scholarly journals A Novel Type III Endosome Transmembrane Protein, TEMP

Cells ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1029-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajith N. Aturaliya ◽  
Markus C. Kerr ◽  
Rohan D. Teasdale

As part of a high-throughput subcellular localisation project, the protein encoded by the RIKEN mouse cDNA 2610528J11 was expressed and identified to be associated with both endosomes and the plasma membrane. Based on this, we have assigned the name TEMP for Type III Endosome Membrane Protein. TEMP encodes a short protein of 111 amino acids with a single, alpha-helical transmembrane domain. Experimental analysis of its membrane topology demonstrated it is a Type III membrane protein with the amino-terminus in the lumenal, or extracellular region, and the carboxy-terminus in the cytoplasm. In addition to the plasma membrane TEMP was localized to Rab5 positive early endosomes, Rab5/Rab11 positive recycling endosomes but not Rab7 positive late endosomes. Video microscopy in living cells confirmed TEMP's plasma membrane localization and identified the intracellular endosome compartments to be tubulovesicular. Overexpression of TEMP resulted in the early/recycling endosomes clustering at the cell periphery that was dependent on the presence of intact microtubules. The cellular function of TEMP cannot be inferred based on bioinformatics comparison, but its cellular distribution between early/recycling endosomes and the plasma membrane suggests a role in membrane transport.

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 3559-3572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Crooks ◽  
Song Jae Kil ◽  
J. Michael McCaffery ◽  
Cathleen Carlin

Animal cell viruses provide valuable model systems for studying many normal cellular processes, including membrane protein sorting. The focus of this study is an integral membrane protein encoded by the E3 transcription region of human adenoviruses called E3-13.7, which diverts recycling EGF receptors to lysosomes without increasing the rate of receptor internalization or intrinsic receptor tyrosine kinase activity. Although E3-13.7 can be found on the plasma membrane when it is overexpressed, its effect on EGF receptor trafficking suggests that the plasma membrane is not its primary site of action. Using cell fractionation and immunocytochemical experimental approaches, we now report that the viral protein is located predominantly in early endosomes and limiting membranes of endosome-to-lysosome transport intermediates called multivesicular endosomes. We also demonstrate that E3-13.7 physically associates with EGF receptors undergoing E3-13.7–mediated down-regulation in early endosomes. Receptor–viral protein complexes then dissociate, and EGF receptors proceed to lysosomes, where they are degraded, while E3-13.7 is retained in endosomes. We conclude that E3-13.7 is a resident early endocytic protein independent of EGF receptor expression, because it has identical intracellular localization in mouse cells lacking endogenous receptors and cells expressing a human cytomegalovirus-driven receptor cDNA. Finally, we demonstrate that EGF receptor residues 675–697 are required for E3-13.7–mediated down-regulation. Interestingly, this sequence includes a known EGF receptor leucine-based lysosomal sorting signal used during ligand-induced trafficking, which is also conserved in the viral protein. E3-13.7, therefore, provides a novel model system for determining the molecular basis of selective membrane protein transport in the endocytic pathway. Our studies also suggest new paradigms for understanding EGF receptor sorting in endosomes and adenovirus pathogenesis.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunxiao Zhang ◽  
David P. Bulkley ◽  
Kelsey J. Roberts ◽  
Yao Xin ◽  
Daniel E. Asarnow ◽  
...  

AbstractHedgehog protein signals mediate tissue patterning and maintenance via binding to and inactivation of their common receptor Patched, a twelve-transmembrane protein that otherwise would suppress activity of the seven-transmembrane protein, Smoothened. Loss of Patched function, the most common cause of basal cell carcinoma, permits unregulated activation of Smoothened and of the Hedgehog pathway. A cryo-EM structure of the Patched protein reveals striking transmembrane domain similarities to prokaryotic RND transporters. The extracellular domain mediates association of Patched monomers in an unusual dimeric architecture that implies curvature in the associated membrane. A central conduit with cholesterol-like contents courses through the extracellular domain and resembles that used by other RND proteins to transport substrates, suggesting Patched activity in cholesterol transport. Patched expression indeed reduces cholesterol activity in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane, in a manner antagonized by Hedgehog stimulation and with implications for regulation of Smoothened.


