Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-19-2002
Publication Title
The Journal of Cell Biology
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Actin participates in several intracellular trafficking pathways. We now find that actin, bound to the surface of purified yeast vacuoles in the absence of cytosol or cytoskeleton, regulates the last compartment mixing stage of homotypic vacuole fusion. The Cdc42p GTPase is known to be required for vacuole fusion. We now show that proteins of the Cdc42p-regulated actin remodeling cascade (Cdc42p --> Cla4p --> Las17p/Vrp1p --> Arp2/3 complex --> actin) are enriched on isolated vacuoles. Vacuole fusion is dramatically altered by perturbation of the vacuole-bound actin, either by mutation of the ACT1 gene, addition of specific actin ligands such as latrunculin B or jasplakinolide, antibody to the actin regulatory proteins Las17p (yeast Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein) or Arp2/3, or deletion of actin regulatory genes. On docked vacuoles, actin is enriched at the "vertex ring" membrane microdomain where fusion occurs and is required for the terminal steps leading to membrane fusion. This role for actin may extend to other trafficking systems.
DOI
10.1083/jcb.200204089
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Eitzen, Gary; Wang, Li; Thorngren, Naomi; and Wickner, William, "Remodeling of Organelle-Bound Actin is Required for Yeast Vacuole Fusion" (2002). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1456.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1456
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