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Duan M, Plemel RL, Takenaka T, Lin A, Delgado BM, Nattermann U, Nickerson DP, Mima J, Miller EA, Merz AJ. SNARE chaperone Sly1 directly mediates close-range vesicle tethering. J Cell Biol 2024; 223:e202001032. [PMID: 38478018 PMCID: PMC10943277 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202001032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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The essential Golgi protein Sly1 is a member of the Sec1/mammalian Unc-18 (SM) family of SNARE chaperones. Sly1 was originally identified through remarkable gain-of-function alleles that bypass requirements for diverse vesicle tethering factors. Employing genetic analyses and chemically defined reconstitutions of ER-Golgi fusion, we discovered that a loop conserved among Sly1 family members is not only autoinhibitory but also acts as a positive effector. An amphipathic lipid packing sensor (ALPS)-like helix within the loop directly binds high-curvature membranes. Membrane binding is required for relief of Sly1 autoinhibition and also allows Sly1 to directly tether incoming vesicles to the Qa-SNARE on the target organelle. The SLY1-20 mutation bypasses requirements for diverse tethering factors but loses this ability if the tethering activity is impaired. We propose that long-range tethers, including Golgins and multisubunit tethering complexes, hand off vesicles to Sly1, which then tethers at close range to initiate trans-SNARE complex assembly and fusion in the early secretory pathway.
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- Mengtong Duan
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Department of Biology, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Biophysics, Structure, and Design Graduate Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Tsurutani N, Momose F, Ogawa K, Sano K, Morikawa Y. Intracellular trafficking of HIV-1 Gag via Syntaxin 6-positive compartments/vesicles: Involvement in tumor necrosis factor secretion. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:105687. [PMID: 38280430 PMCID: PMC10891346 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.105687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 01/03/2024] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/29/2024] Open
Abstract
HIV-1 Gag protein is synthesized in the cytosol and is transported to the plasma membrane, where viral particle assembly and budding occur. Endosomes are alternative sites of Gag accumulation. However, the intracellular transport pathways and carriers for Gag have not been clarified. We show here that Syntaxin6 (Syx6), a soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) involved in membrane fusion in post-Golgi networks, is a molecule responsible for Gag trafficking and also for tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) secretion and that Gag and TNFα are cotransported via Syx6-positive compartments/vesicles. Confocal and live-cell imaging revealed that Gag colocalized and cotrafficked with Syx6, a fraction of which localizes in early and recycling endosomes. Syx6 knockdown reduced HIV-1 particle production, with Gag distributed diffusely throughout the cytoplasm. Coimmunoprecipitation and pulldown show that Gag binds to Syx6, but not its SNARE partners or their assembly complexes, suggesting that Gag preferentially binds free Syx6. The Gag matrix domain and the Syx6 SNARE domain are responsible for the interaction and cotrafficking. In immune cells, Syx6 knockdown/knockout similarly impaired HIV-1 production. Interestingly, HIV-1 infection facilitated TNFα secretion, and this enhancement did not occur in Syx6-depleted cells. Confocal and live-cell imaging revealed that TNFα and Gag partially colocalized and were cotransported via Syx6-positive compartments/vesicles. Biochemical analyses indicate that TNFα directly binds the C-terminal domain of Syx6. Altogether, our data provide evidence that both Gag and TNFα make use of Syx6-mediated trafficking machinery and suggest that Gag expression does not inhibit but rather facilitates TNFα secretion in HIV-1 infection.
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- Naomi Tsurutani
- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
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- Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Matos-Perdomo E, Santana-Sosa S, Ayra-Plasencia J, Medina-Suárez S, Machín F. The vacuole shapes the nucleus and the ribosomal DNA loop during mitotic delays. Life Sci Alliance 2022; 5:5/10/e202101161. [PMID: 35961781 PMCID: PMC9375157 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202101161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Chromosome structuring and condensation is one of the main features of mitosis. Here, Matos-Perdomo et al show how the nuclear envelope reshapes around the vacuole to give rise to the outstanding ribosomal DNA loop in budding yeast. The ribosomal DNA (rDNA) array of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has served as a model to address chromosome organization. In cells arrested before anaphase (mid-M), the rDNA acquires a highly structured chromosomal organization referred to as the rDNA loop, whose length can double the cell diameter. Previous works established that complexes such as condensin and cohesin are essential to attain this structure. Here, we report that the rDNA loop adopts distinct presentations that arise as spatial adaptations to changes in the nuclear morphology triggered during mid-M arrests. Interestingly, the formation of the rDNA loop results in the appearance of a space under the loop (SUL) which is devoid of nuclear components yet colocalizes with the vacuole. We show that the rDNA-associated nuclear envelope (NE) often reshapes into a ladle to accommodate the vacuole in the SUL, with the nucleus becoming bilobed and doughnut-shaped. Finally, we demonstrate that the formation of the rDNA loop and the SUL require TORC1, membrane synthesis and functional vacuoles, yet is independent of nucleus–vacuole junctions and rDNA-NE tethering.
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- Emiliano Matos-Perdomo
- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Escuela de Doctorado y Estudios de Postgrado, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain .,Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain.,Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Fernando Pessoa Canarias, Santa María de Guía, Spain
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SNARE proteins: zip codes in vesicle targeting? Biochem J 2022; 479:273-288. [PMID: 35119456 PMCID: PMC8883487 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20210719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2021] [Revised: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells is mediated by transport vesicles that bud from a precursor compartment and are transported to their destination compartment where they dock and fuse. To reach their intracellular destination, transport vesicles contain targeting signals such as Rab GTPases and polyphosphoinositides that are recognized by tethering factors in the cytoplasm and that connect the vesicles with their respective destination compartment. The final step, membrane fusion, is mediated by SNARE proteins. SNAREs are connected to targeting signals and tethering factors by multiple interactions. However, it is still debated whether SNAREs only function downstream of targeting and tethering or whether they also participate in regulating targeting specificity. Here, we review the evidence and discuss recent data supporting a role of SNARE proteins as targeting signals in vesicle traffic.
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Suzuki SW, Emr SD. Membrane protein recycling from the vacuole/lysosome membrane. J Cell Biol 2018; 217:1623-1632. [PMID: 29511122 PMCID: PMC5940307 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201709162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 01/24/2018] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The lysosome (or vacuole in yeast) is the central organelle responsible for cellular degradation and nutrient storage. Lysosomes receive cargo from the secretory, endocytic, and autophagy pathways. Many of these proteins and lipids are delivered to the lysosome membrane, and some are degraded in the lysosome lumen, whereas others appear to be recycled through unknown pathways. In this study, we identify the transmembrane autophagy protein Atg27 as a physiological cargo recycled from the vacuole. We reveal that Atg27 is delivered to the vacuole membrane and then recycled using a two-step recycling process. First, Atg27 is recycled from the vacuole to the endosome via the Snx4 complex and then from the endosome to the Golgi via the retromer complex. During the process of vacuole-to-endosome retrograde trafficking, Snx4 complexes assemble on the vacuolar surface and recognize specific residues in the cytoplasmic tail of Atg27. This novel pathway maintains the normal composition and function of the vacuole membrane.
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- Sho W Suzuki
- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Herman E, Siegesmund MA, Bottery MJ, van Aerle R, Shather MM, Caler E, Dacks JB, van der Giezen M. Membrane Trafficking Modulation during Entamoeba Encystation. Sci Rep 2017; 7:12854. [PMID: 28993644 PMCID: PMC5634486 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12875-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2016] [Accepted: 09/11/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Entamoeba histolytica is an intestinal parasite that infects 50-100 million people and causes up to 55,000 deaths annually. The transmissive form of E. histolytica is the cyst, with a single infected individual passing up to 45 million cysts per day, making cyst production an attractive target for infection control. Lectins and chitin are secreted to form the cyst wall, although little is known about the underlying membrane trafficking processes supporting encystation. As E. histolytica does not readily form cysts in vitro, we assessed membrane trafficking gene expression during encystation in the closely related model Entamoeba invadens. Genes involved in secretion are up-regulated during cyst formation, as are some trans-Golgi network-to-endosome trafficking genes. Furthermore, endocytic and general trafficking genes are up-regulated in the mature cyst, potentially preserved as mRNA in preparation for excystation. Two divergent dynamin-related proteins found in Entamoeba are predominantly expressed during cyst formation. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that they are paralogous to, but quite distinct from, classical dynamins found in human, suggesting that they may be potential drug targets to block encystation. The membrane-trafficking machinery is clearly regulated during encystation, providing an additional facet to understanding this crucial parasitic process.
