Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 406-420Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12565
Keywords
endocytosis; glycoprotein; glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol; recycling; secretory trafficking; transferrin receptor; trypanosome; variant surface glycoprotein
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- UB Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- U.S. Public Health Service [R01 AI056866]
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Trypanosoma brucei possesses a streamlined secretory system that guarantees efficient delivery to the cell surface of the critical glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored virulence factors, variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) and transferrin receptor (TfR). Both are thought to be constitutively endocytosed and returned to the flagellar pocket via TbRab11+ recycling endosomes. We use conditional knockdown with established reporters to investigate the role of TbRab11 in specific endomembrane trafficking pathways in bloodstream trypanosomes. TbRab11 is essential. Ablation has a modest negative effect on general endocytosis, but does not affect turnover, steady state levels or surface localization of TfR. Nor are biosynthetic delivery to the cell surface and recycling of VSG affected. TbRab11 depletion also causes increased shedding of VSG into the media by formation of nanotubes and extracellular vesicles. In contrast to GPI-anchored cargo, TbRab11 depletion reduces recycling of the transmembrane invariant surface protein, ISG65, leading to increased lysosomal turnover. Thus, TbRab11 plays a critical role in recycling of transmembrane, but not GPI-anchored surface proteins. We proposed a two-step model for VSG turnover involving release of VSG-containing vesicles followed by GPI hydrolysis. Collectively, our results indicate a critical role of TbRab11 in the homeostatic maintenance of the secretory/endocytic system of bloodstream T. brucei.
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