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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525/1997//825 $5.00
The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 137, Number 4, , 1997 825-834


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An Intralysosomal hsp70 Is Required for a Selective Pathway of Lysosomal Protein Degradation



Fernando A. Agarraberes, Stanley R. Terlecky, and J. Fred Dice

Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Previous studies have implicated the heat shock cognate (hsc) protein of 73 kD (hsc73) in stimulating a lysosomal pathway of proteolysis that is selective for particular cytosolic proteins. This pathway is activated by serum deprivation in confluent cultured human fibroblasts. We now show, using indirect immunofluorescence and laser scanning confocal microscopy, that a heat shock protein (hsp) of the 70-kD family (hsp70) is associated with lysosomes (ly-hsc73). An mAb designated 13D3 specifically recognizes hsc73, and this antibody colocalizes with an antibody to lgp120, a lysosomal marker protein. Most, but not all, lysosomes contain ly-hsc73, and the morphological appearance of these organelles dramatically changes in response to serum withdrawal; the punctate lysosomes fuse to form tubules.

Based on susceptibility to digestion by trypsin and by immunoblot analysis after two-dimensional electrophoresis of isolated lysosomes and isolated lysosomal membranes, most ly-hsc73 is within the lysosomal lumen. We determined the functional importance of the ly-hsc73 by radiolabeling cellular proteins with [3H]leucine and then allowing cells to endocytose excess mAb 13D3 before measuring protein degradation in the presence and absence of serum. The increased protein degradation in response to serum deprivation was completely inhibited by endocytosed mAb 13D3, while protein degradation in cells maintained in the presence of serum was unaffected. The intralysosomal digestion of endocytosed [3H]RNase A was not affected by the endocytosed mAb 13D3. These results suggest that ly-hsc73 is required for a step in the degradative pathway before protein digestion within lysosomes, most likely for the import of substrate proteins.


1. Abbreviations used in this paper: hsc, heat shock cognate; hsp, heat shock protein; lgp, lysosomal glycoprotein; NCS, newborn calf serum; PBP, peptide binding protein; PTA, phosphotungstate; SSA1p, stress 70 subgroup A gene 1 product.

Please address all correspondence to J. Fred Dice, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111. Tel.: (617) 636-6707. Fax: (617) 636-0445.

S.R. Terlecky's current address is Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.



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