A systematic approach to identify recycling endocytic cargo depending on the GARP complex

  1. Sebastian Eising
  2. Lisa Thiele
  3. Florian Fröhlich  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Osnabrück, Germany

Abstract

Proteins and lipids of the plasma membrane underlie constant remodeling via a combination of the secretory- and the endocytic pathway. In the yeast endocytic pathway, cargo is sorted for recycling to the plasma membrane or degradation in vacuoles. Previously we have shown a role for the GARP complex in sphingolipid sorting and homeostasis (Fröhlich et al. 2015). However, the majority of cargo sorted in a GARP dependent process remain largely unknown. Here we use auxin induced degradation of GARP combined with mass spectrometry based vacuolar proteomics and lipidomics to show that recycling of two specific groups of proteins, the amino-phospholipid flippases and cell wall synthesis proteins depends on a functional GARP complex. Our results suggest that mis-sorting of flippases and remodeling of the lipid composition are the first occurring defects in GARP mutants. Our assay can be adapted to systematically map cargo of the entire endocytic pathway.

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  1. Sebastian Eising

    Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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  2. Lisa Thiele

    Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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  3. Florian Fröhlich

    Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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    florian.froehlich@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FR 3647/2-1)

  • Florian Fröhlich

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2019, Eising et al.

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  1. Sebastian Eising
  2. Lisa Thiele
  3. Florian Fröhlich
(2019)
A systematic approach to identify recycling endocytic cargo depending on the GARP complex
eLife 8:e42837.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42837

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