The ESCRT machinery: a cellular apparatus for sorting and scission

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1397-1412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Carlton
Keyword(s):  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Multivesicular Bodies ◽  
Particle Assembly ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Daughter Cells ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Membrane Fission

The ESCRT (endosomal sorting complex required for transport) machinery is a group of multisubunit protein complexes conserved across phyla that are involved in a range of diverse cellular processes. ESCRT proteins regulate the biogenesis of MVBs (multivesicular bodies) and the sorting of ubiquitinated cargos on to ILVs (intraluminal vesicles) within these MVBs. These proteins are also recruited to sites of retroviral particle assembly, where they provide an activity that allows release of these retroviruses. More recently, these proteins have been shown to be recruited to the intracellular bridge linking daughter cells at the end of mitosis, where they act to ensure the separation of these cells through the process of cytokinesis. Although these cellular processes are diverse, they share a requirement for a topologically unique membrane-fission step for their completion. Current models suggest that the ESCRT machinery catalyses this membrane fission.

scholarly journals VPS4 triggers constriction and cleavage of ESCRT-III helical filaments

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. eaau7198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourav Maity ◽  
Christophe Caillat ◽  
Nolwenn Miguet ◽  
Guidenn Sulbaran ◽  
Gregory Effantin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Membrane Structures ◽  
Vesicle Budding ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Force Microscopy ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Membrane Fission ◽  
End Caps

Many cellular processes such as endosomal vesicle budding, virus budding, and cytokinesis require extensive membrane remodeling by the endosomal sorting complex required for transport III (ESCRT-III). ESCRT-III protein family members form spirals with variable diameters in vitro and in vivo inside tubular membrane structures, which need to be constricted to proceed to membrane fission. Here, we show, using high-speed atomic force microscopy and electron microscopy, that the AAA-type adenosine triphosphatase VPS4 constricts and cleaves ESCRT-III CHMP2A-CHMP3 helical filaments in vitro. Constriction starts asymmetrically and progressively decreases the diameter of CHMP2A-CHMP3 tubular structure, thereby coiling up the CHMP2A-CHMP3 filaments into dome-like end caps. Our results demonstrate that VPS4 actively constricts ESCRT-III filaments and cleaves them before their complete disassembly. We propose that the formation of ESCRT-III dome-like end caps by VPS4 within a membrane neck structure constricts the membrane to set the stage for membrane fission.

scholarly journals The Mechanism of Budding of Retroviruses from Cell Membranes

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pincetic ◽  
Jonathan Leis
Keyword(s):  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Cellular Protein ◽  
Multivesicular Bodies ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Cellular Machinery ◽  
Avian Sarcoma ◽  
Hiv 1

Retroviruses have evolved a mechanism for the release of particles from the cell membrane that appropriates cellular protein complexes, referred to as ESCRT-I, -II, -III, normally involved in the biogenesis of multivesicular bodies. Three different classes of late assembly (L) domains encoded in Gag, with core sequences of PPXY, PTAP, and YPXL, recruit different components of the ESCRT machinery to form a budding complex for virus release. Here, we highlight recent progress in identifying the role of different ESCRT complexes in facilitating budding, ubiquitination, and membrane targeting of avian sarcoma and leukosis virus (ASLV) and human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1). These findings show that retroviruses may adopt parallel budding pathways by recruiting different host factors from common cellular machinery for particle release.

scholarly journals Efficient Cargo Sorting by ESCRT-I and the Subsequent Release of ESCRT-I from Multivesicular Bodies Requires the Subunit Mvb12

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 636-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Curtiss ◽  
Charles Jones ◽  
Markus Babst
Keyword(s):  
Protein Complex ◽  
Transmembrane Proteins ◽  
Multivesicular Body ◽  
Multivesicular Bodies ◽  
Rapid Degradation ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Complex Functions ◽  
Vacuolar Protein ◽  
Cargo Sorting

The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT)-I protein complex functions in recognition and sorting of ubiquitinated transmembrane proteins into multivesicular body (MVB) vesicles. It has been shown that ESCRT-I contains the vacuolar protein sorting (Vps) proteins Vps23, Vps28, and Vps37. We identified an additional subunit of yeast ESCRT-I called Mvb12, which seems to associate with ESCRT-I by binding to Vps37. Transient recruitment of ESCRT-I to MVBs results in the rapid degradation of Mvb12. In contrast to mutations in other ESCRT-I subunits, which result in strong defects in MVB cargo sorting, deletion of MVB12 resulted in only a partial sorting phenotype. This trafficking defect was fully suppressed by overexpression of the ESCRT-II complex. Mutations in MVB12 did not affect recruitment of ESCRT-I to MVBs, but they did result in delivery of ESCRT-I to the vacuolar lumen via the MVB pathway. Together, these observations suggest that Mvb12 may function in regulating the interactions of ESCRT-I with cargo and other proteins of the ESCRT machinery to efficiently coordinate cargo sorting and release of ESCRT-I from the MVB.

