Journal
EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 28, Issue 21, Pages 3279-3289Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.269
Keywords
cargo packaging; COPII; transport vesicle; vesicle transport
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan
- JSPS
- PROBRAIN
- RIKEN
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20001009] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Selective protein export from the endoplasmic reticulum is mediated by COPII vesicles. Here, we investigated the dynamics of fluorescently labelled cargo and non-cargo proteins during COPII vesicle formation using single-molecule microscopy combined with an artificial planar lipid bilayer. Single-molecule analysis showed that the Sar1p-Sec23/24p-cargo complex, but not the Sar1p-Sec23/24p complex, undergoes partial dimerization before Sec13/31p recruitment. On addition of a complete COPII mixture, cargo molecules start to assemble into fluorescent spots and clusters followed by vesicle release from the planar membrane. We show that continuous GTPase cycles of Sar1p facilitate cargo concentration into COPII vesicle buds, and at the same time, non-cargo proteins are excluded from cargo clusters. We propose that the minimal set of COPII components is required not only to concentrate cargo molecules, but also to mediate exclusion of non-cargo proteins from the COPII vesicles. The EMBO Journal (2009) 28, 3279-3289. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2009.269; Published online 17 September 2009
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