Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1229
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Abstract |
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The dynamic vesicle transport processes at
the late-Golgi compartment of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (TGN) require dedicated mechanisms for correct
localization of resident membrane proteins. In this
study, we report the identification of a new gene,
GRD19, involved in the localization of the model late-Golgi membrane protein A-ALP (consisting of the cytosolic domain of dipeptidyl aminopeptidase A [DPAP
A] fused to the transmembrane and lumenal domains
of the alkaline phosphatase [ALP]), which localizes to the yeast TGN. A grd19 null mutation causes rapid mislocalization of the late-Golgi membrane proteins
A-ALP and Kex2p to the vacuole. In contrast to previously identified genes involved in late-Golgi membrane
protein localization, grd19 mutations cause only minor effects on vacuolar protein sorting. The recycling of the
carboxypeptidase Y sorting receptor, Vps10p, between
the TGN and the prevacuolar compartment is largely
unaffected in grd19 cells. Kinetic assays of A-ALP
trafficking indicate that GRD19 is involved in the process of retrieval of A-ALP from the prevacuolar compartment. GRD19 encodes a small hydrophilic protein
with a predominantly cytosolic distribution. In a yeast
mutant that accumulates an exaggerated form of the
prevacuolar compartment (vps27), Grd19p was observed to localize to this compartment. Using an in
vitro binding assay, Grd19p was found to interact physically with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A. We conclude that Grd19p is a component of the retrieval machinery that functions by direct interaction with the
cytosolic tails of certain TGN membrane proteins during the sorting/budding process at the prevacuolar compartment.
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Introduction |
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THE internal organization of eukaryotic cells is characterized by a variety of distinct membranous subcompartments. Despite the continuous flow of
membrane components through the secretory pathway,
the localization of resident proteins of the different organelles must be maintained (for review see Rothman and
Wieland, 1996). Two mechanisms are proposed to confer
proper localization to membrane proteins in the secretory
pathway: (a) they are separated from exiting proteins during the vesicle budding process and therefore never leave
the compartment (retention), or (b) they leave the organelle together with other proteins but are recognized in
a subsequent compartment and selectively transported
back (retrieval; Pelham and Munro, 1993
; Pelham, 1995
,
1996
). The TGN is the site of multiple vesicular sorting
processes separating proteins destined for the plasma
membrane or endosomes/lysosomes (Griffiths and Simons, 1989
). The targeting and localization of resident
membrane proteins to the TGN is therefore a complex
process and not well understood. Most membrane proteins
studied so far seem to use a combination of retrieval and
retention mechanisms to be localized efficiently (Luzio and
Banting, 1993
; Machamer, 1993
). In mammalian cells, where
the destination for membrane proteins is the plasma membrane (Pfeffer and Rothman, 1987
), it could be demonstrated that two membrane proteins of the TGN, furin and
TGN38, are predominantly localized by a retrieval process
from the plasma membrane (for review see Wilsbach and
Payne, 1993a
) using endocytotic internalization signals in
the cytosolic tail domains (Bos et al., 1993
; Humphrey et
al., 1993
; Wong and Hong, 1993
; Voorhees et al., 1995
).
The late-Golgi compartment in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the functional equivalent of the mammalian TGN
(Graham et al., 1994). It is defined by the presence of
three enzymes, dipeptidyl aminopeptidase A (DPAP A;1
encoded by STE13 gene), Kex2p, and Kex1p (Franzusoff
et al., 1991
; Redding et al., 1991
; Cooper and Bussey,
1992
). All three proteins are integral membrane proteins
involved in the proteolytic processing of the secreted mating pheromone
-factor (Fuller et al., 1988
). The carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) sorting receptor, Vps10p, also predominantly localizes to the yeast TGN (Marcusson et al., 1994
; Cereghino et al., 1995
; Cooper and Stevens, 1996
). In
contrast to mammalian cells, yeast membrane proteins,
which carry no further targeting information, by default
are transported to the vacuole (Roberts et al., 1992
), which
is the equivalent of the mammalian lysosome (for review
see Nothwehr and Stevens, 1994
). The signals for localization of DPAP A, Kex2p, and Vps10p to the TGN were found to reside in their cytosolic domains (Wilcox et al.,
1992
; Nothwehr et al., 1993
; Cereghino et al., 1995
; Cooper
and Stevens, 1996
). Aromatic amino acids, forming a sequence motif resembling the coated pit localization signals
of mammalian plasma membrane receptors, have been
identified as being critical components of localization motifs within these domains specifying their retrieval from a
prevacuolar compartment (Wilcox et al., 1992
; Nothwehr and Stevens, 1994
; Cereghino et al., 1995
; Cooper and
Stevens, 1996
). In addition to the aromatic amino acid-
containing motif, the cytosolic domain of DPAP A also
contains a static retention signal, preventing it from leaving the TGN as rapidly as proteins en route to the vacuole
(Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). In contrast to the processing
enzymes that function exclusively in the TGN, the function of the cargo receptors of lysosomal or vacuolar hydrolases, like the mammalian mannose-6-phosphate receptor
(Kornfeld and Mellman, 1989
; Ludwig et al., 1995
) and the
yeast CPY receptor Vps10p (Cereghino et al., 1995
; Cooper and Stevens, 1996
), requires them to cycle continuously between the TGN and a post-Golgi compartment for
an efficient sorting process.
Little is known about the machinery that acts in the localization of late-Golgi membrane proteins. CHC1, the gene
encoding the clathrin heavy chain protein, and VPS1, which
encodes a yeast homologue of the mammalian protein dynamin implicated in budding of transport vesicles from the
late-Golgi membrane, have been shown to be required for
the correct localization of late-Golgi membrane proteins
(Seeger and Payne, 1992a,b; Wilsbach and Payne, 1993b
;
Nothwehr et al., 1995
; Redding et al., 1996b
). Several genetic approaches have been undertaken in yeast to identify additional proteins involved in TGN membrane protein localization. Using the properties of a mutation in the
retention signal of Kex2p, three allele-specific suppressor
mutants, soi1-soi3, which increased the efficiency of retention of the mutated Kex2p, were discovered (Redding et
al., 1996a
). A genetic screen based on the mislocalization of A-ALP (a model late-Golgi membrane protein consisting of the cytosolic domain of DPAP A fused to the transmembrane and lumenal domains of ALP) to the vacuole
identified 18 complementation groups, named grd for
Golgi retention deficient (Nothwehr et al., 1996
). Most of
these mutants also exhibited vacuolar protein sorting defects, and significant overlap was found between the GRD
and VPS (vacuolar protein sorting) genes (Banta et al., 1988
;
Raymond et al., 1992a
,b). Interestingly, a subset of grd
mutants exhibited normal vacuolar protein sorting and
thus seemed to be defective specifically in the retention of
DPAP A and/or Kex2p.
