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Vol. 17, Issue 7, 3031-3050, July 2006
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Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Submitted July 25, 2005;
Revised April 10, 2006;
Accepted April 14, 2006
Monitoring Editor: Howard Riezman
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| INTRODUCTION |
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Mutations that affect the intracellular sorting of Gap1p can be classified into two general types. The first type includes mutations that cause constitutive sorting of high levels of Gap1p to the plasma membrane. This category includes in the genes RSP5, BUL1, BUL2, and DOA4, all of which either partially or completely block the intracellular ubiquitination of Gap1p, which serves as a tag for sorting to the vacuole (Helliwell et al., 2001
; Soetens et al., 2001
; Springael et al., 1999
). Ubiquitination constitutes a common signal for endocytic internalization of a variety of plasma membrane proteins (reviewed by Hicke, 1997
; Horák, 2003
). The second category includes mutations that cause constitutive sorting of Gap1p to the vacuole, regardless of the nitrogen source in the growth medium. Among the genes belonging to this category are the genes LST4, LST7, and LST8, which were initially identified because of their lethality in combination with a thermosensitive allele of SEC13 (Roberg et al., 1997b
). LST8 encodes a positively acting component of the TOR pathway that affects Gap1p sorting by negatively regulating the transcription factors Rtg1/3p and Gln3p, thereby limiting the synthesis of
-ketoglutarate, glutamate, and glutamine (Chen and Kaiser, 2003
). The roles of LST4 and LST7 have not been elucidated. A fundamental relationship between mutations of the two types is that, when a mutation that blocks ubiquitination and causes constitutive sorting to the plasma membrane is combined with a mutation that causes constitutive sorting to the vacuole, the double mutants invariably show constitutive sorting to the plasma membrane. This finding has led to the hypothesis that ubiquitination of Gap1p precedes sorting of Gap1p to a compartment in which the mutations of the second type can exert their effect (Helliwell et al., 2001
).
A variety of studies have revealed that sorting of most plasma membrane proteins for degradation in the vacuolar lumen occurs through the maturation of the late endosome or prevacuolar compartment into multivesicular endosomes (MVEs; reviewed by Katzmann et al., 2002
; Raiborg et al., 2003
; Babst, 2005
). The protein machinery required for MVE formation was discovered by identification of class E vps mutants. These mutants share a common phenotype characterized by accumulation of proteins destined for the vacuole in an enlarged prevacuolar (class E) compartment (Raymond et al., 1992
). Most of the class E VPS (vacuolar protein sorting) genes encode components of three protein complexes (endosomal sorting complex required for transport [ESCRT]), designated ESCRTI, ESCRTII, and ESCRTIII, which are required for the formation of inwardly budding luminal vesicles that fill the interior of MVEs. The luminal vesicles typically contain membrane proteins that arrive in the prevacuolar compartment either by vesicular trafficking from the Golgi or by endocytosis and are eventually degraded completely in the vacuole lumen. Mutations in ESCRT complex prevent formation of inwardly budding vesicles, leading to formation of a class E compartment rather than a MVE. Impaired formation of inwardly budding vesicles can block recycling of proteins such as Vps10p from the prevacuolar compartment to the Golgi, thus leading to their accumulation in the resulting class E compartment (Babst et al., 1998
, 2000
, 2002a
, 2002b
; Babst, 2005
; Katzmann et al., 2001
, 2003
; Bilodeau et al., 2003
; Odorizzi et al., 2003
; Luhtala and Odorizzi, 2004
).
Most membrane proteins that are normally delivered to the lumen of the vacuole require modification by ubiquitination as a signal for being packaged into luminal vesicles of the MVE. Recent work has demonstrated that in many cases Rsp5p is directly required at the MVEs for modification and adequate sorting of membrane proteins (Blondel et al., 2004
; Dunn et al., 2004
; Katzmann et al., 2004
; Morvan et al., 2004
). Instead of causing an increase in plasma membrane sorting, as observed for Gap1p (Helliwell et al., 2001
), in these cases an rsp5 mutation causes the cargo to accumulate in the delimiting membranes of the endosomal and vacuolar compartments.
