scholarly journals Endoplasmic Reticulum-Associated Secretory Proteins Sec20p, Sec39p, and Dsl1p Are Involved in Peroxisome Biogenesis

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 830-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Perry ◽  
Fred D. Mast ◽  
Richard A. Rachubinski
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Secretory Proteins ◽  
Peroxisome Biogenesis ◽  
Gfp Expression ◽  
Peroxisomal Membrane ◽  
Green Fluorescent

ABSTRACT Two pathways have been identified for peroxisome formation: (i) growth and division and (ii) de novo synthesis. Recent experiments determined that peroxisomes originate at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Although many proteins have been implicated in the peroxisome biogenic program, no proteins in the eukaryotic secretory pathway have been identified as having roles in peroxisome formation. Using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae regulatable Tet promoter Hughes clone collection, we found that repression of the ER-associated secretory proteins Sec20p and Sec39p resulted in mislocalization of the peroxisomal matrix protein chimera Pot1p-green fluorescent protein (GFP) to the cytosol. Likewise, the peroxisomal membrane protein chimera Pex3p-GFP localized to tubular-vesicular structures in cells suppressed for Sec20p, Sec39p, and Dsl1p, which form a complex at the ER. Loss of Sec39p attenuated formation of Pex3p-derived peroxisomal structures following galactose induction of Pex3p-GFP expression from the GAL1 promoter. Expression of Sec20p, Sec39p, and Dsl1p was moderately increased in yeast grown under conditions that proliferate peroxisomes, and Sec20p, Sec39p, and Dsl1p were found to cofractionate with peroxisomes and colocalize with Pex3p-monomeric red fluorescent protein under these conditions. Our results show that SEC20, SEC39, and DSL1 are essential secretory genes involved in the early stages of peroxisome assembly, and this work is the first to identify and characterize an ER-associated secretory machinery involved in peroxisome biogenesis.

scholarly journals Chaperone-mediated reflux of secretory proteins to the cytosol during endoplasmic reticulum stress

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (23) ◽  
pp. 11291-11298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aeid Igbaria ◽  
Philip I. Merksamer ◽  
Ala Trusina ◽  
Firehiwot Tilahun ◽  
Jeffrey R. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Er Stress ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Secretory Proteins ◽  
Quality Control Process ◽  
Folded Proteins ◽  
Green Fluorescent

Diverse perturbations to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functions compromise the proper folding and structural maturation of secretory proteins. To study secretory pathway physiology during such “ER stress,” we employed an ER-targeted, redox-responsive, green fluorescent protein—eroGFP—that reports on ambient changes in oxidizing potential. Here we find that diverse ER stress regimes cause properly folded, ER-resident eroGFP (and other ER luminal proteins) to “reflux” back to the reducing environment of the cytosol as intact, folded proteins. By utilizing eroGFP in a comprehensive genetic screen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we show that ER protein reflux during ER stress requires specific chaperones and cochaperones residing in both the ER and the cytosol. Chaperone-mediated ER protein reflux does not require E3 ligase activity, and proceeds even more vigorously when these ER-associated degradation (ERAD) factors are crippled, suggesting that reflux may work in parallel with ERAD. In summary, chaperone-mediated ER protein reflux may be a conserved protein quality control process that evolved to maintain secretory pathway homeostasis during ER protein-folding stress.

Peroxisomal membrane proteins are properly targeted to peroxisomes in the absence of COPI- and COPII-mediated vesicular transport

2001 ◽  
Vol 114 (11) ◽  
pp. 2199-2204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tineke Voorn-Brouwer ◽  
Astrid Kragt ◽  
Henk F. Tabak ◽  
Ben Distel
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Human Fibroblasts ◽  
Vesicle Transport ◽  
Peroxisome Biogenesis ◽  
Peroxisomal Membrane ◽  
Classic Model ◽  
Early Secretory Pathway

The classic model for peroxisome biogenesis states that new peroxisomes arise by the fission of pre-existing ones and that peroxisomal matrix and membrane proteins are recruited directly from the cytosol. Recent studies challenge this model and suggest that some peroxisomal membrane proteins might traffic via the endoplasmic reticulum to peroxisomes. We have studied the trafficking in human fibroblasts of three peroxisomal membrane proteins, Pex2p, Pex3p and Pex16p, all of which have been suggested to transit the endoplasmic reticulum before arriving in peroxisomes. Here, we show that targeting of these peroxisomal membrane proteins is not affected by inhibitors of COPI and COPII that block vesicle transport in the early secretory pathway. Moreover, we have obtained no evidence for the presence of these peroxisomal membrane proteins in compartments other than peroxisomes and demonstrate that COPI and COPII inhibitors do not affect peroxisome morphology or integrity. Together, these data fail to provide any evidence for a role of the endoplasmic reticulum in peroxisome biogenesis.

