| 1998 |
OCRL encodes an inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase with marked preference for phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P2), also hydrolyzing IP3, IP4, and PI(3,4,5)P3; it is the major PI(4,5)P2 5-phosphatase in kidney proximal tubule cells, and its loss leads to PI(4,5)P2 accumulation. OCRL protein is associated with lysosomal membranes in proximal tubule cells. |
In vitro enzymatic assay with substrate preference testing; cell lines from Lowe syndrome patient kidney proximal tubules lacking OCRL protein; lipid quantification showing PI(4,5)P2 accumulation; subcellular fractionation/immunolocalization to lysosomes |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
High |
9430698
|
| 2000 |
OCRL1 (Ocrl1) localizes to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) in fibroblasts and kidney epithelial cells, as determined by immunofluorescence, subcellular fractionation, and brefeldin A perturbation assay. |
Immunofluorescence co-localization with TGN markers, subcellular fractionation, brefeldin A dynamic perturbation assay |
The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry |
High |
10639484
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| 2003 |
OCRL1 interacts with activated Rac GTPase via its C-terminal RhoGAP domain both in vitro and by co-immunoprecipitation with endogenous OCRL1. A fraction of endogenous Rac co-localizes with OCRL1 and γ-adaptin in the TGN. The OCRL1 RhoGAP domain shows low Rac GAP activity in vitro and inhibits Rac-GTP-dependent membrane ruffles when expressed in cells. |
GST pulldown (in vitro binding), co-immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence co-localization, in vitro GAP activity assay, Swiss 3T3 cell ruffle assay |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
12915445
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| 2004 |
OCRL localizes to endosomes and Golgi membranes in association with clathrin; it interacts directly with the clathrin terminal domain and clathrin adaptor AP-2, as shown by GST binding assays. Live-cell imaging confirmed dynamic OCRL localization on endosomes. |
Fluorescence microscopy (fixed and live-cell time-lapse), GST pulldown binding assay with clathrin terminal domain and AP-2 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Medium |
15353600
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| 2005 |
OCRL1 is associated with clathrin-coated transport intermediates between the TGN and endosomes, interacts directly with clathrin heavy chain, and promotes clathrin assembly in vitro. Overexpression of OCRL1 causes redistribution of clathrin and CI-MPR to enlarged endosomal structures defective in retrograde trafficking to the TGN; depletion of OCRL1 causes partial redistribution of CI-MPR to early endosomes. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, direct clathrin assembly assay in vitro, overexpression and siRNA knockdown with immunofluorescence readout for CI-MPR trafficking |
Molecular biology of the cell |
High |
15917292
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| 2006 |
OCRL1 interacts with multiple Rab GTPases (Rab1, Rab5, Rab6 most strongly). Rab binding is required for targeting OCRL1 to the Golgi and endosomes, as point mutants defective in Rab binding fail to localize to these compartments. In vitro experiments demonstrate that Rab5 and Rab6 directly stimulate the 5-phosphatase activity of OCRL1. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, pulldown, point mutagenesis with subcellular localization readout, in vitro 5-phosphatase activity assay with Rab proteins |
The EMBO journal |
High |
16902405
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| 2006 |
Missense mutations I751N and A780P in the RhoGAP-homology domain of OCRL1 reduce enzyme (PI(4,5)P2 5-phosphatase) activity by 85-90% without affecting protein expression levels, demonstrating that the RhoGAP domain is important for enzymatic function. Wild-type but not the I751N mutant OCRL1 co-immunoprecipitates with Arf1 and Arf6, indicating the RhoGAP domain mediates interaction with Arf GTPases. |
In vitro phosphatase activity assay, co-immunoprecipitation with Arf1 and Arf6 |
