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Molecular Cell | 2001

Interleukin 2 Receptors and Detergent-Resistant Membrane Domains Define a Clathrin-Independent Endocytic Pathway

Christophe Lamaze; Annick Dujeancourt; Takeshi Baba; Charles G Lo; Alexandre Benmerah; Alice Dautry-Varsat

Clathrin-dependent endocytosis has long been presented as the only efficient mechanism by which transmembrane receptors are internalized. We selectively blocked this process using dominant-negative mutants of Eps15 and showed that clathrin-mediated endocytosis of transferrin was inhibited, while endocytosis of interleukin 2 (IL2) receptors proceeded normally. Ultrastructural and biochemical experiments showed that clathrin-independent endocytosis of IL2 receptors exists constitutively in lymphocytes and is coupled to their association with detergent-resistant membrane domains. Finally, clathrin-independent endocytosis requires dynamin and is specifically regulated by Rho family GTPases. These results define novel properties of receptor-mediated endocytosis and establish that the IL2 receptor is efficiently internalized through this clathrin-independent pathway.


Immunity | 2004

Activation-Induced Polarized Recycling Targets T Cell Antigen Receptors to the Immunological Synapse: Involvement of SNARE Complexes

Vincent Das; Béatrice Nal; Annick Dujeancourt; Maria-Isabel Thoulouze; Thierry Galli; Pascal Roux; Alice Dautry-Varsat; Andrés Alcover

The mechanism by which T cell antigen receptors (TCR) accumulate at the immunological synapse has not been fully elucidated. Since TCRs are continuously internalized and recycled back to the cell surface, we investigated the role of polarized recycling in TCR targeting to the immunological synapse. We show here that the recycling endosomal compartment of T cells encountering activatory antigen-presenting cells (APCs) polarizes towards the T cell-APC contact site. Moreover, TCRs in transit through recycling endosomes are targeted to the immunological synapse. Inhibition of T cell polarity, constitutive TCR endocytosis, or recycling reduces TCR accumulation at the immunological synapse. Conversely, increasing the amount of TCRs in recycling endosomes before synapse formation enhanced their accumulation. Finally, we show that exocytic t-SNAREs from T cells cluster at the APC contact site and that tetanus toxin inhibits TCR accumulation at the immunological synapse, indicating that vesicle fusion mediated by SNARE complexes is involved in TCR targeting to the immunological synapse.


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2001

Megalin-dependent cubilin-mediated endocytosis is a major pathway for the apical uptake of transferrin in polarized epithelia

Renata Kozyraki; John C. Fyfe; Pierre J. Verroust; Christian Jacobsen; Alice Dautry-Varsat; Jakub Gburek; Thomas E. Willnow; Erik Ilsø Christensen; Søren K. Moestrup

Cubilin is a 460-kDa protein functioning as an endocytic receptor for intrinsic factor vitamin B12 complex in the intestine and as a receptor for apolipoprotein A1 and albumin reabsorption in the kidney proximal tubules and the yolk sac. In the present study, we report the identification of cubilin as a novel transferrin (Tf) receptor involved in catabolism of Tf. Consistent with a cubilin-mediated endocytosis of Tf in the kidney, lysosomes of human, dog, and mouse renal proximal tubules strongly accumulate Tf, whereas no Tf is detectable in the endocytic apparatus of the renal tubule epithelium of dogs with deficient surface expression of cubilin. As a consequence, these dogs excrete increased amounts of Tf in the urine. Mice with deficient synthesis of megalin, the putative coreceptor colocalizing with cubilin, also excrete high amounts of Tf and fail to internalize Tf in their proximal tubules. However, in contrast to the dogs with the defective cubilin expression, the megalin-deficient mice accumulate Tf on the luminal cubilin-expressing surface of the proximal tubule epithelium. This observation indicates that megalin deficiency causes failure in internalization of the cubilin–ligand complex. The megalin-dependent, cubilin-mediated endocytosis of Tf and the potential of the receptors thereby to facilitate iron uptake were further confirmed by analyzing the uptake of 125I- and 59Fe-labeled Tf in cultured yolk sac cells.


Immunity | 2001

The Membrane-Microfilament Linker Ezrin Is Involved in the Formation of the Immunological Synapse and in T Cell Activation

Anne Roumier; Jean Christophe Olivo-Marin; Monique Arpin; Frédérique Michel; Marianne Martin; Paul Mangeat; Oreste Acuto; Alice Dautry-Varsat; Andrés Alcover

Dynamic interactions between membrane and cytoskeleton components are crucial for T cell antigen recognition and subsequent cellular activation. We report here that the membrane-microfilament linker ezrin plays an important role in these processes. First, ezrin relocalizes to the contact area between T cells and stimulatory antigen-presenting cells (APCs), accumulating in F-actin-rich membrane protrusions at the periphery of the immunological synapse. Second, T cell receptor (TCR)-mediated intracellular signals are sufficient to induce ezrin relocalization, indicating that this protein is an effector of TCR signaling. Third, overexpression of the membrane binding domain of ezrin perturbs T cell receptor clustering in the T cell-APC contact area and inhibits the activation of nuclear factor for activated T cells (NF-AT).


Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1996

The Ear of -Adaptin Interacts with the COOH-terminal Domain of the Eps15 Protein

Alexandre Benmerah; Bernadette Bègue; Alice Dautry-Varsat; Nadine Cerf-Bensussan

The role of Eps15 in clathrin-mediated endocytosis is supported by two observations. First, it interacts specifically and constitutively with the plasma membrane adaptor AP-2. Second, its NH terminus shows significant homology to the NH terminus of yeast End3p, necessary for endocytosis of α-factor. To gain further insight into the role of Eps15-AP-2 association, we have now delineated their sites of interactions. AP-2 binds to a domain of 72 amino acids (767-739) present in the COOH terminus of Eps15. This domain contains 4 of the 15 DPF repeats characteristic of the COOH-terminal domain of Eps15 and shares no homology with known proteins, including the related Eps15r protein. Precipitation of proteolytic fragments of AP-2 with Eps15-derived fusion proteins containing the binding site for AP-2 showed that Eps15 binds specifically to a 40-kDa fragment corresponding to the ear of α-adaptin, a result confirmed by precipitation of Eps15 by α-adaptin-derived fusion proteins. Our data indicate that this specific part of AP-2 binds to a cellular component and provide the tools for investigating the function(s) of the association between AP-2 and Eps15.


American Journal of Physiology-cell Physiology | 1999

P2Z/P2X7 receptor-dependent apoptosis of dendritic cells.

Robson Coutinho-Silva; Pedro M. Persechini; Rodrigo C. Bisaggio; Jean-Luc Perfettini; Ana Cristina Torres De Sa Neto; Jean M. Kanellopoulos; Iris Motta-Ly; Alice Dautry-Varsat; David M. Ojcius

Macrophages and thymocytes express P2Z/P2X7nucleotide receptors that bind extracellular ATP. These receptors play a role in immune development and control of microbial infections, but their presence on dendritic cells has not been reported. We investigated whether extracellular ATP could trigger P2Z/P2X7receptor-dependent apoptosis of dendritic cells. Apoptosis could be selectively triggered by tetrabasic ATP, since other purine/pyrimidine nucleotides were ineffective, and it was mimicked by the P2Z receptor agonist, benzoylbenzoyl ATP, and blocked by magnesium and the irreversible antagonist, oxidized ATP. RT-PCR analysis confirmed the mRNA expression of the P2Z/P2X7receptor and the absence of P2X1. Caspase inhibitors and cycloheximide had only a partial effect on the apoptosis, suggesting that a caspase-independent mechanism may also be operative. Brief treatment with ATP led to an increase in the intracellular calcium concentration and permeabilization of the plasma membrane to Lucifer yellow, which diffused throughout the dendritic cell cytosol. Other small extracellular molecules may thus attain a similar intracellular distribution, perhaps activating endogenous proteases that contribute to initiation of apoptosis.


Molecular Microbiology | 2001

Secretion of predicted Inc proteins of Chlamydia pneumoniae by a heterologous type III machinery.

Agathe Subtil; Claude Parsot; Alice Dautry-Varsat

Chlamydia spp. are strictly intracellular pathogens that grow inside a vacuole, called an inclusion. They possess genes encoding proteins homologous to components of type III secretion machineries, which, in other bacterial pathogens, are involved in delivery of bacterial proteins within or through the membrane of eukaryotic host cells. Inc proteins are chlamydial proteins that are associated with the inclusion membrane and are characterized by the presence of a large hydrophobic domain in their amino acid sequence. To investigate whether Inc proteins and other proteins exhibiting a similar hydropathic profile might be secreted by a type III system, we used a heterologous secretion system. Chimeras were constructed by fusing the N‐terminal part of these proteins with a reporter, the Cya protein of Bordetella pertussis, and these were expressed in various strains of Shigella flexneri. We demonstrate that these hybrid proteins are secreted by the type III secretion system of S. flexneri, thereby providing evidence that IncA, IncB and IncC are secreted by a type III mechanism in chlamydiae. Moreover, we show that three other proteins from Chlamydia pneumoniae, all of which have in common the presence of a large hydrophobic domain, are also secreted by S. flexneri type III secretion machinery.