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- Emily Herman
- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, T6G 2H7, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Biosciences, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, UK
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Barrack Road, The Nothe, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 8UB, UK
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, 9714 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 6701, Rockledge Drive, Room 9144, Bethesda, MD, 20892-7950, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, T6G 2H7, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Gadila SKG, Kim K. Cargo trafficking from the trans-Golgi network towards the endosome. Biol Cell 2016; 108:205-18. [DOI: 10.1111/boc.201600001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2016] [Revised: 03/30/2016] [Accepted: 03/31/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Department of Biology; Missouri State University; Springfield MO 65807 USA
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López-Berges MS, Pinar M, Abenza JF, Arst HN, Peñalva MA. TheAspergillus nidulanssyntaxin PepAPep12is regulated by two Sec1/Munc-18 proteins to mediate fusion events at early endosomes, late endosomes and vacuoles. Mol Microbiol 2015; 99:199-216. [DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- Manuel S. López-Berges
- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC; Ramiro de Maeztu 9 Madrid 28040 Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC; Ramiro de Maeztu 9 Madrid 28040 Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC; Ramiro de Maeztu 9 Madrid 28040 Spain
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC; Ramiro de Maeztu 9 Madrid 28040 Spain
- Section of Microbiology; Flowers Building; Imperial College; London SW7 2AZ UK
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- Departamento de Biología Celular y Molecular; Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC; Ramiro de Maeztu 9 Madrid 28040 Spain
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Jin Y, Weisman LS. The vacuole/lysosome is required for cell-cycle progression. eLife 2015; 4. [PMID: 26322385 PMCID: PMC4586482 DOI: 10.7554/elife.08160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2015] [Accepted: 08/29/2015] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Organelles are distributed to daughter cells, via inheritance pathways. However, it is unclear whether there are mechanisms beyond inheritance, which ensure that organelles are present in all cells. Here we present the unexpected finding that the yeast vacuole plays a positive essential role in initiation of the cell-cycle. When inheritance fails, a new vacuole is generated. We show that this occurs prior to the next cell-cycle, and gain insight into this alternative pathway. Moreover, we find that a combination of a defect in inheritance with an acute block in the vacuole biogenesis results in the loss of a functional vacuole and a specific arrest of cells in early G1 phase. Furthermore, this role for the vacuole in cell-cycle progression requires an intact TORC1-SCH9 pathway that can only signal from a mature vacuole. These mechanisms may serve as a checkpoint for the presence of the vacuole/lysosome. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08160.001 Animals, fungi and other eukaryotes have cells that are divided into sub-compartments that are called organelles. Each type of organelle serves a specific purpose that is essential for the life of the cell. Yeast cells have a large organelle called a vacuole; the inside of the vacuole is acidic and contains enzymes that can break down other molecules. Previous studies have shown that when a budding yeast cell buds to produce a new daughter cell, a process ensures that some of the mother's vacuole is transferred to its daughter. However, yeast mutants that fail to inherit some of their mother's vacuole can still survive. This is because an ‘alternative’ mechanism allows the newly forming daughter to generate its own vacuole from scratch. Jin and Weisman now unexpectedly show that a new daughter cell cannot become a mother cell until its new vacuole is formed. The experiments made use of yeast mutants that were defective in the ‘inheritance’ mechanism, and double mutants that were defective in both the inheritance and alternative mechanisms. The experiments also revealed that a signal from the vacuole is required before the yeast cell's nucleus can start the cycle of events that lead to the cell dividing. Jin and Weisman suggest that this newly identified communication between the vacuole and the nucleus may help to ensure that critical organelles are present in all cells. Though it remains unclear why the yeast vacuole is critical for a cell to divide, these findings suggest that the mammalian lysosome (which is similar to the yeast vacuole) may perform a similar critical role in mammals. If this is the case, then understanding how these organelles communicate with the nucleus may provide new insights into how to prevent the uncontrolled growth of tumors and cancer. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08160.002
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- Yui Jin
- Life Sciences Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Life Sciences Institute, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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Li M, Rong Y, Chuang YS, Peng D, Emr SD. Ubiquitin-dependent lysosomal membrane protein sorting and degradation. Mol Cell 2015; 57:467-78. [PMID: 25620559 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2014] [Revised: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
As an essential organelle in the cell, the lysosome is responsible for digestion and recycling of intracellular components, storage of nutrients, and pH homeostasis. The lysosome is enclosed by a special membrane to maintain its integrity, and nutrients are transported across the membrane by numerous transporters. Despite their importance in maintaining nutrient homeostasis and regulating signaling pathways, little is known about how lysosomal membrane protein lifetimes are regulated. We identified a yeast vacuolar amino acid transporter, Ypq1, that is selectively sorted and degraded in the vacuolar lumen following lysine withdrawal. This selective degradation process requires a vacuole anchored ubiquitin ligase (VAcUL-1) complex composed of Rsp5 and Ssh4. We propose that after ubiquitination, Ypq1 is selectively sorted into an intermediate compartment. The ESCRT machinery is then recruited to sort the ubiquitinated Ypq1 into intraluminal vesicles (ILVs). Finally, the compartment fuses with the vacuole and delivers ILVs into the lumen for degradation.
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- Ming Li
- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA.
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Gossing M, Chidambaram S, Fischer von Mollard G. Importance of the N-terminal domain of the Qb-SNARE Vti1p for different membrane transport steps in the yeast endosomal system. PLoS One 2013; 8:e66304. [PMID: 23776654 PMCID: PMC3680383 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2013] [Accepted: 05/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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SNAREs (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor) on transport vesicles and target membranes are crucial for vesicle targeting and fusion. They form SNARE complexes, which contain four α-helical SNARE motifs contributed by three or four different SNAREs. Most SNAREs function only in a single transport step. The yeast SNARE Vti1p participates in four distinct SNARE complexes in transport from the trans Golgi network to late endosomes, in transport to the vacuole, in retrograde transport from endosomes to the trans Golgi network and in retrograde transport within the Golgi. So far, all vti1 mutants investigated had mutations within the SNARE motif. Little is known about the function of the N-terminal domain of Vti1p, which forms a three helix bundle called Habc domain. Here we generated a temperature-sensitive mutant of this domain to study the effects on different transport steps. The secondary structure of wild type and vti1-3 Habc domain was analyzed by circular dichroism spectroscopy. The amino acid exchanges identified in the temperature-sensitive vti1-3 mutant caused unfolding of the Habc domain. Transport pathways were investigated by immunoprecipitation of newly synthesized proteins after pulse-chase labeling and by fluorescence microscopy of a GFP-tagged protein cycling between plasma membrane, early endosomes and Golgi. In vti1-3 cells transport to the late endosome and assembly of the late endosomal SNARE complex was blocked at 37°C. Retrograde transport to the trans Golgi network was affected while fusion with the vacuole was possible but slower. Steady state levels of SNARE complexes mediating these steps were less affected than that of the late endosomal SNARE complex. As different transport steps were affected our data demonstrate the importance of a folded Vti1p Habc domain for transport.
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- Michael Gossing
- Biochemie III, Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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The phosphoinositide 3-kinase Vps34p is required for pexophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochem J 2011; 434:161-70. [PMID: 21121900 DOI: 10.1042/bj20101115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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PIds (phosphoinositides) are phosphorylated derivatives of the membrane phospholipid PtdIns that have emerged as key regulators of many aspects of cellular physiology. We have discovered a PtdIns3P-synthesizing activity in peroxisomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and have demonstrated that the lipid kinase Vps34p is already associated with peroxisomes during biogenesis. However, although Vps34 is required, it is not essential for optimal peroxisome biogenesis. The function of Vps34p-containing complex I as well as a subset of PtdIns3P-binding proteins proved to be mandatory for the regulated degradation of peroxisomes. This demonstrates that PtdIns3P-mediated signalling is required for pexophagy.
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De Domenico I, Vaughn MB, Paradkar PN, Lo E, Ward DM, Kaplan J. Decoupling ferritin synthesis from free cytosolic iron results in ferritin secretion. Cell Metab 2011; 13:57-67. [PMID: 21195349 PMCID: PMC3035985 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2010.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2010] [Revised: 09/10/2010] [Accepted: 10/13/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Ferritin is a multisubunit protein that is responsible for storing and detoxifying cytosolic iron. Ferritin can be found in serum but is relatively iron poor. Serum ferritin occurs in iron overload disorders, in inflammation, and in the genetic disorder hyperferritinemia with cataracts. We show that ferritin secretion results when cellular ferritin synthesis occurs in the relative absence of free cytosolic iron. In yeast and mammalian cells, newly synthesized ferritin monomers can be translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum and transits through the secretory apparatus. Ferritin chains can be translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum in an in vitro translation and membrane insertion system. The insertion of ferritin monomers into the ER occurs under low-free-iron conditions, as iron will induce the assembly of ferritin. Secretion of ferritin chains provides a mechanism that limits ferritin nanocage assembly and ferritin-mediated iron sequestration in the absence of the translational inhibition of ferritin synthesis.
