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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 3989-4001Publisher
AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E06-03-0239
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The trafficking of endocytosed receptors through phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [Ptdlns(3)P]-containing endosomes is thought to attenuate their signaling. Here, we show that the Ptdlns(3)P 5-kinase Fabl/PIKfyve controls trafficking but not silencing of endocytosed receptors. Drosophila fab1 mutants contain undetectable phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate levels, show profound increases in cell and organ size, and die at the pupal stage. Mutant larvae contain highly enlarged multivesicular bodies and late endosomes that are inefficiently acidified. Clones of fab1 mutant cells accumulate Wingless and Notch, similarly to cells lacking Hrs, Vps25, and Tsg101, components of the endosomal sorting machinery for ubiquitinated membrane proteins. However, whereas hrs, vps25, and tsg101 mutant cell clones accumulate ubiquitinated cargo, this is not the case with fabl mutants. Even though endocytic receptor trafficking is impaired in fabl mutants, Notch, Wingless, and Dpp signaling is unaffected. We conclude that Fab1, despite its importance for endosomal functions, is not required for receptor silencing. This is consistent with the possibility that Fabl functions at a late stage in endocytic receptor trafficking, at a point when signal termination has occurred.
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