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Disabled-2 protein facilitates assembly polypeptide-2-independent recruitment of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator to endocytic vesicles in polarized human airway epithelial cells.

Abstract

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is a cAMP-activated Cl(-) channel expressed in the apical plasma membrane of fluid-transporting epithelia, where the plasma membrane abundance of CFTR is in part controlled by clathrin-mediated endocytosis. The protein networks that control CFTR endocytosis in epithelial cells have only been partially explored. The assembly polypeptide-2 complex (AP-2) is the prototypical endocytic adaptor critical for optimal clathrin coat formation. AP-2 is essential for recruitment of cargo proteins bearing the YXXΦ motif. Although AP-2 interacts directly with CFTR in vitro and facilitates CFTR endocytosis in some cell types, it remains unknown whether it is critical for CFTR uptake into clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs). Disabled-2 (Dab2) is a clathrin-associated sorting protein (CLASP) that contributes to clathrin recruitment, vesicle formation, and cargo selection. In intestinal epithelial cells Dab2 was not found to play a direct role in CFTR endocytosis. By contrast, AP-2 and Dab2 were shown to facilitate CFTR endocytosis in human airway epithelial cells, although the specific mechanism remains unknown. Our data demonstrate that Dab2 mediates AP-2 independent recruitment of CFTR to CCVs in polarized human airway epithelial cells. As a result, it facilitates CFTR endocytosis and reduces CFTR abundance and stability in the plasma membrane. These effects are mediated by the DAB homology domain. Moreover, we show that in human airway epithelial cells AP-2 is not essential for CFTR recruitment to CCVs.

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    • Authors

    Cihil KM, Ellinger P, Fellows A, Stolz DB, Madden DR, Swiatecka-Urban A

    Institution

    Department of Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224, USA.

    Source

    The Journal of biological chemistry 287:18 2012 Apr 27 pg 15087-99

    MeSH

    Adaptor Protein Complex 2
    Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
    Amino Acid Motifs
    Cell Line
    Cell Membrane
    Cell Polarity
    Clathrin
    Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator
    Endocytosis
    Epithelial Cells
    Humans
    Protein Stability
    Protein Structure, Tertiary
    Respiratory Mucosa
    Transport Vesicles

    Pub Type(s)

    Journal Article
    Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

    Language

    eng

    PubMed ID

    22399289