title: A subset of yeast vacuolar protein sorting mutants is blocked in one branch of the exocytic pathway.
abstract: Exocytic vesicles that accumulate in a temperature-sensitive sec6 mutant at a restrictive temperature can be separated into at least two populations with different buoyant densities and unique cargo molecules. Using a sec6 mutant background to isolate vesicles, we have found that vacuolar protein sorting mutants that block an endosome-mediated route to the vacuole, including vps1, pep12, vps4, and a temperature-sensitive clathrin mutant, missort cargo normally transported by dense exocytic vesicles, such as invertase, into light exocytic vesicles, whereas transport of cargo specific to the light exocytic vesicles appears unaffected. Immunoisolation experiments confirm that missorting, rather than a changed property of the normally dense vesicles, is responsible for the altered density gradient fractionation profile. The vps41Delta and apl6Delta mutants, which block transport of only the subset of vacuolar proteins that bypasses endosomes, sort exocytic cargo normally. Furthermore, a vps10Delta sec6 mutant, which lacks the sorting receptor for carboxypeptidase Y (CPY), accumulates both invertase and CPY in dense vesicles. These results suggest that at least one branch of the yeast exocytic pathway transits through endosomes before reaching the cell surface. Consistent with this possibility, we show that immunoisolated clathrin-coated vesicles contain invertase.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Edina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Harsay
authors.forename: Randy
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schekman
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002268:Carboxypeptidases / Q000378:metabolism; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D043402:Cathepsin A; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D022163:Clathrin-Coated Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism; D005089:Exocytosis; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000378:metabolism; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics*; D021381:Protein Transport; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000166:cytology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D022142:Secretory Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism; D013696:Temperature; D014617:Vacuoles / Q000378:metabolism*; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D005656:Fungal Proteins; C087335:PEP1 protein, S cerevisiae; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; C490684:SEC6 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D043324:beta-Fructofuranosidase; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D043402:Cathepsin A; C092477:PMA1 protein, S cerevisiae; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases