Rabphilin Potentiates Soluble<i>N</i>-Ethylmaleimide Sensitive Factor Attachment Protein Receptor Function Independently of rab3

Staunton, Jane; Ganetzky, Barry; Nonet, Michael L.

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.21-23-09255.2001

“…To determine whether RBF-1 is an effector of RAB-27 in vivo, we looked at RBF-1 localization in aex-3 and aex-6 mutant animals. We found that GFP-tagged RBF-1 (RBF-1::GFP) is mislocalized from synapse-rich regions in aex-3(js815) and aex-6(sa24) mutant animals, but RBF-1::GFP is normally localized in rab-3(js49) animals ( Figure 5A; Staunton et al, 2001). We also noted that RBF-1::GFP fluorescence is weaker in aex-6 mutant animals than in wild type.…”

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“…Single mutants rab-3(js49) and rbf-1(js232) Staunton et al, 2001). Double mutants were made by standard crossing procedures jsIs682; jsEx740, jsEx740, jsIs423; jsIs423,.…”

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“…The jsIs682 (GFP::RAB-3) transgene rescues the aldicarb resistance of rab-3(js49) and is likely a functional GFP fusion (our unpublished data). jsIs423 (RBF-1::GFP) was a spontaneous integration of jsEx86 (Staunton et al, 2001). jsEx623 (NM1030-rab-27 promoter driving GFP) and jsEx740 (NM1112-GFP::RAB-27) were also used (see Supplemental Figure S1 for rab-27 clones used).…”

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“…In vertebrates, rabphilin was originally identified as a Rab3 effector (Shirataki et al, 1993;Li et al, 1994;Ostermeier and Brunger, 1999); however, this does not seem to be the case in C. elegans (Staunton et al, 2001). Similarly, studies in mice have shown that rabphilin is not required for Rab3 function (Schluter et al, 1999).…”

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“…However, C. elegans rabphilin interacts with RAB-27 but not RAB-3 via glutathione S-transferase (GST) pull-down, in vitro coimmunoprecipitation, and yeast two-hybrid assays (Fukuda, 2003a;Fukuda et al, 2004). Previous work demonstrated that rabphilin acts independently of RAB-3 in vertebrates and invertebrates and that rabphilin potentiates soluble N-ethylmaleimidesensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) function in invertebrates (Schluter et al, 1999;Staunton et al, 2001). Recent work by Tsuboi et al demonstrates that rabphilin regulates dense core vesicle docking by binding to the SNARE protein SNAP25 (Tsuboi and Fukuda, 2005).…”

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