Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 559, Issue 1-3, Pages 77-83Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(04)00030-4
Keywords
HERC1; aluminum fluoride; ARF6; phosphoinositide; actin protrusion; guanine nucleotide exchange factor
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HERC1 is a very large protein involved in membrane traffic through both its ability to bind clathrin and its guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) activity over ARF and Rab family GTPases. Herein, we show that HERC1 is recruited onto actin-rich surface protrusions in ARF6-transfected HeLa cells upon aluminum fluoride (AIF(4)(-)) treatment. Moreover, the fact that HERC1 overexpression does not stimulate protrusion formation in the absence of AIF(4)(-), in conditions where ARNO does, indicates that HERC1 is not acting as an ARF6-GEF in this system, but that instead its recruitment takes place downstream of ARF6 activation. Finally, we suggest a phosphoinositide-binding mechanism whereby HERC1 may translocate to these protrusions. (C) 2004 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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