Author:
Marie Pauline P.,Fan Shih-Jung,Mendes Claudia C.,Wainwright S. Mark,Harris Adrian L.,Goberdhan Deborah C. I.,Wilson Clive
Abstract
AbstractExosomes are secreted nanovesicles with potent signalling activity that are initially formed as intraluminal vesicles (ILVs) in multivesicular endosomes, which subsequently fuse with the plasma membrane. These ILVs are made in both late endosomes and recycling endosomes, the latter marked by the small GTPase Rab11 and generating exosomes with different cargos and functions. Core proteins within four Endosomal Sorting Complex Required for Transport (ESCRT) assemblies (0-III) play key sequential roles in late endosomal exosome biogenesis and ILV-mediated destruction of ubiquitinylated cargos through the endolysosomal system. They also control additional cellular processes, such as cytokinesis and other vesicle budding. By contrast, the functions of several accessory ESCRTs are not well defined. Here we assess the ESCRT-dependency of Rab11-exosomes, using RNA knockdown in Drosophila secondary cells (SCs) of the male accessory gland, which have unusually enlarged Rab11-positive compartments. Unexpectedly, not only are core proteins in all four ESCRT complexes required for Rab11-exosome formation, but also accessory ESCRT-III proteins, CHMP1, CHMP5 and IST1. Suppressing expression of these accessory proteins does not affect other aspects of cell morphology, unlike most core ESCRT knockdowns, and does not lead to accumulation of ubiquitinylated cargos. We conclude that accessory ESCRT-III components have a specific and potentially ubiquitin-independent role in Rab11-exosome generation, which might provide a target for blocking the pro-tumorigenic activities of these vesicles in cancer.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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