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Lamb CA, McCann RK, Stöckli J, James DE, Bryant NJ. Insulin-regulated trafficking of GLUT4 requires ubiquitination. Traffic 2010; 11:1445-54. [PMID: 20854370 PMCID: PMC3152195 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2010.01113.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A major consequence of insulin binding its receptor on fat and muscle cells is translocation of the facilitative glucose transporter GLUT4 from an intracellular store to the cell surface where it serves to clear glucose from the bloodstream. Sorting of GLUT4 into its insulin-sensitive store requires the GGA [Golgi-localized, γ-ear-containing, ADP ribosylation factor (ARF)-binding] adaptor proteins, but the signal on GLUT4 to direct this sorting step is unknown. Here, we have identified a role for ubiquitination of GLUT4 in this process. We demonstrate that GLUT4 is ubiquitinated in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, and that a ubiquitin-resistant version fails to translocate to the cell surface of these cells in response to insulin. Our data support a model in which ubiquitination acts as a signal for the trafficking of GLUT4 from the endosomal/trans-Golgi network (TGN) system into its intracellular storage compartment, from where it is mobilized to the cell surface in response to insulin.
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- Christopher A Lamb
- Henry Wellcome Laboratory of Cell Biology, Institute of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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Zhou R, Kabra R, Olson DR, Piper RC, Snyder PM. Hrs controls sorting of the epithelial Na+ channel between endosomal degradation and recycling pathways. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:30523-30. [PMID: 20675381 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.150755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Epithelial Na(+) absorption is regulated by Nedd4-2, an E3 ubiquitin ligase that reduces expression of the epithelial Na(+) channel (ENaC) at the cell surface. Defects in this regulation cause Liddle syndrome, an inherited form of hypertension. Previous work found that Nedd4-2 functions through two distinct effects on trafficking, enhancing both ENaC endocytosis and ENaC degradation in lysosomes. To investigate the mechanism by which Nedd4-2 targets ENaC to lysosomes, we tested the role of hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (Hrs), a component of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT)-0 complex. We found that α-, β-, and γENaC each interact with Hrs. These interactions were enhanced by Nedd4-2 and were dependent on the catalytic function of Nedd4-2 as well as its WW domains. Mutation of ENaC PY motifs, responsible for inherited hypertension (Liddle syndrome), decreased Hrs binding to ENaC. Moreover, binding of ENaC to Hrs was reduced by dexamethasone/serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase and cAMP, which are signaling pathways that inhibit Nedd4-2. Nedd4-2 bound to Hrs and catalyzed Hrs ubiquitination but did not alter Hrs protein levels. Expression of a dominant negative Hrs lacking its ubiquitin-interacting motif (Hrs-ΔUIM) increased ENaC surface expression and current. This occurred through reduced degradation of the cell surface pool of proteolytically activated ENaC, which enhanced its recycling to the cell surface. In contrast, Hrs-ΔUIM had no effect on degradation of uncleaved inactive channels. The data support a model in which Nedd4-2 induces binding of ENaC to Hrs, which mediates the sorting decision between ENaC degradation and recycling.
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- Ruifeng Zhou
- Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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The ESCRT machinery consists of the peripheral membrane protein complexes ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III, and Vps4-Vta1, and the ALIX homodimer. The ESCRT system is required for degradation of unneeded or dangerous plasma membrane proteins; biogenesis of the lysosome and the yeast vacuole; the budding of most membrane enveloped viruses; the membrane abscission step in cytokinesis; macroautophagy; and several other processes. From their initial discovery in 2001-2002, the literature on ESCRTs has grown exponentially. This review will describe the structure and function of the six complexes noted above and summarize current knowledge of their mechanistic roles in cellular pathways and in disease.
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- James H Hurley
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
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Markgraf DF, Ahnert F, Arlt H, Mari M, Peplowska K, Epp N, Griffith J, Reggiori F, Ungermann C. The CORVET subunit Vps8 cooperates with the Rab5 homolog Vps21 to induce clustering of late endosomal compartments. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 20:5276-89. [PMID: 19828734 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e09-06-0521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Membrane tethering, the process of mediating the first contact between membranes destined for fusion, requires specialized multisubunit protein complexes and Rab GTPases. In the yeast endolysosomal system, the hexameric HOPS tethering complex cooperates with the Rab7 homolog Ypt7 to promote homotypic fusion at the vacuole, whereas the recently identified homologous CORVET complex acts at the level of late endosomes. Here, we have further functionally characterized the CORVET-specific subunit Vps8 and its relationship to the remaining subunits using an in vivo approach that allows the monitoring of late endosome biogenesis. In particular, our results indicate that Vps8 interacts and cooperates with the activated Rab5 homolog Vps21 to induce the clustering of late endosomal membranes, indicating that Vps8 is the effector subunit of the CORVET complex. This clustering, however, requires Vps3, Vps16, and Vps33 but not the remaining CORVET subunits. These data thus suggest that the CORVET complex is built of subunits with distinct activities and potentially, their sequential assembly could regulate tethering and successive fusion at the late endosomes.
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- Daniel F Markgraf
- University of Osnabrück, Department of Biology, Biochemistry Section, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany
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Sun W, Vida TA, Sirisaengtaksin N, Merrill SA, Hanson PI, Bean AJ. Cell-free reconstitution of multivesicular body formation and receptor sorting. Traffic 2010; 11:867-76. [PMID: 20214752 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2010.01053.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The number of surface membrane proteins and their residence time on the plasma membrane are critical determinants of cellular responses to cues that can control plasticity, growth and differentiation. After internalization, the ultimate fate of many plasma membrane proteins is dependent on whether they are sorted for internalization into the lumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies (MVBs), an obligate step prior to lysosomal degradation. To help to elucidate the mechanisms underlying MVB sorting, we have developed a novel cell-free assay that reconstitutes the sorting of a prototypical membrane protein, the epidermal growth factor receptor, with which we have probed some of its molecular requirements. The sorting event measured is dependent on cytosol, ATP, time, temperature and an intact proton gradient. Depletion of Hrs inhibited biochemical and morphological measures of sorting that were rescued by inclusion of recombinant Hrs in the assay. Moreover, depletion of signal-transducing adaptor molecule (STAM), or addition of mutated ATPase-deficient Vps4, also inhibited sorting. This assay reconstitutes the maturation of late endosomes, including the formation of internal vesicles and the sorting of a membrane protein, and allows biochemical investigation of this process.
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- Wei Sun
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA
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Ren X, Hurley JH. VHS domains of ESCRT-0 cooperate in high-avidity binding to polyubiquitinated cargo. EMBO J 2010; 29:1045-54. [PMID: 20150893 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2010.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2009] [Accepted: 01/15/2010] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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VHS (Vps27, Hrs, and STAM) domains occur in ESCRT-0 subunits Hrs and STAM, GGA adapters, and other trafficking proteins. The structure of the STAM VHS domain-ubiquitin complex was solved at 2.6 A resolution, revealing that determinants for ubiquitin recognition are conserved in nearly all VHS domains. VHS domains from all classes of VHS-domain containing proteins in yeast and humans, including both subunits of ESCRT-0, bound ubiquitin in vitro. ESCRTs have been implicated in the sorting of Lys63-linked polyubiquitinated cargo. Intact human ESCRT-0 binds Lys63-linked tetraubiquitin 50-fold more tightly than monoubiquitin, though only 2-fold more tightly than Lys48-linked tetraubiquitin. The gain in affinity is attributed to the cooperation of flexibly connected VHS and UIM motifs of ESCRT-0 in avid binding to the polyubiquitin chain. Mutational analysis of all the five ubiquitin-binding sites in yeast ESCRT-0 shows that cooperation between them is required for the sorting of the Lys63-linked polyubiquitinated cargo Cps1 to the vacuole.