By performing a second round of the grd screen we have
identified a new gene, GRD19, which is specifically involved in the localization of DPAP A and Kex2p. Sequence analysis showed that Grd19p contains a PX domain that is conserved among a family of proteins that
includes sorting nexin-1 (SNX1), Mvp1p, and Vps5p (Ponting, 1996). GRD19 is not required for vacuolar protein
sorting or the recycling of the CPY cargo receptor Vps10p.
Assays of the exit and retrieval rates of a TGN membrane
reporter protein revealed that GRD19 is required for the
retrieval step. In vitro binding assays revealed that Grd19p
binds to the cytosolic domain of DPAP A but not Vps10p.
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Materials and Methods |
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Materials
Enzymes used in DNA manipulations were from New England Biolabs
(Beverly, MA), Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals (Indianapolis, IN),
Bethesda Research Laboratories (Gaitherburg, MD), or U.S. Biochemicals
(Cleveland, OH). FITC-conjugated streptavidin, Texas red-conjugated
goat anti-rabbit, and biotin-conjugated goat anti-rabbit were purchased
from Jackson Immunoresearch Inc. (West Grove, PA). The anti-CPY and
ALP polyclonal antibodies have been reported previously (Raymond et
al., 1990; Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). The anti-ALP monoclonal antibody
1D3 (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) was used as reported previously
(Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). Fixed Staphylococcus aureus cells (IgG Sorb)
were obtained from The Enzyme Center (Malden, MA). 35S-Express label
was from New England Nuclear (Boston, MA). Oxalyticase was from Enzogenetics (Corvallis, OR). All other chemicals were of high purity commercial grade.
Plasmids
A DNA fragment encoding the cytosolic tail of DPAP A comprising the
amino-terminal 117 amino acids was synthesized by PCR. The templates
used were pSN55, encoding the fusion protein A-ALP with the full-length
tail (for construction of pWV11), and pSN37, which contains the DPAP A
cytosolic tail with a deletion of the FXFXD retrieval signal between
amino acids 85 and 92 (for construction of pWV12). The fragments were
digested with BamHI/BglII (both sites were introduced with the primer
sequences) and were cloned into pQE70 (Qiagene, Chatsworth, CA) so
that a 6x histidine tag was added in frame at the carboxy terminus of the
DPAP A tail fragment. pWV16 contains the full-length open reading
frame (ORF) of GRD19 including 500 bp of genomic sequences in both
the 5 and 3
direction. The DNA fragment was obtained by PCR amplification from genomic DNA purified from strain SNY36. The produced
fragment was cut with BamHI and SalI (sites introduced by PCR primers) and ligated in pRS313 (Sikorski and Hieter, 1989
). A PCR fragment generated from genomic DNA of strain WVY12, which included the ORF
with the HA epitope tag and 500 bp each of 5
- and 3
-flanking DNA, was
cloned in YEp352 to generate the plasmid pWV32 for overexpression of
Grd19p-HA. pWV36 was constructed by removing the insert of pNB81 by
digestion with SacI/EcoRV and ligation into pRS315 (Sikorski and Hieter,
1989
), which was cut by SacI/SmaI.
Strains
For the construction of the grd19 deletion strain WVY4, a PCR fragment was generated using oligonucleotides complementary to 45 bp directly up- and downstream of the GRD19 ORF, followed by a sequence
complementary to sequences of the plasmid pRS304 flanking the marker
gene TRP1. The fragment was transformed into strain SNY36, and Trp+
colonies were analyzed by the Grd plate assay (Nothwehr et al., 1996
). Deletion of the GRD19 ORF was confirmed by PCR-Southern blot. Strain
WVY5 was obtained by deletion of the PEP4 gene in strain WVY4 by using a PCR-generated deletion fragment amplified from genomic DNA of
strain JHRY20. To obtain strain WVY12 the triple-hemagglutinin (HA)
epitope was integrated into the ORF of GRD19 directly in front of the
stop codon using a PCR-based method (Schneider et al., 1995
). Strains
WVY10, WVY20, and WVY21 were made by transforming strains
WVY4, WVY12, and SNY36, respectively, with the vps27
disruption
cassette (BamHI/EcoRI fragment from plasmid pCKR203) as described
(Piper et al., 1995
). WVY19 was obtained by disrupting the complete
ORF of GRD19 with a PCR fragment using the initial disruption oligonucleotides but amplifying the Escherichia coli kanamycin-resistance gene
kanr from plasmid pFA6-kanMX2 (Wach et al., 1994
),\Q which was transformed into strain NBY67. Strains were constructed using standard genetic techniques and grown in rich media (1% yeast extract, 1% peptone, 2% dextrose; YPD) or standard minimal medium (S) with appropriate supplements. A summary of yeast strains used in this study is given in Table II.
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grd Mutant Screen and ALP Activity Assays
Strain SNY36 carrying plasmid pSN55 was mutagenized by a recombinative integration of a yeast genomic library with random integrations of a
Tn3-LacZ transposon construct (Seifert et al., 1986; Burns et al., 1994
).
The plasmid library was cut with NotI before transformation. The activity
of ALP was measured on the plate as described (Chapman and Munro,
1994
; Nothwehr et al., 1996
), and mutant colonies were identified. After a
rescreen procedure, mutants were analyzed for CPY secretion with a colony overlay assay (Roberts et al., 1991
) and subsequently subjected to
complementation analysis with the vps and grd mutant collections (Rothman and Stevens, 1986
; Robinson et al., 1988
; Raymond et al., 1992a
;
Nothwehr et al., 1996
). Diploid phenotypes were analyzed either for CPY secretion or processing of A-ALP, in cases where no Vps
phenotype
could be detected. Mutants chosen for further analysis were backcrossed
against the parental wild-type strain NBY17, sporulated, and the resulting
tetrads checked for linkage of the transposon integration and the grd phenotype. Mutants were transformed with plasmid pRSQ304 cut by BamHI/
SacI to introduce a bacterial origin of replication at the position of the
transposon integration. Yeast genomic DNA was recovered, cut with
EcoRI, religated, and transformed in E. coli. A plasmid was recovered
that contained part of the transposon sequence and adjacent genomic sequence from the insertion site. This DNA sequence was determined by
automated sequencing (ABIPRISM; Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, Piscataway, NJ) using the "
40" sequencing primer (U.S. Biochemicals), and
the corresponding reading frame was found by data base search (BLAST at the Saccharomyces genome database).
