Straube et al. 2001) and two recent studies demonstrate the importance of ANK repeats for the tetramerization of TRPV6 and TRPV5 ion channels (Chang et al. 2004; Erler et al. 2004). A very interesting hypothesis for the functional role for the 29 ANK repeat containing Drosophila NOMPC channel is that this repeat structure forms the gating spring of mechanoreceptors (Howard and Bechstedt 2004). Vertebrate TRPA1 channels that are candidates for the mechanosensitive transduction channel of hair cells only contain 17 ANK repeats, which may still confer sufficient gating spring stiffness (Corey et al. 2004).
Assembly signals of TRP channels
For the canonical (classic) members of the family (TRPC) channels several groups describe heteromeric combinations of TRPC subfamily members (Amiri et al. 2003; Goel et al. 2002; Hofmann et al. 2002; Montell 1997; Strubing et al. 2001, 2003), but only one group describes a potential N-terminal subunit multimerization domain within the murine TRPC1-β isoform (Engelke et al. 2002). Here, the authors find a self-interacting site using yeast-two hybrid analyses of TRPC1β cytosolic constructs. A potential interaction site is found between the last ankyrin repeat and the first transmembrane domain (Engelke et al. 2002) which presumably forms a coiled-coil domain. Deletion of this domain or of the ANK repeat containing domain leads to non functional channels. However, no data is presented on whether the deletion construct is unable to form protein tetramers as seen on sucrose density gradients or native gel electrophoreses. A corresponding and homologous domain within TRPC5 interacts with the growth-cone enriched protein stathmin-2 which appears to mediate vesicular trafficking of TRPC5 to the growth cone (Greka et al. 2003), which raises the question whether and how proteins compete for binding domains.
Several studies point to the role of the cytosolic N-terminal region in the assembly of functional homo- or heteromultimeric channels. Xu et al. show that in Drosophila, TRPL can physically coassemble with TRP-γ and that the TRPL mediated photoresponse is down-regulated after overexpression of an N-terminal TRP-γ construct (Xu et al. 2000). The same group demonstrated earlier that TRP and TRPL can also coassemble and that this coassembly signal also resides within the N-terminal domains (Xu et al. 1997). Again, N-terminal fragments function as dominant-negative regulators of TRP-mediated currents. In these studies the interaction site within the N-terminus is not further narrowed down.
An N-terminal dominant-negative approach is also used to investigate the role of TRPC3 in the oxidative stress-induced membrane conductances of porcine aortic endothelial cells (Balzer et al. 1999). Especially in light of the physical interaction seen by co-immunoprecipitation experiments, the dominant-negative data argues for an N-terminal coassembly signal, these N-terminal fragments could thus bind to full-length subunits and reduce the number of functional tetrameric channels in the plasma membrane.
In the subfamily of TRPV channels, assembly mechanisms have been investigated mainly for TRPV1 and TRPV5/TRPV6 ion channels. Within this family it has been shown that TRPV5 and TRPV6 are able to functional heteromultimeric channels (Hoenderop et al. 2003). Different ratios of TRPV5 or TRPV6 subunits tied in a concatameric tetramer result in calcium-dependent phenotypes that lie in between the homomultimeric phenotypes. Two studies describe TRPV1 splice variants that lack N-terminal sequences (Schumacher et al. 2000; Xue et al. 2001). These splice variants result in non-functional channels, but whether or not they can exert dominant-negative effects on the full-length channel or if they affect subunit assembly has not been determined. A third TRPV1 splice variant that lacks only ten amino acids within the N-terminal cytoplasmatic domain points very clearly to a dominant-negative role of the N-terminal domain in TRPV1 (Wang et al. 2004a): This native splice variant can act as a dominant-negative regulator of TRPV1 currents. The deletion affects the protein region between the last predicted ANK repeat and the first transmembrane domain and appears to result in a less stable protein that, when coexpressed, can also affect the stability and function of wild-type subunits (therefore is likely to still assemble with the wild-type subunit). Although the affected region is not predicted as an ANK repeat amino acid sequence, its predicted secondary structure resembles the closely spaced α-helices of the prototypical ANK repeat. Very recently, two additional functional TRPV1 variants have been identified (Lu et al. 2005; Lyall et al. 2004).