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- Xuefeng Ren
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Nickerson DP, West M, Henry R, Odorizzi G. Regulators of Vps4 ATPase activity at endosomes differentially influence the size and rate of formation of intralumenal vesicles. Mol Biol Cell 2010; 21:1023-32. [PMID: 20089837 PMCID: PMC2836955 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e09-09-0776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Disassembly of ESCRT-III requires Vps4 ATPase activity under the control of regulatory proteins. Described here are distinct spatiotemporal functions for Vps4 regulators, with Did2 playing a unique role in regulating MVB lumenal vesicle size and Vtal-Vps60 promoting efficient membrane scission and delivery of vesicles into the endosome lumen. Recruitment of endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) to the cytosolic face of endosomes regulates selective inclusion of transmembrane proteins into the lumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies (MVBs). ESCRT-0, -I, and -II bind directly to ubiquitinated transmembrane cargoes of the MVB pathway, whereas polymerization of ESCRT-III at endosomes is thought to bend the membrane and/or provide the energetic force that drives membrane scission and detachment of vesicles into the endosome lumen. Disassembly of the ESCRT-III polymer and dissociation of its subunits from endosomes requires the Vps4 ATPase, the activity of which is controlled in vivo by regulatory proteins. We identify distinct spatiotemporal roles for Vps4-regulating proteins through examinations of subcellular localization and endosome morphology. Did2 plays a unique role in the regulation of MVB lumenal vesicle size, whereas Vtal and Vps60 promote efficient membrane scission and delivery of membrane to the endosome lumen. These morphological effects probably result from Vps4-mediated manipulations of ESCRT-III, because we show dissociation of ESCRT-0, -I, and -II from endosomes is not directly dependent on Vps4 activity.
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- Daniel P Nickerson
- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0347, USA
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Sgourakis NG, Patel MM, Garcia AE, Makhatadze GI, McCallum SA. Conformational dynamics and structural plasticity play critical roles in the ubiquitin recognition of a UIM domain. J Mol Biol 2010; 396:1128-44. [PMID: 20053359 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.12.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2009] [Revised: 12/03/2009] [Accepted: 12/24/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ubiquitin-interacting motifs (UIMs) are an important class of protein domains that interact with ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins. These approximately 20-residue-long domains are found in a variety of ubiquitin receptor proteins and serve as recognition modules towards intracellular targets, which may be individual ubiquitin subunits or polyubiquitin chains attached to a variety of proteins. Previous structural studies of interactions between UIMs and ubiquitin have shown that UIMs adopt an extended structure of a single alpha-helix, containing a hydrophobic surface with a conserved sequence pattern that interacts with key hydrophobic residues on ubiquitin. In light of this large body of structural studies, details regarding the presence and the roles of structural dynamics and plasticity are surprisingly lacking. In order to better understand the structural basis of ubiquitin-UIM recognition, we have characterized changes in the structure and dynamics of ubiquitin upon binding of a UIM domain from the yeast Vps27 protein. The solution structure of a ubiquitin-UIM fusion protein designed to study these interactions is reported here and found to consist of a well-defined ubiquitin core and a bipartite UIM helix. Moreover, we have studied the plasticity of the docking interface, as well as global changes in ubiquitin due to UIM binding at the picoseconds-to-nanoseconds and microseconds-to-milliseconds protein motions by nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation. Changes in generalized-order parameters of amide groups show a distinct trend towards increased structural rigidity at the UIM-ubiquitin interface relative to values determined in unbound ubiquitin. Analysis of (15)N Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill relaxation dispersion measurements suggests the presence of two types of motions: one directly related to the UIM-binding interface and the other induced to distal parts of the protein. This study demonstrates a case where localized interactions among protein domains have global effects on protein motions at timescales ranging from picoseconds to milliseconds.
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- Nikolaos G Sgourakis
- Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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He J, Vora M, Haney RM, Filonov GS, Musselman CA, Burd CG, Kutateladze AG, Verkhusha VV, Stahelin RV, Kutateladze TG. Membrane insertion of the FYVE domain is modulated by pH. Proteins 2009; 76:852-60. [PMID: 19296456 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The FYVE domain associates with phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P] in membranes of early endosomes and penetrates bilayers. Here, we detail principles of membrane anchoring and show that the FYVE domain insertion into PtdIns(3)P-enriched membranes and membrane-mimetics is substantially increased in acidic conditions. The EEA1 FYVE domain binds to POPC/POPE/PtdIns(3)P vesicles with a Kd of 49 nM at pH 6.0, however associates approximately 24 fold weaker at pH 8.0. The decrease in the affinity is primarily due to much faster dissociation of the protein from the bilayers in basic media. Lowering the pH enhances the interaction of the Hrs, RUFY1, Vps27p and WDFY1 FYVE domains with PtdIns(3)P-containing membranes in vitro and in vivo, indicating that pH-dependency is a general function of the FYVE finger family. The PtdIns(3)P binding and membrane insertion of the FYVE domain is modulated by the two adjacent His residues of the R(R/K)HHCRXCG signature motif. Mutation of either His residue abolishes the pH-sensitivity. Both protonation of the His residues and nonspecific electrostatic contacts stabilize the FYVE domain in the lipid-bound form, promoting its penetration and increasing the membrane residence time.
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- Ju He
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
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Hoffman-Sommer M, Kucharczyk R, Piekarska I, Kozlowska E, Rytka J. Mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae vacuolar fusion proteins Ccz1, Mon1 and Ypt7 cause defects in cell cycle progression in a num1Δ background. Eur J Cell Biol 2009; 88:639-52. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2009.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2009] [Revised: 06/29/2009] [Accepted: 07/03/2009] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Omelyanchuk LV, Pertseva JA, Burns SS, Chang LS. Evolution and origin of HRS, a protein interacting with Merlin, the Neurofibromatosis 2 gene product. GENE REGULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2009; 3:143-57. [PMID: 20054405 PMCID: PMC2796970 DOI: 10.4137/grsb.s3106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hepatocyte growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase substrate (HRS) is an endosomal protein required for trafficking receptor tyrosine kinases from the early endosome to the lysosome. HRS interacts with Merlin, the Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) gene product, and this interaction may be important for Merlin’s tumor suppressor activity. Understanding the evolution, origin, and structure of HRS may provide new insight into Merlin function. We show that HRS homologs are present across a wide range of Metazoa with the yeast Vps27 protein as their most distant ancestor. The phylogenetic tree of the HRS family coincides with species evolution and divergence, suggesting a unique function for HRS. Sequence alignment shows that various protein domains of HRS, including the VHS domain, the FYVE domain, the UIM domain, and the clathrin-binding domain, are conserved from yeast to multicellular organisms. The evolutionary transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms was accompanied by the appearance of a binding site for Merlin, which emerges in the early Metazoa after its separation from flatworms. In addition to the region responsible for growth suppression, the Merlin-binding and STAM-binding domains of HRS are conserved among multicellular organisms. The residue equivalent to tyrosine-377, which is phosphorylated in the human HRS protein, is highly conserved throughout the HRS family. Three additional conserved boxes lacking assigned functions are found in the HRS proteins of Metazoa. While boxes 1 and 3 may constitute the Eps-15-and Snx1-binding sites, respectively, box 2, containing the residue equivalent to tyrosine-377, is likely to be important for HRS phosphorylation. While several functional domains are conserved throughout the HRS family, the STAM-binding, Merlin-binding, and growth suppression domains evolved in the early Metazoa around the time the Merlin protein emerged. As these domains appear during the transition to multicellularity, their functional roles may be related to cell-cell interaction.
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- Leonid V Omelyanchuk
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 10 Lavrent'ev Ave., 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia.
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Genetic studies have identified a number of proteins required for the internalization of biosynthetic and endocytic cargo proteins transported to the multivesicular body (MVB). We have developed a cell-free reaction that recapitulates the internalization of a yeast biosynthetic membrane cargo protein, carboxypeptidase S (CPS), into the interior of an endosome. A recombinant form of CPS containing a biotinylation site from an Escherichia coli protein is accumulated in a vps27 yeast mutant blocked in the MVB internalization event. Endosomes isolated from the vps27 mutant are exposed to E. coli biotin ligase, which acts on only those CPS molecules with a cytosol-exposed N-terminal domain. Internalization of biotin-tagged CPS is measured by the detection of trypsin-inaccessible, membrane-protected species. Biotinylated CPS internalization requires ATP and functional forms of Vps27p and Vps4p and depends on the availability of an exposed lysine residue critical for CPS ubiquitylation.
