ReviewExperimental eye research2014
Plasma membrane protein polarity and trafficking in RPE cells: past, present and future.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 116 citations in OpenAlex.
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- ZO-1/Tjp1 and ZO-2/Tjp2 deletion in retinal pigment epithelium causes progressive retinal degeneration.iScience · 2025Article
- Stromal-Like Cells and Retinal Pigment Epithelium Modulate Choroidal Sprouting Through Galectin-1-Dependent and Independent Pathways.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
- The role of HMOX1-mediated ferroptosis in blue light-induced damage to retinal pigment epithelium.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Potential of autophagy in subretinal fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2025Review
- iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium: an in vitro platform to reproduce key cellular phenotypes and pathophysiology of retinal degenerative diseases.Stem cells translational medicine · 2025Review
- Phagocytosis by the retinal pigment epithelium: New insights into polarized cell mechanics.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Copper supplementation enhances pigmentation and induces dopamine production in ARPE19.PloS one · 2025Article
- Eye on the horizon: The metabolic landscape of the RPE in aging and disease.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025Review
- Small Extracellular Vesicle-Associated MiRNAs in Polarized Retinal Pigmented Epithelium.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2024Article
- Aging of the eye: Lessons from cataracts and age-related macular degeneration.Ageing research reviews · 2024Review
- Cone photoreceptor differentiation regulated by thyroid hormone transporter MCT8 in the retinal pigment epithelium.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Pigmentation level of human iPSC-derived RPE does not indicate a specific gene expression profile.eLife · 2024Article
- The Effects of the Coating and Aging of Biodegradable Polylactic Acid Membranes on In Vitro Primary Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Internalization of Angiotensin-(1-12) in Adult Retinal Pigment Epithelial-19 Cells.Journal of ocular pharmacology and therapeutics : the official journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics · 2023Article
- iPSC-derived retinal pigmented epithelial cells from patients with macular telangiectasia show decreased mitochondrial function.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2023Article
- Experimental Models to Study Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Autophagy in age-related macular degeneration.Autophagy · 2023Review
- Cell-autonomous lipid-handling defects in Stargardt iPSC-derived retinal pigment epithelium cells.Stem cell reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) comprises a monolayer of polarized pigmented epithelial cells that is strategically interposed between the neural retina and the fenestrated choroid capillaries. The RPE performs a variety of vectorial transport functions (water, ions, metabolites, nutrients and waste products) that regulate the composition of the subretinal space and support the functions of photoreceptors (PRs) and other cells in the neural retina. To this end, RPE cells display a polarized distribution of channels, transporters and receptors in their plasma membrane (PM) that is remarkably different from that found in conventional extra-ocular epithelia, e.g. intestine, kidney, and gall bladder. This characteristic PM protein polarity of RPE cells depends on the interplay of sorting signals in the RPE PM proteins and sorting mechanisms and biosynthetic/recycling trafficking routes in the RPE cell. Although considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the RPE trafficking machinery, most available data have been obtained from immortalized RPE cell lines that only partially maintain the RPE phenotype and by extrapolation of data obtained in the prototype Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell line. The increasing availability of RPE cell cultures that more closely resemble the RPE in vivo together with the advent of advanced live imaging microscopy techniques provides a platform and an opportunity to rapidly expand our understanding of how polarized protein trafficking contributes to RPE PM polarity.
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