Dysregulation of the disintegrin-metalloproteinase ADAM10 may contribute to the development of diseases including tumorigenesis and Alzheimer's disease.The mechanisms underlying ADAM10 sheddase activation are inco...Dysregulation of the disintegrin-metalloproteinase ADAM10 may contribute to the development of diseases including tumorigenesis and Alzheimer's disease.The mechanisms underlying ADAM10 sheddase activation are incompletely understood.Here,we show that transient exposure of the negatively charged phospholipid phosphatidylserine(PS)is necessarily required.The soluble PS headgroup was found to act as competitive inhibitor of substrate cleavage.Overexpression of the Ca2+-dependent phospholipid scramblase Anoctamin-6(AN06)led to increased PS externalization and substrate release.Transfection with a constitutively active form of AN06 resulted in maximum sheddase activity in the absence of any stimulus.Calcium-dependent ADAM10 activation could not be induced in lymphocytes of patients with Scott syndrome harbouring a missense mutation in AN06.A putative PS-binding motif was identified in the conserved stalk region.Replacement of this motif resulted in strong reduction of sheddase activity.In conjunction with the recently described 3D structure of the ADAM10 extracellular domain,a model is advanced to explain how surface-exposed PS triggers ADAM 10 sheddase function.展开更多
文摘Dysregulation of the disintegrin-metalloproteinase ADAM10 may contribute to the development of diseases including tumorigenesis and Alzheimer's disease.The mechanisms underlying ADAM10 sheddase activation are incompletely understood.Here,we show that transient exposure of the negatively charged phospholipid phosphatidylserine(PS)is necessarily required.The soluble PS headgroup was found to act as competitive inhibitor of substrate cleavage.Overexpression of the Ca2+-dependent phospholipid scramblase Anoctamin-6(AN06)led to increased PS externalization and substrate release.Transfection with a constitutively active form of AN06 resulted in maximum sheddase activity in the absence of any stimulus.Calcium-dependent ADAM10 activation could not be induced in lymphocytes of patients with Scott syndrome harbouring a missense mutation in AN06.A putative PS-binding motif was identified in the conserved stalk region.Replacement of this motif resulted in strong reduction of sheddase activity.In conjunction with the recently described 3D structure of the ADAM10 extracellular domain,a model is advanced to explain how surface-exposed PS triggers ADAM 10 sheddase function.