scholarly journals Arf1 orchestrates Rab GTPase conversion at the trans-Golgi network

2021 ◽  
pp. mbc.E20-10-0664
Author(s):  
Laura L. Thomas ◽  
Carolyn M. Highland ◽  
J. Christopher Fromme
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Rab Gtpase ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Membrane Domains ◽  
Trans Golgi Network ◽  
Important Regulator ◽  
And Function ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
New Evidence

Rab family GTPases are key organizers of membrane trafficking and function as markers of organelle identity. Accordingly, Rab GTPases often occupy specific membrane domains and mechanisms exist to prevent the inappropriate mixing of distinct Rab domains. The yeast Golgi complex can be divided into two broad Rab domains: Ypt1 (Rab1) and Ypt6 (Rab6) are present at the early/medial Golgi and sharply transition to Ypt31/32 (Rab11) at the late Golgi/ trans-Golgi network (TGN). This Rab conversion has been attributed to GAP cascades in which Ypt31/32 recruits the Rab-GAPs Gyp1 and Gyp6 to inactivate Ypt1 and Ypt6, respectively. Here we report that Rab transition at the TGN involves additional layers of regulation. We provide new evidence confirming the TRAPPII complex as an important regulator of Ypt6 inactivation and uncover an unexpected role of the Arf1 GTPase in recruiting Gyp1 to drive Ypt1 inactivation at the TGN. Given its established role in directly recruiting TRAPPII to the TGN, Arf1 is therefore a master regulator of Rab conversion on maturing Golgi compartments.

scholarly journals Sphingomyelin homeostasis is required to form functional enzymatic domains at the trans-Golgi network

2014 ◽  
Vol 206 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josse van Galen ◽  
Felix Campelo ◽  
Emma Martínez-Alonso ◽  
Margherita Scarpa ◽  
José Ángel Martínez-Menárguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Hela Cells ◽  
Transmembrane Proteins ◽  
Short Chain ◽  
Membrane Domains ◽  
Trans Golgi Network ◽  
And Function ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
Specific Membrane

Do lipids such as sphingomyelin (SM) that are known to assemble into specific membrane domains play a role in the organization and function of transmembrane proteins? In this paper, we show that disruption of SM homeostasis at the trans-Golgi network (TGN) by treatment of HeLa cells with d-ceramide-C6, which was converted together with phosphatidylcholine to short-chain SM and diacylglycerol by SM synthase, led to the segregation of Golgi-resident proteins from each other. We found that TGN46, which cycles between the TGN and the plasma membrane, was not sialylated by a sialyltransferase at the TGN and that this enzyme and its substrate TGN46 could not physically interact with each other. Our results suggest that SM organizes transmembrane proteins into functional enzymatic domains at the TGN.

GGA proteins: new players in the sorting game

2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (19) ◽  
pp. 3413-3418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette L. Boman
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Sequence Homology ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Gene Knockout ◽  
Protein Domains ◽  
Vesicle Formation ◽  
Trans Golgi Network ◽  
And Function ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
Cargo Sorting

The GGA proteins are a novel family of proteins that were discovered nearly simultaneously by several labs studying very different aspects of membrane trafficking. Since then, several studies have described the GGA proteins and their functions in yeast and mammalian cells. Four protein domains are present in all GGA proteins, as defined by sequence homology and function. These different domains interact directly with ARF proteins, cargo and clathrin. Alteration of the levels of GGA proteins by gene knockout or overexpression affects specific trafficking events between the trans-Golgi network and endosomes. These data suggest that GGAs function as ARF-dependent, monomeric clathrin adaptors to facilitate cargo sorting and vesicle formation at the trans-Golgi network.

scholarly journals Multiplex image-based autophagy RNAi screening identifies SMCR8 as ULK1 kinase activity and gene expression regulator

eLife ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Jung ◽  
Arnab Nayak ◽  
Véronique Schaeffer ◽  
Tatjana Starzetz ◽  
Achim K Kirsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Gene Locus ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Degradation Pathway ◽  
Rab Gtpase ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Mrna Expression Analysis ◽  
Different Populations

Autophagy is an intracellular recycling and degradation pathway that depends on membrane trafficking. Rab GTPases are central for autophagy but their regulation especially through the activity of Rab GEFs remains largely elusive. We employed a RNAi screen simultaneously monitoring different populations of autophagosomes and identified 34 out of 186 Rab GTPase, GAP and GEF family members as potential autophagy regulators, amongst them SMCR8. SMCR8 uses overlapping binding regions to associate with C9ORF72 or with a C9ORF72-ULK1 kinase complex holo-assembly, which function in maturation and formation of autophagosomes, respectively. While focusing on the role of SMCR8 during autophagy initiation, we found that kinase activity and gene expression of ULK1 are increased upon SMCR8 depletion. The latter phenotype involved association of SMCR8 with the ULK1 gene locus. Global mRNA expression analysis revealed that SMCR8 regulates transcription of several other autophagy genes including WIPI2. Collectively, we established SMCR8 as multifaceted negative autophagy regulator.

