{"title":"LLP1 is a pyrophosphatase involved in homeostasis/quality control of dolichol-linked oligosaccharide.","authors":"Sheng-Tao Li,Katsuhiko Kamada,Akinobu Honda,Junichi Seino,Tsugiyo Matsuda,Takehiro Suzuki,Naoshi Dohmae,Yuichi Shichino,Shintaro Iwasaki,Yoichi Noda,Michael Costanzo,Charles Boone,Tadashi Suzuki","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202501239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202501239","url":null,"abstract":"Dolichol-linked oligosaccharide (DLO) is the precursor for asparagine (N)-linked protein glycosylation. DLO synthesis can be impaired by genetic and environmental factors, leading to the accumulation of various immature DLO intermediates that are subsequently cleaved into phosphorylated oligosaccharides (POSs). Despite the fact that its activity has been known since the 1970s, the identity of the enzyme has not been clarified. Here, we identified a Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene encoding a DLO-pyrophosphatase (Llp1), which converts DLO to POSs. Intriguingly, LLP1 mRNA was translated through a programmed +1 translational frameshifting. LLP1 orthologs encode members of VanZ family proteins, which are found in various bacteria and fungi. Llp1 and its substrate DLO are likely to be localized in the Golgi, and when LLP1 was knocked out, abnormal DLO modified by Golgi mannosyltransferases accumulated, which is consistent with a role in DLO homeostasis/quality control. This study provides insights into how the cellular levels and quality of DLOs are maintained in eukaryotes.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182731","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}
Luis Bonet-Ponce,Tsion Tegicho,Nuria Fernandez-Martinez,Irene A Rozenberg,Mia Ashriem,Alexandra Beilina,Jillian H Kluss,Yan Li,Mark R Cookson
{"title":"JIP4 and RILPL1 utilize opposing motor force to dynamically regulate lysosomal tubulation.","authors":"Luis Bonet-Ponce,Tsion Tegicho,Nuria Fernandez-Martinez,Irene A Rozenberg,Mia Ashriem,Alexandra Beilina,Jillian H Kluss,Yan Li,Mark R Cookson","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202404018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202404018","url":null,"abstract":"Lysosomes are dynamic organelles that remodel their membrane in response to stimuli. We previously uncovered a process we term LYsosomal Tubulation/sorting driven by LRRK2 (LYTL), wherein damaged lysosomes generate tubules sorted into vesicles. LYTL is orchestrated by the Parkinson's disease kinase LRRK2 that recruits the motor adaptor protein and RHD family member JIP4 to lysosomes. JIP4 enhances LYTL tubule extension toward the plus-end of microtubules. To identify new players involved in LYTL, we mapped the lysosomal proteome after LRRK2 kinase inhibition. We found that RILPL1 is recruited to dysfunctional lysosomes in an LRRK2 kinase activity-dependent manner, facilitated by pRAB proteins. Unlike JIP4, RILPL1 induces retraction of LYTL tubules by binding to p150Glued, thereby moving lysosomal tubules toward the minus-end of microtubules. Our findings emphasize the dynamic regulation of LYTL tubules by two distinct RHD proteins and pRAB effectors, acting as opposing motor adaptor proteins. These opposing forces create a metastable lysosomal membrane deformation, enabling dynamic tubulation events.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145127025","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":"All roads lead to TDP43: Convergent mechanisms of TDP43 autoregulation.","authors":"Morgan R Miller,Sami J Barmada","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202508101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202508101","url":null,"abstract":"TDP43 is an essential RNA-binding protein with fundamental ties to neurodegenerative disorders. In this issue, Hasegawa-Ogawa and colleagues (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202406097) describe a new mechanism for regulating TDP43 function, involving alternatively spliced variants that inhibit TDP43 via dominant-negative activity.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117043","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":"Patterning in motion: Cell interfaces guide mesenchymal collective migration and morphogenesis.","authors":"Maik C Bischoff,Roberto Mayor","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202505198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202505198","url":null,"abstract":"Collective cell migration is a fundamental process in development, wound healing, and cancer. The best-characterized modes of collective migration typically involve cells that retain an epithelial architecture. However, in this review, we explore less well-understood modes of migration driven by cells with a more mesenchymal phenotype. To better understand and compare contact-dependent collective cell behaviors, we propose envisioning each cell as a structure made up of smaller dynamic parts and inferring how these parts behave to understand the overall collective behavior. By examining how local cell shapes influence single-cell behaviors, we can gain insight into how swarm-like behaviors emerge through cell-cell contact. Through this lens, we compare key processes such as contact inhibition of locomotion, mesenchymal cell intercalation, and more complex heterotypic swarm behaviors. Finally, we discuss the emerging concept of contact-mediated rules that regulate motility and have the potential to encode blueprints for complex patterns and even organ shapes.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145117041","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":"How do trypanosome IFT trains choose special tracks?","authors":"Yameng Huang,Cynthia Y He","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202508054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202508054","url":null,"abstract":"Intraflagellar transport trains in Trypanosoma brucei are known to selectively associate with a subset of axonemal doublet microtubules. In this issue, Araujo Alves et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202501088) aim to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this selective association using high-resolution microscopy approaches.