Garcia-Sanz et al. (2004), Erler et al. (2004) and Chang et al. (2004) describe the identification of tetramerization domains of TRPV channels with partially divergent results. Garcia-Sanz et al. identify a tetramerization domain in the C-terminus of TRPV1. The authors use yeast-two hybrid analysis and pull-down assays to show self-interaction of ∼23 C-terminal amino acids immediately adjacent to the last transmembrane domain, however, N-terminal regions are not investigated. This C-terminal domain is predicted to form a coiled-coil structure. Deletion of this domain yields non-functional channels with very reduced or unstable protein expression, underlining the importance of this region for the formation of functional and stable channels. However, coexpression of wild-type TRPV1 with constructs where the presumed association domain is deleted show—when coexpressed—a dominant-negative reduction of wild-type TRPV1 currents, which indicates that association is not completely abolished. Deletion of the “tetramerization” domain in a poreless mutant subunit, however, is able to suppress its dominant-negative effects.
For TRPV6 it has been shown that for dominant-negative effects on TRPV6 currents, the first 154 amino acids containing the first three ANK repeats are sufficient, whereas the N-terminal region of TRPC3 with four ANK repeats does not exert any dominant-negative effect (Kahr et al. 2004). As mentioned above, our group and (Chang et al. 2004; Erler et al. 2004) attempt to decipher the codes for intersubunit assembly sites within the closely related TRPV6 and TRPV5 proteins. We used both a bacterial-two-hybrid interaction screen as well as co-immunoprecipitation of tagged protein fragments with full-length TRPV6 from a stable cell line to narrow down interacting domains. Two N-terminal interactions sites are found that both reside in the ANK repeat domains. The primary site which includes the third ANK repeat appears to be the dominant site as deletions or point mutations within this domain abolish interaction with full-length channel, destroy the ability to form tetramers as detected on sucrose density gradients and can furthermore relieve the dominant-negative effect of TRPV6 subunits with a mutated ionic pore. Corroborating the results by Kahr et al., no co-immunoprecipitation with the ANK domain containing TRPC3 is detected. Specificity for subunit assembly in proteins containing multiple ANK repeats may thus be conferred by the spacing of the ANK repeats, their three dimensional structure and exposition of variable amino acids either within the ANK repeat or between repeats. For correctly assembled and functional TRPV6 channels, we propose a molecular zippering process that starts at the first interaction site and proceeds past the second site, thus aligning the N-terminal region below the pore. Figure 1 shows a model of a TRPV6 tetramer with its N-terminal association domains located symmetrically below the ionic pore.
The second study investigates molecular determinants of TRPV5 (rabbit) ion channel assembly and concludes that there are two assembly domains, one located between amino acid position 64–77 (overlapping with ANK repeat 1) in the amino terminus, the other, much weaker site, between amino acid position 596–601 in the intracellular C-terminal region (Chang et al. 2004). The methods used include GST pull-down experiments, immunoprecipitation experiments of N– and C-terminal fragments, surface expression of TRPV5 in oocytes and dominant-negative studies in HEK cells overexpressing wild-type TRPV5 alone or together with N– or C-terminal fragments and recording sodium currents in the absence of divalent cations. Both full-length N– and C-terminal fragments exert dominant-negative effects on wild-type surface expression and function.
How can the divergent results between Chang et al. for TRPV5 and Erler et al. for TRPV6 be explained? In light of their ability to form functional heteromultimeric channels (Hoenderop et al. 2003) one would expect similar association domains. Inherent problems associated with protein–protein interaction studies include difficulties to separate specificity of particular binding sites from the role these site may play for the three dimensional structure of the native protein. Deletion of the association domain within the first ANK repeat abolishes the N-term–N-term binding (Chang et al. 2004) but could affect the folding and representation of the later ANK repeats that are implicated in self-association by Erler et al. Conversely, deletion or alteration of the downstream ANK 3 domain (Erler et al. 2004) could affect the tertiary structure in such a way that the first interaction site is destroyed. Structural data on the folding of the intracellular protein domains could shed light on these questions.
Are chaperone/anchoring molecules necessary for surface expression of TRP channels?
