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A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2005
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Submitted on March 11, 2005
Revised on September 7, 2005
Accepted on September 16, 2005
*Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and
Sealy Center for Cancer Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1043
Monitoring Editor: Suzanne Pfeffer
Sorting Endosomes and the Endocytic Recycling Compartment are critical intracellular stores for the rapid recycling of internalized membrane receptors to the cell surface in multiple cell types. However, the molecular mechanisms distinguishing fast receptor recycling from Sorting Endosomes, and slow receptor recycling from the Endocytic Recycling Compartment remain poorly understood. We previously reported that Rab15 differentially regulates Transferrin Receptor trafficking through Sorting Endosomes and the Endocytic Recycling Compartment (Zuk and Elferink, 2000), suggesting a role for distinct Rab15-effector interactions at these endocytic compartments. In this study, we identified the novel protein Rab15 Effector Protein (REP15) as a binding partner for Rab15-GTP. REP15 is compartment specific, colocalizing with Rab15 and Rab11 on the Endocytic Recycling Compartment but not with Rab15, Rab4, or EEA1 on Sorting Endosomes. REP15 interacts directly with Rab15-GTP, but not with Rab5 or Rab11. Consistent with its localization, REP15 over expression and siRNA-mediated depletion inhibited Transferrin Receptor recycling from the Endocytic Recycling Compartment, without affecting receptor entry into or recycling from Sorting Endosomes. Our data identify REP15 as a compartment specific protein for receptor recycling from the Endocytic Recycling Compartment, highlighting that the rapid and slow modes of Transferrin Receptor recycling are mechanistically distinct pathways.
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