The protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP1B is required for efficient delivery of N-cadherin to the cell surface.

ABSTRACT: PTP1B bound to mature N-cadherin promotes the association of beta-catenin into the complex, the stable expression of the complex at cell surface, and cadherin-mediated adhesion. Here we show that PTP1B is also required for N-cadherin precursor trafficking through early stages of the secretory pathway. This function does not require association of PTP1B with the precursor. In PTP1B null cells, the N-cadherin precursor showed higher sensitivity to endoglycosidase H than in cells reconstituted with the wild-type enzyme. It also showed slower kinetics of ER-to-Golgi translocation and processing. Trafficking of the viral stomatitis vesicular glycoprotein, VSV-G, however, revealed no differences between PTP1B null and reconstituted cells. N-cadherin precursor complexes contained similar levels o

SUBMITTER: Hernandez MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2854096 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature