Drosophila Sec16 mediates the biogenesis of tER sites upstream of Sar1 through an arginine-rich motif |
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| Authors: | Ivan Viorica de Voer Gert Xanthakis Despina Spoorendonk Kirsten M Kondylis Vangelis Rabouille Catherine |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Cell Biology and Institute of Biomembrane, University Medical Centre Utrecht, 3584CX Utrecht, The Netherlands. |
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| Abstract: | tER sites are specialized cup-shaped ER subdomains characterized by the focused budding of COPII vesicles. Sec16 has been proposed to be involved in the biogenesis of tER sites by binding to COPII coat components and clustering nascent-coated vesicles. Here, we show that Drosophila Sec16 (dSec16) acts instead as a tER scaffold upstream of the COPII machinery, including Sar1. We show that dSec16 is required for Sar1-GTP concentration to the tER sites where it recruits in turn the components of the COPII machinery to initiate coat assembly. Last, we show that the dSec16 domain required for its localization maps to an arginine-rich motif located in a nonconserved region. We propose a model in which dSec16 binds ER cups via its arginine-rich domain, interacts with Sar1-GTP that is generated on ER membrane by Sec12 and concentrates it in the ER cups where it initiates the formation of COPII vesicles, thus acting as a tER scaffold. |
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