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J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 140, Number 3, February 9, 1998 553-563

* Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, 0310 Oslo, Norway; Endocytosis and intracellular transport of ricin were studied in stable transfected HeLa cells where
overexpression of wild-type (WT) or mutant dynamin
is regulated by tetracycline. Overexpression of the temperature-sensitive mutant dynG273D at the nonpermissive temperature or the dynK44A mutant inhibits clathrin-dependent endocytosis (Damke, H., T. Baba, A.M.
van der Blieck, and S.L. Schmid. 1995. J. Cell Biol. 131:
69-80; Damke, H., T. Baba, D.E. Warnock, and S.L.
Schmid. 1994. J. Cell Biol. 127:915-934). Under these
conditions, ricin was endocytosed at a normal level.
Surprisingly, overexpression of both mutants made the
cells less sensitive to ricin. Butyric acid and trichostatin
A treatment enhanced dynamin overexpression and increased the difference in toxin sensitivity between cells with normal and mutant dynamin. Intoxication with ricin seems to require toxin transport to the Golgi apparatus (Sandirg, K., and B. van Deurs. 1996. Physiol.
Rev. 76:949-966), and this process was monitored by
measuring the incorporation of radioactive sulfate into
a modified ricin molecule containing a tyrosine sulfation site. The sulfation of ricin was much greater in cells
expressing dynWT than in cells expressing dynK44A. Ultrastructural analysis using a ricin-HRP conjugate confirmed that transport to the Golgi apparatus was severely
inhibited in cells expressing dynK44A. In contrast, ricin
transport to lysosomes as measured by degradation of
125I-ricin was essentially unchanged in cells expressing
dynK44A. These data demonstrate that although ricin is
internalized by clathrin-independent endocytosis in cells
expressing mutant dynamin, there is a strong and apparently selective inhibition of ricin transport to the Golgi
apparatus. Also, in cells with mutant dynamin, there is
a redistribution of the mannose-6-phosphate receptor.
Department of Cell
Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037; and § Structural Cell Biology Unit, Department of Anatomy,
The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark
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