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Vol. 11, Issue 10, 3289-3298, October 2000

The R-SNARE Endobrevin/VAMP-8 Mediates Homotypic Fusion of Early Endosomes and Late Endosomes

Wolfram Antonin,*dagger Claudia Holroyd,*dagger Ritva Tikkanen,Dagger Stefan Höning,§ and Reinhard Jahndagger ||

 dagger Department of Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany;  Dagger Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and  §Institute for Biochemistry II, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Endobrevin/VAMP-8 is an R-SNARE localized to endosomes, but it is unknown in which intracellular fusion step it operates. Using subcellular fractionation and quantitative immunogold electron microscopy, we found that endobrevin/VAMP-8 is present on all membranes known to communicate with early endosomes, including the plasma membrane, clathrin-coated pits, late endosomes, and membranes of the trans-Golgi network. Affinity-purified antibodies that block the ability of endobrevin/VAMP-8 to form SNARE core complexes potently inhibit homotypic fusion of both early and late endosomes in vitro. Fab fragments were as active as intact immunoglobulin Gs. Recombinant endobrevin/VAMP-8 inhibited both fusion reactions with similar potency. We conclude that endobrevin/VAMP-8 operates as an R-SNARE in the homotypic fusion of early and late endosomes.


* These authors contributed equally to this work.

|| Corresponding author. E-mail address: rjahn{at}gwdg.de.


Molecular Biology of the Cell
Vol. 11, 3289-3298, October 2000
Copyright © 2000 by The American Society for Cell Biology



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