Axonal transport of Frizzled5 by Alcadein α-containing vesicles is associated with kinesin-1

Mol Biol Cell. 2023 Oct 1;34(11):ar110. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E22-10-0495. Epub 2023 Aug 16.

Abstract

Alcadein α (Alcα) and amyloid-β protein precursor (APP) are cargo receptors that associate vesicles with kinesin-1. These vesicles, which contain either Alcα or APP, transport various proteins/cargo molecules into axon nerve terminals. Here, we analyzed immune-isolated Alcα- and APP-containing vesicles of adult mouse brains with LC-MS/MS and identified proteins present in vesicles that contained either Alcα or APP. Among these proteins, Frizzled-5 (Fzd5), a Wnt receptor, was detected mainly in Alcα vesicles. Although colocalization ratios of Fzd5 with Alcα are low in the neurites of differentiating neurons by a low expression of Fzd5 in embryonic brains, the suppression of Alcα expression decreased the localization of Fzd5 in neurites of primary cultured neurons. Furthermore, Fzd5-EGFP expressed in primary cultured neurons was preferentially transported in axons with the transport velocities of Alcα vesicles. In synaptosomal fractions of adult-mice brains that express higher levels of Fzd5, the amount of Fzd5 and the phosphorylation level of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase-II were reduced in the Alcα-deficient mice. These results suggest that reduced transport of Fzd5 by Alcα-containing vesicles associated with kinesin-1 in axon terminals may impair the response to Wnt ligands in the noncanonical Ca2+-dependent signal transduction pathway at nerve terminals of mature neurons.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor / metabolism
  • Animals
  • Axonal Transport* / physiology
  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Kinesins* / metabolism
  • Mice
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

  • Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
  • Kinesins
  • Clstn1 protein, mouse
  • Fzd5 protein, mouse