Initial Steps in the Assembly of the Vacuole-Type H+-ATPase1

AUTOR(ES)

Frey, Richard K.

FONTE

American Society of Plant Physiologists

RESUMO

The plant vacuole is acidified by a complex multimeric enzyme, the vacuole-type H+-ATPase (V-ATPase). The initial association of ATPase subunits on membranes was studied using an in vitro assembly assay. The V-ATPase assembled onto microsomes when V-ATPase subunits were supplied. However, when the A or B subunit or the proteolipid were supplied individually, only the proteolipid associated with membranes. By using poly(A+) RNA depleted in the B subunit and proteolipid subunit mRNA, we demonstrated A subunit association with membranes at substoichiometric amounts of the B subunit or the 16-kD proteolipid. These data suggest that poly(A+) RNA-encoded proteins are required to catalyze the A subunit membrane assembly. Initial events were further studied by in vivo protein labeling. Consistent with a temporal ordering of V-ATPase assembly, membranes contained only the A subunit at early times; at later times both the A and B subunits were found on the membranes. A large-mass ATPase complex was not efficiently formed in the absence of membranes. Together, these data support a model whereby the A subunit is first assembled onto the membrane, followed by the B subunit.

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