{"title":"Secretory autophagy-promoted cargo exocytosis requires active RAB37.","authors":"Shan-Ying Wu, Yi-Ching Wang, Roberto Zuchini, Kai-Ying Lan, Hsiao-Sheng Liu, Sheng-Hui Lan","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2210446","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2210446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>RAB37 GTPase regulates cargo exocytosis by cycling between an inactive GDP-bound form and an active GTP-bound form. We reveal that RAB37 simultaneously regulates autophagy activation and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP1) secretion in lung cancer cells under starvation conditions. TIMP1, an inflammatory cytokine, is a known inhibitory molecule of matrix metalloproteinases matrix metalloproteinase 9 and suppresses the mobility of lung cancer cells both in vitro and in vivo through conventional exocytosis under serum-free conditions. Notably, we disclosed that secretory autophagy participates in TIMP1 secretion in a RAB37- and Sec22b-dependent manner. Sec22b, a SNARE family protein, participates in vesicle and membrane fusion of secretory autophagy. Knockdown of Sec22b decreased TIMP1 secretion and cell motility but did not affect cell proliferation under starvation conditions. We confirmed that starvation-activated RAB37 accompanied by Sec22b is essential for secretory autophagy to further enhance TIMP1 exocytosis. We further use an off-label drug amiodarone to demonstrate that autophagy induction facilitates TIMP1 secretion and suppresses the motility and metastasis of lung cancer cells in a RAB37-dependent manner in the lung-to-lung mouse model. In conclusion, we demonstrated that the RAB37 activation plays a pivotal regulatory role in secretory autophagy for TIMP1 secretion in lung cancer.<b>Abbreviations:</b> ATG: autophagy-related gene; GDP: guanosine diphosphate; GTP: guanosine triphosphate; LC3: microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3; SNARE: soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive-factor attachment protein receptor; TIMP1: tissue inhibitor matrix metalloproteinase 1.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"933-934"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062352/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9446150","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2221921
Beatrice Paola Festa, Farah H Siddiqi, Maria Jimenez-Sanchez, David C Rubinsztein
{"title":"Microglial cytokines poison neuronal autophagy via CCR5, a druggable target.","authors":"Beatrice Paola Festa, Farah H Siddiqi, Maria Jimenez-Sanchez, David C Rubinsztein","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2221921","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2221921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the prodromal phase of neurodegenerative diseases, microglia switch to an activated state resulting in increased secretion of pro-inflammatory factors. We reported that C - C chemokine ligand 3 (CCL3), C - C chemokine ligand 4 (CCL4) and C - C chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5) contained in the secretome of activated microglia inhibit neuronal autophagy via a non-cell autonomous mechanism. These chemokines bind and activate neuronal C - C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5), which, in turn, promotes phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) - protein kinase B (PKB, or AKT) - mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway activation, which inhibits autophagy, thus causing the accumulation of aggregate-prone proteins in the cytoplasm of neurons. The levels of CCR5 and its chemokine ligands are increased in the brains of pre-manifesting Huntington disease (HD) and tauopathy mouse models. CCR5 accumulation might be due to a self-amplifying mechanism, since CCR5 is a substrate of autophagy and CCL5-CCR5-mediated autophagy inhibition impairs CCR5 degradation. Furthermore, pharmacological, or genetic inhibition of CCR5 rescues mTORC1-autophagy dysfunction and improves neurodegeneration in HD and tauopathy mouse models, suggesting that CCR5 hyperactivation is a pathogenic signal driving the progression of these diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"949-951"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062376/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9685360","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2223473
Subhadip Mukhopadhyay, Joel Encarnacion-Rosado, Alec C Kimmelman