Molecular genetics and metabolism |
Medium |
16777452
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| 2007 |
OCRL visits late-stage endocytic clathrin-coated pits and binds the Rab5 effector APPL1 on peripheral early endosomes. The interaction with APPL1 is mediated by the ASH-RhoGAP-like domains of OCRL and is abolished by disease-causing mutations. Crystallographic studies reveal a role of the ASH-RhoGAP-like domains in positioning the phosphatase domain at the membrane interface and show a clathrin box protruding from the RhoGAP-like domain. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, live-cell imaging, X-ray crystallography, disease-mutation analysis |
Developmental cell |
High |
17765681
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| 2008 |
All known disease-causing missense mutations in the ASH-RhoGAP domains of OCRL abolish the interaction with endocytic adaptor APPL1, which is the only OCRL interaction (among those tested) disrupted by all such mutations. APPL1 and Rab5 independently contribute to recruit OCRL to enlarged endosomes. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, expression of constitutively active Rab5, disease-mutation analysis |
Biochemical and biophysical research communications |
Medium |
18307981
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| 2008 |
OCRL1 (via its homolog Dd5P4 in Dictyostelium) restricts intracellular growth of Legionella pneumophila. OCRL1 localizes to Legionella-containing vacuoles (LCVs) in macrophages. The N-terminal domain of OCRL1 binds the Legionella effector LpnE. Complementation with catalytically inactive Dd5P4 fails to rescue the phenotype, demonstrating catalytic activity is required. |
Genetic complementation in Dictyostelium discoideum, fluorescence microscopy localization to LCVs, GST pulldown binding assay with LpnE, catalytically inactive mutant analysis |
Cellular microbiology |
Medium |
19021631
|
| 2009 |
OCRL1 isoform a (brain-specific longer isoform) binds clathrin with higher affinity than isoform b and is significantly more enriched in clathrin-coated trafficking intermediates. A second clathrin-binding site was identified in OCRL1. Association with clathrin-coated intermediates requires Rab GTPase-mediated membrane association but not AP2 binding. Expression of the 5-phosphatase-deleted isoform a (but not isoform b equivalent) impairs transferrin endocytosis. |
Clathrin binding assays, subcellular fractionation, fluorescence microscopy, transferrin endocytosis assay |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
Medium |
19211563
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| 2009 |
Lowe syndrome patient fibroblasts lacking OCRL1 display defects in cell migration, spreading, and fluid-phase uptake. These defects are rescued by wild-type OCRL1 but not a phosphatase-deficient mutant, nor by the paralog Inpp5b. OCRL1 variants lacking AP2 or clathrin binding were less able to rescue migration, implicating these interactions in ruffle-mediated membrane remodeling. |
Cell migration assay, spreading assay, fluid-phase uptake assay, rescue with WT and mutant OCRL1 constructs in patient fibroblasts |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
19700499
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| 2010 |
Two endocytic proteins Ses1 and Ses2 (IPIP27A/B) interact with OCRL via a short phenylalanine and histidine (F&H) motif in the ASH-RhoGAP-like domain, the same site used by APPL1. Ses binding is mutually exclusive with APPL1 binding and is disrupted by the same disease-causing missense mutations. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, pulldown, competition binding assay, disease-mutation analysis |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Medium |
20133602
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| 2011 |
Active (GTP-bound) Rab35 directly interacts with OCRL and controls its localization at the intercellular bridge during cytokinesis. Depletion of Rab35 or OCRL inhibits cytokinesis abscission and causes local PI(4,5)P2 and F-actin accumulation in the intercellular bridge. Division defects in Lowe patient cell lines are rescued by low doses of F-actin depolymerization drugs, establishing that OCRL-mediated PI(4,5)P2 hydrolysis is required for F-actin remodeling during abscission. |