Biochimie | 1986

Receptor-mediated endocytosis: The intracellular journey of transferrin and its receptor

Alice Dautry-Varsat

A variety of ligands and macromolecules enter cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis. Ligands bind to their receptors on the cell surface and ligand-receptor complexes are localized in specialized regions of the plasma membrane called coated pits. Coated pits invaginate and give rise to intracellular coated vesicles containing ligand-receptor complexes which are thus internalized. Transferrin, a major serum glycoprotein which transports iron into cells, enters cells by this pathway. It binds to its receptor on the cell surface, transferrin-receptor complexes cluster in coated pits and are internalized in coated vesicles. Coated vesicles then lose their clathrin coat and fuse with endosomes, an organelle with an internal pH of about 5-5.5. Most ligands dissociate from their receptors in endosomes and they finally end up in lysosomes where they are degraded, while their receptors remain bound to membrane structures and recycle to the cell surface. Transferrin has a different fate: in endosomes iron dissociates from transferrin but apotransferrin remains bound to its receptor because of its high affinity for the receptor at acid pH. Apotransferrin thus recycles back to the plasma membrane still bound to its receptor. When the ligand-receptor complex reaches the plasma membrane or a compartment at neutral pH, apotransferrin dissociates from its receptor with a half-life of 18 s because of its low affinity for its receptor at neutral pH. The receptor is then ready for a new cycle of internalization, while apotransferrin enters the circulation, reloads iron in the appropriate organs and is ready for a new cycle of iron transport.


PLOS Pathogens | 2008

SNARE protein mimicry by an intracellular bacterium.

Cédric Delevoye; Michael Nilges; Pierre Dehoux; Fabienne Paumet; Stéphanie Perrinet; Alice Dautry-Varsat; Agathe Subtil

Many intracellular pathogens rely on host cell membrane compartments for their survival. The strategies they have developed to subvert intracellular trafficking are often unknown, and SNARE proteins, which are essential for membrane fusion, are possible targets. The obligate intracellular bacteria Chlamydia replicate within an intracellular vacuole, termed an inclusion. A large family of bacterial proteins is inserted in the inclusion membrane, and the role of these inclusion proteins is mostly unknown. Here we identify SNARE-like motifs in the inclusion protein IncA, which are conserved among most Chlamydia species. We show that IncA can bind directly to several host SNARE proteins. A subset of SNAREs is specifically recruited to the immediate vicinity of the inclusion membrane, and their accumulation is reduced around inclusions that lack IncA, demonstrating that IncA plays a predominant role in SNARE recruitment. However, interaction with the SNARE machinery is probably not restricted to IncA as at least another inclusion protein shows similarities with SNARE motifs and can interact with SNAREs. We modelled IncAs association with host SNAREs. The analysis of intermolecular contacts showed that the IncA SNARE-like motif can make specific interactions with host SNARE motifs similar to those found in a bona fide SNARE complex. Moreover, point mutations in the central layer of IncA SNARE-like motifs resulted in the loss of binding to host SNAREs. Altogether, our data demonstrate for the first time mimicry of the SNARE motif by a bacterium.


Molecular Microbiology | 2005

A directed screen for chlamydial proteins secreted by a type III mechanism identifies a translocated protein and numerous other new candidates.

Agathe Subtil; Cédric Delevoye; María-Eugenia Balañá; Laurence Tastevin; Stéphanie Perrinet; Alice Dautry-Varsat

Chlamydiae are strict intracellular parasites that induce their internalization upon contact with the host cell and grow inside an intracellular compartment called an inclusion. They possess a type III secretion (TTS) apparatus, which allows for the translocation of specific proteins in the host cell cytosol. In particular, chlamydial proteins of the Inc family are secreted to the inclusion membrane by a TTS mechanism; other TTS substrates are mostly unknown. Using a secretion assay based on the recognition of TTS signals in Shigella flexneri, we searched for TTS signals in the proteins of unknown function, conserved between three different chlamydial species, Chlamydia pneumoniae, C. trachomatis and C. caviae. We identified 24 new candidate proteins which did not belong to the Inc family. Four of these proteins were also secreted as full‐length proteins by a TTS mechanism in S. flexneri, indicating that their translocation does not require other chlamydial proteins. One of these proteins was detected in the cytosol of infected cells using specific antibodies, directly demonstrating that it is translocated in the host cell during bacterial proliferation. More generally, this work represents the first directed search for TTS effectors not based on genetic information or sequence similarity. It reveals the abundance of proteins secreted in the host cell by chlamydiae.

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David M. Ojcius

University of the Pacific (United States)

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Andrés Alcover

French Institute of Health and Medical Research

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David M. Ojcius

University of the Pacific (United States)

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Cédric Delevoye

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Vincent Das

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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