Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 14, Issue 8, Pages 922-932Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/tra.12084
Keywords
membrane fission; small GTPases; vesicular transport
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- German Research Council [SFB 638, A10]
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Intracellular transport and maintenance of the endomembrane system in eukaryotes depends on formation and fusion of vesicular carriers. A seeming discrepancy exists in the literature about the basic mechanism in the scission of transport vesicles that depend on GTP-binding proteins. Some reports describe that the scission of COP-coated vesicles is dependent on GTP hydrolysis, whereas others found that GTP hydrolysis is not required. In order to investigate this pivotal mechanism in vesicle formation, we analyzed formation of COPI-and COPII-coated vesicles utilizing semi-intact cells. The small GTPases Sar1 and Arf1 together with their corresponding coat proteins, the Sec23/24 and Sec13/31 complexes for COPII and coatomer for COPI vesicles were required and sufficient to drive vesicle formation. Both types of vesicles were efficiently generated when GTP hydrolysis was blocked either by utilizing the poorly hydrolyzable GTP analogs GTP gamma S and GMP-PNP, or with constitutively active mutants of the small GTPases. Thus, GTP hydrolysis is not required for the formation and release of COP vesicles.
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