Many ion channels require chaperone molecules for their efficient transport to the plasma membrane and/or anchoring molecules for their more permanent localization there. Examples include 14-3-3 proteins that are necessary for the exit of K(ATP) channels from the ER (see for example Yuan et al. 2003), KChAP for Kv2.1 and Kv4.3 (Abriel et al. 2000; Kuryshev et al. 2000) and potentially AKAPs (A kinase anchoring proteins), which might function to coordinate multiple components of signal-transduction pathways (for review see (Tasken and Aandahl 2004; Wong and Scott 2004)).
Let us first consider the founding member of the family of TRP channels, the Drosophila melanogaster transient receptor potential (TRP) channel, which, together with its close relative TRPL, constitutes the light activated conductance of the photoreceptors (Niemeyer et al. 1996). Genetic screens early on identified a mutant (InaD) with a phenotype that partially resembled the trp mutant fly. Shieh and Zhu (1996) first described a physical interaction between the TRP ion channels and the InaD protein and InaD was soon recognized as an important scaffold component that organizes the entire photoreceptor signaling complex (transducisome; Tsunoda et al. 1997). Absence of InaD protein leads to the mislocalization of TRP ion channels, PLC and eye-PKC. Although a mammalian homolog of InaD has been identified (Philipp and Flockerzi 1997), it remains unknown whether or not this protein is required for localization or function of mammalian TRP homologs. However, a different PDZ domain containing protein (EBP50, NHERF) that binds PLC β 1,2 and TRPC4 (Tang et al. 2000) has been shown to be important for surface expression and localization of TRPC4 channels (Mery et al. 2002).
Within the family of TRPV channels, it has been shown that TRPV2 physically interacts with the RGA protein, a transmembrane domain containing protein residing on intracellular membranes (Barnhill et al. 2004). RGA however does not accompany TRPV2 to the plasma membrane and a possible function as a chaperone/targeting molecule during maturation remains speculative. Whether the interaction between TRPV2 and the potential AKAP protein ACBD3 (Stokes et al. 2004; see also regulation by Protein kinase A (PKA), below) has a role in trafficking has not yet been investigated.
A more detailed analyses of trafficking and targeting is conducted by van de Graaf et al. for TRPV5 and TRPV6 (van de Graaf et al. 2003). Here, a novel TRPV5 interacting protein, namely S100A10 (p11, calpactin light chain or annexin 2 light chain) is identified. Both TRPV5 and TRPV6 contain a conserved binding site for S100A10 binding localized to the intracellular C-terminal region shortly downstream of the last transmembrane domain (S6). Deletion of this PDZ binding motif “VATTV” or mutation of T601 within TRPV5 leads to greatly diminished surface expression and function (van de Graaf et al. 2003). The S100A10-annexin 2 heterodimer is also important for the localization of the voltage gated sodium channel NA 1.8 and the potassium channel TASK1 (Girard et al. 2002; Okuse et al. 2002). In the case of TASK1 the interaction signal localizes to the PDZ binding motif at the very C-terminus and, reminiscent of the trafficking of K(ATP) channels by 14-3-3 proteins, the interaction with S100A10 masks an ER retention signal.
Deletion or mutation of the chaperone interaction site prevents surface expression (see van de Graaf et al. 2003 for TRPV5). It is then also conceivable that overexpression of C-terminal fragments containing the chaperone interaction site could act as a dominant-negative regulator of wild-type channel expression by obstructing the transport pathway to the plasma membrane. This possibility is not considered by Chang et al. even though the TRPV5 chaperone (S100-A10) has already been identified by the same group. In the case of TRPV1, no chaperone has yet been identified; however, protein stability and perhaps surface expression are clearly affected by deletion of the “tetramerization domain” (Garcia-Sanz et al. 2004).
Another important mechanism of TRPV localization and targeting has been discovered in invertebrates: Here, it has been shown by an elegant study in C. elegans (Tobin et al. 2002), that one function of combinatorial TRPV (OSM9, OCR 1–4) expression is to specify subcellular localization. In order to be expressed in the sensory cilia of defined neurons, OSM9 for example requires the OCR2 protein and vice versa. Although one TRPV protein may require the other for localization, it is not yet clear whether they need to form heteromultimeric channels. A very similar story emerged for the localization of the Drosophila TRPV homologs NAN and IAV. Hearing in Drosophila requires an anatomical structure, the antennal chordotonal organ, that transduces antennal vibrations into receptor potentials. Reminiscent of the hair bundles of vertebrate inner ear cells, ciliated neurons within the chordotonal organ are the primary sensory cells and they express and require the NAN protein in their sensory cilia to generate sound-evoked potentials (Kim et al. 2003). Interestingly, localization of NAN requires IAV and vice versa (Gong et al. 2004) and iav mutants also have severe hearing defects.
