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Shi L, Yang C, Zhang M, Li K, Wang K, Jiao L, Liu R, Wang Y, Li M, Wang Y, Ma L, Hu S, Bian X. Dissecting the mechanism of atlastin-mediated homotypic membrane fusion at the single-molecule level. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2488. [PMID: 38509071 PMCID: PMC10954664 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46919-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Homotypic membrane fusion of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is mediated by dynamin-like GTPase atlastin (ATL). This fundamental process relies on GTP-dependent domain rearrangements in the N-terminal region of ATL (ATLcyto), including the GTPase domain and three-helix bundle (3HB). However, its conformational dynamics during the GTPase cycle remain elusive. Here, we combine single-molecule FRET imaging and molecular dynamics simulations to address this conundrum. Different from the prevailing model, ATLcyto can form a loose crossover dimer upon GTP binding, which is tightened by GTP hydrolysis for membrane fusion. Furthermore, the α-helical motif between the 3HB and transmembrane domain, which is embedded in the surface of the lipid bilayer and self-associates in the crossover dimer, is required for ATL function. To recycle the proteins, Pi release, which disassembles the dimer, activates frequent relative movements between the GTPase domain and 3HB, and subsequent GDP dissociation alters the conformational preference of the ATLcyto monomer for entering the next reaction cycle. Finally, we found that two disease-causing mutations affect human ATL1 activity by destabilizing GTP binding-induced loose crossover dimer formation and the membrane-embedded helix, respectively. These results provide insights into ATL-mediated homotypic membrane fusion and the pathological mechanisms of related disease.
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- Lijun Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
- The Provincial International Science and Technology Cooperation Base on Engineering Biology, International Campus of Zhejiang University, Haining, 314400, China.
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- National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
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- National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.
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Jang E, Lee M, Yoon SY, Lee SS, Park J, Jin MS, Eom SH, Lee C, Jun Y. Yeast lunapark regulates the formation of trans-Sey1p complexes for homotypic ER membrane fusion. iScience 2023; 26:108386. [PMID: 38025788 PMCID: PMC10679814 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 09/24/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) consists of the nuclear envelope and a connected peripheral network of tubules and interspersed sheets. The structure of ER tubules is generated and maintained by various proteins, including reticulons, DP1/Yop1p, atlastins, and lunapark. Reticulons and DP1/Yop1p stabilize the high membrane curvature of ER tubules, and atlastins mediate homotypic membrane fusion between ER tubules; however, the exact role of lunapark remains poorly characterized. Here, using isolated yeast ER microsomes and reconstituted proteoliposomes, we directly examined the function of the yeast lunapark Lnp1p for yeast atlastin Sey1p-mediated ER fusion and found that Lnp1p inhibits Sey1p-driven membrane fusion. Furthermore, by using a newly developed assay for monitoring trans-Sey1p complex assembly, a prerequisite for ER fusion, we found that assembly of trans-Sey1p complexes was increased by the deletion of LNP1 and decreased by the overexpression of Lnp1p, indicating that Lnp1p inhibits Sey1p-mediated fusion by interfering with assembly of trans-Sey1p complexes.
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- Eunhong Jang
- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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Vlieghe A, Niort K, Fumat H, Guigner JM, Cohen MM, Tareste D. Role of Lipids and Divalent Cations in Membrane Fusion Mediated by the Heptad Repeat Domain 1 of Mitofusin. Biomolecules 2023; 13:1341. [PMID: 37759741 PMCID: PMC10527301 DOI: 10.3390/biom13091341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that constantly undergo fusion and fission events to maintain their shape, distribution and cellular function. Mitofusin 1 and 2 proteins are two dynamin-like GTPases involved in the fusion of outer mitochondrial membranes (OMM). Mitofusins are anchored to the OMM through their transmembrane domain and possess two heptad repeat domains (HR1 and HR2) in addition to their N-terminal GTPase domain. The HR1 domain was found to induce fusion via its amphipathic helix, which interacts with the lipid bilayer structure. The lipid composition of mitochondrial membranes can also impact fusion. However, the precise mode of action of lipids in mitochondrial fusion is not fully understood. In this study, we examined the role of the mitochondrial lipids phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), cardiolipin (CL) and phosphatidic acid (PA) in membrane fusion induced by the HR1 domain, both in the presence and absence of divalent cations (Ca2+ or Mg2+). Our results showed that PE, as well as PA in the presence of Ca2+, effectively stimulated HR1-mediated fusion, while CL had a slight inhibitory effect. By considering the biophysical properties of these lipids in the absence or presence of divalent cations, we inferred that the interplay between divalent cations and specific cone-shaped lipids creates regions with packing defects in the membrane, which provides a favorable environment for the amphipathic helix of HR1 to bind to the membrane and initiate fusion.
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- Anaïs Vlieghe
- Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Inserm UMR-S 1266, Team Membrane Traffic in Healthy & Diseased Brain, 75014 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Inserm UMR-S 1266, Team Membrane Traffic in Healthy & Diseased Brain, 75014 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Inserm UMR-S 1266, Team Membrane Traffic in Healthy & Diseased Brain, 75014 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), CNRS UMR 7590, MNHN, IRD UR 206, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique (IBPC), CNRS UMR 8226, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, 75005 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Inserm UMR-S 1266, Team Membrane Traffic in Healthy & Diseased Brain, 75014 Paris, France
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Atlastins are mechanochemical GTPases that catalyze homotypic fusion of ER tubules. Recent work has demonstrated that tethering and fusion by the three mammalian atlastin paralogs are differentially regulated by their variable N- and C-terminal extensions. These new findings have profound implications for atlastin-mediated homeostasis of the tubular ER network.
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- Shivaani Krishna
- Bay Area Institute of Science, Altos Labs Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA
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- Bay Area Institute of Science, Altos Labs Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA
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Bryce S, Stolzer M, Crosby D, Yang R, Durand D, Lee TH. Human atlastin-3 is a constitutive ER membrane fusion catalyst. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:e202211021. [PMID: 37102997 PMCID: PMC10140384 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202211021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 02/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/04/2023] [Indexed: 04/28/2023] Open
Abstract
Homotypic membrane fusion catalyzed by the atlastin (ATL) GTPase sustains the branched endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network in metazoans. Our recent discovery that two of the three human ATL paralogs (ATL1/2) are C-terminally autoinhibited implied that relief of autoinhibition would be integral to the ATL fusion mechanism. An alternative hypothesis is that the third paralog ATL3 promotes constitutive ER fusion with relief of ATL1/2 autoinhibition used conditionally. However, published studies suggest ATL3 is a weak fusogen at best. Contrary to expectations, we demonstrate here that purified human ATL3 catalyzes efficient membrane fusion in vitro and is sufficient to sustain the ER network in triple knockout cells. Strikingly, ATL3 lacks any detectable C-terminal autoinhibition, like the invertebrate Drosophila ATL ortholog. Phylogenetic analysis of ATL C-termini indicates that C-terminal autoinhibition is a recent evolutionary innovation. We suggest that ATL3 is a constitutive ER fusion catalyst and that ATL1/2 autoinhibition likely evolved in vertebrates as a means of upregulating ER fusion activity on demand.
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- Samantha Bryce
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Lipowsky R, Pramanik S, Benk AS, Tarnawski M, Spatz JP, Dimova R. Elucidating the Morphology of the Endoplasmic Reticulum: Puzzles and Perspectives. ACS NANO 2023. [PMID: 37377213 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c01338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/29/2023]
Abstract
Artificial or synthetic organelles are a key challenge for bottom-up synthetic biology. So far, synthetic organelles have typically been based on spherical membrane compartments, used to spatially confine selected chemical reactions. In vivo, these compartments are often far from being spherical and can exhibit rather complex architectures. A particularly fascinating example is provided by the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which extends throughout the whole cell by forming a continuous network of membrane nanotubes connected by three-way junctions. The nanotubes have a typical diameter of between 50 and 100 nm. In spite of much experimental progress, several fundamental aspects of the ER morphology remain elusive. A long-standing puzzle is the straight appearance of the tubules in the light microscope, which form irregular polygons with contact angles close to 120°. Another puzzling aspect is the nanoscopic shapes of the tubules and junctions, for which very different images have been obtained by electron microcopy and structured illumination microscopy. Furthermore, both the formation and maintenance of the reticular networks require GTP and GTP-hydrolyzing membrane proteins. In fact, the networks are destroyed by the fragmentation of nanotubes when the supply of GTP is interrupted. Here, it is argued that all of these puzzling observations are intimately related to each other and to the dimerization of two membrane proteins anchored to the same membrane. So far, the functional significance of this dimerization process remained elusive and, thus, seemed to waste a lot of GTP. However, this process can generate an effective membrane tension that stabilizes the irregular polygonal geometry of the reticular networks and prevents the fragmentation of their tubules, thereby maintaining the integrity of the ER. By incorporating the GTP-hydrolyzing membrane proteins into giant unilamellar vesicles, the effective membrane tension will become accessible to systematic experimental studies.
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- Reinhard Lipowsky
- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
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Gewehr L, Junglas B, Jilly R, Franz J, Zhu WE, Weidner T, Bonn M, Sachse C, Schneider D. SynDLP is a dynamin-like protein of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 with eukaryotic features. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2156. [PMID: 37059718 PMCID: PMC10104851 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37746-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Dynamin-like proteins are membrane remodeling GTPases with well-understood functions in eukaryotic cells. However, bacterial dynamin-like proteins are still poorly investigated. SynDLP, the dynamin-like protein of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, forms ordered oligomers in solution. The 3.7 Å resolution cryo-EM structure of SynDLP oligomers reveals the presence of oligomeric stalk interfaces typical for eukaryotic dynamin-like proteins. The bundle signaling element domain shows distinct features, such as an intramolecular disulfide bridge that affects the GTPase activity, or an expanded intermolecular interface with the GTPase domain. In addition to typical GD-GD contacts, such atypical GTPase domain interfaces might be a GTPase activity regulating tool in oligomerized SynDLP. Furthermore, we show that SynDLP interacts with and intercalates into membranes containing negatively charged thylakoid membrane lipids independent of nucleotides. The structural characteristics of SynDLP oligomers suggest it to be the closest known bacterial ancestor of eukaryotic dynamin.
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- Lucas Gewehr
- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C-3): Structural Biology, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Biological Information Processing (IBI-6): Cellular Structural Biology, Jülich, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C-3): Structural Biology, Jülich, Germany.
- Institute for Biological Information Processing (IBI-6): Cellular Structural Biology, Jülich, Germany.
- Department of Biology, Heinrich Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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Jang E, Moon Y, Yoon SY, Diaz JAR, Lee M, Ko N, Park J, Eom SH, Lee C, Jun Y. Human atlastins are sufficient to drive the fusion of liposomes with a physiological lipid composition. J Cell Biol 2023; 222:e202109090. [PMID: 36757370 PMCID: PMC9949273 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202109090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
Abstract
The dynamin-like GTPase atlastin is believed to be the minimal machinery required for homotypic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane fusion, mainly because Drosophila atlastin is sufficient to drive liposome fusion. However, it remains unclear whether mammalian atlastins, including the three human atlastins, are sufficient to induce liposome fusion, raising doubts about their major roles in mammalian cells. Here, we show that all human atlastins are sufficient to induce fusion when reconstituted into liposomes with a lipid composition mimicking that of the ER. Although the fusogenic activity of ATL1, which is predominantly expressed in neuronal cells, was weaker than that of ATL2 or ATL3, the addition of M1-spastin, a neuron-specific factor, markedly increased ATL1-mediated liposome fusion. Although we observed efficient fusion between ER microsomes isolated from cultured, non-neuronal cells that predominantly express ATL2-1, an autoinhibited isoform of ATL2, ATL2-1 failed to support liposome fusion by itself as reported previously, indicating that cellular factors enable ATL2-1 to mediate ER fusion in vivo.
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- Eunhong Jang
- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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- School of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
- Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Wang P, Duckney P, Gao E, Hussey PJ, Kriechbaumer V, Li C, Zang J, Zhang T. Keep in contact: multiple roles of endoplasmic reticulum-membrane contact sites and the organelle interaction network in plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 238:482-499. [PMID: 36651025 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Functional regulation and structural maintenance of the different organelles in plants contribute directly to plant development, reproduction and stress responses. To ensure these activities take place effectively, cells have evolved an interconnected network amongst various subcellular compartments, regulating rapid signal transduction and the exchange of biomaterial. Many proteins that regulate membrane connections have recently been identified in plants, and this is the first step in elucidating both the mechanism and function of these connections. Amongst all organelles, the endoplasmic reticulum is the key structure, which likely links most of the different subcellular compartments through membrane contact sites (MCS) and the ER-PM contact sites (EPCS) have been the most intensely studied in plants. However, the molecular composition and function of plant MCS are being found to be different from other eukaryotic systems. In this article, we will summarise the most recent advances in this field and discuss the mechanism and biological relevance of these essential links in plants.
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- Pengwei Wang
- National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
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- Endomembrane Structure and Function Research Group, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, OX3 0BP, UK
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- National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture & Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, China
- Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan, 430070, China
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Dallo S, Shin J, Zhang S, Ren Q, Bao H. Designer Nanodiscs to Probe and Reprogram Membrane Biology in Synapses. J Mol Biol 2023; 435:167757. [PMID: 35872069 PMCID: PMC9805492 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Revised: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Signal transduction at the synapse is mediated by a variety of protein-lipid interactions, which are vital for the spatial and temporal regulation of synaptic vesicle biogenesis, neurotransmitter release, and postsynaptic receptor activation. Therefore, our understanding of synaptic transmission cannot be completed until the elucidation of these critical protein-lipid interactions. On this front, recent advances in nanodiscs have vastly expanded our ability to probe and reprogram membrane biology in synapses. Here, we summarize the progress of the nanodisc toolbox and discuss future directions in this exciting field.
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- Sarah Dallo
- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter 33458, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter 33458, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter 33458, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter 33458, FL, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, 130 Scripps Way, Jupiter 33458, FL, USA.
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Angelotti T. Exploring the eukaryotic Yip and REEP/Yop superfamily of membrane-shaping adapter proteins (MSAPs): A cacophony or harmony of structure and function? Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:912848. [PMID: 36060263 PMCID: PMC9437294 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.912848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Polytopic cargo proteins are synthesized and exported along the secretory pathway from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), through the Golgi apparatus, with eventual insertion into the plasma membrane (PM). While searching for proteins that could enhance cell surface expression of olfactory receptors, a new family of proteins termed “receptor expression-enhancing proteins” or REEPs were identified. These membrane-shaping hairpin proteins serve as adapters, interacting with intracellular transport machinery, to regulate cargo protein trafficking. However, REEPs belong to a larger family of proteins, the Yip (Ypt-interacting protein) family, conserved in yeast and higher eukaryotes. To date, eighteen mammalian Yip family members, divided into four subfamilies (Yipf, REEP, Yif, and PRAF), have been identified. Yeast research has revealed many intriguing aspects of yeast Yip function, functions that have not completely been explored with mammalian Yip family members. This review and analysis will clarify the different Yip family nomenclature that have encumbered prior comparisons between yeast, plants, and eukaryotic family members, to provide a more complete understanding of their interacting proteins, membrane topology, organelle localization, and role as regulators of cargo trafficking and localization. In addition, the biological role of membrane shaping and sensing hairpin and amphipathic helical domains of various Yip proteins and their potential cellular functions will be described. Lastly, this review will discuss the concept of Yip proteins as members of a larger superfamily of membrane-shaping adapter proteins (MSAPs), proteins that both shape membranes via membrane-sensing and hairpin insertion, and well as act as adapters for protein-protein interactions. MSAPs are defined by their localization to specific membranes, ability to alter membrane structure, interactions with other proteins via specific domains, and specific interactions/effects on cargo proteins.
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Circularized fluorescent nanodiscs for probing protein-lipid interactions. Commun Biol 2022; 5:507. [PMID: 35618817 PMCID: PMC9135701 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03443-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Protein–lipid interactions are vital for numerous transmembrane signaling pathways. However, simple tools to characterize these interactions remain scarce and are much needed to advance our understanding of signal transduction across lipid bilayers. To tackle this challenge, we herein engineer nanodisc as a robust fluorescent sensor for reporting membrane biochemical reactions. We circularize nanodiscs via split GFP and thereby create an intensity-based fluorescent sensor (isenND) for detecting membrane binding and remodeling events. We show that isenND responds robustly and specifically to the action of a diverse array of membrane-interacting proteins and peptides, ranging from synaptotagmin and synuclein involved in neurotransmission to viral fusion peptides of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. Together, isenND can serve as a versatile biochemical reagent useful for basic and translational research of membrane biology. A fluorescent probe for detecting membrane protein binding and remodeling events is presented, which relies on split-GFP technology to generate circularized nanodiscs useful in membrane protein biophysics and structural biology.
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Crosby D, Mikolaj MR, Nyenhuis SB, Bryce S, Hinshaw JE, Lee TH. Reconstitution of human atlastin fusion activity reveals autoinhibition by the C terminus. J Cell Biol 2022; 221:212879. [PMID: 34817557 PMCID: PMC8624677 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202107070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 11/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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ER network formation depends on membrane fusion by the atlastin (ATL) GTPase. In humans, three paralogs are differentially expressed with divergent N- and C-terminal extensions, but their respective roles remain unknown. This is partly because, unlike Drosophila ATL, the fusion activity of human ATLs has not been reconstituted. Here, we report successful reconstitution of fusion activity by the human ATLs. Unexpectedly, the major splice isoforms of ATL1 and ATL2 are each autoinhibited, albeit to differing degrees. For the more strongly inhibited ATL2, autoinhibition mapped to a C-terminal α-helix is predicted to be continuous with an amphipathic helix required for fusion. Charge reversal of residues in the inhibitory domain strongly activated its fusion activity, and overexpression of this disinhibited version caused ER collapse. Neurons express an ATL2 splice isoform whose sequence differs in the inhibitory domain, and this form showed full fusion activity. These findings reveal autoinhibition and alternate splicing as regulators of atlastin-mediated ER fusion.
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- Daniel Crosby
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Laboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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The complexin C-terminal amphipathic helix stabilizes the fusion pore open state by sculpting membranes. Nat Struct Mol Biol 2022; 29:97-107. [DOI: 10.1038/s41594-021-00716-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A novel insertion mutation in atlastin 1 is associated with spastic quadriplegia, increased membrane tethering, and aberrant conformational switching. J Biol Chem 2021; 298:101438. [PMID: 34808209 PMCID: PMC8688574 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101438] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2021] [Revised: 11/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) comprises a heterogeneous group of neuropathies affecting upper motor neurons and causing progressive gait disorder. Mutations in the gene SPG3A/atlastin-1 (ATL1), encoding a dynamin superfamily member, which utilizes the energy from GTP hydrolysis for membrane tethering and fusion to promote the formation of a highly branched, smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER), account for approximately 10% of all HSP cases. The continued discovery and characterization of novel disease mutations are crucial for our understanding of HSP pathogenesis and potential treatments. Here, we report a novel disease-causing, in-frame insertion in the ATL1 gene, leading to inclusion of an additional asparagine residue at position 417 (N417ins). This mutation correlates with complex, early-onset spastic quadriplegia affecting all four extremities, generalized dystonia, and a thinning of the corpus callosum. We show using limited proteolysis and FRET-based studies that this novel insertion affects a region in the protein central to intramolecular interactions and GTPase-driven conformational change, and that this insertion mutation is associated with an aberrant prehydrolysis state. While GTPase activity remains unaffected by the insertion, membrane tethering is increased, indicative of a gain-of-function disease mechanism uncommon for ATL1-associated pathologies. In conclusion, our results identify a novel insertion mutation with altered membrane tethering activity that is associated with spastic quadriplegia, potentially uncovering a broad spectrum of molecular mechanisms that may affect neuronal function.
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Kelly CM, Byrnes LJ, Neela N, Sondermann H, O'Donnell JP. The hypervariable region of atlastin-1 is a site for intrinsic and extrinsic regulation. J Cell Biol 2021; 220:212648. [PMID: 34546351 PMCID: PMC8563291 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202104128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Atlastin (ATL) GTPases catalyze homotypic membrane fusion of the peripheral endoplasmic reticulum (ER). GTP-hydrolysis–driven conformational changes and membrane tethering are prerequisites for proper membrane fusion. However, the molecular basis for regulation of these processes is poorly understood. Here we establish intrinsic and extrinsic modes of ATL1 regulation that involve the N-terminal hypervariable region (HVR) of ATLs. Crystal structures of ATL1 and ATL3 exhibit the HVR as a distinct, isoform-specific structural feature. Characterizing the functional role of ATL1’s HVR uncovered its positive effect on membrane tethering and on ATL1’s cellular function. The HVR is post-translationally regulated through phosphorylation-dependent modification. A kinase screen identified candidates that modify the HVR site specifically, corresponding to the modifications on ATL1 detected in cells. This work reveals how the HVR contributes to efficient and potentially regulated activity of ATLs, laying the foundation for the identification of cellular effectors of ATL-mediated membrane processes.
