ADP-ribosylation factor; GTPase of the Ras superfamily that regulates coated vesicle formation during intracellular trafficking within the Golgi; regulates mitochondrial fission, fusion and function, controlling the flow of fatty acids and metabolites from lipid droplets to peroxisomes and mitochondria; localizes to the Golgi apparatus and the active form to ER and lipid droplets; arf1 arf2 double null mutation is complemented by human ARF1, ARF4, ARF5, or ARF6
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The S. cerevisiae Reference Genome sequence is derived from laboratory strain
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Summary
ARF1/YDL192W is located on the left arm of chromosome IV; coding sequence is 546 nucleotides long; ARF1 has a paralog, ARF2, that arose from the whole genome duplication
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Summary
GTPase that acts as ADP ribosylation factor (ARF); involved regulation of vesicle formation in ER to Golgi and Golgi to plasma membrane vesicular transport, and in macroautophagy; localizes in Golgi
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Summary
Non-essential gene in reference strain S288C; null mutant is temperature sensitive for growth, is a myo-inositol auxotroph, and displays decreased competitive fitness and growth rate; null mutant has protein processing/trafficking defects, and displays decreased replicative and chronological lifespans, survival rate in stationary phase, mitophagy, desiccation resistance and shortened telomeres; overexpression results in a G2 or M phase delay
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Summary
The arf1 null mutant is viable; the null mutant of paralog arf2 is viable; the arf1 arf2 double mutant is inviable.
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Summary
ARF1 encodes a small GTPase of the Ras superfamily that acts as an ADP ribosylation factor with a critical role in control of membrane traffic. ARF1 has a paralog, ARF2, that appears to be functionally interchangeable with ARF1. The activity of Arf1p or Arf2p (ARF) is essential to initiate the formation of COPI vesicles at the Golgi membrane that carry out retrograde transport between the Golgi and the endoplasmic reticulum, and within the Golgi compartments. ARF exists in an inactive GDP-bound form in the cytosol and an active GTP-bound form associated with the membranes. The exchange of GDP for GTP on ARF is catalyzed by guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) Sec7p, Gea1p, Gea2p, and Syt1p. Activation of ARF triggers a conformational change that exposes its N-terminal domain to be inserted into membranes. Membrane-bound GTP-ARF then stimulates the recruitment of COPI coat proteins (Cop1p, Ret2p, Ret3p, Sec21p, Sec26p, Sec27p) and formation of the COPI vesicle. The subsequent steps of vesicle budding and delivery to its target membrane require inactivation of ARF, i.e. hydrolysis of ARF-bound GTP. Since ARF has very little intrinsic GTPase activity, this step depends on GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) Gcs1p and Glo3p. The precise mechanisms that control GEFs and GAPs functions and thereby impact ARF activity remain to be elucidated. The entire control system is highly conserved throughout evolution and human ARF genes (ARF1, ARF4, ARF5, or ARF6) can complement inactivation of ARF1 and ARF2 genes in yeast.
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