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Published online 30 December 2002. doi:10.1083/jcb.200209127
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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2003/1/101 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 160, Number 1, 101-112

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 Imaging kinase–AKAP79–phosphatase scaffold complexes at the plasma membrane in living cells using FRET microscopy

Seth F. Oliveria2,3, Lisa L. Gomez1 and Mark L. Dell'Acqua1,2

1 Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
2 Program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262
3 Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262

Address correspondence to Mark L. Dell'Acqua, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Pharmacology, C-236, 4200 E. Ninth Ave., SOM Rm. 2817C, Denver, CO 80262. Tel.: 303-315-3432. Fax: 303-315-7097. E-mail: mark.dellacqua{at}uchsc.edu

Scaffold, anchoring, and adaptor proteins coordinate the assembly and localization of signaling complexes providing efficiency and specificity in signal transduction. The PKA, PKC, and protein phosphatase-2B/calcineurin (CaN) scaffold protein A–kinase anchoring protein (AKAP) 79 is localized to excitatory neuronal synapses where it is recruited to glutamate receptors by interactions with membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) scaffold proteins. Anchored PKA and CaN in these complexes could have important functions in regulating glutamate receptors in synaptic plasticity. However, direct evidence for the assembly of complexes containing PKA, CaN, AKAP79, and MAGUKs in intact cells has not been available. In this report, we use immunofluorescence and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy to demonstrate membrane cytoskeleton–localized assembly of this complex. Using FRET, we directly observed binding of CaN catalytic A subunit (CaNA) and PKA-RII subunits to membrane-targeted AKAP79. We also detected FRET between CaNA and PKA-RII bound simultaneously to AKAP79 within 50 Å of each other, thus providing the first direct evidence of a ternary kinase–scaffold–phosphatase complex in living cells. This finding of AKAP-mediated PKA and CaN colocalization on a nanometer scale gives new appreciation to the level of compartmentalized signal transduction possible within scaffolds. Finally, we demonstrated AKAP79-regulated membrane localization of the MAGUK synapse-associated protein 97 (SAP97), suggesting that AKAP79 functions to organize even larger signaling complexes.

Key Words: calcineurin; cyclic AMP–dependent protein kinases; glutamate; microscopy; fluorescence


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