The Clathrin Adaptor Gga2p Is a Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate Effector at the Golgi Exit

doi:10.1091/mbc.E06-10-0937

Mol Biol Cell. 2008 May; 19(5): 1991–2002.

PMCID: PMC2366843

The Clathrin Adaptor Gga2p Is a Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate Effector at the Golgi Exit

Lars Demmel,^†^* Maike Gravert,^†^* Ebru Ercan,^† Bianca Habermann,^‡ Thomas Müller-Reichert,^† Viktoria Kukhtina,^§ Volker Haucke,^§ Thorsten Baust,^‖ Marc Sohrmann,^¶ Yannis Kalaidzidis,^†^# Christian Klose,^† Mike Beck,^† Matthias Peter,^¶ and Christiane Walch-Solimena^†

^†Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, D-01307, Germany;

^‡Scionics Computer Innovation, Dresden, D-01307, Germany;

^§Chemistry-Biochemistry, Free University, Berlin, D-14195, Germany;

^‖Biotechnological Centre (BIOTEC), Technological University, Dresden, D-01307, Germany;

^¶Institute of Biochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), Zürich, Ch-8093, Switzerland; and

^#A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia

Benjamin Glick, Monitoring Editor

Corresponding author.

Address correspondence to: Christiane Walch-Solimena (Email: csolimena/at/mpi-cbg.de)

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Received October 20, 2006; Revised January 29, 2008; Accepted February 11, 2008.

This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.

Abstract

Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI(4)P) is a key regulator of membrane transport required for the formation of transport carriers from the trans-Golgi network (TGN). The molecular mechanisms of PI(4)P signaling in this process are still poorly understood. In a search for PI(4)P effector molecules, we performed a screen for synthetic lethals in a background of reduced PI(4)P and found the gene GGA2. Our analysis uncovered a PI(4)P-dependent recruitment of the clathrin adaptor Gga2p to the TGN during Golgi-to-endosome trafficking. Gga2p recruitment to liposomes is stimulated both by PI(4)P and the small GTPase Arf1p in its active conformation, implicating these two molecules in the recruitment of Gga2p to the TGN, which ultimately controls the formation of clathrin-coated vesicles. PI(4)P binding occurs through a phosphoinositide-binding signature within the N-terminal VHS domain of Gga2p resembling a motif found in other clathrin interacting proteins. These data provide an explanation for the TGN-specific membrane recruitment of Gga2p.

INTRODUCTION

Phosphoinositides (PIs) are signaling molecules regulating key processes in eukaryotic cells including signal transduction, cytoskeleton organization, and membrane transport. Spatially restricted activity of PI-kinases and -phosphatases results in rapid turnover of different PI species. The resulting localized exposure of the corresponding PI headgroups allows for the generation of microdomains on membranes that then serve as sites for the assembly of membrane transport machinery, e.g., coats and their adaptors (De Matteis et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

The spatially restricted production of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI(4)P) at the Golgi complex is catalyzed by Pik1p in yeast (Hama et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Audhya et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

), a type III PI 4-kinase conserved up to mammals (Godi et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; De Matteis et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). The pool of PI(4)P generated by Pik1p is required for normal Golgi morphology and for membrane transport from the trans-Golgi network (TGN; De Matteis et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). Like other Golgi mutants, pik1 mutants showed an accumulation of abnormal, ring-like Golgi structures called Berkeley bodies (Hama et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Audhya et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

). The pik1 mutant analysis uncovered a role of PI(4)P in the formation of TGN vesicles for exocytosis of cargo such as invertase and TGN-to-vacuole transport of cargo like the vacuolar hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y (CPY; Hama et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Audhya et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

Indeed, the TGN represents a major hub within the secretory pathway for the sorting of newly synthesized cargo into the vacuolar protein-sorting (Vps) pathway and for exocytosis. Recent evidence suggests specialized routes for cell surface delivery for the major plasma membrane ATPase Pma1p as well as other plasma membrane and cell wall components as opposed to invertase, which is transported in Vps-dependent secretory vesicles (SVs; Gurunathan et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Harsay and Schekman, 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). The molecular mechanisms underlying protein sorting at the TGN into these distinct exocytosis routes are currently not well understood. In addition, downstream of the TGN-sorting event, the machinery mediating cell surface delivery of proteins traveling via endosomes (e.g., nutrient permeases) is not known. Because PI(4)P affects both vacuolar and cell surface transport identification of PI(4)P effectors is likely to provide an entry point to the dissection of the specific molecular machineries regulating vesicle formation from the TGN.

The first identified effectors of PI(4)P at the Golgi in yeast belong to the family of oxysterol-binding protein (OSBP)-related proteins. The OSBP Kes1p/Osh4p is recruited to the Golgi depending on catalytically active Pik1p (Li et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

) and regulates sterol sensing and transport (Raychaudhuri et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

). Also, the OSBP-related proteins Osh1p/Osh2p require PI(4)P for Golgi association (Levine and Munro, 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

; Roy and Levine, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Yu et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

Although clathrin coat complexes in TGN-to-endosome transport have been extensively characterized, possible coats for secretory vesicles remain obscure. GGAs (Golgi-associated, γ-ear containing, ARF-binding proteins) are monomeric clathrin adaptors that regulate transport of TGN cargo destined to vacuoles/lysosomes both in yeast and in mammals. GGAs bind to GTP-bound, active Arf, ubiquitin, cargo containing acidic amino-acid cluster-dileucine motifs and clathrin (Boman, 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

; Bonifacino, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Ghosh and Kornfeld, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Robinson, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Scott et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). The contribution of Arf-GTP interaction with GGAs to membrane recruitment has remained controversial. Although yeast gga mutants defective in Arf binding have been reported to retain the ability to associate with membranes, such mutants in mammals were found to be predominantly cytosolic (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Takatsu et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Because Arf acts at multiple stages of membrane transport, additional determinants are expected to play a role in the specific recruitment of GGAs to the TGN.

