Pep3p/Pep5p Complex: A Putative Docking Factor at Multiple Steps of Vesicular Transport to the Vacuole of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Corresponding author: Carol A. Woolford, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Mellon Institute, 4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213., cw2g{at}andrew.cmu.edu (E-mail)

Communicating editor: A. P. MITCHELL

Pep3p and Pep5p are known to be necessary for trafficking of hydrolase precursors to the vacuole and for vacuolar biogenesis. These proteins are present in a hetero-oligomeric complex that mediates transport at the vacuolar membrane. PEP5 interacts genetically with VPS8, implicating Pep5p in the earlier Golgi to endosome step and/or in recycling from the endosome to the Golgi. To understand further the cellular roles of Pep3p and Pep5p, we isolated and characterized a set of pep3 conditional mutants. Characterization of mutants revealed that pep3^ts mutants are defective in the endosomal and nonendosomal Golgi to vacuole transport pathways, in the cytoplasm to vacuole targeting pathway, in recycling from the endosome back to the late Golgi, and in endocytosis. PEP3 interacts genetically with two members of the endosomal SNARE complex, PEP12 (t-SNARE) and PEP7 (homologue of mammalian EEA1); Pep3p and Pep5p associate physically with Pep7p as revealed by two-hybrid analysis. Our results suggest that a core Pep3p/Pep5p complex promotes vesicular docking/fusion reactions in conjunction with SNARE proteins at multiple steps in transport routes to the vacuole. We propose that this complex may be responsible for tethering transport vesicles on target membranes.

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