Pulse-Chase Labeling and Immunoprecipitation
Labeling and immunoprecipitation experiments for determining the stability of A-ALP constructs, Kex2p, Vps10p, and CPY were performed as
described previously (Piper et al., 1994; Cooper and Stevens, 1996
; Nothwehr et al., 1996
). Labeled proteins were detected and quantified using
storage phosphor technology (PhosphorImager; Molecular Dynamics).
Half-times of processing or degradation were determined by linear regression analysis, plotting percentage of total and processed protein as a function of time.
Immunofluorescence
Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy for the localization of ALP,
Vph1p, and Vps10p was performed as described previously (Roberts et al.,
1991). Cells were grown in YPD at 30°C before fixation. For cells harboring plasmids, cells were grown to 1 OD/ml in minimal media and then resuspended in YPD to 0.25 OD/ml and allowed to grow for 2 h before fixation. For experiments using induction from the GAL1 promoter, cells
were grown overnight at 30°C in synthetic media containing 2% raffinose.
For induction of expression, 2% galactose was added, and samples were
removed at the indicated time points for direct fixation. Cells were fixed in
3% formaldehyde for 30 min, followed by incubation in 2% paraformaldehyde/50 mM KPO4, pH 7.0 for 18 h. Cells were spheroplasted and permeabilized with 5% SDS for 5 min. After washing in 1.2 M sorbitol, cells were allowed to adhere to poly-L-lysine-coated slides. Incubation of cells
with the primary antibody was performed at 4°C overnight followed by 1-h
incubations of secondary and tertiary antibodies at 22°C. For experiments
requiring labeling of A-ALP and Vph1p in the same cells, the anti-ALP
1D3 monoclonal antibody was visualized using biotinylated secondary antibody in combination with FITC-labeled streptavidin, and the rabbit anti-Vph1p was visualized using Texas red-labeled antibody. For double labeling
of A-ALP and Vps10p, the anti-ALP monoclonal antibody was visualized
with FITC-labeled goat anti-mouse antibody. Vps10p was detected using
an affinity-purified rabbit antibody preparation, which was adsorbed
against fixed vps10
cells and visualized using the biotin-enhancement
protocol as described above. Images were captured using the Kodak
DCS20 digital camera system with a 100× oil immersion lens (Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) on a fluorescence microscope (Axioplan; Carl Zeiss). Images were adjusted with standard settings using Adobe PhotoshopTM.
Cell Fractionation
Intracellular localization studies were performed by a differential sedimentation procedure essentially as described (Piper et al., 1994). The following subcellular fractions were obtained: low speed pellet (P13), by centrifugation at 13,000 g for 10 min); membrane pellet (P100), by centrifugation at
100,000 g for 30 min, and the remaining supernatant (S100). Equal portions of each fraction were separated by SDS-PAGE and analyzed by
Western blot.
Expression of the Cytosolic Domains and Binding Assay
200 ml of E. coli cells (XL1 blue; Stratagene, La Jolla, CA) containing either plasmid pQE70, pWV11, pWV12, pGEX2X, or pFvM8 were grown in LB-Medium with 100 µg/ml Ampicillin to 0.7 to 0.8 OD/ml at 37°C, and protein expression was induced by adding 1 mM IPTG. After 5 h incubation, cells were harvested and resuspended in 25 ml LP60 (30 mM Tris-HCL, pH 7.5, 300 mM NaCl, 60 mM imidazole, and 1 mM PMSF). Cells were lysed by a French Press, and cell debris and insoluble proteins were removed by 15 min centrifugation with 15,000 g at 4°C. Cell extracts were then incubated with 2 ml Ni-NTA sepharose (Qiagen) for 2 h at 4°C with gentle agitation. Unbound proteins were removed by washing the sepharose matrix with 20 ml LP60.
For binding assays with yeast proteins, the sepharose matrix with the bound expressed proteins was equilibrated to binding buffer (0.2 M sorbitol, 50 mM Tris-HCl, pH 7.5, 150 mM KCl) containing 5 mM magnesiumacetate, 1 mM DTT, and 0.1% Triton X-100. 30 µl wet volume of the matrix was incubated with 50 µl (250 µg total protein/sample) yeast cytosol extract (S100) in a total volume of 200 µl binding buffer. Extracts were prepared from SNY36-9a containing plasmid pWV32 or pAH37 as described above, except that spheroplasts were lysed in binding buffer. After 1.5 h incubation at 4°C the sepharose matrix was washed 4 times with 300 µl binding buffer, and all bound proteins were eluted by incubating in 300 µl LP250 (same as LP60 but containing 250 mM imidazole). Proteins were separated by SDS-PAGE and analyzed by Western blot. Mvp1p was detected directly by antibodies, whereas Grd19p and Vps5p were detected by the introduction of 3xHA tags and decoration with antibody directed against the tag.
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Results |
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Identification and Cloning of GRD19
Yeast mutants defective in Golgi membrane protein retention (grd) were identified using A-ALP, a fusion protein
that contains the cytosolic tail of DPAP A (encoded by the
STE13 gene) and the transmembrane and lumenal domains of ALP (encoded by the PHO8 gene) as a reporter
molecule. In wild-type cells A-ALP is localized to the late-Golgi compartment but becomes mislocalized to the vacuole in localization-defective strains (Nothwehr et al., 1996). Mislocalization of A-ALP to the vacuole results in processing by vacuolar proteases (PEP4 dependent) at the
carboxy-terminal end of A-ALP and gain of alkaline phosphatase activity. Mutations were introduced into strain
SNY36 (pho8
) by transformation of a genomic plasmid
library containing random transposon integrations into
yeast DNA fragments (Seifert et al., 1986
). Colonies with alkaline phosphatase activity were detected by a colorimetric assay (Nothwehr et al., 1996
). Selected mutants
were backcrossed with wild-type strains to confirm linkage
of mutant phenotype with the transposon insertion (Leu+).