In this study, we used synthetic lethal analysis to search for new PI(4)P targets. Our screen resulted in the isolation of Gga2p as new PI(4)P target and uncovered a role of PI(4)P together with Gga2p in a common biosynthetic transport pathway from the TGN for cargo en route to either the vacuole or the cell surface.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Strains and Media

The genotypes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains used in this study are listed in Table S4. Yeast were cultured in YPD, SC drop-out media, or SD minimal media supplemented with the necessary amino acids. Yeasts were transformed using a lithium acetate–based method (Schiestl and Gietz, 1989 blue right-pointing triangle

). Yeast strains were either constructed by tetrad dissection of sporulated diploids or by integration of indicated tagging or disruption cassettes as described previously (Longtine et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

). Disruptions were verified by PCR. Genomic tagging has been confirmed either by Western blotting (VPS10-3xHA) or visually by fluorescence microscopy (SEC7-DsRED).

To create a pik1-101 vps28Δ double mutant, the VPS28 deletion cassette including homologous regions was amplified using genomic DNA of CSY902 as template. The integration cassette was then transformed into CSY544. Yeast strains expressing VPS10-3xHA were constructed by transformation of a PCR-amplified genomic integration construct using pFA6a-3xHA-kanMX6 (CSY210, CSY392) or pFA6a-3xHA-His3MX6 (CSY399, CSY545, CSY900) plasmid as template. A yeast strain expressing SEC7-DsRED as an additional copy in the genome and under the control of the TPI promoter was engineered by transforming the integration plasmid YIplac204-T/C-SEC7-DsRED.T4 (Benjamin Glick, University of Chicago) into NY1175. The plasmid was cut with Bsu36I before transformation. Yeast strains expressing genomically tagged SEC7-DsRED were constructed by transformation of a PCR-amplified genomic integration construct using the pYG42 plasmid as template.

Genetic and DNA Manipulations

SGA (synthetic genetic array) analysis was essentially performed as previously described (Tong et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). The screen was performed at the permissive temperature of 25°C. The SGA analysis included the generation and evaluation of ~4800 double mutants of pik1-101 with each of the deletion mutants of the EUROSCARF collection (European Saccharomyces cerevisiae Archives for Functional analysis; http://web-uni-frankfurt.de/fb15/mirko/euroscarf/index.html). Initially, the growth of double mutants in duplicates at 25°C was compared with the growth of the parental strains. The pik1-101 query strain was constructed as described in Supplementary Materials online.

Standard molecular biology techniques were used for DNA manipulations (Sambrook and Russel, 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). Enzymes used for recombinant DNA techniques were purchased from New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA), Invitrogen (Carlsbad, CA), and USB (Cleveland, OH). PCR was performed according to manufacturer's instructions using Expand High Fidelity PCR System (Roche, Indianapolis, IN) or AmpliTaq (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA) DNA polymerase for cloning or diagnostic reactions, respectively.

DNA encoding for the Gga2p VHS (aa 18-170) or VHS-GAT domain (aa 18-327) were amplified from genomic DNA by PCR. The DNA fragment was digested with BamHI and XhoI and ligated into pGEX-6P-1, creating pLD212 or pLD213, respectively. The DNA fragment encoding for VHS-GAT was furthermore ligated into pNP308 creating pLD216. The vector pNP308 contains an ADH promoter and green fluorescent protein (GFP) for N-terminal tagging. To create pLD133, containing glutathione S-transferase (GST)-2xOSBP^PH (aa 87-185), two copies of OSBP^PH were cloned into pGEX-6P-1 using BamHI and EcoRI. The genomic DNA of GGA1 and GGA2 was amplified by PCR and digested with BamHI and XhoI. The DNA fragment containing GGA1 was then ligated into p415 GALs, creating pLD208. The GGA2 fragment in p416 GALs generated pLD211. To overexpress Gga1p^L203Q and Gga2p^I207N, the mutant open reading frame (ORF) was amplified by PCR from pAB469 and pAB456 (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

), respectively, digested with BamHI and XhoI. The DNA fragment encoding for Gga1p^L203Q was inserted in p416 GALs, creating pLD231, and the fragment encoding for Gga2p^I207N was ligated into p415 GALs giving rise to pLD232.

Site-directed mutagenesis of the GGA2 VHS domain was achieved by overlap extension PCR as described (Ho et al., 1989 blue right-pointing triangle

). Two fragments of GGA2 were amplified from pAB381 in two separate PCR reactions using GGA2 5′ or 3′ flanking oligonucleotides in combination with internal overlapping mismatch oligonucleotides: GGA2_Glu_fw (5′ATGGTATCAAACAATTTGTGAACACTCAAGCTACGAGAATGATATGGGTTATATTAGAGACATGGCCGAATTGTTGAAATATAAGG3′); GGA2_Glu_bw (5′CCTTATATTTCAACAATTCGGCCATGTCTCTAATATAACCCATATCATTCTCGTAGCTTGAGTGTTCACAAATTGTTTGATACCAT3′) with mismatches underlined. The two PCR products were fused in a subsequent primer extension reaction to give rise to full-length GGA2 (K143E, K148E, H158A, R159E) flanked by BamHI and XhoI sites at the 5′ and 3′ ends of the ORF. This PCR product was cloned into pCR2.1-TOPO (Invitrogen) to create pMG7. For expression of GST-Gga2p^KKHR-EEAE the mutated GGA2 ORF was cleaved from pMG7 using BamHI/XhoI and subcloned into pGEX-6P-1, resulting in plasmid pMG8. For expression of Gga2p^{VHS(KKHR-EEAE)}, DNA encoding the mutated Gga2p VHS domain (aa 18-170) was amplified from pMG7 and subcloned into the BamHI/XhoI sites of pGEX-6P-1, generating pMG10. Plasmid pMG9 for expression of GFP-Gga2p^KKHR-EEAE was generated by PCR amplification of the mutated GGA2 ORF from pMG7 to incorporate a SalI site at the 5′ end and cloned into pCR2.1-TOPO. GGA2 (KKHR-EEAE) was then cleaved from plasmid pCR2.1-TOPO using SalI/KpnI and subcloned into the SalI/KpnI sites of pCS136. The plasmid pCS136 (CPYp-GFP-GGA2, pGOGFP, pRS426) was obtained from Chris Stefan and Scott Emr (University of California, San Diego). pMB430 (CPYp-GFP-GGA2, I207N mutation) was constructed from pCS136 using the QuickChange mutagenesis kit (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA). pMB432 [CPYp-GFP-GGA2(KKHR-EEAE)] was obtained by transferring a ClaI/Eco91I fragment from pMG7 to pCS136. For construction of pMB433 [CPYp-GFP-GGA2 (KKHR-EEAE and I207N)], the GGA2 I207N mutation was introduced in pMB432 using the QuickChange mutagenesis kit (Stratagene).

