Abstract
The decade of the 70’s was remarkable for the insights that rapidly accumulated to provide us with an understanding of one of the fundamental processes of animal cell metabolism, namely, how mammalian cells ingest a host of extracellular substances to satisfy their various metabolic needs. It has long been appreciated that the surfaces of mammalian cells are in a continual state of flux. Surface membranes often fold inward and pinch of in a vesicular form trapping some of the contents of the extracellular material which are thus transported into the cell. This process is called endocytosis (reviewed in Silversteinet al., 1977). When extracellular fluids are taken up in this manner, the process is called fluid-phase endocytosis or pinocytosis. When solids are ingested, the process is called phagocytosis. Although quantitatively important over the long run, these modes of uptake are slow, non-specific and dependent on the concentration of the substance in the extracellular medium. In recent years it has been recognized that animal cells have developed a specialized form of this vesicular transport system to selectively retrieve and assimilate macromolecules from the extracellular milieu with high efficiency. This process is called receptor-mediated endocytosis. In this review an attempt is made to collate and correlate the evidence establishing receptor-mediated endocytosis as a dynamic process that routes cell surface receptors and ligands through multiple intracellular compartments to their ultimate destination.
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Abbreviations
- LDL:
-
Low density lipoprotein
- EGF:
-
epidermal growth factor
- CURL:
-
compartment of uncoupling of receptor and ligandM r molecular weight
- CoA:
-
coenzyme A
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Basu, S.K. Receptor-mediated endocytosis: An overview of a dynamic process. J Biosci 6, 535–542 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703904
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