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- Carolyn M Kelly
- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.,CSSB Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.,Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.,Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Counsil (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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Groth A, Schmitt K, Valerius O, Herzog B, Pöggeler S. Analysis of the Putative Nucleoporin POM33 in the Filamentous Fungus Sordaria macrospora. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7090682. [PMID: 34575720 PMCID: PMC8468769 DOI: 10.3390/jof7090682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 08/17/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
In the filamentous fungus Sordaria macrospora (Sm), the STRIPAK complex is required for vegetative growth, fruiting-body development and hyphal fusion. The SmSTRIPAK core consists of the striatin homolog PRO11, the scaffolding subunit of phosphatase PP2A, SmPP2AA, and its catalytic subunit SmPP2Ac1. Among other STRIPAK proteins, the recently identified coiled-coil protein SCI1 was demonstrated to co-localize around the nucleus. Pulldown experiments with SCI identified the transmembrane nucleoporin (TM Nup) SmPOM33 as a potential nuclear-anchor of SmSTRIPAK. Localization studies revealed that SmPOM33 partially localizes to the nuclear envelope (NE), but mainly to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We succeeded to generate a Δpom33 deletion mutant by homologous recombination in a new S. macrospora Δku80 recipient strain, which is defective in non-homologous end joining. Deletion of Smpom33 did neither impair vegetative growth nor sexual development. In pulldown experiments of SmPOM33 followed by LC/MS analysis, ER-membrane proteins involved in ER morphology, protein translocation, glycosylation, sterol biosynthesis and Ca2+-transport were significantly enriched. Data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD026253. Although no SmSTRIPAK components were identified as putative interaction partners, it cannot be excluded that SmPOM33 is involved in temporarily anchoring the SmSTRIPAK to the NE or other sites in the cell.
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- Anika Groth
- Department of Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; (A.G.); (B.H.)
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; (K.S.); (O.V.)
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Genetics, Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; (K.S.); (O.V.)
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- Department of Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; (A.G.); (B.H.)
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- Department of Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 8, 37077 Göttingen, Germany; (A.G.); (B.H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-551-391-3930
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O'Donnell JP, Kelly CM, Sondermann H. Nucleotide-Dependent Dimerization and Conformational Switching of Atlastin. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2159:93-113. [PMID: 32529366 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0676-6_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A common feature of dynamin-related proteins (DRPs) is their use of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) to control protein dynamics. In the case of the endoplasmic- reticulum- (ER)-resident membrane protein atlastin (ATL), GTP binding and hydrolysis result in membrane fusion of ER tubules and the generation of a branched ER network. In this chapter, we describe two independent methods for dissecting the mechanism underlying nucleotide-dependent quaternary structure and conformational changes of ATL, focusing on size-exclusion chromatography coupled with multi-angle light scattering (SEC-MALS) and Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), respectively. The high temporal resolution of the FRET-based assays enables the ordering of the molecular events identified in structural and equilibrium-based SEC-MALS studies. In combination, these complementary methods report on the oligomeric states of a system at equilibrium and timing of key steps along the enzyme's catalytic cycle. These methods are broadly applicable to proteins that undergo ligand-induced dimerization and/or conformational changes.
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- John P O'Donnell
- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Hüsler D, Steiner B, Welin A, Striednig B, Swart AL, Molle V, Hilbi H, Letourneur F. Dictyostelium lacking the single atlastin homolog Sey1 shows aberrant ER architecture, proteolytic processes and expansion of the Legionella-containing vacuole. Cell Microbiol 2021; 23:e13318. [PMID: 33583106 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Dictyostelium discoideum Sey1 is the single ortholog of mammalian atlastin 1-3 (ATL1-3), which are large homodimeric GTPases mediating homotypic fusion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) tubules. In this study, we generated a D. discoideum mutant strain lacking the sey1 gene and found that amoebae deleted for sey1 are enlarged, but grow and develop similarly to the parental strain. The ∆sey1 mutant amoebae showed an altered ER architecture, and the tubular ER network was partially disrupted without any major consequences for other organelles or the architecture of the secretory and endocytic pathways. Macropinocytic and phagocytic functions were preserved; however, the mutant amoebae exhibited cumulative defects in lysosomal enzymes exocytosis, intracellular proteolysis, and cell motility, resulting in impaired growth on bacterial lawns. Moreover, ∆sey1 mutant cells showed a constitutive activation of the unfolded protein response pathway (UPR), but they still readily adapted to moderate levels of ER stress, while unable to cope with prolonged stress. In D. discoideum ∆sey1 the formation of the ER-associated compartment harbouring the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila was also impaired. In the mutant amoebae, the ER was less efficiently recruited to the "Legionella-containing vacuole" (LCV), the expansion of the pathogen vacuole was inhibited at early stages of infection and intracellular bacterial growth was reduced. In summary, our study establishes a role of D. discoideum Sey1 in ER architecture, proteolysis, cell motility and intracellular replication of L. pneumophila.
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- Dario Hüsler
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Division of Inflammation and Infection, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Host Interactions, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Pathogen Host Interactions, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France
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Wang N, Clark LD, Gao Y, Kozlov MM, Shemesh T, Rapoport TA. Mechanism of membrane-curvature generation by ER-tubule shaping proteins. Nat Commun 2021; 12:568. [PMID: 33495454 PMCID: PMC7835363 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20625-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 12/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network consists of tubules with high membrane curvature in cross-section, generated by the reticulons and REEPs. These proteins have two pairs of trans-membrane (TM) segments, followed by an amphipathic helix (APH), but how they induce curvature is poorly understood. Here, we show that REEPs form homodimers by interaction within the membrane. When overexpressed or reconstituted at high concentrations with phospholipids, REEPs cause extreme curvature through their TMs, generating lipoprotein particles instead of vesicles. The APH facilitates curvature generation, as its mutation prevents ER network formation of reconstituted proteoliposomes, and synthetic L- or D-amino acid peptides abolish ER network formation in Xenopus egg extracts. In Schizosaccharomyces japonicus, the APH is required for reticulon’s exclusive ER-tubule localization and restricted mobility. Thus, the TMs and APH cooperate to generate high membrane curvature. We propose that the formation of splayed REEP/reticulon dimers is responsible for ER tubule formation. The endoplasmic reticulum network consists of tubules with high membrane curvature in cross-section, generated by the reticulons and REEPs, but how they introduce curvature is poorly understood. Here authors show that REEPs form homodimers and use their amphipathic helix and trans-membrane segments to introduce high membrane curvature that can even lead to the formation of lipoprotein particles.
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- Ning Wang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Golani G, Leikina E, Melikov K, Whitlock JM, Gamage DG, Luoma-Overstreet G, Millay DP, Kozlov MM, Chernomordik LV. Myomerger promotes fusion pore by elastic coupling between proximal membrane leaflets and hemifusion diaphragm. Nat Commun 2021; 12:495. [PMID: 33479215 PMCID: PMC7820291 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20804-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Myomerger is a muscle-specific membrane protein involved in formation of multinucleated muscle cells by mediating the transition from the early hemifusion stage to complete fusion. Here, we considered the physical mechanism of the Myomerger action based on the hypothesis that Myomerger shifts the spontaneous curvature of the outer membrane leaflets to more positive values. We predicted, theoretically, that Myomerger generates the outer leaflet elastic stresses, which propagate into the hemifusion diaphragm and accelerate the fusion pore formation. We showed that Myomerger ectodomain indeed generates positive spontaneous curvature of lipid monolayers. We substantiated the mechanism by experiments on myoblast fusion and influenza hemagglutinin-mediated cell fusion. In both processes, the effects of Myomerger ectodomain were strikingly similar to those of lysophosphatidylcholine known to generate a positive spontaneous curvature of lipid monolayers. The control of post-hemifusion stages by shifting the spontaneous curvature of proximal membrane monolayers may be utilized in diverse fusion processes.
