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A protein of interest requires multiple screens. Furthermore, given that interacting proteins could be missed by each individual screen,Proteins That Interact with TRPMLfurther analyses should not be confined solely to the proteins that are preliminarily identified by both screens. As such, the potential TRPML1 interactors we identified in our screens are a good resource for identifying proteins that interact with TRPML1 (Tables S2, S3). The molecular identities of the candidate TRPML1 interactors LED-209 site suggest potential roles in TRPML1 biology. In other systems, both ERGIC and Golgi 3 (ERGIC) and Yip1 Interacting Factor (YIF1) have been implicated in ER/Golgi transport, suggesting that these proteins may mediate the biosynthetic transport of TRPML1 protein [40,41]. STOML1 is an integral membrane protein that had previously been shown to localize to late endosomes/lysosomes [42]. Intriguingly, STOML1 has a lumenal sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) domain. This observation suggests that TRPML1 may function in lipid transport from late endosomes/lysosomes through its interactions with STOML1, which is consistent with a reduced efficiency of this lipid transport step in MLIV cells. Rac2 and Cdc42 are small GTPases that regulate the actin cytoskeleton [43]. Rac2 and Cdc42 may be involved in the lysosome biogenesis (also referred to as lysosome reformation) and/or lysosome exocytosis functions of TRPML1,because Rac2 and Cdc42 localize to both late endosomes and lysosomes with TRPML1 and also to the plasma membrane (Fig. 5) [23,44,45]. We had previously showed that CUP-5, the Caenorhabditis elegans orthologue of TRPML1 functions in lysosome biogenesis [45]. Subsequently, the C. elegans small GTPase RAB-2 was also shown to function in lysosome biogenesis in the same cells as CUP-5 [46,47]. Thus C. elegans RAB-2 may be the worm homologue of mammalian Rac2 mediating the lysosomal transport functions of CUP-5. Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase Type I-Beta (P5KT1) generates phospholipid PI(4,5)P2, which functions as a modulator of several membrane transport and signaling processes and as a regulator of the actin cytoskeleton [48,49,50]. P5KT1 may function with TRPML1 during lysosome exocytosis given the strong localization of P5KT1 to the plasma membrane (Fig. 5). Supporting this potential lysosome exocytosis function, regulation of PI(4,5)P2 at the plasma membrane is critical during exocytosis, including of lysosome-related organelles [51,52,53]. The novel protein Likely Orthologue of Human FAM11A Family with Sequence Similarity 11, Member (NP9) is a multi-spanning integral membrane protein of unknown function. NP9 co-localizes with 1317923 TRPML1 on late endosomes/lysosomes, suggesting possible roles in one of TRPML1’s trafficking and/or channel functions in these compartments. It may be significant that some of the candidate TRPML1 interactors possibly align with functions of TRPML1 that were proposed based on observed defects in MLIV cells or in models of MLIV. It is possible that TRPML1 has one primary function, for example lysosome biogenesis in most cells; in the absence of TRPML1, lysosome biogenesis is inefficient leading to defective lysosomes and thus indirectly to other defects like lipid transport to Golgi LED-209 custom synthesis apparatus and lysosome exocytosis. However, our candidate interactors suggest the alternative explanation that TRPML1 directly functions in all of these processes through association with distinct complexes of proteins. Future analyses wi.A protein of interest requires multiple screens. Furthermore, given that interacting proteins could be missed by each individual screen,Proteins That Interact with TRPMLfurther analyses should not be confined solely to the proteins that are preliminarily identified by both screens. As such, the potential TRPML1 interactors we identified in our screens are a good resource for identifying proteins that interact with TRPML1 (Tables S2, S3). The molecular identities of the candidate TRPML1 interactors suggest potential roles in TRPML1 biology. In other systems, both ERGIC and Golgi 3 (ERGIC) and Yip1 Interacting Factor (YIF1) have been implicated in ER/Golgi transport, suggesting that these proteins may mediate the biosynthetic transport of TRPML1 protein [40,41]. STOML1 is an integral membrane protein that had previously been shown to localize to late endosomes/lysosomes [42]. Intriguingly, STOML1 has a lumenal sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) domain. This observation suggests that TRPML1 may function in lipid transport from late endosomes/lysosomes through its interactions with STOML1, which is consistent with a reduced efficiency of this lipid transport step in MLIV cells. Rac2 and Cdc42 are small GTPases that regulate the actin cytoskeleton [43]. Rac2 and Cdc42 may be involved in the lysosome biogenesis (also referred to as lysosome reformation) and/or lysosome exocytosis functions of TRPML1,because Rac2 and Cdc42 localize to both late endosomes and lysosomes with TRPML1 and also to the plasma membrane (Fig. 5) [23,44,45]. We had previously showed that CUP-5, the Caenorhabditis elegans orthologue of TRPML1 functions in lysosome biogenesis [45]. Subsequently, the C. elegans small GTPase RAB-2 was also shown to function in lysosome biogenesis in the same cells as CUP-5 [46,47]. Thus C. elegans RAB-2 may be the worm homologue of mammalian Rac2 mediating the lysosomal transport functions of CUP-5. Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase Type I-Beta (P5KT1) generates phospholipid PI(4,5)P2, which functions as a modulator of several membrane transport and signaling processes and as a regulator of the actin cytoskeleton [48,49,50]. P5KT1 may function with TRPML1 during lysosome exocytosis given the strong localization of P5KT1 to the plasma membrane (Fig. 5). Supporting this potential lysosome exocytosis function, regulation of PI(4,5)P2 at the plasma membrane is critical during exocytosis, including of lysosome-related organelles [51,52,53]. The novel protein Likely Orthologue of Human FAM11A Family with Sequence Similarity 11, Member (NP9) is a multi-spanning integral membrane protein of unknown function. NP9 co-localizes with 1317923 TRPML1 on late endosomes/lysosomes, suggesting possible roles in one of TRPML1’s trafficking and/or channel functions in these compartments. It may be significant that some of the candidate TRPML1 interactors possibly align with functions of TRPML1 that were proposed based on observed defects in MLIV cells or in models of MLIV. It is possible that TRPML1 has one primary function, for example lysosome biogenesis in most cells; in the absence of TRPML1, lysosome biogenesis is inefficient leading to defective lysosomes and thus indirectly to other defects like lipid transport to Golgi apparatus and lysosome exocytosis. However, our candidate interactors suggest the alternative explanation that TRPML1 directly functions in all of these processes through association with distinct complexes of proteins. Future analyses wi.

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