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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2017

Sphingosine and Sphingosine Kinase 1 Involvement in Endocytic Membrane Trafficking.

Santiago Lima, Sheldon Milstien, Sarah Spiegel

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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51 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. The SphK1/S1P Axis Regulates Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis via TRPC5 Channels.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Santiago LimaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298. Electronic address: santiago.lima@vcuhealth.org.
Sheldon MilstienDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298.
Sarah SpiegelDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia 23298. Electronic address: sarah.spiegel@vcuhealth.org.
Virginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Virus Vector Shared ResourceP30CA016059 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Keri R Maher · 1985 to 2026
$51.0M
SPHINGOSINE AS A MODULATOR OF CELLULAR PROLIFERATIONR01GM043880 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI SPIEGEL, SARAH · 1990 to 2023
$3.8M
SphK1-TRAF2-cIAP interactions in NF-kB activation, colitis and associated cancerK22CA187314 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI LIMA, SANTIAGO · 2014 to 2016
$446k
NCI NIH HHS K22 CA187314NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016059NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM043880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The balance between cholesterol and sphingolipids within the plasma membrane has long been implicated in endocytic membrane trafficking. However, in contrast to cholesterol functions, little is still known about the roles of sphingolipids and their metabolites. Perturbing the cholesterol/sphingomyelin balance was shown to induce narrow tubular plasma membrane invaginations enriched with sphingosine kinase 1 (SphK1), the enzyme that converts the bioactive sphingolipid metabolite sphingosine to sphingosine-1-phosphate, and suggested a role for sphingosine phosphorylation in endocytic membrane trafficking. Here we show that sphingosine and sphingosine-like SphK1 inhibitors induced rapid and massive formation of vesicles in diverse cell types that accumulated as dilated late endosomes. However, much smaller vesicles were formed in SphK1-deficient cells. Moreover, inhibition or deletion of SphK1 prolonged the lifetime of sphingosine-induced vesicles. Perturbing the plasma membrane cholesterol/sphingomyelin balance abrogated vesicle formation. This massive endosomal influx was accompanied by dramatic recruitment of the intracellular SphK1 and Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs domain-containing proteins endophilin-A2 and endophilin-B1 to enlarged endosomes and formation of highly dynamic filamentous networks containing endophilin-B1 and SphK1. Together, our results highlight the importance of sphingosine and its conversion to sphingosine-1-phosphate by SphK1 in endocytic membrane trafficking.

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EndocytosisAnimalsCaveolinsCell LineClathrinEndosomesGene DeletionHumansLysophospholipidsMicePhosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)SphingosineSphingosine KinaseCaveolinsClathrinLysophospholipidsPhosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)Sphingosinesphingosine 1-phosphateSphingosine Kinaseendocytosisendosomesphingolipidsphingosinesphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P)sphingosine kinase (SphK)

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PMID28049734
PMCPMC5336145
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