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- Gonen Golani
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel
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- Section on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Section on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Section on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Section on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45229, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel.
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- Section on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Yang Y, Margam NN. Structural Insights into Membrane Fusion Mediated by Convergent Small Fusogens. Cells 2021; 10:cells10010160. [PMID: 33467484 PMCID: PMC7830690 DOI: 10.3390/cells10010160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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From lifeless viral particles to complex multicellular organisms, membrane fusion is inarguably the important fundamental biological phenomena. Sitting at the heart of membrane fusion are protein mediators known as fusogens. Despite the extensive functional and structural characterization of these proteins in recent years, scientists are still grappling with the fundamental mechanisms underlying membrane fusion. From an evolutionary perspective, fusogens follow divergent evolutionary principles in that they are functionally independent and do not share any sequence identity; however, they possess structural similarity, raising the possibility that membrane fusion is mediated by essential motifs ubiquitous to all. In this review, we particularly emphasize structural characteristics of small-molecular-weight fusogens in the hope of uncovering the most fundamental aspects mediating membrane–membrane interactions. By identifying and elucidating fusion-dependent functional domains, this review paves the way for future research exploring novel fusogens in health and disease.
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Kriechbaumer V, Brandizzi F. The plant endoplasmic reticulum: an organized chaos of tubules and sheets with multiple functions. J Microsc 2020; 280:122-133. [PMID: 32426862 PMCID: PMC10895883 DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The endoplasmic reticulum is a fascinating organelle at the core of the secretory pathway. It is responsible for the synthesis of one third of the cellular proteome and, in plant cells, it produces receptors and transporters of hormones as well as the proteins responsible for the biosynthesis of critical components of a cellulosic cell wall. The endoplasmic reticulum structure resembles a spider-web network of interconnected tubules and cisternae that pervades the cell. The study of the dynamics and interaction of this organelles with other cellular structures such as the plasma membrane, the Golgi apparatus and the cytoskeleton, have been permitted by the implementation of fluorescent protein and advanced confocal imaging. In this review, we report on the findings that contributed towards the understanding of the endoplasmic reticulum morphology and function with the aid of fluorescent proteins, focusing on the contributions provided by pioneering work from the lab of the late Professor Chris Hawes.
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- V Kriechbaumer
- Plant Cell Biology, Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, U.K
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- MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A
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Gao S, Hu J. Mitochondrial Fusion: The Machineries In and Out. Trends Cell Biol 2020; 31:62-74. [PMID: 33092941 DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2020.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Revised: 09/10/2020] [Accepted: 09/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that constantly undergo fission and fusion. Disruption of mitochondrial dynamics undermines their function and causes several human diseases. The fusion of the outer (OMM) and inner mitochondrial membranes (IMM) is mediated by two classes of dynamin-like protein (DLP): mitofusin (MFN)/fuzzy onions 1 (Fzo1) and optic atrophy 1/mitochondria genome maintenance 1 (OPA1/Mgm1). Given the lack of structural information on these fusogens, the molecular mechanisms underlying mitochondrial fusion remain unclear, even after 20 years. Here, we review recent advances in structural studies of the mitochondrial fusion machinery, discuss their implication for DLPs, and summarize the pathogenic mechanisms of disease-causing mutations in mitochondrial fusion DLPs.
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- Song Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060 Guangzhou, China; Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, 510530 Guangzhou, China.
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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Tolosa-Díaz A, Almendro-Vedia VG, Natale P, López-Montero I. The GDP-Bound State of Mitochondrial Mfn1 Induces Membrane Adhesion of Apposing Lipid Vesicles through a Cooperative Binding Mechanism. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10071085. [PMID: 32708307 PMCID: PMC7407159 DOI: 10.3390/biom10071085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2020] [Revised: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Mitochondria are double-membrane organelles that continuously undergo fission and fusion. Outer mitochondrial membrane fusion is mediated by the membrane proteins mitofusin 1 (Mfn1) and mitofusin 2 (Mfn2), carrying a GTP hydrolyzing domain (GTPase) and two coiled-coil repeats. The detailed mechanism on how the GTP hydrolysis allows Mfns to approach adjacent membranes into proximity and promote their fusion is currently under debate. Using model membranes built up as giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), we show here that Mfn1 promotes membrane adhesion of apposing lipid vesicles. The adhesion forces were sustained by the GDP-bound state of Mfn1 after GTP hydrolysis. In contrast, the incubation with the GDP:AlF4−, which mimics the GTP transition state, did not induce membrane adhesion. Due to the flexible nature of lipid membranes, the adhesion strength depended on the surface concentration of Mfn1 through a cooperative binding mechanism. We discuss a possible scenario for the outer mitochondrial membrane fusion based on the modulated action of Mfn1.
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- Andrés Tolosa-Díaz
- Dto. Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (A.T.-D.); (V.G.A.-V.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Hospital Doce de Octubre (imas12), Avenida de Córdoba s/n, 28041 Madrid, Spain
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- Dto. Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (A.T.-D.); (V.G.A.-V.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Hospital Doce de Octubre (imas12), Avenida de Córdoba s/n, 28041 Madrid, Spain
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- Dto. Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (A.T.-D.); (V.G.A.-V.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Hospital Doce de Octubre (imas12), Avenida de Córdoba s/n, 28041 Madrid, Spain
- Correspondence: (P.N.); (I.L.-M.)
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- Dto. Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avenida Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (A.T.-D.); (V.G.A.-V.)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica Hospital Doce de Octubre (imas12), Avenida de Córdoba s/n, 28041 Madrid, Spain
- Correspondence: (P.N.); (I.L.-M.)
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Moon Y, Jun Y. The Effects of Regulatory Lipids on Intracellular Membrane Fusion Mediated by Dynamin-Like GTPases. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:518. [PMID: 32671068 PMCID: PMC7326814 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Membrane fusion mediates a number of fundamental biological processes such as intracellular membrane trafficking, fertilization, and viral infection. Biological membranes are composed of lipids and proteins; while lipids generally play a structural role, proteins mediate specific functions in the membrane. Likewise, although proteins are key players in the fusion of biological membranes, there is emerging evidence supporting a functional role of lipids in various membrane fusion events. Intracellular membrane fusion is mediated by two protein families: SNAREs and membrane-bound GTPases. SNARE proteins are involved in membrane fusion between transport vesicles and their target compartments, as well as in homotypic fusion between organelles of the same type. Membrane-bound GTPases mediate mitochondrial fusion and homotypic endoplasmic reticulum fusion. Certain membrane lipids, known as regulatory lipids, regulate these membrane fusion events by directly affecting the function of membrane-bound GTPases, instead of simply changing the biophysical and biochemical properties of lipid bilayers. In this review, we provide a summary of the current understanding of how regulatory lipids affect GTPase-mediated intracellular membrane fusion by focusing on the functions of regulatory lipids that directly affect fusogenic GTPases.
