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Eukaryotic Cell, December 2007, p. 2365-2375, Vol. 6, No. 12
1535-9778/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00275-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Establishment of the Ambient pH Signaling Complex in Aspergillus nidulans: PalI Assists Plasma Membrane Localization of PalH{triangledown}

Ana M. Calcagno-Pizarelli,1 Susana Negrete-Urtasun,1,2,{dagger} Steven H. Denison,3 Joanna D. Rudnicka,1 Henk-Jan Bussink,1 Tatiana Múnera-Huertas,1 Ljiljana Stanton,1,{ddagger} América Hervás-Aguilar,2 Eduardo A. Espeso,2 Joan Tilburn,1 Herbert N. Arst Jr.,1 and Miguel A. Peñalva2*

Department of Microbiology, Imperial College London, Flowers Building, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom,1 Departmento de Microbiología Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid 28040, Spain,2 Department of Biology, Eckerd College, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, Florida 337113

Received 31 July 2007/ Accepted 4 October 2007

The Aspergillus nidulans ambient pH signaling pathway involves two transmembrane domain (TMD)-containing proteins, PalH and PalI. We provide in silico and mutational evidence suggesting that PalI is a three TMD (3-TMD) protein with an N-terminal signal peptide, and we show that PalI localizes to the plasma membrane. PalI is not essential for the proteolytic conversion of the PacC translation product into the processed 27-kDa form, but its absence markedly reduces the accumulation of the 53-kDa intermediate after cells are shifted to an alkaline pH. PalI and its homologues contain a predicted luminal, conserved Gly-Cys-containing motif that distantly resembles a Gly-rich dimerization domain. The Gly44Arg and Gly47Asp substitutions within this motif lead to loss of function. The Gly47Asp substitution prevents plasma membrane localization of PalI-green fluorescent protein (GFP) and leads to its missorting into the multivesicular body pathway. Overexpression of the likely ambient alkaline pH receptor, the 7-TMD protein PalH, partially suppresses the null palI32 mutation. Although some PalH-GFP localizes to the plasma membrane, it predominates in internal membranes. However, the coexpression of PalI to stoichiometrically similar levels results in the strong predominance of PalH-GFP in the plasma membrane. Thus, one role for PalI, but possibly not the only role, is to assist with plasma membrane localization of PalH. These data, considered along with previous reports for both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and A. nidulans, strongly support the prevailing model of pH signaling involving two spatially segregated complexes: a plasma membrane complex containing PalH, PalI, and the arrestin-like protein PalF and an endosomal membrane complex containing PalA and PalB, to which PacC is recruited for its proteolytic activation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, Madrid 28040, Spain. Phone: 34918373112, ext. 4358. Fax: 34915360432. E-mail: penalva{at}cib.csic.es

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 19 October 2007.

{dagger} Present address: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Melchor Fernández-Almagro 3, Madrid 28029, Spain.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Biology, Acadia University, University Avenue, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada.

Eukaryotic Cell, December 2007, p. 2365-2375, Vol. 6, No. 12
1535-9778/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/EC.00275-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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