The Aminophospholipid Translocase: A Transmembrane Lipid Pump - Physiological Significance

Physiology ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
PF Devaus
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Physiological Significance ◽  
Lipid Asymmetry ◽  
Aminophospholipid Translocase ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis

Aminophospholipid translocase selectively pumps phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine from the outer to the inner plasma membrane monolayer. The function of this translocase activity may be to establish and maintain lipid asymmetry and to trigger fluid-phase endocytosis in nucleated cells.

scholarly journals TOR Complex 2-Regulated Protein Kinase Fpk1 Stimulates Endocytosis via Inhibition of Ark1/Prk1-Related Protein Kinase Akl1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise M. Roelants ◽  
Kristin L. Leskoske ◽  
Ross T. A. Pedersen ◽  
Alexander Muir ◽  
Jeffrey M.-H. Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Lucifer Yellow ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Effector Protein ◽  
Multiple Substrates ◽  
Downstream Effector ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis ◽  
Actin Patch ◽  
Resistance To Doxorubicin

ABSTRACT Depending on the stress, plasma membrane alterations activate or inhibit yeast target of rapamycin (TOR) complex 2, which, in turn, upregulates or downregulates the activity of its essential downstream effector, protein kinase Ypk1. Through phosphorylation of multiple substrates, Ypk1 controls many processes that restore homeostasis. One such substrate is protein kinase Fpk1, which is negatively regulated by Ypk1. Fpk1 phosphorylates and stimulates flippases that translocate aminoglycerophospholipids from the outer to the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane. Fpk1 has additional roles, but other substrates were uncharacterized. We show that Fpk1 phosphorylates and inhibits protein kinase Akl1, related to protein kinases Ark1 and Prk1, which modulate the dynamics of actin patch-mediated endocytosis. Akl1 has two Fpk1 phosphorylation sites (Ark1 and Prk1 have none) and is hypophosphorylated when Fpk1 is absent. Conversely, under conditions that inactivate TORC2-Ypk1 signaling, which alleviates Fpk1 inhibition, Akl1 is hyperphosphorylated. Monitoring phosphorylation of known Akl1 substrates (Sla1 and Ent2) confirmed that Akl1 is hyperactive when not phosphorylated by Fpk1. Fpk1-mediated negative regulation of Akl1 enhances endocytosis, because an Akl1 mutant immune to Fpk1 phosphorylation causes faster dissociation of Sla1 from actin patches, confers elevated resistance to doxorubicin (a toxic compound whose entry requires endocytosis), and impedes Lucifer yellow uptake (a marker of fluid phase endocytosis). Thus, TORC2-Ypk1, by regulating Fpk1-mediated phosphorylation of Akl1, adjusts the rate of endocytosis.

scholarly journals Sugar uptake by fluid-phase pinocytosis and diffusion in isolated rat hepatocytes

1987 ◽  
Vol 243 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
P B Gordon ◽  
H Høyvik ◽  
P O Seglen
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Isolated Hepatocytes ◽  
Free Sugar ◽  
Sugar Uptake ◽  
Isolated Rat Hepatocytes ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Isolated Rat

Measurements of sugar pinocytosis (fluid-phase endocytosis of radiolabelled sucrose, lactose and raffinose) in freshly isolated rat hepatocytes are disturbed by sugar diffusing into the cells through plasma-membrane blebs. Non-pinocytic entry may be even more pronounced at 0 degrees C, and is a major contributor to ‘background’ radioactivity. By electrodisruption of the plasma membrane, a distinction can be made between pinocytotically sequestered sugar and free sugar that has entered the cytosol by diffusion. Pinocytosis proceeds at a rate of 2%/h (relative to the intracellular fluid volume), whereas the rate of sucrose entry by diffusion is more than twice as high. Three pinocytotic compartments are distinguishable in isolated hepatocytes: (1) a rapidly recycling compartment, which is completely destroyed by electrodisruption, and which may represent pinocytic channels continuous with the plasma membrane; (2) a non-recycling (or very slowly recycling) electrodisruption-resistant compartment, which allows accumulation of the lysosomally hydrolysable sugar lactose, and which therefore must represent non-lysosomal vacuoles (endosomes?); (3) a lysosomal compartment (non-recycling, electrodisruption-resistant), which accumulates raffinose and sucrose, but which hydrolyses lactose. The last two compartments can be partially resolved in metrizamide/sucrose density gradients by the use of different sugar probes.

