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Tip-end fusion of a rod-shaped secretory organelle.


ABSTRACT: Weibel-Palade bodies (WPB) are elongated, rod-like secretory organelles unique to endothelial cells that store the pro-coagulant von-Willebrand factor (VWF) and undergo regulated exocytosis upon stimulation with Ca2+- or cAMP-raising agonists. We show here that WPB preferentially initiate fusion with the plasma membrane at their tips and identify synaptotagmin-like protein 2-a (Slp2-a) as a positive regulator of VWF secretion most likely mediating this topological selectivity. Following secretagogue stimulation, Slp2-a accumulates at one WPB tip before fusion occurs at this site. Depletion of Slp2-a reduces Ca2+-dependent secretion of highly multimeric VWF and interferes with the formation of actin rings at WPB-plasma membrane fusion sites that support the expulsion of the VWF multimers and most likely require a tip-end fusion topology. Phosphatidylinositol (4,5)-bisphosphate [PI(4,5)P2] binding via the C2A domain of Slp2-a is required for accumulation of Slp2-a at the tip ends of fusing WPB, suggesting that Slp2-a mediates polar exocytosis by initiating contacts between WPB tips and plasma membrane PI(4,5)P2.

SUBMITTER: Naß J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9167223 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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