PRAF1: a Golgi complex transmembrane protein that interacts with virusesThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in this Special Issue, entitled CSBMCB — Membrane Proteins in Health and Disease.

2006 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 940-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon L. Compton ◽  
Ellen N. Behrend

Prenylated Rab acceptor domain family member 1 (PRAF1), a transmembrane protein whose precise function is unknown, localizes to the Golgi complex, post-Golgi vesicles, lipid rafts, endosomes, and the plasma membrane. VAMP2 and Rab3A are SNARE proteins that interact with PRAF1, and, as part of a SNARE complex, PRAF1 may function in the regulation of docking and fusion of transport vesicles both in the Golgi complex and at the plasma membrane. Alternately, PRAF1 may function as a sorting protein in the Golgi complex. In addition to interacting with SNARE proteins, PRAF1 interacts with rotaviral, retroviral, and herpes viral proteins. The function of viral protein interaction is unknown, but PRAF1 may enhance rotaviral and retroviral assembly. In contrast, PRAF1 may inhibit the herpes virus life cycle.

Genetics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 147 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene C Webb ◽  
Marloes Hoedt ◽  
Lynn J Poole ◽  
Elizabeth W Jones

The PEP7 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a 59-kD hydrophilic polypeptide that is required for transport of soluble vacuolar hydrolase precursors from the TGN to the endosome. This study presents the results of a high-copy suppression analysis of pep7-20 mutant phenotypes. This analysis demonstrated that both VPS45 and PEP12 are allele-specific high-copy suppressors of pep7-20 mutant phenotypes. Overexpression of VPS45 was able to completely suppress the Zn2+ sensitivity and partially suppress the carboxypeptidase Y deficiency. Overexpression of PEP12 was able to do the same, but to a lesser extent. Vps45p and Pep12p are Sec1p and syntaxin (t-SNARE) homologues, respectively, and are also thought to function in transport between the TGN and endosome. Two additional vacuole pathway SNARE complex homologues, Vps33p (Sec1p) and Pth1p (syntaxin), when overexpressed, were unable to suppress pep7-20 or any other pep7 allele, further supporting the specificity of the interactions of pep7-20 with PEP12 and VPS45. Because several other vesicle docking/fusion reactions take place in the cell without discernible participation of Pep7p homologues, we suggest that Pep7p is a step-specific regulator of docking and/or fusion of TGN-derived transport vesicles onto the endosome.


Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Srivastava ◽  
Carol A Woolford ◽  
Elizabeth W Jones

Abstract Pep3p and Pep5p are known to be necessary for trafficking of hydrolase precursors to the vacuole and for vacuolar biogenesis. These proteins are present in a hetero-oligomeric complex that mediates transport at the vacuolar membrane. PEP5 interacts genetically with VPS8, implicating Pep5p in the earlier Golgi to endosome step and/or in recycling from the endosome to the Golgi. To understand further the cellular roles of Pep3p and Pep5p, we isolated and characterized a set of pep3 conditional mutants. Characterization of mutants revealed that pep3ts mutants are defective in the endosomal and nonendosomal Golgi to vacuole transport pathways, in the cytoplasm to vacuole targeting pathway, in recycling from the endosome back to the late Golgi, and in endocytosis. PEP3 interacts genetically with two members of the endosomal SNARE complex, PEP12 (t-SNARE) and PEP7 (homologue of mammalian EEA1); Pep3p and Pep5p associate physically with Pep7p as revealed by two-hybrid analysis. Our results suggest that a core Pep3p/Pep5p complex promotes vesicular docking/fusion reactions in conjunction with SNARE proteins at multiple steps in transport routes to the vacuole. We propose that this complex may be responsible for tethering transport vesicles on target membranes.


2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 2113-2124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshikatsu Aikawa ◽  
Kara L. Lynch ◽  
Kristin L. Boswell ◽  
Thomas F.J. Martin

Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins play key roles in membrane fusion, but their sorting to specific membranes is poorly understood. Moreover, individual SNARE proteins can function in multiple membrane fusion events dependent upon their trafficking itinerary. Synaptosome-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP25) is a plasma membrane Q (containing glutamate)-SNARE essential for Ca2+-dependent secretory vesicle–plasma membrane fusion in neuroendocrine cells. However, a substantial intracellular pool of SNAP25 is maintained by endocytosis. To assess the role of endosomal SNAP25, we expressed botulinum neurotoxin E (BoNT E) light chain in PC12 cells, which specifically cleaves SNAP25. BoNT E expression altered the intracellular distribution of SNAP25, shifting it from a perinuclear recycling endosome to sorting endosomes, which indicates that SNAP25 is required for its own endocytic trafficking. The trafficking of syntaxin 13 and endocytosed cargo was similarly disrupted by BoNT E expression as was an endosomal SNARE complex comprised of SNAP25/syntaxin 13/vesicle-associated membrane protein 2. The small-interfering RNA-mediated down-regulation of SNAP25 exerted effects similar to those of BoNT E expression. Our results indicate that SNAP25 has a second function as an endosomal Q-SNARE in trafficking from the sorting endosome to the recycling endosome and that BoNT E has effects linked to disruption of the endosome recycling pathway.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Xu ◽  
Hannah M. Hankins ◽  
Chris Macdonald ◽  
Samuel J. Erlinger ◽  
Meredith N. Frazier ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe COPI coat forms transport vesicles from the Golgi complex and plays a poorly defined role in endocytic trafficking. Here we show that COPI mediates delivery of a budding yeast SNARE (Snc1) from early endosomes to the Golgi complex through recognition of a polyubiquitin sorting signal. Snc1 is a v-SNARE that drives fusion of exocytic vesicles with the plasma membrane, and then recycles through early endosomes back to the Golgi for reuse. Removal of ubiquitin from Snc1, or deletion of a β’-COP subunit propeller domain that binds K63-linked polyubiquitin, causes aberrant accumulation of Snc1 in early endosomes. Moreover, replacement of the β’-COP propeller domain with unrelated ubiquitin-binding domains restores Snc1 recycling. These results indicate that ubiquitination, a modification well known to target membrane proteins to the lysosome or vacuole for degradation, can also function as recycling signal to sort a SNARE into COPI vesicles at early endosomes for Golgi delivery.


1999 ◽  
Vol 338 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François ST-DENIS ◽  
Jean-Pierre CABANIOLS ◽  
Samuel W. CUSHMAN ◽  
Paul A. ROCHE

SNARE proteins are required for vesicle docking and fusion in eukaryotic cells in processes as diverse as homotypic membrane fusion and synaptic vesicle exocytosis [SNARE stands for SNAP receptor, where SNAP is soluble NSF attachment protein]. The SNARE proteins syntaxin 4 and vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) 2/3 also participate in the insulin-stimulated translocation of GLUT4 from intracellular vesicles to the plasma membrane in adipose cells. We now report the molecular cloning and characterization of rat SNAP-23, a ubiquitously expressed homologue of the essential neuronal SNARE protein SNAP-25 (synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa). Rat SNAP-23 is 86% and 98% identical respectively to human and mouse SNAP-23. Southern blot analysis reveals that the rat, mouse and human SNAP-23 genes encode species-specific isoforms of the same protein. Co-immunoprecipitation of syntaxin 4 and SNAP-23 shows association of these two proteins in rat adipose cell plasma membranes, and insulin stimulation does not alter the SNAP-23/syntaxin 4 complex. In addition, we demonstrate for the first time the participation of SNAP-23, along with syntaxin 4 and VAMP2/3, in the formation of 20 S SNARE complexes prepared using rat adipose cell membranes and recombinant α-SNAP and NSF proteins. The stoichiometry of the SNARE complexes formed is essentially identical using membranes from either unstimulated or insulin-stimulated adipose cells. These data demonstrate that rat SNAP-23 associates with syntaxin 4 before insulin stimulation and is present in the SNARE complexes known to mediate the translocation of GLUT4 from intracellular vesicles to the plasma membrane of rat adipose cells.


eLife ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Xu ◽  
Hannah M Hankins ◽  
Chris MacDonald ◽  
Samuel J Erlinger ◽  
Meredith N Frazier ◽  
...  

The COPI coat forms transport vesicles from the Golgi complex and plays a poorly defined role in endocytic trafficking. Here we show that COPI binds K63-linked polyubiquitin and this interaction is crucial for trafficking of a ubiquitinated yeast SNARE (Snc1). Snc1 is a v-SNARE that drives fusion of exocytic vesicles with the plasma membrane, and then recycles through the endocytic pathway to the Golgi for reuse in exocytosis. Removal of ubiquitin from Snc1, or deletion of a β'-COP subunit propeller domain that binds K63-linked polyubiquitin, disrupts Snc1 recycling causing aberrant accumulation in internal compartments. Moreover, replacement of the β'-COP propeller domain with unrelated ubiquitin-binding domains restores Snc1 recycling. These results indicate that ubiquitination, a modification well known to target membrane proteins to the lysosome or vacuole for degradation, can also function as recycling signal to sort a SNARE into COPI vesicles in a non-degradative pathway.


