CRACR2a is a Calcium-activated Dynein Adaptor Protein That Regulates Endocytic Traffic

Overview

Journal J Cell Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2019 Mar 1

PMID 30814157

Citations 27

Authors

Yuxiao Wang

Walter Huynh

Taylor D Skokan

Wen Lu

Arthur Weiss

Ronald D Vale

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Abstract

Cytoplasmic dynein is a minus end-directed microtubule motor that transports intracellular cargoes. Transport is initiated by coiled-coil adaptors that (a) join dynein and its cofactor dynactin into a motile complex and (b) interact with a cargo-bound receptor, which is frequently a Rab GTPase on an organelle. Here, we report two novel dynein adaptors, CRACR2a and Rab45, that have a coiled-coil adaptor domain, a pair of EF-hands, and a Rab GTPase fused into a single polypeptide. CRACR2a-mediated, but not Rab45-mediated, dynein motility is activated by calcium in vitro. In Jurkat T cells, elevation of intracellular calcium activates CRACR2a-mediated dynein transport. We further found that T cell receptor activation induces the formation of CRACR2a puncta at the plasma membrane, which initially associate with the actin cortex and subsequently detach and travel along microtubules, suggestive of an endocytic process. These results provide the first examples of Rab GTPases that directly act as dynein adaptors and implicate CRACR2a-dynein in calcium-regulated endocytic trafficking.

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