scholarly journals ULK3 regulates cytokinetic abscission by phosphorylating ESCRT-III proteins

eLife ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Caballe ◽  
Dawn M Wenzel ◽  
Monica Agromayor ◽  
Steven L Alam ◽  
Jack J Skalicky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Pore ◽  
Aurora B ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Protection Mechanism ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Daughter Cells ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Biochemical Studies ◽  
Genome Protection

The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) machinery mediates the physical separation between daughter cells during cytokinetic abscission. This process is regulated by the abscission checkpoint, a genome protection mechanism that relies on Aurora B and the ESCRT-III subunit CHMP4C to delay abscission in response to chromosome missegregation. In this study, we show that Unc-51-like kinase 3 (ULK3) phosphorylates and binds ESCRT-III subunits via tandem MIT domains, and thereby, delays abscission in response to lagging chromosomes, nuclear pore defects, and tension forces at the midbody. Our structural and biochemical studies reveal an unusually tight interaction between ULK3 and IST1, an ESCRT-III subunit required for abscission. We also demonstrate that IST1 phosphorylation by ULK3 is an essential signal required to sustain the abscission checkpoint and that ULK3 and CHMP4C are functionally linked components of the timer that controls abscission in multiple physiological situations.

ESCRT-mediated sorting and intralumenal vesicle concatenation in plants

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa S. Otegui
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Endocytic Pathway ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Evolutionary Diversification ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Membrane Fission ◽  
Associated Proteins

The degradation of plasma membrane and other membrane-associated proteins require their sorting at endosomes for delivery to the vacuole. Through the endocytic pathway, ubiquitinated membrane proteins (cargo) are delivered to endosomes where the ESCRT (endosomal sorting complex required for transport) machinery sorts them into intralumenal vesicles for degradation. Plants contain both conserved and plant-specific ESCRT subunits. In this review, I discuss the role of characterized plant ESCRT components, the evolutionary diversification of the plant ESCRT machinery, and a recent study showing that endosomal intralumenal vesicles form in clusters of concatenated vesicle buds by temporally uncoupling membrane constriction from membrane fission.

scholarly journals Essential Role of hIST1 in Cytokinesis

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1374-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Agromayor ◽  
Jez G. Carlton ◽  
John P. Phelan ◽  
Daniel R. Matthews ◽  
Leo M. Carlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Multivesicular Body ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Membrane Fission ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Positive Modulator ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Hiv 1

The last steps of multivesicular body (MVB) formation, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 budding and cytokinesis require a functional endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery to facilitate topologically equivalent membrane fission events. Increased sodium tolerance (IST) 1, a new positive modulator of the ESCRT pathway, has been described recently, but an essential function of this highly conserved protein has not been identified. Here, we describe the previously uncharacterized KIAA0174 as the human homologue of IST1 (hIST1), and we report its conserved interaction with VPS4, CHMP1A/B, and LIP5. We also identify a microtubule interacting and transport (MIT) domain interacting motif (MIM) in hIST1 that is necessary for its interaction with VPS4, LIP5 and other MIT domain-containing proteins, namely, MITD1, AMSH, UBPY, and Spastin. Importantly, hIST1 is essential for cytokinesis in mammalian cells but not for HIV-1 budding, thus providing a novel mechanism of functional diversification of the ESCRT machinery. Last, we show that the hIST1 MIM activity is essential for cytokinesis, suggesting possible mechanisms to explain the role of hIST1 in the last step of mammalian cell division.

scholarly journals Why Cells and Viruses Cannot Survive without an ESCRT

Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 483
Author(s):  
Arianna Calistri ◽  
Alberto Reale ◽  
Giorgio Palù ◽  
Cristina Parolin
Keyword(s):  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Cellular Environment ◽  
Intracellular Parasites ◽  
Cell Life ◽  
Infected Cells ◽  
Intracellular Organelles ◽  
Simplex Virus ◽  
Hsv 1

Intracellular organelles enwrapped in membranes along with a complex network of vesicles trafficking in, out and inside the cellular environment are one of the main features of eukaryotic cells. Given their central role in cell life, compartmentalization and mechanisms allowing their maintenance despite continuous crosstalk among different organelles have been deeply investigated over the past years. Here, we review the multiple functions exerted by the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery in driving membrane remodeling and fission, as well as in repairing physiological and pathological membrane damages. In this way, ESCRT machinery enables different fundamental cellular processes, such as cell cytokinesis, biogenesis of organelles and vesicles, maintenance of nuclear–cytoplasmic compartmentalization, endolysosomal activity. Furthermore, we discuss some examples of how viruses, as obligate intracellular parasites, have evolved to hijack the ESCRT machinery or part of it to execute/optimize their replication cycle/infection. A special emphasis is given to the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) interaction with the ESCRT proteins, considering the peculiarities of this interplay and the need for HSV-1 to cross both the nuclear-cytoplasmic and the cytoplasmic-extracellular environment compartmentalization to egress from infected cells.