The plasmid pAB381 encoding for GST-Gga2p (pGEX5x-2; Zhdankina et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

), pAB469 encoding for Gga1p^L203Q and pAB456 encoding for Gga2p^I207N (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

) were a gift from Patricia Scott (University of Minnesota, Duluth Medical School). The plasmid for the expression of Sec7p-DsReD.T4 (YIplac204-T/C-SEC7-DsRED.T4) was kindly provided by Benjamin Glick. The GFP from the pFA6a-GFP(S65T)-kanMX6 (Longtine et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

) was removed by digest with PacI and AscI, and the sequence encoding for DsRed was inserted giving rise to the plasmid pYG42.

Chemicals and Antibodies

Lipids were purchased from Avanti Polar Lipids (Alabaster, AL), and PIs were obtained from Echelon Biosciences (Salt Lake City, UT). GTPγS was from Sigma (St. Louis, MO) and ECL for chemiluminescence detection was from Amersham Biosciences (Piscataway, NJ). The following commercially available antibodies were used in this study: α-ADH (Chemicon International, Temecula, CA), α-HA (HA.11, affinity-purified, Covance, Madison, WI), α-GST (Protein Expression Facility, MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany), and goat anti-rabbit antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase (Dianova, Hamburg, Germany). The α-Gga2p antibody was a generous gift from Patricia Scott (Zhdankina et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). For the anti-Arfp antibody we are indebted to Anne Spang (Biozentrum, University of Basel). Complete was from Roche.

Life Cell Imaging

A 5-ml yeast culture was grown to early log phase in YPD or selective media. Then cells were harvested, resuspended in 500 μl residual medium, and observed without fixation under a fluorescence microscope (Axioplan 2, Zeiss or Axioplan 2 MOT, Zeiss, Jena, Germany). If indicated, temperature-sensitive mutants were shifted to the restrictive temperature of 37°C for 1 h.

Subcellular Fractionation

A 200-ml yeast culture was grown at 25°C to an OD₆₀₀ of 0.5–1.0. A temperature shift was performed for 1 h at 37°C when indicated. Then, 35 ODu of cells were harvested (5 min, 3000 × g) and washed with ice-cold 50 mM potassium phosphate, pH 7.5. Cell lysis and subcellular fractionation was performed as described (Du and Novick, 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). Modifications and details of the protocol are described in the Supplementary Materials online. Twenty microliters of the lysate were kept as an input sample, and 500 μl of lysate was spun for 45 min at 100,000 × g in a Beckman Optima Ultracentrifuge (TLA120.2 rotor; Fullerton, CA). The S100 was kept, and the P100 pellet was resuspended in 500 μl lysis buffer. Twenty microliters of each fraction in 1× sample buffer were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting. Fractions were quantified using the Image Quant software (Molecular Dynamics, Sunnyvale, CA).

In Vitro Binding Assays for Protein–Lipid Interaction

Liposomes were created, and liposome recruitment assays were performed as described in Baust et al. (2006) blue right-pointing triangle

. See Supplementary Materials online for a more detailed description.

Invertase Assay

The procedure for determination of invertase secretion was performed as described (Nair et al., 1990 blue right-pointing triangle

). Invertase production was induced in YP medium containing 0.1% glucose for 1 h at 37°C. The mean value and SEM of all sets were calculated and are presented in Figure 2.

Figure 2.

A pik1-101 gga2Δ double mutant exhibits synthetic genetic and exocytosis defects. (A) pik1-101 mutant cells were crossed to gga2Δ cells, and tetrads were isolated at 25°C. Growth of resulting haploids was monitored after 3 d at (more ...)

Vps10p Stability Assay

Yeast strains were grown overnight in YPD to an OD₆₀₀ of 0.4–0.7. Twenty ODu were collected, washed with PBS, and transferred to 50 ml SD medium with the appropriate amino acids. Cultures were incubated for 3–4 h at 25°C. For each time point 2.5 ODu were required, and therefore 7.5 ODu were harvested in a 15-ml Falcon tube (10 min, 3,000 × g). Cells were resuspended in 3.75 ml synthetic medium lacking methionine and preincubated at 25°C for 30 min. [³⁵S] methionine (40 μl; 10 mCi/ml; Perkin-Elmer Cetus Life Sciences, Norwalk, CT) was added, and cells were labeled for 10 min. Cells were chased with an excess of unlabeled methionine for the indicated times. At each time point, a 1-ml sample was removed and mixed with 120 μl 50% trichloroacetic acid (TCA) on ice. The conditions for Vps10p-3xHA immunoprecipitation were adapted from Govindan et al. (1995) blue right-pointing triangle

. In each immunoprecipitation, 1.5 μl α-HA antibody (clone HA.11, Covance) has been used.

Electron Microscopy

Yeast cells were cryoimmobilized using an EMPACT2+RTS (Leica Microsystems, Heidelberg, Germany) high-pressure freezer (Manninen et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). Samples were processed for freeze substitution as described previously (McDonald and Muller-Reichert, 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). In brief, samples were freeze-substituted at −90°C for 2 d in acetone containing either 1% osmium tetroxide and 0.1% uranyl acetate or 0.01% osmium tetroxide and 0.1% uranyl acetate for morphological analysis and immunolabeling, respectively. The temperature was raised progressively to room temperature over 22 h in an automatic freeze-substitution machine (Leica Microsystems). Samples were embedded in Epon/araldite (morphology) or LR White (immunolabeling). Thin sections (70 nm) were cut using a Leica Ultracut UCT microtome. Sections were collected on Formvar-coated copper grids, poststained with 2% uranyl acetate in 70% methanol followed by aqueous lead citrate, and viewed in a Tecnai 12 (FEI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) transmission electron microscope operated at 100 kV. Thin sections were labeled using α-Tlg1 antibody diluted in blocking buffer containing 0.8% bovine serum albumin, 0.01% Tween20, and 0.1% fish scale gelatin (Nycomed, Oslo, Norway; Amersham) in PBS. The secondary goat anti-rabbit IgG antibody was coupled to 12-nm colloidal gold (Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, PA). The antibody complex was stabilized with 1% glutaraldehyde in PBS, and the labeled sections were poststained as described.

