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Published online 7 August 2000. doi:10.1083/jcb.150.3.461
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The Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 150, Number 3, August 7, 2000 461-474

Original Article

Mutants Affecting the Structure of the Cortical Endoplasmic Reticulum in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

William A. Prinza, Lara Grzyba, Marten Veenhuisc, Jason A. Kahanab, Pamela A. Silverb, and Tom A. Rapoporta
a Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
b Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
c Laboratory for Eukaryotic Microbiology, GBB, University of Groningen, 9750 AA Haren, The Netherlands

Correspondence to: Tom A. Rapoport, Department of Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Tel:(617) 432-0367 Fax:(617) 432-1190 E-mail:tom_rapoport{at}hms.harvard.edu.

We find that the peripheral ER in Saccharomyces cerevisiae forms a dynamic network of interconnecting membrane tubules throughout the cell cycle, similar to the ER in higher eukaryotes. Maintenance of this network does not require microtubule or actin filaments, but its dynamic behavior is largely dependent on the actin cytoskeleton. We isolated three conditional mutants that disrupt peripheral ER structure. One has a mutation in a component of the COPI coat complex, which is required for vesicle budding. This mutant has a partial defect in ER segregation into daughter cells and disorganized ER in mother cells. A similar phenotype was found in other mutants with defects in vesicular trafficking between ER and Golgi complex, but not in mutants blocked at later steps in the secretory pathway. The other two mutants found in the screen have defects in the signal recognition particle (SRP) receptor. This receptor, along with SRP, targets ribosome–nascent chain complexes to the ER membrane for protein translocation. A conditional mutation in SRP also disrupts ER structure, but other mutants with translocation defects do not. We also demonstrate that, both in wild-type and mutant cells, the ER and mitochondria partially coalign, and that mutations that disrupt ER structure also affect mitochondrial structure. Our data suggest that both trafficking between the ER and Golgi complex and ribosome targeting are important for maintaining ER structure, and that proper ER structure may be required to maintain mitochondrial structure.

Key Words: SRP receptor, endoplasmic reticulum, cytoskeleton, mitochondria, yeast


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