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ArticleEukaryotic cell2013

Evidence for recycling of invariant surface transmembrane domain proteins in African trypanosomes.

V Lila Koumandou, Cordula Boehm, Katy A Horder, Mark C Field

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Article in Eukaryotic cell, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

V Lila KoumandouDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Cordula Boehm
Katy A Horder
Mark C Field
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 082813
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular trafficking is a vital component of both virulence mechanisms and drug interactions in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of human African trypanosomiasis and n'agana of cattle. Both maintaining the surface proteome composition within a life stage and remodeling the composition when progressing between life stages are important features of immune evasion and development for trypanosomes. Our recent work implicates the abundant transmembrane invariant surface glycoproteins (ISGs) in the uptake of first-line therapeutic suramin, suggesting a potential therapeutic route into the cell. RME-8 is a mediator of recycling pathways in higher eukaryotes and is one of a small cohort of intracellular transport gene products upregulated in mammal-infective trypanosomes, suggesting a role in controlling the copy number of surface proteins in trypanosomes. Here we investigate RME-8 function and its contribution to intracellular trafficking and stability of ISGs. RME-8 is a highly conserved protein and is broadly distributed across multiple endocytic compartments. By knockdown we find that RME-8 is essential and mediates delivery of endocytic probes to late endosomal compartments. Further, we find ISG accumulation within endosomes, but that RME-8 knockdown also increases ISG turnover; combined with previous data, this suggests that it is most probable that ISGs are recycled, and that RME-8 is required to support recycling.

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AnimalsEndocytosisEndosomesGene ExpressionGene Knockdown TechniquesGolgi ApparatusHumansLysosomesMembrane GlycoproteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsPhylogenyProtein StabilityProtein Structure, TertiaryProtein TransportProtozoan ProteinsRNA, Small InterferingISG65 protein, Trypanosoma bruceiISG75 protein, Trypanosoma bruceiMembrane GlycoproteinsMembrane Transport ProteinsProtozoan ProteinsRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID23264644
PMCPMC3571300
OpenAlexW2162905305

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