Bioinformatics Analysis and Structure Prediction

The structures of the yeast VHS domains of Gga1p and Gga2p were predicted using Phyre (Enhanced Genome Annotation using Structural Profiles in the Program 3D-PSSM; Kelley et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

). The multiple sequence alignment of the GGA with Tom1 was done using ClustalX (Multiple sequence alignment with the Clustal series of programs; Chenna et al., 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

). The alignment of Epsin ENTH and CALM ANTH domains with the members of the GGA/Tom families was done manually based on structural alignments provided by the DALI server (http://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki.fi/dali/; Holm and Sander, 1996 blue right-pointing triangle

). For GenBank accession numbers, see Table S3.

Surface Plasmon Resonance

The binding of recombinant GST-2xOSBP^PH, Gga2p^VHS, Gga2p^VHS-GAT, Gga2p^{VHS(KKHR-EEAE)}, and GST proteins to PI(3)P, PI(4)P, and phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P₂)-containing liposomes was recorded in real time using an surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based biosensor (BIACORE 2000; Biacore AB, Uppsala, Sweden) at 25°C. Liposomes (0.4 mg/ml) containing 10% PI(3)P, 10% PI(4)P, or 10% PI(4,5)P₂ and 70% PC, 20% PE were prepared as described before (Honing et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). Liposomes containing 80% phosphatidylcholine (PC) and 20% phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) were used for the reference cell. A L1 sensor chip (Biacore) was primed twice with an injection of 20 mM CHAPS for 1 min at a flow rate of 10 μl/min. Subsequently the liposomes in running buffer: 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.4) and 150 mM NaCl were injected at 5 μl/min for 30 min followed by pulse injections of 50 mM NaOH to remove unbound material. This procedure resulted in an increase of the baseline by 7500–8000 RU. All binding experiments with fusion-proteins were performed in running buffer 10 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), 150 mM NaCl at a flow rate of 30 μl/min. GST-2xOSBP^PH, Gga2p^VHS, and Gga2p^VHS-GAT were used at concentrations ranging from 250 nM to 4 μM. Gga2p^{VHS(KKHR-EEAE)} was used at 250 nM to 2 μM. GST showed no binding up to 4 μM. The sensor chip surface was regenerated after each injection with 50 mM NaOH. Subtraction of the unspecific binding to the reference surface coated with PC/PE liposomes was done before the evaluation. Evaluations of steady-state affinity data were performed using BIAevaluation software 4.1. A plot of steady-state binding levels (R_eq) against analyte concentration was fitted to the general fitting model of steady-state affinity.

RESULTS

Gga2p Is a PI(4)P Effector Candidate

To identify candidate effectors for PI(4)P, we carried out a genome-wide screen for nonessential genes that interact synthetically with the temperature-sensitive pik1-101 mutation. The rationale of the screen was to focus on deletions in those genes that do not show a phenotype by themselves, but would do so in a sensitized background in which PI(4)P production is partially compromised. Therefore, we screened an established library of deletions in nonessential genes (EUROSCARF collection; European Saccharomyces cerevisae Archives for Functional analysis; http://web-uni-frankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf/index.html) and analyzed their effect on growth in a pik1-101 mutant background at the permissive temperature. We isolated 86 interacting deletions (Table S1) and focused further on 21 PI(4)P effector candidates that represented the strongest or most interesting genetic interactors. Among them, we found regulators of Golgi-to-endosome transport (GGA2, VPS1, and VPS9), endosome-to-TGN retrieval (VPS51, VPS54, RIC1, and YPT6), and the Golgi small GTPase YPT31 as well as genetic interactors of the p21-activated kinase CLA4 (URM1, ELP2, NCS2, and YNL120C; Figure 1).

Figure 1.

Results of genome-wide synthetic lethality screen of the pik1-101 mutant allele. Genes that have been found in SGA analysis to interact genetically with pik1-101 (synthetic lethal or sick) are represented as nodes. All genetic interactions shown in this (more ...)

Because a number of examples have been reported of clathrin adaptors, which directly interact with phosphoinositides, we first focused on the Golgi clathrin adaptor Gga2p, for which the mechanism of specific targeting to the TGN membrane is still unknown. Double mutants of pik1-101 gga2Δ show a synthetic growth defect, which was confirmed by tetrad analysis (Figure 2A). This synthetic growth phenotype prompted us to ask whether Pik1p and Gga2p show similar phenotypes, and therefore we studied exocytosis of the secretory cargo invertase and monitored the morphology of secretory organelles in the respective mutants.

Mutants of gga2 and pik1 Show Similar Phenotypes

Because we and others have previously reported that pik1 mutants exhibit defects in both surface transport and transport from the TGN to the vacuole via endosomes (Hama et al., 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Audhya et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

), we investigated whether pik1-101 gga2Δ double mutants show synthetic defects in these pathways. As shown in Figure 2B, surface transport monitored through invertase secretion was reduced from 76.7 ± 2.5% (mean ± SEM) in pik1-101 mutant cells to 64.4 ± 2.2% in the pik1-101 gga2Δ double mutant (p = 0.003). The synthetic effect of this double mutant is specific to gga2Δ because it was not observed in a pik1-101 chs6Δ background (72.8 ± 1.4%, p = 0.18 for the difference between pik1-101 and the pik1-101 chs6Δ double mutant; Figure 2B). Chs6p, which served as a control Golgi mutant in this experiment, is required for transport of the cell wall biosynthetic enzyme Chs3p (chitin synthase III) from the TGN/endosome to the plasma membrane (Trautwein et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

; Wang et al., 2006 blue right-pointing triangle

We next compared the organelle morphology of pik1-101 and gga2Δ mutants at the ultrastructural level. Even though gga2Δ mutants accumulated fewer membranes, similar ring-like structures akin to Berkeley bodies were the most prominent membranes both in gga2Δ and pik1-101 mutant cells (Figure 3, A and F; see Table S2 for quantitation). To establish the identity of these structures, we performed immunoelectron microscopy using the late Golgi/endosome marker Tlg1p (Holthuis et al., 1998 blue right-pointing triangle

). Indeed, the ring-like structures in both gga2Δ and pik1-101 mutants correspond to Tlg1p-positive Berkeley bodies, a hallmark of Golgi mutants (Novick et al., 1980 blue right-pointing triangle

). Tubular Tlg1p-positive structures were also found in both mutants (Figure 3, A and C, and Table S2). Moreover, both mutants exhibited a small number of multilayered structures, probably representing further advanced accumulation of Golgi membranes (Figure 3, B, D, and E), and abnormal vacuoles (Figure 3, A and F, and Table S2). In summary, the similar morphology and secretory defects of pik1-101 and gga2Δ mutants raised the possibility of a role of Pik1p and Gga2p at a common step in membrane transport at the TGN.

