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The C-Terminal Acidic Region of Calreticulin Mediates Phosphatidylserine Binding
and Apoptotic Cell Phagocytosis
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Wijeyesakere SJ
; Bedi SK
; Huynh D
; Raghavan M
J Immunol
2016[May]; 196
(9
): 3896-3909
PMID27036911
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Calreticulin is a calcium-binding chaperone that is normally localized in the
endoplasmic reticulum. Calreticulin is detectable on the surface of apoptotic
cells under some apoptosis-inducing conditions, where it promotes the
phagocytosis and immunogenicity of dying cells. However, the precise mechanism by
which calreticulin, a soluble protein, localizes to the outer surface of the
plasma membrane of dying cells is unknown, as are the molecular mechanisms that
are relevant to calreticulin-induced cellular phagocytosis. Calreticulin
comprises three distinct structural domains: a globular domain, an extended
arm-like P-domain, and a C-terminal acidic region containing multiple
low-affinity calcium binding sites. We show that calreticulin, via its C-terminal
acidic region, preferentially interacts with phosphatidylserine (PS) compared
with other phospholipids and that this interaction is calcium dependent.
Additionally, exogenous calreticulin binds apoptotic cells via a higher-affinity
calcium-dependent mode that is acidic region dependent. Exogenous calreticulin
also binds live cells, including macrophages, via a second, lower-affinity
P-domain and globular domain-dependent, but calcium-independent binding mode that
likely involves its generic polypeptide binding site. Truncation constructs
lacking the acidic region or arm-like P-domain of calreticulin are impaired in
their abilities to induce apoptotic cell phagocytosis by murine peritoneal
macrophages. Taken together, the results of this investigation provide the first
molecular insights into the phospholipid binding site of calreticulin as a key
anchor point for the cell surface expression of calreticulin on apoptotic cells.
These findings also support a role for calreticulin as a PS-bridging molecule
that cooperates with other PS-binding factors to promote the phagocytosis of
apoptotic cells.