Deubiquitination of the MVE cargo before its internalization into luminal vesicles is also important for the proper sorting of MVE cargo proteins. For example, The ubiquitin (Ub) C-terminal hydrolase encoded by DOA4 plays a major role at this step in the deubiquitination of different MVE cargoes. A doa4
mutation causes mistargeting of MVE cargo proteins and a failure to recycle ubiquitin, which results in depletion of intracellular pools of free ubiquitin (Swaminathan et al., 1999
; Amerik et al., 2000
; Dupré and Haguenauer-Tsapis, 2001
).
Although defects in cargo ubiquitination, recognition by ESCRT machinery, and deubiquitination at the MVEs may result in the accumulation of proteins in endosomal and perivacuolar membranes, recent studies indicate the existence of alternative pathways that allow recycling of plasma membrane proteins from the latest stages of lysosomal/vacuolar sorting (Babst et al., 2000
; Nikko et al., 2003
; Bugnicourt et al., 2004
; Pizzirusso and Chang, 2004
).
Here we present the results of a genome-wide screen used to identify new functions involved in the control of Gap1p intracellular sorting. We find that mutations in all of the class E VPS genes involved in the MVE pathway cause missorting of intracellular Gap1p to the plasma membrane. Our results show both that Gap1p must follow the MVE pathway in order to be delivered to the vacuole and that a deficiency in the MVE machinery allows efficient retrieval of Gap1p from this intracellular compartment (probably via the trans-Golgi) to the plasma membrane rather than causing its accumulation in the class E compartment. Evaluation of the Gap1p sorting in cells grown on different nitrogen sources shows that cycling of Gap1p from the MVE to the plasma membrane is the main step in the intracellular trafficking itinerary of Gap1p that is regulated by amino acids.
| MATERIALS AND METHODS |
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1 leu2
2 met15
0 ura3
0 and MAT
his3
1 leu2
2 lys2
0 ura3
0, respectively). Characteristically, strains of this genetic background (derived from S288C) produce high Gap1p and Put4p activity when ammonia is used as nitrogen source (Courchesne and Magasanik, 1983
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was used for each cloning step. The rest of the genetic and DNA manipulation general procedures were performed according to the protocols described in Sambrook et al. (1997)
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Assays for Amino Acid Uptake and
-Galactosidase
Assays of the rate of uptake of radiolabeled amino acids were performed as described by Roberg et al. (1997b)
.
-Galactosidase activity was measured using the permeabilized cell method (Adams et al., 1996
).
Screen for Mutations That Affect Gap1p Activity
A primary screen was performed using master 96-well microtiter dishes containing the entire collection of deletions in nonessential genes of the EUROSCARF collection. Approximately 4859 BY strains of each haploid mating type were grown on solid YPD medium overnight and transferred to 96-well plates. Strains were spotted onto plates of minimal urea medium supplemented with amino acids and containing five different concentrations (0, 8, 30, 60, 100 mg/l) of ADCB. Sensitivity or resistance to ADCB was scored after growth for 34 d. As controls on each screening plate, we used the wild-type standard strain, BY4741 (Y00000) and the mutant strains lst4
(Y05026), which causes reduced levels of Gap1p activity (Roberg et al., 1997b
), and gln3
(Y00173), which causes increased levels of Gap1p activity (Stanbrough and Magasanik, 1995
; Chen and Kaiser, 2002
). Candidate strains with either increased sensitivity or resistance to ADCB were reconfirmed in both mating types (BY4741 and BY4742 backgrounds). Subsequent to the initial screening of the deletion strains, Gap1p activity and transcription were determined after transformation of strains with pCK283 to render the strains prototrophic (so that amino acid supplements would not be necessary in the growth medium) and with pMS29 as a reporter to monitor GAP1 expression.