scholarly journals Exit from mitosis triggers Chs2p transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to mother–daughter neck via the secretory pathway in budding yeast

2006 ◽  
Vol 174 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Zhang ◽  
Rohini Kashimshetty ◽  
Kwee Eng Ng ◽  
Heng Buck Tan ◽  
Foong May Yeong
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Budding Yeast ◽  
Mitotic Exit ◽  
Mitotic Kinase ◽  
Exocyst Complex ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Green Fluorescent ◽  
Dependent Transport

Budding yeast chitin synthase 2 (Chs2p), which lays down the primary septum, localizes to the mother–daughter neck in telophase. However, the mechanism underlying the timely neck localization of Chs2p is not known. Recently, it was found that a component of the exocyst complex, Sec3p–green fluorescent protein, arrives at the neck upon mitotic exit. It is not clear whether the neck localization of Chs2p, which is a cargo of the exocyst complex, was similarly regulated by mitotic exit. We report that Chs2p was restrained in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during metaphase. Furthermore, mitotic exit was sufficient to cause Chs2p neck localization specifically by triggering the Sec12p-dependent transport of Chs2p out of the ER. Chs2p was “forced” prematurely to the neck by mitotic kinase inactivation at metaphase, with chitin deposition occurring between mother and daughter cells. The dependence of Chs2p exit from the ER followed by its transport to the neck upon mitotic exit ensures that septum formation occurs only after the completion of mitotic events.

scholarly journals Mutants of the Yeast Yarrowia lipolyticaDefective in Protein Exit from the Endoplasmic Reticulum Are Also Defective in Peroxisome Biogenesis

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2789-2803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Titorenko ◽  
Richard A. Rachubinski
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Oleic Acid ◽  
Membrane Proteins ◽  
Matrix Proteins ◽  
Secretory Proteins ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Restrictive Temperature ◽  
Peroxisome Biogenesis ◽  
Peroxisomal Membrane ◽  
Mutant Cells

ABSTRACT Mutations in the SEC238 and SRP54 genes of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica not only cause temperature-sensitive defects in the exit of the precursor form of alkaline extracellular protease and of other secretory proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum and in protein secretion but also lead to temperature-sensitive growth in oleic acid-containing medium, the metabolism of which requires the assembly of functionally intact peroxisomes. The sec238A andsrp54KO mutations at the restrictive temperature significantly reduce the size and number of peroxisomes, affect the import of peroxisomal matrix and membrane proteins into the organelle, and significantly delay, but do not prevent, the exit of two peroxisomal membrane proteins, Pex2p and Pex16p, from the endoplasmic reticulum en route to the peroxisomal membrane. Mutations in the PEX1 and PEX6 genes, which encode members of the AAA family of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein-like ATPases, not only affect the exit of precursor forms of secretory proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum but also prevent the exit of the peroxisomal membrane proteins Pex2p and Pex16p from the endoplasmic reticulum and cause the accumulation of an extensive network of endoplasmic reticulum membranes. None of the peroxisomal matrix proteins tested associated with the endoplasmic reticulum in sec238A,srp54KO, pex1-1, and pex6KO mutant cells. Our data provide evidence that the endoplasmic reticulum is required for peroxisome biogenesis and suggest that inY. lipolytica, the trafficking of some membrane proteins, but not matrix proteins, to the peroxisome occurs via the endoplasmic reticulum, results in their glycosylation within the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum, does not involve transport through the Golgi, and requires the products encoded by the SEC238, SRP54,PEX1, and PEX6 genes.

scholarly journals Reevaluation of the role of Pex1 and dynamin-related proteins in peroxisome membrane biogenesis

2015 ◽  
Vol 211 (5) ◽  
pp. 1041-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Motley ◽  
Paul C. Galvin ◽  
Lakhan Ekal ◽  
James M. Nuttall ◽  
Ewald H. Hettema
Keyword(s):  
Protein Delivery ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
Protein Import ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Peroxisome Biogenesis ◽  
Peroxisomal Membrane ◽  
Related Proteins ◽  
Peroxisome Membrane

