The mammalian phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate 5-kinase (PIKfyve) regulates endosome-to-TGN retrograde transport

Abstract

The yeast gene fab1 and its mammalian orthologue Pip5k3 encode the phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P] 5-kinases Fab1p and PIKfyve, respectively, enzymes that generates phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,5)P(2)]. A shared feature of fab1Delta yeast cells and mammalian cells overexpressing a kinase-dead PIKfyve mutant is the formation of a swollen vacuolar phenotype: a phenotype that is suggestive of a conserved function for these enzymes and their product, PtdIns(3,5)P(2), in the regulation of endomembrane homeostasis. In the current study, fixed and live cell imaging has established that, when overexpressed at low levels in HeLa cells, PIKfyve is predominantly associated with dynamic tubular and vesicular elements of the early endosomal compartment. Moreover, through the use of small interfering RNA, it has been shown that suppression of PIKfyve induces the formation of swollen endosomal structures that maintain their early and late endosomal identity. Although internalisation, recycling and degradative sorting of receptors for epidermal growth factor and transferrin was unperturbed in PIKfyve suppressed cells, a clear defect in endosome to trans-Golgi-network (TGN) retrograde traffic was observed. These data argue that PIKfyve is predominantly associated with the early endosome, from where it regulates retrograde membrane trafficking to the TGN. It follows that the swollen endosomal phenotype observed in PIKfyve-suppressed cells results primarily from a reduction in retrograde membrane fission rather than a defect in multivesicular body biogenesis.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.03153
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences
College of Health & Life Sciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Biosciences > Cellular and Molecular Biomedicine
Additional Information: © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 Non-commercial use
Uncontrolled Keywords: PIKfyve,Fab1p,early endosome,phosphatidylinositol (3,5) -bisphosphate,endosomal sorting
Publication ISSN: 1477-9137
Last Modified: 25 Nov 2024 08:06
Date Deposited: 15 May 2014 16:00
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Related URLs: http://jcs.biol ... ent/119/19/3944 (Publisher URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2006-10-01
Published Online Date: 2006-09-05
Authors: Rutherford, Anna C.
Traer, Colin
Wassmer, Thomas
Pattni, Krupa
Bujny, Miriam V.
Carlton, Jeremy G.
Stenmark, Harald
Cullen, Peter J.

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