Oncostatin M and cAMP signaling stimulate apical surface-directed membrane trafficking and apical lumen development in hepatocytes, both in a protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent manner. Here, we show that oncostatin M, but not cAMP, promotes the A-kinase anchoring protein (AKAP)-dependent anchoring of the PKA regulatory subunit (R)II␣ to subapical centrosomes and that this requires extracellular signal-regulated kinase 2 activation. Stable expression of the RIIdisplacing peptide AKAP-IS, but not a scrambled peptide, inhibits the association of RII␣ with centrosomal AKAPs and results in the repositioning of the centrosome from a subapical to a perinuclear location. Concomitantly, common endosomes, but not apical recycling endosomes, are repositioned from a subapical to a perinuclear location, without significant effects on constitutive or oncostatin M-stimulated basolateral-to-apical transcytosis. Importantly, however, the expression of the AKAP-IS peptide completely blocks oncostatin M-, but not cAMP-stimulated apical lumen development. Together, the data suggest that centrosomal anchoring of RII␣ and the interrelated subapical positioning of these centrosomes is required for oncostatin M-, but not cAMP-mediated, bile canalicular lumen development in a manner that is uncoupled from oncostatin M-stimulated apical lumen-directed membrane trafficking. The results also imply that multiple PKA-mediated signaling pathways control apical lumen development and that subapical centrosome positioning is important in some of these pathways.
INTRODUCTIONPolarized hepatocytes, like all epithelial cells, display distinct plasma membrane domains, an apical plasma membrane domain facing the bile canalicular lumen, and a basolateral plasma membrane domain facing the space of Disse. Concomitant with cell surface polarity, also the cell interior displays a polarized organization. A dense cortical actin network is assembled beneath the apical surface and actin filaments extend into apical microvilli with their barbed ends facing the microvilli tips. In addition, part of the microtubule cytoskeleton is oriented parallel to the apicalbasolateral axis with their minus and plus ends facing the apical and basolateral surface, respectively. The cytoskeleton organization influences the position of the centrosome (Burakov et al., 2003), which in various epithelial cells including intestinal Caco-2, kidney Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK), and hepatic WIF-B cells, is typically oriented toward the apical surface (Buendia et al., 1990;Meads and Schroer, 1995;Salas, 1999). Polarized positioning of the centrosome is thought to play a role in the establishment of epithelial cell polarity (Zeligs, 1979;Dylewski and Keenan, 1984;Houliston et al., 1987;Rizzolo and Joshi, 1993) and neuronal polarity (de Anda et al., 2005;Higginbotham et al., 2006). A subapical position of the centrosome may be important for the polarized orientation of microtubule-associated organelles such as the Golgi apparatus and recycling endosomes, and, in this way, facilitate the...