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- Ivana De Domenico
- Department of Internal Medicine School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132-2501
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Stenmark H. The Sir Hans Krebs Lecture. How a lipid mediates tumour suppression. Delivered on 29 June 2010 at the 35th FEBS Congress in Gothenburg, Sweden. FEBS J 2010; 277:4837-48. [PMID: 20977678 PMCID: PMC3015057 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07900.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Phosphorylated derivatives of the membrane lipid phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns), known as phosphoinositides (PIs), regulate membrane-proximal cellular processes by recruiting specific protein effectors involved in cell signalling, membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamics. Two PIs that are generated through the activities of distinct PI 3-kinases (PI3Ks) are of special interest in cancer research. PtdIns(3,4,5)P₃, generated by class I PI3Ks, functions as tumour promotor by recruiting effectors involved in cell survival, proliferation, growth and motility. Conversely, there is evidence that PtdIns3P, generated by class III PI3K, functions in tumour suppression. Three subunits of the class III PI3K complex (Beclin 1, UVRAG and BIF-1) have been independently identified as tumour suppressors in mice and humans, and their mechanism of action in this context has been proposed to entail activation of autophagy, a catabolic pathway that is considered to mediate tumour suppression by scavenging damaged organelles that would otherwise cause DNA instability through the production of reactive oxygen species. Recent studies have revealed two additional functions of PtdIns3P that might contribute to its tumour suppressor activity. The first involves endosomal sorting and lysosomal downregulation of mitogenic receptors. The second involves regulation of cytokinesis, which is the final stage of cell division. Further elucidation of the mechanisms of tumour suppression mediated by class III PI3K and PtdIns3P will identify novel Achilles' heels of the cell's defence against tumourigenesis and will be useful in the search for prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers in cancer.
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- Harald Stenmark
- Centre for Cancer Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Mottola G, Classen AK, González-Gaitán M, Eaton S, Zerial M. A novel function for the Rab5 effector Rabenosyn-5 in planar cell polarity. Development 2010; 137:2353-64. [DOI: 10.1242/dev.048413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In addition to apicobasal polarization, some epithelia also display polarity within the plane of the epithelium. To what extent polarized endocytosis plays a role in the establishment and maintenance of planar cell polarity (PCP) is at present unclear. Here, we investigated the role of Rabenosyn-5 (Rbsn-5), an evolutionarily conserved effector of the small GTPase Rab5, in the development of Drosophila wing epithelium. We found that Rbsn-5 regulates endocytosis at the apical side of the wing epithelium and, surprisingly, further uncovered a novel function of this protein in PCP. At early stages of pupal wing development, the PCP protein Fmi redistributes between the cortex and Rab5- and Rbsn-5-positive early endosomes. During planar polarization, Rbsn-5 is recruited at the apical cell boundaries and redistributes along the proximodistal axis in an Fmi-dependent manner. At pre-hair formation, Rbsn-5 accumulates at the bottom of emerging hairs. Loss of Rbsn-5 causes intracellular accumulation of Fmi and typical PCP alterations such as defects in cell packing, in the polarized distribution of PCP proteins, and in hair orientation and formation. Our results suggest that establishment of planar polarity requires the activity of Rbsn-5 in regulating both the endocytic trafficking of Fmi at the apical cell boundaries and hair morphology.
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- Giovanna Mottola
- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
- Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via S. Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pfotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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Abenza JF, Galindo A, Pantazopoulou A, Gil C, de los Ríos V, Peñalva MA. Aspergillus RabB Rab5 integrates acquisition of degradative identity with the long distance movement of early endosomes. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 21:2756-69. [PMID: 20534811 PMCID: PMC2912360 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e10-02-0119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Of the two Aspergillus early endosomal Rab5 paralogues, RabB recruits, in its GTP conformation, Vps19, Vps45, and Vps34, and the CORVET complex and couples acquisition of PI(3)P degradative identity with the long-distance movement of early endosomes. RabA also recruits CORVET, albeit less efficiently. The simultaneous loss of RabA and RabB is lethal. Aspergillus nidulans early endosomes display characteristic long-distance bidirectional motility. Simultaneous dual-channel acquisition showed that the two Rab5 paralogues RabB and RabA colocalize in these early endosomes and also in larger, immotile mature endosomes. However, RabB-GTP is the sole recruiter to endosomes of Vps34 PI3K (phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase) and the phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate [PI(3)P] effector AnVps19 and rabBΔ, leading to thermosensitivity prevents multivesicular body sorting of endocytic cargo. Thus, RabB is the sole mediator of degradative endosomal identity. Importantly, rabBΔ, unlike rabAΔ, prevents early endosome movement. As affinity experiments and pulldowns showed that RabB-GTP recruits AnVps45, RabB coordinates PI(3)P-dependent endosome-to-vacuole traffic with incoming traffic from the Golgi and with long-distance endosomal motility. However, the finding that Anvps45Δ, unlike rabBΔ, severely impairs growth indicates that AnVps45 plays RabB-independent functions. Affinity chromatography showed that the CORVET complex is a RabB and, to a lesser extent, a RabA effector, in agreement with GST pulldown assays of AnVps8. rabBΔ leads to smaller vacuoles, suggesting that it impairs homotypic vacuolar fusion, which would agree with the sequential maturation of endosomal CORVET into HOPS proposed for Saccharomyces cerevisiae. rabBΔ and rabAΔ mutations are synthetically lethal, demonstrating that Rab5-mediated establishment of endosomal identity is essential for A. nidulans.
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- Juan F Abenza
- Departamento de Medicina Celular y Molecular, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del CSIC, Madrid 28040, Spain
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Mapping of Vps21 and HOPS binding sites in Vps8 and effect of binding site mutants on endocytic trafficking. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2010; 9:602-10. [PMID: 20173035 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00286-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Vps8 is a subunit of the CORVET tethering complex, which is involved in early-to-late endosome fusion. Here, we examine the role of Vps8 in membrane fusion at late endosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We demonstrate that Vps8 associates with membranes and that this association is independent of the class C/HOPS core complex and, contrary to a previous report, also independent of the Rab GTPase Vps21. Our data indicate that Vps8 makes multiple contacts with membranes. One of these membrane binding regions could be mapped to the N-terminal part of the protein. By two-hybrid analysis, we obtained evidence for a physical interaction between Vps8 and the Rab5 homologue Vps21. In addition, the interaction with the HOPS core complex was confirmed by immunoprecipitation experiments. By deletion analysis, the Vps21 and HOPS binding sites were mapped in Vps8. Deletions that abrogated HOPS core complex binding had a strong effect on the turnover of the endocytic cargo protein Ste6 and on vacuolar sorting of carboxypeptidase Y. In contrast, deletions that abolished Vps21 binding showed only a modest effect. This suggests that the Vps21 interaction is not essential for endosomal trafficking but may be important for some other aspect of Vps8 function.
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Lee JRE, Oestreich AJ, Payne JA, Gunawan MS, Norgan AP, Katzmann DJ. The HECT domain of the ubiquitin ligase Rsp5 contributes to substrate recognition. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:32126-37. [PMID: 19744925 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.048629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Ubiquitin modification of endosomal membrane proteins is a signal for active inclusion into the Multivesicular Body (MVB) pathway, resulting in lysosomal degradation. However, the endosome represents a dynamic site of protein sorting with a majority of proteins destined for recycling, rather than MVB targeting. Substrate recognition by ubiquitin ligases is therefore highly regulated. We have investigated substrate recognition by the Nedd4 ortholog Rsp5 as a model for understanding ligase-substrate interactions. Rsp5 interacts directly with its substrate Cps1 via a novel interaction mode. Perturbation of this mode of interaction revealed a compensatory role for the Rsp5 adaptor Bsd2. These results highlight the ability of Rsp5 to interact with substrates via multiple modalities, suggesting additional mechanisms of regulating this interaction and relevant outcomes.
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- Jacqueline R E Lee
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
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Nickerson DP, Brett CL, Merz AJ. Vps-C complexes: gatekeepers of endolysosomal traffic. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2009; 21:543-51. [PMID: 19577915 PMCID: PMC2807627 DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2009.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 182] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 05/28/2009] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Genetic studies in yeast, plants, insects, and mammals have identified four universally conserved proteins, together called Vps Class C, that are essential for late endosome and lysosome assembly and for numerous endolysosomal trafficking pathways, including the terminal stages of autophagy. Two Vps-C complexes, HOPS and CORVET, incorporate diverse biochemical functions: they tether membranes, stimulate Rab nucleotide exchange, guide SNARE assembly to drive membrane fusion, and possibly act as ubiquitin ligases. Recent studies offer new insight into the complex relationships between Vps-C complexes and their cognate Rab small GTP-binding (G-)proteins at endosomes and lysosomes. Accumulating evidence supports the view that Vps-C complexes implement a regulatory logic that governs endomembrane identity and dynamics.
