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  • Title: Brefeldin A inhibits Golgi membrane-catalysed exchange of guanine nucleotide onto ARF protein.
    Author: Donaldson JG, Finazzi D, Klausner RD.
    Journal: Nature; 1992 Nov 26; 360(6402):350-2. PubMed ID: 1448151.
    Abstract:
    The fungal metabolite brefeldin A is a powerful tool for investigating membrane traffic in eukaryotic cells. The effects of brefeldin A on traffic are partly explained by its ability to prevent binding of cytosolic coat proteins onto membranes. The non-clathrin coatomer complex binds reversibly to Golgi membranes in a GTP-controlled cycle. The low-molecular-mass GTP-binding protein ADP-ribosylation factor (ARF), which also associates reversibly with Golgi membranes, is required for coatomer binding and probably accounts for the control by guanine nucleotide of the coatomer-membrane interaction. Brefeldin A prevents the assembly of coatomer onto the membrane by inhibiting the GTP-dependent interaction of ARF with the Golgi membrane, but the nature of this interaction has not been established. Here we demonstrate that Golgi membranes can specifically catalyse the exchange of GTP onto ARF and that brefeldin A prevents this function.
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