Intracellular Compartments and Vesicular Trafficking August 29, 2018 Tom Gallagher tgallag@luc.edu CTRE Room 234 Extension 64850
Four Introductory Slides
Proteins made in the ER are transported in vesicles comprising the exocytic pathway Proteins from the cell exterior are transported in vesicles comprising the endocytic pathway
Vesicle trafficking is continuous, specific, often two-way
Vesicular transport involves: Cargo selection / loading (2) Vesicle budding (3) Vesicle transport (4) Vesicle targeting (5) Vesicle fusion / cargo delivery
Same steps in exocytosis and endocytosis (4) Targeting (5) Fusion exo endo (1) Cargo selection (3) Transport (2) Budding Figure 13-66a Molecular Biology of the Cell (© Garland Science 2008)
Vesicular transport involves: Cargo selection / loading (2) Vesicle budding (3) Vesicle transport (4) Vesicle targeting (5) Vesicle fusion / cargo delivery
Distinct coat proteins are used for secretory and endocytic pathways
COP II vesicles at the transitional ER (anterograde transport)
GTP-binding proteins regulate coat and vesicle assembly Sar1-GAP
COPI vesicles at the Golgi (retrograde transport)
Clathrin vesicles at the trans-Golgi and plasma membranes (endocytosis)
Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) endocytosis: Clinically important cholesterol regulation
Defective LDL receptors that can not associate in clathrin-coated pits will cause hyper-cholesterolemia
Vesicular transport involves: Cargo selection / loading (2) Vesicle budding (3) Vesicle transport (4) Vesicle targeting (5) Vesicle fusion / cargo delivery
The coat proteins drive most of the vesicle morphogenesis
Dynamin assists with the membrane fission process Alberts, Fifth Ed., Fig. 13-12
Vesicular transport involves: Cargo selection / loading (2) Vesicle budding (3) Vesicle transport (4) Vesicle targeting (5) Vesicle fusion / cargo delivery
The Golgi apparatus is a vesicle transport hub
A central role of the Golgi is to sort and process membrane proteins and secreted proteins
Formation of secretory storage granules
Protein secretion occurs by both a regulated and non-regulated (constitutive) pathway
Vesicular transport involves: Cargo selection / loading (2) Vesicle budding (3) Vesicle transport (4) Vesicle targeting (5) Vesicle fusion / cargo delivery
COPI, COPII and clathrin are removed after vesicle budding: Other factors then control vesicle targeting ?
Phosphotidyl inositols “mark” membrane domains
Rabs and Rab effectors also “mark” membrane domains
Vesicles have diverse “markings” on them
Rabs and Rab effectors direct transport vesicle movement along the cytoskeleton GTP transport vesicle Actin or Microtubule filaments motor protein Rab effector
Rabs and Rab effectors mediate docking and fusion of transport vesicles with their correct target membrane
SNARE proteins contribute to specificity in vesicle targeting and promote vesicle fusion to its target
The SNAREs have to be taken apart to be re-used for another round of membrane fusion
Botulism toxin poisons neurons by cleaving SNAREs; toxin is now re-purposed as “BOTOX”
The steps in vesicular transport Front. Endocrinol., 17 January 2011 | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2011.00001 Rab proteins and the secretory pathway: the case of Rab18 in neuroendocrine cells Rafael Vázquez-Martínez1,2 and Maria M. Malagón1,2*