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- Daniel P. Nickerson
- Department of Biochemistry University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7350, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7350, USA
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Essary BD, Marshall PA. Assessment of FUN-1 vital dye staining: Yeast with a block in the vacuolar sorting pathway have impaired ability to form CIVS when stained with FUN-1 fluorescent dye. J Microbiol Methods 2009; 78:208-12. [PMID: 19501122 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2009] [Revised: 05/26/2009] [Accepted: 05/27/2009] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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FUN-1 [2-chloro-4-(2,3-dihydro-3-methyl-(benzo-1,3-thiazol-2-yl)-methylidene)-1-phenylquinolinium iodide] is a fluorescent dye used in studies of yeast and other fungi to monitor cell viability in the research lab and to assay for active fungal infection in the clinical setting. When the plasma membrane is intact, fungal cells internalize FUN-1 and the dye is seen as diffuse green cytosolic fluorescence. FUN-1 is then transported to the vacuole in metabolically active wild type cells and subsequently is compacted into fluorescent red cylindrical intravacuolar structures (CIVS) by an unknown transport pathway. This dye is used to determine yeast viability, as only live cells form CIVS. However, in live Saccharomyces cerevisiae with impaired protein sorting to the yeast vacuole, we report decreased to no CIVS formation, depending on the cellular location of the block in the sorting pathway. Cells with a block in vesicle-mediated transport from the Golgi to prevacuolar compartment (PVC) or with a block in recycling from the PVC to the Golgi demonstrate a substantial impairment in CIVS formation. Instead, the FUN-1 dye is seen either in small punctate structures under fluorescence or as diffuse red cytosol under white light. Thus, researchers using FUN-1 should be cognizant of the limitations of this procedure in determining cell viability as there are viable yeast mutants with impaired CIVS formation.
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- Brandin D Essary
- Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85069, United States
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Riechers SP, Stahl U, Lang C. Defects in intracellular trafficking and endocytic/vacuolar acidification determine the efficiency of endocytotic DNA uptake in yeast. J Cell Biochem 2009; 106:327-36. [PMID: 19115284 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a standard model system to study endocytosis. Here we describe the examination of a representative subset of deletion mutants to identify and locate steps in endocytic transport, endosomal/lysosomal acidification and in intracellular transport of hydrolases in non-viral transfection processes. When transport in late endocytosis is inhibited, transfection efficiency is significantly enhanced. Similarly, transfection efficiency is enhanced when the pH-value of the endosomal/vacuolar system is modified. Transfection efficiency is furthermore elevated when the N+/K+ transport in the endosomal system is disturbed. Finally, we observe enhanced transfection efficiency in mutants disturbed in the CVT/autophagy pathway and in hydrolase transport to the vacuole. In summary, non-viral transfection efficiency can be significantly increased by either (i) inhibiting the transport of endocytosed material before it enters the vacuole, or (ii) inducing a non-natural pH-value of the endosomal/vacuolar system, or (iii) slowing down degradative processes by inhibiting vacuolar hydrolases or the transport between Golgi and late endosome/vacuole.
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- Sean-Patrick Riechers
- Department of Microbiology and Genetics, Institute for Biotechnology, Technische Universität Berlin, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, D-13355 Berlin, Germany
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Thole JM, Nielsen E. Phosphoinositides in plants: novel functions in membrane trafficking. CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY 2008; 11:620-31. [PMID: 19028349 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2008.10.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2008] [Revised: 09/23/2008] [Accepted: 10/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Tight regulation of membrane trafficking is crucial to the proper maintenance of the endomembrane trafficking system of eukaryotic cells. Distinct organelles must maintain their identities while at the same time continuously accepting, sorting, and exchanging membrane and luminal cargo constituents. Additionally, many of these organelles differentiate specialized subdomains containing distinct sets of lipids and proteins and restrict certain aspects of membrane trafficking to these regions of the organelle. Phosphoinositides (PIs) are a class of membrane lipids that have emerged as key components in some of these membrane trafficking events. The ability of these lipids to be rapidly produced, modified, and hydrolyzed by distinct classes of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) kinases, phosphatases, and phospholipases, allows for their use as finely tuned spatial and temporal landmarks for organelle and sub-organelle domains. In this review we will attempt to highlight some of the recent studies of the roles of this class of lipids in plant membrane trafficking, particularly on their important roles in polarized membrane trafficking in plants.
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- Julie M Thole
- Department of Biology, Washington University, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States
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Disrupting vesicular trafficking at the endosome attenuates transcriptional activation by Gcn4. Mol Cell Biol 2008; 28:6796-818. [PMID: 18794364 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00800-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The late endosome (MVB) plays a key role in coordinating vesicular transport of proteins between the Golgi complex, vacuole/lysosome, and plasma membrane. We found that deleting multiple genes involved in vesicle fusion at the MVB (class C/D vps mutations) impairs transcriptional activation by Gcn4, a global regulator of amino acid biosynthetic genes, by decreasing the ability of chromatin-bound Gcn4 to stimulate preinitiation complex assembly at the promoter. The functions of hybrid activators with Gal4 or VP16 activation domains are diminished in class D mutants as well, suggesting a broader defect in activation. Class E vps mutations, which impair protein sorting at the MVB, also decrease activation by Gcn4, provided they elicit rapid proteolysis of MVB cargo proteins in the aberrant late endosome. By contrast, specifically impairing endocytic trafficking from the plasma membrane, or vesicular transport to the vacuole, has a smaller effect on Gcn4 function. Thus, it appears that decreasing cargo proteins in the MVB through impaired delivery or enhanced degradation, and not merely the failure to transport cargo properly to the vacuole or downregulate plasma membrane proteins by endocytosis, is required to attenuate substantially transcriptional activation by Gcn4.
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Strahl T, Thorner J. Synthesis and function of membrane phosphoinositides in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2007; 1771:353-404. [PMID: 17382260 PMCID: PMC1868553 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2007.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 236] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2006] [Revised: 01/29/2007] [Accepted: 01/30/2007] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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It is now well appreciated that derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) are key regulators of many cellular processes in eukaryotes. Of particular interest are phosphoinositides (mono- and polyphosphorylated adducts to the inositol ring in PtdIns), which are located at the cytoplasmic face of cellular membranes. Phosphoinositides serve both a structural and a signaling role via their recruitment of proteins that contain phosphoinositide-binding domains. Phosphoinositides also have a role as precursors of several types of second messengers for certain intracellular signaling pathways. Realization of the importance of phosphoinositides has brought increased attention to characterization of the enzymes that regulate their synthesis, interconversion, and turnover. Here we review the current state of our knowledge about the properties and regulation of the ATP-dependent lipid kinases responsible for synthesis of phosphoinositides and also the additional temporal and spatial controls exerted by the phosphatases and a phospholipase that act on phosphoinositides in yeast.
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- Thomas Strahl
- Divisions of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Cell & Developmental Biology.Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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- Divisions of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and of Cell & Developmental Biology.Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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Franke K, Nguyen M, Härtl A, Dahse HM, Vogl G, Würzner R, Zipfel PF, Künkel W, Eck R. The vesicle transport protein Vac1p is required for virulence of Candida albicans. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2007; 152:3111-3121. [PMID: 17005990 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29115-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The putative vesicle transport protein Vac1p of the human pathogenic yeast Candida albicans plays an important role in virulence. To determine the cellular functions of Vac1p, a null mutant was generated by sequential disruption of both alleles. The vac1 null mutant strain showed defective endosomal vesicle transport, demonstrating a role of Vac1p in protein transport to the vacuole. Vac1p also contributes to resistance to metal ions, as the null mutant strain was hypersensitive to Cu(2+), Zn(2+) and Ni(2+). In addition, the loss of Vac1p affected several virulence factors of C. albicans. In particular, the vac1 null mutant strain showed defective hyphal growth, even when hyphal formation was induced via different pathways. Furthermore, Vac1p affects chlamydospore formation, adherence to human vaginal epithelial cells, and the secretion of aspartyl proteinases (Saps). Avirulence in a mouse model of systemic infection of the vac1 null mutant strongly suggests that Vac1p of C. albicans is essential for pathogenicity. In summary, the Vac1p protein is required for several cellular pathways, in particular those that control virulence and pathogenicity. Consequently, Vac1p is a novel and interesting target for antifungal drugs.