A recent model for peroxisome biogenesis postulates that peroxisomes form de novo continuously in wild-type cells by heterotypic fusion of endoplasmic reticulum–derived vesicles containing distinct sets of peroxisomal membrane proteins. This model proposes a role in vesicle fusion for the Pex1/Pex6 complex, which has an established role in matrix protein import. The growth and division model proposes that peroxisomes derive from existing peroxisomes. We tested these models by reexamining the role of Pex1/Pex6 and dynamin-related proteins in peroxisome biogenesis. We found that induced depletion of Pex1 blocks the import of matrix proteins but does not affect membrane protein delivery to peroxisomes; markers for the previously reported distinct vesicles colocalize in pex1 and pex6 cells; peroxisomes undergo continued growth if fission is blocked. Our data are compatible with the established primary role of the Pex1/Pex6 complex in matrix protein import and show that peroxisomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae multiply mainly by growth and division.

scholarly journals An evolving paradigm for the secretory pathway?

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (21) ◽  
pp. 3929-3932 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Genetic Studies ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Transport Vesicles ◽  
Green Fluorescent

The paradigm that the secretory pathway consists of a stable endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus, using discrete transport vesicles to exchange their contents, gained important support from groundbreaking biochemical and genetic studies during the 1980s. However, the subsequent development of new imaging technologies with green fluorescent protein introduced data on dynamic processes not fully accounted for by the paradigm. As a result, we may be seeing an example of how a paradigm is evolving to account for the results of new technologies and their new ways of describing cellular processes.

scholarly journals Peroxisome Biogenesis Occurs in an Unsynchronized Manner in Close Association with the Endoplasmic Reticulum in Temperature-sensitiveYarrowia lipolyticaPex3p Mutants

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 939-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger A. Bascom ◽  
Honey Chan ◽  
Richard A. Rachubinski
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Matrix Protein ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Integral Membrane Protein ◽  
Matrix Proteins ◽  
Temperature Sensitive ◽  
Tubular Structures ◽  
Peroxisome Biogenesis

Pex3p is a peroxisomal integral membrane protein required early in peroxisome biogenesis, and Pex3p-deficient cells lack identifiable peroxisomes. Two temperature-sensitive pex3 mutant strains of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica were made to investigate the role of Pex3p in the early stages of peroxisome biogenesis. In glucose medium at 16°C, these mutants underwent de novo peroxisome biogenesis and exhibited early matrix protein sequestration into peroxisome-like structures found at the endoplasmic reticulum-rich periphery of cells or sometimes associated with nuclei. The de novo peroxisome biogenesis seemed unsynchronized, with peroxisomes occurring at different stages of development both within cells and between cells. Cells with peripheral nascent peroxisomes and cells with structures morphologically distinct from peroxisomes, such as semi/circular tubular structures that immunostained with antibodies to peroxisomal matrix proteins and to the endoplasmic reticulum-resident protein Kar2p, and that surrounded lipid droplets, were observed during up-regulation of peroxisome biogenesis in cells incubated in oleic acid medium at 16°C. These structures were not detected in wild-type or Pex3p-deficient cells. Their role in peroxisome biogenesis remains unclear. Targeting of peroxisomal matrix proteins to these structures suggests that Pex3p directly or indirectly sequesters components of the peroxisome biogenesis machinery. Such a role is consistent with Pex3p overexpression producing cells with fewer, larger, and clustered peroxisomes.

scholarly journals Kar2p availability defines distinct forms of endoplasmic reticulum stress in living cells

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 955-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lajoie ◽  
Robyn D. Moir ◽  
Ian M. Willis ◽  
Erik L. Snapp
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Secretory Protein ◽  
Living Cells ◽  
Secretory Proteins ◽  
High Throughput Analysis ◽  
Protein Levels ◽  
Unfolded Protein ◽  
Green Fluorescent ◽  
The Unfolded Protein Response

Accumulation of misfolded secretory proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) activates the unfolded protein response (UPR) stress pathway. To enhance secretory protein folding and promote adaptation to stress, the UPR upregulates ER chaperone levels, including BiP. Here we describe chromosomal tagging of KAR2, the yeast homologue of BiP, with superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP) to create a multifunctional endogenous reporter of the ER folding environment. Changes in Kar2p-sfGFP fluorescence levels directly correlate with UPR activity and represent a robust reporter for high-throughput analysis. A novel second feature of this reporter is that photobleaching microscopy (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) of Kar2p-sfGFP mobility reports on the levels of unfolded secretory proteins in individual cells, independent of UPR status. Kar2p-sfGFP mobility decreases upon treatment with tunicamycin or dithiothreitol, consistent with increased levels of unfolded proteins and the incorporation of Kar2p-sfGFP into slower-diffusing complexes. During adaptation, we observe a significant lag between down-regulation of the UPR and resolution of the unfolded protein burden. Finally, we find that Kar2p-sfGFP mobility significantly increases upon inositol withdrawal, which also activates the UPR, apparently independent of unfolded protein levels. Thus Kar2p mobility represents a powerful new tool capable of distinguishing between the different mechanisms leading to UPR activation in living cells.

