Prachiti Moghe, Roman Belousov, Takafumi Ichikawa, Chizuru Iwatani, Tomoyuki Tsukiyama, Anna Erzberger, Takashi Hiiragi
{"title":"Coupling of cell shape, matrix and tissue dynamics ensures embryonic patterning robustness","authors":"Prachiti Moghe, Roman Belousov, Takafumi Ichikawa, Chizuru Iwatani, Tomoyuki Tsukiyama, Anna Erzberger, Takashi Hiiragi","doi":"10.1038/s41556-025-01618-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-025-01618-9","url":null,"abstract":"Tissue patterning coordinates morphogenesis, cell dynamics and fate specification. Understanding how precision in patterning is robustly achieved despite inherent developmental variability during mammalian embryogenesis remains a challenge. Here, based on cell dynamics quantification and simulation, we show how salt-and-pepper epiblast and primitive endoderm (PrE) cells pattern the inner cell mass of mouse blastocysts. Coupling cell fate and dynamics, PrE cells form apical polarity-dependent actin protrusions required for RAC1-dependent migration towards the surface of the fluid cavity, where PrE cells are trapped due to decreased tension. Concomitantly, PrE cells deposit an extracellular matrix gradient, presumably breaking the tissue-level symmetry and collectively guiding their own migration. Tissue size perturbations of mouse embryos and their comparison with monkey and human blastocysts further demonstrate that the fixed proportion of PrE/epiblast cells is optimal with respect to embryo size and tissue geometry and, despite variability, ensures patterning robustness during early mammalian development. Moghe et al. show that mouse embryonic primitive endoderm cells migrate towards the inner cell mass-cavity interface, depositing an extracellular matrix gradient that may guide migration. Primitive endoderm to epiblast ratios may enable robust patterning across embryos and sizes.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 3","pages":"408-423"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-025-01618-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143435026","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":"Mesoderm FN1 shaping the heart","authors":"Daryl J. V. David","doi":"10.1038/s41556-025-01630-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-025-01630-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 2","pages":"175-175"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143401368","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":"Ribophagy relies on Rpl12","authors":"Katarzyna Tutak, Katrin Karbstein","doi":"10.1038/s41556-024-01594-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-024-01594-6","url":null,"abstract":"The selective destruction of ribosomal subunits through autophagy (‘ribophagy’) is crucial for maintaining cellular protein homeostasis under stress. Findings from various model systems highlight the conserved function of the Rpl12 protein in ribophagy, and show its importance in cellular health and the response to environmental stresses.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 3","pages":"377-378"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385073","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":"Rpl12 is a conserved ribophagy receptor","authors":"Yuting Chen, Jiaxin Hu, Pengwei Zhao, Jie Fang, Yingqi Kuang, Zhaojie Liu, Shuling Dong, Weijing Yao, Yuanyuan Ding, Xinhui Wang, Yibin Pan, Jianbin Wu, Jingwei Zhao, Jing Yang, Zhenzhong Xu, Xiaodi Liu, Yi Zhang, Choufei Wu, Liqin Zhang, Mingzhu Fan, Shan Feng, Zhi Hong, Zhangming Yan, Hongguang Xia, Kaiyue Tang, Bing Yang, Wei Liu, Qiming Sun, Kunrong Mei, Wei Zou, Yunpeng Huang, Du Feng, Cong Yi","doi":"10.1038/s41556-024-01598-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-024-01598-2","url":null,"abstract":"Ribophagy is a selective autophagic process that regulates ribosome turnover. Although NUFIP1 has been identified as a mammalian receptor for ribophagy, its homologues do not exist in yeast and nematodes. Here we demonstrate that Rpl12, a ribosomal large subunit protein, functions as a conserved ribophagy receptor in multiple organisms. Disruption of Rpl12–Atg8s binding leads to significant accumulation of ribosomal proteins and rRNA, while Atg1-mediated Rpl12 phosphorylation enhances its association with Atg11, thus triggering ribophagy during starvation. Ribophagy deficiency accelerates cell death induced by starvation and pathogen infection, leading to impaired growth and development and a shortened lifespan in both Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster. Moreover, ribophagy deficiency results in motor impairments associated with ageing, while the overexpression of RPL12 significantly improves movement defects induced by starvation, ageing and Aβ accumulation in fly models. Our findings suggest that Rpl12 functions as a conserved ribophagy receptor vital for ribosome metabolism and cellular homeostasis. Chen, Hu, Zhao, Fang and colleagues show that the ribosomal large subunit protein Rpl12 functions as a conserved ribophagy receptor in multiple organisms.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 3","pages":"477-492"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143385076","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}
