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Redhu R, Narwal E, Gupta S, Hooda R, Ahlawat S, Khurana R. Software implementation of systematic polar encoding based PKC-SPE cryptosystem for quantum cybersecurity. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9994. [PMID: 38693269 PMCID: PMC11063196 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60767-3] [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] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
Abstract
The ever-growing threats in cybersecurity growing with the rapid development of quantum computing, necessitates the development of robust and quantum-resistant cryptographic systems. This paper introduces a novel cryptosystem, Public Key Cryptosystem based on Systematic Polar Encoding (PKC-SPE), based on the combination of systematic polar encoding and public-key cryptographic principles. The Systematic Polar Encoding (SPE), derived from the well-established field of polar codes, serves as the foundation for this proposed cryptographic scheme. Here, we have used MATLAB Software to introduce and implement the PKC-SPE Cryptosystem. The paper examines key generation, encryption, and decryption algorithms, providing insights into the adaptability and efficiency of systematic polar encoding in public-key cryptography. We assess the efficiency of the PKC-SPE Cryptosystem in three aspects: key size, computational complexity, and system implementation timings. In addition, we compare the PKC-SPE Cryptosystem with PKC-PC cryptosystem and find that it has reduced key sizes ( P r = 0.8436 kbytes). The results obtained through simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed cryptosystem and highlighting its potential for integration into real-world communication systems. Thus, in the paradigm shift to quantum computing, the PKC-SPE cryptosystem emerges as a promising candidate to secure digital communication in the quantum computing era.
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- Ritu Redhu
- Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari, Haryana, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indira Gandhi University, Meerpur, Rewari, Haryana, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, 124001, India.
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Phalak K, Chatterjee A, Ghosh S. Quantum Random Access Memory for Dummies. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:7462. [PMID: 37687917 PMCID: PMC10490729 DOI: 10.3390/s23177462] [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] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023]
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Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) has the potential to revolutionize the area of quantum computing. QRAM uses quantum computing principles to store and modify quantum or classical data efficiently, greatly accelerating a wide range of computer processes. Despite its importance, there is a lack of comprehensive surveys that cover the entire spectrum of QRAM architectures. We fill this gap by providing a comprehensive review of QRAM, emphasizing its significance and viability in existing noisy quantum computers. By drawing comparisons with conventional RAM for ease of understanding, this survey clarifies the fundamental ideas and actions of QRAM. QRAM provides an exponential time advantage compared to its classical counterpart by reading and writing all data at once, which is achieved owing to storage of data in a superposition of states. Overall, we compare six different QRAM technologies in terms of their structure and workings, circuit width and depth, unique qualities, practical implementation, and drawbacks. In general, with the exception of trainable machine learning-based QRAMs, we observe that QRAM has exponential depth/width requirements in terms of the number of qubits/qudits and that most QRAM implementations are practical for superconducting and trapped-ion qubit systems.
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- Koustubh Phalak
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA;
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA;
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Latorre F, Hawks CE, Colmenares B, Verma D, Gil M, Sala N. Patient-Centric Interoperability and Cybersecurity for Cross-Border Healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform 2023; 305:204-207. [PMID: 37386997 DOI: 10.3233/shti230463] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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In Web 3.0 the user owns the information. Decentralized Identity Documents (DID documents) allow users to create their own digital identity and decentralized cryptographic material resistant to quantum computing. A patient's DID document also contains a unique identifier for cross-border healthcare, endpoints for receiving DIDComm messages and for SOS services, and additional identifiers (passport, etc.). We propose a blockchain for cross-border healthcare to store the evidence of different electronic, physical identities, and identifiers, but also the rules approved by the patient or legal guardians to access patient data. The International Patient Summary (IPS) is the de facto standard for cross-border healthcare and includes an index of information classified into sections (HL7 FHIR Composition) that healthcare professionals and services can update and read on the patient's SOS service, then retrieving all the necessary patient information from the different FHIR API endpoints of different healthcare providers according to the approved rules.
