Endosome-associated complex, ESCRT-II, recruits transport machinery for protein sorting at the multivesicular body.

Sorting of ubiquitinated endosomal membrane proteins into the MVB pathway is executed by the class E Vps protein complexes ESCRT-I, -II, and -III, and the AAA-type ATPase Vps4. This study characterizes ESCRT-II, a soluble approximately 155 kDa protein complex formed by the class E Vps proteins Vps22, Vps25, and Vps36. ...
This protein complex transiently associates with the endosomal membrane and thereby initiates the formation of ESCRT-III, a membrane-associated protein complex that functions immediately downstream of ESCRT-II during sorting of MVB cargo. ESCRT-II in turn functions downstream of ESCRT-I, a protein complex that binds to ubiquitinated endosomal cargo. We propose that the ESCRT complexes perform a coordinated cascade of events to select and sort MVB cargoes for delivery to the lumen of the vacuole/lysosome.
Mesh Terms:
Carrier Proteins, Cell Membrane, Endosomes, Eukaryotic Cells, Fungal Proteins, Lysosomes, Macromolecular Substances, Membrane Proteins, Protein Binding, Protein Transport, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Transport Vesicles, Ubiquitin
Dev. Cell
Date: Aug. 01, 2002
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