Fluorescence Microscopy
Labeling with FM4-64 (Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR) was performed according to the procedure described in Vida and Emr (1995)
. For GFP localization studies, Gap1p-GFPexpressing cells were grown to exponential phase in ammonia liquid cultures. Glutamate was added to a final concentration of 3 mM and the cells were incubated for 30 min to 1 h at 24°C. Cells were then collected by centrifugation, washed, and suspended in 1 M Tris, pH 8.0, 5% NaN3 as described by Urbanowski and Piper (1999)
. This treatment stops the membrane traffic and provides alkaline conditions optimal for GFP fluorescence imaging. Images were captured with a Nikon E800 microscope (Melville, NY) equipped with a Hamamatsu digital camera (Bridgewater, NJ). The FITC filter set was used for imaging of FM4-64 detection and the chroma filter set at 41012 was used for GFP detection. Improvision OpenLabs 2.0 software (Lexington, MA) was used to process images.
FM4-64 Recycling Assay
To measure recycling of endocytosed membranes back to the cell surface, we carried out FM464 recycling assays as described in Wiederkehr et al. (2000)
. Fluorescence was recorded using a Fluorolog spectrofluorometer (Jobin/Yvon, Horiba, Irvine, CA).
Carboxy peptidase Y Secretion Assay
Detection of secreted carboxy peptidase Y (CPY) was carried out as described by Lafourcade et al. (2004)
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Immunoprecipitation and Immunoblotting of Ubiquitin Conjugates of Gap1p
For the detection of Gap1 protein levels, two OD600 of cells were collected at the required times after shifting nitrogen sources and protein extracts carried out by following a protocol from Adams et al. (1996)
. Proteins were resolved by 8% SDS-PAGE and detected by immunoblot using rabbit polyclonal anti-Gap1p antibody (made as explained in Risinger and Kaiser, unpublished results) at 1:2000 dilution, mouse monoclonal anti-3-phosphoglycerate kinase (1:1000, Molecular Probes) used for simultaneous detection of Pgk1p as a loading control, and HRP-conjugated donkey anti-rabbit IgG or HRP-coupled sheep anti-mouse IgG (1:10,000 dilution, Amersham, Indianapolis, IN).
For the detection of Gap1p-HA and its ubiquitin conjugates, Gap1p was immunoprecipitated and then detected by immunoblotting following an adaptation of the protocol described by Laney and Hochstrasser (2002)
. Strains were transformed with pPCUP1-myc-UBI (pCK322) and then cultured in minimal urea medium to an initial OD600 of 0.01/ml. myc-Ubi expression was induced for 16 h with 1 µM CuSO4. An equivalent to 10 OD600 units of cells were collected on 0.45-µm nitrocellulose filters once cultures reached 0.4 OD600/ml. Cells were washed twice in 10 mM NaN3, suspended in 200 µl of SDS buffer containing NEM and protease inhibitors (1% (wt/vol) SDS; 45 mM Na-HEPES, pH 7.5; 50 mM NEM; 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF); 0.5 µg/ml leupeptin, 2 µg/ml aprotinin, and 0.7 µg/ml pepstatin), and lysed with glass beads by vortexing 5 min at room temperature. Lysates were diluted in 700 µl of Triton lysis buffer with NEM and protease inhibitors (1% [vol/vol] Triton X-100; 150 mM NaCl; 50 mM Na-HEPES, pH 7.5; 5 mM Na-EDTA; 10 mM NEM; 1 mM PMSF; 0.5 µg/ml leupeptin; 2 µg/ml aprotinin, and 0.7 µg/ml pepstatin), and any remaining cell debris was removed by centrifugation at 4°C, 14,000 x g. Samples were preadsorbed for 1 h at room temperature with 40 µl of a 20% suspension of protein G-Sepharose 4 fast flow (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) followed by brief centrifugation to remove the beads. This procedure was repeated twice. Immunoprecipitation was carried out by overnight incubation at 4°C with 10 µl of monoclonal antibody preparation (rat anti-HA [3F10]; Roche, Indianapolis, IN), followed by overnight incubation at 4°C with 60 µl of protein G-Sepharose suspension. The beads were washed five times with 1% (vol/vol) Triton in phosphate-buffered saline buffer containing NEM 10 mM, 1 mM PMSF, 0.5 µg/ml leupeptin, 2 µg/ml aprotinin, and 0.7 µg/ml pepstatin. Immunoprecipitates were solubilized by incubation in sample buffer for 1 h at 37°C and resolved by 8% SDS-PAGE. Antibodies used for immunoblotting included mouse anti-HA monoclonal 16B12 (BAbCO, Richmond, CA) at 1: 1000 dilution; mouse anti-myc, monoclonal 9E10 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA) at 1: 500 dilution; and HRP-coupled sheep anti-mouse serum at 1: 10,000 dilution (Amersham Pharmacia).