Phospholipase C activation by anesthetics decreases membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion

2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (20) ◽  
pp. 3759-3766
Author(s):  
Drazen Raucher ◽  
Michael P. Sheetz
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Phospholipase C ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Membrane Bilayer ◽  
Membrane Cytoskeleton ◽  
Cytoplasmic Surface ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis ◽  
Membrane Adhesion ◽  
Phosphatidylinositol 4

Many different amphiphilic compounds cause an increase in the fluid-phase endocytosis rates of cells in parallel with a decrease in membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion. These compounds, however, do not share a common chemical structure, which leaves the mechanism and even site of action unknown. One possible mechanism of action is through an alteration of inositol lipid metabolism by modifying the cytoplasmic surface of the plasma membrane bilayer. By comparing permeable amphiphilic amines used as local anesthetics with their impermeable analogs, we find that access to the cytoplasmic surface is necessary to increase endocytosis rate and decrease membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion. In parallel, we find that the level of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) in the plasma membrane is decreased and cytoplasmic Ca2+ is increased only by permeable amines. The time course of both the decrease in plasma membrane PIP2 and the rise in Ca2+ parallels the decrease in cytoskeleton-membrane adhesion. Inositol labeling shows that phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate levels are increased by the permeable anesthetics, indicating that lipid turnover is increased. Consistent with previous observations, phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitors block anesthetic effects on the PIP2 and cytoplasmic Ca2+ levels, as well as the drop in adhesion. Therefore, we suggest that PLC activity is increased by amine anesthetics at the cytoplasmic surface of the plasma membrane, which results in a decrease in membrane-cytoskeleton adhesion.

Transbilayer movement of fluorescent and spin-labeled phospholipids in the plasma membrane of human fibroblasts: a quantitative approach

1996 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pomorski ◽  
P. Muller ◽  
B. Zimmermann ◽  
K. Burger ◽  
P.F. Devaux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Initial Velocity ◽  
Plasma Membranes ◽  
Atp Hydrolysis ◽  
Human Fibroblasts ◽  
Atp Depletion ◽  
Aminophospholipid Translocase ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Complicating Factors ◽  
First Time

All phospholipids in the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells are subject to a slow passive transbilayer movement. In addition, aminophospholipids are recognized by the so-called aminophospholipid translocase, and are rapidly moved from the exoplasmic to the cytoplasmic leaflet of the plasma membrane at the expense of ATP hydrolysis. Though these principal pathways of transbilayer movement of phospholipids probably apply to all eukaryotic plasma membranes, studies of the actual kinetics of phospholipid redistribution have been largely confined to non-nucleated cells (erythrocytes). Experiments on nucleated cells are complicated by endocytosis and metabolism of the lipid probes inserted into the plasma membrane. Taking these complicating factors into account, we performed a detailed kinetic study of the transbilayer movement of short-chain fluorescent (N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl); NBD) and, for the first time, spin-labeled analogues of phosphatidylcholine (PC), -ethanolamine (PE), -serine (PS), and sphingomyelin (SM) in the plasma membrane of cultured human gingival fibroblasts. At 20 degrees C, the passive transbilayer diffusion of NBD analogues was very slow, and the choline-containing NBD analogues were internalized predominantly by endocytosis. Spin-labeled analogues of PC and SM showed higher passive transbilayer diffusion rates, and probably entered the cell by both passive transbilayer movement and endocytosis. In contrast, the rapid uptake of NBD- and spin-labeled aminophospholipid analogues could be mainly ascribed to the action of the aminophospholipid translocase, since it was inhibited by ATP depletion and N-ethylmaleimide pretreatment. The initial velocity of NBD-aminophospholipid translocation was eight to ten times slower than that of the corresponding spin-labeled lipid, and the half-times of redistribution of NBD-PS and spin-labeled PS were 7.2 and 3.6 minutes, respectively. Our data indicate that in human fibroblasts the initial velocity of aminophospholipid translocation is at least one order of magnitude higher than that in human erythrocytes, which should be sufficient to maintain the phospholipid asymmetry in the plasma membrane.

Synaptojanin family members are implicated in endocytic membrane traffic in yeast

1998 ◽  
Vol 111 (22) ◽  
pp. 3347-3356 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Singer-Kruger ◽  
Y. Nemoto ◽  
L. Daniell ◽  
S. Ferro-Novick ◽  
P. De Camilli
Keyword(s):  
Synaptic Vesicles ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Growth Defect ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis ◽  
Synaptojanin 1

