Journal
MOLECULAR PLANT
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 916-930Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss117
Keywords
endocytosis; endosome; Golgi; i-SNARE; plant endomembranes; protoplast; SNARE; TGN; tonoplast; vacuole
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- Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita' e della Ricerca-Programmi di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (MIUR-PRIN)
- Swiss NSF
- Italian project 'Reti di Laboratori Pubblici di Ricerca per la Selezione, Caratterizzazione e Conservazione di Germoplasma'
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Plant sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) encoded by genes of the same sub-family are generally considered as redundant in promoting vesicle-associated membrane fusion events. Nonetheless, the application of innovative experimental approaches highlighted that members of the same gene sub-family often have different functional specificities. In this work, two closely related Qc-SNAREsuthe AtSYP51 and the AtSYP52uare compared in their ability to influence different secretory pathways. Their role in the vesicle sorting to the central vacuole has been revised and they were found to have a novel inhibitory function. When transiently overexpressed, the SYP51 and the SYP52 distributed between the TGN and the tonoplast. Our data demonstrate that these SYPs (syntaxin of plants) act as t-SNARE when present on the membrane of TGN/PVC, whereas they behave as inhibitory or interfering SNAREs (i-SNAREs) when they accumulate on the tonoplast. Moreover, the performed functional analysis indicated that the AtSYP51 and the AtSYP52 roles differ in the traffic to the vacuole. The findings are a novel contribution to the functional characterization of plant SNAREs that reveals additional non-fusogenic roles.
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