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- Yeojin Moon
- School of Life Sciences and Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea
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- School of Life Sciences and Cell Logistics Research Center, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea
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The Dynamin-Like GTPase FgSey1 Plays a Critical Role in Fungal Development and Virulence in Fusarium graminearum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2020; 86:AEM.02720-19. [PMID: 32220839 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02720-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2019] [Accepted: 03/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Fusarium graminearum, the main pathogenic fungus causing Fusarium head blight (FHB), produces deoxynivalenol (DON), a key virulence factor, which is synthesized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Sey1/atlastin, a dynamin-like GTPase protein, is known to be required for homotypic fusion of ER membranes, but the functions of this protein are unknown in pathogenic fungi. Here, we characterized Sey1/atlastin homologue FgSey1 in F. graminearum Like Sey1/atlastin, FgSey1 is located in the ER. The FgSEY1 deletion mutant exhibited significantly reduced vegetative growth, asexual development, DON biosynthesis, and virulence. Moreover, the ΔFgsey1 mutant was impaired in the formation of normal lipid droplets (LDs) and toxisomes, both of which participate in DON biosynthesis. The GTPase, helix bundle (HB), transmembrane segment (TM), and cytosolic tail (CT) domains of FgSey1 are essential for its function, but only the TM domain is responsible for its localization. Furthermore, the mutants FgSey1K63A and FgSey1T87A lacked GTPase activity and failed to rescue the defects of the ΔFgsey1 mutant. Collectively, our data suggest that the dynamin-like GTPase protein FgSey1 affects the generation of LDs and toxisomes and is required for DON biosynthesis and pathogenesis in F. graminearum IMPORTANCE Fusarium graminearum is a major plant pathogen that causes Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheats worldwide. In addition to reducing the plant yield, F. graminearum infection of wheats also results in the production of deoxynivalenol (DON) mycotoxins, which are harmful to humans and animals and therefore cause great economic losses through pollution of food products and animal feed. At present, effective strategies for controlling FHB are not available. Therefore, understanding the regulation mechanisms of fungal development, pathogenesis, and DON biosynthesis is important for the development of effective control strategies of this disease. In this study, we demonstrated that a dynamin-like GTPase protein Sey1/atlastin homologue, FgSey1, is required for vegetative growth, DON production, and pathogenicity in F. graminearum Our results provide novel information on critical roles of FgSey1 in fungal pathogenicity; therefore, FgSey1 could be a potential target for effective control of the disease caused by F. graminearum.
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Structural analysis of a trimeric assembly of the mitochondrial dynamin-like GTPase Mgm1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:4061-4070. [PMID: 32041880 PMCID: PMC7049166 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919116117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Mitochondria are dynamic double-membraned organelles, which undergo cycles of division and fusion mediated by dynamin-related GTPases. How dynamins mediate mitochondrial inner membrane fusion is not understood. In humans, defective inner membrane fusion causes a degenerative form of blindness termed dominant optic atrophy. Here, we solve the structure of a trimer assembly of an inner membrane fusion dynamin. Our observations underscore the structural plasticity of dynamins and suggest a previously unidentified mode of how they might mediate membrane fusion events. The fusion of inner mitochondrial membranes requires dynamin-like GTPases, Mgm1 in yeast and OPA1 in mammals, but how they mediate membrane fusion is poorly understood. Here, we determined the crystal structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae short Mgm1 (s-Mgm1) in complex with GDP. It revealed an N-terminal GTPase (G) domain followed by two helix bundles (HB1 and HB2) and a unique C-terminal lipid-interacting stalk (LIS). Dimers can form through antiparallel HB interactions. Head-to-tail trimers are built by intermolecular interactions between the G domain and HB2-LIS. Biochemical and in vivo analyses support the idea that the assembly interfaces observed here are native and critical for Mgm1 function. We also found that s-Mgm1 interacts with negatively charged lipids via both the G domain and LIS. Based on these observations, we propose that membrane targeting via the G domain and LIS facilitates the in cis assembly of Mgm1, potentially generating a highly curved membrane tip to allow inner membrane fusion.
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Rathore SS, Liu Y, Yu H, Wan C, Lee M, Yin Q, Stowell MHB, Shen J. Intracellular Vesicle Fusion Requires a Membrane-Destabilizing Peptide Located at the Juxtamembrane Region of the v-SNARE. Cell Rep 2019; 29:4583-4592.e3. [PMID: 31875562 PMCID: PMC6990648 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.11.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 10/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Intracellular vesicle fusion is mediated by soluble N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) and Sec1/Munc18 (SM) proteins. It is generally accepted that membrane fusion occurs when the vesicle and target membranes are brought into close proximity by SNAREs and SM proteins. In this work, we demonstrate that, for fusion to occur, membrane bilayers must be destabilized by a conserved membrane-embedded motif located at the juxtamembrane region of the vesicle-anchored v-SNARE. Comprised of basic and hydrophobic residues, the juxtamembrane motif perturbs the lipid bilayer structure and promotes SNARE-SM-mediated membrane fusion. The juxtamembrane motif can be functionally substituted with an unrelated membrane-disrupting peptide in the membrane fusion reaction. These findings establish the juxtamembrane motif of the v-SNARE as a membrane-destabilizing peptide. Requirement of membrane-destabilizing peptides is likely a common feature of biological membrane fusion.
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- Shailendra S Rathore
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 347 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
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Sensory-Neuropathy-Causing Mutations in ATL3 Cause Aberrant ER Membrane Tethering. Cell Rep 2019; 23:2026-2038. [PMID: 29768202 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2017] [Revised: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a complex network of sheets and tubules that is continuously remodeled. The relevance of this membrane dynamics is underscored by the fact that mutations in atlastins (ATLs), the ER fusion proteins in mammals, cause neurodegeneration. How defects in this process disrupt neuronal homeostasis is unclear. Using electron microscopy (EM) volume reconstruction of transfected cells, neurons, and patient fibroblasts, we show that hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN)-causing ATL3 mutants promote aberrant ER tethering hallmarked by bundles of laterally attached ER tubules. In vitro, these mutants cause excessive liposome tethering, recapitulating the results in cells. Moreover, ATL3 variants retain their dimerization-dependent GTPase activity but are unable to promote membrane fusion, suggesting a defect in an intermediate step of the ATL3 functional cycle. Our data show that the effects of ATL3 mutations on ER network organization go beyond a loss of fusion and shed light on neuropathies caused by atlastin defects.
