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. 1995 Jun 16;270(24):14399-404.
doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.24.14399.

Endothelial caveolae have the molecular transport machinery for vesicle budding, docking, and fusion including VAMP, NSF, SNAP, annexins, and GTPases

J E Schnitzer  1 , J Liu, P Oh
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Endothelial caveolae have the molecular transport machinery for vesicle budding, docking, and fusion including VAMP, NSF, SNAP, annexins, and GTPases

J E Schnitzer et al. J Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

Transport by discrete vesicular carriers is well established at least in part because of recent discoveries identifying key protein mediators of vesicle formation, docking, and fusion. A general mechanism sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) is required for the transport of a divergent group of vesicular carriers in all eukaryotes. Many endothelia have an abundant population of non-coated plasmalemmal vesicles or caveolae, which have been reported with considerable controversy to function in transport. We recently have shown that like other vesicular transport systems, caveolae-mediated endocytosis and transcytosis are inhibited by NEM (Schnitzer, J. E., Allard, J., and Oh, P. (1995) Am. J. Physiol. 268, H48-H55). Here, we continue this work by utilizing our recently developed method for purifying endothelial caveolae from rat lung tissue (Schnitzer, J. E., Oh, P., Jacobson, B. S., and Dvorak, A. M. (1995) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 92, 1759-1763) to show that these caveolae contain key proteins known to mediate different aspects of vesicle formation, docking, and/or fusion including the vSNARE VAMP-2, monomeric and trimeric GTPases, annexins II and VI, and the NEM-sensitive fusion factor NSF along with its attachment protein SNAP. Like neuronal VAMPs, this endothelial VAMP is sensitive to cleavage by botulinum B and tetanus neurotoxins. Caveolae in endothelium are indeed like other carrier vesicles and contain similar NEM-sensitive molecular machinery for transport.

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