scholarly journals Systematic functional analysis of rab GTPases reveals limits of neuronal robustness to environmental challenges in flies

eLife ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friederike E Kohrs ◽  
Ilsa-Maria Daumann ◽  
Bojana Pavlovic ◽  
Eugene Jennifer Jin ◽  
F Ridvan Kiral ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Continuous Stimulation ◽  
Different Temperatures ◽  
Morphological Defects ◽  
And Function

Rab GTPases are molecular switches that regulate membrane trafficking in all cells. Neurons have particular demands on membrane trafficking and express numerous Rab GTPases of unknown function. Here, we report the generation and characterization of molecularly defined null mutants for all 26 rab genes in Drosophila. In flies, all rab genes are expressed in the nervous system where at least half exhibit particularly high levels compared to other tissues. Surprisingly, loss of any of these 13 nervous system-enriched Rabs yielded viable and fertile flies without obvious morphological defects. However, all 13 mutants differentially affected development when challenged with different temperatures, or neuronal function when challenged with continuous stimulation. We identified a synaptic maintenance defect following continuous stimulation for six mutants, including an autophagy-independent role of rab26. The complete mutant collection generated in this study provides a basis for further comprehensive studies of Rab GTPases during development and function in vivo.

scholarly journals Functional dissection of Rab GTPases involved in primary cilium formation

2007 ◽  
Vol 178 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shin-ichiro Yoshimura ◽  
Johannes Egerer ◽  
Evelyn Fuchs ◽  
Alexander K. Haas ◽  
Francis A. Barr
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Primary Cilia ◽  
Rab Gtpase ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Microtubule Cytoskeleton ◽  
Gtpase Activating Proteins ◽  
Cilia Formation ◽  
Sensory Structures ◽  
And Function ◽  
Specific Membrane

Primary cilia are sensory structures involved in morphogen signalling during development, liquid flow in the kidney, mechanosensation, sight, and smell (Badano, J.L., N. Mitsuma, P.L. Beales, and N. Katsanis. 2006. Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet. 7:125–148; Singla, V., and J.F. Reiter. 2006. Science. 313:629–633.). Mutations that affect primary cilia are responsible for several diseases, including neural tube defects, polycystic kidney disease, retinal degeneration, and cancers (Badano et al., 2006; Singla and Reiter, 2006). Primary cilia formation and function requires tight integration of the microtubule cytoskeleton with membrane trafficking (Singla and Reiter, 2006), and this is poorly understood. We show that the Rab GTPase membrane trafficking regulators Rab8a, -17, and -23, and their cognate GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs), XM_037557, TBC1D7, and EVI5like, are involved in primary cilia formation. However, other human Rabs and GAPs are not. Additionally, Rab8a specifically interacts with cenexin/ODF2, a basal body and microtubule binding protein required for cilium biogenesis (Ishikawa, H., A. Kubo, S. Tsukita, and S. Tsukita. 2005. Nat. Cell Biol. 7:517–524), and is the sole Rab enriched at primary cilia. These findings provide a basis for understanding how specific membrane trafficking pathways cooperate with the microtubule cytoskeleton to give rise to the primary cilia.

scholarly journals Contrasting patterns in the evolution of the Rab GTPase family in Archaeplastida

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romana Petrželková ◽  
Marek Eliáš
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Endocytic Pathway ◽  
Rab Gtpase ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Eukaryotic Diversity ◽  
Limited Sampling ◽  
Primary Plastid ◽  
Core Eudicots ◽  
Stem Lineage