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- Fernando Latorre
- Conéctate Soluciones y Aplicaciones, S.L., Soria, CYL, Spain
- Connecting Solution and Applications, Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Fundación UNID, Soria, CYL, Spain
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- Conéctate Soluciones y Aplicaciones, S.L., Soria, CYL, Spain
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- Connecting Solution and Applications, Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Conéctate Soluciones y Aplicaciones, S.L., Soria, CYL, Spain
- Fundación UNID, Soria, CYL, Spain
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- Conéctate Soluciones y Aplicaciones, S.L., Soria, CYL, Spain
- Connecting Solution and Applications, Ltd., Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Fundación UNID, Soria, CYL, Spain
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Ferrari V, Cristofani R, Cicardi ME, Tedesco B, Crippa V, Chierichetti M, Casarotto E, Cozzi M, Mina F, Galbiati M, Piccolella M, Carra S, Vaccari T, Nalbandian A, Kimonis V, Fortuna TR, Pandey UB, Gagliani MC, Cortese K, Rusmini P, Poletti A. Pathogenic variants of Valosin-containing protein induce lysosomal damage and transcriptional activation of autophagy regulators in neuronal cells. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2022; 48:e12818. [PMID: 35501124 PMCID: PMC10588520 DOI: 10.1111/nan.12818] [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] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIM Mutations in the valosin-containing protein (VCP) gene cause various lethal proteinopathies that mainly include inclusion body myopathy with Paget's disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Different pathological mechanisms have been proposed. Here, we define the impact of VCP mutants on lysosomes and how cellular homeostasis is restored by inducing autophagy in the presence of lysosomal damage. METHODS By electron microscopy, we studied lysosomal morphology in VCP animal and motoneuronal models. With the use of western blotting, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), immunofluorescence and filter trap assay, we evaluated the effect of selected VCP mutants in neuronal cells on lysosome size and activity, lysosomal membrane permeabilization and their impact on autophagy. RESULTS We found that VCP mutants induce the formation of aberrant multilamellar organelles in VCP animal and cell models similar to those found in patients with VCP mutations or with lysosomal storage disorders. In neuronal cells, we found altered lysosomal activity characterised by membrane permeabilization with galectin-3 redistribution and activation of PPP3CB. This selectively activated the autophagy/lysosomal transcriptional regulator TFE3, but not TFEB, and enhanced both SQSTM1/p62 and lipidated MAP1LC3B levels inducing autophagy. Moreover, we found that wild type VCP, but not the mutants, counteracted lysosomal damage induced either by trehalose or by a mutant form of SOD1 (G93A), also blocking the formation of its insoluble intracellular aggregates. Thus, chronic activation of autophagy might fuel the formation of multilamellar bodies. CONCLUSION Together, our findings provide insights into the pathogenesis of VCP-related diseases, by proposing a novel mechanism of multilamellar body formation induced by VCP mutants that involves lysosomal damage and induction of lysophagy.
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- Veronica Ferrari
- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Department of Neuroscience, Weinberg ALS Center, Vickie and Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
- Unit of Medical Genetics and Neurogenetics, Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Cellular Electron Microscopy Lab, University of Genoa, Genova
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- Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Cellular Electron Microscopy Lab, University of Genoa, Genova
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche e Biomolecolari, Centre of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan
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Cabrera M, Boronat S, Marte L, Vega M, Pérez P, Ayté J, Hidalgo E. Chaperone-Facilitated Aggregation of Thermo-Sensitive Proteins Shields Them from Degradation during Heat Stress. Cell Rep 2021; 30:2430-2443.e4. [PMID: 32075773 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.01.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [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: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 10/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Cells have developed protein quality-control strategies to manage the accumulation of misfolded substrates during heat stress. Using a soluble reporter of misfolding in fission yeast, Rho1.C17R-GFP, we demonstrate that upon mild heat shock, the reporter collapses in protein aggregate centers (PACs). They contain and/or require several chaperones, such as Hsp104, Hsp16, and the Hsp40/70 couple Mas5/Ssa2. Stress granules do not assemble at mild temperatures and, therefore, are not required for PAC formation; on the contrary, PACs may serve as nucleation centers for the assembly of stress granules. In contrast to the general belief, the dominant fate of these PACs is not degradation, and the aggregated reporter can be disassembled by chaperones and recovers native structure and activity. Using mass spectrometry, we show that thermo-unstable endogenous proteins form PACs as well. In conclusion, formation of PACs during heat shock is a chaperone-mediated adaptation strategy.
