Sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins (siglecs) are predominately expressed on immune cells. They are best known as regulators of cell signaling mediated by cytoplasmic tyrosine motifs and are increasingly recognized as receptors for pathogens that bear sialic acid-containing glycans. Most siglec proteins undergo endocytosis, an activity tied to their roles in cell signaling and innate immunity. Here, we investigate the endocytic pathways of two siglec proteins, CD22 (Siglec-2), a regulator of B-cell signaling, and mouse eosinophil Siglec-F, a member of the rapidly evolving CD33-related siglec subfamily that are expressed on cells of the innate immune system. CD22 exhibits hallmarks of clathrin-mediated endocytosis and traffics to recycling compartments, consistent with previous reports demonstrating its localization to clathrin domains. Like CD22, Siglec-F mediates endocytosis of anti-Siglec-F and sialoside ligands, a function requiring intact tyrosinebased motifs. In contrast, however, we find that Siglec-F endocytosis is clathrin and dynamin independent, requires ADP ribosylation factor 6, and traffics to lysosomes. The results suggest that these two siglec proteins have evolved distinct endocytic mechanisms consistent with roles in cell signaling and innate immunity.The siglec (sialic-acid binding immunoglobulin [Ig]-like lectins) proteins are subset of the Ig superfamily of cell recognition molecules that bind to sialic acid-containing glycans of cell surface glycoconjugates as ligands (27,78). Of the 13 human and 9 murine siglec proteins, 4 are highly conserved in mammalian species: sialoadhesin (Sn)/Siglec-1, CD22/Siglec-2, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG)/Siglec-4, and Siglec-15. The others comprise a rapidly evolving subfamily homologous to CD33/Siglec-4, known as the CD33-related siglec proteins. With two exceptions (MAG and Siglec-6) the siglec proteins are predominantly expressed in various white blood cells of the immune system (25,43,78,85). All contain a N-terminal V-set sugar-binding Ig domain, a variable number of additional C-set Ig domains, a transmembrane domain, and a cytoplasmic domain that typically contains tyrosine-based motifs implicated in regulation of cell signaling and endocytosis.Many of the siglec proteins contain one or more immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs), (I/L/V)XYXX (L/V), suggesting that they play important roles as inhibitory receptors of cell signaling (25, 78), as exemplified by CD22, which is well documented as a regulator of B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling. Upon antigen binding to the BCR, the ITIMs of CD22 are quickly tyrosine phosphorylated and recruit protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1, which dephosphorylates the BCR and dampens the B-cell response, setting a threshold for B-cell activation (27,73).CD22 is also known to undergo endocytosis following ligation by anti-CD22 antibody (38, 64) or high-affinity multivalent-sialoside ligands (22). The tyrosine-based ITIMs of CD22 also fit the sorting signal YXXØ (where Ø is a hydrophobic...