{"title":"Autophagy fuels mitochondrial function through regulation of iron metabolism in pancreatic cancer.","authors":"Subhadip Mukhopadhyay, Joel Encarnacion-Rosado, Alec C Kimmelman","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2223473","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2223473","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has one of the lowest 5-year survival rates of any cancer in the United States. Our previous work has shown that autophagy can promote PDAC progression. We recently established the importance of autophagy in regulating bioavailable iron to control mitochondrial metabolism in PDAC. We found that inhibition of autophagy in PDAC leads to mitochondrial dysfunction due to abrogation of succinate dehydrogenase complex iron sulfur subunit B (SDHB) expression. Additionally, we observed that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) can provide iron to autophagy-inhibited PDAC tumor cells, thereby increasing their resistance to autophagy inhibition. To impede such metabolic compensation, we used a low iron diet together with autophagy inhibition and demonstrated a significant improvement of tumor response in syngeneic PDAC models.<b>Abbreviations:</b> PDAC: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; CAFs: cancer-associated fibroblasts; SDHB: succinate dehydrogenase complex iron sulfur subunit B; ISCA1: iron sulfur cluster assembly protein 1; FPN: ferroportin; LIP: labile iron pool; FAC: ferric ammonium chloride; OCR: oxygen consumption rate; OXPHOS: oxidative phosphorylation, IL6: interleukin 6; Fe-S: iron sulfur; ATP: adenosine triphosphate.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"963-964"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9618570","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2221958
Natalia Jiménez-Moreno, Jon D Lane
{"title":"ATG8 proteins are co-factors for human dopaminergic neuronal transcriptional control: implications for neuronal resilience in Parkinson disease.","authors":"Natalia Jiménez-Moreno, Jon D Lane","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2221958","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2221958","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parkinson disease (PD) is caused by the loss of ventral midbrain dopaminergic neurons (mDANs) in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). These cells are especially vulnerable to stress but can be protected by autophagy enhancement strategies in vitro and in vivo. In our recent study, we focused on the LIM (Lin11, Isl-1, and Mec-3)-domain homeobox transcription factors LMX1A (LIM homeobox transcription factor 1 alpha) and LMX1B (LIM homeobox transcription factor 1 beta), crucial drivers of mDAN differentiation with roles in autophagy gene expression for stress protection in the developed brain. Using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived mDANs and transformed human cell lines, we found that these autophagy gene transcription factors are themselves regulated by autophagy-mediated turnover. LMX1B possesses a non-canonical LC3-interacting region (LIR) in its C-terminus through which it interacts with ATG8 family members. The LMX1B LIR-like domain enables binding to ATG8 proteins in the nucleus, where ATG8 proteins act as co-factors for robust transcription of LMX1B target genes. Thus, we propose a novel role for ATG8 proteins as autophagy gene transcriptional co-factors for mDAN stress protection in PD.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"955-957"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062359/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9668942","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2232641
David Broadbent, Carlo Barnaba, Jens C Schmidt
{"title":"Tracking the transition from an ATG9A vesicle to an autophagosome.","authors":"David Broadbent, Carlo Barnaba, Jens C Schmidt","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2232641","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2232641","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abbreviations: </strong>ATG: autophagy-related proteins; ULK1/2: Unc-51-Like activating Kinases; PI3Ks: Phosphoinositide 3-Kinases; ATG2A: autophagy-related protein 2A; ATG5: autophagy-related protein 5; ATG16: autophagy-related protein 16; ATG8: autophagy-related protein 8; U2OS: human bone osteosarcoma epithelial cell; LC3B: microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B Light Chain 3B; GABARAPL1: GABA type A Receptor-Associated Protein Like 1; ATG9A: autophagy-related protein 9A; ATG13: autophagy-related protein 13; SQSTM1: Sequestosome-1/p62; WIPI2: WD repeat domain, Phosphoinositide Interacting 2; PI3P: Phosphoinositide-3-phosphate.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"976-977"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062357/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9868549","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2231270
Pooja Popli, Ramakrishna Kommagani
