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EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH
Volume 259, Issue 1, Pages 257-265Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/excr.2000.4947
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Rab protein; Rab11 isoforms; endocytosis; transferrin recycling
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Members of the Rab family of small GTPases play important roles in membrane trafficking along the exocytic and endocytic pathways. The Rab subfamily consists of two highly conserved members, Rab11a and Rab11b. Rab11a has been localized both to the pericentriolar recycling endosome and to the transGolgi network and functions in recycling of transferrin. However, the localization and function of Rab11b are completely unknown. In this study green fluorescent protein (G;FP)-tagged Rab11b was used to determine its subcellular localization. GFP-Rab11b colocalized with internalized transferrin, and using different mutants of Rabllb, the role of this protein in transferrin uptake and recycling was examined. Two of these mutants, Rab11b-Q/L (constitutively active) and Rab11b-S/N (constitutively inactive), strongly inhibited the recycling of transferrin. Interestingly, both of them had no effect on transferrin uptake. In contrast, the C-terminally altered mutant Rab11b-Delta C, which cannot be prenylated and therefore cannot interact with membranes, did not interfere with wildtype Rabllb function. From these data we concluded that functional Rabllb is essential for the transport of internalized transferrin from the recycling compartment to the plasma membrane, (C) Academic Press.
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