The obtained mutant alleles were tested by complementation analysis for genetic overlap with previously identified
grd and vps mutants.
One mutant, subsequently called grd19, complemented
each representative of the grd and vps mutant collections
and therefore represents a new grd complementation
group. Genomic sequences neighboring the transposon insertion site were recovered and sequenced. Comparison
with the S. cerevisiae genome database revealed that the
transposon insertion took place in the previously unidentified ORF YOR357c. To obtain a well-defined null mutant,
the entire ORF YOR357c was replaced by the TRP1 gene,
yielding a grd19 strain which was used for further analysis. The deletion of GRD19 did not result in any growth
defects (data not shown).
GRD19 Is a Member of a Protein Family Involved in Protein Sorting and Vesicular Traffic
GRD19 encodes a small hydrophilic protein of 162 amino
acids (Fig. 1 A) with a predicted molecular mass of 18.7 kD.
The amino acid sequence shows no obvious modification
motifs or targeting signals. Protein sequence comparisons
(BLAST at NCBI) revealed significant homology to several other yeast and mammalian proteins (Fig. 1 B). Interestingly, the most similar protein found in the database is
Mvp1p, which is also implicated in vesicle transport processes between the Golgi compartment and the vacuole
(Ekena and Stevens, 1995). The homology between Grd19p
and Mvp1p is mainly restricted to a sequence, ~100 amino
acids long, near the carboxy terminus of Grd19p. A similar
homologous region was found in Vps5p (Horazdovsky
et al., 1997
), which was also identified as Grd2p (Nothwehr and Hindes, 1997
). Grd2p/Vps5p is also involved in
vacuolar sorting processes and is required for the localization of A-ALP, Kex2p, and Vps10p. An extensive set of
experiments was performed to determine whether there
are any genetic interactions between the GRD19, VPS5,
and MVP1 genes. The Golgi localization defects of grd19
cells could not be suppressed by overexpression of VPS5 or MVP1. Additionally, analysis of the double deletion
mutants grd19
vps5
and grd19
mvp1
did not reveal
any synthetic phenotypes concerning growth, CPY secretion, or A-ALP localization (data not shown).
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A mammalian protein, sorting nexin-1 (SNX1), shares
homology with Grd19p, Mvp1p, and Vps5p. SNX1 was
shown to interact with the cytosolic domain of the EGF receptor and influences its rate of degradation (Kurten et al.,
1996). All the proteins show on average an amino acid identity of 30 to 40% (50-60% similarity) within this domain
(Fig. 1 C) but differ substantially in other regions. YHR105w,
another yeast ORF with unknown function, exhibited the
greatest overall similarity to Grd19p, with respect to size and sequence homology (26% identity, 48% similarity). A
null mutant of this gene was constructed, but cells deleted
for ORF YHR105w showed no defects in morphology,
vacuolar protein sorting, or Golgi membrane protein retention (data not shown). In addition, deleting ORF
YHR105w in a grd19
strain did not amplify or suppress any of the phenotypes due to the grd19
mutation (data
not shown). The region of homology shared between
Grd19p, Mvp1p, Vps5p, and SNX1p, called PX domain,
classifies them as members of a large group of proteins
(Ponting, 1996
).
Resident Late-Golgi Membrane Proteins Are Degraded
in the Vacuole in grd19 Cells
Kex2p and A-ALP reside in the yeast TGN, and a failure
in retention leads to the proteolytic processing of A-ALP
(Nothwehr et al., 1993) and degradation of Kex2p by vacuolar proteases (Wilcox et al., 1992
). These processes can
be quantitatively assessed by pulse-chase labeling and immunoprecipitation experiments. We determined the stability of A-ALP and Kex2p in grd19
cells. As expected,
A-ALP was a stable protein in wild-type cells with a half-time of processing of >180 min. In grd19
cells the stability of A-ALP was greatly reduced with its half-time of processing decreased to 55 to 60 min (Fig. 2 A). Kex2p also
showed a significantly increased rate of degradation in
grd19
cells with a half-time of 20 to 25 min as compared
to wild-type cells in which the half-time of Kex2p degradation was 120 min (Fig. 2 B). To determine whether this
processing or degradation reaction was dependent on the
action of vacuolar proteases, identical pulse-chase experiments were performed using grd19
pep4
double mutants, which lack vacuolar protease activity. Those cells
showed virtually no degradation of A-ALP and Kex2p,
confirming the mislocalization of the two proteins to the
vacuole in grd19
cells. We conclude that the function of
Grd19p is necessary for stabilization of the resident late-Golgi membrane proteins A-ALP and Kex2p.
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grd19 Cells Sort the Vacuolar Hydrolase CPY and the
CPY Sorting Receptor Vps10p Normally
Since many of the recently identified grd mutants also exhibit Vps phenotypes (Nothwehr et al., 1996
), we tested
whether a deletion of GRD19 also affects CPY sorting using
pulse-chase labeling and immunoprecipitation experiments.
Newly synthesized CPY was immunoprecipitated from internal and external fractions of grd19
and wild-type cells, as well as cells carrying a wild-type copy of GRD19 on a
centromere-based plasmid. As a control for a strain with
severe defects in CPY sorting, the experiment included a
vps10
strain. As shown in Fig. 3 A, grd19
cells exhibited
only a minor defect in the sorting of CPY. grd19
cells
missorted ~16% of the Golgi-modified (p2) form of CPY
to the cell surface, compared to 6% in wild-type cells. By
constrast, vps10 cells secreted 86% of CPY, and virtually
none of the CPY reached the vacuole.
