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. 2002 Aug 30;277(35):32029-35.
doi: 10.1074/jbc.M203064200. Epub 2002 May 29.

Rab4 function in membrane recycling from early endosomes depends on a membrane to cytoplasm cycle

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Rab4 function in membrane recycling from early endosomes depends on a membrane to cytoplasm cycle

Karin Mohrmann et al. J Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

The monomeric GTPase rab4 is associated with early endosomes and regulates recycling vesicle formation. Because the function of rab proteins in the biosynthetic pathway does not appear to depend on cycling between membranes and cytosol, we were interested to investigate whether or not this holds true for rab function in the endocytic pathway. We created a chimeric rab4 protein (NHrab4cbvn) in which the carboxyl-terminal prenylation motif was replaced by the transmembrane domain of cellubrevin. The chimeric protein was permanently attached to membranes, properly targeted to early endosomes, and bound guanine nucleotide to the same extent as wild type rab4. However, in transport assays we found that basolaterally endocytosed transferrin was less efficiently transported to the apical cell surface in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells transfected with NHrab4cbvn than in cells expressing wild type rab4. Hence, rab4 function requires ongoing cycles of association and dissociation from early endosomes. This cycle is altered during mitosis when rab4 accumulates in the cytoplasm through phosphorylation by a mitotic kinase. We show here, using a rab4 construct that is permanently hooked onto membranes, that the membrane-bound pool of rab4 is targeted by a mitotic kinase.

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