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Structural Basis for Cholesterol Transport-like Activity of the Hedgehog Receptor Patched.

Cell | 2018

Hedgehog protein signals mediate tissue patterning and maintenance by binding to and inactivating their common receptor Patched, a 12-transmembrane protein that otherwise would suppress the activity of the 7-transmembrane protein Smoothened. Loss of Patched function, the most common cause of basal cell carcinoma, permits unregulated activation of Smoothened and of the Hedgehog pathway. A cryo-EM structure of the Patched protein reveals striking transmembrane domain similarities to prokaryotic RND transporters. A central hydrophobic conduit with cholesterol-like contents courses through the extracellular domain and resembles that used by other RND proteins to transport substrates, suggesting Patched activity in cholesterol transport. Cholesterol activity in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane is reduced by PTCH1 expression but rapidly restored by Hedgehog stimulation, suggesting that PTCH1 regulates Smoothened by controlling cholesterol availability.

Pubmed ID: 30415841 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD021741
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: P41 GM103311
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: T32 GM008284
  • Agency: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States
  • Agency: NIH HHS, United States
    Id: S10 OD020054
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM129325
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R35 GM122530
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM102498
  • Agency: NIGMS NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 GM098672

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