It will be very interesting to see if mammalian TRPV channels also show a related interdependency of localization and whether or not this requires physical interaction between channel subunits or whether it is a more indirect effect which is mediated by additional protein/chaperone components.
Translocation to the plasma membrane via regulated exocytosis
First evidence that TRP channels may be inserted upon demand into the plasma membrane stems from two reports describing the translocation of TRPV2 (formerly named GRC: growth-factor-regulated-channel) into the plasma membrane after stimulation of transfected CHO cells with insulin-like growth-factor (IGF-1; Kanzaki et al. 1999) or after stimulation of certain neuroendocrine, neuronal and transfected COS cells with the neuropeptide “Head activator” (Boels et al. 2001). In the latter study the authors also find that Head activator-induced activation and translocation of TRPV2 is inhibited by wortmannin and KN-93, blockers of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI(3)K) and of the Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent kinase, respectively, which implies a role for both kinases in head-activator signaling to TRPV2.
More recently, Bezzerides et al. describe the rapid vesicular translocation and insertion of TRPC5 channels into the plasma membrane (Bezzerides et al. 2004). Here, the translocation can be induced by epidermal growth factor (EGF) and also requires the activity of PI(3)K as well as of the Rho GTPase Rac1 and of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate 5-kinase (PIP(5)K alpha). In contrast to Kanzaki et al., Bezzerides et al. cannot reproduce the translocation of TRPV2 after stimulation with IGF-1 but they do not mention whether or not they can shuttle TRPV2 via the head activator pathway. Another group identified binding partners of TRPV1 and showed that both the vesicular proteins snapin and synaptotagmin IX bind in vitro and in vivo to the N-terminal cytoplasmatic domain of TRPV1 (Morenilla-Palao et al. 2004). Results from their work indicate that PKC may promote SNARE dependent fusion of TRPV1 containing vesicles with the plasma membrane.
Regulation of TRP activity by vesicular fusion is a new and exciting possibility and raises many questions, i.e.: Which of the TRP channels are regulated in such a manner? Is the mechanism dependent on the cell type and what exactly triggers the fusion events? Is fusion dependent on the classical SNARE proteins (see also Yao et al. 1999; Scott et al. 2003; Redondo et al. 2004; Singh et al. 2004 for regulation of SOC by vesicular fusion)? Most importantly, how can this process be distinguished from the normal vesicular transport pathways of transmembrane domain containing proteins targeted to the plasma membrane?
Regulation by calmodulin
Binding and regulation of TRP channels via calmodulin (CAM) appears to be a rather common modulatory mechanism that has already been described for the founding members of the family, the Drosophila TRP and TRPL channels (Phillips et al. 1992; Warr and Kelly 1996; Scott et al. 1997). Here, we will concentrate on the regulation of TRPV channels by calmodulin. TRPV1 binds calmodulin at an internal C-terminal domain and deletion of 35 amino acids within the C-terminal region abolishes CAM binding and reduces Ca2+ dependent desensitization (Numazaki et al. 2003). Recently, a different binding site for CAM was localized to the N-terminal region around ANK repeat 1 (Rosenbaum et al. 2004); the physiological role for CAM binding shown by utilizing a CAM mutant included feedback inhibition of the channel open probability. As shown in the more recent study different methods produced different results concerning the calcium dependency of CAM binding. Deletion of the N-terminal region containing a CAM binding site results in very reduced to no protein expression, where the expressed protein still retains some CAM binding capacity. This finding indicates that another binding site is still present.
