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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 127, Issue 20, Pages 4457-4469Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.153437
Keywords
Transferrin receptor; Transcytosis; Galectin; Glycan; Rab11a
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [GM34107, EY08538, 1K01DK102836-01]
- Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation
- Dyson Foundation
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Some native epithelia, for example, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and kidney proximal tubule (KPT), constitutively lack the basolateral sorting adaptor AP-1B; this results in many basolateral plasma membrane proteins being repositioned to the apical domain, where they perform essential functions for their host organs. We recently reported the underlying apical polarity reversal mechanism: in the absence of AP-1B-mediated basolateral sorting, basolateral proteins are shuttled to the apical plasma membrane through a transcytotic pathway mediated by the plus-end kinesin KIF16B. Here, we demonstrate that this apical transcytotic pathway requires apical sorting of basolateral proteins, which is mediated by apical signals and galectin-4. Using RPE and KPT cell lines, and AP-1B-knockdown MDCK cells, we show that mutation of the N-glycan linked to N727 in the basolateral marker transferrin receptor (TfR) or knockdown of galectin-4 inhibits TfR transcytosis to apical recycling endosomes and the apical plasma membrane, and promotes TfR lysosomal targeting and subsequent degradation. Our results report a new role of galectins in basolateral to apical epithelial transcytosis.
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