Pulse-Chase Experiments
To assess the inhibition of bulk translation caused by cycloheximide, cells growing exponentially in minimal glutamate medium lacking methionine were suspended in fresh medium at 5 OD600/ml and pulse-labeled for 4 min by addition of 30 µCi of [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine (EXPRESS, NEN, Boston, MA) per OD600. Cycloheximide was then added and cells were incubated for 30 min at room temperature. Metabolic labeling of proteins was stopped by the addition of unlabeled 10 mM methionine and 10 mM cysteine before washing twice with ice-cold 20 mM NaN3. A 0.4-ml aliquot of culture was suspended in 200 µl of sample buffer containing protease inhibitors as above. Cells were lysed by vortexing with glass beads for 5 min at 4°C, and boiled for 1 min, 20-µl samples were resolved by SDS-PAGE (8% gel), and labeled proteins were detected with a 445si PhosphorImager (Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA).
RESULTS
Identification of VPS Genes Involved in the Sorting of Gap1p
To identify new genes that govern proper sorting of nitrogen-regulated permeases, we screened 4859 haploid deletion mutants in nonessential genes of S. cerevisiae from the EUROSCARF collection. For the first step of selection in this screen we used the toxic proline analog ADCB, which is taken up primarily by Gap1p and Put4p permeases in cells grown on ammonia or urea as a nitrogen source (Roberg et al., 1997a
). Mutations causing increased Gap1p and Put4p activities display enhanced sensitivity to ADCB, whereas mutations that reduce these activities are more resistant to this compound (Roberg et al., 1997b
). By spotting each strain from the collection onto plates with minimal urea medium containing different concentrations of ADCB, a total of 162 mutants showing sensitivity to a normally sub-LC (<12.5 mg/l) of ADCB were identified. (An additional 118 mutants that displayed resistance to ADCB were identified, and these mutants will be described elsewhere.)
Enhanced sensitivity to ADCB, indicating increased activity of Gap1p and Put4p could be due to an effect on either the intracellular sorting of nitrogen-regulated permeases or their level of expression. To distinguish these possibilities, we assayed the effect of each mutant on Gap1p activity and expression. Gap1p activity was measured by the rate of uptake of [14C]citrulline, which is transported only by Gap1p. For these experiments, uptake of [14C]arginine was used to control for nonspecific effects on permease activity. GAP1 transcription was evaluated by measuring the
-galactosidase activity expressed from a PGAP1-lacZ reporter. These assays showed that 73 of the mutants had significantly increased Gap1p activity, and that for 70 of these mutants the increase in Gap1p activity was not due to an increase in GAP1 transcription (our unpublished data). Among the mutants that displayed increased Gap1p activity but normal GAP1 transcription, we almost the entire set of class E of VPS, which code for members of the ESCRT machinery acting at the MVE (Babst, 2005
). The phenotypes obtained in the ADCB screen for mutations in all known VPS genes are summarized in the Table 3.
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, vps4
, vps27
, and doa4
(Figure 1A). Uptake assays revealed from 10- to 20-fold increases in Gap1p activity compared with the wild-type strain in the same medium (Figure 1B). This increase in Gap1p activity was about the same as that for a bul1
bul2
double mutant, which causes a 30-fold increase in Gap1p activity on urea medium (Figure 1B).