A similar somewhat confusing picture seems to emerge from the analyses of CAM binding to TRPV6 channels. Here, we have shown that human TRPV6 (CaT-L) binds CAM in a calcium-dependent manner at a distal C-terminal domain. Deletion of this domain or point mutations within the CAM binding helix abolished CAM binding and reduced the degree of calcium-dependent feedback regulation (Niemeyer et al. 2001). As mentioned above, the identified CAM binding site also contains a phosphorylation motif and phosphorylation by PKC prevents the binding of CAM to this site (Fig. 2). More recently, a different group investigated CAM binding sites within mouse TRPV6 and found several binding sites, within the N-terminal domain, the transmembrane domain and a different C-terminal domain (Lambers et al. 2004). Whereas the N-terminal domain is conserved in sequence between mouse and man, the C-terminal binding site is not conserved, which may partially explain the divergent results between mouse and human TRPV6. Compared to the CAM binding capacity of the C-terminal region, the N-terminal region only shows minimal CAM binding. No physiological effects of point mutants or deletions within the individual binding sites is presented, instead intracellular domains are swapped between TRPV5 and TRPV6 and the effects of mutant CAM on the currents are investigated. Mutations or deletions within the N terminal region that overlaps with ANK repeat 2, may well affect the entire tertiary structure and stability of the channels as also seen with TRPV1.
A different regulatory mechanism seems to exist for the osmotically gated TRPV4 channels. Contrary to TRPV1 and TRPV 5/6, where CAM is involved in feedback inhibition, binding of Ca2+/calmodulin to a C-terminal binding site potentiates the nonselective cation currents through TRPV4. Here, Ca2+ entry increases both the rate and extent of channel activation by a calmodulin-dependent mechanism (Strotmann et al. 2003), but very large increases in [Ca2+]i via TRPV4 are still prevented by a Ca2+-dependent negative feedback mechanism.
Regulation by protein kinases
A lot of recent literature describes the modulation of different TRPV proteins by protein kinases. Before discussing these effects in more detail, a few general problems that concern nearly all studies should be mentioned: Generally, protein kinases are stimulated by applying phorbol ester or derivatives thereof and/or DAG to cells. Besides their stimulatory role on protein kinases, they also act on a variety of other proteins containing C1 domains, such as Munc13s, RasGRPs, PKD, PKC mu and DAG kinases (for recent reviews see Geiger et al. 2003; Yang and Kazanietz 2003). Crosstalk between pathways involving other phorbol ester sensitive pathways may complicate matters. Actual protein phosphorylation of TRPV channels by biochemical methods is rarely shown and the potential effects of mutations within the phosphorylation sites on the three dimensional structure, stability and function of the channels are generally neglected.
Protein kinase C
Several studies have documented effects of phorbol esters on enhanced pain perception. (Mizumura et al. 1997; Palecek et al. 1999) and an initial link to a direct effect on TRPV1 was found by (Premkumar and Ahern 2000). Phosphorylation by protein kinase C (PKC) directly modulates the function of the capsaicin receptor transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1). This modulation manifests itself as increased current when the channel is activated by capsaicin. Furthermore, addition of PKC-activating phorbol esters (i.e., PMA) induce TRPV1 currents in the absence of other ligands, which gave rise to the hypothesis that PKC may directly gate the channel (Vellani et al. 2001). By both mutating several potential phosphorylation sites, Numazaki et al. (2002) and Bhave et al. (2003), show which distinct sites mediate PKC mediated current enhancement and Bhave et al. furthermore show that the effect of PMA on channel gating is independent of its PKC activating properties as inactive phorbol ester derivatives also directly bind and modify TRPV1 gating. A similar potentiation via PKCmu utilizes a different serine than PKC (Wang et al. 2004b). For a recent review of regulatory mechanisms of TRPV1 see (Tominaga et al. 2004).
Not as much is known about regulation of TRPV4 by PKC, but activation of TRPV4 by phorbol derivatives that is independent of PKC activation has been described (Watanabe et al. 2002) and Gao et al. describe PKC dependent- and independent effects on TRPV4 function that also strongly depend on the temperature (Gao et al. 2003).
TRPV5 and TRPV6 also contain multiple consensus sites for phosphorylation by PKC. One potential phosphorylation site at the distal C-terminal region of human TRPV6 (CaT-L) was found be phosphorylated in vitro by PKC and overlaps with a calmodulin binding site. Phosphorylation at this site prevents the binding of calmodulin and mutation of the site leads to faster channel inactivation, giving rise to a model of competitive regulation of TRPV6 by protein kinase C and calmodulin (Niemeyer et al. 2001). Similar as for TRPV1, phosphorylation by PKC potentiates TRPV6 currents, here by blocking CAM dependent inactivation.
