ESCRT-III drives the final stages of CUPS maturation for unconventional protein secretion

  1. Amy J Curwin
  2. Nathalie Brouwers
  3. Manuel Alonso Adell
  4. David Teis
  5. Gabriele Turacchio
  6. Seetharaman Parashuraman
  7. Paolo Ronchi
  8. Vivek Malhotra  Is a corresponding author
  1. The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Spain
  2. Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
  3. National Research Council of Italy, Italy
  4. European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany

Abstract

The unconventional secretory pathway exports proteins that bypass the endoplasmic reticulum. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, conditions that trigger Acb1 secretion via this pathway generate a Grh1 containing compartment composed of vesicles and tubules surrounded by a cup-shaped membrane and collectively called CUPS. Here we report a quantitative assay for Acb1 secretion that reveals requirements for ESCRT-I, -II, and -III but, surprisingly, without the involvement of the Vps4 AAA-ATPase. The major ESCRT-III subunit Snf7 localizes transiently to CUPS and this was accelerated in vps4Δ cells, correlating with increased Acb1 secretion. Microscopic analysis suggests that, instead of forming intraluminal vesicles with the help of Vps4, ESCRT-III/Snf7 promotes direct engulfment of preexisting Grh1 containing vesicles and tubules into a saccule to generate a mature Acb1 containing compartment. This novel multivesicular / multilamellar compartment, we suggest represents the stable secretory form of CUPS that is competent for the release of Acb1 to cells exterior.

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  1. Amy J Curwin

    Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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  2. Nathalie Brouwers

    Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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  3. Manuel Alonso Adell

    Division of Cell Biology, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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  4. David Teis

    Division of Cell Biology, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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  5. Gabriele Turacchio

    Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy
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  6. Seetharaman Parashuraman

    Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy
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  7. Paolo Ronchi

    Electron Microscopy Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
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  8. Vivek Malhotra

    Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
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    vivek.malhotra@crg.eu
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    Vivek Malhotra, Senior editor, eLife.

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  1. Randy Schekman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Version history

  1. Received: March 23, 2016
  2. Accepted: April 25, 2016
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: April 26, 2016 (version 1)
  4. Accepted Manuscript updated: April 27, 2016 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record published: May 16, 2016 (version 3)

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© 2016, Curwin et al.

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  1. Amy J Curwin
  2. Nathalie Brouwers
  3. Manuel Alonso Adell
  4. David Teis
  5. Gabriele Turacchio
  6. Seetharaman Parashuraman
  7. Paolo Ronchi
  8. Vivek Malhotra
(2016)
ESCRT-III drives the final stages of CUPS maturation for unconventional protein secretion
eLife 5:e16299.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16299

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