Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes.
Endocytosis and endolysosomal trafficking are essential for almost all aspects of physiological functions of eukaryotic cells. As our understanding on these membrane trafficking events are mostly from studies in yeast and cultured mammalian cells, one challenge is to systematically evaluate the find...
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| author | Yue Yu Dongsheng Chen Stephen M Farmer Shiyu Xu Beatriz Rios Amanda Solbach Xin Ye Lili Ye Sheng Zhang |
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| description | Endocytosis and endolysosomal trafficking are essential for almost all aspects of physiological functions of eukaryotic cells. As our understanding on these membrane trafficking events are mostly from studies in yeast and cultured mammalian cells, one challenge is to systematically evaluate the findings from these cell-based studies in multicellular organisms under physiological settings. One potentially valuable in vivo system to address this challenge is the vitellogenic oocyte in Drosophila, which undergoes extensive endocytosis by Yolkless (Yl), a low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), to uptake extracellular lipoproteins into oocytes and package them into a specialized lysosome, the yolk granule, for storage and usage during later development. However, by now there is still a lack of sufficient understanding on the molecular and cellular processes that control yolk granule biogenesis. Here, by creating genome-tagging lines for Yl receptor and analyzing its distribution in vitellogenic oocytes, we observed a close association of different endosomal structures with distinct phosphoinositides and actin cytoskeleton dynamics. We further showed that Rab5 and Rab11, but surprisingly not Rab4 and Rab7, are essential for yolk granules biogenesis. Instead, we uncovered evidence for a potential role of Rab7 in actin regulation and observed a notable overlap of Rab4 and Rab7, two Rab GTPases that have long been proposed to have distinct spatial distribution and functional roles during endolysosomal trafficking. Through a small-scale RNA interference (RNAi) screen on a set of reported Rab5 effectors, we showed that yolk granule biogenesis largely follows the canonical endolysosomal trafficking and maturation processes. Further, the data suggest that the RAVE/V-ATPase complexes function upstream of or in parallel with Rab7, and are involved in earlier stages of endosomal trafficking events. Together, our study provides s novel insights into endolysosomal pathways and establishes vitellogenic oocyte in Drosophila as an excellent in vivo model for dissecting the highly complex membrane trafficking events in metazoan. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ec6d40c5b2a14bdb9fc754c4dff0af542025-08-20T03:51:29ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Genetics1553-73901553-74042024-02-01202e101115210.1371/journal.pgen.1011152Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes.Yue YuDongsheng ChenStephen M FarmerShiyu XuBeatriz RiosAmanda SolbachXin YeLili YeSheng ZhangEndocytosis and endolysosomal trafficking are essential for almost all aspects of physiological functions of eukaryotic cells. As our understanding on these membrane trafficking events are mostly from studies in yeast and cultured mammalian cells, one challenge is to systematically evaluate the findings from these cell-based studies in multicellular organisms under physiological settings. One potentially valuable in vivo system to address this challenge is the vitellogenic oocyte in Drosophila, which undergoes extensive endocytosis by Yolkless (Yl), a low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR), to uptake extracellular lipoproteins into oocytes and package them into a specialized lysosome, the yolk granule, for storage and usage during later development. However, by now there is still a lack of sufficient understanding on the molecular and cellular processes that control yolk granule biogenesis. Here, by creating genome-tagging lines for Yl receptor and analyzing its distribution in vitellogenic oocytes, we observed a close association of different endosomal structures with distinct phosphoinositides and actin cytoskeleton dynamics. We further showed that Rab5 and Rab11, but surprisingly not Rab4 and Rab7, are essential for yolk granules biogenesis. Instead, we uncovered evidence for a potential role of Rab7 in actin regulation and observed a notable overlap of Rab4 and Rab7, two Rab GTPases that have long been proposed to have distinct spatial distribution and functional roles during endolysosomal trafficking. Through a small-scale RNA interference (RNAi) screen on a set of reported Rab5 effectors, we showed that yolk granule biogenesis largely follows the canonical endolysosomal trafficking and maturation processes. Further, the data suggest that the RAVE/V-ATPase complexes function upstream of or in parallel with Rab7, and are involved in earlier stages of endosomal trafficking events. Together, our study provides s novel insights into endolysosomal pathways and establishes vitellogenic oocyte in Drosophila as an excellent in vivo model for dissecting the highly complex membrane trafficking events in metazoan.https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011152&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Yue Yu Dongsheng Chen Stephen M Farmer Shiyu Xu Beatriz Rios Amanda Solbach Xin Ye Lili Ye Sheng Zhang Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. PLoS Genetics |
| title | Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. |
| title_full | Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. |
| title_fullStr | Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. |
| title_short | Endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic Drosophila oocytes. |
| title_sort | endolysosomal trafficking controls yolk granule biogenesis in vitellogenic drosophila oocytes |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011152&type=printable |
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