Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages 480-493Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0854.2000.010606.x
Keywords
acidification; endocytosis; endosome; epithelia; immunoglobulin A; MDCK; polarity; polymeric Ig receptor; transferrin; transcytosis
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01AI25144] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R29DK51098] Funding Source: Medline
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Quantitative confocal microscopic analyses of living, polarized MDCK cells demonstrate different pH profiles for apical and basolateral endocytic pathways, despite a rapid and extensive intersection between the two. Three-dimensional characterizations of ligand trafficking demonstrate that the apical and basolateral endocytic pathways share early, acidic compartments distributed throughout the medial regions of the cell. Polar sorting for both pathways occurs in these common endosomes as IgA is sorted from transferrin to alkaline transcytotic vesicles. While transferrin is directly recycled from the common endosomes, IgA is transported to a downstream apical compartment that is nearly neutral in pH. By several criteria this compartment appears to be equivalent to the previously described apical recycling endosome. The functional significance of the abrupt increase in lumenal pH that accompanies IgA sorting is not clear, as disrupting endosome acidification has no effect on polar sorting. These studies provide the first detailed characterizations of endosome acidification in intact polarized cells and clarify the relationship between the apical and basolateral endocytic itineraries of polarized MDCK cells. The extensive mixing of apical and basolateral pathways underscores the importance of endocytic sorting in maintaining the polarity of the plasma membrane of MDCK cells.
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