{"title":"Acidosis attenuates the hypoxic stabilization of HIF-1α by activating lysosomal degradation.","authors":"Bobby White,Zhenyi Wang,Matthew Dean,Johanna Michl,Natalia Nieora,Sarah Flannery,Iolanda Vendrell,Roman Fischer,Alzbeta Hulikova,Pawel Swietach","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202409103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202409103","url":null,"abstract":"Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) mediate cellular responses to low oxygen, notably enhanced fermentation that acidifies poorly perfused tissues and may eventually become more damaging than adaptive. How pH feeds back on hypoxic signaling is unclear but critical to investigate because acidosis and hypoxia are mechanistically coupled in diffusion-limited settings, such as tumors. Here, we examined the pH sensitivity of hypoxic signaling in colorectal cancer cells that can survive acidosis. HIF-1α stabilization under acidotic hypoxia was transient, declining over 48 h. Proteomic analyses identified responses that followed HIF-1α, including canonical HIF targets (e.g., CA9, PDK1), but these did not reflect a proteome-wide downregulation. Enrichment analyses suggested a role for lysosomal degradation. Indeed, HIF-1α destabilization was blocked by inactivating lysosomes, but not proteasome inhibitors. Acidotic hypoxia stimulated lysosomal activity and autophagy via mammalian target of rapamycin complex I (mTORC1), resulting in HIF-1α degradation. This response protects cells from excessive acidification by unchecked fermentation. Thus, alkaline conditions are permissive for at least some aspects of HIF-1α signaling.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144370325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cellular wound healing: A two-step mechanism of plasma membrane repair by annexins and calpains.","authors":"Sabina Elmi,Jesper Nylandsted","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202505027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202505027","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue, Williams et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202408159) reveal a two-step plasma membrane repair process upon injury: annexins first stabilize damage sites, then calcium-activated calpains cleave these patches, triggering microvesicle shedding-mirroring the clot-and-scab resolution seen in tissue-level wound healing.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"600 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The primary cilium as a gatekeeper of FGFR2 function.","authors":"Raman Kaushik,Raj K Ladher","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202505022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202505022","url":null,"abstract":"In this issue, Nita et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202311030) show that the primary cilium regulates FGFR2 signalling through spatial compartmentalization, enabling selective downstream activation. Disruption of ciliary localization in disease-linked FGFR2 variants highlights the role of the cilium as a signalling gatekeeper in development and disease.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144320100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kangfu Peng, Guoxiu Zhao, Hongyu Zhao, Nobuo N Noda, Hong Zhang
{"title":"The autophagy protein ATG-9 regulates lysosome function and integrity.","authors":"Kangfu Peng, Guoxiu Zhao, Hongyu Zhao, Nobuo N Noda, Hong Zhang","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202411092","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202411092","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transmembrane autophagy protein ATG9 has multiple functions essential for autophagosome formation. Here, we uncovered a novel function of ATG-9 in regulating lysosome biogenesis and integrity in Caenorhabditis elegans. Through a genetic screen, we identified that mutations attenuating the lipid scrambling activity of ATG-9 suppress the autophagy defect in epg-5 mutants, in which non-degradative autolysosomes accumulate. The scramblase-attenuated ATG-9 mutants promote lysosome biogenesis and delivery of lysosome-localized hydrolases and also facilitate the maintenance of lysosome integrity. Through manipulation of phospholipid levels, we found that a reduction in phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) also suppresses the autophagy defects and lysosome damage associated with impaired lysosomal degradation. Our results reveal that modulation of phospholipid composition and distribution, e.g., by attenuating the scramblase activity of ATG-9 or reducing the PE level, regulates lysosome function and integrity.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11980680/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandhya Srinivasan, William Ramos-Lewis, Mychel R P T Morais, Qiuyi Chi, Adam W J Soh, Emily Williams, Rachel Lennon, David R Sherwood
