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Casein Kinase Iγ2 Down-Regulates Trafficking of Ceramide in the Synthesis of Sphingomyelin
Authors:Nario Tomishige   Keigo Kumagai   Jun Kusuda   Masahiro Nishijima     Kentaro Hanada
Affiliation:*Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, 162-8640, Japan; ;CREST of Japan Science and Technology Agency, Saitama 332-0012, Japan; and ;Department of Biomedical Resources, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Osaka 567-0085, Japan
Abstract:Intracellullar trafficking of lipids is fundamental to membrane biogenesis. For the synthesis of sphingomyelin, ceramide is transported from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus by the ceramide transfer protein CERT. CERT is phosphorylated by protein kinase D at S132 and subsequently multiple times in a serine-repeat motif, resulting in its inactivation. However, the kinase involved in the multiple phosphorylation remains unclear. Here, we identify the γ2 isoform of casein kinase I (CKIγ2) as a kinase whose overexpression confers sphingomyelin-directed toxin-resistance to Chinese hamster ovary cells. In a transformant stably expressing CKIγ2, CERT was hyperphosphorylated, and the intracellular trafficking of ceramide was retarded, thereby reducing de novo sphingomyelin synthesis. The reduction in the synthesis of sphingomyelin caused by CKIγ2 was reversed by the expression of CERT mutants that are not hyperphosphorylated. Furthermore, CKIγ2 directly phosphorylated CERT in vitro. Among three γ isoforms, only knockdown of γ2 isoform caused drastic changes in the ratio of hypo- to hyperphosphorylated form of CERT in HeLa cells. These results indicate that CKIγ2 hyperphosphorylates the serine-repeat motif of CERT, thereby inactivating CERT and down-regulating the synthesis of sphingomyelin.
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