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- Kathrin Franke
- University of Applied Sciences, Department of Medical Engineering, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology/Hans-Knöll-Institute, Department of Infection Biology, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology/Hans-Knöll-Institute, Department of Infection Biology, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology/Hans-Knöll-Institute, Department of Infection Biology, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Fritz-Pregl-Strasse 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Social Medicine, Fritz-Pregl-Strasse 3, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Leibniz-Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology/Hans-Knöll-Institute, Department of Infection Biology, Beutenbergstrasse 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- University of Applied Sciences, Department of Medical Engineering, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- University of Applied Sciences, Department of Medical Engineering, Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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Gengyo-Ando K, Kuroyanagi H, Kobayashi T, Murate M, Fujimoto K, Okabe S, Mitani S. The SM protein VPS-45 is required for RAB-5-dependent endocytic transport in Caenorhabditis elegans. EMBO Rep 2007; 8:152-7. [PMID: 17235359 PMCID: PMC1796764 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2006] [Revised: 10/17/2006] [Accepted: 11/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Rab5, a small guanosine triphosphatase, is known to regulate the tethering and docking reaction leading to SNARE (soluble NSF attachment protein receptors)-mediated fusion between endosomes. However, it is uncertain how the signal of the activated Rab5 protein is transduced by its downstream effectors during endosome fusion. Here, we show that the Sec1/Munc18 gene vps-45 is essential for not only viability and development but also receptor-mediated and fluid-phase endocytosis pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans. We found that VPS-45 interacts with a Rab5 effector, Rabenosyn-5 (RABS-5), and the mutants of both vps-45 and rabs-5 show similar endocytic phenotypes. In the macrophage-like cells of vps-45 and rabs-5 mutants, aberrantly small endosomes were accumulated, and the endosome fusion stimulated by the mutant RAB-5 (Q78L) is suppressed by these mutations. Our results indicate that VPS-45 is a key molecule that functions downstream from RAB-5, cooperating with RABS-5, to regulate the dynamics of the endocytic system in multicellular organisms.
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- Keiko Gengyo-Ando
- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
- CREST, JST, 4-1-8 Hon-cho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
- CREST, JST, 4-1-8 Hon-cho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Section of Physiological Anatomy, Faculty of Nursing and Social Welfare Sciences, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui 910-1195, Japan
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- Section of Physiological Anatomy, Faculty of Nursing and Social Welfare Sciences, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui 910-1195, Japan
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- Department of Cell Biology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
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- Department of Physiology, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, 8-1 Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8666, Japan
- CREST, JST, 4-1-8 Hon-cho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
- Tel: +81 3 3353 8111 (ext. 22413); Fax: +81 3 5269 7362; E-mail:
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Gabriely G, Kama R, Gerst JE. Involvement of specific COPI subunits in protein sorting from the late endosome to the vacuole in yeast. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:526-40. [PMID: 17101773 PMCID: PMC1800808 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00577-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Although COPI function on the early secretory pathway in eukaryotes is well established, earlier studies also proposed a nonconventional role for this coat complex in endocytosis in mammalian cells. Here we present results that suggest an involvement for specific COPI subunits in the late steps of endosomal protein sorting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. First, we found that carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) was partially missorted to the cell surface in certain mutants of the COPIB subcomplex (COPIb; Sec27, Sec28, and possibly Sec33), which indicates an impairment in endosomal transport. Second, integral membrane proteins destined for the vacuolar lumen (i.e., carboxypeptidase S [CPS1]; Fur4, Ste2, and Ste3) accumulated at an aberrant late endosomal compartment in these mutants. The observed phenotypes for COPIb mutants resemble those of class E vacuolar protein sorting (vps) mutants that are impaired in multivesicular body (MVB) protein sorting and biogenesis. Third, we observed physical interactions and colocalization between COPIb subunits and an MVB-associated protein, Vps27. Together, our findings suggest that certain COPI subunits could have a direct role in vacuolar protein sorting to the MVB compartment.
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- Galina Gabriely
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Multivesicular endosomes or prevacuolar compartments (PVCs) are membrane-bound organelles that play an important role in mediating protein traffic in the secretory and endocytic pathways of eukaryotic cells. PVCs function as an intermediate compartment for sorting proteins from the Golgi apparatus to vacuoles, sending missorted proteins back to the Golgi from the PVC, and receiving proteins from plasma membrane in the endocytic pathway. PVCs have been identified as multivesicular bodies in mammalian cells and yeast and more recently in plant cells. Whereas much is known about PVC-mediated protein trafficking and PVC biogenesis in mammalian cells and yeast, relatively little is known about the molecular mechanism of plant PVCs. In this review, we summarize and discuss our understanding of the plant PVC and compare it with its counterparts in yeast and mammalian cells.
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- Beixin Mo
- Department of Biology and Molecular Biotechnology Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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Parrish WR, Stefan CJ, Emr SD. PtdIns(3)P accumulation in triple lipid-phosphatase-deletion mutants triggers lethal hyperactivation of the Rho1p/Pkc1p cell-integrity MAP kinase pathway. J Cell Sci 2005; 118:5589-601. [PMID: 16306222 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the regulation of phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P] is an essential function shared by the myotubularin-related phosphatase Ymr1p and the synaptojanin-like phosphatases Sjl2p and Sjl3p. The aim of this study was to gain further insight into the mechanisms underlying the toxicity of PtdIns(3)P accumulation in ymr1Δ sjl2Δ sjl3Δ mutant cells. We conducted a genetic screen to isolate genes that, when overexpressed, would rescue the conditional lethality of ymr1Δ sjl2Δ sjl3Δ triple-mutant cells expressing YMR1 from the dextrose-repressible GAL1 promoter. This approach identified 17 genes that promoted growth of the triple mutant on media containing dextrose. Interestingly, the most frequently isolated gene product was a truncated form of PKC1 (Pkc1-T615) that lacked the C-terminal kinase domain. This Pkc1-T615 fragment also rescued the lethality of ymr1ts sjl2Δ sjl3Δ cells at restrictive temperature, and further mapping of the rescuing activity showed that the N-terminal Rho1-GTP-interacting HR1 domains (Pkc1-T242) were sufficient. This indicated that the PKC1 fragments might act by interfering with Rho1-GTP signal propagation. Consistent with this, deletion of the ROM2 gene, which encodes a major Rho1p guanine-nucleotide exchange factor, bypassed the lethal effect of PtdIns(3)P accumulation in ymr1Δ sjl2Δ sjl3Δ triple-mutant cells. Furthermore, cells deficient in phosphoinositide 3-phosphatase (PI 3-phosphatase) activity were defective for Rho1p/Pkc1p pathway regulation, which included an inability of these cells to adapt to heat stress. Taken together, the results of this study indicated that aberrant Rho1p/Pkc1p signaling contributes to the lethal effects of PtdIns(3)P accumulation in cells deficient in PI 3-phosphatase activity.
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- William R Parrish
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California 92093-0668, USA
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Bowers K, Stevens TH. Protein transport from the late Golgi to the vacuole in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2005; 1744:438-54. [PMID: 15913810 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2005.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2005] [Revised: 04/15/2005] [Accepted: 04/19/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The late Golgi compartment is a major protein sorting station in the cell. Secreted proteins, cell surface proteins, and proteins destined for endosomes or lysosomes must be sorted from one another at this compartment and targeted to their correct destinations. The molecular details of protein trafficking pathways from the late Golgi to the endosomal system are becoming increasingly well understood due in part to information obtained by genetic analysis of yeast. It is now clear that proteins identified in yeast have functional homologues (orthologues) in higher organisms. We will review the molecular mechanisms of protein targeting from the late Golgi to endosomes and to the vacuole (the equivalent of the mammalian lysosome) of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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- Katherine Bowers
- Cambridge Institute for Medical Research and Department of Clinical, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK
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Nguyen PH, Hasek J, Kohlwein SD, Romero C, Choi JH, Vancura A. Interaction of Pik1p and Sjl proteins in membrane trafficking. FEMS Yeast Res 2005; 5:363-71. [PMID: 15691741 DOI: 10.1016/j.femsyr.2004.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2004] [Revised: 09/14/2004] [Accepted: 09/17/2004] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) phosphates are involved in signal transduction, cytoskeletal organization, and membrane traffic. PtdIns 4-phosphate [PtdIns(4)P], produced in yeast by PtdIns 4-kinase (Pik1p), appears to regulate Golgi secretory function. PtdIns(4)P is also produced by dephosphorylation of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2], catalyzed by one of the three yeast Sjl proteins, homologs of the mammalian synaptic vesicle-associated PtdIns(4,5)P2 5-phosphatase, synaptojanin. To determine whether Pik1p and Sjl proteins operate in the same pathway or regulate the same process, we used a genetic approach. Mutation in the PIK1 gene displays synthetic genetic interactions with deletions of individual SJL genes. Deletion of SJL3 gene is synthetically lethal with pik1ts, and deletions of SJL1 or SJL2 genes in pik1ts cells exacerbate the temperature sensitivity, neomycin sensitivity, and defect in invertase secretion. A diminished level of PtdIns(4)P and increased level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 in pik1(ts)sjl1delta and pik1(ts)sjl2delta cells, compared with pik1ts cells, indicate that PtdIns(4)P is specifically required for secretion. Collectively, our results suggest that Pik1p and the Sjl proteins coordinately function to regulate the dynamic phosphorylation-dephosphorylation of the polar heads of phosphoinositides, and this process appears to be important for membrane trafficking pathways.
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- Peter H Nguyen
- Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA
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Irwin B, Aye M, Baldi P, Beliakova-Bethell N, Cheng H, Dou Y, Liou W, Sandmeyer S. Retroviruses and yeast retrotransposons use overlapping sets of host genes. Genome Res 2005; 15:641-54. [PMID: 15837808 PMCID: PMC1088292 DOI: 10.1101/gr.3739005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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A collection of 4457 Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants deleted for nonessential genes was screened for mutants with increased or decreased mobilization of the gypsylike retroelement Ty3. Of these, 64 exhibited increased and 66 decreased Ty3 transposition compared with the parental strain. Genes identified in this screen were grouped according to function by using GOnet software developed as part of this study. Gene clusters were related to chromatin and transcript elongation, translation and cytoplasmic RNA processing, vesicular trafficking, nuclear transport, and DNA maintenance. Sixty-six of the mutants were tested for Ty3 proteins and cDNA. Ty3 cDNA and transposition were increased in mutants affected in nuclear pore biogenesis and in a subset of mutants lacking proteins that interact physically or genetically with a replication clamp loader. Our results suggest that nuclear entry is linked mechanistically to Ty3 cDNA synthesis but that host replication factors antagonize Ty3 replication. Some of the factors we identified have been previously shown to affect Ty1 transposition and others to affect retroviral budding. Host factors, such as these, shared by distantly related Ty retroelements and retroviruses are novel candidates for antiviral targets.
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- Becky Irwin
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Abazeed ME, Blanchette JM, Fuller RS. Cell-free transport from the trans-golgi network to late endosome requires factors involved in formation and consumption of clathrin-coated vesicles. J Biol Chem 2004; 280:4442-50. [PMID: 15572353 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m412553200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and late endosome represents a conserved, clathrin-dependent sorting event that separates lysosomal from secretory cargo molecules and is also required for localization of integral membrane proteins to the TGN. Previously, we reported a cell-free reaction that reconstitutes transport from the yeast TGN to the late endosome/prevacuolar compartment (PVC) and requires the PVC t-SNARE Pep12p. Here, we report that factors required both for formation of clathrin-coated vesicles at the TGN (the Chc1p clathrin heavy chain and the Vps1p dynamin homolog) and for vesicle fusion at the PVC (the Vps21p rab protein and Vps45p SM (Sec1/Munc18) protein) are required for cell-free transport. The marker for TGN-PVC transport, Kex2p, is initially present in a clathrin-containing membrane compartment that is competent for delivery of Kex2p to the PVC. A Kex2p chimera containing the cytosolic tail (C-tail) of the vacuolar protein sorting receptor, Vps10p, is also efficiently transported to the PVC. Antibodies against the Kex2p and Vps10p C-tails selectively block transport of Kex2p and the Kex2-Vps10p chimera. The requirements for factors involved in vesicle formation and fusion, the identification of the donor compartment as a clathrin-containing membrane, and the need for accessibility of C-tail sequences argue that the TGN-PVC transport reaction involves selective incorporation of TGN cargo molecules into clathrin-coated vesicle intermediates. Further biochemical dissection of this reaction should help elucidate the molecular requirements and hierarchy of events in TGN-to-PVC sorting and transport.
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- Mohamed E Abazeed
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Blanchette JM, Abazeed ME, Fuller RS. Cell-free reconstitution of transport from the trans-golgi network to the late endosome/prevacuolar compartment. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:48767-73. [PMID: 15364946 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m406368200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Vesicle-mediated transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and the late endosome/prevacuolar compartment (PVC) is an essential step in lysosomal/vacuolar biogenesis. In addition, localization of integral membrane proteins to the TGN requires continual cycles of vesicular transport between the TGN and endosomal compartments. Genetic and biochemical analyses in yeast have identified a variety of proteins required for TGN-to-PVC transport. However, the precise mechanisms of vesicle formation, transport, and fusion have not been fully elucidated. To study the steps of TGN-to-PVC transport in mechanistic detail, we have developed a cell-free assay to monitor delivery of the processing protease Kex2p from the TGN to PVC compartments containing a Kex2p substrate. Transport is time-, temperature-, and ATP-dependent and requires the t-SNARE Pep12p. Moreover, cell-free delivery of Kex2p to the PVC results in the co-integration of Kex2p into PVC membranes containing the Kex2p substrate as determined by co-immunoisolation of Kex2p and the substrate using antibody against the Kex2p cytosolic tail. This work represents the first cell-free reconstitution and biochemical analysis of the essential vacuolar/lysosomal sorting step TGN to late endosome transport.
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- Jennifer M Blanchette
- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Luo J, Vallen EA, Dravis C, Tcheperegine SE, Drees B, Bi E. Identification and functional analysis of the essential and regulatory light chains of the only type II myosin Myo1p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 165:843-55. [PMID: 15210731 PMCID: PMC2172396 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200401040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Cytokinesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae involves coordination between actomyosin ring contraction and septum formation and/or targeted membrane deposition. We show that Mlc1p, a light chain for Myo2p (type V myosin) and Iqg1p (IQGAP), is the essential light chain for Myo1p, the only type II myosin in S. cerevisiae. However, disruption or reduction of Mlc1p–Myo1p interaction by deleting the Mlc1p binding site on Myo1p or by a point mutation in MLC1, mlc1-93, did not cause any obvious defect in cytokinesis. In contrast, a different point mutation, mlc1-11, displayed defects in cytokinesis and in interactions with Myo2p and Iqg1p. These data suggest that the major function of the Mlc1p–Myo1p interaction is not to regulate Myo1p activity but that Mlc1p may interact with Myo1p, Iqg1p, and Myo2p to coordinate actin ring formation and targeted membrane deposition during cytokinesis. We also identify Mlc2p as the regulatory light chain for Myo1p and demonstrate its role in Myo1p ring disassembly, a function likely conserved among eukaryotes.
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- Jianying Luo
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058, USA
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Proteins that make, consume, and bind to phosphoinositides are important for constitutive membrane traffic. Different phosphoinositides are concentrated in different parts of the central vacuolar pathway, with phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate predominate on Golgi, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate predominate at the plasma membrane, phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate the major phosphoinositide on early endosomes, and phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate found on late endocytic organelles. This spatial segregation may be the mechanism by which the direction of membrane traffic is controlled. Phosphoinositides increase the affinity of membranes for peripheral membrane proteins that function for sorting protein cargo or for the docking and fusion of transport vesicles. This implies that constitutive membrane traffic may be regulated by the mechanisms that control the activity of the enzymes that produce and consume phosphoinositides. Although the lipid kinases and phosphatases that function in constitutive membrane traffic are beginning to be identified, their regulation is poorly understood.
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- Michael G Roth
- Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9038, USA.
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Tethering proteins in membrane traffic. REGULATORY MECHANISMS OF INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE TRANSPORT 2004. [DOI: 10.1007/b98495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Whiteheart SW, Matveeva EA. Multiple binding proteins suggest diverse functions for the N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor. J Struct Biol 2004; 146:32-43. [PMID: 15037235 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2003.09.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2003] [Revised: 09/12/2003] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The hexameric ATPase, N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF), is essential to vesicular transport and membrane fusion because it affects the conformations and associations of the soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins. NSF binds SNAREs through adaptors called soluble NSF attachment proteins (alpha- or beta-SNAP) and disassembles SNARE complexes to recycle the monomers. NSF contains three domains, two nucleotide-binding domains (NSF-D1 and -D2) and an amino terminal domain (NSF-N) that is required for SNAP-SNARE complex binding. Mutagenesis studies indicate that a cleft between the two sub-domains of NSF-N is critical for binding. The structural conservation of N domains in NSF, p97/VCP, and VAT suggests that a similar type of binding site could mediate substrate recognition by other AAA proteins. In addition to SNAP-SNARE complexes, NSF also binds other proteins and protein complexes such as AMPA receptor subunits (GluR2), beta2-adrenergic receptor, beta-Arrestin1, GATE-16, LMA1, rabs, and rab-containing complexes. The potential for these interactions indicates a broader role for NSF in the assembly/disassembly cycles of several cellular complexes and suggests that NSF may have specific regulatory effects on the functions of the proteins involved in these complexes. The structural requirements for these interactions and their physiological significance will be discussed.
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- Sidney W Whiteheart
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, KY 40536, USA.
