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ArticleEMBO reports2020

Translocation of nutrient transporters to cell membrane via Golgi bypass in Aspergillus nidulans.

Sofia Dimou, Olga Martzoukou, Mariangela Dionysopoulou, Vangelis Bouris, Sotiris Amillis, George Diallinas

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Article in EMBO reports, 2020. 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
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sofia DimouDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Olga MartzoukouDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5445-484X
Mariangela DionysopoulouDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Vangelis BourisDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Sotiris AmillisDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
George DiallinasDepartment of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3426-726X
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GR

Funding

Fondation SantéStavros Niarchos Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutrient transporters, being polytopic membrane proteins, are believed, but not formally shown, to traffic from their site of synthesis, the ER, to the plasma membrane through Golgi-dependent vesicular trafficking. Here, we develop a novel genetic system to investigate the trafficking of a neosynthesized model transporter, the well-studied UapA purine transporter of Aspergillus nidulans. We show that sorting of neosynthesized UapA to the plasma membrane (PM) bypasses the Golgi and does not necessitate key Rab GTPases, AP adaptors, microtubules or endosomes. UapA PM localization is found to be dependent on functional COPII vesicles, actin polymerization, clathrin heavy chain and the PM t-SNARE SsoA. Actin polymerization proved to primarily affect COPII vesicle formation, whereas the essential role of ClaH seems indirect and less clear. We provide evidence that other evolutionary and functionally distinct transporters of A. nidulans also follow the herein identified Golgi-independent trafficking route of UapA. Importantly, our findings suggest that specific membrane cargoes drive the formation of distinct COPII subpopulations that bypass the Golgi to be sorted non-polarly to the PM, and thus serving house-keeping cell functions.

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Aspergillus nidulansCell MembraneFungal ProteinsGolgi ApparatusNutrientsFungal ProteinsNutrientsAspergillus nidulanspolaritysecretiontraffictranslocation

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PMID32452614
PMCPMC7332984
OpenAlexW3030850108

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