Structure and functions of His domain protein tyrosine phosphatase in receptor trafficking and cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Desrochers ◽  
Jalal M. Kazan ◽  
Arnim Pause
Keyword(s):  
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase ◽  
Protein Complexes ◽  
Tyrosine Phosphatase ◽  
Tumor Formation ◽  
Receptor Trafficking ◽  
Surface Receptors ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Modular Domain ◽  
Structure And Functions

Cell surface receptors trigger the activation of signaling pathways to regulate key cellular processes, including cell survival and proliferation. Internalization, sorting, and trafficking of activated receptors, therefore, play a major role in the regulation and attenuation of cell signaling. Efficient sorting of endocytosed receptors is performed by the ESCRT machinery, which targets receptors for degradation by the sequential establishment of protein complexes. These events are tightly regulated and malfunction of ESCRT components can lead to abnormal trafficking and sustained signaling and promote tumor formation or progression. In this review, we analyze the modular domain organization of the alternative ESCRT protein HD-PTP and its role in receptor trafficking and tumorigenesis.

scholarly journals MITD1 is recruited to midbodies by ESCRT-III and participates in cytokinesis

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (22) ◽  
pp. 4347-4361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seongju Lee ◽  
Jaerak Chang ◽  
Benoît Renvoisé ◽  
Anita Tipirneni ◽  
Sarah Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Multivesicular Body ◽  
Strong Interactions ◽  
Body Protein ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Viral Budding ◽  
Membrane Fission ◽  
Downstream Effects ◽  
Trafficking Molecules

Diverse cellular processes, including multivesicular body formation, cytokinesis, and viral budding, require the sequential functions of endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) 0 to III. Of these multiprotein complexes, ESCRT-III in particular plays a key role in mediating membrane fission events by forming large, ring-like helical arrays. A number of proteins playing key effector roles, most notably the ATPase associated with diverse cellular activities protein VPS4, harbor present in microtubule-interacting and trafficking molecules (MIT) domains comprising asymmetric three-helical bundles, which interact with helical MIT-interacting motifs in ESCRT-III subunits. Here we assess comprehensively the ESCRT-III interactions of the MIT-domain family member MITD1 and identify strong interactions with charged multivesicular body protein 1B (CHMP1B), CHMP2A, and increased sodium tolerance-1 (IST1). We show that these ESCRT-III subunits are important for the recruitment of MITD1 to the midbody and that MITD1 participates in the abscission phase of cytokinesis. MITD1 also dimerizes through its C-terminal domain. Both types of interactions appear important for the role of MITD1 in negatively regulating the interaction of IST1 with VPS4. Because IST1 binding in turn regulates VPS4, MITD1 may function through downstream effects on the activity of VPS4, which plays a critical role in the processing and remodeling of ESCRT filaments in abscission.

scholarly journals AKTIP interacts with ESCRT I and is needed for the recruitment of ESCRT III subunits to the midbody

PLoS Genetics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. e1009757
Author(s):  
Chiara Merigliano ◽  
Romina Burla ◽  
Mattia La Torre ◽  
Simona Del Giudice ◽  
Hsiangling Teo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Membrane ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Endosomal Sorting ◽  
Daughter Cells ◽  
Escrt Machinery ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Interphase Cells ◽  
Sequence Similarities

To complete mitosis, the bridge that links the two daughter cells needs to be cleaved. This step is carried out by the endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) machinery. AKTIP, a protein discovered to be associated with telomeres and the nuclear membrane in interphase cells, shares sequence similarities with the ESCRT I component TSG101. Here we present evidence that during mitosis AKTIP is part of the ESCRT machinery at the midbody. AKTIP interacts with the ESCRT I subunit VPS28 and forms a circular supra-structure at the midbody, in close proximity with TSG101 and VPS28 and adjacent to the members of the ESCRT III module CHMP2A, CHMP4B and IST1. Mechanistically, the recruitment of AKTIP is dependent on MKLP1 and independent of CEP55. AKTIP and TSG101 are needed together for the recruitment of the ESCRT III subunit CHMP4B and in parallel for the recruitment of IST1. Alone, the reduction of AKTIP impinges on IST1 and causes multinucleation. Our data altogether reveal that AKTIP is a component of the ESCRT I module and functions in the recruitment of ESCRT III components required for abscission.

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