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Published online 22 February 2005. doi:10.1083/jcb.200412003
The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525 $8.00
JCB, Volume 168, Number 5, 747-759
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Cog3p depletion blocks vesicle-mediated Golgi retrograde trafficking in HeLa cells

Sergey N. Zolov and Vladimir V. Lupashin

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205

Correspondence to Vladimir Lupashin: vvlupashin{at}uams.edu

The conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex is an evolutionarily conserved multi-subunit protein complex that regulates membrane trafficking in eukaryotic cells. In this work we used short interfering RNA strategy to achieve an efficient knockdown (KD) of Cog3p in HeLa cells. For the first time, we have demonstrated that Cog3p depletion is accompanied by reduction in Cog1, 2, and 4 protein levels and by accumulation of COG complex-dependent (CCD) vesicles carrying v-SNAREs GS15 and GS28 and cis-Golgi glycoprotein GPP130. Some of these CCD vesicles appeared to be vesicular coat complex I (COPI) coated. A prolonged block in CCD vesicles tethering is accompanied by extensive fragmentation of the Golgi ribbon. Fragmented Golgi membranes maintained their juxtanuclear localization, cisternal organization and are competent for the anterograde trafficking of vesicular stomatitis virus G protein to the plasma membrane. In a contrast, Cog3p KD resulted in inhibition of retrograde trafficking of the Shiga toxin. Furthermore, the mammalian COG complex physically interacts with GS28 and COPI and specifically binds to isolated CCD vesicles.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CCD, COG complex-dependent; COG, conserved oligomeric Golgi; COPI, vesicular coat complex I; GalNAc-T2, N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-2; GalT-GFP, GFP-tagged ß 1,4-galactosyltransferase; IF, immunofluorescence; IP, immunoprecipitation; KD, knockdown; PDI, protein disulphide isomerase; PNS, post-nuclear supernatant; siRNA, short interfering RNA; VSVG, vesicular stomatitis virus G protein; WB, Western blot.


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