Vacuole-Specific Lipid Release for Tracking Intracellular Lipid Metabolism and Transport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Vladimir Girik, Suihan Feng, Hanaa Hariri, W. Mike Henne, Howard Riezman

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Abstract

Lipid metabolism is spatiotemporally regulated within cells, yet intervention into lipid functions at subcellular resolution remains difficult. Here, we report a method that enables site-specific release of sphingolipids and cholesterol inside the vacuole in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using this approach, we monitored real-time sphingolipid metabolic flux out of the vacuole by mass spectrometry and found that the endoplasmic reticulum-vacuole-tethering protein Mdm1 facilitated the metabolism of sphingoid bases into ceramides. In addition, we showed that cholesterol, once delivered into yeast using our method, could restore cell proliferation induced by ergosterol deprivation, overcoming the previously described sterol-uptake barrier under aerobic conditions. Together, these data define a new way to study intracellular lipid metabolism and transport from the vacuole in yeast.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1485-1494
Number of pages10
JournalACS chemical biology
Volume17
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 17 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Medicine

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