Figure 3.

Ultrastructural analysis of pik1-101 and gga2Δ mutant cells. The pik1-101 and gga2Δ mutant cells were grown at permissive temperature and processed for electron microscopy. (A–E) pik1-101. (F) gga2Δ. Immunolabeling was (more ...)

Pik1p Directly Affects the Vacuolar Protein-sorting Pathway at the TGN Exit

We have shown above that Pik1p and Gga2p show similar and synergistic phenotypes and affect TGN-to-endosome trafficking. We then asked whether Pik1p directly regulates vacuolar transport at the TGN exit. To address this question, we investigated the trafficking of the CPY receptor Vps10p, which cycles between TGN and prevacuolar/late endosomes (Bowers and Stevens, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). This process can be studied by monitoring the stability of Vps10p. In wild-type cells, pulse-labeled and immunoprecipitated Vps10p is completely stable, and thus only the full-length form is observed. In class E vps mutants (e.g., vps28Δ), however, Vps10p becomes unstable because of trapping of the protein in the abnormal, proteolytically active “class E compartment” (Costaguta et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). It has been previously reported that in gga1Δ gga2Δ vps28Δ triple mutants, Vps10p is stabilized indicating an inhibition of exit of this protein from the TGN (Costaguta et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). We asked whether we could observe a similar phenotype in a pik1-101 vps28Δ double mutant. As expected, in the class E mutant vps28Δ, Vps10p was partially in the cleaved, lower molecular weight form, after 30 min and more completely after 60 min. This cleaved product of Vps10p was then not processed any further (Figure 4A). In pik1-101 cells, stability of Vps10p was normal, indicating that the receptor can still recycle from the prevacuolar/late endosome compartment. In the pik1-101 vps28Δ double mutant, Vps10p was stabilized and could be observed in its full-length form for a longer period of time (up to 60 min), compared with the vps28Δ mutant (Figure 4A). This partial rescue of Vps10p from proteolysis in the class E compartment suggests that like in gga1Δ gga2Δ mutants, TGN exit of Vps10p is partially inhibited in the pik1-101 mutant. A pik1-101 gga2Δ vps28Δ triple mutant for comparison was not viable. The observed rescue of Vps10p proteolysis in the class E compartment implies that Pik1p does function in the Vps10p pathway, and, like GGAs, acts at the exit from the TGN.

Figure 4.

Pik1p regulates the Vps pathway at the exit from the Golgi. (A) Vps10p transport to endosomes is impaired in pik1-101. Wild-type (CSY392), pik1-101 (CSY391), pik1-101 gga2Δ (CSY398), vps28Δ (CSY900), and pik1-101 vps28Δ (CSY399) (more ...)

Because similar and synthetic phenotypes were observed in pik1 and gga2 mutants, we hypothesized that both proteins could function together at the same transport step. Overexpression of Gga proteins suppressed the growth defect of pik1-101 cells up to 34°C, further suggesting a role of Pik1p and Gga2p in a common pathway (Figure 4B).

Pik1p Activity Is Required for TGN Localization of Gga2p

The observed mutant and double mutant phenotypes as well as genetic interactions of gga2 and pik1 might be due to a direct recruitment of Gga2p to the TGN through binding to PI(4)P, the immediate product of Pik1p activity. We therefore decided next to examine the requirement of Pik1p for Golgi localization of Gga2p. As a TGN marker, we used the Arf1p nucleotide exchange factor Sec7p. For visualization of Gga2p we used a plasmid for overexpression of GFP-GGA2, which did not result in suppression of the pik1-101 temperature-sensitive growth defect at 34°C (not shown). In wild-type cells, GFP-Gga2p and Sec7p-DsRed colocalize, and GFP-Gga2p was more prominent at the TGN than in the cytoplasm (Figure 5A). Instead, in pik1-101 cells, GFP-Gga2p is cytosolic, and only residual TGN colocalization was found (Figure 5A). The defect in GFP-Gga2p localization is already apparent at 25°C due to the low activity of the Pik1p mutant protein even at the permissive temperature (Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

). In contrast to Pik1p, loss of the PI 3-kinase Vps34p (Schu et al., 1993 blue right-pointing triangle

) had no effect on the localization of Gga2p, indicating that PI(3)P and PI(3,5)P₂ are not required (Figure 5A). TGN structures do not loose integrity in pik1-101 compared with wild-type cells (Figure 3; Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

; Audhya et al., 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

), as shown by the Sec7p-dsRed fluorescence in Figure 5A). This excludes the possibility that cytosolic Gga2p localization is due to loss of TGN in pik1-101 mutants. We also controlled for possible changes in Arf1p levels at the membrane, which could be caused by differences in SEC7-DsRED expression but did not find any differences in the strains used for GFP-Gga2p localization (Supplementary Figure 1). We therefore conclude that Gga2p targeting is PI(4)P-dependent. Consistently, pik1-101 mutant cells showed a significant decrease of endogenous Gga2p in Golgi containing membrane fractions (Figure 5B). This decrease was not due to altered fractionation of Arf1p as indicated in Figure 5C.

Figure 5.

Binding of Gga2p to PIs and Arf1p is required for proper localization to the Golgi. (A) Wild-type (CSY349) and vps34Δ cells (CSY911) expressing an additional copy of Sec7p-DsRed under the control of a strong promoter as well as pik1-101 cells (more ...)

