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J. Cell Biol.,
Volume 145, Number 7, June 28, 1999 1435-1442


* Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3844; Vacuole SNAREs, including the t-SNAREs
Vam3p and Vam7p and the v-SNARE Nyv1p, are found
in a multisubunit "cis" complex on isolated organelles.
We now identify the v-SNAREs Vti1p and Ykt6p by
mass spectrometry as additional components of the immunoisolated vacuolar SNARE complex. Immunodepletion of detergent extracts with anti-Vti1p removes
all the Ykt6p that is in a complex with Vam3p, immunodepletion with anti-Ykt6p removes all the Vti1p that is complexed with Vam3p, and immunodepletion with
anti-Nyv1p removes all the Ykt6p in complex with
other SNAREs, demonstrating that they are all together in the same cis multi-SNARE complex. After priming, which disassembles the cis-SNARE complex,
antibodies to any of the five SNARE proteins still inhibit the fusion assay until the docking stage is completed, suggesting that each SNARE plays a role in
docking. Furthermore, vti1 temperature-sensitive alleles cause a synthetic fusion-defective phenotype in
our reaction. Our data show that vacuole-vacuole fusion requires a cis-SNARE complex of five SNAREs,
the t-SNAREs Vam3p and Vam7p and the v-SNAREs Nyv1p, Vti1p, and Ykt6p.
Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Biochemie II, 37073 Göttingen, Germany; § Protein Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology, Odense
University, 5230 Odense M, Denmark; and
University of Oregon, Institute of Molecular Biology, Eugene, Oregon 97405
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