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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 277, Issue 28, Pages 24843-24846Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.C200277200
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL 20948] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM 52016] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous studies have shown that similar to60% of the epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs) in quiescent fibroblasts are concentrated in the caveolae/raft fraction from purified plasma membranes. This high degree of localization suggests the EGFR contains targeting information for lipid domains. We have used mutagenesis to determine that the region of the receptor that controls targeting to caveolae/rafts resides in the juxtamembrane, second cysteine-rich region. A 60-amino acid-long sequence within this region that is continuous with the transmembrane domain was sufficient to target the transmembrane and cytoplasmic tails of both EGFR and the low density lipoprotein receptor to caveolae/rafts. Two N-linked sugars in this segment were not required for proper targeting, although unglycosylated wild-type receptors did not localize property. We conclude that, in contrast to signals for coated pit localization that are in the cytoplasmic tail, the targeting information for caveolae/rafts is on the extracellular side of the EGFR very close to the membrane.
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