We have previously demonstrated that Pik1p activity is strongly reduced but not completely abolished in the pik1-101 mutant (Walch-Solimena and Novick, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

). The remaining Gga2p at the Golgi (Figure 5, A and B) might be due to the remaining partial functionality of Pik1p. Alternatively, residual binding of Gga2p to membranes might be due to Arf1p interaction, which on its own is not sufficient for yeast Gga protein localization to the TGN (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). It is however necessary, because fractionation of arf1Δ cells did show a significant decrease in membrane-bound Gga2p (Figure 5B), supporting a scenario where Pik1p activity and Arf1p cooperate in Gga2p recruitment to the membranes. Consistent with such a mechanism, we found that the overexpression of Gga's no longer suppressed pik1-101 when Arf-binding deficient mutants Gga1p^L203Q or Gga2p^I207N (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

) were used (Figure 5D).

Gga2p Binds Phosphoinositides

The observed Pik1p-dependence of Gga2p localization implied a direct interaction of Gga2p with PI(4)P. We therefore investigated next in a liposome pulldown assay, whether this PI can indeed recruit Gga2p to a lipid bilayer. In the presence of activated Arf1p we observed enhanced recruitment of GST-Gga2p to PI(4)P containing liposomes (Figure 5E). No such increase in recruitment of GST-Gga2p was observed in control liposomes containing PtdIns or in liposomes containing PI(3)P (Figure 5E), which is in agreement with the normal Gga2p localization in vps34Δ cells (Figure 5A). In control experiments, GTPγS without Arf1p had no effect on recruitment of GST-Gga2p to PI(4)P liposomes. Together these results suggest a synergistic role of PI(4)P and Arf1p in the localization of Gga2p to membranes.

The Gga2p VHS Domain Interacts with PI(4)P

Because we have demonstrated PI(4)P-dependent membrane recruitment of Gga2p, we next asked for the structural basis of this interaction. We first compared the sequence of the VHS (Vps27p/Hrs/STAM) domain of Gga2p to ANTH/ENTH domains, which are known to interact with phosphoinositides (Ford et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

; Itoh et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). This analysis was prompted by the similarity found by structural comparison of ANTH/ENTH with the VHS domain (see Materials and Methods and De Camilli et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Indeed, we noticed that the Gga2p VHS domain shows significant sequence homology with ANTH/ENTH domains (Figure 6A). The VHS domain was first identified from sequence comparisons in signal transduction proteins. In mammalian GGAs, the VHS domain binds to cargo proteins through sorting signals of the acidic cluster dileucine family (Bonifacino, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Robinson, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). In yeast, the possible cargo interaction of the Gga1p and Gga2p VHS domain has not been clarified yet (Bonifacino, 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

; Bowers and Stevens, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

Figure 6.

Modeling of a PI-binding motif in the N-terminal VHS domain of Gga2p. The VHS domains of the GGA proteins from different species were analyzed in terms of their potential binding to PI(4)P. (A) Multiple sequence alignment of the GGA VHS domains from fungi, (more ...)

How could the Gga2p VHS domain bind to PI(4)P? As a prerequisite of PI binding, a basic patch or groove should be accessible on the surface of the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the VHS domain similar to what has been described for ENTH/ANTH domains (Figure 6B). To explore such potential PI(4)P-binding sites, we modeled the tertiary structure of the VHS domain of yeast Gga2p using 3D-structure information from the GGA2 human homologue (Figure 6C). The resulting 3D model of the Gga2p VHS domain reveals two potential binding sites for PI(4)P (Figure 6C and Ford et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). One of these potential lipid-binding sites is localized to the last helix, α8 (Figures 6, A and C) and shows similarity to the signature of the PI(4,5)P₂-binding site in the CALM ANTH domain (Figure 6D). This site is localized close to the phospho-protein interaction site of vertebrate GGAs (Figure 6A and Shiba et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). The signature proposed to interact with PI, however, seems not to be conserved in higher eukaryotes.

Interestingly, the proposed phosphoinositide-binding site in the loop preceding helix α8 of yeast Gga's also shows a pattern of charged and aromatic residues that closely resembles the reported phosphoinositide-binding site that was found in cocrystals of the α-subunit of AP2 with InsP₆ (Figure 6D and Collins et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Similar to AP2α, also AP1γ (Heldwein et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

) uses a set of positively and aromatic residues in the so-called helix2-helix3 corner region to bind to the phospholipids. Introduction of a triple mutation in the conserved lysines in AP2α lead to a failure of membrane recruitment of this adaptor to coated pits (Gaidarov and Keen, 1999 blue right-pointing triangle

). AP1γ mutation in this region prevented normal Golgi targeting of the adaptor, and one specific mutation (R48A) eliminated PI(4)P-dependent enhancement of adaptor recruitment to liposomes (Heldwein et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). A very similar pattern of conservation can be observed in the yeast Gga sequences (Figure 6D). This similarity additionally hints at loop7 and helix α8 as the site of interaction between Gga2p and PI(4)P. In summary, sequence comparison and 3D modeling suggests that the Gga2p VHS domain mediates membrane interaction via its PI(4)P-binding capacity, similar to the role of the ANTH domain of CALM, the α subunit of AP2 and AP1γ.

To provide evidence that the Gga2p VHS domain on its own can bind phosphoinositides, we performed an SPR-based binding assay (Honing et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). The sensor chip was coated with different types of liposomes, and binding of Gga2p^VHS or Gga2p^VHS-GAT (VHS and the Arf-binding GAT domain) was compared with GST-2xOSBP^PH and a GST control (Table 1 and Figure 7, A–D). The pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of OSBP has been previously shown to bind PI(4)P in vitro and in vivo (Levine and Munro, 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

) and was here used as positive control. Monitoring domain binding of Gga2p^VHS revealed specific binding (K_D = 2 μM) to PI(4)P membranes and weaker binding to membranes containing PI(3)P (KD [dbl greater-than sign]

