Abstract
Epsin 1 engages several core components of the endocytic clathrin coat, yet the precise mode of operation of the protein remains controversial. The occurrence of tandem ubiquitin-interacting motifs (UlMs) suggests that epsin could recognize a ubiquitin internalization tag, but the association of epsin wilth clathrin-coat components or monoubiquitin is reported to be mutually exclusive. Here, we show that endogenous epsin 1 is clearly an integral component of clathrin coats forming at the cell surface and is essentially absent from caveolin-1-containing structures under normal conditions. The UIM region of epsin 1 associates directly with poly-ubiquitin chains but has extremely poor affinity for monoubiquitin. Polyubiquitin binding is retained when epsin synchronously associates with phosphoinositides, the AP-2 adaptor complex and clathrin. The enrichment of epsin within clathrin-coated vesicles purified from different tissue sources varies and correlates with sorting of multiubiquitinated cargo, and in cultured cells, polyubiquitin, rather than non-conjugable monoubiquitin, promotes rapid internalization. As epsin interacts with eps15, which also contains a UIM region that binds to polyubiquitin, epsm and eps15 appear to be central components of the vertebrate poly/muftiubiquitin-sorting endocytic clathrin machinery.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 262-281 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Traffic |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2006 |
Keywords
- Cargo
- Clathrin
- Endocytosis
- Eps15
- Epsin
- Ubiquitin