RRC ID 11869
著者 Chen C, Samuel TK, Sinclair J, Dailey HA, Hamza I.
タイトル An intercellular heme-trafficking protein delivers maternal heme to the embryo during development in C. elegans.
ジャーナル Cell
Abstract Extracellular free heme can intercalate into membranes and promote damage to cellular macromolecules. Thus it is likely that specific intercellular pathways exist for the directed transport, trafficking, and delivery of heme to cellular destinations, although none have been found to date. Here we show that Caenorhabditis elegans HRG-3 is required for the delivery of maternal heme to developing embryos. HRG-3 binds heme and is exclusively secreted by maternal intestinal cells into the interstitial fluid for transport of heme to extraintestinal cells, including oocytes. HRG-3 deficiency results either in death during embryogenesis or in developmental arrest immediately post-hatching-phenotypes that are fully suppressed by maternal but not zygotic hrg-3 expression. Our results establish a role for HRG-3 as an intercellular heme-trafficking protein.
巻・号 145(5)
ページ 720-31
公開日 2011-5-27
DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2011.04.025
PII S0092-8674(11)00483-1
PMID 21620137
PMC PMC3104245
MeSH Animals Animals, Genetically Modified Caenorhabditis elegans / embryology* Caenorhabditis elegans / metabolism* Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental Genes, Reporter Heme / deficiency Heme / metabolism* Hemeproteins / chemistry Hemeproteins / genetics Hemeproteins / metabolism* Intestinal Mucosa / metabolism Mutation Phenotype Protein Transport Secretory Pathway
IF 38.637
引用数 38
WOS 分野 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CELL BIOLOGY
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