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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 7, Issue 2, Pages 443-449Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00191-5
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-49217] Funding Source: Medline
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Phosphoinositides play key regulatory roles in vesicular transport pathways in eukaryotic cells. Clathrin-mediated membrane trafficking has been shown to require phosphoinositides, but little is known about the enzyme(s) responsible for their formation. Here we report that clathrin functions as an adaptor for the class II PI 8-kinase C2 alpha (PI3K-C2 alpha), binding to its N-terminal region and stimulating its catalytic activity, especially toward phosphorylated inositide substrates. Further, we show that endogenous PI3K-C2 alpha is localized in coated pits and that exogenous expression affects clathrin-mediated endocytosis and sorting in the trans-Golgi network. These findings provide a mechanistic basis for localized inositide generation at sites of clathrin-coated bud formation, which, with recruitment of inositide binding proteins and subsequent synaptojanin-mediated phosphoinositide hydrolysis, may regulate coated vesicle formation and uncoating.
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