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The Nedd4-type Rsp5p ubiquitin ligase inhibits tombusvirus replication by regulating degradation of the p92 replication protein and decreasing the activity of the tombusvirus replicase. J Virol 2009; 83:11751-64. [PMID: 19759160 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00789-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recent in vitro proteomics screens revealed that many host proteins could interact with the replication proteins of Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), which is a small, plus-stranded RNA virus (Z. Li, D. Barajas, T. Panavas, D. A. Herbst, and P. D. Nagy, J. Virol. 82:6911-6926, 2008). To further our understanding of the roles of host factors in TBSV replication, we have tested the effect of Rsp5p, which is a member of the Nedd4 family of E3 ubiquitin ligases. The full-length Rsp5p, via its WW domain, is shown to interact with p33 and the central portion of p92(pol) replication proteins. We find that overexpression of Rsp5p inhibits TBSV replication in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, while downregulation of Rsp5p leads to increased TBSV accumulation. The inhibition is caused by Rsp5p-guided degradation of p92(pol), while the negative effect on the p33 level is less pronounced. Interestingly, recombinant Rsp5p also inhibits TBSV RNA replication in a cell-free replication assay, likely due to its ability to bind to p33 and p92(pol). We show that the WW domain of Rsp5p, which is involved in protein interactions, is responsible for inhibition of TBSV replication, whereas the HECT domain, involved in protein ubiquitination, is not necessary for Rsp5p-mediated inhibition of viral replication. Overall, our data suggest that direct binding between Rsp5p and p92(pol) reduces the stability of p92(pol), with consequent inhibition of TBSV replicase activity.
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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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Kucharczyk RÃ, Hoffman-Sommer M, Piekarska I, von Mollard GF, Rytka J. TheSaccharomyces cerevisiaeprotein Ccz1p interacts with components of the endosomal fusion machinery. FEMS Yeast Res 2009; 9:565-73. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2009.00515.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Jensen LT, Carroll MC, Hall MD, Harvey CJ, Beese SE, Culotta VC. Down-regulation of a manganese transporter in the face of metal toxicity. Mol Biol Cell 2009; 20:2810-9. [PMID: 19369420 PMCID: PMC2695789 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e08-10-1084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2008] [Revised: 03/24/2009] [Accepted: 04/08/2009] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The yeast Smf1p Nramp manganese transporter is posttranslationally regulated by environmental manganese. Smf1p is stabilized at the cell surface with manganese starvation, but is largely degraded in the vacuole with physiological manganese through a mechanism involving the Rsp5p adaptor complex Bsd2p/Tre1p/Tre2p. We now describe an additional level of Smf1p regulation that occurs with toxicity from manganese, but not other essential metals. This regulation is largely Smf1p-specific. As with physiological manganese, toxic manganese triggers vacuolar degradation of Smf1p by trafficking through the multivesicular body. However, regulation by toxic manganese does not involve Bsd2p/Tre1p/Tre2p. Toxic manganese triggers both endocytosis of cell surface Smf1p and vacuolar targeting of intracellular Smf1p through the exocytic pathway. Notably, the kinetics of vacuolar targeting for Smf1p are relatively slow with toxic manganese and require prolonged exposures to the metal. Down-regulation of Smf1p by toxic manganese does not require transport activity of Smf1p, whereas such transport activity is needed for Smf1p regulation by manganese starvation. Furthermore, the responses to manganese starvation and manganese toxicity involve separate cellular compartments. We provide evidence that manganese starvation is sensed within the lumen of the secretory pathway, whereas manganese toxicity is sensed within an extra-Golgi/cytosolic compartment of the cell.
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- Laran T Jensen
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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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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Dual sorting of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae vacuolar protein Sna4p. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2009; 8:278-86. [PMID: 19168755 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00363-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sna4p, a vacuolar membrane protein, belongs to a small family of proteins conserved in plants and fungi. It is transported to the vacuolar membrane via the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) pathway, which bypasses the multivesicular bodies (MVBs). Here, we show that transfer of Sna4p by the ALP route involves the AP-3 adaptor protein complex, which binds to an acidic dileucine sorting signal in the cytoplasmic region of Sna4p. In addition, Sna4p can use the MVB pathway by using a PPPY motif, which is involved in the interaction with ubiquitin ligase Rsp5p. Deletion or mutation of the Sna4p PPPY motif or a low level of Rsp5p inhibits the entrance of Sna4p into MVBs. Sna4p is polyubiquitylated on its only lysine, and Sna4p lacking this lysine shows defective MVB sorting. These data indicate that Sna4p has two functional motifs, one for interaction with the AP-3 complex, followed by entry into the ALP pathway, and one for binding Rsp5p, which directs the protein to the MVB pathway. The presence of these two motifs allows Sna4p to localize to both the vacuolar membrane and the lumen.
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The yeast lysosome-like vacuole: endpoint and crossroads. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2008; 1793:650-63. [PMID: 18786576 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2008.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2008] [Revised: 08/01/2008] [Accepted: 08/06/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Fungal vacuoles are acidic organelles with degradative and storage capabilities that have many similarities to mammalian lysosomes and plant vacuoles. In the past several years, well-developed genetic, genomic, biochemical and cell biological tools in S. cerevisiae have provided fresh insights into vacuolar protein sorting, organelle acidification, ion homeostasis, autophagy, and stress-related functions of the vacuole, and these insights have often found parallels in mammalian lysosomes. This review provides a broad overview of the defining features and functions of S. cerevisiae vacuoles and compares these features to mammalian lysosomes. Recent research challenges the traditional view of vacuoles and lysosomes as simply the terminal compartment of biosynthetic and endocytic pathways (i.e. the "garbage dump" of the cell), and suggests instead that these compartments are unexpectedly dynamic and highly regulated.
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Ren J, Pashkova N, Winistorfer S, Piper RC. DOA1/UFD3 plays a role in sorting ubiquitinated membrane proteins into multivesicular bodies. J Biol Chem 2008; 283:21599-611. [PMID: 18508771 PMCID: PMC2490793 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m802982200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2008] [Revised: 05/19/2008] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Ubiquitin (Ub) is a sorting signal that targets integral membrane proteins to the interior of the vacuole/lysosome by directing them into lumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies (MVBs). The Vps27-Hse1 complex, which is homologous to the Hrs-STAM complex in mammalian cells, serves as a Ub-sorting receptor at the surface of early endosomes. We have found that Hse1 interacts with Doa1/Ufd3. Doa1 is known to interact with Cdc48/p97 and Ub and is required for maintaining Ub levels. We find that the Hse1 Src homology 3 domain binds directly to the central PFU domain of Doa1. Mutations in Doa1 that block Hse1 binding but not Ub binding do not alter Ub levels but do result in the missorting of the MVB cargo GFP-Cps1. Loss of Doa1 also causes a synthetic growth defect when combined with loss of Vps27. Unlike the loss of Doa1 alone, the doa1Delta vps27Delta double mutant phenotype is not suppressed by Ub overexpression, demonstrating that the effect is not due to indirect consequence of lowered Ub levels. Loss of Doa1 results in a defect in the accumulation of GFP-Ub within yeast vacuoles, implying that there is a reduction in the flux of ubiquitinated membrane proteins through the MVB pathway. This defect was also reflected by an inability to properly sort Vph1-GFP-Ub, a modified subunit of the multiprotein vacuolar ATPase complex, which carries an in-frame fusion of Ub as an MVB sorting signal. These results reveal novel roles for Doa1 in helping to process ubiquitinated membrane proteins for sorting into MVBs.
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- Jihui Ren
- Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Kanwar R, Fortini ME. The big brain aquaporin is required for endosome maturation and notch receptor trafficking. Cell 2008; 133:852-63. [PMID: 18510929 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.04.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2007] [Revised: 03/10/2008] [Accepted: 04/29/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Activity of the big brain (bib) gene influences Notch signaling during Drosophila nervous system development. We demonstrate that Bib, which belongs to the aquaporin family of channel proteins, is required for endosome maturation in Drosophila epithelial cells. In the absence of Bib, early endosomes arrest and form abnormal clusters, and cells exhibit reduced acidification of endocytic trafficking organelles. Bib acts downstream of Hrs in early endosome morphogenesis and regulates biogenesis of endocytic compartments prior to the formation of Rab7-containing late endosomes. Abnormal endosome morphology caused by loss of Bib is accompanied by overaccumulation of Notch, Delta, and other signaling molecules as well as reduced intracellular trafficking of Notch to nuclei. Analysis of several endosomal trafficking mutants reveals a correlation between endosomal acidification and levels of Notch signaling. Our findings reveal an unprecedented role for an aquaporin in endosome maturation, trafficking, and acidification.
