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The reformation of functioning organelles at the end of mitosis presents a problem in vesicle targeting. Using extracts made from Xenopus laevis frog eggs, we have studied in vitro the vesicles that reform the nuclear envelope. In the in vitro assay, nuclear envelope growth is linear with time. Furthermore, the final surface area of the nuclear envelopes formed is directly dependent upon the amount of membrane vesicles added to the assay. Egg membrane vesicles could be fractionated into two populations, only one of which was competent for nuclear envelope assembly. We found that vesicles active in nuclear envelope assembly contained markers (BiP and alpha-glucosidase II) characteristic of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), but that the majority of ER-derived vesicles do not contribute to nuclear envelope size. This functional distinction between nuclear vesicles and ER-derived vesicles implies that nuclear vesicles are unique and possess at least one factor required for envelope assembly that is lacking in other vesicles. Consistent with this, treatment of vesicles with trypsin destroyed their ability to form a nuclear envelope; electron microscopic studies indicate that the trypsin-sensitive proteins is required for vesicles to bind to chromatin. However, the protease-sensitive component(s) is resistant to treatments that disrupt protein-protein interactions, such as high salt, EDTA, or low ionic strength solutions. We propose that an integral membrane protein, or protein tightly associated with the membrane, is critical for nuclear vesicle targeting or function.
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PMID:A trypsin-sensitive receptor on membrane vesicles is required for nuclear envelope formation in vitro. 339 6

Polymerization caused by defective folding of heat-denatured ovalbumin was examined. A compactly misfolded ovalbumin that was produced by cooling heat-denatured protein rapidly tended to aggregate in the presence of salt. Two different forms of aggregates were observed as the concentration of salt was varied: a linear polymer at a physiological concentration and a massive agglomerate at a higher concentration. Salt-induced polymerization depended on the species of anion and the order of effectiveness followed the lyotropic series of Hofmeister. Defective folding of heat-denatured ovalbumin induced the exposure of cysteine residues in sequences located in the interior of the native protein. The misfolded ovalbumin, but not the native protein, bound to bovine BiP and stimulated its ATPase activity with the K(m) of 64 microM and the V(max) of 0.5 nmol/min per milligram. Measurement of surface plasmon resonance revealed that only the misfolded ovalbumin was recognized with the K(d) of 4.12 X 10(-8) M by the Fab fragment of a monoclonal antibody raised against hen ovalbumin, and its epitope was determined to be a hydrophobic segment in the beta-strand of central sheet A. Transmission electron microscopy showed that the linear polymerization was inhibited by the addition of bovine BiP and the Fab fragment. These results demonstrated that the compactly misfolded ovalbumin polymerized through hydrophobic interaction occurring among the areas exposed as a result of defective folding of the heat-denatured protein. Exposure of the region of, or adjacent to, the central beta-sheet A was required for axial contact among the misfolded molecules, suggesting that this process may be explained by reference to the mechanism proposed for loop-sheet polymerization in the Z type variant of a serpin alpha1-antitrypsin.
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PMID:Linear polymerization caused by the defective folding of a non-inhibitory serpin ovalbumin. 916 32

Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC1) catalyzes the first and rate limiting step of de novo fatty acid synthesis. Defects in Acc1p were recently correlated with an altered structure/function of the nuclear envelope in yeast. The subcellular distribution of the enzyme was determined in wild-type and mutant cells by cell fractionation and confocal immunofluorescence microscopy. Even though fatty acid synthesis is generally considered to be a cytosolic reaction, we found that Acc1p cofractionated with nuclei and the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) marker BiP/Kar2p. Membrane-bound Acc1p was susceptible to proteinase K digestion and was solubilized by mild salt treatment indicating that it is loosely associated with the cytosolic surface of the nuclear ER membrane. Consistent with these observations, immunofluorescence analysis revealed that Acc1p was distributed in a gradient within the cytoplasm that had its highest concentration around the ER. Possible association of Acc1p with the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) was investigated in strains that display NPC clustering. Results of these experiments suggest that Acc1p localization is independent of NPC distribution. We propose that association of Acc1p with the cytoplasmic surface of the ER membrane is physiologically relevant to "channel" the enzymatic product of Acc1p, malonyl-CoA, to a putative ER-localized fatty acid chain elongase complex.
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PMID:Yeast acetyl-CoA carboxylase is associated with the cytoplasmic surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. 943 37