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- Margarita Cabrera
- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica (IBFG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/ Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
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Cristofani R, Piccolella M, Crippa V, Tedesco B, Montagnani Marelli M, Poletti A, Moretti RM. The Role of HSPB8, a Component of the Chaperone-Assisted Selective Autophagy Machinery, in Cancer. Cells 2021; 10:335. [PMID: 33562660 DOI: 10.3390/cells10020335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The cellular response to cancer-induced stress is one of the major aspects regulating cancer development and progression. The Heat Shock Protein B8 (HSPB8) is a small chaperone involved in chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA). CASA promotes the selective degradation of proteins to counteract cell stress such as tumor-induced stress. HSPB8 is also involved in (i) the cell division machinery regulating chromosome segregation and cell cycle arrest in the G0/G1 phase and (ii) inflammation regulating dendritic cell maturation and cytokine production. HSPB8 expression and role are tumor-specific, showing a dual and opposite role. Interestingly, HSPB8 may be involved in the acquisition of chemoresistance to drugs. Despite the fact the mechanisms of HSPB8-mediated CASA activation in tumors need further studies, HSPB8 could represent an important factor in cancer induction and progression and it may be a potential target for anticancer treatment in specific types of cancer. In this review, we will discuss the molecular mechanism underlying HSPB8 roles in normal and cancer conditions. The basic mechanisms involved in anti- and pro-tumoral activities of HSPB8 are deeply discussed together with the pathways that modulate HSPB8 expression, in order to outline molecules with a beneficial effect for cancer cell growth, migration, and death.
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Boronat S, Cabrera M, Hidalgo E. Spatial sequestration of misfolded proteins as an active chaperone-mediated process during heat stress. Curr Genet 2021; 67:237-243. [PMID: 33386485 DOI: 10.1007/s00294-020-01135-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 10/23/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Under thermal stress, different protein quality control (PQC) strategies are activated to maintain an intact proteome, which may vary from one model system to another. Hence thermo-sensitive proteins that lose their active conformation might be refolded with the aid of chaperones or removed by the ubiquitin-proteasome system or the process of autophagy. We have recently developed thermo-sensitive reporters to study PQC in fission yeast and shown the relevance of a third adaptation strategy: the sequestration of misfolded proteins into inclusions which will prevent a rapid degradation and allow the refolding once stress ends. These protein inclusions, protein aggregate centers (PACs), contain a broad spectrum of misfolding/aggregation-prone proteins and chaperones involved in their assembly or dissolution. The chaperone couple Mas5/Ssa2 plays a crucial role in PAC formation, whereas the Hsp104 chaperone promotes their disassembly. The absence of aggregates observed in cells lacking Mas5 could be also explained by the activation of the transcription factor Hsf1 and the induction of chaperone genes, we have excluded this possibility here demonstrating that increased Hsf1 activity and the subsequent overexpression of chaperones do not prevent the assembly of protein aggregates. Protein deposition at certain locations also constitutes a tactic to inactivate proteins temporally. This is the case of Pyp1, the main phosphatase of the stress response kinase Sty1. Upon stress imposition, misfolded Pyp1 is sequestered into cytosolic protein foci while active Sty1 at the nucleus switches on the transcriptional response. In conclusion, we propose that the assembly of aggregation-like foci, PACs in fission yeast, is a crucial PQC strategy during heat stress, and that the Hsp40 chaperone Mas5 is required for PAC assembly and connects physiological and heat-shock triggered PQC.
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- Susanna Boronat
- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Oxidative Stress and Cell Cycle Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain.