Rab GTPases are a vast group of proteins serving a role of master regulators in membrane trafficking in eukaryotes. Previous studies delineated some 23 Rab and Rab-like paralogs ancestral for eukaryotes and mapped their current phylogenetic distribution, but the analyses relied on a limited sampling of the eukaryotic diversity. Taking advantage of the recent growth of genome and transcriptome resources for phylogenetically diverse plants and algae, we reanalyzed the evolution of the Rab family in eukaryotes with the primary plastid, collectively constituting the presumably monophyletic supergroup Archaeplastida. Our most important novel findings are as follows: (i) the ancestral set of Rabs in Archaeplastida included not only the paralogs Rab1, Rab2, Rab5, Rab6, Rab7, Rab8, Rab11, Rab18, Rab23, Rab24, Rab28, IFT27, and RTW (=Rabl2), as suggested previously, but also Rab14 and Rab34, because Rab14 exists in glaucophytes and Rab34 is present in glaucophytes and some green algae; (ii) except in embryophytes, Rab gene duplications have been rare in Archaeplastida. Most notable is the independent emergence of divergent, possibly functionally novel, in-paralogs of Rab1 and Rab11 in several archaeplastidial lineages; (iii) recurrent gene losses have been a significant factor shaping Rab gene complements in archaeplastidial species; for example, the Rab21 paralog was lost at least six times independently within Archaeplastida, once in the lineage leading to the “core” eudicots; (iv) while the glaucophyte <em>Cyanophora paradoxa</em> has retained the highest number of ancestral Rab paralogs among all archaeplastidial species studied so far, rhodophytes underwent an extreme reduction of the Rab gene set along their stem lineage, resulting in only six paralogs (Rab1, Rab2, Rab6, Rab7, Rab11, and Rab18) present in modern red algae. Especially notable is the absence of Rab5, a virtually universal paralog essential for the endocytic pathway, suggesting that endocytosis has been highly reduced or rewired in rhodophytes.

scholarly journals Rab14 Is Involved in Membrane Trafficking between the Golgi Complex and Endosomes

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 2218-2229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagath R. Junutula ◽  
Ann M. De Maziére ◽  
Andrew A. Peden ◽  
Karen E. Ervin ◽  
Raj J. Advani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Transferrin Receptor ◽  
Early Endosome ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Golgi Region ◽  
Intracellular Compartments ◽  
Recycling Pathway ◽  
And Function ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
Transferrin Uptake

Rab GTPases are localized to various intracellular compartments and are known to play important regulatory roles in membrane trafficking. Here, we report the subcellular distribution and function of Rab14. By immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy, both endogenous as well as overexpressed Rab14 were localized to biosynthetic (rough endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and trans-Golgi network) and endosomal compartments (early endosomal vacuoles and associated vesicles). Notably overexpression of Rab14Q70L shifted the distribution toward the early endosome associated vesicles, whereas the S25N and N124I mutants induced a shift toward the Golgi region. A similar, although less pronounced, redistribution of the transferrin receptor was also observed in cells overexpressing Rab14 mutants. Impairment of Rab14 function did not however affect transferrin uptake or recycling kinetics. Together, these findings suggest that Rab14 is involved in the biosynthetic/recycling pathway between the Golgi and endosomal compartments.

LRRK2 and Rab GTPases

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1707-1712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne R. Pfeffer
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Protein Function ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Rab Gtpase ◽  
Rab Gtpases ◽  
Rab Protein ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Preferential Binding ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Mutant Lrrk2

Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is mutated in familial Parkinson's disease, and pathogenic mutations activate the kinase activity. A tour de force screen by Mann and Alessi and co-workers identified a subset of Rab GTPases as bona fide LRRK2 substrates. Rab GTPases are master regulators of membrane trafficking and this short review will summarize what we know about the connection between LRRK2 and this family of regulatory proteins. While, in most cases, Rab GTPase phosphorylation is predicted to interfere with Rab protein function, the discovery of proteins that show preferential binding to phosphorylated Rabs suggests that more complex interactions may also contribute to mutant LRRK2-mediated pathology.

Dual-color visualization of trans-Golgi network to plasma membrane traffic along microtubules in living cells

1999 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Toomre ◽  
P. Keller ◽  
J. White ◽  
J.C. Olivo ◽  
K. Simons
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Protein Trafficking ◽  
Membrane Traffic ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Tubular Structures ◽  
Trans Golgi Network ◽  
Vesicular Stomatitis ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
Color Visualization

The mechanisms and carriers responsible for exocytic protein trafficking between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and the plasma membrane remain unclear. To investigate the dynamics of TGN-to-plasma membrane traffic and role of the cytoskeleton in these processes we transfected cells with a GFP-fusion protein, vesicular stomatitis virus G protein tagged with GFP (VSVG3-GFP). After using temperature shifts to block VSVG3-GFP in the endoplasmic reticulum and subsequently accumulate it in the TGN, dynamics of TGN-to-plasma membrane transport were visualized in real time by confocal and video microscopy. Both small vesicles (&lt;250 nm) and larger vesicular-tubular structures (&gt;1.5 microm long) are used as transport containers (TCs). These TCs rapidly moved out of the Golgi along curvilinear paths with average speeds of approximately 0.7 micrometer/second. Automatic computer tracking objectively determined the dynamics of different carriers. Fission and fusion of TCs were observed, suggesting that these late exocytic processes are highly interactive. To directly determine the role of microtubules in post-Golgi traffic, rhodamine-tubulin was microinjected and both labeled cargo and microtubules were simultaneously visualized in living cells. These studies demonstrated that exocytic cargo moves along microtubule tracks and reveals that carriers are capable of switching between tracks.

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