scholarly journals Vps52p, Vps53p, and Vps54p Form a Novel Multisubunit Complex Required for Protein Sorting at the Yeast Late Golgi

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Conibear ◽  
Tom H. Stevens

The late Golgi of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaereceives membrane traffic from the secretory pathway as well as retrograde traffic from post-Golgi compartments, but the machinery that regulates these vesicle-docking and fusion events has not been characterized. We have identified three components of a novel protein complex that is required for protein sorting at the yeast late Golgi compartment. Mutation of VPS52, VPS53, orVPS54 results in the missorting of 70% of the vacuolar hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y as well as the mislocalization of late Golgi membrane proteins to the vacuole, whereas protein traffic through the early part of the Golgi complex is unaffected. Avps52/53/54 triple mutant strain is phenotypically indistinguishable from each of the single mutants, consistent with the model that all three are required for a common step in membrane transport. Native coimmunoprecipitation experiments indicate that Vps52p, Vps53p, and Vps54p are associated in a 1:1:1 complex that sediments as a single peak on sucrose velocity gradients. This complex, which exists both in a soluble pool and as a peripheral component of a membrane fraction, colocalizes with markers of the yeast late Golgi by immunofluorescence microscopy. Together, the phenotypic and biochemical data suggest that VPS52, VPS53, andVPS54 are required for the retrograde transport of Golgi membrane proteins from an endosomal/prevacuolar compartment. The Vps52/53/54 complex joins a growing list of distinct multisubunit complexes that regulate membrane-trafficking events.

1995 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
R C Piper ◽  
A A Cooper ◽  
H Yang ◽  
T H Stevens

Newly synthesized vacuolar hydrolases such as carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) are sorted from the secretory pathway in the late-Golgi compartment and reach the vacuole after a distinct set of membrane-trafficking steps. Endocytosed proteins are also delivered to the vacuole. It has been proposed that these pathways converge at a "prevacuolar" step before delivery to the vacuole. One group of genes has been described that appears to control both of these pathways. Cells carrying mutations in any one of the class E VPS (vacuolar protein sorting) genes accumulate vacuolar, Golgi, and endocytosed proteins in a novel compartment adjacent to the vacuole termed the "class E" compartment, which may represent an exaggerated version of the physiological prevacuolar compartment. We have characterized one of the class E VPS genes, VPS27, in detail to address this question. Using a temperature-sensitive allele of VPS27, we find that upon rapid inactivation of Vps27p function, the Golgi protein Vps10p (the CPY-sorting receptor) and endocytosed Ste3p rapidly accumulate in a class E compartment. Upon restoration of Vps27p function, the Vps10p that had accumulated in the class E compartment could return to the Golgi apparatus and restore correct sorting of CPY. Likewise, Ste3p that had accumulated in the class E compartment en route to the vacuole could progress to the vacuole upon restoration of Vps27p function indicating that the class E compartment can act as a functional intermediate. Because both recycling Golgi proteins and endocytosed proteins rapidly accumulate in a class E compartment upon inactivation of Vps27p, we propose that Vps27p controls membrane traffic through the prevacuolar/endosomal compartment in wild-type cells.


1997 ◽  
Vol 110 (9) ◽  
pp. 1063-1072 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.F. Nothwehr ◽  
A.E. Hindes

Genetic analysis of late Golgi membrane protein localization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has uncovered a large number of genes (called GRD) that are required for retention of A-ALP, a model late Golgi membrane protein. Here we describe one of the GRD genes, VPSS/GRD2, that encodes a hydrophilic protein similar to human sorting nexin-1, a protein involved in trafficking of the epidermal growth factor receptor. In yeast cells containing a vps5 null mutation the late Golgi membrane proteins A-ALP and Kex2p were rapidly mislocalized to the vacuolar membrane. A-ALP was delivered to the vacuole in vps5 mutants in a manner independent of a block in the early endocytic pathway. vps5 null mutants also exhibited defects in both vacuolar morphology and in sorting of a soluble vacuolar protein, carboxypeptidase Y. The latter defect is apparently due to an inability to localize the carboxypeptidase Y sorting receptor, Vps10p, to the Golgi since it is rapidly degraded in the vacuole in vps5 mutants. Fractionation studies indicate that Vps5p is distributed between a free cytosolic pool and a particulate fraction containing Golgi, transport vesicles, and possibly endosomes, but lacking vacuolar membranes. Immunofluorescence microscopy experiments show that the membrane-associated pool of Vps5p localizes to an endosome-like organelle that accumulates in the class E vps27 mutant. These results support a model in which Vps5p is required for retrieval of membrane proteins from a prevacuolar/late endosomal compartment back to the late Golgi apparatus.


