scholarly journals Vacuolar protein sorting receptor in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Microbiology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 1523-1532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Iwaki ◽  
Akira Hosomi ◽  
Sanae Tokudomi ◽  
Yoko Kusunoki ◽  
Yasuko Fujita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Schizosaccharomyces Pombe ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Retrograde Transport ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Type I ◽  
Tail Domain ◽  
Vacuolar Protein

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.

Live-cell visualization of transmembrane protein oligomerization and membrane fusion using two-fragment haptoEGFP methodology

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek J. Quinn ◽  
Neil V. McFerran ◽  
John Nelson ◽  
W. Paul Duprex
Keyword(s):  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Measles Virus ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation ◽  
Type I ◽  
Protein Oligomerization ◽  
Fluorescent Signal ◽  
Enveloped Virus

Protein interactions play key roles throughout all subcellular compartments. In the present paper, we report the visualization of protein interactions throughout living mammalian cells using two oligomerizing MV (measles virus) transmembrane glycoproteins, the H (haemagglutinin) and the F (fusion) glycoproteins, which mediate MV entry into permissive cells. BiFC (bimolecular fluorescence complementation) has been used to examine the dimerization of these viral glycoproteins. The H glycoprotein is a type II membrane-receptor-binding homodimeric glycoprotein and the F glycoprotein is a type I disulfide-linked membrane glycoprotein which homotrimerizes. Together they co-operate to allow the enveloped virus to enter a cell by fusing the viral and cellular membranes. We generated a pair of chimaeric H glycoproteins linked to complementary fragments of EGFP (enhanced green fluorescent protein) – haptoEGFPs – which, on association, generate fluorescence. Homodimerization of H glycoproteins specifically drives this association, leading to the generation of a fluorescent signal in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum), the Golgi and at the plasma membrane. Similarly, the generation of a pair of corresponding F glycoprotein–haptoEGFP chimaeras also produced a comparable fluorescent signal. Co-expression of H and F glycoprotein chimaeras linked to complementary haptoEGFPs led to the formation of fluorescent fusion complexes at the cell surface which retained their biological activity as evidenced by cell-to-cell fusion.

scholarly journals Involvement of Specific COPI Subunits in Protein Sorting from the Late Endosome to the Vacuole in Yeast

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Gabriely ◽  
Rachel Kama ◽  
Jeffrey E. Gerst
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Multivesicular Body ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Direct Role ◽  
Vacuolar Protein Sorting ◽  
Early Secretory Pathway ◽  
Physical Interactions ◽  
Vacuolar Protein

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.

scholarly journals The cytoplasmic tail domain of the vacuolar protein sorting receptor Vps10p and a subset of VPS gene products regulate receptor stability, function, and localization.

1995 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 1089-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J L Cereghino ◽  
E G Marcusson ◽  
S D Emr
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Tail ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Receptor Protein ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Type I ◽  
Mutant Form ◽  
Gene Products ◽  
Tail Domain ◽  
Vacuolar Protein ◽  
Class E

VPS10 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a type I transmembrane receptor protein required for the sorting of the soluble vacuolar hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y (CPY). To characterize the essential structural features and intercompartmental transport itinerary of the CPY receptor, we have constructed mutant forms of Vps10p that alter the carboxyterminal cytoplasmic tail of the protein. In addition, we have analyzed the effect these mutations as well as mutations in several VPS genes have on the function, stability, and localization of Vps10p. Although wild-type Vps10p is very stable over a 3-h chase period, overproduction of Vps10p results in PEP4-dependent degradation of the receptor. Immunofluorescence studies indicate that overexpressed receptor is delivered to the vacuole. A mutant form of Vps10p, in which 157 residues of the 164-residue cytoplasmic tail domain have been deleted, missorts CPY and is degraded rapidly. Additional mutations in the carboxy-terminus of Vps10p, including a deletion of a putative retention/recycling signal (FYVF), also result in CPY missorting and PEP4-dependent receptor instability. Because the cytoplasmic tail domain may interact with other factors, possibly VPS gene products, Vps10p stability was examined in a number of vps mutants. As was observed with the late Golgi protein Kex2p, Vps10p is unstable in a vps1 mutant. However, instability of Vps10p is even more severe in the class E vps mutants. Double mutant analyses demonstrate that this rapid degradation is dependent upon vacuolar proteases and a functional vacuolar ATPase. Fractionation studies of Vps10p in class E vps mutant strains indicate that the turnover of Vps10p occurs in a compartment other than the vacuole. These data are consistent with a model in which the cytoplasmic tail of Vps10p directs cycling of the receptor between a late Golgi sorting compartment and a prevacuolar endosome-like compartment, an exaggerated form of which is present in the vps class E mutants.

scholarly journals Multilamellar endosome-like compartment accumulates in the yeast vps28 vacuolar protein sorting mutant.

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 985-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
S E Rieder ◽  
L M Banta ◽  
K Köhrer ◽  
J M McCaffery ◽  
S D Emr
Keyword(s):  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Retrograde Transport ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Coat Proteins ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Intense Staining ◽  
Vacuolar Protein Sorting ◽  
Vacuolar Protein ◽  
Class E

In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, vacuolar proteins such as carboxypeptidase Y transit from the Golgi to the lysosome-like vacuole via an endosome-like intermediate compartment. The vacuolar protein sorting (vps) mutant vps28, a member of the "class E" vps mutants, accumulates vacuolar, endocytic, and late Golgi markers in an aberrant endosome-like class E compartment. Sequence analysis of VPS28 revealed an open reading frame predicted to encode a hydrophilic protein of 242 amino acids. Consistent with this, polyclonal antiserum raised against Vps28p recognized a cytoplasmic protein of 28 kDa. Disruption of VPS28 resulted in moderate defects in both biosynthetic traffic and endocytic traffic destined for the vacuole. The transport of soluble vacuolar hydrolases to the vacuole was impaired in vps28 null mutant cells (approximately 40-50% carboxypeptidase Y missorted). Internalization of the endocytic marker FM 4-64, a vital lipophilic dye, resulted in intense staining of a small intracellular compartment adjacent to an enlarged vacuole in delta vps28 cells. Furthermore, the vacuolar H+-ATPase accumulated in the perivacuolar class E compartment in delta vps28 cells, as did a-factor receptor Ste3p that was internalized from the plasma membrane. Electron microscopic analysis revealed the presence of a novel compartment consisting of stacks of curved membrane cisternae. Immunolocalization studies demonstrated that the vacuolar H+-ATPase is associated with this cupped cisternal structure, indicating that it corresponds to the class E compartment observed by fluorescence microscopy. Our data indicate that kinetic defects in both anterograde and retrograde transport out of the prevacuolar compartment in vps28 mutants result in the accumulation of protein and membrane in an exaggerated multilamellar endosomal compartment. We propose that Vps28p, as well as other class E Vps proteins, may facilitate (possibly as coat proteins) the formation of transport intermediates required for efficient transport out of the prevacuolar endosome.

scholarly journals Vps10p cycles between the late-Golgi and prevacuolar compartments in its function as the sorting receptor for multiple yeast vacuolar hydrolases.

1996 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
A A Cooper ◽  
T H Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acid ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Type I ◽  
Binding Studies ◽  
Cytosolic Domain ◽  
Sorting Receptor ◽  
Vacuolar Protein

VPS10 (Vacuolar Protein Sorting) encodes a large type I transmembrane protein (Vps10p), involved in the sorting of the soluble vacuolar hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae lysosome-like vacuole. Cells lacking Vps10p missorted greater than 90% CPY and 50% of another vacuolar hydrolase, PrA, to the cell surface. In vitro equilibrium binding studies established that the 1,380-amino acid lumenal domain of Vps10p binds CPY precursor in a 1:1 stoichiometry, further supporting the assignment of Vps10p as the CPY sorting receptor. Vps10p has been immunolocalized to the late-Golgi compartment where CPY is sorted away from the secretory pathway. Vps10p is synthesized at a rate 20-fold lower that that of its ligand CPY, which in light of the 1:1 binding stoichiometry, requires that Vps10p must recycle and perform multiple rounds of CPY sorting. The 164-amino acid Vps10p cytosolic domain is involved in receptor trafficking, as deletion of this domain resulted in delivery of the mutant Vps10p to the vacuole, the default destination for membrane proteins in yeast. A tyrosine-based signal (YSSL80) within the cytosolic domain enables Vps10p to cycle between the late-Golgi and prevacuolar/endosomal compartments. This tyrosine-based signal is homologous to the recycling signal of the mammalian mannose-6-phosphate receptor. A second yeast gene, VTH2, encodes a protein highly homologous to Vps10p which, when over-produced, is capable of suppressing the CPY and PrA missorting defects of a vps10 delta strain. These results indicate that a family of related receptors act to target soluble hydrolases to the vacuole.

scholarly journals Isolation and Characterization of Aspergillus oryzae Vacuolar Protein Sorting Mutants

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 4856-4861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamoru Ohneda ◽  
Manabu Arioka ◽  
Katsuhiko Kitamoto
Keyword(s):  
Cell Polarity ◽  
Aspergillus Oryzae ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Vacuolar Protein Sorting ◽  
Ph Response ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
Vacuolar Protein ◽  
Egfp Fluorescence

ABSTRACT The vacuolar protein sorting (vps) system in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus oryzae, which has unique cell polarity and the ability to secrete large amounts of proteins, was evaluated by using mutants that missort vacuolar proteins into the medium. Vacuolar carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) fused with enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) was used as a vacuolar marker. Twenty dfc (dim EGFP fluorescence in conidia) mutants with reduced intracellular EGFP fluorescence in conidia were isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting from approximately 20,000 UV-treated conidia. Similarly, 22 hfm (hyper-EGFP fluorescence released into the medium) mutants with increased extracellular EGFP fluorescence were isolated by using a fluorescence microplate reader from approximately 20,000 UV-treated conidia. The dfc and hfm mutant phenotypes were pH dependent, and missorting of CPY-EGFP could vary by 10- to 40-fold depending on the ambient pH. At pH 5.5, the dfc-14 and hfm-4 mutants had an abnormal hyphal morphology that is consistent with fragmentation of vacuoles and defects in cell polarity. In contrast, the hyphal and vacuolar morphology of the dfc-14 and hfm-4 mutants was normal at pH 8.0, although CPY-EGFP accumulated in perivacuolar dot-like structures similar to the class E compartments in Saccharomyces cerevisiae vps mutants. In hfm-21, CPY-EGFP localized at the Spitzenkörper when the mutant was grown at pH 8.0 but not in vacuoles, suggesting that hfm-21 may transport CPY-EGFP via a novel pathway that involves the Spitzenkörper. Correlations between vacuolar protein sorting, pH response, and cell polarity are reported for the first time for filamentous fungi.

scholarly journals Endosome to Golgi Retrieval of the Vacuolar Protein Sorting Receptor, Vps10p, Requires the Function of the VPS29, VPS30, and VPS35 Gene Products

1997 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew N.J. Seaman ◽  
Eric G. Marcusson ◽  
Joan Lin Cereghino ◽  
Scott D. Emr
Keyword(s):  
Transmembrane Protein ◽  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Vacuolar Membrane ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Gene Products ◽  
C Elegans ◽  
Conditional Allele ◽  
Proteinase A ◽  
Sorting Receptor ◽  
Vacuolar Protein

Mutations in the S. cerevisiae VPS29 and VPS30 genes lead to a selective protein sorting defect in which the vacuolar protein carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) is missorted and secreted from the cell, while other soluble vacuolar hydrolases like proteinase A (PrA) are delivered to the vacuole. This phenotype is similar to that seen in cells with mutations in the previously characterized VPS10 and VPS35 genes. Vps10p is a late Golgi transmembrane protein that acts as the sorting receptor for soluble vacuolar hydrolases like CPY and PrA, while Vps35p is a peripheral membrane protein which cofractionates with membranes enriched in Vps10p. The sequences of the VPS29, VPS30, and VPS35 genes do not yet give any clues to the functions of their products. Each is predicted to encode a hydrophilic protein with homologues in the human and C. elegans genomes. Interestingly, mutations in the VPS29, VPS30, or VPS35 genes change the subcellular distribution of the Vps10 protein, resulting in a shift of Vps10p from the Golgi to the vacuolar membrane. The route that Vps10p takes to reach the vacuole in a vps35 mutant does not depend upon Sec1p mediated arrival at the plasma membrane but does require the activity of the pre-vacuolar endosomal t-SNARE, Pep12p. A temperature conditional allele of the VPS35 gene was generated and has been found to cause missorting/secretion of CPY and also Vps10p to mislocalize to a vacuolar membrane fraction at the nonpermissive temperature. Vps35p continues to cofractionate with Vps10p in vps29 mutants, suggesting that Vps10p and Vps35p may directly interact. Together, the data indicate that the VPS29, VPS30, and VPS35 gene products are required for the normal recycling of Vps10p from the prevacuolar endosome back to the Golgi where it can initiate additional rounds of vacuolar hydrolase sorting.

