Qa-SNARE Syntaxin 18 Mediates Lipid Droplet Fusion with SNAP23 and SEC22B

Overview

Journal Cell Discov

Date 2023 Nov 21

PMID 37989733

Authors

Yuhui Fu

Binbin Ding

XiaoXia Liu

Shangang Zhao

Fang Chen

Linsen Li

Yi Zhu

Jingxuan Zhao

Zhen Yuan

Yafeng Shen

Chaofeng Yang

Mengle Shao

She Chen

Perry E Bickel

Qing Zhong

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Abstract

Lipid droplets (LDs) are dynamic lipid storage organelles that can sense and respond to changes in systemic energy balance. The size and number of LDs are controlled by complex and delicate mechanisms, among which, whether and which SNARE proteins mediate LD fusion, and the mechanisms governing this process remain poorly understood. Here we identified a SNARE complex, syntaxin 18 (STX18)-SNAP23-SEC22B, that is recruited to LDs to mediate LD fusion. STX18 targets LDs with its transmembrane domain spanning the phospholipid monolayer twice. STX18-SNAP23-SEC22B complex drives LD fusion in adiposome lipid mixing and content mixing in vitro assays. CIDEC/FSP27 directly binds STX18, SEC22B, and SNAP23, and promotes the lipid mixing of SNAREs-reconstituted adiposomes by promoting LD clustering. Knockdown of STX18 in mouse liver via AAV resulted in smaller liver and reduced LD size under high-fat diet conditions. All these results demonstrate a critical role of the SNARE complex STX18-SNAP23-SEC22B in LD fusion.

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