Regulation of plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase activity by acetylated tubulin: influence of the lipid environment

MONESTEROLO NOELIA E.; AMAIDEN RAFAELA M; CAMPETELLI ALEXIS N.; SANTANDER VERONICA; ARCE, CARLOS A.; PIE J; CASALE C. H.

BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Año: 2012 vol. 1818 p. 601 - 608

0005-2736

We demonstrated previously that acetylated tubulin inhibits plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA) activity in plasma membrane vesicles (PMVs) of rat brain through a reversible interaction. Dissociation of the PMCA/tubulin complex leads to restoration of ATPase activity. We now report that, when the enzyme is reconstituted in phosphatidylcholine vesicles containing acidic or neutral lipids, tubulin not only loses its inhibitory effect but is capable of activating PMCA. This alteration of the PMCA-inhibitory effect of tubulin was dependent on concentrations of both lipids and tubulin. Tubulin (300 μg/ml) in combination with acidic lipids at concentrations >10%, increased PMCA activity up to 27-fold. The neutral lipid diacylglycerol (DAG), in combination with 50 μg/ ml tubulin, increased PMCA activity > 12-fold, whereas tubulin alone at high concentration (≥300 μg/ml) produced only 80% increase. When DAG was generated in situ by phospholipase C incubation of PMVs pre-treated with exogenous tubulin, the inhibitory effect of tubulin on PMCA activity (ATP hydrolysis, and Ca2+ transport within vesicles) was reversed. These findings indicate that PMCA is activated independently of surrounding lipid composition at low tubulin concentrations (