Vesicles Flashcards
Transport vesicles
Transport vesicles carry cargo form lumen and membrane of donor compartment to lumen and membrane of target compartment
Transport vesicles are coated in
Protein
Protein coated functions
1- curve the membrane to form vesicle
2- select the components to be carried
Vesicle coat is —— protein layers
Two
Outer later
Inner layer
Outer layer protein coat
Cage around vesicle
Inner layer protein coat
Adapter between outer and lipid bilayer
**select cargo proteins through affinity interactions
Classes of coated vesicles
1- CopII coated vesicles
——move materials forward from ER to ERGIC/anterograde
2- CopI coated vesicles
——move materials backward from ERGIC to ER/retrograde
3- Clathrin coated vesicles
——move materials from plasma membrane backward to endosome OR trans golgi to endosome
Budding is initiated by
Small GTP protein (GTPase)
SAR1-GDP
SAR1-GDP
GEF (guanine exchange factor) replace GDP with GTP causing conformational shift which sticks it into membrane
Sar1-gtp recruits
Sec23 and Sec24
Sec 23-24 dimer ———
Have a curved conformation, start bending the membrane
Sec 24 act as
Adaptor protein
Recruit protein to forming vesicle
Sec 24 act as
Adaptor protein
Recruit protein to forming vesicle
—— and —— binds to form cage like outer layer
Sec13 and sec31
COPII outer layer
Simple lattice
Convergence of four sec13-sec31 dimers
V-SNARE
Crucial for fusion of the vesicles to correct target membrane
Once COPII is assembled
Budding vesicle will separate from ER membrane
After separation
Protein coat must disassemble
Release component to cytosol
This allow v-SNARE to target the vesicle to proper membrane
Protein coat disassembly is mediated by
Hydrolysis of GTP, producing sar1-gdp
Vesicle travel can be mediated by
Microtubules
Locomotive (motor protein) pulling cargo(vesicles) on railroad(microtubule)
Initial contact between vesicle and target membrane involves
Tethering proteins
Two group of tethers
1- Rod-shaped fibrous proteins that form long bridges
2- Multi-protein complexes that hold membranes together
Much of membrane viscle/target is conferred by
Rab GTPases
Rab-GTP
Recruit cytosolic tether protein to membrane surface
Recruits motor protein to vesicle to facilitate transport
SNARE proteins mediate
Fusion between vesicles and target membranes
—sorting and targeting uses two families of SNAp REceptors:
1-v-SNARE
2-t-SNARE
v-SNARE found on
Vesicles
t-SNARE FOUND ON
Target membrane