Figure 5.
GAP in the presence of GTP is required for the efficient sorting of the KDEL receptor into reconstituted vesicles, and GTPγS inhibits this process. The two-stage incubation was performed with the first stage using Golgi membrane derived from CHO cells that had been stably transfected with a myc-tagged KDEL receptor. The first stage was performed with either GTP or GTPγS, followed by the second stage either with or without GAP. For the GTPγS conditions, the additional manipulations of pipette shearing and salt treatment were used so that similar levels of COPI vesicles could be generated for comparison. A fraction (10% by volume) of the supernatant derived from the different conditions was applied onto EM grids for immunogold labeling with antibody directed against the myc epitope, followed by quantitation for vesicles with gold particles.