Involvement of syntaxin 7 in human gastric epithelial cell vacuolation induced by the Helicobacter pylori-produced cytotoxin VacA |
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Authors: | Suzuki Junko Ohnishi Hirohide Wada Akihiro Hirayama Toshiya Ohno Hideki Ueda Namiki Yasuda Hiroshi Iiri Taroh Wada Yoh Futai Masamitsu Mashima Hirosato |
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Affiliation: | Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The Helicobacter pylori-produced cytotoxin VacA induces intracellular vacuolation. The formed vacuole is assumed to be a hybrid of late endosome and lysosome. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of VacA-induced vacuolation, we examined the participation of syntaxin 7 in the human gastric epithelial cell line AGS. Immunocytochemistry revealed that endogenous syntaxin 7 was localized to vacuoles induced by VacA. Northern and Western blotting demonstrated that VacA intoxication increased syntaxin 7 mRNA and protein expression, respectively, in a time-dependent manner. Transient transfection of dominant-negative mutant syntaxin 7, which lacks a carboxyl-terminal transmembrane domain, inhibited VacA-induced vacuolation. In contrast, transient transfection of wild-type syntaxin 7, dominant-negative mutant syntaxin 1a, or dominant-negative mutant syntaxin 4 did not alter VacA-induced vacuolation. Furthermore, under VacA treatment, neutral red dye uptake, a parameter of VacA-induced vacuolation, was inhibited in cells stably transfected with mutant syntaxin 7 but not in cells stably transfected with wild-type syntaxin 7, mutant syntaxin 1a, or mutant syntaxin 4. Sequential immunocytochemical observation confirmed that expression of mutant syntaxin 7 did not affect VacA attachment to or internalization into AGS cells. We suggest that syntaxin 7 is involved in the intracellular vacuolation induced by VacA. |
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