UPTAKE AND INTRACELLULAR PROCESSING OF EPIDERMAL-GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR COMPLEXES
UPTAKE AND INTRACELLULAR PROCESSING OF EPIDERMAL-GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR COMPLEXES
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DOI:
10.1042/bst0120165
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
HOPKINS, CR
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作者:
BEARDMORE, J;HOPKINS, CR
The internalization of cell-surface receptors by endocytosis has been described in a wide variety of different systems (Steinman er al., 1983). The uptake process, which may involve both occupied and unoccupied receptors, has been described in detail; in most instances it involves the clustering of the receptors in clathrin-coated pits, localized depressions of the plasma membrane which represent about 2% of the total cell surface (Goldstein et al., 1979). Invagination of the plasma membrane at the coated pit transfers the receptor to an intracellular membrane boundary, and for receptors concerned with the uptake of ligands for degradation this is the first step in the pathway which leads eventually to the lysosome. Recently, however, it has become apparent that between the plasma membrane and the lysosome there is a system of intracellular compartments within which the internalized receptors and their bound ligand can be differentially processed (Steinman et a/., 1983; Helenius et al., 1983). The existence of these compartments, which together comprise the endosome system, is of special interest for signal-bearing ligands, since some of the best characterized of these (eg insulin, EGF*) are known to be internalized via coated pits (Kaplan, 1981; Krupp & Lane, 1981; Carpentier et a/., 1982). As yet, however, the role of endosomal processing in the transduction of ligand signals and in the regulation of the available receptor population on the cell surface remains to be evaluated.