Professor Uglade Lecture 12 Flashcards
What is in the secretory pathway for vesicle traffic?
multiple donor and acceptor (target) membranes in secretory pathway
What are the 2 mechanisms that ensure that vesicles transport thei contents to the correct acceptor membrane?
-Rab GTPase proteins provide specificity of vesicle targeting and attachment to acceptor membrane
-SNARE fusion proteins provide specificity during fusion of vesicles with acceptor membrane
How is the golgi organized, what maintains this?
What is the old model vs the new model of vesicle transport in golgi?
-into a stack of membranes:cis, medial, trans
-cytosolic protein matrix maintains the stacks
-old model: vesicles transport cargo between layers
-new model:each layer matures and becomes the next layer
How does the new model of transport through golgi work?
-golgi resident proteins are carried backwards by COP-I vesicles
-then clathrin coated vesicles carry cargo to PM and endosomes
How are N-linked glycans modified in golgi?
-modified by removal of mannoses and addition of diff sugars, often with negative charge
How are other oligosaccharides attached?
What is many combinations of oligosaccharides called?
-attached to Ser and Thr side chains (O-linked glycosylation)
-heterogeneity
How does glycoylation promote protein folding?
-makes folding intermediates more soluble (prevents aggregation)
-sequential modificatoins–>Glyco-code–>progression folding or degeneration
How does sugars having limited flexibility aid the golgi?
What else does glycosylation contribute in golgi function?
-they protect from proteases, stabilizes protein structure (protective coat)
-it is a signaling hub (regulation of development)
What happens to the some PM and extracellular proteins that are made as longer inactive forms in the ER?
WHat do proprotein convertases/proteases recognize?
-they are cut by proprotein convertases into shorter active forms in the golgi
-they recognize the pattern of amino acids and cleave to get rid of inhibitory part, to make the protein active
How is proinsulin an example for proprotein convertase use?
-Proinsulin is made as one inactive polypeptide, to prevent premature signaling by insulin at the ER
-convertases remove the middle section, the 2 remaining sections form active insulin
How do proteases regulate the golgi traffic?
ATF6 is activated by converyase proteolysis in the Golgi
-regulation is by trafficking
-BiP covers ER exit signalon ATF6, and proteases are only in the golgi
What are Rab-proteins?
What type of things in the cell have sets of rab proteins?
-large subfamily of Ras-related proteins
-different organelles and vesicles types in the secretory pathway have unique sets of Rab proteins
What are Rab proteins turned on and off by?
What does Rab-GTP bind?
-switched on by GEF, switched off by GAP
-RAB-GTP binds to a large number of rab effector proteins which mediate vesicle targeting
Where do Rab proteins act in?
What do they assist with and connect?
-Rabs can act at several steps in vesicle targeting
-they assist cargo selection and coat formation during vesicle budding
-they connect vesicle to motors on cytoskelton for transport
(diff rab is used in each step)
What do Rabs thether and recruit?
-they thether vesicles to the acceptor membrane for specificity
-they recruit SNARE fusion proteins