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Rogov VV, Nezis IP, Tsapras P, Zhang H, Dagdas Y, Noda NN, Nakatogawa H, Wirth M, Mouilleron S, McEwan DG, Behrends C, Deretic V, Elazar Z, Tooze SA, Dikic I, Lamark T, Johansen T. Atg8 family proteins, LIR/AIM motifs and other interaction modes. Autophagy Rep 2023; 2:27694127.2023.2188523. [PMID: 38214012 PMCID: PMC7615515 DOI: 10.1080/27694127.2023.2188523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2024]
Abstract
The Atg8 family of ubiquitin-like proteins play pivotal roles in autophagy and other processes involving vesicle fusion and transport where the lysosome/vacuole is the end station. Nuclear roles of Atg8 proteins are also emerging. Here, we review the structural and functional features of Atg8 family proteins and their protein-protein interaction modes in model organisms such as yeast, Arabidopsis, C. elegans and Drosophila to humans. Although varying in number of homologs, from one in yeast to seven in humans, and more than ten in some plants, there is a strong evolutionary conservation of structural features and interaction modes. The most prominent interaction mode is between the LC3 interacting region (LIR), also called Atg8 interacting motif (AIM), binding to the LIR docking site (LDS) in Atg8 homologs. There are variants of these motifs like "half-LIRs" and helical LIRs. We discuss details of the binding modes and how selectivity is achieved as well as the role of multivalent LIR-LDS interactions in selective autophagy. A number of LIR-LDS interactions are known to be regulated by phosphorylation. New methods to predict LIR motifs in proteins have emerged that will aid in discovery and analyses. There are also other interaction surfaces than the LDS becoming known where we presently lack detailed structural information, like the N-terminal arm region and the UIM-docking site (UDS). More interaction modes are likely to be discovered in future studies.
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- Vladimir V. Rogov
- Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Goethe University, 60438 Frankfurt, am Main, and Structural Genomics Consortium, Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL Coventry, UK
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Gregor Mendel Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 15, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0815, Japan
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Structural Biology Science Technology Platform, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Munich Cluster of Systems Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany
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- Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism Center of Biochemical Research Excellence, Albuquerque, NM and Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM
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- Department of Biomolecular Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Molecular Cell Biology of Autophagy, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Medical Faculty, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, and Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Feng J, Ye S, Hai B, Lou Y, Duan M, Guo P, Lv P, Lu W, Chen Y. RNF115/BCA2 deficiency alleviated acute liver injury in mice by promoting autophagy and inhibiting inflammatory response. Cell Death Dis 2023; 14:855. [PMID: 38129372 PMCID: PMC10739886 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-023-06379-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
Abstract
The E3 ubiquitin ligase RING finger protein 115 (RNF115), also known as breast cancer-associated gene 2 (BCA2), has been linked with the growth of some cancers and immune regulation, which is negatively correlated with prognosis. Here, it is demonstrated that the RNF115 deletion can protect mice from acute liver injury (ALI) induced by the treatment of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)/D-galactosamine (D-GalN), as evidenced by decreased levels of alanine aminotransaminase, aspartate transaminase, inflammatory cytokines (e.g., tumor necrosis factor α and interleukin-6), chemokines (e.g., MCP1/CCL2) and inflammatory cell (e.g., monocytes and neutrophils) infiltration. Moreover, it was found that the autophagy activity in Rnf115-/- livers was increased, which resulted in the removal of damaged mitochondria and hepatocyte apoptosis. However, the administration of adeno-associated virus Rnf115 or autophagy inhibitor 3-MA impaired autophagy and aggravated liver injury in Rnf115-/- mice with ALI. Further experiments proved that RNF115 interacts with LC3B, downregulates LC3B protein levels and cell autophagy. Additionally, Rnf115 deletion inhibited M1 type macrophage activation via NF-κB and Jnk signaling pathways. Elimination of macrophages narrowed the difference in liver damage between Rnf115+/+ and Rnf115-/- mice, indicating that macrophages were linked in the ALI induced by LPS/D-GalN. Collectively, for the first time, we have proved that Rnf115 inactivation ameliorated LPS/D-GalN-induced ALI in mice by promoting autophagy and attenuating inflammatory responses. This study provides new evidence for the involvement of autophagy mechanisms in the protection against acute liver injury.
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- Jinqiu Feng
- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Medical and Healthy Analytical Center, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China.
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- Department of Immunology, Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China.
- Center for Human Disease Genomics, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, 100191, China.
