scholarly journals Vacuolar H+-ATPase dysfunction rescues intralumenal vesicle cargo sorting in yeast lacking PI(3,5)P2 or Doa4

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary N. Wilson ◽  
Dalton Buysse ◽  
Matt West ◽  
Daniel Ahrens ◽  
Greg Odorizzi

Endosomes undergo a maturation process highlighted by a reduction in lumenal pH, a conversion of surface markers that prime endosome-lysosome fusion, and the sequestration of ubiquitinated transmembrane protein cargoes within intralumenal vesicles (ILVs). We investigated ILV cargo sorting in mutant strains of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that are deficient for either the lysosomal/vacuolar signaling lipid PI(3,5)P2 or the Doa4 ubiquitin hydrolase that deubiquitinates ILV cargoes. Disruption of PI(3,5)P2 synthesis or Doa4 function causes a defect in the sorting of a subset of ILV cargoes. We show that these cargo-sorting defects are suppressed by mutations that disrupt Vph1, which is a subunit of Vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) complexes that acidify late endosomes and vacuoles. We further show that Vph1 dysfunction increases endosome abundance and disrupts vacuolar localization of Ypt7 and Vps41, two critical mediators of endosome-vacuole fusion. Because V-ATPase inhibition attenuates endosome-vacuole fusion and rescues the ILV cargo-sorting defects in yeast lacking PI(3,5)P2 and Doa4 activity, our results suggest that the V-ATPase performs a role in the coordination of ILV cargo sorting with the membrane fusion machinery.

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2516-2526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Lachmann ◽  
Francis A. Barr ◽  
Christian Ungermann

Fusion of organelles in the endomembrane system depends on Rab GTPases that interact with tethering factors before lipid bilayer mixing. In yeast, the Rab5 GTPase Vps21 controls fusion and membrane dynamics between early and late endosomes. Here we identify Msb3/Gyp3 as a specific Vps21 GTPase-activating protein (GAP). Loss of Msb3 results in an accumulation of Vps21 and one of its effectors Vps8, a subunit of the CORVET complex, at the vacuole membrane in vivo. In agreement, Msb3 forms a specific transition complex with Vps21, has the highest activity of all recombinant GAPs for Vps21 in vitro, and is found at vacuoles despite its predominant localization to bud tips and bud necks at the plasma membrane. Surprisingly, Msb3 also inhibits vacuole fusion, which can be rescued by the Ypt7 GDP–GTP exchange factor (GEF), the Mon1–Ccz1 complex. Consistently, msb3∆ vacuoles fuse more efficiently than wild-type vacuoles in vitro, suggesting that GAP can also act on Ypt7. Our data indicate that GAPs such as Msb3 can act on multiple substrates in vivo at both ends of a trafficking pathway. This ensures specificity of the subsequent GEF-mediated activation of the Rab that initiates the next transport event.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 1357-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Arlt ◽  
Kathrin Auffarth ◽  
Rainer Kurre ◽  
Dominik Lisse ◽  
Jacob Piehler ◽  
...  

Organelles of the endolysosomal system undergo multiple fission and fusion events to combine sorting of selected proteins to the vacuole with endosomal recycling. This sorting requires a consecutive remodeling of the organelle surface in the course of endosomal maturation. Here we dissect the remodeling and fusion machinery on endosomes during the process of endocytosis. We traced selected GFP-tagged endosomal proteins relative to exogenously added fluorescently labeled α-factor on its way from the plasma membrane to the vacuole. Our data reveal that the machinery of endosomal fusion and ESCRT proteins has similar temporal localization on endosomes, whereas they precede the retromer cargo recognition complex. Neither deletion of retromer nor the fusion machinery with the vacuole affects this maturation process, although the kinetics seems to be delayed due to ESCRT deletion. Of importance, in strains lacking the active Rab7-like Ypt7 or the vacuolar SNARE fusion machinery, α-factor still proceeds to late endosomes with the same kinetics. This indicates that endosomal maturation is mainly controlled by the early endosomal fusion and remodeling machinery but not the downstream Rab Ypt7 or the SNARE machinery. Our data thus provide important further understanding of endosomal biogenesis in the context of cargo sorting.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (14) ◽  
pp. 7565
Author(s):  
Kyungho Woo ◽  
Dong Ho Kim ◽  
Man Hwan Oh ◽  
Ho Sung Park ◽  
Chul Hee Choi

