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      The ESCRT machinery

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          The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) assemble into a multisubunit machinery that performs a topologically unique membrane bending and scission reaction away from the cytoplasm. This evolutionarily highly conserved process is required for the multivesicular body (MVB) pathway, cytokinesis and HIV budding. The modular setup of the machinery with five distinct ESCRT complexes (ESCRT-0, -I, -II, -III and the Vps4 complex) that have a clear division of tasks — from interaction with ubiquitinated membrane proteins to membrane deformation and abscission — allows them to be flexibly integrated into these three very different biological processes ( Figure 1).

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          Membrane scission by the ESCRT-III complex.

          The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) system is essential for multivesicular body biogenesis, in which cargo sorting is coupled to the invagination and scission of intralumenal vesicles. The ESCRTs are also needed for budding of enveloped viruses including human immunodeficiency virus 1, and for membrane abscission in cytokinesis. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ESCRT-III consists of Vps20, Snf7, Vps24 and Vps2 (also known as Did4), which assemble in that order and require the ATPase Vps4 for their disassembly. In this study, the ESCRT-III-dependent budding and scission of intralumenal vesicles into giant unilamellar vesicles was reconstituted and visualized by fluorescence microscopy. Here we show that three subunits of ESCRT-III, Vps20, Snf7 and Vps24, are sufficient to detach intralumenal vesicles. Vps2, the ESCRT-III subunit responsible for recruiting Vps4, and the ATPase activity of Vps4 were required for ESCRT-III recycling and supported additional rounds of budding. The minimum set of ESCRT-III and Vps4 proteins capable of multiple cycles of vesicle detachment corresponds to the ancient set of ESCRT proteins conserved from archaea to animals.
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            Escrt-III: an endosome-associated heterooligomeric protein complex required for mvb sorting.

            The sorting of transmembrane proteins (e.g., cell surface receptors) into the multivesicular body (MVB) pathway to the lysosomal/vacuolar lumen requires the function of the ESCRT protein complexes. The soluble coiled-coil-containing proteins Vps2, Vps20, Vps24, and Snf7 are recruited from the cytoplasm to endosomal membranes where they oligomerize into a protein complex, ESCRT-III. ESCRT-III contains two functionally distinct subcomplexes. The Vps20-Snf7 subcomplex binds to the endosomal membrane, in part via the myristoyl group of Vps20. The Vps2-Vps24 subcomplex binds to the Vps20-Snf7 complex and thereby serves to recruit additional cofactors to this site of protein sorting. We provide evidence for a role for ESCRT-III in sorting and/or concentration of MVB cargoes.
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              Morphological classification of the yeast vacuolar protein sorting mutants: evidence for a prevacuolar compartment in class E vps mutants.

              The collection of vacuolar protein sorting mutants (vps mutants) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae comprises of 41 complementation groups. The vacuoles in these mutant strains were examined using immunofluorescence microscopy. Most of the vps mutants were found to possess vacuolar morphologies that differed significantly from wild-type vacuoles. Furthermore, mutants representing independent vps complementation groups were found to share aberrant morphological features. Six distinct classes of vacuolar morphology were observed. Mutants from eight vps complementation groups were defective both for vacuolar segregation from mother cells into developing buds and for acidification of the vacuole. Another group of mutants, represented by 13 complementation groups, accumulated a novel organelle distinct from the vacuole that contained a late-Golgi protein, active vacuolar H(+)-ATPase complex, and soluble vacuolar hydrolases. We suggest that this organelle may represent an exaggerated endosome-like compartment. None of the vps mutants appeared to mislocalize significant amounts of the vacuolar membrane protein alkaline phosphatase. Quantitative immunoprecipitations of the soluble vacuolar hydrolase carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) were performed to determine the extent of the sorting defect in each vps mutant. A good correlation between morphological phenotype and the extent of the CPY sorting defect was observed.
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                Journal
                Curr Biol
                Curr. Biol
                Current Biology
                Cell Press
                0960-9822
                1879-0445
                21 February 2012
                21 February 2012
                : 22
                : 4
                : R116-R120
                Affiliations
                Biocenter, Division of Cell Biology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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                []Corresponding author david.teis@ 123456i-med.ac.at
                Article
                CURBIO9344
                10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.028
                3314914
                22361144
                c95de70a-23de-4a41-b517-96e9664ed587
                © 2012 ELL & Excerpta Medica.

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