{"title":"A collagen IV fluorophore knock-in toolkit reveals trimer diversity in C. elegans basement membranes.","authors":"Sandhya Srinivasan, William Ramos-Lewis, Mychel R P T Morais, Qiuyi Chi, Adam W J Soh, Emily Williams, Rachel Lennon, David R Sherwood","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202412118","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202412118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The type IV collagen triple helix, composed of three ⍺-chains, is a core basement membrane (BM) component that assembles into a network within BMs. Endogenous tagging of all ⍺-chains with genetically encoded fluorophores has remained elusive, limiting our understanding of this crucial BM component. Through genome editing, we show that the C termini of the C. elegans type IV collagen ⍺-chains EMB-9 and LET-2 can be fused to a variety of fluorophores to create a strain toolkit with wild-type health. Using quantitative imaging, our results suggest a preference for LET-2-LET-2-EMB-9 trimer construction, but also tissue-specific flexibility in trimers assembled driven by differences in ⍺-chain expression levels. By tagging emb-9 and let-2 mutants that model human Gould syndrome, a complex multitissue disorder, we further discover defects in extracellular accumulation and turnover that might help explain disease pathology. Together, our findings identify a permissive tagging site in C. elegans that will allow diverse studies on type IV collagen regulation and function in animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11917169/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143656812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julio Miranda-Alban, Nicelio Sanchez-Luege, Fernando M Valbuena, Chyan Rangel, Ilaria Rebay
{"title":"The Abelson kinase and the Nedd4 family E3 ligases co-regulate Notch trafficking to limit signaling.","authors":"Julio Miranda-Alban, Nicelio Sanchez-Luege, Fernando M Valbuena, Chyan Rangel, Ilaria Rebay","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202407066","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202407066","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Precise output from the conserved Notch signaling pathway governs a plethora of cellular processes and developmental transitions. Unlike other pathways that use a cytoplasmic relay, the Notch cell surface receptor transduces signaling directly to the nucleus, with endocytic trafficking providing critical regulatory nodes. Here we report that the cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase Abelson (Abl) facilitates Notch internalization into late endosomes/multivesicular bodies (LEs), thereby limiting signaling output in both ligand-dependent and -independent contexts. Abl phosphorylates the PPxY motif within Notch, a molecular target for its degradation via Nedd4 family ubiquitin ligases. We show that Su(dx), a family member, mediates the Abl-directed LE regulation of Notch via the PPxY, while another family member, Nedd4Lo, contributes to Notch internalization into LEs through both PPxY-dependent and -independent mechanisms. Our findings demonstrate how a network of posttranslational modifiers converging at LEs cooperatively modulates Notch signaling to ensure the precision and robustness of its cellular and developmental functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11970431/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143780020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rong Sun, James P Allen, Zhuqing Mao, Liana Wilson, Mariam Haider, Baris Alten, Zimeng Zhou, Xinyi Wang, Qiangjun Zhou
{"title":"The postsynaptic density in excitatory synapses is composed of clustered, heterogeneous nanoblocks.","authors":"Rong Sun, James P Allen, Zhuqing Mao, Liana Wilson, Mariam Haider, Baris Alten, Zimeng Zhou, Xinyi Wang, Qiangjun Zhou","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202406133","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202406133","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The nanoscale organization of proteins within synapses is critical for maintaining and regulating synaptic transmission and plasticity. Here, we used cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to directly visualize the three-dimensional architecture and supramolecular organization of postsynaptic components in both synaptosomes and synapses from cultured neurons. Cryo-ET revealed that postsynaptic density (PSD) is composed of membrane-associated nanoblocks of various sizes. Subtomogram averaging from synaptosomes showed two types (type A and B) of postsynaptic receptor-like particles at resolutions of 24 and 26 Å, respectively. Furthermore, our analysis suggested that potential presynaptic release sites are closer to nanoblocks with type A/B receptor-like particles than to nanoblocks without type A/B receptor-like particles. The results of this study provide a more comprehensive understanding of synaptic ultrastructure and suggest that PSD is composed of clustering of various nanoblocks. These nanoblocks are heterogeneous in size, assembly, and distribution, which likely contribute to the dynamic nature of PSD in modulating synaptic strength.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11948668/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143719375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrijana Crncec, Ho Wai Lau, Lau Yan Ng, Hoi Tang Ma, Joyce P Y Mak, Hon Fung Choi, Tsz Kwan Yeung, Randy Yat Choi Poon
