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In vitro assay using engineered yeast vacuoles for neuronal SNARE-mediated membrane fusion

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Abstract
Intracellular membrane fusion requires not only SNARE proteins but also other regulatory proteins such as the Rab and Sec1/Munc18 (SM) family proteins. Although neuronal SNARE proteins alone can drive the fusion between synthetic liposomes, it remains unclear whether they are also sufficient to induce the fusion of biological membranes. Here, through the use of engineered yeast vacuoles bearing neuronal SNARE proteins, we show that neuronal SNAREs can induce membrane fusion between yeast vacuoles and that this fusion does not require the function of the Rab protein Ypt7p or the SM family protein Vps33p, both of which are essential for normal yeast vacuole fusion. Although excess vacuolar SNARE proteins were also shown to mediate Rab-bypass fusion, this fusion required homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting complex, which bears Vps33p and was accompanied by extensive membrane lysis. We also show that this neuronal SNARE-driven vacuole fusion can be stimulated by the neuronal SM protein Munc18 and blocked by botulinum neurotoxin serotype E, a well-known inhibitor of synaptic vesicle fusion. Taken together, our results suggest that neuronal SNARE proteins are sufficient to induce biological membrane fusion, and that this new assay can be used as a simple and complementary method for investigating synaptic vesicle fusion mechanisms.
Author(s)
Ko, Young-JoonLee, MiriamKang, KyeongJinSong, Woo KeunJun, Youngsoo
Issued Date
2014-05
Type
Article
DOI
10.1073/pnas.1400036111
URI
https://scholar.gist.ac.kr/handle/local/15163
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Citation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v.111, no.21, pp.7677 - 7682
ISSN
0027-8424
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Department of Life Sciences > 1. Journal Articles
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