Quorum sensing of Acinetobacter nosocomialis for cell-to-cell communication produces N-3-hydroxy dodecanoyl-DL-homoserine lactone (OH-dDHL) by an AnoR/I two-component system. However, OH-dDHL-driven apoptotic mechanisms in hosts have not been clearly defined. Here, we investigated the induction of apoptosis signaling pathways in bone marrow-derived macrophages treated with synthetic OH-dDHL. Moreover, the quorum-sensing system for virulence regulation was evaluated in vivo using wild-type and anoI-deletion mutant strains. OH-dDHL decreased the viability of macrophage and epithelial cells in dose- and time-dependent manners. OH-dDHL induced Ca2+ efflux and caspase-12 activation by ER stress transmembrane protein (IRE1 and ATF6a p50) aggregation and induced mitochondrial dysfunction through reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, which caused cytochrome c to leak. Pretreatment with a pan-caspase inhibitor reduced caspase-3, -8, and -9, which were activated by OH-dDHL. Pro-inflammatory cytokine and paraoxonase-2 (PON2) gene expression were increased by OH-dDHL. We showed that the anoI-deletion mutant strains have less intracellular invasion compared to the wild-type strain, and their virulence, such as colonization and dissemination, was decreased in vivo. Consequently, these findings revealed that OH-dDHL, as a virulence factor, contributes to bacterial infection and survival as well as the modification of host responses in the early stages of infection.


1999 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Hałas ◽  
Z Policińska ◽  
H Baranowska ◽  
W J Jachymczyk

We have studied the ability of yeast DNA polymerases to carry out repair of lesions caused by UV irradiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. By the analysis of postirradiation relative molecular mass changes in cellular DNA of different DNA polymerases mutant strains, it was established that mutations in DNA polymerases delta and epsilon showed accumulation of single-strand breaks indicating defective repair. Mutations in other DNA polymerase genes exhibited no defects in DNA repair. Thus, the data obtained suggest that DNA polymerases delta and epsilon are both necessary for DNA replication and for repair of lesions caused by UV irradiation. The results are discussed in the light of current concepts concerning the specificity of DNA polymerases in DNA repair.


1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 4370-4380
Author(s):  
M T Fasullo ◽  
R W Davis

We used the his3 recombinational substrates (his3 fragments) to direct large interchromosomal (translocations) and intrachromosomal (deletions and tandem duplications) rearrangements in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In strains completely deleted for the wild-type HIS3 gene, his3 fragments, one containing a deletion of 5' amino acid coding sequences and the other containing a deletion of 3' amino acid coding sequences, were first placed at preselected sites by homologous recombination. His+ revertants that arose via spontaneous mitotic recombination between the two his3 fragments were selected. This strategy was used to direct rearrangements in both RAD52+ and rad52 mutant strains. Translocations occurred in the RAD52+ genetic background and were characterized by orthogonal field alternating gel electrophoresis of yeast chromosomal DNA and by standard genetic techniques. An unexpected translocation was also identified in which HIS3 sequences were amplified. Two types of tandem duplications of the GAL(7, 10, 1) locus were also directed, and one type was not observed in rad52 mutants. Recombination mechanisms are discussed to account for these differences.


2019 ◽  
Vol 218 (5) ◽  
pp. 1582-1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason C. Casler ◽  
Effrosyni Papanikou ◽  
Juan J. Barrero ◽  
Benjamin S. Glick

Golgi cisternal maturation has been visualized by fluorescence imaging of individual cisternae in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but those experiments did not track passage of a secretory cargo. The expectation is that a secretory cargo will be continuously present within maturing cisternae as resident Golgi proteins arrive and depart. We tested this idea using a regulatable fluorescent secretory cargo that forms ER-localized aggregates, which dissociate into tetramers upon addition of a ligand. The solubilized tetramers rapidly exit the ER and then transit through early and late Golgi compartments before being secreted. Early Golgi cisternae form near the ER and become loaded with the secretory cargo. As predicted, cisternae contain the secretory cargo throughout the maturation process. An unexpected finding is that a burst of intra-Golgi recycling delivers additional secretory cargo molecules to cisternae during the early-to-late Golgi transition. This recycling requires the AP-1 adaptor, suggesting that AP-1 can recycle secretory cargo proteins as well as resident Golgi proteins.