{"title":"Plasticity of mitotic cyclins in promoting the G2-M transition.","authors":"Adrijana Crncec, Ho Wai Lau, Lau Yan Ng, Hoi Tang Ma, Joyce P Y Mak, Hon Fung Choi, Tsz Kwan Yeung, Randy Yat Choi Poon","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202409219","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202409219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) orchestrate key events in the cell cycle. However, the uniqueness of individual mitotic cyclins has been a long-standing puzzle. By rapidly removing cyclins in G2 human cells, we found that deficiency of B-type cyclins attenuates mitotic onset and uncouples the G2-M kinase network from mitosis, resulting in sustained activation of PLK1 and cyclin A-CDK1. This culminates in mitotic slippage without completing nuclear envelope breakdown. Remarkably, elevating cyclin A several-fold above its endogenous level is adequate to restore mitosis, allowing cells to survive without B-type cyclins. In contrast, cyclin A is rate-limiting but not essential for G2-M due to compensation by endogenous cyclin B1-CDK2, a non-canonical pair. These findings challenge the traditional indispensable roles of different cyclins and highlight their plasticity. Due to the high malleability of the A- and B-type cyclins, cancer cells may be able to place different weights on different cyclins, while maintaining sufficient CDK activities for successful mitosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11980681/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ESCRT-I and PTPN23 mediate microautophagy of ubiquitylated tau aggregates.","authors":"Yusen Men, Shoshiro Hirayama, Shinpei Ao, Yasuyuki Sakurai, Yuri Shibata, Megan Lo, Yusuke Sato, Shigeo Murata","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202406120","DOIUrl":"10.1083/jcb.202406120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protein aggregates are degraded by both the autophagy-lysosomal and the ubiquitin-proteasome pathways. Macroautophagy and microautophagy, two forms of the autophagy-lysosomal pathway, are widely conserved across eukaryotes. While macroautophagy has been extensively studied in the context of degradation of protein aggregates, microautophagy remains less explored. Here, we identify the UBAP1-containing ESCRT-I complex and PTPN23 as new regulators for degradation of aggregated proteins through an unbiased genome-wide CRISPR knockout screen, using a cell line expressing tau repeat domain (tauRD) aggregates. ESCRT-I recognizes ubiquitylated tauRD via the UEV domain of TSG101. The accessory protein PTPN23, instead of ESCRT-II, bridges ESCRT-I and ESCRT-III to complete the endosomal microautophagy of ubiquitylated tauRD aggregates. Our results uncover the molecular mechanism underlying the degradation of tau aggregates by endosomal microautophagy.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11977513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatsuki Isogai, Koichiro M Hirosawa, Miki Kanno, Ayano Sho, Rinshi S Kasai, Naoko Komura, Hiromune Ando, Keiko Furukawa, Yuhsuke Ohmi, Koichi Furukawa, Yasunari Yokota, Kenichi G N Suzuki
{"title":"Extracellular vesicles adhere to cells primarily by interactions of integrins and GM1 with laminin.","authors":"Tatsuki Isogai, Koichiro M Hirosawa, Miki Kanno, Ayano Sho, Rinshi S Kasai, Naoko Komura, Hiromune Ando, Keiko Furukawa, Yuhsuke Ohmi, Koichi Furukawa, Yasunari Yokota, Kenichi G N Suzuki","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202404064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202404064","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted significant attention, yet the molecular mechanisms that govern their specific binding to recipient cells remain elusive. Our in vitro study utilizing single-particle tracking demonstrated that integrin heterodimers comprising α6β4 and α6β1 and ganglioside, GM1, are responsible for the binding of small EV (sEV) subtypes to laminin. EVs derived from four distinct tumor cell lines, regardless of size, exhibited high binding affinities for laminin but not for fibronectin, although fibronectin receptors are abundant in EVs and have functional roles in EV-secreting cells. Our findings revealed that integrins in EVs bind to laminin via the conventional molecular interface, facilitated by CD151 rather than by inside-out signaling of talin-1 and kindlin-2. Super-resolution movie observation revealed that sEV integrins bind only to laminin on living recipient cells. Furthermore, sEVs bound to HUVEC and induced cell branching morphogenesis in a laminin-dependent manner. Thus, we demonstrated that EVs predominantly bind to laminin on recipient cells, which is indispensable for cell responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"224 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12042775/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144001816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}