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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 124, Issue 23, Pages 4064-4076Publisher
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.088344
Keywords
PacC processing; Multivesicular body pathway; Endosomes; Arrestin
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D521781/1, BB/F01189X/1]
- Wellcome Trust [067878, 084660/Z/08/Z]
- Spanish Government [BIO2009-7281]
- Comunidad de Madrid [SAL/0246/2006]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/D521781/1, BB/F01189X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/F01189X/1, BB/D521781/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [084660/Z/08/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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The Aspergillus pal pathway hijacks ESCRT proteins into ambient pH signalling complexes. We show that components of ESCRT-0, ESCRT-I, ESCRT-II and ESCRT-III are nearly essential for growth, precluding assessment of null mutants for pH signalling or trafficking. This severely debilitating effect is rescued by loss-of-function mutations in two cation tolerance genes, one of which, sltA, encodes a transcription factor whose inactivation promotes hypervacuolation. Exploiting a conditional expression sltA allele, we demonstrate that deletion of vps27 (ESCRT-0), vps23 (ESCRT-I), vps36 (ESCRT-II), or vps20 or vps32 (both ESCRT-III) leads to numerous small vacuoles, a phenotype also suppressed by SltA downregulation. This situation contrasts with normal vacuoles and vacuole-associated class E compartments seen in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ESCRT null mutants. Exploiting the suppressor phenotype of sltA(-) mutations, we establish that Vps23, Vps36, Vps20 and Vps32 are essential for pH signalling. Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate-recognising protein Vps27 (ESCRT-0) is not, consistent with normal pH signalling in rabB null mutants unable to recruit Vps34 kinase to early endosomes. In contrast to the lack of pH signalling in the absence of Vps20 or Vps32, detectable signalling occurs in the absence of ESCRT-III subunit Vps24. Our data support a model in which certain ESCRT proteins are recruited to the plasma membrane to mediate pH signalling.
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