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- Ritu Kanwar
- Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, 1050 Boyles Street, Building 560, Room 22-12, Frederick, MD 21701, USA
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Schluter C, Lam KK, Brumm J, Wu BW, Saunders M, Stevens TH, Bryan J, Conibear E. Global analysis of yeast endosomal transport identifies the vps55/68 sorting complex. Mol Biol Cell 2008; 19:1282-94. [PMID: 18216282 PMCID: PMC2291407 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e07-07-0659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2007] [Revised: 01/09/2008] [Accepted: 01/15/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Endosomal transport is critical for cellular processes ranging from receptor down-regulation and retroviral budding to the immune response. A full understanding of endosome sorting requires a comprehensive picture of the multiprotein complexes that orchestrate vesicle formation and fusion. Here, we use unsupervised, large-scale phenotypic analysis and a novel computational approach for the global identification of endosomal transport factors. This technique effectively identifies components of known and novel protein assemblies. We report the characterization of a previously undescribed endosome sorting complex that contains two well-conserved proteins with four predicted membrane-spanning domains. Vps55p and Vps68p form a complex that acts with or downstream of ESCRT function to regulate endosomal trafficking. Loss of Vps68p disrupts recycling to the TGN as well as onward trafficking to the vacuole without preventing the formation of lumenal vesicles within the MVB. Our results suggest the Vps55/68 complex mediates a novel, conserved step in the endosomal maturation process.
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- Cayetana Schluter
- *Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- *Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- Department of Statistics and Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada; and
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- *Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229
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- Department of Statistics and Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada; and
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- *Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, Child and Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4, Canada
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The Class III PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase), Vps34 (vacuolar protein sorting 34), was first described as a component of the vacuolar sorting system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and is the sole PI3K in yeast. The homologue in mammalian cells, hVps34, has been studied extensively in the context of endocytic sorting. However, hVps34 also plays an important role in the ability of cells to respond to changes in nutrient conditions. Recent studies have shown that mammalian hVps34 is required for the activation of the mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin)/S6K1 (S6 kinase 1) pathway, which regulates protein synthesis in response to nutrient availability. In both yeast and mammalian cells, Class III PI3Ks are also required for the induction of autophagy during nutrient deprivation. Finally, mammalian hVps34 is itself regulated by nutrients. Thus Class III PI3Ks are implicated in the regulation of both autophagy and, through the mTOR pathway, protein synthesis, and thus contribute to the integration of cellular responses to changing nutritional status.
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Mrsny RJ, Brown GT, Gerner-Smidt K, Buret AG, Meddings JB, Quan C, Koval M, Nusrat A. A key claudin extracellular loop domain is critical for epithelial barrier integrity. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2008; 172:905-15. [PMID: 18349130 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.070698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Intercellular tight junctions (TJs) regulate epithelial barrier properties. Claudins are major structural constituents of TJs and belong to a large family of tetra-spanning membrane proteins that have two predicted extracellular loops (ELs). Given that claudin-1 is widely expressed in epithelia, we further defined the role of its EL domains in determining TJ function. The effects of several claudin-1 EL mimetic peptides on epithelial barrier structure and function were examined. Incubation of model human intestinal epithelial cells with a 27-amino acid peptide corresponding to a portion of the first EL domain (Cldn-1(53-80)) reversibly interfered with epithelial barrier function by inducing the rearrangement of key TJ proteins: occludin, claudin-1, junctional adhesion molecule-A, and zonula occludens-1. Cldn-1(53-80) associated with both claudin-1 and occludin, suggesting both the direct interference with the ability of these proteins to assemble into functional TJs and their close interaction under physiological conditions. These effects were specific for Cldn-1(53-80), because peptides corresponding to other claudin-1 EL domains failed to influence TJ function. Furthermore, the oral administration of Cldn-1(53-80) to rats increased paracellular gastric permeability. Thus, the identification of a critical claudin-1 EL motif, Cldn-1(53-80), capable of regulating TJ structure and function, offers a useful adjunct to treatments that require drug delivery across an epithelial barrier.
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- Randall J Mrsny
- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Diverse cellular functions of the Hsp90 molecular chaperone uncovered using systems approaches. Cell 2008; 131:121-35. [PMID: 17923092 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2007.07.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 372] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2006] [Revised: 05/18/2007] [Accepted: 07/20/2007] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A comprehensive understanding of the cellular functions of the Hsp90 molecular chaperone has remained elusive. Although Hsp90 is essential, highly abundant under normal conditions, and further induced by environmental stress, only a limited number of Hsp90 "clients" have been identified. To define Hsp90 function, a panel of genome-wide chemical-genetic screens in Saccharomyces cerevisiae were combined with bioinformatic analyses. This approach identified several unanticipated functions of Hsp90 under normal conditions and in response to stress. Under normal growth conditions, Hsp90 plays a major role in various aspects of the secretory pathway and cellular transport; during environmental stress, Hsp90 is required for the cell cycle, meiosis, and cytokinesis. Importantly, biochemical and cell biological analyses validated several of these Hsp90-dependent functions, highlighting the potential of our integrated global approach to uncover chaperone functions in the cell.
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Vajjhala PR, Nguyen CH, Landsberg MJ, Kistler C, Gan AL, King GF, Hankamer B, Munn AL. The Vps4 C-terminal helix is a critical determinant for assembly and ATPase activity and has elements conserved in other members of the meiotic clade of AAA ATPases. FEBS J 2008; 275:1427-1449. [PMID: 18266866 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06300.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sorting of membrane proteins into intralumenal endosomal vesicles, multivesicular body (MVB) sorting, is critical for receptor down regulation, antigen presentation and enveloped virus budding. Vps4 is an AAA ATPase that functions in MVB sorting. Although AAA ATPases are oligomeric, mechanisms that govern Vps4 oligomerization and activity remain elusive. Vps4 has an N-terminal microtubule interacting and trafficking domain required for endosome recruitment, an AAA domain containing the ATPase catalytic site and a beta domain, and a C-terminal alpha helix positioned close to the catalytic site in the 3D structure. Previous attempts to identify the role of the C-terminal helix have been unsuccessful. Here, we show that the C-terminal helix is important for Vps4 assembly and ATPase activity in vitro and function in vivo, but not endosome recruitment or interactions with Vta1 or ESCRT-III. Unlike the beta domain, which is also important for Vps4 assembly, the C-terminal helix is not required in vivo for Vps4 homotypic interaction or dominant-negative effects of Vps4-E233Q, carrying a mutation in the ATP hydrolysis site. Vta1 promotes assembly of hybrid complexes comprising Vps4-E233Q and Vps4 lacking an intact C-terminal helix in vitro. Formation of catalytically active hybrid complexes demonstrates an intersubunit catalytic mechanism for Vps4. One end of the C-terminal helix lies in close proximity to the second region of homology (SRH), which is important for assembly and intersubunit catalysis in AAA ATPases. We propose that Vps4 SRH function requires an intact C-terminal helix. Co-evolution of a distinct Vps4 SRH and C-terminal helix in meiotic clade AAA ATPases supports this possibility.
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- Parimala R Vajjhala
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia., ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia., ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia., ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia., ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Australia., ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, The University of Queensland, Australia., School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia., School of Medical Science, Griffith University, Australia
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A novel immunodetection screen for vacuolar defects identifies a unique allele of VPS35 in S. cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biochem 2008; 311:121-36. [PMID: 18224426 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-008-9703-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2007] [Accepted: 01/10/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The late endosome and vacuole of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae are functionally equivalent to the mammalian late endosome and lysosome. The late endosome is the convergence point of the biosynthetic and endocytic trafficking to the vacuole. Here, we describe a novel immunodetection screen to isolate mutants defective in trafficking the soluble hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) at the late endosome to vacuole interface (env mutants). Mutants exhibit vacuolar morphology and endocytosis defects as assayed by electron, fluorescent, and nomarski microscopy. In biochemical assays, they internally accumulate p2CPY in a dense membrane compartment lacking vacuolar properties yet display normal secretion phenotypes. The results suggest vacuolar morphology and function defects that are exclusively at the late endosome/vacuole interface. env mutants define five complementation groups. The first gene of the collection to be cloned, ENV1 is allelic to VPS35 whose established function is in retrograde trafficking from late endosome to trans-Golgi network (TGN). Microscopic, biochemical, and growth analyses establish that env1 is distinct from other alleles of VPS35 in vacuolar morphology, growth characteristics, and internal accumulation of p2CPY. Our results indicate that ENV genes may define new gene functions at the late endosome to vacuole interface.
