Unlocking the mysteries of Na+-K+-ATPase endocytosis: phosphorylation is the key.
Unlocking the mysteries of Na+-K+-ATPase endocytosis: phosphorylation is the key.
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解开Na-K-ATP酶内吞作用的奥秘:磷酸化是关键。
DOI:
10.1165/rcmb.f317
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Collawn,JamesF
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作者:
Collawn,JamesF
Any understanding of endocytosis of receptors and transporters begins with the classic studies on the LDL receptor and patients with familial hypercholesterolemia by Brown and Goldstein (reviewed in Ref. 1). They demonstrated that the LDL receptor rapidly internalized via clathrin-coated pits because it contained a tyrosine-based signal within the receptor’s 50–amino acid cytoplasmic domain (2). Soon related signals in other receptors such as the transferrin receptor were identified, and thus it appeared that a common mechanism could explain how all cell surface proteins were endocytosed. For transport proteins like the LDL receptor and the transferrin receptor where cargo (ie, cholesterol and iron) are taken in by the cell, the process appeared to be constitutive except for the interruption that occurs during cell division. Interestingly, later studies demonstrated that the clathrin-mediated endocytic pathway is inhibited by mitotic phosphorylation (3), illustrating that the classic phosphorylation–dephosphorylation regulation paradigm is an integral regulatory component of the endocytic cycle. After establishing that signals within the cytoplasmic tails were recognized by components of the clathrin-coated pit, a key player in this process was identified as an assembly protein referred to as adaptor protein-2, or AP-2 (reviewed in Ref. 4). This protein served as a bridge between the receptors and clathrin and through its recognition of the tyrosine-based signal, promoted two things: clustering of the relevant receptors and clathrin assembly. Thus the model established was that AP-2 was a common adaptor that recognized and promoted the internalization of all cell surface proteins. This simple view, however, was soon dispelled when it became clear that a large number of other “adaptor” proteins existed for other receptors, including the-arrestins that mediate internalization of some G protein–coupled receptors (GPCR)(5). AP-2, however, either directly or indirectly, still remains a central component of clathrin-mediated endocytosis of cell surface proteins. The mechanism for recognition of the tyrosine-based signal, YXX (where X is any amino acid and is a bulky hydrophobic residue [6]) by AP-2 involves a direct interaction between one of the subunits of the AP-2 complex, 2, and the 4-residue motif in the cytoplasmic tail of the cell surface protein (7). The AP-2 complex is a cytosolic heterotetramer consisting of two 100-kD chains (and 2), one 50-kD chain (2), and a 17-kD chain (2). The crystal structure for part of the AP-2 heterotetramer revealed that the C-terminal domain of the 2 subunit could accommodate the tyrosine-based signal into a hydrophobic pocket in the 2 subunit (8). Interestingly, however, this hydrophobic binding pocket for the tyrosine-based motif is normally buried, suggesting that a conformation change would be required for interaction with the tyrosine-based signal (9). Subsequent studies provided evidence that phosphorylation of threonine 156 of the 2 subunit is required for high-affinity binding and receptor internalization (10, 11), supporting the original model. This phosphorylation switch provided a key regulatory