19 μM) or PI(4,5)P₂ (KD = 19 μM; Table 1 and Figure 7, A and B). Binding of Gga2p^VHS to PI(4)P membranes in this assay is thus in the range of the strongest interactions among the yeast PH domains of the oxysterol-binding proteins Osh1p and Osh2p (K_d = 1–3 μM; Yu et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). Gga2p^VHS-GAT did not show an increase in affinity of PI(4)P binding compared with Gga2p^VHS (Table 1 and Figure 7, C and D), suggesting that the VHS domain is mainly responsible for PI binding. To test whether the predicted PI-binding motif is indeed responsible for PI(4)P interaction, we next generated a mutant VHS domain (K143E, K148E, H158A, R159E; KKHR-EEAE). Biosensor chip analysis revealed quantitative loss of PI binding for the isolated mutant VHS domain (Gga2p^{VHS(KKHR-EEAE)}; Table 1 and Figure 7E), demonstrating that this signature mediates the interaction. Because this motif is conserved in Gga1p and we have shown that Gga1p like Gga2p overexpression (Figure 4B) can rescue pik1-101, both proteins apparently share PI binding as a common function. This is in agreement with previous work suggesting redundancy of Gga1p/Gga2p function (Boman, 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

). Nevertheless, there might be some degree of specialization of these two proteins because we found by ultrastructure analysis that in gga1Δ mutants mainly the elongated structures accumulated, which were also observed in gga2Δ and pik1-101 at much lower abundance than Berkeley bodies (Supplementary Figure 2 and Table S2).

Table 1.

Estimated K_d values (in M)

Figure 7.

Binding of Gga2p^VHS (A), Gga2p^VHS-GAT (C) and Gga2p^{VHS(KKHR-EEAE)} (E) to PI(4)P liposomes determined by surface plasmon resonance. Gga2p^VHS and Gga2p^VHS-GAT were injected at concentrations from 250 nM to 4 μM (bottom to top curves) over immobilized (more ...)

PI(4)P and Arf1p Cooperate in Gga2p Recruitment to the TGN

To test for synergy in PI(4)P and Arf1p in liposome recruitment, we performed liposome-pulldown assays. The Gga2p^VHS-GAT construct was efficiently recruited by PI(4)P in the presence of activated Arf1p (Figure 8A).

Figure 8.

PI(4)P and Arf1p cooperate in the recruitment of the VHS-GAT domain to the TGN. (A) Liposome pulldown assay was performed as in Figure 5D using GST-Gga2p^VHS-GAT (1.5 μg). (B) Wild-type (CSY349) and pik1-101 cells (CSY906) were transformed with (more ...)

To investigate PI(4)P dependent recruitment of the Gga2p VHS domain to the TGN in vivo, we expressed GFP fusions containing the VHS domain alone (GFP-Gga2p^VHS) or VHS-GAT (GFP-Gga2p^VHS-GAT; Figure 8B). We then evaluated PI(4)P dependence in wild-type or pik1-101 mutant cells. The VHS domain was not sufficient to target the TGN, and thus GFP-Gga2p^VHS was mostly cytosolic (data not shown and Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Similarly, the GAT domain alone has been shown to be insufficient for TGN localization (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). In contrast, the GFP-Gga2p^VHS-GAT domain localized to the TGN, and this targeting was PI(4)P-dependent (Figure 8B). These data demonstrate that Gga2p localization to the TGN is regulated by PI(4)P through the VHS and GAT domains. In further support of this model, specific recruitment of full-length GST-Gga2p to liposome membranes in the pulldown assay was abolished by the KKHR-EEAE mutation (Figure 8C). Similarly, we observed mislocalization of GFP-Gga2p^KKHR-EEAE in a wild-type yeast background (Figure 8D). To further test the cooperation of both PI(4)P and Arf1p interaction in GFP-Gga2p membrane recruitment in vivo, we constructed a GFP-Gga2p^{KKHR-EEAE,I207N} double mutant deficient in both PI(4)P and Arf1p interaction (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). In subcellular fractionation experiments, a strong additive reduction of membrane-bound GFP-Gga2p was observed in the GFP-Gga2p^{KKHR-EEAE,I207N} double mutant compared with either the GFP-Gga2p^KKHR-EEAE or the GFP-Gga2p^I207N single mutant (Figure 8E). In agreement with our pik1-101 subcellular fractionation (Figure 5B) and liposome pulldown (Figures 5E and and8,8, A and C) experiments, these data further imply that Gga2p targeting to the TGN occurs by coincidence detection of two binding sites, provided by PI(4)P and Arf1p and resembling a targeting mode described for other PI-binding domains (Carlton and Cullen, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

DISCUSSION

The formation of clathrin-coated vesicles at the TGN involves monomeric clathrin adaptors of the GGA protein family. Specific targeting of GGAs to the TGN is not fully understood. We identified a novel PI(4)P-dependent mechanism to target Gga2p to TGN exit sites. Gga2p acts as a PI(4)P effector in both TGN-to-vacuole and TGN-to-plasma membrane transport.

Mechanism of GGA Recruitment to TGN Exit Sites

We have demonstrated that PI(4)P and Arf1p cooperate in the specific recruitment of Gga2p to the TGN. Although GGAs are effectors of Arf-GTP, this interaction has been shown to be insufficient for recruitment of Gga proteins to the TGN (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). The VHS domain, together with the Arf-GTP–binding GAT domain of GGAs contributes to Golgi localization, and the VHS domain confers specificity to late Golgi localization of this protein (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). Our finding of a Pik1p- and PI(4)P-dependent membrane recruitment through the VHS domain provides a mechanism for the specific localization of Gga2p to the TGN.

VHS domains share similarity with ANTH/ENTH domains, which are known to bind PI(4,5)P₂ and are found in clathrin adaptor proteins (De Camilli et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Legendre-Guillemin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). The clathrin adaptor AP2 has also been shown to bind PI(4,5)P₂. All three domains, ANTH, ENTH and AP2α, bind PI in a region formed by multiple helices (Balla, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). ENTH and ANTH domains differ in their mode of lipid interaction. Although Epsin ENTH forms a basic pocket where the lipid is captured, the ANTH domain of CALM interacts with the lipid in a more superficial manner without burying the PI in a groove-like structure (Ford et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Figure 6B). Also in AP2α, PI interacts with a cluster of positive residues on the surface (Collins et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). PI(4)P binding to the AP1 clathrin adaptor (γ-adaptin) has been suggested to occur through a similar peripheral interaction site (Heldwein et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

The structural basis for stereospecificity of the described PI interactions is not fully understood (Balla, 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). By fold recognition, we uncovered two possible surfaces for interaction with PIs within the Gga2p VHS domain. Either proposed PI-binding site provides a charged surface similar to the ANTH domain of AP180/CALM (Legendre-Guillemin et al., 2004 blue right-pointing triangle

). The two potential PI interaction surfaces of the Gga2p VHS domain, in the α1 and α8 helices, respectively, involve residues that are unique to the fungal subfamilies of the GGAs (Figure 6A). Helix α1 in fungi contains a set of basic residues. Except for Arginine 32, none of the basic residues are conserved throughout all GGA-family members. In case of helix α8, the loop preceding the helix would be involved in PI binding, which is also specific to fungal members of the GGA-family.

