scholarly journals Stonin 2 Is a Major Adaptor Protein for Clathrin-Mediated Synaptic Vesicle Retrieval

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (15) ◽  
pp. 1435-1439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K. Willox ◽  
Stephen J. Royle
2010 ◽  
Vol 299 (1) ◽  
pp. E23-E32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur T. Suckow ◽  
Branch Craige ◽  
Victor Faundez ◽  
William J. Cain ◽  
Steven D. Chessler

Pancreatic islet β-cells contain synaptic-like microvesicles (SLMVs). The origin, trafficking, and role of these SLMVs are poorly understood. In neurons, synaptic vesicle (SV) biogenesis is mediated by two different cytosolic adaptor protein complexes, a ubiquitous AP-2 complex and the neuron-specific AP-3B complex. Mice lacking AP-3B subunits exhibit impaired GABAergic (inhibitory) neurotransmission and reduced neuronal vesicular GABA transporter (VGAT) content. Since β-cell maturation and exocytotic function seem to parallel that of the inhibitory synapse, we predicted that AP-3B-associated vesicles would be present in β-cells. Here, we test the hypothesis that AP-3B is expressed in islets and mediates β-cell SLMV biogenesis. A secondary aim was to test whether the sedimentation properties of INS-1 β-cell microvesicles are identical to those of bona fide SLMVs isolated from PC12 cells. Our results show that the two neuron-specific AP-3 subunits β3B and μ3B are expressed in β-cells, the first time these proteins have been found to be expressed outside the nervous system. We found that β-cell SLMVs share the same sedimentation properties as PC12 SLMVs and contain SV proteins that sort specifically to AP-3B-associated vesicles in the brain. Brefeldin A, a drug that interferes with AP-3-mediated SV biogenesis, inhibits the delivery of AP-3 cargoes to β-cell SLMVs. Consistent with a role for AP-3 in the biogenesis of GABAergic SLMV in β-cells, INS-1 cell VGAT content decreases upon inhibition of AP-3 δ-subunit expression. Our findings suggest that β-cells and neurons share molecules and mechanisms important for mediating the neuron-specific membrane trafficking pathways that underlie synaptic vesicle formation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. E526-E535 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. L. Kononenko ◽  
M. K. Diril ◽  
D. Puchkov ◽  
M. Kintscher ◽  
S. J. Koo ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 8034-8042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Blumstein ◽  
Victor Faundez ◽  
Fubito Nakatsu ◽  
Takashi Saito ◽  
Hiroshi Ohno ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2343-2360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Nonet ◽  
Andrea M. Holgado ◽  
Faraha Brewer ◽  
Craig J. Serpe ◽  
Betty A. Norbeck ◽  
...  

The unc-11 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans encodes multiple isoforms of a protein homologous to the mammalian brain-specific clathrin-adaptor protein AP180. The UNC-11 protein is expressed at high levels in the nervous system and at lower levels in other tissues. In neurons, UNC-11 is enriched at presynaptic terminals but is also present in cell bodies. unc-11mutants are defective in two aspects of synaptic vesicle biogenesis. First, the SNARE protein synaptobrevin is mislocalized, no longer being exclusively localized to synaptic vesicles. The reduction of synaptobrevin at synaptic vesicles is the probable cause of the reduced neurotransmitter release observed in these mutants. Second,unc-11 mutants accumulate large vesicles at synapses. We propose that the UNC-11 protein mediates two functions during synaptic vesicle biogenesis: it recruits synaptobrevin to synaptic vesicle membranes and it regulates the size of the budded vesicle during clathrin coat assembly.


2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1441-1453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Newell-Litwa ◽  
Gloria Salazar ◽  
Yoland Smith ◽  
Victor Faundez

Neuronal lysosomes and their biogenesis mechanisms are primarily thought to clear metabolites and proteins whose abnormal accumulation leads to neurodegenerative disease pathology. However, it remains unknown whether lysosomal sorting mechanisms regulate the levels of membrane proteins within synaptic vesicles. Using high-resolution deconvolution microscopy, we identified early endosomal compartments where both selected synaptic vesicle and lysosomal membrane proteins coexist with the adaptor protein complex 3 (AP-3) in neuronal cells. From these early endosomes, both synaptic vesicle membrane proteins and characteristic AP-3 lysosomal cargoes can be similarly sorted to brain synaptic vesicles and PC12 synaptic-like microvesicles. Mouse knockouts for two Hermansky–Pudlak complexes involved in lysosomal biogenesis from early endosomes, the ubiquitous isoform of AP-3 (Ap3b1−/−) and muted, defective in the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles complex 1 (BLOC-1), increased the content of characteristic synaptic vesicle proteins and known AP-3 lysosomal proteins in isolated synaptic vesicle fractions. These phenotypes contrast with those of the mouse knockout for the neuronal AP-3 isoform involved in synaptic vesicle biogenesis (Ap3b2−/−), in which the content of select proteins was reduced in synaptic vesicles. Our results demonstrate that lysosomal and lysosome-related organelle biogenesis mechanisms regulate steady-state synaptic vesicle protein composition from shared early endosomes.


Neuron ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1465-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bing Zhang ◽  
Young Ho Koh ◽  
Robert B Beckstead ◽  
Vivian Budnik ◽  
Barry Ganetzky ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 388 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard E. KELLY ◽  
A. Marie PHILLIPS

The stoned locus of Drosophila produces a dicistronic transcript and encodes two proteins, stoned-A (STNA) and stoned-B (STNB). Both proteins are located at synaptic terminals. The STNB protein contains a domain that has homology with the μ-subunit of the AP (adaptor protein) complex, as well as a number of NPF (Asp-Pro-Phe) motifs known to bind EH (Eps15 homology) domains. Mutations at the stoned locus interact synergistically with mutations at the shibire (dynamin) locus and alter synaptic vesicle endocytosis. The STNB protein has also been shown to interact with synaptic vesicles via synaptogamin-I. We initiated an investigation of the possible interaction of DAP-160 (dynamin-associated protein of 160 kDa), a Drosophila member of the intersectin family, with the STNB protein. We show here that both of the viable stoned alleles interacted with a genetic construct that reduces DAP-160 levels to 25% of normal. One of these stoned alleles contains a substitution resulting in a stop codon in the open reading frame encoding STNB. This allele also shows markedly reduced levels of both DAP-160 and dynamin. As anticipated, the NPF motifs in STNB are found to be high-affinity binding motifs for the EH domains of DAP-160. One of the SH3 (Src homology 3) domains of DAP-160 also interacts with STNB. Finally, we show that immunoprecipitation of STNB from fly head extracts co-precipitates with DAP-160, and we conclude that the interaction of the STNB protein with both synaptotagmin I and DAP-160 may regulate synaptic vesicle recycling by recruiting dynamin to a pre-fission complex.


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