scholarly journals Syntaxin 16’s Newly Deciphered Roles in Autophagy

Cells ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bor Luen Tang

Syntaxin 16, a Qa-SNARE (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor activating protein receptor), is involved in a number of membrane-trafficking activities, particularly transport processes at the trans-Golgi network (TGN). Recent works have now implicated syntaxin 16 in the autophagy process. In fact, syntaxin 16 appears to have dual roles, firstly in facilitating the transport of ATG9a-containing vesicles to growing autophagosomes, and secondly in autolysosome formation. The former involves a putative SNARE complex between syntaxin 16, VAMP7 and SNAP-47. The latter occurs via syntaxin 16’s recruitment by Atg8/LC3/GABARAP family proteins to autophagosomes and endo-lysosomes, where syntaxin 16 may act in a manner that bears functional redundancy with the canonical autophagosome Qa-SNARE syntaxin 17. Here, I discuss these recent findings and speculate on the mechanistic aspects of syntaxin 16’s newly found role in autophagy.

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (18) ◽  
pp. 2907-2917 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Arasaki ◽  
Daichi Takagi ◽  
Akiko Furuno ◽  
Miwa Sohda ◽  
Yoshio Misumi ◽  
...  

Docking and fusion of transport vesicles/carriers with the target membrane involve a tethering factor–mediated initial contact followed by soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE)–catalyzed membrane fusion. The multisubunit tethering CATCHR family complexes (Dsl1, COG, exocyst, and GARP complexes) share very low sequence homology among subunits despite likely evolving from a common ancestor and participate in fundamentally different membrane trafficking pathways. Yeast Tip20, as a subunit of the Dsl1 complex, has been implicated in retrograde transport from the Golgi apparatus to the endoplasmic reticulum. Our previous study showed that RINT-1, the mammalian counterpart of yeast Tip20, mediates the association of ZW10 (mammalian Dsl1) with endoplasmic reticulum–localized SNARE proteins. In the present study, we show that RINT-1 is also required for endosome-to–trans-Golgi network trafficking. RINT-1 uncomplexed with ZW10 interacts with the COG complex, another member of the CATCHR family complex, and regulates SNARE complex assembly at the trans-Golgi network. This additional role for RINT-1 may in part reflect adaptation to the demand for more diverse transport routes from endosomes to the trans-Golgi network in mammals compared with those in a unicellular organism, yeast. The present findings highlight a new role of RINT-1 in coordination with the COG complex.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoko Hasegawa ◽  
Thais Huarancca Reyes ◽  
Tomohiro Uemura ◽  
Akari Fujimaki ◽  
Yongming Luo ◽  
...  

AbstractUbiquitination is a post-translational modification with reversible attachment of the small protein ubiquitin, which is involved in numerous cellular processes including membrane trafficking. For example, ubiquitination of cargo proteins is known to regulate their subcellular dynamics, and plays important roles in plant growth and stress adaptation. However, the regulatory mechanism of the trafficking machinery components remains elusive. Here, we report Arabidopsis trans-Golgi network/early endosome (TGN/EE) localized soluble N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) protein SYP61 as a novel ubiquitination target of a membrane localized ubiquitin ligase ATL31. SYP61 is a key component of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis. SYP61 was ubiquitinated with K63-linked chain by ATL31 in vitro and in plants. The knockdown mutants of SYP61 were hypersensitive to the disrupted carbon (C)/nitrogen (N)-nutrient stress, suggesting its critical role in plant homeostasis in response to nutrients. We also found the ubiquitination status of SYP61 is affected by C/N-nutrient availability. These results provided possibility that ubiquitination of SNARE protein has important role in plant physiology.


2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (17) ◽  
pp. 2633-2644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomo Funaki ◽  
Shunsuke Kon ◽  
Kenji Tanabe ◽  
Waka Natsume ◽  
Sayaka Sato ◽  
...  

The trans-Golgi network (TGN) functions as a hub organelle in the exocytosis of clathrin-coated membrane vesicles, and SMAP2 is an Arf GTPase-activating protein that binds to both clathrin and the clathrin assembly protein (CALM). In the present study, SMAP2 is detected on the TGN in the pachytene spermatocyte to the round spermatid stages of spermatogenesis. Gene targeting reveals that SMAP2-deficient male mice are healthy and survive to adulthood but are infertile and exhibit globozoospermia. In SMAP2-deficient spermatids, the diameter of proacrosomal vesicles budding from TGN increases, TGN structures are distorted, acrosome formation is severely impaired, and reorganization of the nucleus does not proceed properly. CALM functions to regulate vesicle sizes, and this study shows that CALM is not recruited to the TGN in the absence of SMAP2. Furthermore, syntaxin2, a component of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complex, is not properly concentrated at the site of acrosome formation. Thus this study reveals a link between SMAP2 and CALM/syntaxin2 in clathrin-coated vesicle formation from the TGN and subsequent acrosome formation. SMAP2-deficient mice provide a model for globozoospermia in humans.


