title: The circuitry of cargo flux in the ESCRT pathway.
abstract: The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) complexes sort ubiquitinated membrane proteins into multivesicular bodies, which is a key step in the lysosomal degradation pathway. Shields et al. (Shields, S.B., A.J. Oestreich, S. Winistorfer, D. Nguyen, J.A. Payne, D.J. Katzmann, and R. Piper. 2009. J. Cell Biol. 185:213-224) identify a new ubiquitin-binding site in ESCRT-I and provide evidence that the upstream ESCRT-I and -II complexes sort cargo in parallel rather than in series.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D011992:Endosomes / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000502:physiology; D025801:Ubiquitin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D025801:Ubiquitin