MIA3/TANGO1 enables efficient secretion by constraining COPII vesicle budding
AbstractComplex machinery is required to drive secretory cargo export from the endoplasmic reticulum. In vertebrates, this includes transport and Golgi organization protein 1 (TANGO1), encoded by the Mia3 gene. Here, using genome engineering of human cells light microscopy, secretion assays, and proteomics, we show loss of Mia3/TANGO1 results in formation of numerous vesicles and a loss of early secretory pathway integrity. This restricts secretion not only of large proteins like procollagens but of all types of secretory cargo. Our data shows that Mia3/TANGO1 constrains the propensity of COPII to form vesicles promoting instead the formation of the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment. Thus, Mia3/TANGO1 facilities the secretion of complex and high volume cargoes from vertebrate cells.