Arabidopsis stt3a-1 and stt3a-2 mutations cause NaCl/osmotic sensitivity that is characterized by reduced cell division in the root meristem. Sequence comparison of the STT3a gene identified a yeast ortholog, STT3, which encodes an essential subunit of the oligosaccharyltransferase complex that is involved in protein N-glycosylation. NaCl induces the unfolded protein response in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and cell cycle arrest in root tip cells of stt3a seedlings, as determined by expression profiling of ER stress-responsive chaperone (BiP-GUS) and cell division (CycB1;1-GUS) genes, respectively. Together, these results indicate that plant salt stress adaptation involves ER stress signal regulation of cell cycle progression. Interestingly, a mutation (stt3b-1) in another Arabidopsis STT3 isogene (STT3b) does not cause NaCl sensitivity. However, the stt3a-1 stt3b-1 double mutation is gametophytic lethal. Apparently, STT3a and STT3b have overlapping and essential functions in plant growth and developmental processes, but the pivotal and specific protein glycosylation that is a necessary for recovery from the unfolded protein response and for cell cycle progression during salt/osmotic stress recovery is associated uniquely with the function of the STT3a isoform.
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PMID:The STT3a subunit isoform of the Arabidopsis oligosaccharyltransferase controls adaptive responses to salt/osmotic stress. 1297 70

Dislocation of endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) substrates from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lumen to cytosol is considered to occur in a single step that is tightly coupled to proteasomal degradation. Here we show that dislocation of luminal ERAD substrates occurs in two distinct consecutive steps. The first is passage across ER membrane to the ER cytosolic face, where substrates can accumulate as ubiquitin conjugates. In vivo, this step occurs despite proteasome inhibition but requires p97/Cdc48p because substrates remain entrapped in ER lumen and are prevented from ubiquitination in cdc48 yeast strain. The second dislocation step is the release of accumulated substrates to the cytosol. In vitro, this release requires active proteasome, consumes ATP, and relies on salt-removable ER-bound components, among them the ER-bound p97 and ER-bound proteasome, which specifically interact with the cytosol-facing substrates. An additional role for Cdc48p subsequent to ubiquitination is revealed in the cdc48 strain at permissive temperature, consistent with our finding that p97 recognizes luminal ERAD substrates through multiubiquitin. BiP interacts exclusively with ERAD substrates, suggesting a role for this chaperone in ERAD. We propose a model that assigns the cytosolic face of the ER as a midpoint to which luminal ERAD substrates emerge and p97/Cdc48p and the proteasome are recruited. Although p97/Cdc48p plays a dual role in dislocation and is involved both in passage of the substrate across ER membrane and subsequent to its ubiquitination, the proteasome takes part in the release of the substrate from the ER face to the cytosol en route to degradation.
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PMID:Distinct steps in dislocation of luminal endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation substrates: roles of endoplamic reticulum-bound p97/Cdc48p and proteasome. 1460 30

Responses of the halotolerant yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa YRH2 to salt stress was studied. Strain YRH2 was isolated from chemical industry park wastewater evaporation ponds that are characterized by large fluctuations in salinity and pH. Upon shift to high salt medium there is a shutdown of protein synthesis. Radiolabeling and separation of proteins from salt stressed and non-stressed cells identified down-regulated heat shock 70 proteins Ssb1/2p, by N-terminal sequencing and Western blotting. Ssb's role in salt stress in both R. mucilaginosa and S. cerevisiae was examined and we show that its response to salt stress and amino acid limitation is similar. Other proteins such as the heat shock 70 protein Kar2p/BiP and Protein Disulfide Isomerase were strongly induced in response to a shift to high salt in R. mucilaginosa and reacted in a manner similar to the effect of tunicamycin, a known unfolded protein response inducer. Also, assaying carboxypeptidase Y, we showed that high salt medium reduces the specific activity of the enzyme in R. mucilaginosa. It is suggested that the changes in the expression of the heat shock 70 proteins is a part of a mechanism which alleviates the damaging effects of high salt on protein folding in the yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa.
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PMID:Alterations in protein synthesis and levels of heat shock 70 proteins in response to salt stress of the halotolerant yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. 1503 41

The Cs(5)BiP(4)Se(12) salt grows naturally as nanowires that crystallize in the polar space group Pmc2(1), with a = 7.5357(2) A, b = 13.7783(6) A, c = 28.0807(8) A, and Z = 4 at 293(2) K. The compound features octahedral [Bi(P(2)Se(6))(2)](5-) coordination complexes that stack via weak intermolecular Se...Se interactions to form long, flexible fibers and nanowires. The Cs(5)BiP(4)Se(12) fibers are transparent in the near- and mid-IR ranges and were found to exhibit a nonlinear optical second harmonic generation response at 1 microm that is approximately twice that of the benchmark material AgGaSe(2). The material has a nearly direct band gap of 1.85 eV and melts congruently at 590 degrees C. Ab initio electronic structure calculations performed with the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method show that the band gap increases from its local density approximation (LDA) spin-orbit coupling value of 1.15 eV to the higher value of 2.0 eV when the screened-exchange LDA method is invoked and explain how the long nanowire nature of Cs(5)BiP(4)Se(12) emerges.
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PMID:Flexible polar nanowires of Cs5BiP4Se12 from weak interactions between coordination complexes: strong nonlinear optical second harmonic generation. 1918 6