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Membrane proteins targeted to the vacuole through the MVE pathway are sorted into the membrane of inwardly budding vesicles generated at the MVE, which are ultimately delivered into the vacuolar lumen when the MVE fuses with the vacuole (Reggiori and Pelham, 2001
; Katzmann et al., 2002
; Babst, 2005
). Accordingly, Gap1p-GFP in a wild-type strain growing in a high concentration of the amino acid glutamate, which induces Gap1p vacuolar sorting, localizes within the vacuolar lumen (Figure 2).
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Gap1p Sorting Responds to Amino Acids in MVE Mutants
We asked whether the increased levels of Gap1p activity in class E vps mutants might be due to a defect in responding to amino acids. Mutations in MKS1 display high, unregulated expression of TCA pathway enzymes responsible for
-ketoglutarate formation and thus produce high levels of glutamate and glutamine (Butow and Avadhani, 2004
). We have found that high amino acid content of mks1
mutants cause Gap1p to be sorted to the vacuole (Chen and Kaiser, 2002
). Mutants defective in Gap1p polyubiquitination, when combined with mks1
, showed highly increased levels of active Gap1p localized to the cell surface (as observed in Figure 3, A and B, for the triple mutant mks1
bul1
bul2
). This result establishes that if Gap1p cannot be ubiquitinated, that Gap1p sorting no longer responds to high levels of amino acids. By contrast, a double mutant mks1
vps27
exhibited low levels of Gap1p activity (Figure 3A). Examination of Gap1p-GFP in mks1
vps27
strains revealed that Gap1p-GFP accumulated in endosomal/perivacuolar membranes, suggesting that Gap1p rerouting to the vacuolar sorting pathway in response to high internal amino acid concentrations is not impaired in this double mutant (Figure 3B).
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, vps27
, and did4
) for a rate of decline in Gap1p activity, indicative of functional endocytosis, right after the addition of 3 mM glutamate to cells growing in ammonia medium (Figure 3C). Although cells continuously growing in the absence of amino acids maintained relatively high levels of Gap1p activity, addition of glutamate caused a decline in Gap1p activity of more than 20-fold after 20 min that was equivalent in wild-type and in the class E vps mutants. As a control to demonstrate that the decline in Gap1p activity was at least in part due to endocytosis, we showed that the endocytic mutant end3
did not exhibit a significant reduction in Gap1p activity after the addition of glutamate (Figure 3C).
These data indicate that, although class E vps mutants caused increased traffic of Gap1p to the plasma membrane, these mutants can respond normally to high external and internal amino acid concentrations by redirecting Gap1p away from the plasma membrane to the vacuolar targeting pathway. This behavior clearly distinguishes class E vps mutants from mutations that affect Gap1p ubiquitination, such as a bul1
bul2
double mutant, because the latter not only cause an increase in Gap1p activity, but also render Gap1p sorting insensitive to the effect of amino acids.
Gap1p Traffic to the Plasma Membrane in a Class E vps Mutant Is Blocked by an LST4 Mutation
Mutations in the gene LST4 dramatically reduce the activity of Gap1p because they cause constitutive sorting of Gap1p to the vacuole, regardless of the nitrogen source in the growth medium (Roberg et al., 1997b
). Nevertheless, the lst4
phenotype can be completely suppressed by a bul1
bul2
double mutant, suggesting that Gap1p encounters the sorting step specified by Bul1p and Bul2p before the step that depends on Lst4p (Helliwell et al., 2001
). In contrast to the behavior shown by the triple mutant bul1
bul2
lst4
, a simultaneous mutation of the gene LST4 completely rescued growth of the bro1
, vps4
, vps27
, and did4
mutants on plates of minimal ammonia (Figure 4A) or urea (our unpublished data) medium containing 7 mg/l of ADCB. Uptake assays to measure Gap1p activity levels were consistent with the sensitivity to ADCB. Double mutants, lst4
vps4
, lst4
vps27
, and lst4
did4
, all had
5% of the Gap1p activity as the corresponding single class E mutant (Figure 4B). Null double mutants with lst4
for the remaining class E genes showed similar reductions of Gap1p activity except for an lst4
bro1
double mutant, which exhibited 20% of the activity as a bro1
single mutant.
