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SCIENCE
卷 320, 期 5875, 页码 528-531出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1155847
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM59083, R01 GM088241, R01 GM059083, R01 GM079097] Funding Source: Medline
The asymmetrical distribution of phospholipids on the plasma membrane is critical for maintaining cell integrity and physiology and for regulating intracellular signaling and important cellular events such as clearance of apoptotic cells. How phospholipid asymmetry is established and maintained is not fully understood. We report that the Caenorhabditis elegans P- type adenosine triphosphatase homolog, TAT-1, is critical for maintaining cell surface asymmetry of phosphatidylserine ( PS). In animals deficient in tat-1, PS is abnormally exposed on the cell surface, and normally living cells are randomly lost through a mechanism dependent on PSR- 1, a PS- recognizing phagocyte receptor, and CED- 1, which contributes to recognition and engulfment of apoptotic cells. Thus, tat- 1 appears to function in preventing appearance of PS in the outer leaflet of plasma membrane, and ectopic exposure of PS on the cell surface may result in removal of living cells by neighboring phagocytes.
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