The synaptojanins represent a subfamily of inositol 5′-phosphatases that contain an NH2-terminal Sac1p homology domain. A nerve terminal-enriched synaptojanin, synaptojanin 1, was previously proposed to participate in the endocytosis of synaptic vesicles and actin function. The genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains three synaptojanin-like genes (SJL1, SJL2 and SJL3), none of which is essential for growth. We report here that a yeast mutant lacking SJL1 and SJL2 (Deltasjl1 Deltasjl2) exhibits a severe defect in receptor-mediated and fluid-phase endocytosis. A less severe endocytic defect is present in a Deltasjl2 Deltasjl3 mutant, while endocytosis is normal in a Deltasjl1 Deltasjl3 mutant. None of the mutants are impaired in invertase secretion. The severity of the endocytic impairment of the sjl double mutants correlates with the severity of actin and polarity defects. Furthermore, the deletion of SJL1 suppresses the temperature-sensitive growth defect of sac6, a mutant in yeast fimbrin, supporting a role for synaptojanin family members in actin function. These findings provide a first direct evidence for a role of synaptojanin family members in endocytosis and provide further evidence for a close link between endocytosis and actin function.

scholarly journals Cross Talk between Sphingolipids and Glycerophospholipids in the Establishment of Plasma Membrane Asymmetry

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 4949-4959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akio Kihara ◽  
Yasuyuki Igarashi
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Cross Talk ◽  
Abc Transporters ◽  
Transcriptional Factor ◽  
Drug Efflux ◽  
Lipid Asymmetry ◽  
Membrane Asymmetry ◽  
P Type ◽  
Yeast Mutants ◽  
Long Chain

Glycerophospholipids and sphingolipids are distributed asymmetrically between the two leaflets of the lipid bilayer. Recent studies revealed that certain P-type ATPases and ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are involved in the inward movement (flip) and outward movement (flop) of glycerophospholipids, respectively. In this study of phytosphingosine (PHS)-resistant yeast mutants, we isolated mutants for PDR5, an ABC transporter involved in drug efflux as well as in the flop of phosphatidylethanolamine. The pdr5 mutants exhibited an increase in the efflux of sphingoid long-chain bases (LCBs). Genetic analysis revealed that the PHS-resistant phenotypes exhibited by the pdr5 mutants were dependent on Rsb1p, a putative LCB-specific transporter/translocase. We found that the expression of Rsb1p was increased in the pdr5 mutants. We also demonstrated that expression of RSB1 is under the control of the transcriptional factor Pdr1p. Expression of Rsb1p also was enhanced in mutants for the genes involved in the flip of glycerophospholipids, including ROS3, DNF1, and DNF2. These results suggest that altered glycerophospholipid asymmetry induces the expression of Rsb1p. Conversely, overexpression of Rsb1p resulted in increased flip and decreased flop of fluorescence-labeled glycerophospholipids. Thus, there seems to be cross talk between sphingolipids and glycerophospholipids in maintaining the functional lipid asymmetry of the plasma membrane.

scholarly journals Recycling pathways of glucosylceramide in BHK cells: distinct involvement of early and late endosomes

1992 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 1139-1152
Author(s):  
J.W. Kok ◽  
K. Hoekstra ◽  
S. Eskelinen ◽  
D. Hoekstra
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Intracellular Ph ◽  
Brefeldin A ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Endocytic Pathway ◽  
Late Endosomes ◽  
Early Endosomes ◽  
Recycling Pathway ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
Extensive Involvement

Recycling pathways of the sphingolipid glucosylceramide were studied by employing a fluorescent analog of glucosylceramide, 6(-)[N-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]hexanoylglucosyl sphingosine (C6-NBD-glucosylceramide). Direct recycling of the glycolipid from early endosomes to the plasma membrane occurs, as could be shown after treating the cells with the microtubule-disrupting agent nocodazole, which causes inhibition of the glycolipid's trafficking from peripheral early endosomes to centrally located late endosomes. When the microtubuli are intact, at least part of the glucosylceramide is transported from early to late endosomes together with ricin. Interestingly, also N-(lissamine rhodamine B sulfonyl)phosphatidylethanolamine (N-Rh-PE), a membrane marker of the fluid-phase endocytic pathway, is transported to this endosomal compartment. However, in contrast to both ricin and N-Rh-PE, the glucosylceramide can escape from this organelle and recycle to the plasma membrane. Monensin and brefeldin A have little effect on this recycling pathway, which would exclude extensive involvement of early Golgi compartments in recycling. Hence, the small fraction of the glycolipid that colocalizes with transferrin (Tf) in the Golgi area might directly recycle via the trans-Golgi network. When the intracellular pH was lowered to 5.5, recycling was drastically reduced, in accordance with the impeding effect of low intracellular pH on vesicular transport during endocytosis and in the biosynthetic pathway. Our results thus demonstrate the existence of at least two recycling pathways for glucosylceramide and indicate the relevance of early endosomes in recycling of both proteins and lipids.