2001 ◽  
Vol 155 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason H. Brickner ◽  
Jennifer M. Blanchette ◽  
György Sipos ◽  
Robert S. Fuller

Using a new assay for membrane fusion between late Golgi/endosomal compartments, we have reconstituted a rapid, robust homotypic fusion reaction between membranes containing Kex2p and Ste13p, two enzymes resident in the yeast trans-Golgi network (TGN). Fusion was temperature, ATP, and cytosol dependent. It was inhibited by dilution, Ca+2 chelation, N-ethylmaleimide, and detergent. Coimmunoisolation confirmed that the reaction resulted in cointegration of the two enzymes into the same bilayer. Antibody inhibition experiments coupled with antigen competition indicated a requirement for soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins Tlg1p, Tlg2p, and Vti1p in this reaction. Membrane fusion also required the rab protein Vps21p. Vps21p was sufficient if present on either the Kex2p or Ste13p membranes alone, indicative of an inherent symmetry in the reaction. These results identify roles for a Tlg SNARE complex composed of Tlg1p, Tlg2p, Vti1p, and the rab Vps21p in this previously uncharacterized homotypic TGN fusion reaction.


2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 973-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette M. Shewan ◽  
Ellen M. van Dam ◽  
Sally Martin ◽  
Tang Bor Luen ◽  
Wanjin Hong ◽  
...  

Insulin stimulates glucose transport in fat and muscle cells by triggering exocytosis of the glucose transporter GLUT4. To define the intracellular trafficking of GLUT4, we have studied the internalization of an epitope-tagged version of GLUT4 from the cell surface. GLUT4 rapidly traversed the endosomal system en route to a perinuclear location. This perinuclear GLUT4 compartment did not colocalize with endosomal markers (endosomal antigen 1 protein, transferrin) or TGN38, but showed significant overlap with the TGN target (t)-solubleN-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) Syntaxins 6 and 16. These results were confirmed by vesicle immunoisolation. Consistent with a role for Syntaxins 6 and 16 in GLUT4 trafficking we found that their expression was up-regulated significantly during adipocyte differentiation and insulin stimulated their movement to the cell surface. GLUT4 trafficking between endosomes and trans-Golgi network was regulated via an acidic targeting motif in the carboxy terminus of GLUT4, because a mutant lacking this motif was retained in endosomes. We conclude that GLUT4 is rapidly transported from the cell surface to a subdomain of thetrans-Golgi network that is enriched in the t-SNAREs Syntaxins 6 and 16 and that an acidic targeting motif in the C-terminal tail of GLUT4 plays an important role in this process.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (23) ◽  
pp. jcs243238
Author(s):  
Zheng-Wen Nie ◽  
Ying-Jie Niu ◽  
Wenjun Zhou ◽  
Dong-Jie Zhou ◽  
Ju-Yeon Kim ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTActivator of G-protein signaling 3 (AGS3, also known as GPSM1) regulates the trans-Golgi network. The AGS3 GoLoco motif binds to Gαi and thereby regulates the transport of proteins to the plasma membrane. Compaction of early embryos is based on the accumulation of E-cadherin (Cdh1) at cell-contacted membranes. However, how AGS3 regulates the transport of Cdh1 to the plasma membrane remains undetermined. To investigate this, AGS3 was knocked out using the Cas9-sgRNA system. Both trans-Golgi network protein 46 (TGN46, also known as TGOLN2) and transmembrane p24-trafficking protein 7 (TMED7) were tracked in early mouse embryos by tagging these proteins with a fluorescent protein label. We observed that the majority of the AGS3-edited embryos were developmentally arrested and were fragmented after the four-cell stage, exhibiting decreased accumulation of Cdh1 at the membrane. The trans-Golgi network and TMED7-positive vesicles were also dispersed and were not polarized near the membrane. Additionally, increased Gαi1 (encoded by GNAI1) expression could rescue AGS3-overexpressed embryos. In conclusion, AGS3 reinforces the dynamics of the trans-Golgi network and the transport of TMED7-positive cargo containing Cdh1 to the cell-contact surface during early mouse embryo development.


2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (22) ◽  
pp. 9093-9098 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mikhaylova ◽  
P. P. Reddy ◽  
T. Munsch ◽  
P. Landgraf ◽  
S. K. Suman ◽  
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