Pulldown with active Rab35, siRNA depletion, live-cell imaging, fluorescence microscopy, pharmacological rescue with F-actin depolymerizing drugs, patient cell lines |
Nature cell biology |
High |
21706022
|
| 2011 |
OCRL controls early endosome (EE) function via its 5-phosphatase activity. OCRL depletion impairs recycling of multiple receptors including megalin, causing their retention in engorged EEs. The trafficking defects result from ectopic PI(4,5)P2 accumulation in EEs, which induces N-WASP-dependent increase in endosomal F-actin. |
siRNA knockdown, receptor recycling assays, lipid imaging, N-WASP manipulation, fluorescence microscopy |
The EMBO journal |
High |
21971085
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| 2011 |
OCRL and Inpp5B are recruited to nascent phagosomes as Rab5 effectors via the adaptor protein APPL1. Knockdown of APPL1 or inhibition of Rab5 impairs association of OCRL and Inpp5B with phagosomes and prolongs PI(4,5)P2 and actin presence on phagosomal membranes. APPL1 depletion accentuates Akt activation, linked to increased PI(4,5)P2 available for PI(3,4,5)P3 generation. |
siRNA knockdown, fluorescence microscopy, lipid imaging on phagosomes, Akt activation assay |
Molecular biology of the cell |
Medium |
22072788
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| 2011 |
IPIP27A and IPIP27B (Ses1 and Ses2) bind OCRL1 and the related phosphatase Inpp5b via a conserved motif in the C-terminal region of these phosphatases. IPIP27A/B localize to early and recycling endosomes and the TGN, form homo- and heterodimers, and are required for receptor recycling from endosomes both to the TGN and to the plasma membrane. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown with receptor recycling assays, fluorescence microscopy |
Molecular biology of the cell |
Medium |
21233288
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| 2011 |
Crystal structure of the Rab-binding domain (RBD/ASH domain) of OCRL1 in complex with Rab8a reveals that the Rab-binding interface consists mainly of the IgG-like β-strand structure of the ASPM-SPD-2-Hydin domain plus one α-helix, distinct from other Rab effectors. Kinetic analysis showed binding to Rab1b, Rab5a, Rab6a, and Rab8a. Disease-causing mutations in the RBD affect Rab binding. |
X-ray crystallography, kinetic binding analysis (surface plasmon resonance), disease-mutation analysis |
The EMBO journal |
High |
21378754
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| 2011 |
X-ray crystallography of the OCRL RhoGAP domain identified the F&H motif binding site. Disease-associated missense mutations in the ASH-RhoGAP domain disrupt F&H binding indirectly by destabilizing the RhoGAP fold. A disease mutation that does not perturb F&H binding and ASH-RhoGAP stability instead disrupts the interaction of OCRL with Rab5. |
X-ray crystallography, binding assays, mutagenesis with functional analysis of APPL1/Ses binding and Rab5 binding |
Nature structural & molecular biology |
High |
21666675
|
| 2012 |
OCRL localizes to the primary cilium of retinal pigment epithelial cells, fibroblasts, and kidney tubular cells. Lowe syndrome-associated mutations in OCRL result in shortened cilia, rescued by wild-type OCRL re-expression. In vivo, knockdown of ocrl in zebrafish causes defective cilia formation in Kupffer's vesicles and cilia-dependent phenotypes. |
Fluorescence microscopy of primary cilia, rescue experiments with WT OCRL, zebrafish morpholino knockdown |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
22543976
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| 2012 |
OCRL1 is required for primary cilia assembly; patient cells and OCRL1 knockdown cells show defects in cilia assembly rescued by WT OCRL1. OCRL1 is involved in protein trafficking to the primary cilia in a Rab8- and IPIP27/Ses-dependent manner. |
siRNA knockdown, rescue with WT OCRL1, patient cell lines, zebrafish model, fluorescence microscopy, trafficking assays |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
22228094
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| 2012 |
