Transport Protein Particle II (TRAPPII) is essential for exocytosis, endocytosis, protein sorting and cytokinesis. In spite of a considerable understanding of its biological role, little information is known about Arabidopsis TRAPPII complex topology and molecular function. In this study, independent proteomic approaches initiated with TRAPP components or Rab-A GTPase variants converge on the TRAPPII complex. We show that the Arabidopsis genome encodes the full complement of 13 TRAPPC subunits, including four previously unidentified components. A dimerization model is proposed to account for binary interactions between TRAPPII subunits. Preferential binding to dominant negative (GDP-bound) versus wild-type or constitutively active (GTP-bound) RAB-A2a variants discriminates between TRAPPII and TRAPPIII subunits and shows that Arabidopsis complexes differ from yeast but resemble metazoan TRAPP complexes. Analyzes of Rab-A mutant variants in trappii backgrounds provide genetic evidence that TRAPPII functions upstream of RAB-A2a, allowing us to propose that TRAPPII is likely to behave as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for the RAB-A2a GTPase. GEFs catalyze exchange of GDP for GTP; the GTP-bound, activated, Rab then recruits a diverse local network of Rab effectors to specify membrane identity in subsequent vesicle fusion events. Understanding GEFÀRab interactions will be crucial to unravel the co-ordination of plant membrane traffic.280 Monika Kalde et al. c The log 2 intensity ratio for each protein was calculated from its average signal intensity in the experiment divided by its average intensity in the control, which was an empty soluble GFP vector. Detected TRAPP subunits were ranked according to their ratio between the experiment and negative control. The proteins are sorted by rank. Note that TRS65/TRAPPC13, which is a TRAPPII subunit in yeast but a TRAPPIII subunit in metazoans, had an intermediate intensity ratio of 7. 3 (see Figure S1). The high confidence interactors include shared and TRAP-PII-specific subunits. d P-values were calculated using the t-test (two-sided) and are all significant (P < 0.02) with the exception of those for TRAPPIII homologues, which are in red. This table lists only TRAPP components detected in the IPs. Related to Figure S1 on the CLUB interactome.