title: Membrane fission reactions of the mammalian ESCRT pathway.
abstract: The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) pathway was initially defined in yeast genetic screens that identified the factors necessary to sort membrane proteins into intraluminal endosomal vesicles. Subsequent studies have revealed that the mammalian ESCRT pathway also functions in a series of other key cellular processes, including formation of extracellular microvesicles, enveloped virus budding, and the abscission stage of cytokinesis. The core ESCRT machinery comprises Bro1 family proteins and ESCRT-I, ESCRT-II, ESCRT-III, and VPS4 complexes. Site-specific adaptors recruit these soluble factors to assemble on different cellular membranes, where they carry out membrane fission reactions. ESCRT-III proteins form filaments that draw membranes together from the cytoplasmic face, and mechanistic models have been advanced to explain how ESCRT-III filaments and the VPS4 ATPase can work together to catalyze membrane fission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-5650, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McCullough
authors.forename: Leremy A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Colf
authors.forename: Wesley I
authors.initials: WI
authors.lastname: Sundquist
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D056827:Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D021381:Protein Transport; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D056827:Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport; D008565:Membrane Proteins