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Subramanian S, Woolford CA, Jones EW. The Sec1/Munc18 protein, Vps33p, functions at the endosome and the vacuole of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:2593-605. [PMID: 15047864 PMCID: PMC420085 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-10-0767] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The Sec1/Munc18 (SM) family of proteins is thought to impart compartmental specificity to vesicle fusion reactions. Here we report characterization of Vps33p, an SM family member previously thought to act exclusively at the vacuolar membrane with the vacuolar syntaxin Vam3p. Vacuolar morphology of vps33Delta cells resembles that of cells lacking both Vam3p and the endosomal syntaxin Pep12p, suggesting that Vps33p may function with these syntaxins at the vacuole and the endosome. Consistent with this, vps33 mutants secrete the Golgi precursor form of the vacuolar hydrolase CPY into the medium. We also demonstrate that Vps33p acts at other steps, for vps33 mutants show severe defects in endocytosis at the late endosome. At the endosome, Vps33p and other class C members exist as a complex with Vps8p, a protein previously known to act in transport between the late Golgi and the endosome. Vps33p also interacts with Pep12p, a known interactor of the SM protein Vps45p. High copy PEP7/VAC1 suppresses vacuolar morphology defects of vps33 mutants. These findings demonstrate that Vps33p functions at multiple trafficking steps and is not limited to action at the vacuolar membrane. This is the first report demonstrating the involvement of a single syntaxin with two SM proteins at the same organelle.
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- Shoba Subramanian
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
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Reggiori F, Wang CW, Nair U, Shintani T, Abeliovich H, Klionsky DJ. Early stages of the secretory pathway, but not endosomes, are required for Cvt vesicle and autophagosome assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 15:2189-204. [PMID: 15004240 PMCID: PMC404015 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e03-07-0479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The Cvt pathway is a biosynthetic transport route for a distinct subset of resident yeast vacuolar hydrolases, whereas macroautophagy is a nonspecific degradative mechanism that allows cell survival during starvation. Yet, these two vacuolar trafficking pathways share a number of identical molecular components and are morphologically very similar. For example, one of the hallmarks of both pathways is the formation of double-membrane cytosolic vesicles that sequester cargo before vacuolar delivery. The origin of the vesicle membrane has been controversial and various lines of evidence have implicated essentially all compartments of the endomembrane system. Despite the analogies between the Cvt pathway and autophagy, earlier work has suggested that the origin of the engulfing vesicle membranes is different; the endoplasmic reticulum is proposed to be required only for autophagy. In contrast, in this study we demonstrate that the endoplasmic reticulum and/or Golgi complex, but not endosomal compartments, play an important role for both yeast transport routes. Along these lines, we demonstrate that Berkeley bodies, a structure generated from the Golgi complex in sec7 cells, are immunolabeled with Atg8, a structural component of autophagosomes. Finally, we also show that none of the yeast t-SNAREs are located at the preautophagosomal structure, the presumed site of double-membrane vesicle formation. Based on our results, we propose two models for Cvt vesicle biogenesis.
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- Fulvio Reggiori
- Life Sciences Institute and Departments of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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Bhakat KK, Izumi T, Yang SH, Hazra TK, Mitra S. Role of acetylated human AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1) in regulation of the parathyroid hormone gene. EMBO J 2004; 22:6299-309. [PMID: 14633989 PMCID: PMC291836 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The human AP-endonuclease (APE1/Ref-1), a multifunctional protein central to repairing abasic sites and single-strand breaks in DNA, also plays a role in transcriptional regulation. Besides activating some transcription factors, APE1 is directly involved in Ca2+-dependent downregulation of parathyroid hormone (PTH) expression by binding to negative calcium response elements (nCaREs) present in the PTH promoter. Here we show that APE1 is acetylated both in vivo and in vitro by the transcriptional co-activator p300 which is activated by Ca2+. Acetylation at Lys6 or Lys7 enhances binding of APE1 to nCaRE. APE1 stably interacts with class I histone deacetylases (HDACs) in vivo. An increase in extracellular calcium enhances the level of acetylated APE1 which acts as a repressor for the PTH promoter. Moreover, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay revealed that acetylation of APE1 enhanced binding of the APE1-HDACs complex to the PTH promoter. These results indicate that acetylation of APE1 plays an important role in this key repair protein's action in transcriptional regulation.
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- Kishor K Bhakat
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science and Department of Human Biological Chemistry and Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-1079, USA
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Andag U, Schmitt HD. Dsl1p, an Essential Component of the Golgi-Endoplasmic Reticulum Retrieval System in Yeast, Uses the Same Sequence Motif to Interact with Different Subunits of the COPI Vesicle Coat. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:51722-34. [PMID: 14504276 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308740200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Dsl1p is required for Golgi-endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retrograde transport in yeast. It interacts with the ER resident protein Tip20p and with delta-COP, a subunit of coatomer, the coat complex of COPI vesicles. To test the significance of these interactions, we mapped the different binding sites and created mutant versions of Dsl1p and delta-COP, which are unable to bind directly to each other. Three domains were identified in Dsl1p: a Tip20p binding region within the N-terminal 200 residues, a highly acidic region in the center of Dsl1p containing crucial tryptophan residues that is required for binding to delta-COP and essential for viability, and an evolutionarily well conserved domain at the C terminus. Most importantly, Dsl1p uses the same central acidic domain to interact not only with delta-COP but also with alpha-COP. Strong interaction with alpha-COP requires the presence of comparable amounts of epsilon-COP or beta' -COP. Thus, the binding characteristics of Dsl1p resemble those of many accessory factors of the clathrin coat. They interact with different layers of the vesicle coat by using tandemly arranged sequence motifs, some of which have dual specificity.
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- Uwe Andag
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, D-37070 Goettingen, Germany
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Dietrich LEP, Boeddinghaus C, LaGrassa TJ, Ungermann C. Control of eukaryotic membrane fusion by N-terminal domains of SNARE proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2003; 1641:111-9. [PMID: 12914952 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4889(03)00094-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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SNARE proteins function at the center of membrane fusion reactions by forming complexes with each other via their coiled-coil domains. Several SNAREs have N-terminal domains (NTDs) that precede the coiled-coil domain and have critical functions in regulating the fusion cascade. This review will highlight recent findings on NTDs of syntaxins, the longin domain of VAMP proteins and SNAP-23/25 homologues in yeast. Biochemical and genetic experiments as well as the resolution of several NMR and crystal structures of SNARE NTDs shed light on their diverse function.
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- Lars E P Dietrich
- Biochemie Zentrum Heidelberg (BZH), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Odorizzi G, Katzmann DJ, Babst M, Audhya A, Emr SD. Bro1 is an endosome-associated protein that functions in the MVB pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Cell Sci 2003; 116:1893-903. [PMID: 12668726 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 179] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Multivesicular bodies are late endosomal compartments containing lumenal vesicles that are formed by inward budding of the limiting endosomal membrane. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, integral membrane proteins are sorted into the lumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies, and this process requires the class E subset of VPS genes. We show that one of the class E VPS genes, BRO1/VPS31, encodes a cytoplasmic protein that associates with endosomal compartments. The dissociation of Bro1 from endosomes requires another class E Vps protein, Vps4, which is an ATPase that also regulates the endosomal dissociation of ESCRT-III, a complex of four class E Vps proteins (Vps2, Vps20, Vps24 and Snf7/Vps32) that oligomerize at the endosomal membrane. We also show that the endosomal association of Bro1 is specifically dependent on one of the ESCRT-III components, Snf7. Our data suggest that the function of Bro1 in the MVB pathway takes place on endosomal membranes and occurs in concert with or downstream of the function of the ESCRT-III complex.
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- Greg Odorizzi
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 347, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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Kweon Y, Rothe A, Conibear E, Stevens TH. Ykt6p is a multifunctional yeast R-SNARE that is required for multiple membrane transport pathways to the vacuole. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:1868-81. [PMID: 12802061 PMCID: PMC165083 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-10-0687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Intracellular membrane fusion requires that membrane-bound soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins on both vesicle and target membranes form a highly specific complex necessary to bring the membranes close in space. Ykt6p is a yeast R-SNARE protein that has been implicated in retrograde transport to the cis-Golgi compartment. Ykt6p has been also been found to fractionate with vacuole membranes and participate in a vacuolar SNARE complex in homotypic vacuole fusion. To investigate the role of Ykt6p in membrane traffic to the vacuole we generated temperature-sensitive mutations in YKT6. One mutation produces an early Golgi block to secretion, and overexpression of the SNARE protein Sft1p suppresses the growth and secretion defects of this mutation. These results are consistent with Ykt6p and Sft1p participating in a SNARE complex associated with retrograde transport to the cis-Golgi. A second set of mutations in YKT6 specifically affects post-Golgi membrane traffic to the vacuole, and the effects of these mutations are not suppressed by Sft1p overexpression. Defects are seen in carboxypeptidase Y sorting, alkaline phosphatase transport, and aminopeptidase I delivery, and in one mutant, overexpression of the SNARE protein Nyv1p suppresses the alkaline phosphatase transport defect. By mutationally separating early and late requirements for Ykt6p, our findings have revealed that Ykt6p is a R-SNARE protein that functions directly in the three biosynthetic pathways to the vacuole.
