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Downloaded from http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/ on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Ubiquitin-Dependent Sorting in Endocytosis Robert C. Piper1, Ivan Dikic2, and Gergely L. Lukacs3 1Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242 2Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences and Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University School of Medicine, D-60590 Frankfurt, Germany 3Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montre´al, Que´bec H3G 1Y6, Canada Correspondence: [email protected] When ubiquitin (Ub) is attached to membrane proteins on the plasma membrane, it directs them through a series of sorting steps that culminate in their delivery to the lumen of the lysosome where they undergo complete proteolysis. Ubiquitin is recognized by a series of complexes that operate at a number of vesicle transport steps. Ubiquitin serves as a sorting signal for internalization at the plasma membrane and is the major signal for incorporation into intraluminal vesicles of multivesicular late endosomes. The sorting machineries that catalyze these steps can bind Ub via a variety of Ub-binding domains. At the same time, many of these complexes are themselves ubiquitinated, thus providing a plethora of potential mechanisms to regulate their activity. Here we provide an overview of how membrane proteins are selected for ubiquitination and deubiquitination within the endocytic pathway and how that ubiquitin signal is interpreted by endocytic sorting machineries. HOW PROTEINS ARE SELECTED FOR distinctions concerning different types of ligas- UBIQUITINATION es, their specificity for forming particular poly- Ub chains, and even the kinds of residues in biquitin (Ub) is covalently attached to sub- substrate proteins that can be ubiquitin modi- Ustrate proteins by the concerted action of fied, have been blurred with the discovery of E2-conjugating enzymes and E3 ligases (Var- mixed poly-Ub chains, new enzymatic mecha- shavsky 2012). Most of the specificity and reg- nisms for Ub transfer, and ubiquitination of ulation of ubiquitination is at the level of the E3 nonlysine residues (Kulathu and Komander ligases, which vastly outnumber the E2-conju- 2012; Wenzel and Klevit 2012; McDowell and gating enzymes. Ubiquitination results from the Philpott 2013). Nonetheless, in basic terms, Ub transfer of Ub, held either by the E2 or in some ligases function as platforms that coordinate cases by the E3 as a high-energy thioester bond, substrate recognition with Ub transfer as well onto a substrate protein, typically on the termi- as configuring poly-Ub chain topology by the nal amide of a substrate acceptor lysine side E2-conjugating enzyme. Substrates can be chain. Owing to the intense interest in the ubiq- bound directly by the E3 ligase or by adaptor uitination system, many of the simple rules and proteins that in turn bind to ligases, and selec- Editors: Sandra L. Schmid, Alexander Sorkin, and Marino Zerial Additional Perspectives on Endocytosis available at www.cshperspectives.org Copyright # 2014 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved; doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016808 Cite this article as Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2014;6:a016808 1 Downloaded from http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/ on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press R.C. Piper et al. tion of substrate residues that undergo ubiqui- and Ubc5-conjugating enzymes (Haglund et al. tination is accomplished by the particular archi- 2003; Huang et al. 2006, 2007). Other RTKs, tecture of the substrate/ligase complex that de- such as those for hepatocyte growth factor termines the orientation to the thioester-linked (HGF), vascular endothelial growth factor re- Ub. The ubiquitin-peptidases (deubiquitinat- ceptor (VEGFR-1), and platelet-derived growth ing enzymes [DUbs]) that remove Ub from sub- factor (PDGF) receptors, also rapidly undergo strates also play critical roles in controlling the ligand-stimulated ubiquitination by Cbl (Hag- level of substrate protein ubiquitination. Of the lund and Dikic 2012). Cbl has other targets as roughly 90 DUbs in humans and 20 DUbs in well, such as integrins, which connect cellsto the yeast, many are found associated with Ub ligases extracellular matrix to control cell adhesion, mi- or with the endocytic machinery that recognizes gration, and proliferation. Ubiquitination of in- ubiquitinated proteins, thus positioning DUbs tegrins promotes their lysosomal degradation, to regulate the ubiquitination process at a vari- which in turn prevents the accumulation of li- ety of junctures (Table 1) (Clague et al. 2012). gand-bound integrins within endosomes that Ubiquitination of cell-surface membrane might go on to form nonproductive adhesion proteins initiates their journey to lysosomes sites upon exocytosis (Lobert et al. 2010). Ubiq- for degradation (Fig. 1). Ub does this in part by uitination of the a5 subunit of the a5b1 fibro- serving as a signal for internalization and sub- nectin integrin receptor is triggered by the acti- sequent sorting into the interior of lysosomes. vation of the FGFR2 (fibroblast growth factor In general, the selection of membrane proteins receptor 2) that induces the recruitment of c- for ubiquitination can either be due to a pro- Cbl in osteoblasts (Kaabeche et al. 2005). grammed biological response (such as ligand- A group of Ub ligases with emerging impor- mediated receptor down-regulation) or as a way tance are the membrane-associated RING-CH to remove aberrantly folded or damaged pro- (MARCH) ligases, encompassing a family of teins from the cell surface as a quality-control 11 RING-CH E3 Ub ligases (Nathan and Lehner mechanism. 