OCRL loss in Lowe syndrome patient fibroblasts impairs clathrin-mediated endocytosis, causing accumulation of clathrin-coated vesicles and U-shaped clathrin-coated pits. Endocytic vesicles that fail to shed their coat nucleate actin comets. SNX9, which couples late-stage endocytic pits to actin polymerization, binds OCRL directly and remains associated with uncoated vesicles in patient cells, establishing OCRL as an uncoating factor. |
Patient fibroblast analysis, electron microscopy, direct pulldown of SNX9-OCRL, fluorescence microscopy of coated vesicles and actin comets |
eLife |
High |
25107275
|
| 2012 |
OCRL depletion in HeLa cells decreases endosome-to-TGN transport of the mannose 6-phosphate receptor (MPR), leading to its accumulation in enlarged retromer-positive endosomes and higher surface levels of MPR. Wild-type OCRL rescues MPR accumulation in an activity-dependent manner. OCRL depletion increases inactive phospho-cofilin and reduces active Rac1, while increasing active RhoA; overexpression of Rac1 rescues both cofilin phosphorylation and MPR accumulation, establishing a PI(4,5)P2–Rac1–cofilin signaling module downstream of OCRL. |
siRNA knockdown, fluorescence microscopy, receptor trafficking assays, GTPase activation assays (pulldown), cofilin phosphorylation immunoblotting, rescue by Rac1 overexpression |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
22907655
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| 2012 |
OCRL controls PI(4,5)P2 levels at the surface of endosomes during cytokinesis, restricting PI(4,5)P2 to the cell cortex. Drosophila dOCRL (ortholog of human OCRL1) is essential for cytokinesis, acting to dephosphorylate PI(4,5)P2 at endosomal surfaces. |
Drosophila genetic loss-of-function, live-cell imaging, PI(4,5)P2 reporters |
Communicative & integrative biology |
Medium |
22896796
|
| 2012 |
OCRL suppresses the intestinal calcium channel TRPV6 via two separate mechanisms: (1) the PI(4,5)P2 5-phosphatase domain suppresses TRPV6-mediated Ca2+ transport by reducing PI(4,5)P2 levels without affecting TRPV6 surface abundance; (2) the Rab-binding domain regulates forward trafficking of TRPV6 to the cell surface. Dent-causing OCRL mutations alleviate inhibition of TRPV6-mediated Ca2+ transport. |
Xenopus oocyte expression system, Ca2+ uptake assays, cell surface quantification, antisense OCRL knockdown in Xenopus, Dent-mutation analysis |
American journal of physiology. Cell physiology |
Medium |
22378746
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| 2012 |
Through its phosphatase activity, OCRL restricts Listeria monocytogenes invasion by modulating PI(4,5)P2 and PI(3,4,5)P3 levels and actin dynamics at bacterial internalization foci. OCRL accumulates at invasion foci coincident with actin depolymerization; catalytically dead OCRL fails to rescue the phenotype. |
siRNA knockdown, live-cell imaging, fluorescence microscopy, rescue with enzymatically active vs. dead OCRL-a |
The Journal of biological chemistry |
Medium |
22351770
|
| 2012 |
Bcl10 delivers the OCRL phosphatase to phagocytic cups via a complex with clathrin adaptors AP1 and EpsinR. OCRL locally regulates PI(4,5)P2 and F-actin turnover required for phagosome closure. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown, fluorescence microscopy, phagocytosis assays in human macrophages |
Developmental cell |
Medium |
23153494
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| 2015 |
Rab35 GTPase acts as a switch for OCRL recruitment on newborn endosomes immediately after scission of clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs). Rab35 loading on CCVs follows DENND1A recruitment and EPI64B disappearance. Depletion of Rab35 or OCRL causes retention of CI-MPR in peripheral clathrin-positive endosomes with abnormal PI(4,5)P2 and actin-binding proteins. |
Live-cell imaging, siRNA knockdown, direct binding assays, fluorescence microscopy of endogenous receptors and lipids |
Current biology |
High |
26725203
|
| 2015 |
OCRL1 is required for endocytosis in the zebrafish pronephric tubule in vivo; OCRL1 deficiency causes reduced megalin levels and accumulation in endocytic compartments, reduced numbers of early endosomes, and enlarged vacuolar endosomes. Catalytic activity of OCRL1 is required for renal tubular endocytosis, and the endocytic defect is rescued by suppression of PIP5K. |
