title: Cellubrevin and synaptobrevins: similar subcellular localization and biochemical properties in PC12 cells.
abstract: There is strong evidence to indicate that proteins of the synaptobrevin family play a key role in exocytosis. Synaptobrevin 1 and 2 are expressed at high concentration in brain where they are localized on synaptic vesicles. Cellubrevin, a very similar protein, has a widespread tissue distribution and in fibroblasts is localized on endosome-derived, transferin receptor-positive vesicles. Since brain cellubrevin is not detectable in synaptic vesicles, we investigated whether cellubrevin and the synaptobrevins are differentially targeted when co-expressed in the same cell. We report that in the nervous system cellubrevin is expressed at significant levels only by glia and vascular cells. However, cellubrevin is coexpressed with the two synaptobrevins in PC12 cells, a neuroendocrine cell line which contains synaptic vesicle-like microvesicles. In PC12 cells, cellubrevin has a distribution very similar to that of synaptobrevin 1 and 2. The three proteins are targeted to neurites which exclude the transferrin receptor and are enriched in synaptic-like microvesicles and dense-core granules. They are recovered in the synaptic-like microvesicle peak of glycerol velocity gradients, have a similar distribution in isopycnic fractionation and are coprecipitated by anti-synaptobrevin 2 immunobeads. Finally, cellubrevin, like the synaptobrevins, interact with the neuronal t-SNAREs syntaxin 1 and SNAP-25. These results suggest that cellubrevin and the synaptobrevins have similar function and do not play a specialized role in constitutive and regulated exocytosis, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Chilcote
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Galli
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mundigl
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Edelmann
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: McPherson
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takei
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Camilli
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D003594:Cytoplasmic Granules / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005333:Fetus; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D016501:Neurites / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D015388:Organelles / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016716:PC12 Cells; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins; D050683:R-SNARE Proteins; D051381:Rats; D013569:Synapses / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D050825:Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25; D050827:Syntaxin 1; D051040:Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 3
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D050765:Qa-SNARE Proteins; D050683:R-SNARE Proteins; C494210:Snap25 protein, rat; C494213:Stx1a protein, rat; D050825:Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25; D050827:Syntaxin 1; D051040:Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 3