Endocytosis blocks the vesicular secretion of exosome marker proteins
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Abstract
Exosomes are secreted vesicles of ~30 to 150 nm diameter that play important roles in human health and disease. To better understand how cells release these vesicles, we examined the biogenesis of the most highly enriched human exosome marker proteins, the exosomal tetraspanins CD81, CD9, and CD63. We show here that endocytosis inhibits their vesicular secretion and, in the case of CD9 and CD81, triggers their destruction. Furthermore, we show that syntenin, a previously described exosome biogenesis factor, drives the vesicular secretion of CD63 by blocking CD63 endocytosis and that other endocytosis inhibitors also induce the plasma membrane accumulation and vesicular secretion of CD63. Finally, we show that CD63 is an expression-dependent inhibitor of endocytosis that triggers the vesicular secretion of lysosomal proteins and the clathrin adaptor AP-2 mu2. These results suggest that the vesicular secretion of exosome marker proteins in exosome-sized vesicles occurs primarily by an endocytosis-independent pathway.
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Reassessment of exosome biogenesis
I think the cytoplasm/extracellular facing portion of receptors depicted in Figure 7 don't seem to preserve topology? For example if you follow the purple receptor, the terminal yellow tail is sometimes cytoplasmic facing, sometimes extracellular/lumen facing. I only mention it because made the trafficking dynamics in the diagram a bit unclear.
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