The Vps52 subunit of the GARP and EARP complexes is a novel Arf6-interacting protein that negatively regulates neurite outgrowth of hippocampal neurons.

Kanta Ibuchi, Masahiro Fukaya, Tetsuro Shinohara, Yoshinobu Hara, Tomoko Shiroshima, Takeyuki Sugawara, Hiroyuki Sakagami

Brain research 2020 Oct 15

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ADP ribosylation factor 6 (Arf6) is a small GTP-binding protein implicated in neuronal morphogenesis through endosomal trafficking and actin remodeling. In this study, we identified Vps52, a core subunit of the Golgi-associated retrograde protein (GARP) and endosome-associated recycling protein (EARP) complexes, as a novel Arf6-binding protein by yeast two-hybrid screening. Vps52 interacted specifically with GTP-bound Arf6 among the Arf family. Immunohistochemical analyses of hippocampal pyramidal cells revealed that fine punctate immunolabeling for Vps52 was distributed throughout neuronal compartments, most densely in the cell body and dendritic shafts, and was largely associated with trans-Golgi network and vesicular endomembranes. In cultured hippocampal neurons, knockdown of Vps52 increased total length of axons and dendrites; these phenotypes were completely restored by co-expression of shRNA-resistant full-length Vps52. However, co-expression of a Vps52 mutant lacking the ability to interact with Arf6 restored only the Vps52-knockdown phenotype of the dendritic length. The present findings suggest that Vps52 is a novel Arf6-interacting protein that regulates neurite outgrowth in hippocampal neurons. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Kanta Ibuchi, Masahiro Fukaya, Tetsuro Shinohara, Yoshinobu Hara, Tomoko Shiroshima, Takeyuki Sugawara, Hiroyuki Sakagami. The Vps52 subunit of the GARP and EARP complexes is a novel Arf6-interacting protein that negatively regulates neurite outgrowth of hippocampal neurons. Brain research. 2020 Oct 15;1745:146905