LMAN1 serves as a cargo receptor for thrombopoietin

Lesley A. Everett; Zesen Lin; Ann Friedman; Vi T. Tang; Greggory Myers; Ginette Balbin-Cuesta; Richard King; Guojing Zhu; Beth McGee; Rami Khoriaty

doi:10.1172/jci.insight.175704

LMAN1 serves as a cargo receptor for thrombopoietin

Lesley A. Everett,¹ Zesen Lin,² Ann Friedman,³ Vi T. Tang,⁴ Greggory Myers,⁵ Ginette Balbin-Cuesta,⁶ Richard King,³ Guojing Zhu,⁷ Beth McGee,³ and Rami Khoriaty³

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Abstract

Thrombopoietin (TPO) is a plasma glycoprotein that binds its receptor on megakaryocytes (MK) and MK progenitors, resulting in enhanced platelet production. The mechanism by which TPO is secreted from hepatocytes remains poorly understood. LMAN1 and MCFD2 form a complex at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, recruiting cargo proteins into COPII vesicles for secretion. In this study, we showed that LMAN1 deficient mice (with complete germline LMAN1 deficiency) exhibited mild thrombocytopenia, whereas the platelet count was entirely normal in mice with approximately 7% Lman1 expression. Surprisingly, mice deleted for Mcfd2 did not exhibit thrombocytopenia. Analysis of peripheral blood from LMAN1 deficient mice demonstrated normal platelet size and normal morphology of dense and alpha granules. LMAN1 deficient mice exhibited a trend toward reduced MK and MK progenitors in the bone marrow. We next showed that hepatocyte-specific but not hematopoietic Lman1 deletion results in thrombocytopenia, with plasma TPO level reduced in LMAN1 deficient mice, despite normal Tpo mRNA levels in LMAN1 deficient livers. TPO and LMAN1 interacted by co-immunoprecipitation in a heterologous cell line and TPO accumulated intracellularly in LMAN1 deleted cells. Altogether, these studies confirmed the hepatocyte as the cell of origin for TPO production in vivo and were consistent with LMAN1 as the endoplasmic reticulum cargo receptor that mediates the efficient secretion of TPO. To our knowledge, TPO is the first example of an LMAN1-dependent cargo that is independent of MCFD2.

LMAN1 serves as a cargo receptor for thrombopoietin

Lesley A. Everett,¹ Zesen Lin,² Ann Friedman,³ Vi T. Tang,⁴ Greggory Myers,⁵ Ginette Balbin-Cuesta,⁶ Richard King,³ Guojing Zhu,⁷ Beth McGee,³ and Rami Khoriaty³

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LMAN1 serves as a cargo receptor for thrombopoietin

Lesley A. Everett,1 Zesen Lin,2 Ann Friedman,3 Vi T. Tang,4 Greggory Myers,5 Ginette Balbin-Cuesta,6 Richard King,3 Guojing Zhu,7 Beth McGee,3 and Rami Khoriaty3

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Lesley A. Everett,¹ Zesen Lin,² Ann Friedman,³ Vi T. Tang,⁴ Greggory Myers,⁵ Ginette Balbin-Cuesta,⁶ Richard King,³ Guojing Zhu,⁷ Beth McGee,³ and Rami Khoriaty³