2020 ◽  
Vol 318 (4) ◽  
pp. F956-F970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Ling Wang ◽  
Shih-Han Su ◽  
Kit Yee Wong ◽  
Chan-Wei Yang ◽  
Chin-Fu Liu ◽  
...  

Aquaporin-2 (AQP2) is a vasopressin-regulated water channel protein responsible for osmotic water reabsorption by kidney collecting ducts. In response to vasopressin, AQP2 traffics from intracellular vesicles to the apical plasma membrane of collecting duct principal cells, where it increases water permeability and, hence, water reabsorption. Despite continuing efforts, gaps remain in our knowledge of vasopressin-regulated AQP2 trafficking. Here, we studied the functions of two retromer complex proteins, small GTPase Rab7 and vacuolar protein sorting 35 (Vps35), in vasopressin-induced AQP2 trafficking in a collecting duct cell model (mpkCCD cells). We showed that upon vasopressin removal, apical AQP2 returned to Rab5-positive early endosomes before joining Rab11-positive recycling endosomes. In response to vasopressin, Rab11-associated AQP2 trafficked to the apical plasma membrane before Rab5-associated AQP2 did so. Rab7 knockdown resulted in AQP2 accumulation in early endosomes and impaired vasopressin-induced apical AQP2 trafficking. In response to vasopressin, Rab7 transiently colocalized with Rab5, indicative of a role of Rab7 in AQP2 sorting in early endosomes before trafficking to the apical membrane. Rab7-mediated apical AQP2 trafficking in response to vasopressin required GTPase activity. When Vps35 was knocked down, AQP2 accumulated in recycling endosomes under vehicle conditions and did not traffic to the apical plasma membrane in response to vasopressin. We conclude that Rab7 and Vps35 participate in AQP2 sorting in early endosomes under vehicle conditions and apical membrane trafficking in response to vasopressin.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (579) ◽  
pp. eaav5938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mallika Ghosh ◽  
Robin Lo ◽  
Ivan Ivic ◽  
Brian Aguilera ◽  
Veneta Qendro ◽  
...  

Cell attachment to the extracellular matrix (ECM) requires a balance between integrin internalization and recycling to the surface that is mediated by numerous proteins, emphasizing the complexity of these processes. Upon ligand binding in various cells, the β1 integrin is internalized, traffics to early endosomes, and is returned to the plasma membrane through recycling endosomes. This trafficking process depends on the cyclical activation and inactivation of small guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) by their specific guanine exchange factors (GEFs) and their GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs). In this study, we found that the cell surface antigen CD13, a multifunctional transmembrane molecule that regulates cell-cell adhesion and receptor-mediated endocytosis, also promoted cell migration and colocalized with β1 integrin at sites of cell adhesion and at the leading edge. A lack of CD13 resulted in aberrant trafficking of internalized β1 integrin to late endosomes and its ultimate degradation. Our data indicate that CD13 promoted ARF6 GTPase activity by positioning the ARF6-GEF EFA6 at the cell membrane. In migrating cells, a complex containing phosphorylated CD13, IQGAP1, GTP-bound (active) ARF6, and EFA6 at the leading edge promoted the ARF6 GTPase cycling and cell migration. Together, our findings uncover a role for CD13 in the fundamental cellular processes of receptor recycling, regulation of small GTPase activities, cell-ECM interactions, and cell migration.


Author(s):  
Anna Ciesielska ◽  
Marta Matyjek ◽  
Katarzyna Kwiatkowska

Abstract Toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 belongs to the TLR family of receptors inducing pro-inflammatory responses to invading pathogens. TLR4 is activated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS, endotoxin) of Gram-negative bacteria and sequentially triggers two signaling cascades: the first one involving TIRAP and MyD88 adaptor proteins is induced in the plasma membrane, whereas the second engaging adaptor proteins TRAM and TRIF begins in early endosomes after endocytosis of the receptor. The LPS-induced internalization of TLR4 and hence also the activation of the TRIF-dependent pathway is governed by a GPI-anchored protein, CD14. The endocytosis of TLR4 terminates the MyD88-dependent signaling, while the following endosome maturation and lysosomal degradation of TLR4 determine the duration and magnitude of the TRIF-dependent one. Alternatively, TLR4 may return to the plasma membrane, which process is still poorly understood. Therefore, the course of the LPS-induced pro-inflammatory responses depends strictly on the rates of TLR4 endocytosis and trafficking through the endo-lysosomal compartment. Notably, prolonged activation of TLR4 is linked with several hereditary human diseases, neurodegeneration and also with autoimmune diseases and cancer. Recent studies have provided ample data on the role of diverse proteins regulating the functions of early, late, and recycling endosomes in the TLR4-induced inflammation caused by LPS or phagocytosis of E. coli. In this review, we focus on the mechanisms of the internalization and intracellular trafficking of TLR4 and CD14, and also of LPS, in immune cells and discuss how dysregulation of the endo-lysosomal compartment contributes to the development of diverse human diseases.


