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First published online February 22, 2006
doi: 10.1242/10.1242/jcs.02803

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Vesicle-associated membrane protein 7 is expressed in intestinal ER

¹ Division of Gastroenterology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163 USA
² Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, TN 38163 USA
³ Department of Medicine, VA Healthcare, and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06516 USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: cmansbach{at}utmem.edu)

Accepted 22 November 2005

Intestinal dietary triacylglycerol absorption is a multi-step process. Triacylglycerol exit from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the rate-limiting step in the progress of the lipid from its apical absorption to its basolateral membrane export. Triacylglycerol is transported from the ER to the cis Golgi in a specialized vesicle, the pre-chylomicron transport vesicle (PCTV). The vesicle-associated membrane protein 7 (VAMP7) was found to be more concentrated on PCTVs compared with ER membranes. VAMP7 has been previously identified associated with post-Golgi sites in eukaryotes. To examine the potential role of VAMP7 in PCTV trafficking, antibodies were generated that identified a 25 kDa band consistent with VAMP7 but did not crossreact with VAMP1,2. VAMP7 was concentrated on intestinal ER by immunofluorescence microscopy. Immunoelectron microscopy showed that the ER proteins Sar1 and rBet1 were present on PCTVs and colocalized with VAMP7. Iodixanol gradient centrifugation showed VAMP7 to be isodense with ER and endosomes. Although VAMP7 localized to intestinal ER, it was not present in the ER of liver and kidney. Anti-VAMP7 antibodies reduced the transfer of triacylglycerol, but not newly synthesized proteins, from the ER to the Golgi by 85%. We conclude that VAMP7 is enriched in intestinal ER and that it plays a functional role in the delivery of triacylglycerol from the ER to the Golgi.

Key words: VAMP7, Lipid absorption, Pre-chylomicron transport vesicle, Triacylglycerol, ER-to-Golgi transport, Vesicles

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