scholarly journals ADP-Ribosylation Factor (ARF) Interaction Is Not Sufficient for Yeast GGA Protein Function or Localization

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 3078-3095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette L. Boman ◽  
Paul D. Salo ◽  
Melissa J. Hauglund ◽  
Nicole L. Strand ◽  
Shelly J. Rensink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Protein Localization ◽  
Carboxypeptidase Y ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Adp Ribosylation ◽  
And Function ◽  
Adp Ribosylation Factor

Golgi-localized γ-ear homology domain, ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF)-binding proteins (GGAs) facilitate distinct steps of post-Golgi traffic. Human and yeast GGA proteins are only ∼25% identical, but all GGA proteins have four similar domains based on function and sequence homology. GGA proteins are most conserved in the region that interacts with ARF proteins. To analyze the role of ARF in GGA protein localization and function, we performed mutational analyses of both human and yeast GGAs. To our surprise, yeast and human GGAs differ in their requirement for ARF interaction. We describe a point mutation in both yeast and mammalian GGA proteins that eliminates binding to ARFs. In mammalian cells, this mutation disrupts the localization of human GGA proteins. Yeast Gga function was studied using an assay for carboxypeptidase Y missorting and synthetic temperature-sensitive lethality between GGAs andVPS27. Based on these assays, we conclude that non-Arf-binding yeast Gga mutants can function normally in membrane trafficking. Using green fluorescent protein-tagged Gga1p, we show that Arf interaction is not required for Gga localization to the Golgi. Truncation analysis of Gga1p and Gga2p suggests that the N-terminal VHS domain and C-terminal hinge and ear domains play significant roles in yeast Gga protein localization and function. Together, our data suggest that yeast Gga proteins function to assemble a protein complex at the late Golgi to initiate proper sorting and transport of specific cargo. Whereas mammalian GGAs must interact with ARF to localize to and function at the Golgi, interaction between yeast Ggas and Arf plays a minor role in Gga localization and function.

Recruitment of the endosomal WASH complex is mediated by the extended ‘tail’ of Fam21 binding to the retromer protein Vps35

2012 ◽  
Vol 442 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael E. Harbour ◽  
Sophia Y. Breusegem ◽  
Matthew N. J. Seaman
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Protein Sorting ◽  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Membrane Association ◽  
Tail Domain ◽  
Fk506 Binding Protein ◽  
Retromer Complex ◽  
Multimeric Protein ◽  
Vacuolar Protein ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The retromer complex is a conserved endosomal protein sorting complex that sorts membrane proteins into nascent endosomal tubules. The recognition of membrane proteins is mediated by the cargo-selective retromer complex, a stable trimer of the Vps35 (vacuolar protein sorting 35), Vps29 and Vps26 proteins. We have recently reported that the cargo-selective retromer complex associates with the WASH (Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome homologue) complex, a multimeric protein complex that regulates tubule dynamics at endosomes. In the present study, we show that the retromer–WASH complex interaction occurs through the long unstructured ‘tail’ domain of the WASH complex–Fam21 protein binding to Vps35, an interaction that is necessary and sufficient to target the WASH complex to endosomes. The Fam21-tail also binds to FKBP15 (FK506-binding protein 15), a protein associated with ulcerative colitis, to mediate the membrane association of FKBP15. Elevated Fam21-tail expression inhibits the association of the WASH complex with retromer, resulting in increased cytoplasmic WASH complex. Additionally, overexpression of the Fam21-tail results in cell-spreading defects, implicating the activity of the WASH complex in regulating the mobilization of membrane into the endosome-to-cell surface pathway.

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