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The two major cellular sites for membrane protein degradation are the proteasome and the lysosome. Ubiquitin attachment is a sorting signal for both degradation routes. For lysosomal degradation, ubiquitination triggers the sorting of cargo proteins into the lumen of late endosomal multivesicular bodies (MVBs)/endosomes. MVB formation occurs when a portion of the limiting membrane of an endosome invaginates and buds into its own lumen. Intralumenal vesicles are degraded when MVBs fuse to lysosomes. The proper delivery of proteins to the MVB interior relies on specific ubiquitination of cargo, recognition and sorting of ubiquitinated cargo to endosomal subdomains, and the formation and scission of cargo-filled intralumenal vesicles. Over the past five years, a number of proteins that may directly participate in these aspects of MVB function and biogenesis have been identified. However, major questions remain as to exactly what these proteins do at the molecular level and how they may accomplish these tasks.
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- Robert C. Piper
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota 55095
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Iwaki T, Onishi M, Ikeuchi M, Kita A, Sugiura R, Giga-Hama Y, Fukui Y, Takegawa K. Essential roles of class E Vps proteins for sorting into multivesicular bodies in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2007; 153:2753-2764. [PMID: 17660439 PMCID: PMC2885615 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/006072-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The multivesicular body (MVB) sorting pathway is required for a number of biological processes, including downregulation of cell-surface proteins and protein sorting into the vacuolar lumen. The function of this pathway requires endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) composed of class E vacuolar protein sorting (Vps) proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, many of which are conserved in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Of these, sst4/vps27 (homologous to VPS27) and sst6 (similar to VPS23) have been identified as suppressors of sterility in ste12Delta (sst), although their functions have not been uncovered to date. In this report, these two sst genes are shown to be required for vacuolar sorting of carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) and an MVB marker, the ubiquitin-GFP-carboxypeptidase S (Ub-GFP-CPS) fusion protein, despite the lack of the ubiquitin E2 variant domain in Sst6p. Disruption mutants of a variety of other class E vps homologues also had defects in sorting of CPY and Ub-GFP-CPS. Sch. pombe has a mammalian AMSH homologue, sst2. Phenotypic analyses suggested that Sst2p is a class E Vps protein. Taken together, these results suggest that sorting into multivesicular bodies is dependent on class E Vps proteins, including Sst2p, in Sch. pombe.
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- Tomoko Iwaki
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
- Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd, Kanagawa, Yokohama 221-8755, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacogenomics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kinki University, Kowakae 3-4-1, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacogenomics, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kinki University, Kowakae 3-4-1, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan
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- Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd, Kanagawa, Yokohama 221-8755, Japan
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- Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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Schizosaccharomyces pombe Sst4p, a conserved Vps27/Hrs homolog, functions downstream of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase Pik3p to mediate proper spore formation. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2007; 6:2343-53. [PMID: 17951524 DOI: 10.1128/ec.00211-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Sporulation of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a developmental process that generates gametes and that includes the formation of spore envelope precursors called the forespore membranes. Assembly and development of forespore membranes require vesicular trafficking from other intracellular membrane compartments. We have shown that phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PtdIns 3-kinase) is required for efficient and proper development of forespore membranes. The role of a FYVE domain protein, Sst4p, a homolog of Vps27p/Hrs, as a downstream factor for PtdIns 3-kinase in sporulation was investigated. sst4Delta asci formed spores with oval-shaped morphology and with reduced viability compared to that of the wild-type spores. The extension of forespore membranes was inefficient, and bubble-like structures emerged from the leading edges of the forespore membranes. Sst4p localization was examined using fluorescent protein fusions and was found to be adjacent to the forespore membranes during sporulation. The localization and function of Sst4p were dependent on its FYVE domain and on PtdIns 3-kinase. Sst4p colocalized and interacted with Hse1p, a homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hse1p and of mammalian STAM. Mutations in all three UIM domains of the Sst4p/Hse1p complex resulted in formation of spores with abnormal morphology. These results suggest that Sst4p is a downstream factor of PtdIns 3-kinase and functions in forespore membrane formation.
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Prag G, Watson H, Kim YC, Beach BM, Ghirlando R, Hummer G, Bonifacino JS, Hurley JH. The Vps27/Hse1 complex is a GAT domain-based scaffold for ubiquitin-dependent sorting. Dev Cell 2007; 12:973-86. [PMID: 17543868 PMCID: PMC2292400 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2007.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2006] [Revised: 02/20/2007] [Accepted: 04/18/2007] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The yeast Vps27/Hse1 complex and the homologous mammalian Hrs/STAM complex deliver ubiquitinated transmembrane proteins to the ESCRT endosomal-sorting pathway. The Vps27/Hse1 complex directly binds to ubiquitinated transmembrane proteins and recruits both ubiquitin ligases and deubiquitinating enzymes. We have solved the crystal structure of the core responsible for the assembly of the Vps27/Hse1 complex at 3.0 A resolution. The structure consists of two intertwined GAT domains, each consisting of two helices from one subunit and one from the other. The two GAT domains are connected by an antiparallel coiled coil, forming a 90 A-long barbell-like structure. This structure places the domains of Vps27 and Hse1 that recruit ubiquitinated cargo and deubiquitinating enzymes close to each other. Coarse-grained Monte Carlo simulations of the Vps27/Hse1 complex on a membrane show how the complex binds cooperatively to lipids and ubiquitinated membrane proteins and acts as a scaffold for ubiquitination reactions.
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- Gali Prag
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Kutateladze TG. Mechanistic similarities in docking of the FYVE and PX domains to phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate containing membranes. Prog Lipid Res 2007; 46:315-27. [PMID: 17707914 PMCID: PMC2211451 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2007.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P], a phospholipid produced by PI 3-kinases in early endosomes and multivesicular bodies, often serves as a marker of endosomal membranes. PtdIns(3)P recruits and activates effector proteins containing the FYVE or PX domain and therefore regulates a variety of biological processes including endo- and exocytosis, membrane trafficking, protein sorting, signal transduction and cytoskeletal rearrangement. Structures and PtdIns(3)P binding modes of several FYVE and PX domains have recently been characterized, unveiling the molecular basis underlying multiple cellular functions of these proteins. Here, structural and functional aspects and current mechanisms of the multivalent membrane anchoring by the FYVE and PX domains are reviewed and compared.
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- Tatiana G Kutateladze
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Qi J, Forgac M. Cellular environment is important in controlling V-ATPase dissociation and its dependence on activity. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:24743-51. [PMID: 17565997 PMCID: PMC2394669 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m700663200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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One mechanism of regulating V-ATPase activity in vivo involves reversible dissociation into its component V(1) and V(0) domains, which in yeast occurs in response to glucose depletion. V-ATPase complexes containing the Vph1p isoform of subunit a (VCC) are targeted to the vacuole, and Stv1p-containing complexes (SCC) are targeted to the Golgi. Overexpression of Stv1p results in mistargeting of SCC to the vacuole. We have investigated the role of the a subunit isoform and cellular environment in controlling dissociation using vacuolar protein sorting (vps) mutants that accumulate proteins in either the prevacuolar compartment (PVC) (vps27Delta) or a post-Golgi compartment (PGC) (vps21Delta). Dissociation of both VCC and SCC depends upon cellular environment, with dissociation most complete in the vacuole and least complete in the PVC. The dependence of dissociation on V-ATPase activity was also investigated using both concanamycin and inactivating mutations. Concanamycin partly blocks dissociation of both VCC and SCC in all three compartments, with inhibition generally greater for SCC than VCC. The R735Q mutant of Vph1p results in loss of both ATPase and proton transport, whereas the R735K mutant lacks proton transport but has 10% of wild type ATPase activity. For VCC in the vacuole, dissociation is completely blocked for the R735Q but not the R735K mutant. Significant dissociation of VCC is observed for both mutants in the PVC and PGC, indicating that V-ATPase activity is not absolutely required for dissociation. Similar results were obtained for SCC, although dissociation of SCC is again generally more sensitive to activity than VCC. These results suggest that the cellular environment is important both in controlling in vivo dissociation of the V-ATPase and the dependence of this process on catalytic activity. Moreover, catalytic activity is not absolutely required for V-ATPase dissociation.