Zebrafish ocrl1 mutant model, fluorescence/electron microscopy, endocytosis assays, rescue by PIP5K suppression |
PLoS genetics |
High |
25838181
|
| 2015 |
OCRL1 interacts with F-BAR protein pacsin 2 via IPIP27A. OCRL1 and IPIP27A localize to MPR-containing trafficking intermediates; loss of either protein impairs MPR carrier biogenesis at TGN and endosomes. OCRL1 5-phosphatase activity (which is stimulated by membrane curvature and further by IPIP27A-mediated engagement with pacsin 2) promotes scission of MPR-containing carriers. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown, live-cell imaging, MPR trafficking assay, in vitro phosphatase activity assay with membrane curvature |
Molecular biology of the cell |
Medium |
26510499
|
| 2015 |
OCRL1 acts as a RacGAP in chondrocytes. Overexpression of OCRL1 inhibits Rac1 activity and chondrocyte hypertrophy; knockdown elevates Rac1 activity and promotes hypertrophy/mineralization. The GAP activity requires the GAP domain. Intraarticular injection of OCRL1-encoding lentivirus protects against cartilage destruction in a mouse OA model. |
Rac1 activity pulldown assay, lentiviral overexpression and knockdown, alkaline phosphatase staining, mouse OA intraarticular injection model |
Arthritis & rheumatology |
Medium |
25917196
|
| 2016 |
OCRL plays a key role in a lysosomal response to autophagosome-lysosome fusion. Mitochondrial DNA delivered by autophagosomes activates TLR9 as cargo/receptor. A local, transient increase in PI(4,5)P2 is confined by OCRL. OCRL depletion causes accumulation of lysosomal PI(4,5)P2, which inhibits the calcium channel mucolipin-1, blocking autophagosome-lysosome fusion. Boosting mucolipin-1 activity with agonists restores autophagic flux in Lowe syndrome patient cells. |
siRNA knockdown, Lowe patient cell lines, PI(4,5)P2 and mucolipin-1 functional assays, TLR9/mtDNA identification as cargo/receptor, pharmacological rescue |
Nature cell biology |
High |
27398910
|
| 2017 |
OCRL loss increases PI(4,5)P2 and decreases PI4P in primary cilia, with PI(4,5)P2 build-up particularly at the transition zone. This is reversed by reintroduction of OCRL. In Lowe syndrome mouse model MEFs, accumulation of sonic hedgehog in response to hedgehog agonist is decreased. |
Fluorescence microscopy with PI(4,5)P2 and PI4P reporters in patient fibroblasts and MEFs from Lowe mouse model; rescue with WT OCRL; Hedgehog pathway readout |
Journal of cell science |
Medium |
28871046
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| 2019 |
In a humanized mouse model (OcrlY/- with human INPP5B rescue of Inpp5b lethality), OCRL deficiency causes massive urinary loss of low-molecular-weight proteins and albumin due to selective impairment of receptor-mediated endocytosis in proximal tubule cells. PI(4,5)P2 accumulation in endolysosomes drives local F-actin hyper-polymerization, impairing trafficking of the LRP2 endocytic receptor. OCRL deficiency also disrupts lysosomal dynamics and proteolytic activity. |
Humanized mouse model, primary mPTC culture, urine analysis, fluorescence microscopy, F-actin quantification, receptor trafficking assay for LRP2 |
Human molecular genetics |
High |
30590522
|
| 2021 |
Rab5 recruits OCRL and Inpp5b to macropinosomes via APPL1, downstream of membrane ruffling. This recruitment mediates PI(4,5)P2 removal required for macropinosome sealing/scission. Knockdown of OCRL and Inpp5b, or APPL1, prevents macropinosome closure without affecting ruffling. |
siRNA knockdown, dominant-negative Rab5, fluorescence microscopy, PI(4,5)P2 imaging, macropinocytosis assay |
Journal of cell science |
Medium |
33722976
|
| 2021 |
Legionella effector SdhA binds the OCRL ASH domain and blocks OCRL's interactions with Rab GTPases (without directly altering its catalytic 5-phosphatase activity), thereby hijacking OCRL function to maintain vacuole integrity. OCRL depletion enhances vacuole integrity and intracellular growth of a sdhA mutant. Overexpressed SdhA causes endosomal PI(4,5)P2 accumulation and interferes with endosomal trafficking. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, OCRL knockdown, fluorescence microscopy of vacuole integrity and endosomal markers, in vitro binding assay mapping interaction to ASH domain, 5-phosphatase activity assay |
