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SUBMITTER: Mima J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2752541 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090904 38
Yeast vacuole fusion requires 4 SNAREs, 2 SNARE chaperone systems (Sec17p/Sec18p/ATP and the HOPS complex), and 2 phosphoinositides, phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PI(3)P] and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P(2)]. By reconstituting proteoliposomal fusion with purified components, we now show that phosphoinositides have 4 distinct roles: PI(3)P is recognized by the PX domain of the SNARE Vam7p; PI(3)P enhances the capacity of membrane-bound SNAREs to drive fusion in the absence ...[more]