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JCS ePress
online publication date 26 Jul 2005
doi: 10.1242/jcs.02502
Research Article
Drosophila Vps16A is required for trafficking to lysosomes and biogenesis of pigment granules
Suprabha Pulipparacharuvil,
Mohammed Ali Akbar,
Sanchali Ray,
Evgueny A. Sevrioukov,
Adam S. Haberman,
Jack Rohrer,
and
Helmut Krämer*
* Author for correspondence (e-mail: hkrame{at}mednet.swmed.edu)
Mutations that disrupt trafficking to lysosomes and lysosome-related organelles cause multiple diseases, including Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. The Drosophila eye is a model system for analyzing such mutations. The eye-color genes carnation and deep orange encode two subunits of the Vps-C protein complex required for endosomal trafficking and pigment-granule biogenesis. Here we demonstrate that dVps16A (CG8454) encodes another Vps-C subunit. Biochemical experiments revealed a specific interaction between the dVps16A C-terminus and the Sec1/Munc18 homolog Carnation but not its closest homolog, dVps33B. Instead, dVps33B interacted with a related protein, dVps16B (CG18112). Deep orange bound both Vps16 homologs. Like a deep orange null mutation, eye-specific RNAi-induced knockdown of dVps16A inhibited lysosomal delivery of internalized ligands and interfered with biogenesis of pigment granules. Ubiquitous knockdown of dVps16A was lethal. Together, these findings demonstrate that Drosophila Vps16A is essential for lysosomal trafficking. Furthermore, metazoans have two types of Vps-C complexes with non-redundant functions.
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