Involvement of Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 7 in Human Gastric Epithelial Cell Vacuolation Induced by Helicobacter pylori-Produced VacA

ABSTRACT Helicobacter pylori-produced cytotoxin VacA induces intracellular vacuolation. The VacA-induced vacuole is assumed to represent the pathological status of intracellular trafficking. The fusion mechanism of the endosomes requires the formation of a tight complex between the Q-SNAREs and the R-SNAREs. We recently reported that syntaxin 7, a family member of the Q-SNARE protein, is involved in VacA-induced vacuole formation. In order to further elucidate the molecular mechanism, we identified the participation of vesicle-associated membrane protein 7 (VAMP7) as a partner of syntaxin 7. Immunocytochemistry revealed endogenous VAMP7 to be localized to the vacuoles induced by VacA. A Northern blotting study demonstrated that VacA intoxication increased VAMP7 mRNA in a time-dependent manner. VAMP7 was coimmunoprecipitated with syntaxin 7, and the amounts of endogenous VAMP7 and syntaxin 7 bound to syntaxin 7 and VAMP7, respectively, increased in response to VacA. The down-regulation of VAMP7 using small interfering RNA inhibited VacA-induced vacuolation, and the transient transfection of dominant-negative mutant VAMP7, the N-terminal domain of VAMP7, also inhibited the vacuolation. We therefore conclude that R-SNARE VAMP7 plays an important role in VacA-induced vacuolation as a partner of Q-SNARE syntaxin 7.

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