The secretory pathway Flashcards
Why do Eukaryotic cells need membrane trafficking?
- Compartmentalisation=complexity
- Specific subset of proteins depending on environment
- Modifications
- Retrieval
2 types of membrane trafficking pathways and where do they occur
- Secretory (biosynthetic)- making things constituency (happen without markers)
- er to Golgi to pm/endosome/lysosomes - Endocytic
- cell surface to Endosome to ER/Golgi
Stages of Membrane trafficking
- Protein synthesis of ribosomes transport of proteins across/into ER
- Budding and fusion of ER to Golgi
- Retrograde Golgi to ER
- cisternal progress (cics Golgi)
- Retrograde trafficking later to earlier Golgi cisterns
- Constituative secretion
- Regulated secretion
- Sorting to lysosomes
- Endocytosis
What studies showed biochemical compartmentalisation
By modification of various molecules - insulin - VSV-glycoprotein Used as already know Insect cells with virus to look at
How are proteins modified
Oligosaccharides added in ER and processed by Golgi
Gylcosylation- where it happens/how it works
N and O linked at proteins
Protein in ER- sugar added on and trim down
Golgi- more trimming and things added on
Purpose of glycosylstion
Change shape-To assist folding (ligand)
Intracellular- trafficking/sorting
Extracellular- interaction with exon
Importance of glycosylation in disease
- 0 linked sugars are the basis of ABO system of blood
- Muscular dystrophy- absence of sugars on the protein dystrolycon
- Staphylococcus aureus toxin binds static acid reside to glycosylated protein
What is dystroglcyon?
Links dystrophin to the extracellular matrix around muscle cells
Sugars facilitate interaction
Identifying the genes and proteins involved in the secretory pathway with a genetic approach
Organisms- mouse, zebrafish, c elegans, drosophila
Modal suitability- simplicity, specificity of secretion
Different organisms reveal different info
Yeast model advantages
Amenable
Genetics known
Cheap and easy
Pathways conserved
Yeast model disadvantages
Limited cell to cell
Limited gene diversity
Small
Cell wall
The key experiment using yeast to identify genes involved with the secretory pathway
- Navick and schekman 1989
- if vesicles couldn’t be secreted- cells were secretory deficient (sec) and cells would increase in density as these vesicles accumulate
- cells mutagenised and shifted to restrictive growth temperature (37)
- cells were fractioned in a gradient forming medium
Results of navick and schekman
5% increase in density of sec mutants (deficiency in secreting vesicles)
- complete separation of WT cells
How was the yeast experiment analysed and what were they looking for
Electron microscopy
- accumulation of vesicles could be observed
-proteins detected with different modifications through secretory pathway
Looking for global defects in secretion
Definition of secretory mutants and how it was defined
Strains which fail to export active invertase and acid phosphates but continue to synthesise proteins
- found due to ability to secrete invertase and acids phosphatase at permissive and restrictive temperature
How are Delta factor and CPY modified through the secretory pathway
Delta factor
Delta=prrpreform, core form gets sugars and is modified through the ER and golgi
- Late golgi chops to Ke2= 4 peptides secreted
- secreted MaF
CPY mutant form
- shows different size on western blot which shows where the protein is stuck
- vacuole Mcpy
What is redundancy
When other things compensate
What genes were identified from this experiment and what does this say about secretion?
23 identified
Required for transport from the ER to plasma membrane
Sec genes- 5 classes by combining mutants from different classes and by use of more detailed analysis of protein modification
What did novick and schekman find?
Secretory proteins move cytosol to ER to Golgi by vesicles to plasma membrane