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068363","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":"ATG16L strikes again! New findings link lysosome stress and physiology.","authors":"Alison D Klein,Michael Overholtzer","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202509030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202509030","url":null,"abstract":"Lysosome stress responses are emerging, but their connections to normal physiology are not well understood. In this issue, Duque et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202503166) discover that the autophagy protein ATG16L, a mediator of a stress response called CASM, also regulates normal lysosome function.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145068365","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 purification of biomolecular condensates: Bottlenecks and strategies.","authors":"Sylvain Tartier,Jihane Basbous,Séverine Boulon,Céline Verheggen,Edouard Bertrand","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202504081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202504081","url":null,"abstract":"Biomolecular condensates are large assemblies of proteins and nucleic acids that form distinct compartments inside the cell without being surrounded by a membrane. They form through multivalent interactions, are not stereospecifically defined, and can scale with component addition. By concentrating specific biomolecules at specific times and cellular locations, condensates play key roles in many processes, such as transcription, RNP assembly, cell cycle, DNA repair, and stress responses. Condensate biology greatly benefited from systematic analyses of their composition. However, condensates often have heterogenous sizes and are built on interaction networks that include stable and labile components. They also have highly variable compositions and dynamics. Their purification thus represents a significant challenge, and it necessitates extensive testing and adaptation of techniques originally designed for other applications. This article aims to synthesize the existing empirical knowledge on the extraction and purification of cellular condensates and analyze the challenges inherent to this field.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145035692","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":"Lipid droplets: Open questions and conceptual advances around a unique organelle.","authors":"W Mike Henne,Emma Reynolds,William A Prinz","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202406019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202406019","url":null,"abstract":"Once viewed as mere lipid inclusions, the past four decades have witnessed an explosion of research into lipid droplet (LD) biogenesis and function. Pioneering cell biology, biochemical, genetics, and lipidomic studies now reveal LDs as active players in lipid metabolism and cellular homeostasis. Here, we discuss some of the major findings that defined LDs as bona fide organelles. However, despite what is known, much needs to be discovered. We highlight five enduring questions that continue to challenge the LD field and discuss a few misconceptions about this remarkable organelle.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032173","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}
Thabata L A Duque,Masroor Paddar,Einar Trosdal,Ruheena Javed,Lee Allers,Michal H Mudd,Prithvi Akepati,Soumya R Mishra,Michelle Salemi,Brett Phinney,Shawn B Bratton,Thomas Wileman,Vojo Deretic
{"title":"ATG16L1 controls mammalian vacuolar proton ATPase.","authors":"Thabata L A Duque,Masroor Paddar,Einar Trosdal,Ruheena Javed,Lee Allers,Michal H Mudd,Prithvi Akepati,Soumya R Mishra,Michelle Salemi,Brett Phinney,Shawn B Bratton,Thomas Wileman,Vojo Deretic","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202503166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202503166","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanisms governing mammalian proton pump V-ATPase function are of fundamental and medical interest. The assembly and disassembly of cytoplasmic V1 domain with the membrane-embedded V0 domain of V-ATPase is a key aspect of V-ATPase localization and function. Here, we show that the mammalian protein ATG16L1, primarily appreciated for its role in canonical autophagy and in noncanonical membrane atg8ylation processes, controls V-ATPase. ATG16L1 knockout elevated V-ATPase activity, increased V1 presence on endomembranes, and increased the number of acidified intracellular compartments. ATG16L1's ability to efficiently bind V-ATPase was required for its inhibitory role in endolysosomal acidification and for control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in mice. These findings uncover a hitherto unappreciated role of ATG16L1 in regulating V-ATPase, a key pump governing acidification and functionality of the endolysosomal system along with its physiological roles.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145018262","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}
Pilar Rivero-Ríos,Tunahan Uygun,Garrett D Chavis,Hankyu Lee,Bo Duan,Michael A Sutton,Lois S Weisman
{"title":"PI(3)P coordinates SNX17- and SNX27-dependent protein recycling for long-term synaptic plasticity.","authors":"Pilar Rivero-Ríos,Tunahan Uygun,Garrett D Chavis,Hankyu Lee,Bo Duan,Michael A Sutton,Lois S Weisman","doi":"10.1083/jcb.202411198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202411198","url":null,"abstract":"Two major protein recycling pathways have emerged as key regulators of enduring forms of synaptic plasticity, such as long-term potentiation (LTP), yet how these pathways are recruited during plasticity is unknown. Phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI(3)P) is a key regulator of endosomal trafficking and alterations in this lipid have been linked to neurodegeneration. Here, using primary hippocampal neurons, we demonstrate dynamic PI(3)P synthesis during chemical induction of LTP (cLTP), which drives coordinate recruitment of the SNX17-Retriever and SNX27-Retromer pathways to endosomes and synaptic sites. Both pathways are necessary for the cLTP-dependent structural enlargement of dendritic spines and act in parallel by recycling distinct sets of cell surface proteins at synapses. Importantly, preventing PI(3)P synthesis blocks synaptic recruitment of SNX17 and SNX27, decreases cargo recycling, and blocks LTP in cultured neurons and hippocampal slices. These findings provide mechanistic insights into the regulation of endocytic recycling at synapses and define a role for dynamic PI(3)P synthesis in synaptic plasticity.","PeriodicalId":15211,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cell Biology","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145008860","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}