Affiliation:
1. Biochemie-Zentrum der Universität Heidelberg (BZH), Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Abstract
ABSTRACT
In the formation of COPI vesicles, interactions take place between the coat protein coatomer and membrane proteins: either cargo proteins for retrieval to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or proteins that cycle between the ER and the Golgi. While the binding sites on coatomer for ER residents have been characterized, how cycling proteins bind to the COPI coat is still not clear. In order to understand at a molecular level the mechanism of uptake of such proteins, we have investigated the binding to coatomer of p24 proteins as examples of cycling proteins as well as that of ER-resident cargos. The p24 proteins required dimerization to interact with coatomer at two independent binding sites in γ-COP. In contrast, ER-resident cargos bind to coatomer as monomers and to sites other than γ-COP. The COPI coat therefore discriminates between p24 proteins and ER-resident proteins by differential binding involving distinct subunits.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Cell Biology,Molecular Biology
Cited by
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