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mutant was localized within the vacuolar lumen and to punctate structures surrounding the vacuole. Null mutations in the class E genes, VPS4, VPS27, DID4, and BRO1, showed Gap1p-GFP predominantly located at the plasma membrane. Instead, the double mutants, lst4
vps4
, lst4
vps27
, and lst4
did4
, showed most of Gap1p-GFP contained in structures adjacent to the vacuole, which was visualized using DIC optics. Similar results were obtained for deletions in VPS28, SNF8, VPS25, VPS36, VPS20, SNF7, and VPS24 (our unpublished data).
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bul2
) from class E vps mutants. Although both types of mutants exhibit a redistribution of Gap1p to the plasma membrane accompanied by greatly increased Gap1p permease activity, the class E vps mutants will respond to regulation by amino acids and lst4
mutations, whereas ubiquitination-defective mutants are not influenced by either. Overall, these results along with the previously demonstrated existence of an internal pool of Gap1p, even when cells are grown in poor nitrogen sources (Roberg et al., 1997a
Different Subsets of MVE Proteins Have Different Effects on the Retention of Gap1p in the MVE
Our results above indicate that a specific subset of class E vps mutants growing in the absence of high amino acid concentrations fail to retain Gap1p in the MVE. Although all class E vps mutations showed increased levels of Gap1p activity under these conditions, some of the mutants had more subtle effects on Gap1p. Mutants such as vps60
and hse1
were slightly less sensitive to low concentrations of ADCB (our unpublished data). Similarly, did2
, hse1
, vps23
, and vps37
, had only 5- to 7-fold increased levels of Gap1p activity when grown in urea as a nitrogen source (Table 4), which is about half of the effect shown by the mutations described above.
We examined the subcellular localization of Gap1p-GFP in this different subgroup using did2
, hse1
, vps23
, vps37
, or vps60
null mutant strains. These single mutant strains growing in ammonia displayed a pattern of Gap1p-GFP localization similar to that of a vps27
lst4
double mutant (compare Figure 5, A and B), with most of the Gap1p-GFP being located intracellularly. Confocal microscopy of these cells revealed that the diffuse pattern of localization of Gap1p-GFP was the result of some Gap1p-GFP in punctate structures adjacent to the vacuole as well as in the vacuolar membrane (our unpublished data). Apparently mutations in this subset of ESCRT genes do not allow Gap1p to exit the MVE efficiently. The differences among ESCRT mutants with respect to their effect on Gap1p do not strictly correlate with the known subdivisions of these proteins into different complexes; however, most of the mutants that allow efficient cycling of Gap1p to the plasma membrane are in ESCRT complex II and III.
A Preexisting Pool of Gap1p Can Cycle from the MVE to the Plasma Membrane
To demonstrate directly the existence of a pathway for cycling of existing Gap1p from the MVE to the plasma membrane, we accumulated Gap1p in the class E compartment in a vps4
mutant grown on glutamate and then transferred the cells to amino acidfree medium. As expected, the vps4
mutant grown on glutamate exhibited low levels of Gap1p activity, but when these cells were transferred to urea medium Gap1p activity increased rapidly (Figure 6A). The initial rise in activity experienced by the vps4
mutant did not depend on newly synthesized permease because the early phase of induction of activity was not blocked by addition of 1.5 µg/ml cycloheximide. This concentration of cycloheximide was chosen as the minimum necessary to inhibit translation completely as assayed by incorporation of radiolabeled methionine into newly translated proteins (Figure 6B; Roberg et al., 1997a
). In contrast, activity did not increase substantially in an lst4
vps4
double mutant (that was not treated with cycloheximide), showing that Gap1p cycling to the plasma membrane does depend on Lst4p activity (Figure 6A). An immunoblot control (Figure 6C) shows that each of the cultures contained similar amounts of Gap1p protein, indicating that the differences in activity were not due to Gap1p degradation. In a parallel localization experiment, Gap1p-GFP could be seen to partially redistribute from the endosome to the plasma membrane in a vps4
mutant after transfer from glutamate to urea medium. However, most of the Gap1p-GFP remained in the class E compartment in an lst4
vps4
double mutant under the same conditions (Figure 6D).