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- * To whom correspondence should be addressed: Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Tel: 617-636-6939; Fax: 617-636-0445; e-mail:
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Vajjhala PR, Catchpoole E, Nguyen CH, Kistler C, Munn AL. Vps4 regulates a subset of protein interactions at the multivesicular endosome. FEBS J 2007; 274:1894-907. [PMID: 17408385 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2007.05736.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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During endocytic transport, specific integral membrane proteins are sorted into intraluminal vesicles that bud from the limiting membrane of the endosome. This process, known as multivesicular body (MVB) sorting, is important for several important biological processes. Moreover, components of the MVB sorting machinery are implicated in virus budding. During MVB sorting, a cargo protein recruits components of the MVB sorting machinery from cytoplasmic pools and these sequentially assemble on the endosome. Disassembly of these proteins and recycling into the cytoplasm is critical for MVB sorting. Vacuolar protein sorting 4 (Vps4) is an AAA (ATPase associated with a variety of cellular activities) ATPase which has been proposed to play a critical role in disassembly of the MVB sorting machinery. However, the mechanism by which it disassembles the complex is not clear. Vps4 contains an N-terminal microtubule interacting and trafficking (MIT) domain, which has previously been shown to be required for recruitment to endosomes, and a single AAA ATPase domain, the activity of which is required for Vps4 function. In this study we have systematically characterized the interaction of Vps4 with other components of the MVB sorting machinery. We demonstrate that Vps4 interacts directly with Vps2 and Bro1. We also show that a subset of Vps4 interactions is regulated by ATP hydrolysis, and one interaction is regulated by ATP binding. Finally, we show that most proteins interact with the Vps4 MIT domain. Our studies indicate that the MIT domain has a dual role in substrate binding and recruitment to endosomes and indicate that Vps4 disassembles the MVB sorting machinery by direct effects on multiple proteins.
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- Parimala R Vajjhala
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience and ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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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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Iwaki T, Morita T, Tanaka N, Giga-Hama Y, Takegawa K. Loss of a GPI-anchored membrane protein Aah3p causes a defect in vacuolar protein sorting in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2007; 71:623-6. [PMID: 17284820 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Schizosaccharomyces pombe has four alpha-amylase homologs (Aah1p-Aah4p) with a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) modification site at the C-terminal end. Disruption mutants of aah genes were tested for mislocalization of vacuolar carboxypeptidase Y (CPY), and aah3Delta was found to secrete CPY. The conversion rate from pro- to mature CPY was greatly impaired in aah3Delta, and fluorescence microscopy inidicated that a sorting receptor for CPY, Vps10p, mislocalized to the vacuolar membrane. These results indicate that aah3Delta had a defect in the retrograde transport of Vps10p, and that Aah3p is the first S. pombe specific protein required for vacuolar protein sorting.
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- Tomoko Iwaki
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa, Japan
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Takahashi T, Furuchi T, Naganuma A. Endocytic Ark/Prk kinases play a critical role in adriamycin resistance in both yeast and mammalian cells. Cancer Res 2007; 66:11932-7. [PMID: 17178891 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-06-3220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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To elucidate the mechanism of acquired resistance to Adriamycin, we searched for genes that, when overexpressed, render Saccharomyces cerevisiae resistant to Adriamycin. We identified AKL1, a gene of which the function is unknown but is considered, nonetheless, to be a member of the Ark/Prk kinase family, which is involved in the regulation of endocytosis, on the basis of its deduced amino acid sequence. Among tested members of the Ark/Prk kinase family (Ark1, Prk1, and Akl1), overexpressed Prk1 also conferred Adriamycin resistance on yeast cells. Prk1 is known to dissociate the Sla1/Pan1/End3 complex, which is involved in endocytosis, by phosphorylating Sla1 and Pan1 in the complex. We showed that Akl1 promotes phosphorylation of Pan1 in this complex and reduces the endocytic ability of the cell, as does Prk1. Sla1- and End3-defective yeast cells were also resistant to Adriamycin and overexpression of Akl1 in these defective cells did not increase the degree of Adriamycin resistance, suggesting that Akl1 might reduce Adriamycin toxicity by reducing the endocytic ability of cells via a mechanism that involves the Sla1/Pan1/End3 complex and the phosphorylation of Pan1. We also found that HEK293 cells that overexpressed AAK1, a member of the human Ark/Prk family, were Adriamycin resistant. Our findings suggest that endocytosis might be involved in the mechanism of Adriamycin toxicity in yeast and human cells.
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- Tsutomu Takahashi
- Laboratory of Molecular and Biochemical Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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Kama R, Robinson M, Gerst JE. Btn2, a Hook1 ortholog and potential Batten disease-related protein, mediates late endosome-Golgi protein sorting in yeast. Mol Cell Biol 2006; 27:605-21. [PMID: 17101785 PMCID: PMC1800815 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.00699-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BTN2 gene expression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is up-regulated in response to the deletion of BTN1, which encodes the ortholog of a human Batten disease protein. We isolated Btn2 as a Snc1 v-SNARE binding protein using the two-hybrid assay and examined its role in intracellular protein trafficking. We show that Btn2 is an ortholog of the Drosophila and mammalian Hook1 proteins that interact with SNAREs, cargo proteins, and coat components involved in endosome-Golgi protein sorting. By immunoprecipitation, it was found that Btn2 bound the yeast endocytic SNARE complex (e.g., Snc1 and Snc2 [Snc1/2], Tlg1, Tlg2, and Vti1), the Snx4 sorting nexin, and retromer (e.g., Vps26 and Vps35). In in vitro binding assays, recombinant His(6)-tagged Btn2 bound glutathione S-transferase (GST)-Snc1 and GST-Vps26. Btn2-green fluorescent protein and Btn2-red fluorescent protein colocalize with Tlg2, Snx4, and Vps27 to a compartment adjacent to the vacuole that corresponds to a late endosome. The deletion of BTN2 blocks Yif1 retrieval back to the Golgi apparatus, while the localization of Ste2, Fur4, Snc1, Vps10, carboxypeptidases Y (CPY) and S (CPS), Sed5, and Sec7 is unaltered in btn2Delta cells. Yif1 delivery to the vacuole was observed in other late endosome-Golgi trafficking mutants, including ypt6Delta, snx4Delta, and vps26Delta cells. Thus, Btn2 facilitates specific protein retrieval from a late endosome to the Golgi apparatus, a process which may be adversely affected in patients with Batten disease.
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- Rachel Kama
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Piao HL, Machado IM, Payne GS. NPFXD-mediated endocytosis is required for polarity and function of a yeast cell wall stress sensor. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 18:57-65. [PMID: 17065552 PMCID: PMC1751320 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-08-0721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The actin-associated protein Sla1p, through its SHD1 domain, acts as an adaptor for the NPFX(1,2)D endocytic targeting signal in yeast. Here we report that Wsc1p, a cell wall stress sensor, depends on this signal-adaptor pair for endocytosis. Mutation of NPFDD in Wsc1p or expression of Sla1p lacking SHD1 blocked Wsc1p internalization. By live cell imaging, endocytically defective Wsc1p was not concentrated at sites of endocytosis. Polarized distribution of Wsc1p to regions of cell growth was lost in the absence of endocytosis. Mutations in genes necessary for endosome to Golgi traffic caused redistribution of Wsc1p from the cell surface to internal compartments, indicative of recycling. Inhibition of Wsc1p endocytosis caused defects in polarized deposition of the cell wall and increased sensitivity to perturbation of cell wall synthesis. Our results reveal that the NPFX(1,2)D-Sla1p system is responsible for directing Wsc1p into an endocytosis and recycling pathway necessary to maintain yeast cell wall polarity. The dynamic localization of Wsc1p, a sensor of the extracellular wall in yeast, resembles polarized distribution of certain extracellular matrix-sensing integrins through endocytic recycling.
