Journal of Cell Science, Vol 111, Issue 1 61-70, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists

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Targeted gene disruption reveals a role for vacuolin B in the late endocytic pathway and exocytosis

N Jenne, R Rauchenberger, U Hacker, T Kast and M Maniak
Abt. Zellbiologie, Max-Planck-Institut fur Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany.

Cells of Dictyostelium discoideum take up fluid by macropinocytosis. The contents of macropinosomes are acidified and digested by lysosomal enzymes. Thereafter, an endocytic marker progresses in an F-actin dependent mechanism from the acidic lysosomal phase to a neutral post-lysosomal phase. From the post-lysosomal compartment indigestible remnants are released by exocytosis. This compartment is characterised by two isoforms of vacuolin, A and B, which are encoded by different genes. Fusions of the vacuolin isoforms to the green fluorescent protein associate with the cytoplasmic side of post-lysosomal vacuoles in vivo. Vacuolin isoforms also localise to patches at the plasma membrane. Since vacuolins have no homologies to known proteins and do not contain domains of obvious function, we investigated their role by knocking out the genes separately. Although the sequences of vacuolins A and B are about 80% identical, only deletion of the vacuolin B gene results in a defect in the endocytic pathway; the vacuolin A knock-out appeared to be phenotypically normal. In vacuolin B- mutants endocytosis is normal, but the progression of fluid-phase marker from acidic to neutral pH is impaired. Furthermore, in the mutants post-lysosomal vacuoles are dramatically increased in size and accumulate endocytic marker, suggesting a role for vacuolin B in targeting the vacuole for exocytosis.

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