A new role for a SNARE protein as a regulator of the Ypt7/Rab-dependent stage of docking
AUTOR(ES)
Ungermann, Christian
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
The homotypic fusion of yeast vacuoles occurs in an ordered cascade of priming, docking, and fusion. The linkage between these steps has so far remained unclear. We now report that Vam7p (the vacuolar SNAP-23/25 homolog) signals from the cis-SNARE complex to Ypt7p (the vacuolar Rab/Ypt) to initiate the docking process. After Vam7p has been released from the cis-SNARE complex by Sec18p-mediated priming, it is still required for Ypt7p-dependent docking and it needs Ypt7p to remain on the vacuole. Thus, after priming, Vam7p is released from the vacuole altogether if Ypt7p has been extracted by Gdi1p or inactivated by antibody but is not released if docking is blocked simply by vacuole dilution; it is therefore Ypt7p function, and not docking per se, that retains Vam7p. In accord with this finding, cells deleted for the gene encoding Ypt7 have normal amounts of Vam7p but have little Vam7p on their isolated vacuoles. Interaction of Vam7p and Ypt7p is further indicated by two-hybrid analysis [Uetz, P., Giot, L., Cagney, G., Mansfield, T. A., Judson, R. S., Knight, J. R., Lockshon, D., Narayan, V., Srinivasan, M., Pochart, P., et al. (2000) Nature (London) 403, 623–627] and by the effect of Vam7p on the association of the Rab/Ypt-effector HOPS complex (homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting; Vam2p and Vam6p plus four vacuole protein sorting class C proteins) with Ypt7p. Vam7p provides a functional link between the priming step, which releases it from the cis-SNARE complex, and docking.
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