High affinity interaction of syntaxin and SNAP-25 on the plasma membrane is abolished by botulinum toxin E - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2004 Jan 2;279(1):644-51.

doi: 10.1074/jbc.M310879200. Epub 2003 Oct 9.

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High affinity interaction of syntaxin and SNAP-25 on the plasma membrane is abolished by botulinum toxin E

Colin Rickman et al. J Biol Chem. 2004.

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Abstract

The release of hormones and neurotransmitters requires the fusion of cargo-containing vesicles with the plasma membrane. This process of exocytosis relies on three SNARE proteins, namely syntaxin and SNAP-25 on the target plasma membrane and synaptobrevin on the vesicular membrane. In this study we examined the molecular assembly pathway that leads to formation of the fusogenic SNARE complex. We now show that the plasma membrane syntaxin and SNAP-25 interact with high affinity and equimolar stoichiometry to form a stable dimer on the pathway to the ternary SNARE complex. In bovine chromaffin cells, syntaxin and SNAP-25 colocalize in defined clusters that average 700 nm in diameter and cover 10% of the plasma membrane. Removal of the C terminus of SNAP-25 by botulinum neurotoxin E, a known neuroparalytic agent, dissociates the target SNARE dimer in vitro and disrupts the SNARE clustering in vivo. Together, our data uncover formation of stable syntaxin/SNAP-25 dimers as a central principle of the SNARE assembly pathway underlying regulated exocytosis.

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