The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is composed of a single copy of an alpha-, beta-, and gamma-subunit and plays an essential role in water and salt balance. Because ENaC assembles inefficiently after its insertion into the ER, a substantial percentage of each subunit is targeted for ER-associated degradation (ERAD). To define how the ENaC subunits are selected for degradation, we developed novel yeast expression systems for each ENaC subunit. Data from this analysis suggested that ENaC subunits display folding defects in more than one compartment and that subunit turnover might require a unique group of factors. Consistent with this hypothesis, yeast lacking the lumenal Hsp40s, Jem1 and Scj1, exhibited defects in ENaC degradation, whereas BiP function was dispensable. We also discovered that Jem1 and Scj1 assist in ENaC ubiquitination, and overexpression of ERdj3 and ERdj4, two lumenal mammalian Hsp40s, increased the proteasome-mediated degradation of ENaC in vertebrate cells. Our data indicate that Hsp40s can act independently of Hsp70 to select substrates for ERAD.
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PMID:The endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation of the epithelial sodium channel requires a unique complement of molecular chaperones. 2011 Mar 46

Plants can be severely affected by salt stress. Since these are sessile organisms, they have developed different cellular responses to cope with this problem. Recently, it has been described that bZIP17 and bZIP60, two ER-located transcription factors, are involved in the cellular response to salt stress. On the other hand, bZIP60 is also involved in the unfolded protein response (UPR), a signaling pathway that up-regulates the expression of ER-chaperones. Coincidentally, salt stress produces the up-regulation of BiP, one of the main chaperones located in this organelle. Then, it has been proposed that UPR is associated to salt stress. Here, by using insertional mutant plants on bZIP17 and bZIP60, we show that bZIP17 regulate the accumulation of the transcript for the chaperone BiP3 under salt stress conditions, but does not lead to the accumulation of UPR-responding genes such as the chaperones Calnexin, Calreticulin, and PDIL under salt treatments. In contrast, DTT, a known inducer of UPR, leads to the up-regulation of all these chaperones. On the other hand, we found that bZIP60 regulates the expression of some bZIP17 target genes under conditions were splicing of bZIP60 does not occur, suggesting that the spliced and unspliced forms of bZIP60 play different roles in the physiological response of the plant. Our results indicate that the ER-located transcription factors bZIP17 and bZIP60 play a role in salt stress but this response goes through a signaling pathway that is different to that triggered by the unfolded protein response.
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PMID:bZIP17 and bZIP60 Regulate the Expression of BiP3 and Other Salt Stress Responsive Genes in an UPR-Independent Manner in Arabidopsis thaliana. 2570 69

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is synthesised in magnocellular neurons (MCNs) of supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus. In response to the hyperosmotic stressors of dehydration (complete fluid deprivation, DH) or salt loading (drinking 2% salt solution, SL), AVP synthesis increases in MCNs, which over-burdens the protein folding machinery in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). ER stress and the unfolded protein response (UPR) are signaling pathways that improve ER function in response to the accumulation of misfold/unfold protein. We asked whether an ER stress response was activated in the SON and PVN of DH and SL rats. We observed increased mRNA expression for the immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein (BiP), activating transcription factor 4 (Atf4), C/EBP-homologous protein (Chop), and cAMP responsive element binding protein 3 like 1 (Creb3l1) in both SON and PVN of DH and SL rats. Although we found no changes in the splicing pattern of X box-binding protein 1 (Xbp1), an increase in the level of the unspliced form of Xbp1 (Xbp1U) was observed in DH and SL rats. CREB3L1, a novel ER stress inducer, has been shown to be activated by ER stress to regulate the expression of target genes. We have previously shown that CREB3L1 is a transcriptional regulator of the AVP gene; however, a role for CREB3L1 in the response to ER stress has yet to be investigated in MCNs. Here, we used lentiviral vectors to introduce a dominant negative form of CREB3L1 (CREB3L1DN) in the rat SON. Expression of CREB3L1DN in the SON decreased Chop and Xbp1U mRNA levels, but not BiP and Atf4 transcript expression. CREB3L1 is thus implicated as a transcriptional mediator of the ER stress response in the osmotically stimulated SON.
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PMID:Transcription Factor CREB3L1 Regulates Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response Genes in the Osmotically Challenged Rat Hypothalamus. 2591 53


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