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Johnston HE, Samant RS. Alternative systems for misfolded protein clearance: life beyond the proteasome. FEBS J 2020; 288:4464-4487. [PMID: 33135311 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [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: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Protein misfolding is a major driver of ageing-associated frailty and disease pathology. Although all cells possess multiple, well-characterised protein quality control systems to mitigate the toxicity of misfolded proteins, how they are integrated to maintain protein homeostasis ('proteostasis') in health-and how their disintegration contributes to disease-is still an exciting and fast-paced area of research. Under physiological conditions, the predominant route for misfolded protein clearance involves ubiquitylation and proteasome-mediated degradation. When the capacity of this route is overwhelmed-as happens during conditions of acute environmental stress, or chronic ageing-related decline-alternative routes for protein quality control are activated. In this review, we summarise our current understanding of how proteasome-targeted misfolded proteins are retrafficked to alternative protein quality control routes such as juxta-nuclear sequestration and selective autophagy when the ubiquitin-proteasome system is compromised. We also discuss the molecular determinants of these alternative protein quality control systems, attempt to clarify distinctions between various cytoplasmic spatial quality control inclusion bodies (e.g., Q-bodies, p62 bodies, JUNQ, aggresomes, and aggresome-like induced structures 'ALIS'), and speculate on emerging concepts in the field that we hope will spur future research-with the potential to benefit the rational development of healthy ageing strategies.
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- Signalling Programme, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK
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Kim JH, Cho SK, Oh TR, Ryu MY, Yang SW, Kim WT. MPSR1 is a cytoplasmic PQC E3 ligase for eliminating emergent misfolded proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E10009-17. [PMID: 29087340 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713574114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The essential roles of cytoplasmic E3 ligases in the protein quality control (PQC) pathways have been increasingly highlighted in yeast and animal studies. However, in plants, only CHIP E3 ligase has been characterized, while the knowledge of cytoplasmic PQC E3 ligases remains rudimentary. Misfolded Protein Sensing RING E3 ligase 1 (MPSR1), a self-regulatory sensor system that functions only in the occurrence of misfolded proteins, is an identified cytoplasmic PQC E3 ligase in plants that directly recognizes emergent misfolded proteins independently of chaperones. In addition, MPSR1 sustains the integrity and activity of the 26S proteasome under proteotoxic stress. Given that MPSR1 RING E3 ligase is well conserved in eukaryotes, this study sheds light on a PQC pathway that is present particularly in plants and beyond. Ubiquitin E3 ligases are crucial for eliminating misfolded proteins before they form cytotoxic aggregates that threaten cell fitness and survival. However, it remains unclear how emerging misfolded proteins in the cytoplasm can be selectively recognized and eliminated by E3 ligases in plants. We found that Misfolded Protein Sensing RING E3 ligase 1 (MPSR1) is an indispensable E3 ligase required for plant survival after protein-damaging stress. Under no stress, MPSR1 is prone to rapid degradation by the 26S proteasome, concealing its protein quality control (PQC) E3 ligase activity. Upon proteotoxic stress, MPSR1 directly senses incipient misfolded proteins and tethers ubiquitins for subsequent degradation. Furthermore, MPSR1 sustains the structural integrity of the proteasome complex at the initial stage of proteotoxic stress. Here, we suggest that the MPSR1 pathway is a constitutive mechanism for proteostasis under protein-damaging stress, as a front-line surveillance system in the cytoplasm.
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Villar-Piqué A, Ventura S. Protein aggregation propensity is a crucial determinant of intracellular inclusion formation and quality control degradation. Biochim Biophys Acta 2013; 1833:2714-2724. [PMID: 23856334 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2013.06.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Revised: 06/21/2013] [Accepted: 06/24/2013] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Protein aggregation is linked to many pathological conditions, including several neurodegenerative diseases. The aggregation propensities of proteins are thought to be controlled to a large extent by the physicochemical properties encoded in the primary sequence. We have previously exploited a set of amyloid β peptide (Aβ42) variants exhibiting a continuous gradient of intrinsic aggregation propensities to demonstrate that this rule applies in vivo in bacteria. In the present work we have characterized the behavior of these Aβ42 mutants when expressed in yeast. In contrast to bacteria, the intrinsic aggregation propensity is gated by yeast, in such a way that this property correlates with the formation of intracellular inclusions only above a specific aggregation threshold. Proteins displaying solubility levels above this threshold escape the inclusion formation pathway. In addition, the most aggregation-prone variants are selectively cleared by the yeast quality control degradation machinery. Thus, both inclusion formation and proteolysis target the same aggregation-prone variants and cooperate to minimize the presence of these potentially dangerous species in the cytosol. The demonstration that sorting to these pathways in eukaryotes is strongly influenced by protein primary sequence should facilitate the development of rational approaches to predict and hopefully prevent in vivo protein deposition.
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- Anna Villar-Piqué
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain; Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biociències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain; Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
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