Title: Caveole-mediated uptake of α-galactosidase A in Fabry disease in vitro systems
Abstract: Delivery of soluble lysosomal proteins to the lysosomes is dependent primarily on the mannose 6-phosphate receptor (M6PR). However, in I-cell disease (ICD), in which the M6PR pathway is non-functional, some soluble lysosomal proteins continue to traffic to the lysosomes. In this paper, we tested the hypothesis that cathepsins D and H, two soluble proteases that exhibit M6PR-independent trafficking, are targeted to the lysosomes by sortilin. Using a dominant-negative sortilin construct and small interfering RNA (siRNA) we demonstrated that while cathepsin D transport is partially dependent upon sortilin, cathepsin H requires exclusively sortilin for its transport to the lysosomes. Our results suggest that sortilin functions as an alternative sorting receptor to the M6PR for these soluble hydrolases.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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