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ArticleDevelopmental cell2012

The clathrin adaptor AP-1A mediates basolateral polarity.

Diego Gravotta, Jose Maria Carvajal-Gonzalez, Rafael Mattera, Sylvie Deborde, Jason R Banfelder, Juan S Bonifacino, Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan

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Article in Developmental cell, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

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97citing papers in PubMed
12.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

97 citing papers in PubMed, 155 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diego GravottaMargaret Dyson Vision Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA. dig2003@med.cornell.edu
Jose Maria Carvajal-Gonzalez
Rafael Mattera
Sylvie Deborde
Jason R Banfelder
Juan S Bonifacino
Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan
Cornell University · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Protein Trafficking In The Endosomal-Lysosomal SystemZIAHD001607 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BONIFACINO, JUAN · 2009 to 2025
$48.3M
RETINA--REVERSED POLARITY IN RPER01EY008538 · NEI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI RODRIGUEZ-BOULAN, ENRIQUE J · 1991 to 2020
$13.4M
SORTING OF PLASMA MEMBRANE PROTEINS IN EPITHELIAL CELLSR01GM034107 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI RODRIGUEZ-BOULAN, ENRIQUE J · 1985 to 2019
$9.6M
Intramural NIH HHSNEI NIH HHS EY08538NEI NIH HHS R01 EY008538NIGMS NIH HHS GM34108NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM034107
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clathrin and the epithelial-specific clathrin adaptor AP-1B mediate basolateral trafficking in epithelia. However, several epithelia lack AP-1B, and mice knocked out for AP-1B are viable, suggesting the existence of additional mechanisms that control basolateral polarity. Here, we demonstrate a distinct role of the ubiquitous clathrin adaptor AP-1A in basolateral protein sorting. Knockdown of AP-1A causes missorting of basolateral proteins in MDCK cells, but only after knockdown of AP-1B, suggesting that AP-1B can compensate for lack of AP-1A. AP-1A localizes predominantly to the TGN, and its knockdown promotes spillover of basolateral proteins into common recycling endosomes, the site of function of AP-1B, suggesting complementary roles of both adaptors in basolateral sorting. Yeast two-hybrid assays detect interactions between the basolateral signal of transferrin receptor and the medium subunits of both AP-1A and AP-1B. The basolateral sorting function of AP-1A reported here establishes AP-1 as a major regulator of epithelial polarity.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityAdaptor Protein Complex 1AnimalsCell MembraneCells, CulturedClathrinDogsEndosomesEpithelial CellsFluorescent Antibody TechniqueProtein TransportReceptors, LDLReceptors, TransferrinRNA, Small Interferingtrans-Golgi NetworkTwo-Hybrid System TechniquesAdaptor Protein Complex 1ClathrinReceptors, LDLReceptors, TransferrinRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID22516199
PMCPMC3690600
OpenAlexW2099195160

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