Journal
BIOESSAYS
Volume 31, Issue 10, Pages 1127-1136Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200900060
Keywords
membrane trafficking; organelle identity; phosphoinositides; phosphoinositide kinase; phosphoinositide phosphatase
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- Ryerson University
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Joining an antagonistic phosphoinositide (PtdInsP) kinase and phosphatase into a single protein complex may regulate rapid and local PtdInsP changes. This may be important for processes such as membrane fission that require a specific PtdInsP and that are innately local and rapid. Such a complex could couple vesicle formation, with erasing of the identity of the donor organelle from the vesicle prior to its fusion with target organelles, thus preventing organelle identity intermixing. Coordinating signals are postulated to switch the relative activities of the kinase and phosphatase in a spatio-temporal manner that matches membrane fission events. The discovery of two such complexes supports this hypothesis. One regulates the interconversion of phosphatidylinositol and PtdIns(3)P by joining the Vps34 PtdIns 3-kinase and the myotubularin 3-phosphatases. The other regulates the interconversion between PtdIns(3)P and Ptdlns(3,5)P-2 through the Fab1/PIKfyve kinase and the Fig4/mFig4 phosphatase. These lipids are essential components of the endosomal identity code.
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