Cell reports |
High |
34731604
|
| 2021 |
OCRL deficiency in megakaryocytes and platelets causes defective actomyosin cytoskeleton reorganization: reduced Rac1 activity, elevated active RhoA, increased phosphorylated (inactive) myosin light chain (P-MLC), resulting in deficient proplatelet extension and impaired platelet spreading and clot retraction. OCRL depletion with siOCRL in control MKs reproduces the proplatelet extension defect. |
Case-control study on patient platelets/MKs, GTPase activation pulldown assay, MLC phosphorylation immunoblotting, siRNA knockdown in MKs, flow-based thrombus formation assay |
British journal of haematology |
Medium |
33528045
|
| 2022 |
A novel OCRL protein isoform translated from exon 8 (80 kDa) retains equivalent 5-phosphatase enzyme activity to full-length OCRL. Truncating mutations in exons 1–7 (Dent disease-2) produce this shorter functional isoform with >50% activity, whereas truncating mutations in exons 8–24 (Lowe syndrome) produce no detectable protein and <20% activity, explaining the phenotypic difference between the two diseases. |
mRNA cloning from patient urine-derived cells, in vitro protein expression analysis, 5-phosphatase activity assay, transfection into HeLa cells |
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation |
High |
34586410
|
| 1998 |
Targeted disruption of mouse Ocrl1 produces no phenotype (no cataracts, renal Fanconi syndrome, or neurological abnormalities), but double knockout of Ocrl1 and Inpp5b results in embryonic lethality with no live-born mice, demonstrating overlapping essential functions of the two paralogs in mice. |
Targeted gene disruption in mice (Ocrl1-/- and Inpp5b-/-), double mutant crosses, embryo analysis |
The Journal of clinical investigation |
High |
9593760
|
| 2016 |
Kidney tubule-specific inactivation of Inpp5b on a global Ocrl-knockout mouse background results in low molecular weight proteinuria, phosphaturia, acidemia, and striking impairment of clathrin-dependent and -independent endocytosis in proximal tubules, phenocopying Dent disease caused by mutations in ClC-5. |
Conditional knockout mouse model (tubule-specific Inpp5b deletion on global Ocrl-/- background), urine analysis, electron microscopy of proximal tubules, endocytosis assays |
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology |
High |
27895154
|
| 2005 |
Upon EGF-induced Rac activation in COS-7 cells, a fraction of OCRL1 translocates from the TGN to plasma membrane ruffles. In Lowe patient fibroblasts, PI(4,5)P2 accumulates strikingly in PDGF-induced ruffles compared with controls, indicating OCRL1 is active as a PI(4,5)P2 5-phosphatase in Rac-induced membrane ruffles. |
Fluorescence microscopy in live/fixed cells, GFP-PH domain PI(4,5)P2 reporter, patient fibroblast vs control comparison, growth factor stimulation |
Human molecular genetics |
Medium |
15829501
|
| 2010 |
Rab31 interacts with OCRL-1 in oligodendrocytes (yeast two-hybrid, GST pulldown, co-immunoprecipitation) and recruits OCRL-1 to TGN domains where MPR-containing carrier formation occurs. siRNA depletion of Rab31 markedly decreases OCRL-1 levels in the TGN and endosomes. MPR is sorted to OCRL-1-containing carriers. |
Yeast two-hybrid, GST pulldown, co-immunoprecipitation, siRNA knockdown, fluorescence microscopy |
Journal of neuroscience research |
Medium |
19795375
|
| 2011 |
OCRL1 localizes to intercellular junctions at early stages of their formation, co-localizing with adherens and tight junctional components and forming complexes with α-catenin and ZO-1/2/3. Depletion of OCRL1 in epithelial sheets inhibits maturation, polarity, and proliferation; this effect requires the 5-phosphatase domain and is rescued by re-expressed OCRL1. In 3D cultures, OCRL1-depleted cells fail to form a central lumen and show incorrect ZO-1 distribution. |
Co-immunoprecipitation with junctional proteins, siRNA knockdown, rescue with WT and phosphatase-dead OCRL1, fluorescence microscopy in 2D and 3D culture |
PloS one |
Medium |
21901156
|