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Xie W, Zhang C, Wang Z, Chen H, Gu T, Zhou T, Wu Y, Xia F, Li M, Wang J, Jiao R, Cui J, Jin S. ATG4B antagonizes antiviral immunity by GABARAP-directed autophagic degradation of TBK1. Autophagy 2023; 19:2853-2868. [PMID: 37434364 PMCID: PMC10549193 DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2233846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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ABBREVIATIONS Baf A1: bafilomycin A1; GABARAP: GABA type A receptor-associated protein; GFP: green fluorescent protein; IFN: interferon; IKBKE/IKKi: inhibitor of nuclear factor kappa B kinase subunit epsilon; IRF3: interferon regulatory factor 3; ISG: interferon-stimulated gene; ISRE: IFN-stimulated response element; MAP1LC3/LC3: microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3; MAVS: mitochondrial antiviral signaling protein; MOI: multiplicity of infection; PAMPs: pathogen-associated molecule patterns; RIGI/DDX58: RNA sensor RIG-I; SeV: Sendai virus; siRNA: small interfering RNA; TBK1: TANK binding kinase 1; WT: wild-type; VSV: vesicular stomatitis virus.
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- Weihong Xie
- Sino-French Hoffmann Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Sino-French Hoffmann Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Research in Structural Birth Defect Disease, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Guangzhou Institute of Pediatrics, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Sino-French Hoffmann Institute, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Functional Genes, MOE Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Regulation, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Glomb O, Swaim G, Munoz LLancao P, Lovejoy C, Sutradhar S, Park J, Wu Y, Cason SE, Holzbaur ELF, Hammarlund M, Howard J, Ferguson SM, Gramlich MW, Yogev S. A kinesin-1 adaptor complex controls bimodal slow axonal transport of spectrin in Caenorhabditis elegans. Dev Cell 2023; 58:1847-1863.e12. [PMID: 37751746 PMCID: PMC10574138 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2023.08.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
Abstract
An actin-spectrin lattice, the membrane periodic skeleton (MPS), protects axons from breakage. MPS integrity relies on spectrin delivery via slow axonal transport, a process that remains poorly understood. We designed a probe to visualize endogenous spectrin dynamics at single-axon resolution in vivo. Surprisingly, spectrin transport is bimodal, comprising fast runs and movements that are 100-fold slower than previously reported. Modeling and genetic analysis suggest that the two rates are independent, yet both require kinesin-1 and the coiled-coil proteins UNC-76/FEZ1 and UNC-69/SCOC, which we identify as spectrin-kinesin adaptors. Knockdown of either protein led to disrupted spectrin motility and reduced distal MPS, and UNC-76 overexpression instructed excessive transport of spectrin. Artificially linking spectrin to kinesin-1 drove robust motility but inefficient MPS assembly, whereas impairing MPS assembly led to excessive spectrin transport, suggesting a balance between transport and assembly. These results provide insight into slow axonal transport and MPS integrity.
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- Oliver Glomb
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Quantitative Biology Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
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Ibrahim T, Khandare V, Mirkin FG, Tumtas Y, Bubeck D, Bozkurt TO. AlphaFold2-multimer guided high-accuracy prediction of typical and atypical ATG8-binding motifs. PLoS Biol 2023; 21:e3001962. [PMID: 36753519 PMCID: PMC9907853 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an intracellular degradation process central to cellular homeostasis and defense against pathogens in eukaryotic cells. Regulation of autophagy relies on hierarchical binding of autophagy cargo receptors and adaptors to ATG8/LC3 protein family members. Interactions with ATG8/LC3 are typically facilitated by a conserved, short linear sequence, referred to as the ATG8/LC3 interacting motif/region (AIM/LIR), present in autophagy adaptors and receptors as well as pathogen virulence factors targeting host autophagy machinery. Since the canonical AIM/LIR sequence can be found in many proteins, identifying functional AIM/LIR motifs has proven challenging. Here, we show that protein modelling using Alphafold-Multimer (AF2-multimer) identifies both canonical and atypical AIM/LIR motifs with a high level of accuracy. AF2-multimer can be modified to detect additional functional AIM/LIR motifs by using protein sequences with mutations in primary AIM/LIR residues. By combining protein modelling data from AF2-multimer with phylogenetic analysis of protein sequences and protein-protein interaction assays, we demonstrate that AF2-multimer predicts the physiologically relevant AIM motif in the ATG8-interacting protein 2 (ATI-2) as well as the previously uncharacterized noncanonical AIM motif in ATG3 from potato (Solanum tuberosum). AF2-multimer also identified the AIM/LIR motifs in pathogen-encoded virulence factors that target ATG8 members in their plant and human hosts, revealing that cross-kingdom ATG8-LIR/AIM associations can also be predicted by AF2-multimer. We conclude that the AF2-guided discovery of autophagy adaptors/receptors will substantially accelerate our understanding of the molecular basis of autophagy in all biological kingdoms.
