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SCIENCE
Volume 319, Issue 5867, Pages 1244-1247Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153124
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Intraluminal vesicles of multivesicular endosomes are either sorted for cargo degradation into lysosomes or secreted as exosomes into the extracellular milieu. The mechanisms underlying the sorting of membrane into the different populations of intraluminal vesicles are unknown. Here, we find that cargo is segregated into distinct subdomains on the endosomal membrane and that the transfer of exosome- associated domains into the lumen of the endosome did not depend on the function of the ESCRT ( endosomal sorting complex required for transport) machinery, but required the sphingolipid ceramide. Purified exosomes were enriched in ceramide, and the release of exosomes was reduced after the inhibition of neutral sphingomyelinases. These results establish a pathway in intraendosomal membrane transport and exosome formation.
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