Ceramide sorting into non-vesicular transport is independent of acyl chain length in budding yeast

Schlarmann Philipp

Hanaoka Kazuki

Ikeda Atsuko

Muñiz Manuel

Funato Kouichi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

The transport of ceramide from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi is a key step in the synthesis of complex sphingolipids, the main building blocks of the plasma membrane. In yeast, ceramide is transported to the Golgi either through ATP-dependent COPII vesicles of the secretory pathway or by ATP-independent non-vesicular transport that involves tethering proteins at ER-Golgi membrane contact sites. Studies in both mammalian and yeast cells reported that vesicular transport mainly carries ceramide containing very long chain fatty acids, while the main mammalian non-vesicular ceramide transport protein CERT only transports ceramides containing short chain fatty acids. However, if non-vesicular ceramide transport in yeast similarly favors short chain ceramides remained unanswered. Here we employed a yeast GhLag1 strain in which the endogenous ceramide synthase is replaced by the cotton-derived GhLag1 gene, resulting in the production of short chain C18 rather than C26 ceramides. We show that block of vesicular transport through ATP-depletion or the use of temperature-sensitive sec mutants caused a reduction in inositolphosphorylceramide (IPC) synthesis to similar extent in WT and GhLag1 backgrounds. Since the remaining IPC synthesis is a readout for non-vesicular ceramide transport, our results indicate that non-vesicular ceramide transport is neither blocked nor facilitated when only short chain ceramides are present. Therefore, we propose that the sorting of ceramide into non-vesicular transport is independent of acyl chain length in budding yeast.

Ceramide sorting

Endoplasmic reticulum

Golgi

Acyl chain length

Budding yeast

eng

Elsevier

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[DOI] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.149980 isVersionOf

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