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Mol. Biol. Cell 10.1091/mbc.E07-02-0096

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Submitted on February 2, 2007
Revised on April 2, 2007
Accepted on May 1, 2007

Exogenous MAL Reroutes Selected Hepatic Apical Proteins into the Direct Pathway in WIF-B Cells

Sai Prasad Ramnarayanan,* Christina A. Cheng,* Maria Bastaki,{dagger} and Pamela L. Tuma*

*Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064; {dagger}Graduate Environmental Studies Unit, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505

Monitoring Editor: Robert Parton

Unlike simple epithelial cells that directly target newly-synthesized glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored and single transmembrane domain (TMD) proteins from the TGN to the apical membrane, hepatocytes use an indirect pathway: proteins are delivered to the basolateral domain and then selectively internalized and transcytosed to the apical PM. MAL and MAL2 have been identified as regulators of direct and indirect apical delivery, respectively. Hepatocytes lack endogenous MAL consistent with the absence of direct apical targeting. Does MAL expression reroute hepatic apical residents into the direct pathway? We found that MAL expression in WIF-B cells induced the formation of cholesterol and glycosphingolipid-enriched Golgi domains that contained GPI-anchored and single TMD apical proteins; polymeric IgA receptor (pIgA-R), polytopic apical and basolateral resident distributions were excluded. Basolateral delivery of newly-synthesized apical residents was decreased in MAL-expressing cells concomitant with increased apical delivery; pIgA-R and basolateral resident delivery was unchanged. These data suggest that MAL rerouted selected hepatic apical proteins into the direct pathway.

Address correspondence to: Pamela L. Tuma (tuma{at}cua.edu)






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