title: Reconstitution of vesiculated Golgi membranes into stacks of cisternae: requirement of NSF in stack formation.
abstract: We have developed an in vitro system to study the biochemical events in the fusion of ilimaquinone (IQ) induced vesiculated Golgi membranes (VGMs) into stacks of cisternae. The Golgi complex in intact normal rat kidney cells (NRK) is vesiculated by treatment with IQ. The cells are washed to remove the drug and then permeabilized by a rapid freeze-thaw procedure. VGMs of 60 nm average diameter assemble into stacks of Golgi cisternae by a process that is temperature dependent, requires ATP and a high speed supernatant from cell extract (cytosol), as revealed by immunofluorescence and electron microscopy. The newly assembled stacks are functionally active in vesicular protein transport and contain processing enzymes that carry out Golgi specific modifications of glycoproteins. The fusion of VGMs requires NSF, a protein known to promote fusion of transport vesicles with the target membrane in the exocytic and endocytic pathways. Immunoelectron microscopy using Golgi specific anti-mannosidase II antibody reveals that VGMs undergo sequential changes in their morphology, whereby they first fuse to form larger vesicles of 200-300-nm average diameter which subsequently extend into tubular elements and finally assemble into stacks of cisternae.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0347, USA.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: McCaffery
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Malhotra
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D002451:Cell Compartmentation / Q000502:physiology; D002463:Cell Membrane Permeability; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D008561:Membrane Fusion / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D016253:Microscopy, Immunoelectron; D008954:Models, Biological; D052066:N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Proteins; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000378:metabolism; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011809:Quinones / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D011506:Proteins; D011809:Quinones; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; C067346:illimaquinone; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D052066:N-Ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Proteins; C498737:Nsf protein, rat