2000 ◽  
Vol 151 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Grote ◽  
Misuzu Baba ◽  
Yoshinori Ohsumi ◽  
Peter J. Novick

Exocytosis in yeast requires the assembly of the secretory vesicle soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (v-SNARE) Sncp and the plasma membrane t-SNAREs Ssop and Sec9p into a SNARE complex. High-level expression of mutant Snc1 or Sso2 proteins that have a COOH-terminal geranylgeranylation signal instead of a transmembrane domain inhibits exocytosis at a stage after vesicle docking. The mutant SNARE proteins are membrane associated, correctly targeted, assemble into SNARE complexes, and do not interfere with the incorporation of wild-type SNARE proteins into complexes. Mutant SNARE complexes recruit GFP-Sec1p to sites of exocytosis and can be disassembled by the Sec18p ATPase. Heterotrimeric SNARE complexes assembled from both wild-type and mutant SNAREs are present in heterogeneous higher-order complexes containing Sec1p that sediment at greater than 20S. Based on a structural analogy between geranylgeranylated SNAREs and the GPI-HA mutant influenza virus fusion protein, we propose that the mutant SNAREs are fusion proteins unable to catalyze fusion of the distal leaflets of the secretory vesicle and plasma membrane. In support of this model, the inverted cone–shaped lipid lysophosphatidylcholine rescues secretion from SNARE mutant cells.


2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (22) ◽  
pp. 11239-11243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryuichi Fujisawa ◽  
Frank J. McAtee ◽  
Cynthia Favara ◽  
Stanley F. Hayes ◽  
John L. Portis

ABSTRACT Glycosylated Gag (Glycogag) is a transmembrane protein encoded by murine and feline oncornaviruses. While the protein is dispensible for virus replication, Glycogag-null mutants of a neurovirulent murine oncornavirus are slow to spread in vivo and exhibit a loss of pathogenicity. The function of this protein in the virus life cycle, however, is not understood. Glycogag is expressed at the plasma membrane of infected cells but has not been detected in virions. In the present study we have reexamined this issue and have found an N-terminal cleavage fragment of Glycogag which was pelleted by high-speed centrifugation and sedimented in sucrose density gradients at the same bouyant density as virus particles. Its association with virions was confirmed by velocity sedimentation through iodixanol, which effectively separated membrane microvesicles from virus particles. Furthermore, the apparent molecular weight of the virion-associated protein was different from that of the protein extracted from the plasma membrane, suggesting some level of specificity or selectivity of incorporation.


1998 ◽  
Vol 143 (6) ◽  
pp. 1485-1503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koret Hirschberg ◽  
Chad M. Miller ◽  
Jan Ellenberg ◽  
John F. Presley ◽  
Eric D. Siggia ◽  
...  

Quantitative time-lapse imaging data of single cells expressing the transmembrane protein, vesicular stomatitis virus ts045 G protein fused to green fluorescent protein (VSVG–GFP), were used for kinetic modeling of protein traffic through the various compartments of the secretory pathway. A series of first order rate laws was sufficient to accurately describe VSVG–GFP transport, and provided compartment residence times and rate constants for transport into and out of the Golgi complex and delivery to the plasma membrane. For ER to Golgi transport the mean rate constant (i.e., the fraction of VSVG–GFP moved per unit of time) was 2.8% per min, for Golgi to plasma membrane transport it was 3.0% per min, and for transport from the plasma membrane to a degradative site it was 0.25% per min. Because these rate constants did not change as the concentration of VSVG–GFP in different compartments went from high (early in the experiment) to low (late in the experiment), secretory transport machinery was never saturated during the experiments. The processes of budding, translocation, and fusion of post-Golgi transport intermediates carrying VSVG– GFP to the plasma membrane were also analyzed using quantitative imaging techniques. Large pleiomorphic tubular structures, rather than small vesicles, were found to be the primary vehicles for Golgi to plasma membrane transport of VSVG–GFP. These structures budded as entire domains from the Golgi complex and underwent dynamic shape changes as they moved along microtubule tracks to the cell periphery. They carried up to 10,000 VSVG–GFP molecules and had a mean life time in COS cells of 3.8 min. In addition, they fused with the plasma membrane without intersecting other membrane transport pathways in the cell. These properties suggest that the post-Golgi intermediates represent a unique transport organelle for conveying large quantities of protein cargo from the Golgi complex directly to the plasma membrane.


2005 ◽  
Vol 169 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela A. Sahlender ◽  
Rhys C. Roberts ◽  
Susan D. Arden ◽  
Giulietta Spudich ◽  
Marcus J. Taylor ◽  
...  

Myosin VI plays a role in the maintenance of Golgi morphology and in exocytosis. In a yeast 2-hybrid screen we identified optineurin as a binding partner for myosin VI at the Golgi complex and confirmed this interaction in a range of protein interaction studies. Both proteins colocalize at the Golgi complex and in vesicles at the plasma membrane. When optineurin is depleted from cells using RNA interference, myosin VI is lost from the Golgi complex, the Golgi is fragmented and exocytosis of vesicular stomatitis virus G-protein to the plasma membrane is dramatically reduced. Two further binding partners for optineurin have been identified: huntingtin and Rab8. We show that myosin VI and Rab8 colocalize around the Golgi complex and in vesicles at the plasma membrane and overexpression of constitutively active Rab8-Q67L recruits myosin VI onto Rab8-positive structures. These results show that optineurin links myosin VI to the Golgi complex and plays a central role in Golgi ribbon formation and exocytosis.


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