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First published online February 22, 2006
doi: 10.1242/10.1242/jcs.02751

Journal of Cell Science 119, 958-969 (2006)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2006
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Human Sec31B: a family of new mammalian orthologues of yeast Sec31p that associate with the COPII coat

Michael C. Stankewich*, Paul R. Stabach* and Jon S. Morrow{ddagger}

Departments of Pathology and Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

{ddagger} Author for correspondence (e-mail: jon.morrow{at}yale.edu)

Accepted 19 October 2005

We have cloned human brain and testis Sec31B protein (also known as secretory pathway component Sec31B-1 or SEC31-like 2; GenBank accession number AF274863). Sec31B is an orthologue of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sec31p, a component of the COPII vesicle coat that mediates vesicular traffic from the endoplasmic reticulum. Sec31B is widely expressed and enriched in cerebellum and testis. Its predicted sequence of 1180 residues (expected molecular mass 128,711 Da) shares 47.3% and 18.8% similarity to human Sec31A (also known as Sec31; GenBank accession number AF139184) and yeast Sec31p, respectively. The gene encoding Sec31B is located on chromosome 10q24 and contains 29 exons. PCR analysis of exon utilization reveals massive alternative mRNA splicing of Sec31B, with just 16 exons being constitutively utilized in all transcripts. The presence of a stop codon in exon 13 generates two families of Sec31B gene products (each displaying additional patterns of mRNA splicing): a group of full-length proteins (hereafter referred to as Sec31B-F) and also a group of truncated proteins (hereafter referred to as Sec31B-T), distinguished by their utilization of exon 13. Sec31B-F closely resembles Sec31p and Sec31A, with canonical WD repeats in an N-terminal domain that binds Sec13 and a proline-rich C-terminal region that presumably binds Sec23/24. The Sec31B-T group (molecular mass 52,983 Da) contains a preserved WD-repeat domain but lacks the C-terminal proline-rich region. When expressed as a fusion protein with eYFP in cultured cells, Sec31B-F associates with the endoplasmic reticulum and with vesicular-tubular clusters, displays restricted intracellular movement characteristic of COPII vesicle dynamics, co-distributes on organelles with Sec13, Sec31A and Sec23 (markers of the COPII coat), and concentrates with ts045-VSV-G-CFP (VSV-G) when examined early in the secretory pathway or after temperature or nocodazole inhibition. The role of the truncated form Sec31B-T appears to be distinct from that of Sec31B-F and remains unknown. We conclude that Sec31B-F contributes to the diversity of the mammalian COPII coat, and speculate that the Sec31 cage, like Sec24, might be built with isoforms tuned to specific types of cargo or to other specialized functions.

Key words: ER, Secretory pathway, COPII, Vesicle, Golgi, Secretion, Protein isoforms


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