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- Hai Lan Piao
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Kirk E, Chin LS, Li L. GRIF1 binds Hrs and is a new regulator of endosomal trafficking. J Cell Sci 2006; 119:4689-701. [PMID: 17062640 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Endosomal sorting of internalized cell surface receptors to the lysosomal pathway plays a crucial role in the control of cell signaling and function. Here we report the identification of GABA(A) receptor interacting factor-1 (GRIF1), a recently discovered protein of unknown function, as a new regulator of endosome-to-lysosome trafficking. Yeast two-hybrid screen and co-immunoprecipitation analysis reveal that GRIF1 interacts with hepatocyte growth factor-regulated tyrosine kinase substrate (Hrs), an essential component of the endosomal sorting machinery. We have mapped the binding domains of GRIF1 and Hrs that mediate their association and shown the colocalization of GRIF1 with Hrs on early endosomes. Like Hrs, both overexpression and siRNA-mediated depletion of GRIF1 inhibit the degradation of internalized epidermal growth factor receptors and block the trafficking of the receptors from early endosomes to the lysosomal pathway. Our results indicate, for the first time, a functional role for GRIF1 in the regulation of endosomal trafficking. Interestingly, overexpression of full-length GRIF1, but not the Hrs- or kinesin-interacting GRIF1 deletion mutants, causes a perinuclear clustering of early endosomes. Our findings suggest that GRIF1 may also participate in microtubule-based transport of early endosomes by acting as an adaptor linking Hrs-containing endosomes to kinesin.
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- Elizabeth Kirk
- Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Welsch S, Habermann A, Jäger S, Müller B, Krijnse-Locker J, Kräusslich HG. Ultrastructural analysis of ESCRT proteins suggests a role for endosome-associated tubular-vesicular membranes in ESCRT function. Traffic 2006; 7:1551-66. [PMID: 17014699 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2006.00489.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) is thought to support the formation of intralumenal vesicles of multivesicular bodies (MVBs). The ESCRT is also required for the budding of HIV and has been proposed to be recruited to the HIV-budding site, the plasma membrane of T cells and MVBs in macrophages. Despite increasing data on the function of ESCRT, the ultrastructural localization of its components has not been determined. We therefore localized four proteins of the ESCRT machinery in human T cells and macrophages by quantitative electron microscopy. All the proteins were found throughout the endocytic pathway, including the plasma membrane, with only around 10 and 3% of the total labeling in the cytoplasm and on the MVBs, respectively. The majority of the labeling (45%) was unexpectedly found on tubular-vesicular endosomal membranes rather than on endosomes themselves. The ESCRT labeling was twice as concentrated on early and late endosomes/lysosomes in macrophages compared with that in T cells, where it was twice more abundant at the plasma membrane. The ESCRT proteins were not redistributed on HIV infection, suggesting that the amount of ESCRT proteins located at the budding site suffices for HIV release. These results represent the first systematic ultrastructural localization of ESCRT and provide insights into its role in uninfected and HIV-infected cells.
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- Sonja Welsch
- Department of Virology, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Wang T, Hong W. RILP interacts with VPS22 and VPS36 of ESCRT-II and regulates their membrane recruitment. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 350:413-23. [PMID: 17010938 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.09.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2006] [Accepted: 09/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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RILP is emerging as a key regulator of late endocytic pathway by functioning as a downstream effector of activated Rab7 and Rab34, while ESCRT-I-->ESCRT-II-->ESCRT-III machinery acts in sorting proteins to the multivesicular body (MVB) initiated at the early/sorting endosome. We show here that the early machinery is integrated with the late machinery through a novel regulatory loop in which RILP interacts with VPS22 and VPS36 of ESCRT-II to mediate their membrane recruitment. The N-terminal and C-terminal half of RILP mediate interaction with VPS22 and VPS36, respectively. Overexpression of RILP leads to enlarged and clustered MVBs marked by lysobisphosphatidic acid (LBPA). In addition, RILP or its C-terminal fragment causes a retardation of sorting internalized EGF to the degradation route at the level of sorting endosomes marked by EEA1. We propose that RILP-->ESCRT-II serves as a regulatory/feedback loop to govern the coordination of early and late parts of the endocytic pathway.
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- Tuanlao Wang
- Membrane Biology Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 138673, Singapore
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Vukmirica J, Monzo P, Le Marchand-Brustel Y, Cormont M. The Rab4A effector protein Rabip4 is involved in migration of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:36360-8. [PMID: 17001082 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m602920200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The small GTP-binding protein Rab4 has been involved in the recycling of alphavbeta3 integrins in response to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) stimulation suggesting a role for Rab4 in cell adhesion and migration. In this study, we explored the role of Rabip4 and Rabip4', two Rab4 effector proteins, in migration of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts. In these cells, Rabip4 and Rabip4', collectively named Rabip4s, were partially co-localized with the early endosomal marker EEA1. PDGF treatment re-distributed endogenous Rabip4s toward the cell periphery where they colocalized with F-actin. In cells expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP)-Rabip4 or GFP-Rabip4', constitutive appearance of GFP-Rabip4s at the cell periphery was accompanied by local increase in cortical F-actin in membrane ruffles at the leading edge. The expression of GFP-Rabip4 induced an increased migration compared with control cells expressing GFP alone, even in the absence of PDGF stimulation. On the contrary, in cells expressing a mutated form of Rabip4s unable to interact with Rab4, lack of typical leading edge was observed. Furthermore, PDGF treatment did not stimulate the migration of these cells. Furthermore, down-regulation of the expression of Rabip4s inhibited PDGF-stimulated cell migration. Endogenous Rabip4s were localized with alphav integrins at the leading edge following PDGF treatment, whereas in cells expressing GFP-Rabip4s, alphav integrins, together with GFP-Rabip4s, were constitutively localized at the leading edge. In contrast, reduction in Rabip4s expression levels using small interfering RNA was associated with impaired PDGF-induced translocation of alphav integrins toward the leading edge. Taken together, our data provide evidence that Rabip4s, possibly via their interaction with Rab4, regulate integrin trafficking and are involved in the migration of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts.
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- Jelena Vukmirica
- INSERM U568, UFR Médecine, 06107 Nice Cedex 02 and Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, UFR Sciences, 06002 Nice, France
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Wen W, Chen L, Wu H, Sun X, Zhang M, Banfield DK. Identification of the yeast R-SNARE Nyv1p as a novel longin domain-containing protein. Mol Biol Cell 2006; 17:4282-99. [PMID: 16855025 PMCID: PMC1635351 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-02-0128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we establish that the N-terminal domain of the yeast vacuolar R-SNARE Nyv1p adopts a longin-like fold similar to those of Sec22b and Ykt6p. Nyv1p is sorted to the limiting membrane of the vacuole via the adaptor protein (AP)3 adaptin pathway, and we show that its longin domain is sufficient to direct transport to this location. In contrast, we found that the longin domains of Sec22p and Ykt6p were not sufficient to direct their localization. A YXX phi-like adaptin-dependent sorting signal (Y31GTI34) unique to the longin domain of Nyv1p mediates interactions with the AP3 complex in vivo and in vitro. We show that amino acid substitutions to Y31GTI34 (Y31Q;I34Q) resulted in mislocalization of Nyv1p as well as reduced binding of the mutant protein to the AP3 complex. Although the sorting of Nyv1p to the limiting membrane of the vacuole is dependent upon the Y31GTI34 motif, and Y31 in particular, our findings with structure-based amino acid substitutions in the mu chain (Apm3p) of yeast AP3 suggest a mechanistically distinct role for this subunit in the recognition of YXX phi-like sorting signals.