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Li YJ, Cao YL, Feng JX, Qi Y, Meng S, Yang JF, Zhong YT, Kang S, Chen X, Lan L, Luo L, Yu B, Chen S, Chan DC, Hu J, Gao S. Structural insights of human mitofusin-2 into mitochondrial fusion and CMT2A onset. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4914. [PMID: 31664033 PMCID: PMC6820788 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12912-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Mitofusin-2 (MFN2) is a dynamin-like GTPase that plays a central role in regulating mitochondrial fusion and cell metabolism. Mutations in MFN2 cause the neurodegenerative disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 2A (CMT2A). The molecular basis underlying the physiological and pathological relevance of MFN2 is unclear. Here, we present crystal structures of truncated human MFN2 in different nucleotide-loading states. Unlike other dynamin superfamily members including MFN1, MFN2 forms sustained dimers even after GTP hydrolysis via the GTPase domain (G) interface, which accounts for its high membrane-tethering efficiency. The biochemical discrepancy between human MFN2 and MFN1 largely derives from a primate-only single amino acid variance. MFN2 and MFN1 can form heterodimers via the G interface in a nucleotide-dependent manner. CMT2A-related mutations, mapping to different functional zones of MFN2, lead to changes in GTP hydrolysis and homo/hetero-association ability. Our study provides fundamental insight into how mitofusins mediate mitochondrial fusion and the ways their disruptions cause disease.
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- Yu-Jie Li
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 300071, Tianjin, China
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, The Fifth affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 519000, Zhuhai, China
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, The Fifth affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 519000, Zhuhai, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Imaging, The Fifth affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 519000, Zhuhai, China
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, 300071, Tianjin, China
- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS Center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, 510060, Guangzhou, China.
- Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory, 510530, Guangzhou, China.
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Atlastin-mediated membrane tethering is critical for cargo mobility and exit from the endoplasmic reticulum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2019; 116:14029-14038. [PMID: 31239341 PMCID: PMC6628656 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908409116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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In the early secretory pathway, newly synthesized proteins undergo folding and modifications and then leave the ER through COPII-coated vesicles. How these processes are coordinated and maintained are important but mostly unclear. We show here that ATL, a GTPase that connects ER tubules, controls ER protein mobility and regulates cargo packaging and coat assembly of COPII vesicles. The tethering and fusion activity by ATL likely maintains tension and other necessary parameters for COPII formation in ER membranes. These findings reveal a role of ER shaping in the early secretory pathway and provide insight into behaviors of ER exportation. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane junctions are formed by the dynamin-like GTPase atlastin (ATL). Deletion of ATL results in long unbranched ER tubules in cells, and mutation of human ATL1 is linked to hereditary spastic paraplegia. Here, we demonstrate that COPII formation is drastically decreased in the periphery of ATL-deleted cells. ER export of cargo proteins becomes defective; ER exit site initiation is not affected, but many of the sites fail to recruit COPII subunits. The efficiency of cargo packaging into COPII vesicles is significantly reduced in cells lacking ATLs, or when the ER is transiently fragmented. Cargo is less mobile in the ER in the absence of ATL, but the cargo mobility and COPII formation can be restored by ATL R77A, which is capable of tethering, but not fusing, ER tubules. These findings suggest that the generation of ER junctions by ATL plays a critical role in maintaining the necessary mobility of ER contents to allow efficient packaging of cargo proteins into COPII vesicles.
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Wang N, Rapoport TA. Reconstituting the reticular ER network - mechanistic implications and open questions. J Cell Sci 2019; 132:132/4/jcs227611. [PMID: 30670475 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.227611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a major membrane-bound organelle in all eukaryotic cells. This organelle comprises morphologically distinct domains, including the nuclear envelope and peripheral sheets and tubules. The tubules are connected by three-way junctions into a network. Several membrane proteins have been implicated in network formation; curvature-stabilizing proteins generate the tubules themselves, and membrane-anchored GTPases fuse tubules into a network. Recent experiments have shown that a tubular network can be formed with reconstituted proteoliposomes containing the yeast membrane-fusing GTPase Sey1 and a curvature-stabilizing protein of either the reticulon or REEP protein families. The network forms in the presence of GTP and is rapidly disassembled when GTP hydrolysis of Sey1 is inhibited, indicating that continuous membrane fusion is required for its maintenance. Atlastin, the ortholog of Sey1 in metazoans, forms a network on its own, serving both as a fusion and curvature-stabilizing protein. These results show that the reticular ER can be generated by a surprisingly small set of proteins, and represents an energy-dependent steady state between formation and disassembly. Models for the molecular mechanism by which curvature-stabilizing proteins cooperate with fusion GTPases to form a reticular network have been proposed, but many aspects remain speculative, including the function of additional proteins, such as the lunapark protein, and the mechanism by which the ER interacts with the cytoskeleton. How the nuclear envelope and peripheral ER sheets are formed remain major unresolved questions in the field. Here, we review reconstitution experiments with purified curvature-stabilizing proteins and fusion GTPases, discuss mechanistic implications and point out open questions.
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- Ning Wang
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Mitochondria undergo frequent fusion and fission events to adapt their morphology to cellular needs. Homotypic docking and fusion of outer mitochondrial membranes are controlled by Mitofusins, a set of large membrane-anchored GTPase proteins belonging to the dynamin superfamily. Mitofusins include, in addition to their GTPase and transmembrane domains, two heptad repeat domains, HR1 and HR2. All four regions are crucial for Mitofusin function, but their precise contribution to mitochondrial docking and fusion events has remained elusive until very recently. In this commentary, we first give an overview of the established strategies employed by various protein machineries distinct from Mitofusins to mediate membrane fusion. We then present recent structure–function data on Mitofusins that provide important novel insights into their mode of action in mitochondrial fusion.
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- Mickael M Cohen
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR8226, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire des Eucaryotes, Paris, France
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- Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM ERL U950, Trafic Membranaire dans le Cerveau Normal et Pathologique, Paris, France.,Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, INSERM UMR 894, Institut de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences de Paris, Paris, France
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Reciprocal regulation between lunapark and atlastin facilitates ER three-way junction formation. Protein Cell 2018; 10:510-525. [PMID: 30498943 PMCID: PMC6588657 DOI: 10.1007/s13238-018-0595-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Three-way junctions are characteristic structures of the tubular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) network. Junctions are formed through atlastin (ATL)-mediated membrane fusion and stabilized by lunapark (Lnp). However, how Lnp is preferentially enriched at three-way junctions remains elusive. Here, we showed that Lnp loses its junction localization when ATLs are deleted. Reintroduction of ATL1 R77A and ATL3, which have been shown to cluster at the junctions, but not wild-type ATL1, relocates Lnp to the junctions. Mutations in the N-myristoylation site or hydrophobic residues in the coiled coil (CC1) of Lnp N-terminus (NT) cause mis-targeting of Lnp. Conversely, deletion of the lunapark motif in the C-terminal zinc finger domain, which affects the homo-oligomerization of Lnp, does not alter its localization. Purified Lnp-NT attaches to the membrane in a myristoylation-dependent manner. The mutation of hydrophobic residues in CC1 does not affect membrane association, but compromises ATL interactions. In addition, Lnp-NT inhibits ATL-mediated vesicle fusion in vitro. These results suggest that CC1 in Lnp-NT contacts junction-enriched ATLs for proper localization; subsequently, further ATL activity is limited by Lnp after the junction is formed. The proposed mechanism ensures coordinated actions of ATL and Lnp in generating and maintaining three-way junctions.
