JCB logo
Epitomics: The Rabbit Monoclonal Company
  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search | Table of Contents

Published 4 August 2003. doi:10.1083/jcb.200302136
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow PDF (Full Text)
Right arrow PPT slides of all figures
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new content in the JCB
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via CrossRef
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Katzmann, D. J.
Right arrow Articles by Emr, S. D.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Katzmann, D. J.
Right arrow Articles by Emr, S. D.
Right arrowPubmed/NCBI databases
*Protein
*Compound via MeSH
*Substance via MeSH
Social Bookmarking
 Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?
© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/2003/8/413 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 162, Number 3, 413-423


Article

Vps27 recruits ESCRT machinery to endosomes during MVB sorting

David J. Katzmann, Christopher J. Stefan, Markus Babst and Scott D. Emr

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 92093

Address correspondence to Scott D. Emr, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Dr., CMM-W315, La Jolla, CA 92093-0688. Tel.: (858) 534-6462. Fax: (858) 534-6414. email: semr{at}ucsd.edu

Down-regulation (degradation) of cell surface proteins within the lysosomal lumen depends on the function of the multivesicular body (MVB) sorting pathway. The function of this pathway requires the class E vacuolar protein sorting (Vps) proteins. Of the class E Vps proteins, both the ESCRT-I complex (composed of the class E proteins Vps23, 28, and 37) and Vps27 (mammalian hepatocyte receptor tyrosine kinase substrate, Hrs) have been shown to interact with ubiquitin, a signal for entry into the MVB pathway. We demonstrate that activation of the MVB sorting reaction is dictated largely through interactions between Vps27 and the endosomally enriched lipid species phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate via the FYVE domain (Fab1, YGL023, Vps27, and EEA1) of Vps27. ESCRT-I then physically binds to Vps27 on endosomal membranes via a domain within the COOH terminus of Vps27. A peptide sequence in this domain, PTVP, is involved in the function of Vps27 in the MVB pathway, the efficient endosomal recruitment of ESCRT-I, and is related to a motif in HIV-1 Gag protein that is capable of interacting with Tsg101, the mammalian homologue of Vps23. We propose that compartmental specificity for the MVB sorting reaction is the result of interactions of Vps27 with phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate and ubiquitin. Vps27 subsequently recruits/activates ESCRT-I on endosomes, thereby facilitating sorting of ubiquitinated MVB cargoes.

Key Words: endocytosis; multivesicular body; phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; ubiquitin; receptor down-regulation


D.J. Katzmann and C.J. Stefan contributed equally to this work.

David J. Katzmann's present address is Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Foundation and Graduate School, 200 First Street, SW Rochester, MN 55905.

Markus Babst's present address is Dept. of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CPS, carboxypeptidase S; ESCRT, endosomal sorting complex required for transport; FYVE domain, Fab1, YGL023, Vps27, and EEA1; Hrs, hepatocyte receptor tyrosine kinase substrate; LDAO, lauryldimethylamineoxide; MVB, multivesicular body; NBD-PC, 7NBD-labeled phosphatidylcholine; NEM, N-ethylmaleimide; PI(3)P, phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate; STAM, signal-transducing adaptor molecule; Ub, ubiquitin; UIM domain, Ub-interacting motif; VHS domain, Vps27, Hrs, and STAM; Vps, vacuolar protein sorting.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:



  Home | Help | Feedback | Subscriptions | Archive | Search | Table of Contents