2009). MARCH ligases are orthologs of the Ka- Ubiquitination of receptor tyrosine kinases posi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSVH) (RTKs) is one of the most studied examples for immunoevasion ligases K3 and K5 and con- how Ub traffics proteins through the endocytic tain two transmembrane segments and a cyto- system. RTKs consist of .50 members in hu- solic RING-CH domain (Boname and Lehner mans and have an essential role in controlling 2011). Endogenous or overexpressed MARCH cell proliferation and migration (Lemmon and ligases play a key role in the ubiquitination-de- Schlessinger 2010). Ligand-induced activation pendent down-regulation and lysosomal degra- of RTKs leads to rapid ubiquitination of several dation of a variety of cell-surface receptors (e.g., RTKs at the PM by one of the Cbl (for Cas-Br-M MHC-I; K3, K5, MARCH-9 and -4, MHC-II; ectopic retroviral transforming sequence) RING MARCH-2 and -8, CD4, CD44, and CD98; (really interesting new gene)-type E3 ubiquitin MARCH-4 and -8) (Nathan and Lehner 2009). ligase family members (Levkowitz et al. 1999). The mechanism used by these integral mem- A canonical example is the epidermal growth brane ligases to recognize other membrane factor receptor (EGFR), which upon activa- protein substrates is intriguing and appears to tion and autophosphorylation of pY1045, can involve recognition of hydrophobic transmem- now bind the amino-terminal pY-binding do- brane as well as the proximal regions juxtaposed main (PTB) of Cbl. In addition, receptor ubiq- to these transmembrane-spanning segments. uitination is augmented by the adaptor pro- A transmembrane hydrophobic patch in concert tein, growth factor receptor-bound protein 2 with a membrane proximal Lys residue at (GRB2), a constitutive partner of Cbl that binds the exofacial interface of HLA-DR constitutes to other pY residues of the EGFR. This facilitates key elements of the recognition surface for multiple-mono- and Lys63-linked polyubiqui- MARCH-8, whereas the Ub-acceptor Lys resi- tination in a manner dependent on the Ubc4- due has to be located at the proximity of the 2 Cite this article as Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2014;6:a016808 Downloaded from http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/ on September 29, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Ubiquitin-Dependent Sorting in Endocytosis Table 1. Established and emerging proteins involved in ubiquitin-dependent control of the endocytic system Function and characteristics References Ub ligases Nedd4-2 Member of the larger family of HECT-type ligases that includes Fotia et al. 2004; Zhou NEDD4-1 (ITCH/AIP4), WWP1, WWP2, SMURF1, et al. 2007 SMURF2, NEDL1/HECW1, and NEDL2; ubiquitinates cargo such as ENaC and voltge-gated sodium channels. Itch Ubiquitinates CXCR-4 and ErbB-4; also ubiquitinates Angers et al. 2004; nonmembrane proteins such as endophillin and PI4-kinase Bhandari et al. 2007; type Iia that regulate endocytosis. Sundvall et al. 2008; Mossinger et al. 2012 Rsp5 The sole member of the Nedd4 family in yeast; responsible for Belgareh-Touze et al. ubiquitinating the vast majority of membrane proteins that 2008 are degraded within vacuole/lysosome. Cbl Major ligase that targets a broad range of receptor tyrosine Lipkowitz and Weissman kinases. 2011 SCF (b-TRCP) Ubiquitinates the growth hormone receptor, which has a motif van Kerkhof et al. 2011; that mimics the phosphorylated recognition motif that is da Silva Almeida et al. found within other SCF (b-TRCP) substrates. 2013 CHIP Modifies damaged conformationally defective proteins in the Apaja et al. 2010; plasma membrane to stimulate their lysosomal degradation Okiyoneda et al. 2010 and also misfolded proteins in the ER to stimulate their degradation in the proteasome. MARCH1 Member of the family of membrane-associated RING-CH Ishido et al. 2009 ligases; ubiquitinates MHC-II complex. MARCH2 Can target CFTR and b2-adrenergic receptors for lysosomal Han et al. 2012; Cheng degradation. and Guggino 2013 MARCH4 Targets MHC-I for degradation. Ishido et al. 2009 MARCH8 Targets TRAIL-R1, transferrin receptor, type I IL-1 receptor, Eyster et al. 2011; Fujita CD44, and CD96. et al. 2013; van de Kooij et al. 2013 IDOL Inducible degrader of the LDLR targets members of the LDL Zelcer et al. 2009 receptor family. MAGE-L2- Targets the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein member WASH Hao et al. 2013 TRIM27 to regulate activity of retromer complex.