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Bravo-Plaza I, Hernández-González M, Peñalva MÁ. Comment on Dimou et al. Profile of Membrane Cargo Trafficking Proteins and Transporters Expressed under N Source Derepressing Conditions in Aspergillus nidulans. J. Fungi 2021, 7, 560. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7121037. [PMID: 34947019 PMCID: PMC8703528 DOI: 10.3390/jof7121037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2021] [Revised: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Contrary to the opinion recently offered by Dimou et al., our previously published biochemical, subcellular and genetic data supported our contention that AN11127 corresponds to the A. nidulans gene encoding Sec12, which is the guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) specific for SAR1. We add here additional bioinformatics evidence that fully disprove the otherwise negative evidence reported by Dimou et al., highlighting the dangers associated with the lax interpretation of genomic data. On the positive side, we establish guidelines for the identification of this key secretory gene in other species of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota, including species of medical and applied interest.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ignacio Bravo-Plaza
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas, CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28049 Madrid, Spain;
- Correspondence:
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Kitakura S, Adamowski M, Matsuura Y, Santuari L, Kouno H, Arima K, Hardtke CS, Friml J, Kakimoto T, Tanaka H. BEN3/BIG2 ARF GEF is Involved in Brefeldin A-Sensitive Trafficking at the trans-Golgi Network/Early Endosome in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Physiol 2017; 58:1801-1811. [PMID: 29016942 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcx118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Membrane traffic at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) is crucial for correctly distributing various membrane proteins to their destination. Polarly localized auxin efflux proteins, including PIN-FORMED1 (PIN1), are dynamically transported between the endosomes and the plasma membrane (PM) in the plant cells. The intracellular trafficking of PIN1 protein is sensitive to the fungal toxin brefeldin A (BFA), which is known to inhibit guanine nucleotide exchange factors for ADP ribosylation factors (ARF GEFs) such as GNOM. However, the molecular details of the BFA-sensitive trafficking pathway have not been fully revealed. In a previous study, we identified an Arabidopsis mutant BFA-visualized endocytic trafficking defective 3 (ben3) which exhibited reduced sensitivity to BFA in terms of BFA-induced intracellular PIN1 agglomeration. Here, we show that BEN3 encodes a member of BIG family ARF GEFs, BIG2. BEN3/BIG2 tagged with fluorescent proteins co-localized with markers for the TGN/early endosome (EE). Inspection of conditionally induced de novo synthesized PIN1 confirmed that its secretion to the PM is BFA sensitive, and established BEN3/BIG2 as a crucial component of this BFA action at the level of the TGN/EE. Furthermore, ben3 mutation alleviated BFA-induced agglomeration of another TGN-localized ARF GEF, BEN1/MIN7. Taken together, our results suggest that BEN3/BIG2 is an ARF GEF component, which confers BFA sensitivity to the TGN/EE in Arabidopsis.
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- Saeko Kitakura
- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
- Interdisciplinary Program for Biomedical Sciences (IPBS), Institute for Academic Initiatives, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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- Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Plant Developmental Biology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
- Mendel Centre for Plant Genomics and Proteomics, Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC), Masaryk University (MU), Kamenice 5, Brno, CZ-625 00 Czech Republic
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, 560-0043 Japan
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