1998 ◽  
Vol 140 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Voos ◽  
Tom H. Stevens

The dynamic vesicle transport processes at the late-Golgi compartment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (TGN) require dedicated mechanisms for correct localization of resident membrane proteins. In this study, we report the identification of a new gene, GRD19, involved in the localization of the model late-Golgi membrane protein A-ALP (consisting of the cytosolic domain of dipeptidyl aminopeptidase A [DPAP A] fused to the transmembrane and lumenal domains of the alkaline phosphatase [ALP]), which localizes to the yeast TGN. A grd19 null mutation causes rapid mislocalization of the late-Golgi membrane proteins A-ALP and Kex2p to the vacuole. In contrast to previously identified genes involved in late-Golgi membrane protein localization, grd19 mutations cause only minor effects on vacuolar protein sorting. The recycling of the carboxypeptidase Y sorting receptor, Vps10p, between the TGN and the prevacuolar compartment is largely unaffected in grd19Δ cells. Kinetic assays of A-ALP trafficking indicate that GRD19 is involved in the process of retrieval of A-ALP from the prevacuolar compartment. GRD19 encodes a small hydrophilic protein with a predominantly cytosolic distribution. In a yeast mutant that accumulates an exaggerated form of the prevacuolar compartment (vps27), Grd19p was observed to localize to this compartment. Using an in vitro binding assay, Grd19p was found to interact physically with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A. We conclude that Grd19p is a component of the retrieval machinery that functions by direct interaction with the cytosolic tails of certain TGN membrane proteins during the sorting/budding process at the prevacuolar compartment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 2327-2338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy J. Curwin ◽  
Julia von Blume ◽  
Vivek Malhotra

The mechanism of cargo sorting at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) for secretion is poorly understood. We previously reported the involvement of the actin-severing protein cofilin and the Ca2+ ATPase secretory pathway calcium ATPase 1 (SPCA1) in the sorting of soluble secretory cargo at the TGN in mammalian cells. Now we report that cofilin in yeast is required for export of selective secretory cargo at the late Golgi membranes. In cofilin mutant (cof1-8) cells, the cell wall protein Bgl2 was secreted at a reduced rate and retained in a late Golgi compartment, whereas the plasma membrane H+ ATPase Pma1, which is transported in the same class of carriers, reached the cell surface. In addition, sorting of carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) to the vacuole was delayed, and CPY was secreted from cof1-8 cells. Loss of the yeast orthologue of SPCA1 (Pmr1) exhibited similar sorting defects and displayed synthetic sickness with cof1-8. In addition, overexpression of PMR1 restored Bgl2 secretion in cof1-8 cells. These findings highlight the conserved role of cofilin and SPCA1/Pmr1 in sorting of the soluble secretory proteins at the TGN/late Golgi membranes in eukaryotes.


2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 3175-3190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seon-Ah Ha ◽  
Jeremy T. Bunch ◽  
Hiroko Hama ◽  
Daryll B. DeWald ◽  
Steven F. Nothwehr

Localization of resident membrane proteins to the yeasttrans-Golgi network (TGN) involves both their retrieval from a prevacuolar/endosomal compartment (PVC) and a “slow delivery” mechanism that inhibits their TGN-to-PVC transport. A screen for genes required for the slow delivery mechanism uncoveredINP53, a gene encoding a phosphoinositide phosphatase. A retrieval-defective model TGN protein, A(F→A)-ALP, was transported to the vacuole in inp53 mutants approximately threefold faster than in wild type. Inp53p appears to function in a process distinct from PVC retrieval because combining inp53 with mutations that block retrieval resulted in a much stronger phenotype than either mutation alone. In vps27 strains defective for both anterograde and retrograde transport out of the PVC, a loss of Inp53p function markedly accelerated the rate of transport of TGN residents A-ALP and Kex2p into the PVC. Inp53p function is cargo specific because a loss of Inp53p function had no effect on the rate of Vps10p transport to the PVC in vps27 cells. The rate of early secretory pathway transport appeared to be unaffected ininp53 mutants. Cell fractionation experiments suggested that Inp53p associates with Golgi or endosomal membranes. Taken together, these results suggest that a phosphoinositide signaling event regulates TGN-to-PVC transport of select cargo proteins.


2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Gabriely ◽  
Rachel Kama ◽  
Jeffrey E. Gerst

ABSTRACT Although COPI function on the early secretory pathway in eukaryotes is well established, earlier studies also proposed a nonconventional role for this coat complex in endocytosis in mammalian cells. Here we present results that suggest an involvement for specific COPI subunits in the late steps of endosomal protein sorting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. First, we found that carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) was partially missorted to the cell surface in certain mutants of the COPIB subcomplex (COPIb; Sec27, Sec28, and possibly Sec33), which indicates an impairment in endosomal transport. Second, integral membrane proteins destined for the vacuolar lumen (i.e., carboxypeptidase S [CPS1]; Fur4, Ste2, and Ste3) accumulated at an aberrant late endosomal compartment in these mutants. The observed phenotypes for COPIb mutants resemble those of class E vacuolar protein sorting (vps) mutants that are impaired in multivesicular body (MVB) protein sorting and biogenesis. Third, we observed physical interactions and colocalization between COPIb subunits and an MVB-associated protein, Vps27. Together, our findings suggest that certain COPI subunits could have a direct role in vacuolar protein sorting to the MVB compartment.


