Gershlick Lab

The Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, The University of Cambridge

Select Publications

 

Recruitment of PI4KIIIβ to the Golgi by ACBD3 is dependent on an upstream pathway of a SNARE complex and golgins

Stalder, D., Yakunin, I., Gershlick, D. C. (2023) BioRxiv

ACBD3 is a Golgi localised protein that recruits (among other things) PI4KIIIβ to the Golgi apparatus. But how does ACBD3 get localised to the Golgi? We demonstrate that there is a two step mechanism with a SNARE complex and a set of golgins that allows ACBD3 to go to the Golgi at the right time and place to make new Golgi membrane.

 

The exocyst complex is an essential component of the mammalian constitutive secretory pathway

Pereira, C., Stalder, D., Anderson, G. S. F., Shun-Shion, A. S., Houghton, J., Antrobus, R., Chapman, M. A., Fazakerley, D. J., & Gershlick, D. C. (2023) Journal of Cell Biology

Using kinetic trafficking assays, genetics, and secretomics, a study lead by Maria and Daniele in the lab demonstrates the role of the exocyst complex in the secretory pathway.

 
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Direct trafficking pathways from the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membrane

Stalder, D., Gershlick, D. C. (2020) Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology

The first review from our group. We have tried to highlight some of the work that has inspired us, and discuss the open questions that interest us.

 
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Cargo Segregation in the Golgi Stack Precedes Export into Distinct Transport Carriers

Chen, Y.*, Gershlick, D. C.*, Park, S. Y.* & Bonifacino J.S. (2017) Journal of Cell Biology

We used RUSH technology to synchronise the transport of endolysosomal transmembrane proteins after they are synthesised in the ER. We noticed that one class of proteins go directly to the endosomes and another class go via the plasma membrane, and they segregate from each other in the Golgi apparatus.


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Structural Mechanism for Cargo Recognition by the Retromer Complex

Lucas, M.*, Gershlick, D. C.*, Vidaurrazaga, A., Bonifacino J.S. & Hierro A. (2016) Cell

We solved the structure of the cargo binding portion of the retromer complex, with the cytosolic domain of the cargo DMT1. 


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TSSC1 is Novel Component of the Endosomal Retrieval Machinery

Gershlick, D. C., Schindler, C., Chen, Y., & Bonifacino J.S. (2016) Molecular Biology of the Cell

We discovered a new protein involved in retrograde transport from the endosomal system to the Golgi and to the endosomes. This protein TSSC1 (now renamed EIPR1) interacts with the GARP and EARP tethering complexes and is likley to be involved in complex assembly.


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Golgi-Dependent Transport of Vacuolar Sorting Receptors Is Regulated by COPII, AP1, and AP4 Protein Complexes in Tobacco

Gershlick, D. C., De Marcos Lousa, C., Foresti, O., Lee, A. J., Pereira, E. A., daSilva, L. L. P., Bottanelli, F., & Denecke, J. (2014) The Plant Cell

We dissected the trafficking itinerary of the plant vacuolar sorting receptor VSR2 (a distant homolog of the mammalian CD-MPR and Sortillin). We demonstrated that VSR2 trafficking first to the Golgi in a COPII dependent way and then traffics to the endosomal system by interacting with specific adapter proteins through protein-protein interactions in the cytosolic tail.


 

Other contributions

Romano-Moreno, M., Rojas, A. L.,  Williamson, C. D.,  Gershlick, D. C. , Lucas, M., Isupov, M. N., Bonifacino, J. S.,  Machner, M. P. , & Hierro, A. (2017). "Molecular mechanism for the subversion of the retromer coat by the Legionella effector RidL" PNAS 114(52)


Gershlick, D. C.* & Lucas, M.* (2017). "Endosomal Trafficking: Retromer and Retriever Are Relatives in Recycling" Current Biology 27(22)


Bernabe-Rubio, M., Gershlick, D. C., & Alonso M. A. (2017). “Physical Removal of the Midbody Remnant from Polarised Epithelial Cells Using Take-Up by Suction Pressure (TUSP)” Bio-protocol


Chen, Y., Gershlick, D. C., & Lippincott-Schwartz, J. (2017). “Assaying protein localization using Bromophenol blue (BPB) quench-assisted TIRF microscopy” Current Protocols in Cell Biology


Bernabe-Rubio, M., Andrs, G., Casares-Arias, J., Fernndez-Barrera, J., Rangel, L., Reglero-Real, N., Gershlick, D. C., Fernndez, J. J., Milln, J., Correas, I., Miguez, D. G., & Alonso M. A. (2016). “Novel role for the midbody in primary ciliogenesis by polarized epithelial cells” Journal of Cell Biology 214(3)


Bonifacino, J. S., Gershlick, D. C., & Dell’Angelica, E. C. (2016). “Immunoprecipitation” Current Protocols in Cell Biology 71(7.2.1-7.2.24)


Hierro, A., Gershlick, D. C., Adriana, L. R., & Bonifacino, J. S. (2015). “Formation of Tubulovesicular Carriers from Endosomes and Their Fusion to the Trans-Golgi Network” International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology. Vol. 318


Farias, G. G., Gershlick, D. C., & Bonifacino, J. S., (2014). “Going Forward with Retromer” Developmental Cell 29 (1)


Gershlick, D. C., De Marcos Lousa, C., Farmer, L., Denecke, J. (2014). “Routes to and From the Plasma Membrane: Bulk Flow Versus Signal Mediated Endocytosis” Plant Signaling & Behavior 9(7)


De Marcos Lousa, C.*, Gershlick, D. C.*, & Denecke, J.* (2012). “Mechanisms and Concepts Paving the Way towards a Complete Transport Cycle of Plant Vacuolar Sorting Receptors” The Plant Cell 24(5)


Bottanelli, F., Gershlick, D. C., & Denecke, J. (2012). “Evidence for Sequential Action of Rab5 and Rab7 GTPases in Prevacuolar Organelle Partitioning” Traffic 13(2)


Foresti, O., Gershlick, D. C., Bottanelli, F., Hummel, E., Hawes, C., & Denecke, J. (2010). “A Recycling-defective Vacuolar Sorting Receptor Reveals an Intermediate Compartment Situated Between Prevacuoles and Vacuoles in Tobacco” The Plant Cell 22(12)


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