Beyond the structural similarity, we found a sequence signature in the predicted PI interaction motif in helix α8 (Figure 6D) with a motif present in both ANTH and AP2α involving the signature (K-X₉-KKK-H/Y; Ford et al., 2001 blue right-pointing triangle

; Collins et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Lemmon, 2003 blue right-pointing triangle

). The similarity of the yeast Gga proteins with the ANTH consensus has also been noted by Costaguta et al. (2006) blue right-pointing triangle

. We have now shown that mutagenesis of the predicted PI signature in Gga2p results in loss of PI binding, suggesting that this motif is required for PI(4)P interaction.

Consistent with our data, it has recently been reported that dual recognition by PI(4)P and Arf1 is responsible for recruitment of GGAs to the TGN also in the mammalian system (Wang et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). Variations in the regulation of targeting of yeast versus mammalian GGAs are suggested by the differences in Arf dependence of GGA localization between the two systems: Arf interaction is required for Golgi targeting in mammals, but is not sufficient in yeast (Boman et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). This view is further supported by the finding that in mammals, the Arf1-binding GAT domain contains the major PI(4)P-binding activity, which seems to be regulated by the VHS domain (Wang et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

). In yeast, we found strong PI(4)P binding by the VHS domain without a major change in a VHS-GAT construct. Thus, the mechanistic details of dual key recruitment of GGAs by PI(4)P and Arf1 seem to differ between the two systems. An additional role for PI(4)P in promoting recognition of ubiquitylated cargo by GGA has been suggested (Wang et al., 2007 blue right-pointing triangle

), adding another level of regulation.

PI(4)P-dependent Clathrin Coat Formation in TGN-to-Endosome Pathway

Recent work has demonstrated that specific cargos traffic through different TGN-to-surface pathways, whereby invertase was sorted into different SVs than Pma1p, and sorting of invertase away from Pma1p was disturbed in mutants affecting the Vps route from the TGN to the endosome (Gurunathan et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Harsay and Schekman, 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). On the basis of these findings, it has been proposed that invertase-containing SVs could be formed at endosomes (Gurunathan et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

; Harsay and Schekman, 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

). The synergistic function of Pik1p/PI(4)P and Gga2p in TGN-to-endosome transport and in surface delivery of invertase (Figure 2) is consistent with the possibility of a shared control for vacuolar and exocytic traffic through endosomes. However, it remains a possible scenario that invertase vesicles bud directly from the TGN but depend on a different subset of TGN proteins than Pma1p vesicles. To resolve this issue, it will now be crucial to determine whether endosomes are indeed an intermediate of exocytosis for a subset of secreted cargo.

We have shown here that Pik1p functions together with Gga2p in TGN-to-late endosome transport. Does Pik1p function also play a role in trafficking between TGN and early endosomes? A number of observations are consistent with such a model. First, Pik1p has also been shown to regulate trafficking of cargos that require recycling through early endosomes, in particular the SNARE Snc1p and chitin synthase Chs3p (data not shown and Sciorra et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

). Second, our study and the work of others (Sciorra et al., 2005 blue right-pointing triangle

) revealed synthetic growth defects of mutants of early endosome-to-TGN recycling with different pik1 mutant alleles. Third, AP-1, a regulator of this retrieval pathway (Valdivia et al., 2002 blue right-pointing triangle

), showed synthetic lethality in an apl4 (AP-1 subunit) pik1 double mutant. This interaction was not identified in our SGA screen but was found by tetrad analysis (data not shown). These findings can be interpreted in different ways. Pik1p and its product PI(4)P could directly participate in TGN-to-endosome trafficking (anterograde or retrograde). Alternatively, the effects on the recycling pathway in pik mutants could be an indirect consequence of impaired TGN-to-late endosome transport, which would then also interfere with early endosome function, e.g., by missorting of late endosome proteins to early endosomes. In favor of the latter hypothesis, a Snc1p recycling defect has also been observed in gga1Δ gga2Δ double mutants (Black and Pelham, 2000 blue right-pointing triangle

). Further studies will be required to distinguish between these different scenarios.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Jan Peychl, Jeremy Sanderson, and Kurt Anderson for advice with light microscopy and Susanne Kretschmar for excellent technical assistance with electron microscopy. We are indebted to Yvonne Gloor, Benjamin Glick, Chris Stefan and Scott Emr, Peter Novick (Yale University), Patricia Scott, Annette Boman, Hugh Pelham (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge), Anne Spang, and Robert S. Fuller (University of Michigan) for sharing reagents and yeast strains. For helpful discussions and comments on the manuscript, we thank Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan and Giancarlo Costaguta. This work was supported by the Max Planck Society, by a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 449, A11) to V.H., and in part by Free State of Saxony and EU to T.B.

Abbreviations used:


CPY	carboxypeptidase Y

PtdIns	phosphatidylinositol

PI(3)P	phosphatidylinositol (3)-phosphate

PI(4)P	phosphatidylinositol (4)-phosphate

PI(3,5)P₂	phosphatidylinositol (3,5)-bisphosphate

PI(4,5)P₂	phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate

PI	phosphoinositide

SGA	synthetic genetic array

SPR	surface plasmon resonance

SV	secretory vesicle

TGN	trans-Golgi network.

Footnotes

This article was published online ahead of print in MBC in Press (http://www.molbiolcell.org/cgi/doi/10.1091/mbc.E06-10-0937) on February 20, 2008.

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