{"title":"Autophagy is required for stem-cell-mediated endometrial programming and the establishment of pregnancy.","authors":"Pooja Popli, Ramakrishna Kommagani","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2231270","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2231270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autophagy plays an important role in the normal growth and morphogenesis of a variety of tissues. Its role in uterine maturation, however, is not fully characterized. Recently, we reported that BECN1 (Beclin1)-dependent autophagy, but not apoptosis, is crucial for stem cell-mediated endometrial programming and the establishment of pregnancy in mice. Upon genetic and pharmacological inhibition of BECN1-mediated autophagy, female mice displayed severe endometrial structural and functional defects leading to infertility. Specifically, conditional loss of <i>Becn1</i> in the uterus induces apoptosis and results in the gradual loss of endometrial progenitor stem cells. Importantly, the restoration of BECN1-driven autophagy, but not apoptosis in <i>Becn1</i> conditionally ablated mice promoted normal uterine adenogenesis and morphogenesis. Overall, our findings emphasize the critical role of intrinsic autophagy in endometrial homeostasis and on the molecular underpinnings of uterine differentiation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"970-972"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10128513","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2213038
Xinyu Gong, Lifeng Pan
{"title":"ATG16L1 is equipped with two distinct WIPI2-binding sites to drive autophagy.","authors":"Xinyu Gong, Lifeng Pan","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2213038","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2213038","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The recruitment of ATG12-ATG5-ATG16L1 complex to phagophore mediated by the specific interaction between ATG16L1 and WIPI2, is pivotal to the formation of autophagosomes during macroautophagy. Recently, we reported that ATG16L1 contains two distinct WIPI2-binding sites, the previously reported WIPI2-binding site (WBS1), and the newly identified site (WBS2). By determining the crystal structures of WIPI2 with ATG16L1 WBS1 and WBS2 respectively, we uncovered that, unlike ATG16L1 WBS1, ATG16L1 WBS2 and its binding mechanism to WIPI2 are conserved from yeast to mammals. Using cell-based functional assays, we further demonstrated that the integrity of two WIPI2-binding sites of ATG16L1 is essential for normal autophagic flux. In summary, our study provided mechanistic insights into the interaction of two key autophagic proteins, ATG16L1 and WIPI2, and revealed a dual-binding-site mode adopted by ATG16L1 to associate with WIPI2.<b>Abbreviations:</b> ATG: autophagy-related protein; CCD: coiled-coil domain; ITC: isothermal titration calorimetry; PI3KC3-C1: class III phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase complex I; PtdIns3P: phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate; ULK: Unc-51-like kinase; WBS: WIPI2-binding site; WIPI: WD repeat domain phosphoinositide-interacting protein.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"938-940"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9454181","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}
AutophagyPub Date : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2023-07-09DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2023.2232225
Delphine Judith, Clarisse Berlioz-Torrent
{"title":"The autophagy-related protein ATG5 is a central mediator of a non-canonical autophagy pathway hijacked by HIV-1 to weaken the host's response to infection.","authors":"Delphine Judith, Clarisse Berlioz-Torrent","doi":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2232225","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15548627.2023.2232225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how viruses evade innate defenses to efficiently spread in their hosts is crucial in the fight against infections. In our study, we provided new insights on the first step initiating an LC3C (microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3 gamma)-associated degradative pathway exploited by HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus type 1) to overcome the antiviral action of the restriction factor BST2 (bone marrow stromal cell antigen 2)/tetherin. We have uncovered an unsuspected and unconventional function of the autophagy-related protein ATG5 in the recognition and engagement of BST2 molecules trapping viruses at the plasma membrane, and directing them toward this LC3C-associated pathway for degradation. Additionally, we highlighted that HIV-1 uses this LC3C-associated process to attenuate the inflammatory responses triggered by BST2-mediated sensing of viruses.</p>","PeriodicalId":8722,"journal":{"name":"Autophagy","volume":" ","pages":"973-975"},"PeriodicalIF":14.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11062395/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9765048","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}