scholarly journals Grapevine Fanleaf Virus Replication Occurs on Endoplasmic Reticulum-Derived Membranes

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (17) ◽  
pp. 8808-8819 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Ritzenthaler ◽  
C. Laporte ◽  
F. Gaire ◽  
P. Dunoyer ◽  
C. Schmitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Virus Replication ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Rna Virus ◽  
Lipid Synthesis ◽  
Cell Movement ◽  
Brefeldin A ◽  
Cell Periphery ◽  
Green Fluorescent

ABSTRACT Infection by Grapevine fanleaf nepovirus (GFLV), a bipartite RNA virus of positive polarity belonging to the Comoviridae family, causes extensive cytopathic modifications of the host endomembrane system that eventually culminate in the formation of a perinuclear “viral compartment.” We identified by immunoconfocal microscopy this compartment as the site of virus replication since it contained the RNA1-encoded proteins necessary for replication, newly synthesized viral RNA, and double-stranded replicative forms. In addition, by using transgenic T-BY2 protoplasts expressing green fluorescent protein in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or in the Golgi apparatus (GA), we could directly show that GFLV replication induced a depletion of the cortical ER, together with a condensation and redistribution of ER-derived membranes, to generate the viral compartment. Brefeldin A, a drug known to inhibit vesicle trafficking between the GA and the ER, was found to inhibit GFLV replication. Cerulenin, a drug inhibiting de novo synthesis of phospholipids, also inhibited GFLV replication. These observations imply that GFLV replication depends both on ER-derived membrane recruitment and on de novo lipid synthesis. In contrast to proteins involved in viral replication, the 2B movement protein and, to a lesser extent, the 2C coat protein were not confined to the viral compartment but were transported toward the cell periphery, a finding consistent with their role in cell-to-cell movement of virus particles.

scholarly journals Chaperone-Mediated Reflux of Secretory Proteins to the Cytosol During Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aeid Igbaria ◽  
Philip I. Merksamer ◽  
Ala Trusina ◽  
Firehiwot Tilahun ◽  
Jefferey R. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Er Stress ◽  
Secretory Pathway ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Fluorescent Protein ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Secretory Proteins ◽  
Er Quality Control ◽  
Quality Control Process

ABSTRACTDiverse perturbations to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functions compromise the proper folding and structural maturation of secretory proteins. To study secretory pathway physiology during such “ER stress”, we employed an ER-targeted, redox-responsive, green fluorescent protein—eroGFP—that reports on ambient changes in oxidizing potential. Here we find that diverse ER stress agents cause properly folded, ER-resident eroGFP (and other ER luminal proteins) to “reflux” back to the reducing environment of the cytosol as intact, folded proteins. By utilizing eroGFP in a comprehensive genetic screen in S. cerevisiae, we show that ER protein reflux during ER stress requires specific chaperones and co-chaperones residing in both the ER and the cytosol. Chaperone-mediated ER protein reflux does not require E3 ligase activity, and proceeds even more vigorously when these ER-associated degradation (ERAD) factors are crippled, suggesting that reflux may work in parallel with ERAD. In summary, chaperone-mediated ER-protein reflux may be a conserved protein quality control process that evolved to maintain secretory pathway homeostasis during ER protein-folding stress.SIGNIFICANCEApproximately one third of eukaryotic proteins are synthesized on ribosomes attached to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane. Many of these polypeptides co- or post-translationally translocate into the ER, wherein they fold and mature. An ER quality-control system proofreads these proteins by facilitating their folding and modification, while eliminating misfolded proteins through ER-associated degradation (ERAD). Yet, the fate of many secretory proteins during ER stress is not completely understood. Here, we uncovered an ER-stress induced “protein reflux” system that delivers intact, folded ER luminal proteins back to the cytosol without degrading them. We found that ER protein reflux works in parallel to ERAD and requires distinct ER-resident and cytosolic chaperones and co-chaperones.

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