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- Tarhan Ibrahim
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Biochemistry, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- INGEBI-CONICET, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (DB); (TOB)
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (DB); (TOB)
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Steffek M, Helgason E, Popovych N, Rougé L, Bruning JM, Li KS, Burdick DJ, Cai J, Crawford T, Xue J, Decurtins W, Fang C, Grubers F, Holliday MJ, Langley A, Petersen A, Satz AL, Song A, Stoffler D, Strebel Q, Tom JYK, Skelton N, Staben ST, Wichert M, Mulvihill MM, Dueber EC. A Multifaceted Hit-Finding Approach Reveals Novel LC3 Family Ligands. Biochemistry 2023; 62:633-644. [PMID: 34985287 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Autophagy-related proteins (Atgs) drive the lysosome-mediated degradation pathway, autophagy, to enable the clearance of dysfunctional cellular components and maintain homeostasis. In humans, this process is driven by the mammalian Atg8 (mAtg8) family of proteins comprising the LC3 and GABARAP subfamilies. The mAtg8 proteins play essential roles in the formation and maturation of autophagosomes and the capture of specific cargo through binding to the conserved LC3-interacting region (LIR) sequence within target proteins. Modulation of interactions of mAtg8 with its target proteins via small-molecule ligands would enable further interrogation of their function. Here we describe unbiased fragment and DNA-encoded library (DEL) screening approaches for discovering LC3 small-molecule ligands. Both strategies resulted in compounds that bind to LC3, with the fragment hits favoring a conserved hydrophobic pocket in mATG8 proteins, as detailed by LC3A-fragment complex crystal structures. Our findings demonstrate that the malleable LIR-binding surface can be readily targeted by fragments; however, rational design of additional interactions to drive increased affinity proved challenging. DEL libraries, which combine small, fragment-like building blocks into larger scaffolds, yielded higher-affinity binders and revealed an unexpected potential for reversible, covalent ligands. Moreover, DEL hits identified possible vectors for synthesizing fluorescent probes or bivalent molecules for engineering autophagic degradation of specific targets.
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- Micah Steffek
- Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Structure Biology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Chemistry Departments, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Chemistry Departments, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- WuXi AppTec (Wuhan) Company, Ltd., No. 666 GaoXin Road, WuHan East Lake High-tech Development Zone, Hubei 430075, China
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Chemistry Departments, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Chemistry Departments, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland
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- Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Early Discovery Biochemistry, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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Zhou J, Rasmussen NL, Olsvik HL, Akimov V, Hu Z, Evjen G, Kaeser-Pebernard S, Sankar DS, Roubaty C, Verlhac P, van de Beck N, Reggiori F, Abudu YP, Blagoev B, Lamark T, Johansen T, Dengjel J. TBK1 phosphorylation activates LIR-dependent degradation of the inflammation repressor TNIP1. J Cell Biol 2022; 222:213785. [PMID: 36574265 PMCID: PMC9797988 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202108144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Limitation of excessive inflammation due to selective degradation of pro-inflammatory proteins is one of the cytoprotective functions attributed to autophagy. In the current study, we highlight that selective autophagy also plays a vital role in promoting the establishment of a robust inflammatory response. Under inflammatory conditions, here TLR3-activation by poly(I:C) treatment, the inflammation repressor TNIP1 (TNFAIP3 interacting protein 1) is phosphorylated by Tank-binding kinase 1 (TBK1) activating an LIR motif that leads to the selective autophagy-dependent degradation of TNIP1, supporting the expression of pro-inflammatory genes and proteins. This selective autophagy efficiently reduces TNIP1 protein levels early (0-4 h) upon poly(I:C) treatment to allow efficient initiation of the inflammatory response. At 6 h, TNIP1 levels are restored due to increased transcription avoiding sustained inflammation. Thus, similarly as in cancer, autophagy may play a dual role in controlling inflammation depending on the exact state and timing of the inflammatory response.