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Since the sorting of CPY is closely coupled to the recycling of its cargo receptor Vps10p between late-Golgi and
prevacuolar compartments, we also analyzed the stability
of Vps10p directly by pulse-chase labeling and immunoprecipitation (Fig. 3 B). Compared to wild-type cells, grd19
cells show only a slight decrease in Vps10p stability due to
mislocalization to the vacuole. The half-life of Vps10p in
wild-type cells was typically much longer than 180 min
(Cooper and Stevens, 1996
). In grd19
cells the half-life was slightly decreased to 150 to 160 min. By contrast, in
vps5
cells, which have been shown to have severe defects
in both A-ALP localization and CPY sorting (Nothwehr
and Hindes, 1997
), the stability of Vps10p was decreased
significantly, to a half-time of ~40 min. Interestingly, while
overexpression of Vps5p did not suppress the mislocalization of A-ALP (data not shown), elevated levels of Vps5p
did suppress the low level of CPY secretion in grd19
cells
(Fig. 3 C). We conclude that the slight effect of mutations
in GRD19 on the sorting of CPY is likely to be an indirect effect, since the overexpression of a protein more directly
involved in CPY sorting (Vps5p) reverses the slight CPY
sorting defect without suppressing the A-ALP cycling defect. Therefore, in comparison to the previously identified
grd genes (Nothwehr et al., 1996
), GRD19 is involved in
late-Golgi membrane protein localization in a very specific
way, affecting the resident proteins A-ALP and Kex2p,
but not the recycling cargo receptor Vps10p.
Since the degradation of the late-Golgi membrane proteins is an indirect assay for mislocalization to the vacuole,
we performed immunofluorescence experiments to determine the actual intracellular localization of several membrane proteins. Double staining of wild-type cells with
antibodies against A-ALP and Vps10p revealed a colocalization of both proteins to disperse, punctuate structures in the yeast cytosol indicative of the yeast TGN (Fig. 4 A;
Nothwehr et al., 1993; Cooper and Stevens, 1996
). However, in grd19
cells A-ALP was localized to ring-shaped
structures indicative of vacuolar membranes. The vacuolar
localization was confirmed by double staining experiments
using antibodies against the 100-kD subunit of the vacuolar ATPase, encoded by the VPH1 gene (Kane et al., 1992
; Manolson et al., 1992
; Fig. 4 B). In contrast to the vacuolar localization of A-ALP in grd19
cells, Vps10p was still localized to Golgi structures in these same cells as shown by
the punctuate staining pattern (Fig. 4 A). The essentially
wild-type-like staining of grd19
cells with antibodies to the
vacuolar membrane protein Vph1p (Fig. 4 B) also demonstrates that mutations in GRD19 do not generally perturb
vacuolar morphology or vacuolar biogenesis. These data
reveal that Grd19p is not required for Golgi localization of
Vps10p or vacuolar biogenesis in general, but instead suggest that Grd19p function is more specifically involved in the
localization mechanism of A-ALP and Kex2p to the TGN.
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Grd19p Is Required for the Retrieval from the Prevacuolar Compartment
VPS27 is 1 of 13 genes required for membrane traffic out
of the prevacuolar compartment (Raymond et al., 1992a;
Piper et al., 1995
), and vps27
cells accumulate an exaggerated prevacuolar compartment (Raymond et al., 1992a
;
Piper et al., 1995
). The localization of A-ALP to the yeast
TGN has been shown to involve both static retention and
retrieval from the prevacuolar compartment (Bryant and
Stevens, 1997
). To assess whether Grd19p functions in
static retention or retrieval, we employed assays that allow
us to distinguish between these functions. The prevacuolar
compartment that accumulates in vps27
mutant cells contains active forms of vacuolar proteases, and thus the processing half-time of A-ALP and related proteins in these
cells has been shown to reflect the rate at which they exit
Golgi membranes (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). Different
variants of A-ALP with mutations in the cytosolic domain
were analyzed for their processing kinetics in vps27
and
grd19
strains. A schematic drawing of the analyzed fusion proteins is shown in Fig. 5 A. In wild-type cells, the
full-length A-ALP is localized to the late-Golgi compartment by a combination of retention and retrieval mechanisms and has a processing half-time of >180 min (Bryant
and Stevens, 1997
). In vps27
cells, membrane traffic from
the prevacuolar compartment back to the Golgi is blocked and the processing half-time of A-ALP is reduced to 60 min, reflecting its rate of exit from the late-Golgi compartment (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). Similar reductions in
stability could be observed in wild-type cells with the construct (F/A)A-ALP, in which the retrieval signal has been
rendered nonfunctional by mutating the phenylalanine residues in the retrieval signal (FXFXD) to alanines (Nothwehr et al., 1993
; Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). A different
construct, which has a 10 amino acid deletion at the amino-terminal end (
10A-ALP), showed slightly reduced stability in wild-type cells but a very fast processing half-time of
~20 min in vps27
cells (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). This
deletion in the A-ALP cytosolic domain results in a loss of
static retention and hence a fast exit rate of A-ALP from
the late-Golgi compartment without affecting the efficiency of retrieval (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
).
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To gain insight into which of the localization mechanisms is affected in grd19 cells, the processing kinetics of
the different A-ALP reporter proteins were now analyzed
in grd19
-mutant and grd19
vps27
-double mutant cells
and compared to cells carrying the vps27
mutation alone.
As shown in Fig. 5 B, the processing kinetics of all three
fusion protein constructs in grd19
cells were indistinguishable from those in vps27
cells. In addition, neither
A-ALP nor (F/A)A-ALP were processed more rapidly in
grd19
vps27
-double mutant cells compared to either
single mutant alone, suggesting that Grd19p is not involved in static retention of A-ALP. Moreover, the processing kinetics of A-ALP in grd19
were identical to
those of (F/A)A-ALP in wild-type cells, which strongly suggests that Grd19p is involved in the retrieval pathway
from the prevacuolar compartment back to the TGN.
Since the processing experiments allow only an indirect
assessment about the involvement of grd19 in the retrieval process, we used a second assay that directly studies
the redistribution of membrane proteins from the accumulated prevacuolar compartment in vps27-mutant cells (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
). We used a vps27-mutant strain
where we could accumulate the late-Golgi membrane proteins
10A-ALP and Vps10p in the prevacuolar compartment. Exit from the prevacuolar compartment was then
induced by expressing wild-type Vps27p under the control
of the GAL1 promoter.
10A-ALP was used since it localizes almost exclusively to the prevacuolar compartment in vps27-mutant cells, yet
10A-ALP shows essentially
the same behavior as A-ALP in the redistribution from
the prevacuolar compartment (Bryant and Stevens, 1997
).