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and lst4
vps4
(Figure 6C). The mutant lst4
vps4
shows accumulation of several high-molecular-weight species containing Gap1p that are absent in protein extracts from vps4
. A wild-type strain shows a pattern similar to that observed in the lst4
vps4
, and these species are absent in a mutant strain carrying an allele of GAP1 with the two lysine acceptor sites for ubiquitination mutated to arginine (gap1K9R,K16R; Soetens et al., 2001
Gap1p Recycling Does Not Depend on Other Known Pathways for Recycling Proteins from the Endosome to Golgi Compartments
Three different protein complexes have been identified for their role in the recycling of different subsets of proteins from the endosome to the Golgi. The vps fifty three (VFT)/Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) complex consists of four subunits (Vps51pVps54p) and is required in association with the Rab Ypt6p for the retrograde transport of Golgi resident proteins from the endosome to the Golgi (Conibear and Stevens, 2000
; Siniossoglou and Pelham, 2002
). A second complex, known as the retromer complex, is necessary for recycling of Vps10p and is composed of Vps35p, Vps29p, and Vps26p and the Vps5pVps17p sorting nexin dimer (Reddy and Seaman, 2001
; and reviewed by Seaman, 2005
). A third multisubunit tethering complex with a recently discovered role in the recycling of the uracil permease Fur4p (Bugnicourt et al., 2004
) that was first identified as being involved in the docking and fusion of vacuolar and/or endosomal membranes is the class C Vps/homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) complex (reviewed by Wickner, 2002
; Whyte and Munro, 2002
). Proteins forming this complex include Pep3/Vps18p, Pep5/Vps11p, Vps16p, Vps33p, Vam3p, and Ypt7 (Raymond et al., 1992
, Whyte and Munro, 2002
). Notably, a requirement for Vam3p in the recycling of Gap1p has been suggested (Nikko et al., 2003
).
If any of these complexes were necessary for Gap1p trafficking from the MVE to the plasma membrane, the corresponding mutants would be expected to exhibit an effect on Gap1p trafficking similar to lst4
. However, none of the mutations in the three known recycling complexes exhibited a significant decrease in Gap1p activity (Tables 3 and 4; Figure 7). Moreover, some of the class C Vps mutant strains, even showed increased levels of Gap1p activity that closely resembled to those observed for class E Vps mutations.
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and determined the effect on Gap1p activity (Figure 7). Retromer mutations did not cause a significant reduction of the increased levels of Gap1p activity observed in a vps4
mutant. Some mutations such as vps26
actually increased the level of Gap1p activity. VFT/GARP complex mutants combined with vps4
caused a modest decrease in Gap1p activity relative to a vps4
single mutation, but the effect was much less than for that of an lst4
mutation and likely does not indicate a direct effect on Gap1p trafficking to the plasma membrane. Vps/HOPS complex mutants had a heterogeneous effect in the levels of Gap1p activity in a vps4
genetic background: compared with a vps4
single mutant, double mutations with vps16
or vps33
modestly decreased Gap1p activity, whereas double mutants with vam3
or pep3/vps18
either did not alter Gap1p activity or caused increased activity.
