Abstract：
:The apical plasma membrane domain of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in the eye faces the outer segment portions of rods and cones and the interphotoreceptor matrix in the subretinal space. Two important receptor-mediated interactions between the apical surface of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and adjacent photoreceptors are adhesion ensuring outer segment alignment and diurnal phagocytosis of shed outer segment fragments contributing to outer segment renewal. Both depend on the apical distribution of the integrin family adhesion receptor alphavbeta5 as lack of alphavbeta5 in mice causes weakened retinal adhesion and asynchronous phagocytosis. With age, lack of alphavbeta5 leads to accumulation of harmful lipofuscin in the RPE and to vision loss. Here, we discuss three different possible mechanisms that could generate the exclusive apical distribution of alphavbeta5 integrin receptors in the RPE. (1) alphavbeta5 could be apical in the RPE because RPE attachment to neural retina generally or alphavbeta5 ligands specifically in the subretinal space stabilize apical but not basolateral alphavbeta5 surface receptors. (2) alphavbeta5 could be apical in the RPE because it resides in a complex with other components of the phagocytic machinery that assembles at the apical, phagocytic surface of the RPE. (3) alphavbeta5 could be apical due to mechanisms intrinsic to this receptor protein and specifically to its beta5 integrin subunit.
journal_name
Adv Exp Med Bioljournal_title
Advances in experimental medicine and biologyauthors
Mallavarapu M,Finnemann SCdoi
10.1007/978-1-4419-1399-9_15subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-01-01 00:00:00pages
123-31eissn
0065-2598issn
2214-8019journal_volume
664pub_type
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