2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 2884-2894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencia B. Schapiro ◽  
Thwe Thwe Soe ◽  
William G. Mallet ◽  
Frederick R. Maxfield

Furin is a transmembrane protein that cycles between the plasma membrane, endosomes, and the trans-Golgi network, maintaining a predominant distribution in the latter. It has been shown previously that Tac-furin, a chimeric protein expressing the extracellular and transmembrane domains of the interleukin-2 receptor α chain (Tac) and the cytoplasmic domain of furin, is delivered from the plasma membrane to the TGN through late endosomes, bypassing the endocytic recycling compartment. Tac-furin also recycles in a loop between the TGN and late endosomes. Localization of furin to the TGN is modulated by a six-amino acid acidic cluster that contains two phosphorylatable serines (SDSEED). We investigated the role of these serines in the trafficking of Tac-furin by using a mutant chimera in which the SDS sequence was replaced by the nonphosphorylatable sequence ADA (Tac-furin/ADA). Although the mutant construct is internalized and delivered to the TGN, both the postendocytic trafficking and the steady-state distribution were found to differ from the wild-type. In contrast with Tac-furin, Tac-furin/ADA does not enter late endosomes after being internalized. Instead, it traffics with transferrin to the endocytic recycling compartment, and from there it is delivered to the TGN. As with Tac-furin, Tac-furin/ADA is sorted from the TGN into late endosomes at steady state, but its retrieval from the late endosomes to the TGN is inhibited. These results suggest that serine phosphorylation plays an important role in at least two steps of Tac-furin trafficking, acting as an active sorting signal that mediates the selective sorting of Tac-furin into late endosomes after internalization, as well as its retrieval from late endosomes back to the TGN.


1988 ◽  
Vol 168 (4) ◽  
pp. 1487-1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
D A Herrington ◽  
R H Hall ◽  
G Losonsky ◽  
J J Mekalanos ◽  
R K Taylor ◽  
...  

Isogenic mutant strains of V. cholerae O1 lacking elements of a genetic regulon controlled by toxR and implicated in virulence were tested in volunteers. A deletion mutation in ctxA, the gene encoding the A subunit of cholera toxin, markedly attenuated disease symptoms without affecting intestinal colonization. Deletion of toxR, the gene encoding the cholera toxin-positive regulatory protein resulted in a diminution in colonizing capacity. A deletion mutation in tcpA, encoding the major subunit of the toxin coregulated pilus (regulated by toxR), abolished the colonizing capacity of this strain. These results show for the first time the role of a specific pilus structure in colonization of the human intestine by V. cholerae O1 and exemplify the significance of a genetic regulon in pathogenesis.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 581-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Lien Yen ◽  
Julie E. Legakis ◽  
Usha Nair ◽  
Daniel J. Klionsky

Autophagy is a catabolic pathway for the degradation of cytosolic proteins or organelles and is conserved among all eukaryotic cells. The hallmark of autophagy is the formation of double-membrane cytosolic vesicles, termed autophagosomes, which sequester cytoplasm; however, the mechanism of vesicle formation and the membrane source remain unclear. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, selective autophagy mediates the delivery of specific cargos to the vacuole, the analog of the mammalian lysosome. The transmembrane protein Atg9 cycles between the mitochondria and the pre-autophagosomal structure, which is the site of autophagosome biogenesis. Atg9 is thought to mediate the delivery of membrane to the forming autophagosome. Here, we characterize a second transmembrane protein Atg27 that is required for specific autophagy in yeast. Atg27 is required for Atg9 cycling and shuttles between the pre-autophagosomal structure, mitochondria, and the Golgi complex. These data support a hypothesis that multiple membrane sources supply the lipids needed for autophagosome formation.


1995 ◽  
Vol 312 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
J C M Holthuis ◽  
M C H M van Riel ◽  
G J M Martens

In the intermediate pituitary gland of Xenopus laevis, the expression levels of the prohormone pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) can be readily manipulated. When the animal is placed on a black background, the gene for POMC is actively transcribed, whereas on a white background the gene is virtually inactive. In this study, we characterized two genes whose transcript levels in the intermediate pituitary are regulated in coordination with that for POMC. One of these codes for a protein homologous to translocon-associated protein TRAP delta, a subunit of a transmembrane protein complex located at the site where nascent secretory proteins enter the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Both Xenopus and mice were found to express an alternatively spliced transcript that gives rise to a previously unknown version of the TRAP delta protein. The product of the second gene is a novel and highly conserved protein with structural similarity to glycoprotein gp25L, a constituent of another translocon-associated protein complex. A database search revealed the existence of a novel family of gp25L-related proteins whose members occur throughout the animal kingdom. Together, our data imply that (i) the group of ER proteins surrounding translocating polypeptide chains may be far more complex than previously expected, and (ii) a number of the accessory components of the translocon participate in early steps of prohormone biosynthesis.


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