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MBC in Press, published online ahead of print July 8, 2009
Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E08-12-1204

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Submitted on December 15, 2008
Revised on June 24, 2009
Accepted on June 25, 2009

Annexin A2 Regulates Phagocytosis of Photoreceptor Outer Segments in the Mouse Retina

Ah-Lai Law,* Qi Ling,{dagger} Katherine A. Hajjar,{dagger} Clare E. Futter,* John Greenwood,* Peter Adamson,* Silène T. Wavre-Shapton,* Stephen E. Moss,* and Matthew J. Hayes*

*Department of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom; {dagger}Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065

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The daily phagocytosis of shed photoreceptor outer segments by pigment epithelial cells is critical for the maintenance of the retina. In a subtractive PCR analysis we found that functional differentiation of human ARPE19 retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells is accompanied by up-regulation of annexin (anx) A2, a major Src substrate and regulator of membrane-cytoskeleton dynamics. Here we show that anx A2 is recruited to the nascent phagocytic cup in vitro and in vivo, and that it fully dissociates once the phagosome is internalized. In ARPE19 cells depleted of anx A2 using siRNA and in ANX A2-/- mice the phagocytosis of outer segments was impaired, and in ANX A2-/- mice there was an accumulation of phagocytosed outer segments in the RPE apical processes, indicative of retarded phagosome transport. We show that anx A2 is tyrosine phosphorylated at the onset of phagocytosis, and that the synchronized activation of focal adhesion kinase and c-Src is abnormal in ANX A2-/- mice. These findings reveal that anx A2 is involved in the circadian regulation of outer segment phagocytosis, and provide new insight into the protein machinery that regulates phagocytic function in RPE cells.

Address correspondence to: Stephen E. Moss (s.moss{at}ucl.ac.uk)




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