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How calcium makes endocytic receptors attractive. / Andersen, Christian B F; Moestrup, Søren K.
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T1 - How calcium makes endocytic receptors attractive
AU - Andersen, Christian B F
AU - Moestrup, Søren K
N1 - Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/1/3
Y1 - 2014/1/3
N2 - Nutrients, biological waste-products, toxins, pathogens, and other ligands for endocytosis are typically captured by multidomain receptors with multiligand specificity. Upon internalization, the receptor-ligand complex segregates, followed by lysosomal degradation of the ligand and recycling of the receptor. Endosomal acidification and calcium efflux lead to the essential ligand-receptor affinity switch and separation. Recent data, including crystal structures of receptor-ligand complexes, now reveal how calcium, in different types of domain scaffolds, functions in a common way as a removable 'lynchpin' that stabilizes favorable positioning of ligand-attractive receptor residues. In addition to explaining how calcium depletion can cause ligand-receptor dissociation, the new data add further insight into how acidification contributes to dissociation through structural changes that affect the receptor calcium sites.
AB - Nutrients, biological waste-products, toxins, pathogens, and other ligands for endocytosis are typically captured by multidomain receptors with multiligand specificity. Upon internalization, the receptor-ligand complex segregates, followed by lysosomal degradation of the ligand and recycling of the receptor. Endosomal acidification and calcium efflux lead to the essential ligand-receptor affinity switch and separation. Recent data, including crystal structures of receptor-ligand complexes, now reveal how calcium, in different types of domain scaffolds, functions in a common way as a removable 'lynchpin' that stabilizes favorable positioning of ligand-attractive receptor residues. In addition to explaining how calcium depletion can cause ligand-receptor dissociation, the new data add further insight into how acidification contributes to dissociation through structural changes that affect the receptor calcium sites.
U2 - 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.12.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.12.003
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24393667
JO - Trends in Biochemical Sciences
JF - Trends in Biochemical Sciences
SN - 0968-0004
ER -