Interaction of the immunoglobulin-like cell adhesion molecule hepaCAM with caveolin-1 |
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| Authors: | Mei Chung Moh Lay Hoon Lee Ting Zhang Shali Shen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Clinical Immunology, Medical Faculty, Center of Child and Adolescent Health, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany;2. Department of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany;3. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Subsequent to our identification of the novel immunoglobulin-like cell adhesion molecule hepaCAM, we demonstrated that hepaCAM is capable of modulating cell growth and cell–extracellular matrix interactions. In this study, we examined the localization of hepaCAM in lipid rafts/caveolae as well as the interaction of hepaCAM with the caveolar structural protein caveolin-1 (Cav-1). Our results revealed that a portion of hepaCAM resided in detergent-resistant membranes and co-partitioned with Cav-1 to low buoyant density fractions characteristic of lipid rafts/caveolae. In addition, co-localization and coimmunoprecipitation assays confirmed the association of hepaCAM with Cav-1. Deletion analysis of hepaCAM showed that the extracellular first immunoglobulin domain of hepaCAM was required for binding Cav-1. Furthermore, when co-expressed, Cav-1 induced the expression of hepaCAM as well as distributed hepaCAM to intracellular Cav-1-positive caveolar structures. Taken together, our findings indicate that hepaCAM is partially localized in the lipid rafts/caveolae and interacts with Cav-1 through its first immunoglobulin domain. |
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