The induction of Vps27p was performed in both vps27-mutant and vps27 grd19
-double mutant cells to directly assess the involvement of Grd19p on the retrieval reaction. Samples were taken 0, 45, and 90 min after induction
of Vps27p synthesis; cells were fixed; and the distribution
of both
10A-ALP and Vps10p or
10A-ALP and Vph1p,
respectively, was analyzed in the same cells by indirect immunofluorescence (Fig. 6). The amount of cells displaying
a particular staining pattern indicative of the morphological features of Golgi membranes, vacuolar membranes,
and the exaggerated prevacuolar compartment (class E
compartment; Raymond et al., 1992a
) was quantified (Table III).
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Before induction >80% of both cell types clearly showed
the accumulation of 10A-ALP, Vps10p, and Vph1p in the
class E prevacuolar compartment (Table III). 45 min after
induction of Vps27p activity, a redistribution of the staining pattern was already observed for both proteins, and
the redistribution was essentially complete 90 min after induction of Vps27p synthesis. In >80% of the GRD19 cells,
both
10A-ALP and Vps10p localized to the same smaller multiple dots, which are typically seen for late-Golgi membrane proteins, whereas Vph1p traveled to the vacuole as
expected. However, in grd19
cells,
10A-ALP exited the
prevacuolar compartment and traveled to the vacuole together with the vacuolar membrane protein Vph1p instead
of redistributing back to the TGN. Almost 80% (65 + 13% and 58 + 20%) of the grd19
cells exhibited predominantly the ring-shaped vacuolar staining pattern for both
10A-ALP and Vph1p 90 min after induction of Vps27p
expression. On the other hand, the majority of Vps10p redistributed to Golgi structures in grd19
cells. More than
80% of the cells eventually showed a Golgi staining pattern for Vps10p. A small portion of Vps10p also appeared
to be mislocalized to vacuolar structures in grd19
cells,
consistent with the observed slight decrease in its stability compared to wild-type cells, as shown in Fig. 3 B. We conclude that both retrograde and anterograde traffic pathways from the prevacuolar compartment are essentially
intact in grd19
cells, but Grd19p function is indeed required specifically for the retrieval of A-ALP from the
prevacuolar compartment back to the TGN.
Grd19p Is a Cytosolic Protein Found on the Surface of
the Prevacuolar Compartment in vps27 Cells
To assess the intracellular localization of Grd19p, we introduced an influenza hemeagglutinin epitope (HA) at the
carboxy terminus of the protein. The GRD19::HA fusion
was integrated at the genomic locus of GRD19, and by all
criteria the GRD19::HA gene fully complemented the
grd19 mutation (data not shown). Using antibodies against
the HA epitope we detected Grd19p-HA as a 28-kD protein by Western blot analysis (Fig. 7 A). The HA-tagged Grd19p was found predominantly together with the cytosolic marker protein PGK in subcellular fractionation experiments, but a minor amount was found associated with
membrane fractions in the low speed pellet (Fig. 7 B).
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Consistent with a predominantly cytosolic localization for
Grd19p, immunofluorescence experiments using antibodies against the HA epitope revealed only a low level and
diffuse staining in GRD19::HA cells (Fig. 7 C). Since the
correct localization of late-Golgi membrane proteins has
been found to involve recycling between the late-Golgi
membrane and a post-Golgi prevacuolar compartment (Nothwehr and Stevens, 1994), we also analyzed the localization of Grd19p in a yeast mutant (vps27
) that accumulates an exaggerated prevacuolar compartment. Interestingly, a distinct staining pattern of Grd19p-HA was
observed in vps27
cells, and this staining pattern overlapped with that of the 100-kD subunit of the V-ATPase,
the protein marker for the accumulated prevacuolar compartment (Fig. 7 C). To exclude that the Grd19p-HA
staining pattern is not the result of an artificial accumulation of HA-crossreactive structures due to the vps27
mutation, we included a vps27
mutant that expresses no HA
epitope as a control. This control showed no staining, and as can be seen from the DAPI stained panels, the staining
pattern of Grd19p-HA was also clearly distinct from nuclear staining. The subcellular localization experiments indicate that Grd19p is localized predominantly in the cytosol,
but becomes associated with the prevacuolar compartment in vps27
cells, suggesting that Grd19p may function
at the periphery of this organelle.
Grd19p Interacts Physically with the Cytosolic Domain of DPAP A
The previous experiments established that Grd19p is likely to function in sorting and/or transport of certain TGN membrane proteins from the prevacuolar compartment back to the TGN. Additionally, Grd19p seems to confer a certain specificity to the sorting reaction of membrane proteins since it is not necessary for the cycling of the late-Golgi cargo receptor Vps10p but rather is required for the retrieval of the proteases DPAP A and Kex2p. To determine whether Grd19p functions by physically interacting with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A, we tested whether it can bind to the protein in vitro. We used a fusion protein consisting of the first 117 amino acids of DPAP A (the entire cytosolic domain) and a 6xHis tag, which was introduced in place of the transmembrane domain to enhance the formation of the native conformation of the cytosolic domain. The fusion protein was expressed in E. coli and purified using a Ni-Agarose resin under native conditions (see Materials and Methods). The immobilized DPAP A tail was incubated with yeast cytosolic extracts obtained from a strain expressing Grd19p-HA. In addition, a Vps10p cytosolic domain expression construct was used in the same binding assay. In this case, the carboxy-terminal tail domain was fused to glutathione-S-transferase (GST). To determine if Grd19p might bind directly to the FXFXD retrieval signal motif within the DPAP A cytosolic domain, we also analyzed a DPAP A-tail expression construct that had an eight amino acid residue deletion that removes the FXFXD motif. After extensive washing of the matrix material, all bound proteins were eluted, and the presence of Grd19p was detected by SDS-PAGE followed by Western blot analysis using anti-HA antibodies.
As shown in Fig. 8 A, Grd19p bound to the expressed
cytosolic domain of DPAP A (lane 3). In contrast, similar
amounts of expressed Vps10p tail domain did not show
any binding of Grd19p in the in vitro binding assay (Fig.
8 A, lane 5). As control reactions, a mock sample that contained empty Ni-NTA resin and a sample expressing the
GST moiety alone were included. No significant binding
could be detected in the control samples (Fig. 8 A, lanes 2 and 4), confirming the specificity of the binding reaction.