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- Jianwen Zhou
- https://ror.org/022fs9h90Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- https://ror.org/03yrrjy16Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Experimental BioInformatics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- https://ror.org/022fs9h90Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- https://ror.org/022fs9h90Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- https://ror.org/03cv38k47Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- https://ror.org/03cv38k47Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- https://ror.org/03cv38k47Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands,https://ror.org/01aj84f44Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark,https://ror.org/01aj84f44Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- https://ror.org/03yrrjy16Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Center for Experimental BioInformatics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Autophagy Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø—The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway,Terje Johansen:
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- https://ror.org/022fs9h90Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland,Correspondence to Jörn Dengjel:
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Chino H, Yamasaki A, Ode KL, Ueda HR, Noda NN, Mizushima N. Phosphorylation by casein kinase 2 enhances the interaction between ER-phagy receptor TEX264 and ATG8 proteins. EMBO Rep 2022; 23:e54801. [PMID: 35417087 PMCID: PMC9171416 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202254801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Selective autophagy cargos are recruited to autophagosomes primarily by interacting with autophagosomal ATG8 family proteins via the LC3-interacting region (LIR). The upstream sequence of most LIRs contains negatively charged residues such as Asp, Glu, and phosphorylated Ser and Thr. However, the significance of LIR phosphorylation (compared with having acidic amino acids) and the structural basis of phosphorylated LIR-ATG8 binding are not entirely understood. Here, we show that the serine residues upstream of the core LIR of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-phagy receptor TEX264 are phosphorylated by casein kinase 2, which is critical for its interaction with ATG8s, autophagosomal localization, and ER-phagy. Structural analysis shows that phosphorylation of these serine residues increases binding affinity by producing multiple hydrogen bonds with ATG8s that cannot be mimicked by acidic residues. This binding mode is different from those of other ER-phagy receptors that utilize a downstream helix, which is absent from TEX264, to increase affinity. These results suggest that phosphorylation of the LIR is critically important for strong LIR-ATG8 interactions, even in the absence of auxiliary interactions.
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- Haruka Chino
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Microbial Chemistry (BIKAKEN), Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.,Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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- Institute of Microbial Chemistry (BIKAKEN), Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan.,Division of Biological Molecular Mechanisms, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Qinlin F, Bingqiao W, Linlin H, Peixia S, Lexing X, Lijun Y, Qingwu Y. miR-129-5p targets FEZ1/SCOC/ULK1/NBR1 complex to restore neuronal function in mice with post-stroke depression. Bioengineered 2022; 13:9708-9728. [PMID: 35435132 PMCID: PMC9191875 DOI: 10.1080/21655979.2022.2059910] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Post-stroke depression (PSD) seriously affects the normal life of patients. Based on the previous sequencing results, this study selected miR-129-5p as the research object, which was significantly reduced in the PSD model by screening. To clarify the regulatory role of miR-129-5p, this study overexpressed and interfered with miR-129-5p in neuronal cells cultured in vitro, tested its effect on neuronal cell autophagy, and determined expressions of fasciculation and elongation protein zeta-1 (FEZ1), short coiled-coil protein (SCOC), unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 1 (ULK1) and autophagy cargo receptor (NBR1) autophagy-related proteins. The dual-luciferase reporter system and immunoprecipitation were applied to detect the molecular regulatory mechanism of miR-129-5 and FEZ1, SCOC, ULK1 and NBR1. Findings of the present study revealed that the autophagy of neuronal cells was markedly decreased by overexpressing miR-129-5p (p < 0.05), and expressions of FEZ1, SCOC, ULK1 and NBR1 were substantially reduced (p < 0.05). The dual-luciferase reporter system results indicated that FEZ1, SCOC, ULK1 and NBR1 were all miR-129-5p target genes. Furthermore, immunoprecipitation assay revealed that SCOC, ULK1 and NBR1 could directly bind to the FEZ1 protein. The experiments at an animal level demonstrated that miR-129-5p could effectively alleviate the behavioral indicators of PSD model mice. Taken together, this study testified that SCOC/ULK1/NBR1 proteins could directly bind to FEZ1 to form protein complex, and all of the four proteins FEZ1/SCOC/ULK1/NBR1 were miR-129-5p target genes. miR-129-5p overexpression could effectively restore the behavioral characteristics of model mice, and reduce the autophagy-related proteins FEZ1/SCOC/ULK1/NBR1.
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- Fan Qinlin
- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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- Department of General orthopedics, Chongqing Public Health Medical Treatment Center, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical UniversityChongqing, China
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Simonsen A, Wollert T. Don't forget to be picky – selective autophagy of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases. Curr Opin Cell Biol 2022; 75:102064. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2022.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Kliche J, Ivarsson Y. Orchestrating serine/threonine phosphorylation and elucidating downstream effects by short linear motifs. Biochem J 2022; 479:1-22. [PMID: 34989786 PMCID: PMC8786283 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20200714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Cellular function is based on protein-protein interactions. A large proportion of these interactions involves the binding of short linear motifs (SLiMs) by folded globular domains. These interactions are regulated by post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, that create and break motif binding sites or tune the affinity of the interactions. In addition, motif-based interactions are involved in targeting serine/threonine kinases and phosphatases to their substrate and contribute to the specificity of the enzymatic actions regulating which sites are phosphorylated. Here, we review how SLiM-based interactions assist in determining the specificity of serine/threonine kinases and phosphatases, and how phosphorylation, in turn, affects motif-based interactions. We provide examples of SLiM-based interactions that are turned on/off, or are tuned by serine/threonine phosphorylation and exemplify how this affects SLiM-based protein complex formation.
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- Johanna Kliche
- Department of Chemistry – BMC, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 576 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry – BMC, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 576 751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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