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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 364, 期 5, 页码 1048-1060出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.09.077
关键词
Vam3p; vacuole fusion; hemifusion; transmembrane domain; SNARE
SNARE proteins mediate intracellular fusion of eukaryotic membranes. Some SNAREs have previously been shown to dimerise via interaction of their transmembrane domains. However, the functional significance of these interactions had remained unclear. Here, we show that mutating alternate faces of the transmembrane helix of the yeast vacuolar Q-SNARE Vam3p reduces the ability of the full-length protein to induce contents mixing in yeast vacuole fusion to different extents. Examination of liposome fusion induced by synthetic transmernbrane domains revealed that inner leaflet mixing is delayed relative to outer leaflet mixing, suggesting that fusion transits through a hemifusion intermediate. Interestingly, one of the mutations impaired inner leaflet mixing in the liposome system. This suggests that the defect seen in vacuolar contents mixing is due to partial arrest of the reaction at hemifusion. Since covalent dimerisation of this mutant recovered wild-type behaviour, homodimerisation of a SNARE transmembrane domain appears to control the transition of a hemifusion intermediate to complete lipid mixing. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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