Endoplasmic Reticulum-Endosome Contact Sites: Specialized Interfaces for Orchestrating Endosomal Tubule Fission?
Endoplasmic Reticulum-Endosome Contact Sites: Specialized Interfaces for Orchestrating Endosomal Tubule Fission?
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01176
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发表时间:
2018-12-11
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2.9
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Cullen, Peter J.
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Daly, James L.;Cullen, Peter J.
The endomembrane system enables the delegation of separate biological processes to spatially distinct organelles within eukaryotic cells. While it is imperative that the unique biochemical compositions of these compartments are maintained, interorganellar communication provides a means to dynamically exchange proteins, lipids, and ions, allowing eukaryotic cells to achieve a level of complexity that supersedes the sum of its parts. Recently, membrane contact sites (MCSs) have emerged as a novel mechanism for crosstalk between organelles, in addition to canonical processes of vesicular membrane trafficking. Most notably, tubules of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) have been demonstrated to contact the plasma membrane, mitochondria, and endosomes, among other organelles. ER MCSs tether the opposing organelle membrane within 30 nm without the occurrence of membrane fusion. A range of functions of ER MCSs have thus far been established, including bidirectional lipid transfer, Ca2+ exchange, and fine-tuned control over organelle transport and positioning. A fascinating emerging concept is the potential role for tubular ER projections in the regulation of organelle fission. In a recent publication in Cell, Hoyer et al. investigated the role of ER− endosome MCSs in the regulation and timing of endosomal fission by developing a proximitydependent labeling strategy with the biotin ligase enzyme BioID to identify novel ER proteins within the vicinity of dynamic endosomal tubules. 1 Endosomal recycling is an essential process whereby transmembrane proteins (termed “cargoes”) are recognized by their cytosolic sequence motifs and sorted away from a degradative fate as endosomes mature and fuse with lysosomes. This recognition is achieved by an array of evolutionarily conserved protein complexes, such as the retromer or retriever complexes, that integrate into higher-order coat structures. 2 These multiprotein assemblies corral cargo into a retrieval subdomain on the endosomal membrane and mediate the biogenesis of tubular structures that ultimately separate and traffic to an acceptor compartment such as the plasma membrane or trans-Golgi network (TGN). Despite the molecular details of this sequence-based cargo recognition and tubule formation becoming clearer, the final stages of tubule scission remain ambiguous. ER− endosome contact sites have been suggested to influence the process of endosomal sorting and trafficking by imposing a tight diffusion barrier on endosomal buds and defining the sites of tubule fission. 1 The WASH complex, which is the major activator of the branched actin-nucleating Arp2/3 complex on endosomes, localizes to budding retrieval subdomains and plays an orchestrating role in the clustering of recycling complexes along the tubule. 2 By tagging BioID to the WASH complex subunit FAM21, Hoyer et al. establish a system for biotinylating vicinal proteins to this transient subdomain. Mass spectrometric analysis of labeled proteins revealed the ER transmembrane protein TMCC1 as a proximal protein to FAM21, in addition to a previously established ER MCS protein, VAPA/B. When expressed as a GFP fusion protein, TMCC1 (and its paralogues, TMCC2 and TMCC3) localized to discrete domains in the peripheral ER that colocalize with Rab7-positive budding endosomal tubules prior to fission. This represents a distinct distribution to other markers of ER− endosome MCSs, such as Protrudin that primarily contacts the vacuolar portion of the endosome, suggesting that the specific location of MCS formation is governed by precise protein− protein interactions that contribute to its function. Moreover …