Protein kinase A
Similar to the regulation by PKC, it has been shown that phosphorylation by protein kinase A (PKA) potentiates capsaicin responses (De Petrocellis et al. 2001) by reducing TRPV1 desensitization (Bhave et al. 2002). The latter group identified Serine 116 as the critical residue whose phosphorylation is responsible for PKA-dependent modulation of TRPV1. In contrast, Lee et al. report no effect of PKA on TRPV1 expressed in oocytes or Aplysia neurons (Lee et al. 2000) and Bonnington and McNaughton report no effect of pharmacological interference of PKA after sensitization of nociceptive neurons with NGF (Bonnington and McNaughton 2003). These controversial results emphasize again the need to control for caveats mentioned in the introductory paragraph for protein kinases. For TRPV2, a novel PKA signaling module for transduction of physical stimuli in mast cells has been proposed. This module, contains PKA and a putative A kinase adapter protein, Acyl CoA binding domain protein (ACBD)3 and interacts with TRPV2 in mast cells. The authors propose that regulated phosphorylation by PKA may be a common pathway for TRPV modulation (Stokes et al. 2004).
Ca2+-calmodulin dependent kinase
Ca2+-calmodulin dependent kinase (CAM kinase II) is coexpressed in most neurons that also express TRPV1 (Ichikawa et al. 2004). Interestingly, it appears that TRPV1 must be phosphorylated by CAM kinase II (CaMKII) before it can be activated by capsaicin. In contrast, dephosphorylation of TRPV1 by calcineurin leads to desensitization of the receptor. Moreover, point mutations in TRPV1 at two putative consensus sites for CaM KII failed to elicit capsaicin-sensitive currents and caused a concomitant reduction in TRPV1 phosphorylation in vivo. The dynamic balance between the phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of TRPV1 channels by CaMKII and calcineurin, respectively, may control the activation/desensitization states by regulating TRPV1 binding. Furthermore, because sensitization by protein kinase A and C converge at these sites, phosphorylation stress in the cell appears to control a wide range of excitabilities in response to various adverse stimuli (Jung et al. 2004). NGF induced rapid sensitization of nociceptive neurons can be blocked by pharmacological interference with CaM KII, while the blockage of PKA was without effect (Bonnington and McNaughton 2003).
Tyrosine kinases
Direct regulation of a transient receptor potential (TRP) channel by tyrosine phosphorylation has been shown for TRPV4. Here, SRC family kinase-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation of TRPV4 on tyrosine 253 mediates its response to hypotonic stress (Xu et al. 2003). However, these finding cannot be reproduced by (Vriens et al. 2004b) and an alternative pathway for the hypotonicity induced activation of TRPV4 is proposed that involves activation of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) with the subsequent release of arachidonic acid (AA) and activation of the cytochrome P450 epoxygenase pathway.
More indirect evidence comes from a study of the pro-algesic agents bradykinin and nerve growth factor (NGF). Here both substances can release the capsaicin receptor from PtdIns(4,5)P2-mediated inhibition (Chuang et al. 2001) and biochemical evidence is presented that TRPV1 forms a complex with the TrkA receptor and PLC-γ. But no data is presented whether TrkA directly phosphorylates TRPV1. As described above, signaling through tyrosine-kinase receptors could also modulate function by affecting translocation of TRP channels to the plasma membrane.
Concluding remarks
Since the birth of TRP channel research with the identification of the protein responsible for the Drosophila melanogaster eye phenotype of trp mutants, hundreds of publications have identified and characterized additional TRP proteins in vertebrates and invertebrates. Subfamily classification is largely based on linear sequence homology and with the progression of knowledge toward more structural data, it will be interesting to see whether structural components such as tetramerization domains and mechanisms of surface expression or regulatory mechanisms are conserved or related within a subfamily or whether they follow rules exquisitely tailored to their individual function.
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I would like to thank Isabell Erler, Drs. Johannes Oberwinkler and Veit Flockerzi for their input and critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported in part by grants of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (B.N. 671) and University of Saarland funds.
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Niemeyer, B.A. Structure-function analysis of TRPV channels. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 371, 285–294 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-005-1053-7
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