title: Identification of human VPS37C, a component of endosomal sorting complex required for transport-I important for viral budding.
abstract: Endosomal sorting complex required for transport-I (ESCRT-I) is one of three defined protein complexes in the class E vacuolar protein sorting (VPS) pathway required for the sorting of ubiquitinated transmembrane proteins into internal vesicles of multivesicular bodies. In yeast, ESCRT-I is composed of three proteins, VSP23, VPS28, and VPS37, whereas in mammals only Tsg101(VPS23) and VPS28 were originally identified as ESCRT-I components. Using yeast two-hybrid screens, we identified one of a family of human proteins (VPS37C) as a Tsg101-binding protein. VPS37C can form a ternary complex with Tsg101 and VPS28 by binding to a domain situated toward the carboxyl terminus of Tsg101 and binds to another class E VPS factor, namely Hrs. In addition, VPS37C is recruited to aberrant endosomes induced by overexpression of Tsg101, Hrs, or dominant negative form of the class E VPS ATPase, VPS4. Enveloped viruses that encode PTAP motifs to facilitate budding exploit ESCRT-I as an interface with the class E VPS pathway, and accordingly, VPS37C is recruited to the plasma membrane along with Tsg101 by human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) Gag. Moreover, direct fusion of VPS37C to HIV-1 Gag obviates the requirement for a PTAP motif to induce virion release. Depletion of VPS37C from cells does not inhibit murine leukemia virus budding, which is not mediated by ESCRT-I, however, if murine leukemia virus budding is engineered to be ESCRT-I-dependent, then it is inhibited by VPS37C depletion, and this inhibition is accentuated if VPS37B is simultaneously depleted. Thus, this study identifies VPS37C as a functional component of mammalian ESCRT-I.
authors.affiliation: Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10016, USA.
authors.forename: Scott W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Eastman
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martin-Serrano
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Trinity
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zang
authors.forename: Paul D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Bieniasz
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D022162:Cytoplasmic Vesicles / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D056827:Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport; D015683:Gene Products, gag / Q000378:metabolism; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000378:metabolism / Q000821:virology; D015497:HIV-1 / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009052:Leukemia Virus, Murine / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D021381:Protein Transport; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014779:Virus Replication; D000099177:Tsg101 Protein
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D056827:Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport; D015683:Gene Products, gag; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D014157:Transcription Factors; D033921:Vesicular Transport Proteins; D000099177:Tsg101 Protein; C502194:VPS37C protein, human