2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2790-2799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Bennett ◽  
Sharron X. Lin ◽  
Mhairi C. Towler ◽  
Frederick R. Maxfield ◽  
Frances M. Brodsky

Clathrin-coated vesicles execute receptor-mediated endocytosis at the plasma membrane. However, a role for clathrin in later endocytic trafficking processes, such as receptor sorting and recycling or maintaining the organization of the endocytic pathway, has not been thoroughly characterized. The existence of clathrin-coated buds on endosomes suggests that clathrin might mediate later endocytic trafficking events. To investigate the function of clathrin-coated buds on endosomal membranes, endosome function and distribution were analyzed in a HeLa cell line that expresses the dominant-negative clathrin inhibitor Hub in an inducible manner. As expected, Hub expression reduced receptor-mediated endocytosis at the plasma membrane. Hub expression also induced a perinuclear aggregation of early endosome antigen 1-positive early endosomes, such that sorting and recycling endosomes were found tightly concentrated in the perinuclear region. Despite the dramatic redistribution of endosomes, Hub expression did not affect the overall kinetics of receptor sorting or recycling. These data show that clathrin function is necessary to maintain proper cellular distribution of early endosomes but does not play a prominent role in sorting and recycling events. Thus, clathrin's role on endosomal membranes is to influence organelle localization and is distinct from its role in trafficking pathways at the plasma membrane and trans-Golgi network.


2000 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Harder ◽  
Marina Kuhn

Activation of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) induces tyrosine phosphorylations that mediate the assembly of signaling protein complexes. Moreover, cholesterol-sphingolipid raft membrane domains have been implicated to play a role in TCR signal transduction. Here, we studied the assembly of TCR with signal transduction proteins and raft markers in plasma membrane subdomains of Jurkat T leukemic cells. We employed a novel method to immunoisolate plasma membrane subfragments that were highly concentrated in activated TCR–CD3 complexes and associated signaling proteins. We found that the raft transmembrane protein linker for activation of T cells (LAT), but not a palmitoylation-deficient non-raft LAT mutant, strongly accumulated in TCR-enriched immunoisolates in a tyrosine phosphorylation–dependent manner. In contrast, other raft-associated molecules, including protein tyrosine kinases Lck and Fyn, GM1, and cholesterol, were not highly concentrated in TCR-enriched plasma membrane immunoisolates. Many downstream signaling proteins coisolated with the TCR/LAT-enriched plasma membrane fragments, suggesting that LAT/TCR assemblies form a structural scaffold for TCR signal transduction proteins. Our results indicate that TCR signaling assemblies in plasma membrane subdomains, rather than generally concentrating raft-associated membrane proteins and lipids, form by a selective protein-mediated anchoring of the raft membrane protein LAT in vicinity of TCR.


1992 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Sabolic ◽  
F Wuarin ◽  
L B Shi ◽  
A S Verkman ◽  
D A Ausiello ◽  
...  

Endocytic vesicles that are involved in the vasopressin-stimulated recycling of water channels to and from the apical membrane of kidney collecting duct principal cells were isolated from rat renal papilla by differential and Percoll density gradient centrifugation. Fluorescence quenching measurements showed that the isolated vesicles maintained a high, HgCl2-sensitive water permeability, consistent with the presence of vasopressin-sensitive water channels. They did not, however, exhibit ATP-dependent luminal acidification, nor any N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive ATPase activity, properties that are characteristic of most acidic endosomal compartments. Western blotting with specific antibodies showed that the 31- and 70-kD cytoplasmically oriented subunits of the vacuolar proton pump were not detectable in these apical endosomes from the papilla, whereas they were present in endosomes prepared in parallel from the cortex. In contrast, the 56-kD subunit of the proton pump was abundant in papillary endosomes, and was localized at the apical pole of principal cells by immunocytochemistry. Finally, an antibody that recognizes the 16-kD transmembrane subunit of oat tonoplast ATPase cross-reacted with a distinct 16-kD band in cortical endosomes, but no 16-kD band was detectable in endosomes from the papilla. This antibody also recognized a 16-kD band in affinity-purified H+ ATPase preparations from bovine kidney medulla. Therefore, early endosomes derived from the apical plasma membrane of collecting duct principal cells fail to acidify because they lack functionally important subunits of a vacuolar-type proton pumping ATPase, including the 16-kD transmembrane domain that serves as the proton-conducting channel, and the 70-kD cytoplasmic subunit that contains the ATPase catalytic site. This specialized, non-acidic early endosomal compartment appears to be involved primarily in the hormonally induced recycling of water channels to and from the apical plasma membrane of vasopressin-sensitive cells in the kidney collecting duct.


2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 4448-4457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Arnaoutova ◽  
Catherine L. Jackson ◽  
Omayma S. Al-Awar ◽  
Julie G. Donaldson ◽  
Y. Peng Loh

Little is known about the molecular mechanism of recycling of intracellular receptors and lipid raft-associated proteins. Here, we have investigated the recycling pathway and internalization mechanism of a transmembrane, lipid raft-associated intracellular prohormone sorting receptor, carboxypeptidase E (CPE). CPE is found in the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and secretory granules of (neuro)endocrine cells. An extracellular domain of the IL2 receptor α-subunit (Tac) fused to the transmembrane domain and cytoplasmic tail of CPE (Tac-CPE25) was used as a marker to track recycling of CPE. We show in (neuro)endocrine cells, that upon stimulated secretory granule exocytosis, raft-associated Tac-CPE25 was rapidly internalized from the plasma membrane in a clathrin-independent manner into early endosomes and then transported through the endocytic recycling compartment to the TGN. A yeast two-hybrid screen and in vitro binding assay identified the CPE cytoplasmic tail sequence S472ETLNF477 as an interactor with active small GTPase ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) 6, but not ARF1. Expression of a dominant negative, inactive ARF6 mutant blocked this recycling. Mutation of residues S472 or E473 to A in the cytoplasmic tail of CPE obliterated its binding to ARF6, and internalization from the plasma membrane of Tac-CPE25 mutated at S472 or E473 was significantly reduced. Thus, CPE recycles back to the TGN by a novel mechanism requiring ARF6 interaction and activity.


1991 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 4760-4770
Author(s):  
M McMahon ◽  
R C Schatzman ◽  
J M Bishop

The retroviral oncogene v-erbB encodes a truncated form of the receptor for epidermal growth factor, an integral membrane protein-tyrosine kinase. By contrast, the oncogene v-src encodes a protein-tyrosine kinase that is a peripheral membrane protein. The morphologies and spectra of cells transformed by these two oncogenes differ. In an effort to identify the functional determinant(s) of these differences, we constructed and tested first deletion mutants of v-erbB and then chimeras between v-src and v-erbB. As reported previously, the absence of any membrane anchorage eliminated transformation by v-erbB. Anchorage of the cytoplasmic kinase domain of v-erbB to membranes with amino-terminal portions of the v-src protein permitted transformation. The phenotype and spectrum of transformation were those expected for v-erbB rather than for v-src. The transforming chimeras lost their biological activity if the signal for myristylation at the amino terminus of v-src was compromised by mutation. Biochemical fractionations revealed a correlation between transforming activity and the association of chimeric gene products with the membrane fraction of the cell. For reasons not yet apparent, the combined presence of membrane anchorage domains of v-src, and the transmembrane domain of v-erbB in the same chimera typically (but not inevitably) impeded transformation. Our results suggest that the specificity of transformation by v-erbB resides in the selection of substrates by the cytoplasmic domain of the gene product. The protein retains access to those substrates even when anchored to the membrane in the manner of a peripheral rather than a transmembrane protein.


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