Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) is an endocytic recycling receptor with two cytoplasmic tyrosine-based basolateral sorting signals. Here we show that during biosynthetic trafficking LRP1 uses AP1B adaptor complex to move from a post-TGN recycling endosome (RE) to the basolateral membrane. Then it recycles basolaterally from the basolateral sorting endosome (BSE) involving recognition by sorting nexin 17 (SNX17).In the biosynthetic pathway, Y 29 but not N 26 from a proximal NPXY directs LRP1 basolateral sorting from the TGN. A N 26 A mutant revealed that this NPXY motif recognized by SNX17 is required for the receptor's exit from BSE. An endocytic Y 63 ATL 66 motif also functions in basolateral recycling, in concert with an additional endocytic motif (LL 86,87 ), by preventing LRP1 entry into the transcytotic apical pathway. All this sorting information operates similarly in hippocampal neurons to mediate LRP1 somatodendritic distribution regardless of the absence of AP1B in neurons. LRP1 basolateral distribution results then from spatially and temporally segregation steps mediated by recognition of distinct tyrosine-based motifs. We also demonstrate a novel function of SNX17 in basolateral/somatodendritic recycling from a different compartment than AP1B endosomes.
INTRODUCTIONEpithelial cells posses functional, morphological, and biochemically distinct apical and basolateral cell surface domains and maintain this polarized phenotype addressing specific plasma membrane proteins into each domain (Yeaman et al., 1999;Mostov, 2003;Rodriguez-Boulan et al., 2005). Apical and basolateral proteins are sorted in the biosynthetic route at the level of the trans-Golgi network (TGN; Rindler et al., 1984;Fuller et al., 1985;Griffiths and Simons, 1986), and those proteins that undergo endocytosis can be additionally sorted in recycling endosomes (RE;Mostov and Cardone, 1995;Odorizzi and Trowbridge, 1997). Evidence accumulated over a decade and consolidated in the most recent studies (Ang et al., 2004;Lock and Stow, 2005;Cancino et al., 2007;Cresawn et al., 2007;Gravotta et al., 2007) have shown that the biosynthetic route of at least some proteins includes a post-TGN transit through RE. Under this scenery, it is now important to define the relative contribution of the TGN and RE in the polarized sorting mechanisms of different cargo and in different kind of polarized cells. Neurons, for instance, have to direct distinct proteins to somato-dendritic or axonal plasma membrane domains (Rodriguez-Boulan and Powell, 1992;Winckler and Mellman, 1999), yet their protein-sorting mechanisms remain less known than in epithelial cells. A comparative analysis in epithelial cells and neurons could indeed help to understand the underlying mechanisms of the polarized phenotype.Studies in MDCK cells, the most currently used model of cell polarity, settled the basics of apical and basolateral protein sorting (Rodriguez-Boulan et al., 2005). Apical membrane proteins possess sorting information located in their extracel...