The related proteins Vps5p and Mvp1p, which show partial sequence homology to Grd19p, the PX domain (Ponting, 1996), were also tested for binding to the cytosolic domains of DPAP A or Vps10p under conditions where the
interaction with Grd19p could be detected. Vps5p could not be detected in the eluate fractions, and Mvp1p showed
only a low-level, nonspecific binding to the columns
whether protein was attached or not (Fig. 8 A). To exclude
the possibility that cytosolic proteins were nonspecifically
retained during the incubations and washing steps, we
probed all samples with antibodies against the abundant
cytosolic protein phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) but could
not detect it in the elution fractions. The binding of Grd19p to the DPAP A cytosolic domain was dependent on the
presence of Mg2+ ions in the medium (Fig. 8 B). Under the
conditions used, ~10% of the added Grd19p in the yeast
extract bound to the DPAP A tail. Under the chosen conditions, Grd19p also bound to the DPAP A tail construct
missing the FXFXD retrieval sequence (DPAP A-tail
8; Nothwehr et al., 1993
) as well as the full-length tail construct (Fig. 8 C). However, the complex with Grd19p and the
DPAP A-tail
8 construct seemed to be less stable since incubations in buffer with elevated salt concentrations led to
the release of significant amounts of the bound Grd19p from
the column, whereas the binding of Grd19p to the full-length
DPAP A tail was not affected by 800 mM NaCl (Fig. 8 D).
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We conclude that Grd19p interacts specifically with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A in the in vitro binding assay. The related proteins Vps5p and Mvp1p are not part of the complex between Grd19p and the cytosolic domain of DPAP A. The presence of the FXFXD retrieval motif contributes to the stability of that interaction. The specificity of Grd19p involvement in the retrieval of resident late-Golgi membrane proteins is correlated with its ability to physically interact with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A but not with the cytosolic domain of the CPY sorting receptor Vps10p.
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In this study we report the identification of a novel yeast
gene, GRD19, and provide data to support a model for its
function in the retrieval process of membrane proteins of
the TGN from the prevacuolar compartment. GRD19 is a
nonessential gene that encodes a small hydrophilic protein
with a calculated molecular mass of 18.7 kD. In grd19
cells the resident late-Golgi membrane proteins A-ALP
and Kex2p are mislocalized to the vacuole. Mutations in
GRD19 did not affect vacuolar biogenesis, vacuolar protein sorting, or vacuolar morphology (Raymond et al.,
1992a
). The vacuolar hydrolase CPY was sorted with almost wild-type efficiency. The observed slight increase in
CPY secretion in grd19
cells correlates well with a minor
decrease in the stability of the CPY cargo receptor Vps10p
(Cereghino et al., 1995
; Cooper and Stevens, 1996
). Since overexpression of Vps5p suppresses the slight CPY sorting
defect in grd19
cells, this defect is likely to result indirectly from the loss of Grd19p function. The steady-state
localization of Vps10p in the late-Golgi compartment and
its ability to redistribute back to late-Golgi structures from
an accumulated prevacuolar compartment suggest that in
grd19
cells Vps10p cycles normally between the late-Golgi
and prevacuolar compartments and is able to sort and
transport most of the newly synthesized CPY to the vacuole. Therefore, mutations in GRD19 do not affect the general vesicle traffic between the yeast Golgi and vacuole,
but rather specific sorting processes involving the resident
late-Golgi membrane proteins DPAP A and Kex2p. These
properties make GRD19 unique among the components
required for TGN membrane protein localization, since all
other genes identified so far are also required for vacuolar
protein sorting (Seeger and Payne, 1992a
; Nothwehr et al.,
1996
; Redding et al., 1996a
,b; Nothwehr and Hindes, 1997
; Seaman et al., 1997
).
Since the correct localization of A-ALP in the yeast TGN
has been shown to involve both static retention and retrieval from the prevacuolar compartment, we investigated whether GRD19 might be involved specifically in
one of these modes of A-ALP localization. An analysis of
the exit rates of A-ALP from the late-Golgi compartment (Bryant and Stevens, 1997) showed that A-ALP exits the
TGN with normal kinetics in grd19
cells. The processing
kinetics of A-ALP in grd19
cells were very similar to
those measured in a vps27
mutant, a mutant already
shown to be defective for membrane traffic from the prevacuolar compartment (Piper et al., 1995
). The processing rate of A-ALP was not further accelerated in grd19
vps27
-double mutant cells. In addition, the half-time of
processing of A-ALP in grd19
cells is similar to that of
the retrieval defective (F/A)A-ALP construct in wild-type
cells (Nothwehr and Stevens, 1994
). Taken together, these
data indicate a role for GRD19 in the retrieval of specific
TGN membrane proteins from the prevacuolar compartment.
The function of GRD19 in the retrieval process could
be directly demonstrated by an assay based on the redistribution of membrane proteins accumulated in the prevacuolar compartment of vps27-mutant cells (Bryant and
Stevens, 1997). Cells carrying the grd19
mutations were
not able to retrieve A-ALP from the prevacuolar compartment upon restoration of Vps27p function. Instead it redistributed to the vacuole like the vacuolar membrane protein
Vph1p. The defect in A-ALP retrieval is not caused by a
complete block of membrane traffic from the prevacuolar
compartment to the Golgi in grd19
cells, since the retrieval of Vps10p, and the vacuolar delivery of Vph1p were
unaffected. A role for Grd19p in TGN membrane protein retrieval from the prevacuolar compartment was further
supported by experiments analyzing its intracellular distribution. Grd19p is a hydrophilic protein that localizes predominantly to the yeast cytosol. However, in vps27
cells,
in which membrane traffic from the prevacuolar compartment is blocked, Grd19p immunolocalized to the accumulated prevacuolar compartment. The block of membrane traffic in vps27 cells traps cargo molecules such as DPAP
A and Vps10p, which presumably then leads to the accumulation of associated cytosolic components such as Grd19p.
The small amount of Grd19p that was observed in fractions containing membrane structures in subcellular fractionation experiments is consistent with at least a transient
association of Grd19p with the prevacuolar compartment even in wild-type cells.