Philip J. Mannino, Andrew Perun, Ivan V. Surovtsev, Nicholas R. Ader, Lin Shao, Elisa C. Rodriguez, Thomas J. Melia, Megan C. King, C. Patrick Lusk
{"title":"A quantitative ultrastructural timeline of nuclear autophagy reveals a role for dynamin-like protein 1 at the nuclear envelope","authors":"Philip J. Mannino, Andrew Perun, Ivan V. Surovtsev, Nicholas R. Ader, Lin Shao, Elisa C. Rodriguez, Thomas J. Melia, Megan C. King, C. Patrick Lusk","doi":"10.1038/s41556-025-01612-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-025-01612-1","url":null,"abstract":"Autophagic mechanisms that maintain nuclear envelope homoeostasis are bulwarks to ageing and disease. Here we define a quantitative and ultrastructural timeline of nuclear macroautophagy (nucleophagy) in yeast by leveraging four-dimensional lattice light sheet microscopy and correlative light and electron tomography. Nucleophagy begins with a rapid accumulation of the selective autophagy receptor Atg39 at the nuclear envelope and finishes in ~300 s with Atg39-cargo delivery to the vacuole. Although there are several routes to the vacuole, at least one pathway incorporates two consecutive membrane fission steps: inner nuclear membrane (INM) fission to generate an INM-derived vesicle in the perinuclear space and outer nuclear membrane fission to liberate a double-membraned vesicle to the cytosol. Outer nuclear membrane fission occurs independently of phagophore engagement and instead relies surprisingly on dynamin-like protein 1 (Dnm1), which is recruited to sites of Atg39 accumulation by Atg11. Loss of Dnm1 compromises nucleophagic flux by stalling nucleophagy after INM fission. Our findings reveal how nuclear and INM cargo are removed from an intact nucleus without compromising its integrity, achieved in part by a non-canonical role for Dnm1 in nuclear envelope remodelling. Mannino et al. provide a quantitative and ultrastructural timeline of nucleophagy in yeast with lattice light sheet microscopy and correlative light and electron tomography. They identify a role for dynamin-like protein 1 in outer nuclear membrane fission.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 3","pages":"464-476"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257838","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":"Regulating MYC translation in cancer","authors":"Zainab Hussain, Mara H. Sherman","doi":"10.1038/s41556-024-01589-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-024-01589-3","url":null,"abstract":"Layered control of oncogenic protein dosage enables the hallmarks of cancer, but specific regulators of oncogene mRNA translation remain unknown. A study now reports RMB42 as a regulator of the MYC by remodelling its RNA structure and increasing translation efficiency, highlighting a potential therapeutic avenue to target MYC-driven cancers.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 3","pages":"379-381"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257837","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}
Xiao-Wei Chen, Anthony S. Don, Maria Fedorova, Takeshi Harayama, Natalie Krahmer, Shigekazu Nagata, Priyanka Narayan, Dequina Nicholas, Sara M. Nowinski, Yasunori Saheki, Clay F. Semenkovich, Xiaoai Zhao, Yilong Zou
{"title":"Time for lipid cell biology","authors":"Xiao-Wei Chen, Anthony S. Don, Maria Fedorova, Takeshi Harayama, Natalie Krahmer, Shigekazu Nagata, Priyanka Narayan, Dequina Nicholas, Sara M. Nowinski, Yasunori Saheki, Clay F. Semenkovich, Xiaoai Zhao, Yilong Zou","doi":"10.1038/s41556-025-01609-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41556-025-01609-w","url":null,"abstract":"It is an exciting time for lipid metabolism and membrane cell biologists as technological progress has increased our ability to study lipids in cells. We asked leaders studying lipid cell biology from different perspectives to share what questions they are most interested in and what tools they believe the field is currently lacking.","PeriodicalId":18977,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cell Biology","volume":"27 2","pages":"169-174"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143124321","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}