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ArticleDevelopmental cell2015

A family of tetraspans organizes cargo for sorting into multivesicular bodies.

Chris MacDonald, Johanna A Payne, Mariam Aboian, William Smith, David J Katzmann, Robert C Piper

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Article in Developmental cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chris MacDonaldDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Johanna A PayneDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Mariam AboianDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
William SmithDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
David J KatzmannDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. Electronic address: katzmann.david@mayo.edu.
Robert C PiperDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. Electronic address: robert-piper@uiowa.edu.
University of Iowa · USMayo Clinic · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Viral VectorP30CA086862 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Douglas Robert Spitz · 2000 to 2026
$70.0M
Ubiquitin-Dependent Sorting in Endosomes and the TGNR01GM058202 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI PIPER, ROBERT C · 1998 to 2025
$8.9M
Mechanisms of Endosomal SortingR01GM073024 · NIGMS · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI KATZMANN, DAVID J · 2005 to 2013
$2.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS NIH R01-GM073024NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM058202NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM058202NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The abundance of cell-surface membrane proteins is regulated by internalization and delivery into intralumenal vesicles (ILVs) of multivesicular bodies (MVBs). Many cargoes are ubiquitinated, allowing access to an ESCRT-dependent pathway into MVBs. Yet how nonubiquitinated proteins, such as glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins, enter MVBs is unclear, supporting the possibility of mechanistically distinct ILV biogenesis pathways. Here we show that a family of highly ubiquitinated tetraspan Cos proteins provides a Ub signal in trans, allowing sorting of nonubiquitinated MVB cargo into the canonical ESCRT- and Ub-dependent pathway. Cos proteins create discrete endosomal subdomains that concentrate Ub cargo prior to their envelopment into ILVs, and the activity of Cos proteins is required not only for efficient sorting of canonical Ub cargo but also for sorting nonubiquitinated cargo into MVBs. Expression of these proteins increases during nutrient stress through an NAD(+)/Sir2-dependent mechanism that in turn accelerates the downregulation of a broad range of cell-surface proteins.

Indexed as

AnimalsEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportEndosomesMembrane ProteinsMultivesicular BodiesProtein BindingProtein TransportSaccharomyces cerevisiaeUbiquitinEndosomal Sorting Complexes Required for TransportMembrane ProteinsUbiquitin

Identifiers

PMID25942624
PMCPMC4421094
OpenAlexW1514942412

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