Molecular Endocrinology, Vol 8, 1731-1741, Copyright © 1994 by Endocrine Society

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The hsp56 immunophilin component of untransformed steroid receptor complexes is localized both to microtubules in the cytoplasm and to the same nonrandom regions within the nucleus as the steroid receptor

MJ Czar, JK Owens-Grillo, AW Yem, KL Leach, MR Deibel Jr, MJ Welsh and WB Pratt
Department of Pharmacology University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109.

In their unliganded state, mouse glucocorticoid receptors (GR) that are overexpressed in the WCL2 line of Chinese hamster ovary cells are distributed in a nonrandom manner throughout all planes of the nucleus. These untransformed nuclear receptors exist in a heterocomplex containing three heat shock proteins, hsp90, hsp70, and hsp56, the latter being an immunophilin of the FK506 binding type whose cellular function is unknown. Because a knowledge of the cellular distribution of hsp56 could provide important clues to its function in steroid- receptor heterocomplexes, we have examined hsp56 localization in intact cells by indirect immunofluorescence using the UPJ56 antibody. The majority of hsp56 is located in the nucleus, with substantial amounts also visualized in the cytoplasm of intact cells. The cytoplasmic hsp56 was examined in rat pulmonary endothelial cells where the protein was found to colocalize with microtubules. The nuclear hsp56 was examined in the WCL2 cells, where the protein was found by confocal imaging to colocalize throughout all planes of the nucleus in the same mottled pattern as the overexpressed GR. Like the GR, the nuclear hsp56 is recovered largely in the cytosolic fraction after hypotonic rupture of WCL2 cells. An observation potentially related to the microtubule- associated fraction of hsp56 is that immunoadsorption of hsp56 from WCL2 cytosol is accompanied by coadsorption of the microtubule- associated protein-1C complex. These observations are discussed with respect to the possible biological functions of hsp56 in the folding and/or cytoplasmic-nuclear trafficking of the receptor.

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