The SNX-PX-BAR family in macropinocytosis: the regulation of macropinosome formation by SNX-PX-BAR proteins

Macropinocytosis is an actin-driven endocytic process, whereby membrane ruffles fold back onto the plasma membrane to form large (>0.2 µm in diameter) endocytic organelles called macropinosomes. Relative to other endocytic pathways, little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in macro...

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Published in:PloS one 2010-10, Vol.5 (10), p.e13763-e13763
Main Authors: Wang, Jack T H, Kerr, Markus C, Karunaratne, Seetha, Jeanes, Angela, Yap, Alpha S, Teasdale, Rohan D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actin
Bioinformatics
Cell Biology
Cell Biology/Cell Signaling
Cell Biology/Membranes and Sorting
Cell surface
Councils
Curvature
Deficient mutant
Endocytosis
Growth factors
Kinases
Membranes
Microscopy
Molecular modelling
Muscle proteins
Nexin
Organelles
Phosphatases
Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate
Phosphorylation
Physiology
Pinocytosis
Protein Transport
Proteins
Proteins - metabolism
PTEN protein
Salmonella
Statistical analysis
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Summary:Macropinocytosis is an actin-driven endocytic process, whereby membrane ruffles fold back onto the plasma membrane to form large (>0.2 µm in diameter) endocytic organelles called macropinosomes. Relative to other endocytic pathways, little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in macropinocytosis. Recently, members of the Sorting Nexin (SNX) family have been localized to the cell surface and early macropinosomes, and implicated in macropinosome formation. SNX-PX-BAR proteins form a subset of the SNX family and their lipid-binding (PX) and membrane-curvature sensing (BAR) domain architecture further implicates their functional involvement in macropinosome formation. We exploited the tractability of macropinosomes through image-based screening and systematic overexpression of SNX-PX-BAR proteins to quantitate their effect on macropinosome formation. SNX1 (40.9+/-3.19 macropinosomes), SNX5 (36.99+/-4.48 macropinosomes), SNX9 (37.55+/-2.4 macropinosomes), SNX18 (88.2+/-8 macropinosomes), SNX33 (65.25+/-6.95 macropinosomes) all exhibited statistically significant (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0013763