A human homologue of the yeast HDEL receptor.
Retention of resident proteins in the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum is achieved in both yeast and animal cells by their continual retrieval from the cis-Golgi, or a pre-Golgi compartment. Sorting of these proteins is dependent on a C-terminal tetrapeptide signal, usually Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu (KDEL in the single letter code) in animal cells, His-Asp-Glu-Leu (HDEL) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. There is evidence that the ERD2 gene encodes the sorting receptor that recognizes HDEL in yeast; its product is an integral membrane protein of relative molecular mass 26,000 (26K) that is not glycosylated. In contrast, Vaux et al. suggest that the mammalian KDEL receptor is a 72K glycoprotein that they detected using an anti-idiotypic antibody approach. If this were so, it would indicate a surprising divergence of the retrieval machinery between yeast and animal cells. We report here that human cells express a protein similar in sequence, size and properties to the ERD2 product, and propose that this protein is the human KDEL receptor.
Lewis
M J
MJ
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.
Pelham
H R
HR
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002451:Cell Compartmentation; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007716:Kluyveromyces / Q000235:genetics; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000502:physiology*; D018000:Receptors, Peptide; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000235:genetics; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D012995:Solubility; D014162:Transfection
C064922:ERD2 protein, S cerevisiae; C489304:KDELR1 protein, human; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D018000:Receptors, Peptide; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins