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Published in final edited form as: Int Rev Cell Mol Biol. 2013;305:10.1016/B978-0-12-407695-2.00002-0. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407695-2.00002-0

Table 2.

Proteins localized to the contractile vacuole of different protists

Protein name CVC localization (name) Protist Reference
Membrane Transporters/Channels/Receptors
V-H+-ATPase bladder /spongiome D. discoideum (Fok et al., 1993; Heuser et al., 1993; Rooney et al., 1994)
bladder C. reinhardtii (Ruiz et al., 2001a)
bladder T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
bladder A. proteus (Nishihara et al., 2008)
H+-PPase bladder (VP1) C. reinhardtii (Ruiz et al., 2001a)
T. cruzi (Rohloff et al., 2004)
Ca2+-ATPase bladder (PAT1) D. discoideum (Marchesini et al., 2002; Moniakis et al., 1999)
IP3 receptor bladder/spongiome
(CRC-II-1b) P. tetraurelia (Ladenburger et al., 2006)
Calmodulin bladder (CaM) D. discoideum (Zhu and Clarke, 1992; Zhu et al., 1993)
bladder (CaM) P. multimicronucleatum (Fok et al., 2008)
spongiome (CaM) T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
Copine A bladder (CpnA) D. discoideum (Damer et al., 2007)
P2X receptor bladder (P2X) D. discoideum (Fountain et al., 2007; Ludlow et al., 2009; Sivaramakrishnan and Fountain, 2012a, b)
Ammonium transporter bladder (Amtb) D. discoideum (Kirsten et al., 2008)
Rh50 (CO2 transporter) bladder (RH50) D. discoideum (Benghezal et al., 2001)
Polyamine transporter bladder (POT1.1) T. cruzi (Hasne et al., 2010)
Phosphate transporter bladder (PHO1) T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
Aquaporin bladder (AQP1) T. cruzi (Rohloff et al., 2004)
bladder (AQP1) L. major (Figarella et al., 2007)
bladder (AQP) A. proteus (Nishihara et al., 2008)
bladder (CreMIP1) C. reinhardtii (Komsic-Buchmann et al., 2012)
Trafficking Proteins
Rab8a bladder /spongiome D. discoideum (Essid et al., 2012)
Rab11a bladder /spongiome D. discoideum (Harris et al., 2001)
bladder T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
Rab11c bladder/spongiome D. discoideum (Du et al., 2008)
Rab14 spongiome (RabD) D. discoideum (Bush et al., 1994; Harris and Cardelli, 2002)
Rab 32 bladder T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
Disgorgin bladder /spongiome D. discoideum (Du et al., 2008)
Drainin bladder D. discoideum (Becker et al., 1999)
LvsA spongiome D. discoideum (Gerald et al., 2002)
Clathrin bladder D. discoideum (Heuser, 2006; Stavrou and O'Halloran, 2006)
AP180 bladder D. discoideum (Wen et al., 2009)
bladder T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
AP2 bladder D. discoideum (Wen et al., 2009)
Epsin bladder D. discoideum (Wen et al., 2009)
SNARE2.1 spongiome T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
SNARE2.2 spongiome T. cruzi (Ulrich et al., 2011)
Vamp7B bladder D. discoideum (Wen et al., 2009)
SNAP-25 bladder P. tetraurelia (Schilde et al., 2008)
Sec8 bladder D. discoideum (Essid et al., 2012)
Sec15 bladder D. discoideum (Essid et al., 2012)
MEGAPs spongiome D. discoideum (Heath and Insall, 2008a, b)
Myosin 1c bladder D. discoideum (Zhu and Clarke, 1992)
Myosin V bladder/spongiome (MyoJ) D. discoideum (Jung et al., 2009)
Golvesin bladder /spongiome D. discoideum (Gerisch et al., 2004; Schneider et al., 2000)
Dajumin bladder D. discoideum (Gabriel et al., 1999)
Phosphoprotein spongiome C. luciliae thermophila (Baqui et al., 2000)
Soluble proteins and enzymes
Alkaline phosphatase lumen D. discoideum (Zhu and Clarke, 1992)
DdCAD-1 lumen D. discoideum (Sesaki et al., 1997; Siu et al., 2011; Sriskanthadevan et al., 2009; Sriskanthadevan et al., 2011)
Discoidin 1 lumen D. discoideum
Carbonic anhydrase lumen D. discoideum (Ruiz et al., 2001a)
Phosphodiesterase C spongiome T. cruzi (Schoijet et al., 2011)
Protein kinase lumen D. discoideum (Betapudi and Egelhoff, 2009; Betapudi et al., 2005)
Metacaspase bladder D. discoideum (Saheb et al., 2012)