(2016) Ha, Jun Yong; Chou, Hui-Ting; Ungar, Daniel; Yip, Calvin K.; Walz, Thomas; Hughson, Frederick M.
The conserved oligomeric Golgi (COG) complex orchestrates vesicular trafficking to and within the Golgi apparatus. Here, we use negative-stain electron microscopy to elucidate the architecture of the hetero-octameric COG complex from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Intact COG has an intricate shape, with four (or possibly five) flexible legs, that differs strikingly from the exocyst complex and appears well-suited for vesicle capture and fusion.
(2016) Chou, Hui-Ting; Dukovski, Danijela; Chambers, Melissa; Reinisch, Karin M.; Walz, Thomas
We show that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GARP complex and the Cog1-4 subcomplex of the COG complex, both members of the complexes associated with tethering containing helical rods (CATCHR) family of multisubunit tethering complexes, share the same subunit organization. We also show that the HOPS complex, a tethering complex acting in the endolysosomal pathway, shares a similar architecture, suggesting that multisubunit tethering complexes use related structural frameworks.
