Ubiquitination drives COPI priming and Golgi SNARE localization

Abstract

Deciphering mechanisms controlling SNARE localization within the Golgi complex is crucial to understanding protein trafficking patterns within the secretory pathway. SNAREs are also thought to prime COPI assembly to ensure incorporation of these essential cargoes into vesicles, but the regulation of these events is poorly understood. Here we report roles for ubiquitin recognition by COPI in SNARE trafficking and in stabilizing interactions between Arf, COPI, and Golgi SNAREs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The ability of COPI to bind ubiquitin, but not the dilysine motif, through its N-terminal WD repeat domain of β'COP or through an unrelated ubiquitin-binding domain (UBD) is essential for the proper localization of Golgi SNAREs Bet1 and Gos1. We find that COPI, the ArfGAP Glo3 and multiple Golgi SNAREs are ubiquitinated. Notably, the binding of Arf and COPI to Gos1 is markedly enhanced by ubiquitination of these components. Glo3 is proposed to prime COPI-SNARE interactions; however, Glo3 is not enriched in the ubiquitin-stabilized SNARE-Arf-COPI complex but is instead enriched with COPI complexes that lack SNAREs. These results support a new model for how posttranslational modifications drive COPI priming events crucial for Golgi SNARE localization.

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  1. Swapneeta S Date

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  2. Peng Xu

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  3. Nathaniel L Hepowit

    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  4. Nicholas S Diab

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  5. Jordan Best

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  6. Boyang Xie

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  7. Jiale Du

    Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
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  8. Eric R Strieter

    Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
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  9. Lauren P Jackson

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  10. Jason A MacGurn

    Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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  11. Todd R Graham

    Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (R35GM144123-01)

  • Todd R Graham

National Institutes of Health (1R35GM119525)

  • Lauren P Jackson

National Institutes of Health (R35GM144112)

  • Jason A MacGurn

Pew Charitable Trusts

  • Lauren P Jackson

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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  1. Felix Campelo, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

Version history

  1. Preprint posted: November 29, 2021 (view preprint)
  2. Received: June 9, 2022
  3. Accepted: July 1, 2022
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: July 29, 2022 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: August 12, 2022 (version 2)

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© 2022, Date et al.

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  1. Swapneeta S Date
  2. Peng Xu
  3. Nathaniel L Hepowit
  4. Nicholas S Diab
  5. Jordan Best
  6. Boyang Xie
  7. Jiale Du
  8. Eric R Strieter
  9. Lauren P Jackson
  10. Jason A MacGurn
  11. Todd R Graham
(2022)
Ubiquitination drives COPI priming and Golgi SNARE localization
eLife 11:e80911.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.80911

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