Moesin regulates the trafficking of nascent clathrin-coated vesicles

Clathrin-coated vesicles are responsible for the trafficking of several internalized biological cargos. We have observed that the endogenous F-actin-linker moesin co-distributes with constitutive components of clathrin-coated structures. Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy studies have shown that short interference RNA of moesin enhances the lateral movement of clathrin-coated structures and provokes their abnormal clustering. The aggregation of clathrin-coated structures has also been observed in cells overexpressing N-moesin, a dominant-negative construct unable to bind to F-actin. Only overexpressed moesin constructs with an intact phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate-binding domain co-distribute with clathrin-coated structures. Hence, this N-terminal domain is mostly responsible for moesin/clathrin-coated structure association. Biochemical endosome fractioning together with total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy comparative studies, between intact cells and plasma-membrane sheets, indicate that moesin knockdown provokes the accumulation of endocytic rab5-clathrin-coated vesicles carrying the transferrin receptor. The altered trafficking of these endocytic rab5-clathrin-coated vesicles accounts for a transferrin receptor recycling defect that reduces cell-surface expression of the transferrin receptor and increases the amount of sequestered transferrin ligand. Therefore, we propose that moesin is a clathrin-coated vesicle linker that drives cargo trafficking and acts on nascent rab5-clathrin-coated vesicles by simultaneously binding to clathrin-coated vesicle-associated phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and actin cytoskeleton. Hence, functional alterations of moesin may be involved in pathological disorders associated with clathrin-mediated internalization or receptor recycling.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2009

Erschienen:

2009

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:284

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The Journal of biological chemistry - 284(2009), 4 vom: 23. Jan., Seite 2419-34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Barroso-González, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Machado, José-David [VerfasserIn]
García-Expósito, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Valenzuela-Fernández, Agustín [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

144131-77-1
Journal Article
Microfilament Proteins
Moesin
RNA, Small Interfering
Receptors, Transferrin
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Transferrin

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Date Completed 23.03.2009

Date Revised 06.02.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1074/jbc.M805311200

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM184846854