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- Youngseok Kweon
- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403-1229, USA
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Reggiori F, Wang CW, Stromhaug PE, Shintani T, Klionsky DJ. Vps51 is part of the yeast Vps fifty-three tethering complex essential for retrograde traffic from the early endosome and Cvt vesicle completion. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:5009-20. [PMID: 12446664 PMCID: PMC1705970 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m210436200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Autophagy, pexophagy, and the Cvt pathway are processes that deliver hydrolytic enzymes and substrates to the yeast vacuole/lysosome via double-membrane cytosolic vesicles. Whereas these pathways operate under different nutritional conditions, they all employ common machinery with only a few specific factors assisting in the choice of the delivery program and the membrane source for the sequestering vesicle. We found that the YKR020w gene product is essential for Cvt vesicle formation but not for pexophagy or induction of autophagy. Autophagosomes in the ykr020wdelta mutant, however, have a reduced size. We demonstrate that Ykr020 is a subunit of the Vps fifty-three tethering complex, composed of Vps52, Vps53, and Vps54, which is required for retrograde traffic from the early endosome back to the late Golgi, and for this reason we named it Vps51. This complex participates in a fusion event together with Tlg1 and Tlg2, two SNAREs also shown to be necessary for Cvt vesicle assembly. In particular, those factors are essential to correctly target the prApe1-Cvt19-Cvt9 complex to the preautophagosomal structure, the site of Cvt vesicle formation.
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- Fulvio Reggiori
- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048, USA
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Deloche O, Schekman RW. Vps10p cycles between the TGN and the late endosome via the plasma membrane in clathrin mutants. Mol Biol Cell 2002; 13:4296-307. [PMID: 12475953 PMCID: PMC138634 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.02-07-0105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2002] [Revised: 09/06/2002] [Accepted: 09/20/2002] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Clathrin-coated vesicles mediate the transport of the soluble vacuolar protein CPY from the TGN to the endosomal/prevacuolar compartment. Surprisingly, CPY sorting is not affected in clathrin deletion mutant cells. Here, we have investigated the clathrin-independent pathway that allows CPY transport to the vacuole. We find that CPY transport is mediated by the endosome and requires normal trafficking of its sorting receptor, Vps10p, the steady state distribution of which is not altered in chc1 cells. In contrast, Vps10p accumulates at the cell surface in a chc1/end3 double mutant, suggesting that Vps10p is rerouted to the cell surface in the absence of clathrin. We used a chimeric protein containing the first 50 amino acids of CPY fused to a green fluorescent protein (CPY-GFP) to mimic CPY transport in chc1. In the absence of clathrin, CPY-GFP resides in the lumen of the vacuole as in wild-type cells. However, in chc1/sec6 double mutants, CPY-GFP is present in internal structures, possibly endosomal membranes, that do not colocalize with the vacuole. We propose that Vps10p must be transported to and retrieved from the plasma membrane to mediate CPY sorting to the vacuole in the absence of clathrin-coated vesicles. In this circumstance, precursor CPY may be captured by retrieved Vps10p in an early or late endosome, rather than as it normally is in the trans-Golgi, and delivered to the vacuole by the normal VPS gene-dependent process. Once relieved of cargo protein, Vps10p would be recycled to the trans-Golgi and then to the cell surface for further rounds of sorting.
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- Olivier Deloche
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3206, USA
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Wurmser AE, Emr SD. Novel PtdIns(3)P-binding protein Etf1 functions as an effector of the Vps34 PtdIns 3-kinase in autophagy. J Cell Biol 2002; 158:761-72. [PMID: 12186856 PMCID: PMC2174002 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200112050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Autophagy is the process whereby cytoplasmic cargo (e.g., protein and organelles) are sequestered within a double membrane-enclosed transport vesicle and degraded after vesicle fusion with the vacuole/lysosome. Current evidence suggests that the Vps34 phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase is essential for macroautophagy, a starvation-induced autophagy pathway (Kihara et al., 2001). Here, we characterize a requirement for Vps34 in constitutive autophagy by the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway. First, we show that transient disruption of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) 3-phosphate (PtdIns[3]P) synthesis through inactivation of temperature-sensitive Vps34 or its upstream activator, Vps15, blocks the Cvt and macroautophagy pathways. Yet, PtdIns(3)P-binding FYVE domain-containing proteins, which mediate carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) transport to the vacuole by the CPY pathway, do not account for the requirement of Vps34 in autophagy. Using a genetic selection designed to isolate PtdIns(3)P-binding effectors of Vps34, we identify Etf1, an uncharacterized type II transmembrane protein. Although Etf1 does not contain a known 3-phosphoinositide-binding domain (i.e., FYVE or Phox), we find that Etf1 interacts with PtdIns(3)P and that this interaction requires a basic amino acid motif (KKPAKK) within the cytosolic region of the protein. Moreover, deletion of ETF1 or mutation of the KKPAKK motif results in strong sorting defects in the Cvt pathway but not in macroautophagy or in CPY sorting. We propose that Vps34 regulates the CPY, Cvt, and macroautophagy pathways through distinct sets of PtdIns(3)P-binding effectors and that Vps34 promotes protein trafficking in the Cvt pathway through activation/localization of the effector protein Etf1.
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- Andrew E Wurmser
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego School of Medicine, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Augsten M, Hübner C, Nguyen M, Künkel W, Härtl A, Eck R. Defective Hyphal induction of a Candida albicans phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate 5-kinase null mutant on solid media does not lead to decreased virulence. Infect Immun 2002; 70:4462-70. [PMID: 12117957 PMCID: PMC128189 DOI: 10.1128/iai.70.8.4462-4470.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2001] [Revised: 11/27/2001] [Accepted: 04/25/2002] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PI(3)P] 5-kinase gene (CaFAB1) of the most important human pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans, was cloned and sequenced. An open reading frame was detected which encodes a 2,369-amino-acid protein with a calculated molecular mass of 268 kDa and a relative isoelectric point of 6.76. This protein exhibits 38% overall amino acid sequence identity with Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fab1p. We localized the CaFAB1 gene on chromosome R. To determine the influence of the PI(3)P 5-kinase CaFab1p on processes involved in C. albicans morphogenesis and pathogenicity, we sequentially disrupted both copies of the gene. Homozygous deletion of C. albicans CaFAB1 resulted in a mutant strain which exhibited defects in morphogenesis. A Cafab1 null mutant had enlarged vacuoles, an acidification defect, and increased generation times and was unable to form hyphae on different solid media. The sensitivities to hyperosmotic and high-temperature stresses, adherence, and virulence compared to those of wild-type strain SC5314 were not affected.
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- Martin Augsten
- Department of Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute for Natural Products Research, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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Desmoucelles C, Pinson B, Saint-Marc C, Daignan-Fornier B. Screening the yeast "disruptome" for mutants affecting resistance to the immunosuppressive drug, mycophenolic acid. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:27036-44. [PMID: 12016207 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111433200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The immunosuppressive drug mycophenolic acid (MPA) is a potent and specific inhibitor of IMP dehydrogenase, the first committed step of GMP synthesis. A screen for yeast genes affecting MPA sensitivity, when overexpressed, allowed us to identify two genes, IMD2 and TPO1, encoding a homologue of IMP dehydrogenase and a vacuolar pump, respectively. In parallel, 4787 yeast strains, each carrying an identified knock-out mutation, were tested for growth in the presence of MPA, allowing identification of 100 new genes affecting MPA resistance when disrupted. Disturbance of several cellular processes, such as ergosterol biosynthesis, vacuole biogenesis, or glycosylation impaired the natural capacity of yeast to resist MPA, although most of the highly sensitive mutants affected the transcription machinery (19 mutants). Expression of TPO1 and/or IMD2 was strongly affected in 16 such transcription mutants suggesting that low expression of these genes could contribute to MPA sensitivity. Interestingly, the spt3, spt8, and spt20 mutants behaved differently than other Spt-Ada-Gcn5-acetyltransferase (SAGA) mutants. Indeed, in these three mutants, as in previously characterized transcription elongation mutants, IMD2 expression was only affected in the presence of MPA, thus suggesting a possible role for some SAGA subunits in transcription elongation.
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- Christine Desmoucelles
- Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, CNRS UMR 5095, 1 rue Camille Saint-Saens, 33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France
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