Mutant huntingtin impairs vesicle formation from recycling endosomes by interfering with Rab11 activity
Autor: | Jennifer Yoder, Lindsay Sobin, Zheng-Hong Qin, Karl D. Bellve, Nicholas Masso, Jonathan Alexander, Kimberly B. Kegel, Ellen Sapp, Kevin E. Fogarty, Xueyi Li, Laryssa A. Comer-Tierney, Miguel Esteves, Clive Standley, Richard A. Tuft, Kathryn Chase, Antonio Valencia, Lawrence M. Lifshitz, Neil Aronin, Marian DiFiglia |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Huntingtin Adolescent Endosome Endocytic cycle Biotin Nerve Tissue Proteins Endosomes Biology Endocytosis Clathrin Models Biological Receptors Transferrin Huntingtin Protein Humans Child Molecular Biology Cells Cultured Genes Dominant Staining and Labeling Vesicle Transferrin Nuclear Proteins Clathrin-Coated Vesicles Cell Biology Articles Fibroblasts Cell biology Enzyme Activation Protein Transport Endocytic vesicle Microscopy Fluorescence rab GTP-Binding Proteins biology.protein Mutant Proteins |
Zdroj: | Molecular and cellular biology. 29(22) |
ISSN: | 1098-5549 |
Popis: | Huntingtin (Htt) localizes to endosomes, but its role in the endocytic pathway is not established. Recently, we found that Htt is important for the activation of Rab11, a GTPase involved in endosomal recycling. Here we studied fibroblasts of healthy individuals and patients with Huntington's disease (HD), which is a movement disorder caused by polyglutamine expansion in Htt. The formation of endocytic vesicles containing transferrin at plasma membranes was the same in control and HD patient fibroblasts. However, HD fibroblasts were delayed in recycling biotin-transferrin back to the plasma membrane. Membranes of HD fibroblasts supported less nucleotide exchange on Rab11 than did control membranes. Rab11-positive vesicular and tubular structures in HD fibroblasts were abnormally large, suggesting that they were impaired in forming vesicles. We used total internal reflection fluorescence imaging of living fibroblasts to monitor fluorescence-labeled transferrin-carrying transport intermediates that emerged from recycling endosomes. HD fibroblasts had fewer small vesicles and more large vesicles and long tubules than did control fibroblasts. Dominant active Rab11 expressed in HD fibroblasts normalized the recycling of biotin-transferrin. We propose a novel mechanism for cellular dysfunction by the HD mutation arising from the inhibition of Rab11 activity and a deficit in vesicle formation at recycling endosomes. |
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