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ArticleJournal of lipid research2013

Effects on vesicular transport pathways at the late endosome in cells with limited very long-chain fatty acids.

Keisuke Obara, Ryo Kojima, Akio Kihara

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Article in Journal of lipid research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Keisuke ObaraFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Ryo KojimaFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Akio KiharaFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Hokkaido University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs), fatty acids with chain-length greater than 20 carbons, possess a wide range of biological functions. However, their roles at the molecular level remain largely unknown. In the present study, we screened for multicopy suppressors that rescued temperature-sensitive growth of VLCFA-limited yeast cells, and we identified the VPS21 gene, encoding a Rab GTPase, as such a suppressor. When the vps21Δ mutation was introduced into a deletion mutant of the SUR4 gene, which encodes a VLCFA elongase, a synthetic growth defect was observed. Endosome-mediated vesicular trafficking pathways, including endocytosis and the carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) pathway, were severely impaired in sur4Δ vps21Δ double mutants, while the AP-3 pathway that bypasses the endosome was unaffected. In addition, the sur4Δ mutant also exhibited a synthetic growth defect when combined with the deletion of VPS3, which encodes a subunit of the class C core vacuole/endosome tethering (CORVET) complex that tethers transport vesicles to the late endosome/multivesicular body (MVB). These results suggest that, of all the intracellular trafficking pathways, requirement of VLCFAs is especially high in the endosomal pathways.

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AcetyltransferasesCathepsin AEndosomesFatty Acidsrab GTP-Binding ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsVesicular Transport ProteinsAcetyltransferasesCathepsin AFatty Acidsrab GTP-Binding ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSUR4 protein, S cerevisiaeVesicular Transport ProteinsVPS21 protein, S cerevisiaeVPS3 protein, S cerevisiae

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PMID23325927
PMCPMC3617957
OpenAlexW2103190727

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