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- Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China
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- Departments of *Biochemistry and
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- Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China
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- Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China
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Gao M, Kaiser CA. A conserved GTPase-containing complex is required for intracellular sorting of the general amino-acid permease in yeast. Nat Cell Biol 2006; 8:657-67. [PMID: 16732272 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2006] [Accepted: 05/03/2006] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae general amino-acid permease, Gap1p, is a model for membrane proteins that are regulated by intracellular sorting according to physiological cues set by the availability of amino acids. Here, we report the identification of a conserved sorting complex for Gap1p, named the GTPase-containing complex for Gap1p sorting in the endosomes (GSE complex), which is required for proper sorting of Gap1p from the late endosome for eventual delivery to the plasma membrane. The complex contains two small GTPases (Gtr1p and Gtr2p) and three other proteins (Ybr077c, Ykr007w and Ltv1p) that are located in the late endosomal membrane. Importantly, Gtr2p interacts with the carboxy (C)-terminal cytosolic domain of Gap1p and a tyrosine-containing motif in this domain is necessary both to bind Gtr2p and to direct sorting of Gap1p to the plasma membrane. Together, these studies provide evidence that the GSE complex has a key role in trafficking Gap1p out of the endosome and may serve as coat proteins in this process.
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- Minggeng Gao
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Iwaki T, Hosomi A, Tokudomi S, Kusunoki Y, Fujita Y, Giga-Hama Y, Tanaka N, Takegawa K. Vacuolar protein sorting receptor in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:1523-1532. [PMID: 16622069 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28627-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The mechanism by which soluble proteins, such as carboxypeptidase Y, reach the vacuole inSaccharomyces cerevisiaeis very similar to the mechanism of lysosomal protein sorting in mammalian cells. Vps10p is a receptor for transport of soluble vacuolar proteins inS. cerevisiae.vps10+, a gene encoding a homologue ofS. cerevisiae PEP1/VPS10, has been identified and deleted from the fission yeastSchizosaccharomyces pombe. Deletion of thevps10+gene resulted in missorting and secretion ofSch. pombevacuolar carboxypeptidase Cpy1p, indicating that it is required for targeting Cpy1p to the vacuole.Sch. pombeVps10p (SpVps10p) is a type I transmembrane protein and its C-terminal cytoplasmic tail domain is essential for Cpy1p transport to the vacuole. Cells expressing green fluorescent protein-tagged SpVps10p produced a punctate pattern of fluorescence, indicating that SpVps10p was largely localized in the Golgi compartment. In addition,Sch. pombe vps26+,vps29+andvps35+, encoding homologues of theS. cerevisiaeretromer componentsVPS26,VPS29andVPS35, were identified and deleted. Fluorescence microscopy demonstrated that SpVps10p mislocalized to the vacuolar membrane in these mutants. These results indicate that thevps26+,vps29+andvps35+gene products are required for retrograde transport of SpVps10p from the prevacuolar compartment back to the Golgi inSch. pombecells.
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- Tomoko Iwaki
- Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd, Kanagawa, Yokohama 221-8755, Japan
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd, Kanagawa, Yokohama 221-8755, Japan
- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Research Center, Asahi Glass Co. Ltd, Kanagawa, Yokohama 221-8755, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Miki-cho, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
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Kutateladze TG. Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate recognition and membrane docking by the FYVE domain. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2006; 1761:868-77. [PMID: 16644267 PMCID: PMC2740714 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2006.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2006] [Revised: 03/07/2006] [Accepted: 03/09/2006] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The FYVE domain is a small zinc binding module that recognizes phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P], a phospholipid enriched in membranes of early endosomes and other endocytic vesicles. It is usually present as a single module or rarely as a tandem repeat in eukaryotic proteins involved in a variety of biological processes including endo- and exocytosis, membrane trafficking and phosphoinositide metabolism. A number of FYVE domain-containing proteins are recruited to endocytic membranes through the specific interaction of their FYVE domains with PtdIns(3)P. Structures and PtdIns(3)P binding modes of several FYVE domains have recently been characterized, shedding light on the molecular basis underlying multiple cellular functions of these proteins. Here, structural and functional aspects and the current mechanism of the multivalent membrane anchoring by monomeric or dimeric FYVE domain are reviewed. This mechanism involves stereospecific recognition of PtdIns(3)P that is facilitated by non-specific electrostatic contacts and modulated by the histidine switch, and is accompanied by hydrophobic insertion. Contributions of each component to the FYVE domain specificity and affinity for PtdIns(3)P-containing membranes are discussed.
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- Tatiana G Kutateladze
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 12801 East 17th Avenue, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Lottridge JM, Flannery AR, Vincelli JL, Stevens TH. Vta1p and Vps46p regulate the membrane association and ATPase activity of Vps4p at the yeast multivesicular body. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:6202-7. [PMID: 16601096 PMCID: PMC1458855 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0601712103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Previous two-hybrid analysis of the 17 soluble class E Vps yeast proteins revealed that Vps46p/Did2p interacts with Vta1p and the AAA (ATPase associated with a variety of cellular activities) ATPase Vps4p. Here we report that the binding of Vps46p to Vps4p and Vta1p is direct and not mediated by additional proteins, and the binding of Vps46p to Vps4p is ATP independent. Vps46p regulates the membrane association of Vps4p and is required for the interaction of Vta1p with Vps32p/Snf7p of the ESCRT-III complex. Vta1p is a potent activator of Vps4p, stimulating the ATPase activity by 6- to 8-fold. These results reveal functional roles for the Vps46p and Vta1p proteins in regulating the ESCRT complex assembly/disassembly cycle in protein sorting at the yeast late endosome.
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229
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- Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229
- To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Connolly JE, Engebrecht J. The Arf-GTPase-activating protein Gcs1p is essential for sporulation and regulates the phospholipase D Spo14p. EUKARYOTIC CELL 2006; 5:112-24. [PMID: 16400173 PMCID: PMC1360266 DOI: 10.1128/ec.5.1.112-124.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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SPO14, encoding the major Saccharomyces cerevisiae phospholipase D (PLD), is essential for sporulation and mediates synthesis of the new membrane that encompasses the haploid nuclei that arise through meiotic divisions. PLD catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine to phosphatidic acid (PA) and choline. PA stimulates Arf-GTPase-activating proteins (Arf-GAPs), which are involved in membrane trafficking events and actin cytoskeletal function. To determine if Spo14p-generated PA mediates its biological response through Arf-GAPs, we analyzed the sporulation efficiencies of cells deleted for each of the five known and potential yeast Arf-GAPs. Only gcs1delta mutants display a sporulation defect similar to that of spo14 mutants: cells deleted for GCS1 initiate the sporulation program but are defective in synthesis of the prospore membrane. Endosome-to-vacuole transport is also impaired in gcs1delta cells during sporulation. Furthermore, Arf-GAP catalytic activity, but not the pleckstrin homology domain, is required for both prospore membrane formation and endosome-to-vacuole trafficking. An examination of Gcs1p-green fluorescent protein revealed that it is a soluble protein. Interestingly, cells deleted for GCS1 have reduced levels of Spo14p-generated PA. Taken together, these results indicate that GCS1 is essential for sporulation and suggest that GCS1 positively regulates SPO14.
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- Jaime E Connolly
- Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Graduate Program, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794-8651, USA
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Vaccari T, Bilder D. The Drosophila tumor suppressor vps25 prevents nonautonomous overproliferation by regulating notch trafficking. Dev Cell 2006; 9:687-98. [PMID: 16256743 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2005.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 294] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2005] [Revised: 09/01/2005] [Accepted: 09/29/2005] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Cell-cell signaling coordinates proliferation of metazoan tissues during development, and its alteration can induce malignant transformation. Endocytosis regulates signaling by controlling the levels and activity of transmembrane receptors, both prior to and following ligand engagement. Here, we identify Vps25, a component of the ESCRT machinery that regulates endocytic sorting of signaling receptors, as an unconventional type of Drosophila tumor suppressor. vps25 mutant cells undergo autonomous neoplastic-like transformation, but they also stimulate nonautonomous cell proliferation. Endocytic trafficking defects in vps25 cells cause endosomal accumulation of the signaling receptor Notch and enhanced Notch signaling. Increased Notch activity leads to ectopic production of the mitogenic JAK-STAT pathway ligand Unpaired, which is secreted from mutant cells to induce overproliferation of the surrounding epithelium. Our data show that defects in endocytic sorting can both transform cells and, through heterotypic signaling, alter the behavior of neighboring wild-type tissue.
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- Thomas Vaccari
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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