The involvement of a common subset of VPS and GRD
genes in the localization of Vps10p, A-ALP, and Kex2p indicates that all three proteins use a similar pathway for cycling between the late-Golgi and the prevacuolar compartment. The apparent specificity of Grd19p for the retrieval
of the resident proteins DPAP A and Kex2p may reflect
the fact that the retrieval signals in the cytosolic domains of these two proteins exhibit significant similarity (as shown in the inset of Fig. 9), that is not found in the cytosolic domain of Vps10p. The DPAP A and Kex2p retrieval signals
consist of two aromatic residues, preceded by a cluster of
basic amino acids and followed by some acidic residues
(Wilcox et al., 1992; Nothwehr et al., 1993
). Together, these
regions of ~15 to 20 amino acids could constitute a conserved Grd19p-binding site.
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A shared and saturable protein machinery for the localization of DPAP A and Kex2p was initially indicated by
the observation that overexpression of Kex2p leads to an
increased vacuolar degradation of A-ALP (Nothwehr et
al., 1993). Because of its differential behavior influencing
the localization of DPAP A/Kex2p but not Vps10p, Grd19p
might be a candidate for a protein interacting with the retrieval signal motif of the resident membrane proteins. As
our experiments show, Grd19p indeed physically interacts
with the expressed tail domain of DPAP A in vitro. The
binding is specific, dependent on the presence of magnesium ions and also stable in the presence of high salt.
Grd19p also bound to a DPAP A tail construct in which
the FXFXD motif had been deleted, although the complex
displayed a slightly lower resistance to elevated salt conditions. Grd19p binding to the DPAP A-
8 tail could reflect the fact that the Grd19p-binding site extends well outside
the FXFXD sequence, so that removal of the FXFXD portion of the signal only slightly reduces the binding affinity
of Grd19p to the DPAP A-
8 tail domain. Whereas this
decrease might not be apparent in our nonequilibrium
binding assay, this difference in binding could translate into
a significant degree of mislocalization in vivo. Alternatively, Grd19p might be part of a multiprotein complex interacting with the cytosolic domain of DPAP A and another unknown factor confers the specific recognition of
the aromatic amino acid-based retrieval signal.
Analysis of the protein sequence of Grd19p revealed it
to be a member of a diverse protein family sharing a common sequence motif, the PX domain (Ponting, 1996). Several members of this protein family have been implicated
in vesicular protein traffic. In mammalian cells a member
of the PX protein family, the SNX1 protein, was found to
interact with the cytosolic domain of the EGF receptor
and regulate its degradation (Kurten et al., 1996
). It is thus
tempting to speculate that the Grd19p PX domain functions to either directly bind to the DPAP A/Kex2p cytosolic
domains, or alternatively the PX domain might allow interaction with other proteins required to recognize the
DPAP A/Kex2p retrieval signals as a multiprotein complex. However, the PX domain proteins Vps5p and Mvp1p,
which share a similar localization and effects on TGN protein localization with Grd19p (Ekena and Stevens, 1995
;
Nothwehr and Hindes, 1997
) could not be detected bound
to the cytosolic domain of DPAP A in contrast to Grd19p
itself. This renders the second possibility unlikely, suggesting that Vps5p and/or Mvp1p function in the same pathway as Grd19p but at a different step of the localization
process.
Based on our results we propose the following model for
Grd19p function in late-Golgi membrane protein localization. DPAP A and Kex2p get sorted into vesicles destined
for traffic to the vacuole together with the cargo receptor
Vps10p. The budding process requires Vps1p function
(Rothman et al., 1990; Vater et al., 1992
; Wilsbach and
Payne, 1993a
,b; Nothwehr et al., 1995
) as well as the formation of a clathrin coat (Seeger and Payne, 1992a
,b; Redding et al., 1996). Numerous VPS gene products are involved in the recycling of Vps10p from the prevacuolar
compartment to the yeast TGN (Stack et al., 1995
; Cooper
and Stevens, 1996
; Redding et al., 1996; Seaman et al.,
1997
). The same set of VPS gene products is involved in
the retrieval of the mislocalized TGN membrane proteins
DPAP A and Kex2p (Nothwehr et al., 1996
; Voos, W., and T.H. Stevens, unpublished observations), except the retrieval of these proteins additionally requires the function
of Grd19p. This is likely accomplished by a specific recognition and/or sorting event that involves the direct interaction of Grd19p with the exposed cytosolic tail domains of
these proteins. The reason for the use of an additional recognition factor might be based on the functional difference between Vps10p and DPAP A/Kex2p. After becoming mislocalized to the prevacuolar compartment, DPAP
A and Kex2p must use the general mechanism evolved for
the cycling of the cargo receptors (Cereghino et al., 1995
;
Cooper and Stevens, 1996
; Seaman et al., 1997
), and it is
reasonable that at least one additional component may be
required to make a functional connection to the general
retrieval machinery. Grd19p presumably performs a very
specialized and important function in this process since
overexpression of the PX-domain proteins Vps5p or Mvp1p did not compensate for the loss of Grd19p. Future experiments will be directed at determining whether Grd19p is
part of a protein complex that recruits certain TGN membrane proteins into vesicles leaving the prevacuolar compartment for transport back to the TGN.
The importance of Grd19p function is further supported by the identification of a similar protein in the human EST (expressed sequence tag) database (Conibear, E., personal communication). The identification of a specific retrieval component interacting with the cytosolic tail domain of DPAP A should provide the basis for a more detailed, molecular understanding of the retrograde sorting and transport processes between the late-Golgi and the prevacuolar compartment.
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Footnotes |
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Received for publication 29 July 1997 and in revised form 2 December 1997.
Address all correspondence to Tom Stevens, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229. Tel.: (541) 346-5884. Fax: (541) 346-4854. E-mail: stevens{at}molbio.uoregon.eduWe thank N.J. Bryant for the introduction to the grd screen. We acknowledge M. Snyder for providing the yeast transposon library, J. Horecka for plasmid pRSQ304, N.J. Bryant for the antisera against ALP and Vps10p, S.F. Nothwehr for supplying strain AHY41, plasmid pAH37 and antibodies against Kex2p, and N. Zufall for expert technical assistance. G. Fischer von Mollard provided plasmid pFvM8. E. Conibear, N.J. Bryant, G. Fischer von Mollard, and S. Wizigmann-Voos are thanked for stimulating discussions and critically reading the manuscript.
This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (W. Voos) and from the National Institutes of Health (T.H. Stevens; GM38006).
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Abbreviations used in this paper |
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ALP, alkaline phosphatase; CPY, carboxypeptidase Y; DPAP A, dipeptidyl aminopeptidase A; HA, hemagglutinin; ORF, open reading frame.
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