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Lipid packing sensed by ArfGAP1 couples COPI coat disassembly to membrane bilayer curvature

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  • Joëlle Bigay

    (Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS)

  • Pierre Gounon

    (Université de Nice)

  • Sylviane Robineau

    (Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS)

  • Bruno Antonny

    (Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS)

Abstract

Protein coats deform flat lipid membranes into buds and capture membrane proteins to form transport vesicles1,2,3. The assembly/disassembly cycle of the COPI coat on Golgi membranes is coupled to the GTP/GDP cycle of the small G protein Arf1. At the heart of this coupling is the specific interaction of membrane-bound Arf1–GTP with coatomer, a complex of seven proteins that forms the building unit of the COPI coat4,5,6,7. Although COPI coat disassembly requires the catalysis of GTP hydrolysis in Arf1 by a specific GTPase-activating protein (ArfGAP1)8,9,10, the precise timing of this reaction during COPI vesicle formation is not known. Using time-resolved assays for COPI dynamics on liposomes of controlled size, we show that the rate of ArfGAP1-catalysed GTP hydrolysis in Arf1 and the rate of COPI disassembly increase over two orders of magnitude as the curvature of the lipid bilayer increases and approaches that of a typical transport vesicle. This leads to a model for COPI dynamics in which GTP hydrolysis in Arf1 is organized temporally and spatially according to the changes in lipid packing induced by the coat.

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  • Joëlle Bigay & Pierre Gounon & Sylviane Robineau & Bruno Antonny, 2003. "Lipid packing sensed by ArfGAP1 couples COPI coat disassembly to membrane bilayer curvature," Nature, Nature, vol. 426(6966), pages 563-566, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:426:y:2003:i:6966:d:10.1038_nature02108
    DOI: 10.1038/nature02108
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    1. Dinah Loerke & Marcel Mettlen & Defne Yarar & Khuloud Jaqaman & Henry Jaqaman & Gaudenz Danuser & Sandra L Schmid, 2009. "Cargo and Dynamin Regulate Clathrin-Coated Pit Maturation," PLOS Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(3), pages 1-12, March.

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