Specific Dependence of Gap1p Recycling on LST4 and LST7 Genes
We were interested in whether the genes we have identified that do have a significant effect on Gap1p trafficking from the MVE to the plasma membrane affected other recycling processes. We therefore examined LST4 and LST7, two of the genes we have isolated that have the greatest effect on Gap1p trafficking to the plasma membrane (Roberg et al., 1997b
), for their effects on a variety of trafficking events. Both lst4
and lst7
caused a greater than 20-fold decrease in Gap1p activity in the context of a vps4
genetic background (Figure 8A). This decreased Gap1p activity did not correspond to a decrease in GAP1 transcription (Figure 8B) and most likely resulted from a failure of Gap1p to be transported efficiently from the class E compartment to the plasma membrane (Figure 8C). However, neither lst4
nor lst7
appeared to have an effect on Vps10p cycling between the Golgi and endosome because these mutants did not cause an increase in secretion of pro-CPY into the extracellular medium (Figure 8D). Moreover, neither lst4
nor lst7
had an effect on FM4-64 recycling from an endosomal compartment back to the plasma membrane (Figure 8, E and F). Taken together these results indicate that Gap1p has a discrete set of genetic requirements for trafficking from the MVE to the plasma membrane that does not appear to overlap with known endosomal or MVE recycling pathways.
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mutant. One way to resolve these possibilities is to examine the effect of a mutation known to block Gap1p endocytosis. END3 encodes a component of general endocytic vesicles and end3
mutants completely block endocytosis of a variety of membrane proteins, including Gap1p (Benedetti et al., 1994
mutation caused an increased rate of Gap1p endocytosis, then it should be possible to reverse the effect of an lst4
mutant by blocking endocytosis with end3
. We examined Gap1p-GFP localization in end3
and lst4
single mutants and end3
lst4
double mutant strains (Figure 9A). A block in Gap1p-GFP endocytosis was evident in end3
mutants since Gap1p-GFP remained at the plasma membrane for more than 30 min when grown on ammonia, after the addition of glutamate, whereas the wild-type strain showed complete redistribution of Gap1p-GFP to the vacuole under the same conditions. When end3
mutant cells were grown continuously on glutamate, Gap1p-GFP accumulated in the vacuole, and no signal appeared at the plasma membrane, indicating that upon continued exposure to glutamate vacuolar sorting of Gap1p occurs through a pathway that does not involve previous sorting to the plasma membrane (as previously demonstrated by Roberg et al., 1997a
mutant most Gap1p-GFP is transported to the vacuole by a pathway that bypasses the plasma membrane because most Gap1p-GFP was delivered to the vacuole in an end3
lst4
double mutant grown on ammonia. Some of the end3
lst4
mutant cells showed a small fraction of Gap1p-GFP at the cell surface consistent with the expectation that the small fraction of Gap1p-GFP delivered to the cell surface in an lst4
mutant would accumulate in that location in an end3
mutant. The amount of Gap1p-GFP at the cell surface in an end3
lst4
, quantified by Gap1p activity assay, was similar to the low activity in an lst4
mutant (Figure 9B), in accordance with previous observations made by Helliwell et al. (2001)
or growth on glutamate act to decrease Gap1p at the plasma membrane by greatly increasing the rate of endocytosis.
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-adaptin homologues, ARF-binding) proteins have a well-characterized role in the recycling of sorting receptors of vacuolar/lysosomal hydrolases from endosomes to the TGN (reviewed by Bonifacino, 2004
strain is impaired when both GGA genes from Saccharomyces, GGA1 and GGA2, are simultaneously deleted. With this aim we decided to monitor Gap1p-GFP localization in the double mutant gga1
gga2
and the triple mutant gga1
gga2
lst4
. As shown in Figure 10, when cells from the double mutant gga1
gga2
growing in ammonia are switched to medium with glutamate, cells show a significant defect in the ability to sort Gap1p to the vacuole. This is in accordance with the previous observations reported by Scott et al. (2004)
gga2
lst4
did not show any defect associated with the lack of GGA function and instead behaved as an lst4
mutant, showing constitutive sorting of Gap1p to the vacuole independent from the nitrogen source. In contrast, an lst4
pep12
double mutant showed Gap1p-GFP associated with small punctae that probably correspond with multiple small vesicles unable to fuse/form an endosome (Figure 10). This latter result served as a control to show that a known block in Golgi-to-MVE traffic impairs constitutive sorting of Gap1p to the vacuole in an lst4
(PEP12 gene encodes a t-SNARE of the PVC required for the fusion with the endosome of vesicles trafficking toward the vacuolar sorting pathway; Becherer et al., 1996
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