2006 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 967-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cédric Pety de Thozée ◽  
Michel Ghislain

Proteins destined for the secretory pathway are translocated into the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), where they are subjected to a variety of post-translational modifications before they reach their final destination. Newly synthesized proteins that have defect in polypeptide folding or subunit assembly are recognized by quality control systems and eliminated by the 26S proteasome, a cytosolic ATP-dependent proteolytic machinery. Delivery of non-native ER proteins to the proteasome requires retrograde transport across the ER membrane and depends on a protein-unfolding machine consisting of Cdc48p, Ufd1p, and Npl4p. Recent studies in yeast have highlighted the possible function of the Sar1p/COPII machinery in ER-associated degradation of some lumenal and membrane proteins.


2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1433-1447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Marti ◽  
Yajie Li ◽  
Elisabeth M. Schraner ◽  
Peter Wild ◽  
Peter Köhler ◽  
...  

Transmission of the protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis to vertebrate hosts presupposes the encapsulation of trophozoites into an environmentally resistant and infectious cyst form. We have previously shown that cyst wall proteins were faithfully sorted to large encystation-specific vesicles (ESVs), despite the absence of a recognizable Golgi apparatus. Here, we demonstrate that sorting to a second constitutively active pathway transporting variant-specific surface proteins (VSPs) to the surface depended on the cytoplasmic VSP tail. Moreover, pulsed endoplasmic reticulum (ER) export of chimeric reporters containing functional signals for both pathways showed that protein sorting was done at or very soon after export from the ER. Correspondingly, we found that a limited number of novel transitional ER-like structures together with small transport intermediates were generated during encystation. Colocalization of transitional ER regions and early ESVs with coat protein (COP) II and of maturing ESVs with COPI and clathrin strongly suggested that ESVs form by fusion of ER-derived vesicles and subsequently undergo maturation by retrograde transport. Together, the data supported the hypothesis that in Giardia, a primordial secretory apparatus is in operation by which proteins are sorted in the early secretory pathway, and the developmentally induced ESVs carry out at least some Golgi functions.


Microbiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 1523-1532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Iwaki ◽  
Akira Hosomi ◽  
Sanae Tokudomi ◽  
Yoko Kusunoki ◽  
Yasuko Fujita ◽  
...  

The mechanism by which soluble proteins, such as carboxypeptidase Y, reach the vacuole in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is very similar to the mechanism of lysosomal protein sorting in mammalian cells. Vps10p is a receptor for transport of soluble vacuolar proteins in S. cerevisiae. vps10 +, a gene encoding a homologue of S. cerevisiae PEP1/VPS10, has been identified and deleted from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Deletion of the vps10 + gene resulted in missorting and secretion of Sch. pombe vacuolar carboxypeptidase Cpy1p, indicating that it is required for targeting Cpy1p to the vacuole. Sch. pombe Vps10p (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 + and vps35 +, encoding homologues of the S. cerevisiae retromer components VPS26, VPS29 and VPS35, were identified and deleted. Fluorescence microscopy demonstrated that SpVps10p mislocalized to the vacuolar membrane in these mutants. These results indicate that the vps26 +, vps29 + and vps35 + gene products are required for retrograde transport of SpVps10p from the prevacuolar compartment back to the Golgi in Sch. pombe cells.


2002 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Fang Huang ◽  
Chien-Cheng Chen ◽  
Luh Tung ◽  
Leh-Miauh Buu ◽  
Fang-Jen S. Lee

Membrane trafficking is regulated, in part, by small GTP-binding proteins of the ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF) family. ARF function depends on the controlled binding and hydrolysis of GTP. In vitro, the GTPase activity of yeast ARF proteins can be stimulated by Gcs1p. Although Gcs1p was implicated in the regulation of retrograde transport from the Golgi to the ER and in actin cytoskeletal organization, its intracellular functions and distribution remain to be established. Following subcellular fractionation of yeast grown in rich medium, Gcs1p was localized in denser fractions than it was in cells grown in minimal medium. In yeast grown in rich or minimal medium, Gcs1p was distributed over the cytoplasm in a fine punctate pattern with more concentrated staining in the perinuclear regions. Overexpressed Gcs1p in yeast was localized partially with mitochondria and partially in perinuclear structures close to mitochondria. The Gcs1p PH-domain was required for localization in mitochondria but not for the perinuclear region. Transport of carboxypeptidase Y and invertase was not significantly altered by disruption of the gcs1 gene. This mutation did, however, reduce mitochondrial lateral distribution and branching when yeast were grown in rich medium. In yeast overexpressing Gcs1p, mitochondrial morphology was aberrant, with unbranched tubules and large spherical structures. We suggest that Gcs1p may be involved in the maintenance of mitochondrial morphology, possibly through organizing the actin cytoskeleton in Saccharomyces.


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