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First published online 11 July 2006
doi: 10.1242/jcs.03052

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An essential role for endocytosis of rhodopsin through interaction of visual arrestin with the AP-2 adaptor

Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: patrick.dolph{at}dartmouth.edu)

Accepted 17 May 2006

Previously, we have identified a class of retinal degeneration mutants in Drosophila in which the normally transient interaction between arrestin2 (Arr2) and rhodopsin is stabilized and the complexes are rapidly internalized into the cell body by receptor-mediated endocytosis. The accumulation of protein complexes in the cytoplasm eventually results in photoreceptor cell death. We now show that the endocytic adapter protein AP-2 is essential for rhodopsin endocytosis through an Arr2-AP-2ß interaction, and mutations in Arr2 that disrupt its interaction with the ß subunit of AP-2 prevent endocytosis-induced retinal degeneration. We further demonstrate that if the interaction between Arr2 and AP-2 is blocked, this also results in retinal degeneration in an otherwise wild-type background. This indicates that the Arr2-AP-2 interaction is necessary for the pathology observed in a number of Drosophila visual system mutants, and suggests that regular rhodopsin turnover in wild-type photoreceptor cells by Arr2-mediated endocytosis is essential for photoreceptor cell maintenance.

Key words: Rhodopsin, Arrestin, Retinitis pigmentosa, Endocytosis, AP-2

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