Gene Review:
VAC8 - protein anchor VAC8
Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c
Synonyms:
Vacuolar protein 8, YEB3, YEL013W
Veit,
- The vacuolar DHHC-CRD protein Pfa3p is a protein acyltransferase for Vac8p. Smotrys, J.E., Schoenfish, M.J., Stutz, M.A., Linder, M.E. J. Cell Biol. (2005)
- The SNARE Ykt6 mediates protein palmitoylation during an early stage of homotypic vacuole fusion. Dietrich, L.E., Gurezka, R., Veit, M., Ungermann, C. EMBO J. (2004)
- Vac8p release from the SNARE complex and its palmitoylation are coupled and essential for vacuole fusion. Veit, M., Laage, R., Dietrich, L., Wang, L., Ungermann, C. EMBO J. (2001)
- Vac8p, a vacuolar protein with armadillo repeats, functions in both vacuole inheritance and protein targeting from the cytoplasm to vacuole. Wang, Y.X., Catlett, N.L., Weisman, L.S. J. Cell Biol. (1998)
- Apg13p and Vac8p are part of a complex of phosphoproteins that are required for cytoplasm to vacuole targeting. Scott, S.V., Nice, D.C., Nau, J.J., Weisman, L.S., Kamada, Y., Keizer-Gunnink, I., Funakoshi, T., Veenhuis, M., Ohsumi, Y., Klionsky, D.J. J. Biol. Chem. (2000)
- Candida albicans VAC8 is required for vacuolar inheritance and normal hyphal branching. Barelle, C.J., Richard, M.L., Gaillardin, C., Gow, N.A., Brown, A.J. Eukaryotic Cell (2006)
- A novel cold-sensitive allele of the rate-limiting enzyme of fatty acid synthesis, acetyl coenzyme A carboxylase, affects the morphology of the yeast vacuole through acylation of Vac8p. Schneiter, R., Guerra, C.E., Lampl, M., Tatzer, V., Zellnig, G., Klein, H.L., Kohlwein, S.D. Mol. Cell. Biol. (2000)
- YEB3/VAC8 encodes a myristylated armadillo protein of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae vacuolar membrane that functions in vacuole fusion and inheritance. Pan, X., Goldfarb, D.S. J. Cell. Sci. (1998)
- Nucleus-vacuole junctions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are formed through the direct interaction of Vac8p with Nvj1p. Pan, X., Roberts, P., Chen, Y., Kvam, E., Shulga, N., Huang, K., Lemmon, S., Goldfarb, D.S. Mol. Biol. Cell (2000)
- Fusion of docked membranes requires the armadillo repeat protein Vac8p. Wang, Y.X., Kauffman, E.J., Duex, J.E., Weisman, L.S. J. Biol. Chem. (2001)
- ATP-independent control of Vac8 palmitoylation by a SNARE subcomplex on yeast vacuoles. Dietrich, L.E., LaGrassa, T.J., Rohde, J., Cristodero, M., Meiringer, C.T., Ungermann, C. J. Biol. Chem. (2005)
- The human SNARE protein Ykt6 mediates its own palmitoylation at C-terminal cysteine residues. Veit, M. Biochem. J. (2004)
- Palmitoylation determines the function of Vac8 at the yeast vacuole. Subramanian, K., Dietrich, L.E., Hou, H., LaGrassa, T.J., Meiringer, C.T., Ungermann, C. J. Cell. Sci. (2006)
- Palmitoylation plays a role in targeting vac8p to specific membrane subdomains. Peng, Y., Tang, F., Weisman, L.S. Traffic (2006)
- Targeting of Tsc13p to nucleus-vacuole junctions: a role for very-long-chain fatty acids in the biogenesis of microautophagic vesicles. Kvam, E., Gable, K., Dunn, T.M., Goldfarb, D.S. Mol. Biol. Cell (2005)