scholarly journals Resistance to miltefosine results from amplification of the RTA3 floppase or inactivation of flippases in Candida parapsilosis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Bergin ◽  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Adam P Ryan ◽  
Carolin A Müller ◽  
Conrad A Nieduszynski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Copy Number ◽  
Candida Parapsilosis ◽  
Copy Number Variations ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Adaptive Laboratory Evolution ◽  
Pathogenic Yeast ◽  
Lipid Asymmetry ◽  
Evolution Experiment ◽  
Almost All

Flippases and floppases are two classes of proteins that have opposing functions in the maintenance of lipid asymmetry of the plasma membrane. Flippases translocate lipids from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytosolic leaflet, and floppases act in the opposite direction. Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is a major component of the eukaryotic plasma membrane and is asymmetrically distributed, being more abundant in the exoplasmic leaflet. Here we show that gene amplification of a putative PC floppase or double disruption of two PC flippases in the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis results in resistance to miltefosine, an alkylphosphocholine drug that affects PC metabolism that has recently been granted orphan drug designation approval by the US FDA for treatment of invasive candidiasis. We analysed the genomes of 170 C. parapsilosis isolates and found that 107 of them have copy number variations (CNVs) at the RTA3 gene. RTA3 encodes a putative PC floppase whose deletion is known to increase the inward translocation of PC in Candida albicans. RTA3 copy number ranges from 2 to >40 across the C. parapsilosis isolates. Interestingly, 16 distinct CNVs with unique endpoints were identified, and phylogenetic analysis shows that almost all of them have originated only once. We found that increased copy number of RTA3 correlates with miltefosine resistance. Additionally, we conducted an adaptive laboratory evolution experiment in which two C. parapsilosis isolates were cultured in increasing concentrations of miltefosine over 26 days. Two genes, CPAR2_303950 and CPAR2_102700, gained homozygous protein-disrupting mutations in the evolved strains and code for putative PC flippases homologous to S. cerevisiae DNF1. Our results indicate that alteration of lipid asymmetry across the plasma membrane is a key mechanism of miltefosine resistance. We also find that C. parapsilosis is likely to gain resistance to miltefosine rapidly, because many isolates carry loss-of-function alleles in one of the flippase genes.

scholarly journals Ultrasound Microbubble Treatment Enhances Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis and Fluid-Phase Uptake through Distinct Mechanisms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farnaz Fekri ◽  
Ralph Christian Delos Santos ◽  
Raffi Karshafian ◽  
Costin N. Antonescu
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Fluid Phase ◽  
Acid Sphingomyelinase ◽  
Coated Pits ◽  
Drug Permeability ◽  
Membrane Pores ◽  
Signaling Mechanisms ◽  
Sheer Stress ◽  
Cell Plasma ◽  
Fluid Phase Endocytosis

Drug delivery to tumors is limited by several factors, including drug permeability of the target cell plasma membrane. Ultrasound in combination with microbubbles (USMB) is a promising strategy to overcome these limitations. USMB treatment elicits enhanced cellular uptake of materials such as drugs, in part as a result of sheer stress and formation of transient membrane pores. Pores formed upon USMB treatment are rapidly resealed, suggesting that other processes such as enhanced endocytosis may contribute to the enhanced material uptake by cells upon USMB treatment. How USMB regulates endocytic processes remains incompletely understood. Cells constitutively utilize several distinct mechanisms of endocytosis, including clathrin-mediated endocytosis (CME) for the internalization of receptor-bound macromolecules such as Transferrin Receptor (TfR), and distinct mechanism(s) that mediate the majority of fluid-phase endocytosis. Tracking the abundance of TfR on the cell surface and the internalization of its ligand transferrin revealed that USMB acutely enhances the rate of CME. Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy experiments revealed that USMB treatment altered the assembly of clathrin-coated pits, the basic structural units of CME. In addition, the rate of fluid-phase endocytosis was enhanced, but with delayed onset upon USMB treatment relative to the enhancement of CME, suggesting that the two processes are distinctly regulated by USMB. Indeed, vacuolin-1 or desipramine treatment prevented the enhancement of CME but not of fluid phase endocytosis upon USMB, suggesting that lysosome exocytosis and acid sphingomyelinase, respectively, are required for the regulation of CME but not fluid phase endocytosis upon USMB treatment. These results indicate that USMB enhances both CME and fluid phase endocytosis through distinct signaling mechanisms, and suggest that strategies for potentiating the enhancement of endocytosis upon USMB treatment may improve targeted drug delivery.

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