Ultrastructure of COPII vesicle formation in yeast characterised by correlative light and electron microscopy.

Melero, Alejandro; Boulanger, Jerome; Kukulski, Wanda; Miller, Elizabeth A (2022). Ultrastructure of COPII vesicle formation in yeast characterised by correlative light and electron microscopy. Molecular biology of the cell, 33(13), ar122. American Society for Cell Biology 10.1091/mbc.E22-03-0103

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Traffic of proteins out of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is driven by the COPII coat, a layered protein scaffold that mediates the capture of cargo proteins and the remodelling of the ER membrane into spherical vesicular carriers. Although the components of this machinery have been genetically defined, and the mechanisms of coat assembly extensively explored in vitro, understanding the physical mechanisms of membrane remodelling in cells remains a challenge. Here we use correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) to visualize the nanoscale ultrastructure of membrane remodelling at ER exit sites (ERES) in yeast cells. Using various COPII mutants, we have determined the broad contribution that each layer of the coat makes in membrane remodelling. Our data suggest that inner coat components define the radius of curvature whereas outer coat components facilitate membrane fission. The organization of the coat in conjunction with membrane biophysical properties determine the ultrastructure of vesicles and thus the efficiency of protein transport. [Media: see text] [Media: see text].

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