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Betancourt-Solis MA, Desai T, McNew JA. The atlastin membrane anchor forms an intramembrane hairpin that does not span the phospholipid bilayer. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:18514-18524. [PMID: 30287684 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.003812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2018] [Revised: 09/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is composed of flattened sheets and interconnected tubules that extend throughout the cytosol and makes physical contact with all other cytoplasmic organelles. This cytoplasmic distribution requires continuous remodeling. These discrete ER morphologies require specialized proteins that drive and maintain membrane curvature. The GTPase atlastin is required for homotypic fusion of ER tubules. All atlastin homologs possess a conserved domain architecture consisting of a GTPase domain, a three-helix bundle middle domain, a hydrophobic membrane anchor, and a C-terminal cytosolic tail. Here, we examined several Drosophila-human atlastin chimeras to identify functional domains of human atlastin-1 in vitro Although all chimeras could hydrolyze GTP, only chimeras containing the human C-terminal tail, hydrophobic segments, or both could fuse membranes in vitro We also determined that co-reconstitution of atlastin with reticulon does not influence GTPase activity or membrane fusion. Finally, we found that both human and Drosophila atlastin hydrophobic membrane anchors do not span the membrane, but rather form two intramembrane hairpin loops. The topology of these hairpins remains static during membrane fusion and does not appear to play an active role in lipid mixing.
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
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- From the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
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Winsor J, Machi U, Han Q, Hackney DD, Lee TH. GTP hydrolysis promotes disassembly of the atlastin crossover dimer during ER fusion. J Cell Biol 2018; 217:4184-4198. [PMID: 30249723 PMCID: PMC6279388 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201805039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2018] [Revised: 08/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/17/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The GTPase atlastin mediates homotypic ER fusion through trans-crossover dimerization, but how dimerization is coupled to the GTPase cycle has remained unclear. Winsor et al. show that GTP binding causes crossover dimerization for fusion, whereas GTP hydrolysis promotes disassembly of the crossover dimer for subunit recycling. Membrane fusion of the ER is catalyzed when atlastin GTPases anchored in opposing membranes dimerize and undergo a crossed over conformational rearrangement that draws the bilayers together. Previous studies have suggested that GTP hydrolysis triggers crossover dimerization, thus directly driving fusion. In this study, we make the surprising observations that WT atlastin undergoes crossover dimerization before hydrolyzing GTP and that nucleotide hydrolysis and Pi release coincide more closely with dimer disassembly. These findings suggest that GTP binding, rather than its hydrolysis, triggers crossover dimerization for fusion. In support, a new hydrolysis-deficient atlastin variant undergoes rapid GTP-dependent crossover dimerization and catalyzes fusion at an initial rate similar to WT atlastin. However, the variant cannot sustain fusion activity over time, implying a defect in subunit recycling. We suggest that GTP binding induces an atlastin conformational change that favors crossover dimerization for fusion and that the input of energy from nucleotide hydrolysis promotes complex disassembly for subunit recycling.
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- James Winsor
- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Dong R, Zhu T, Benedetti L, Gowrishankar S, Deng H, Cai Y, Wang X, Shen K, De Camilli P. The inositol 5-phosphatase INPP5K participates in the fine control of ER organization. J Cell Biol 2018; 217:3577-3592. [PMID: 30087126 PMCID: PMC6168264 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201802125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) morphology is dynamic and key to its function during different cellular processes. Dong et al. now show in convergent studies in human cells and Caenorhabditis elegans neurons that a phosphoinositide phosphatase (INPP5K) is localized on the surface of the ER network and helps control the shape of the ER. INPP5K (SKIP) is an inositol 5-phosphatase that localizes in part to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). We show that recruitment of INPP5K to the ER is mediated by ARL6IP1, which shares features of ER-shaping proteins. Like ARL6IP1, INPP5K is preferentially localized in ER tubules and enriched, relative to other ER resident proteins (Sec61β, VAPB, and Sac1), in newly formed tubules that grow along microtubule tracks. Depletion of either INPP5K or ARL6IP1 results in the increase of ER sheets. In a convergent but independent study, a screen for mutations affecting the distribution of the ER network in dendrites of the PVD neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans led to the isolation of mutants in CIL-1, which encodes the INPP5K worm orthologue. The mutant phenotype was rescued by expression of wild type, but not of catalytically inactive CIL-1. Our results reveal an unexpected role of an ER localized polyphosphoinositide phosphatase in the fine control of ER network organization.
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- Rui Dong
- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China .,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT .,Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.,Program in Cellular Neuroscience, Neurodegeneration and Repair, New Haven, CT.,Kavli Institute for Neurosciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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Daumke O, Roux A. Mitochondrial Homeostasis: How Do Dimers of Mitofusins Mediate Mitochondrial Fusion? Curr Biol 2018; 27:R353-R356. [PMID: 28486121 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Mitochondria have high fusion and fission rates to maintain their size and number throughout the cell cycle. How is fusion mediated? New structural studies propose mechanisms by which the dynamin-like mitofusin proteins promote fusion of mitochondria.
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- Oliver Daumke
- Max-Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Crystallography Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany; Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Takustraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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- University of Geneva, Department of Biochemistry, 30 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research Programme Chemical Biology, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
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The Many Faces of Amphipathic Helices. Biomolecules 2018; 8:biom8030045. [PMID: 29976879 PMCID: PMC6164224 DOI: 10.3390/biom8030045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Revised: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Amphipathic helices (AHs), a secondary feature found in many proteins, are defined by their structure and by the segregation of hydrophobic and polar residues between two faces of the helix. This segregation allows AHs to adsorb at polar⁻apolar interfaces such as the lipid surfaces of cellular organelles. Using various examples, we discuss here how variations within this general scheme impart membrane-interacting AHs with different interfacial properties. Among the key parameters are: (i) the size of hydrophobic residues and their density per helical turn; (ii) the nature, the charge, and the distribution of polar residues; and (iii) the length of the AH. Depending on how these parameters are tuned, AHs can deform lipid bilayers, sense membrane curvature, recognize specific lipids, coat lipid droplets, or protect membranes from stress. Via these diverse mechanisms, AHs play important roles in many cellular processes.
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Unfolding the Endoplasmic Reticulum of a Social Amoeba: Dictyostelium discoideum as a New Model for the Study of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress. Cells 2018; 7:cells7060056. [PMID: 29890774 PMCID: PMC6025073 DOI: 10.3390/cells7060056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a membranous network with an intricate dynamic architecture necessary for various essential cellular processes. Nearly one third of the proteins trafficking through the secretory pathway are folded and matured in the ER. Additionally, it acts as calcium storage, and it is a main source for lipid biosynthesis. The ER is highly connected with other organelles through regions of membrane apposition that allow organelle remodeling, as well as lipid and calcium traffic. Cells are under constant changes due to metabolic requirements and environmental conditions that challenge the ER network’s maintenance. The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a signaling pathway that restores homeostasis of this intracellular compartment upon ER stress conditions by reducing the load of proteins, and by increasing the processes of protein folding and degradation. Significant progress on the study of the mechanisms that restore ER homeostasis was achieved using model organisms such as yeast, Arabidopsis, and mammalian cells. In this review, we address the current knowledge on ER architecture and ER stress response in Dictyostelium discoideum. This social amoeba alternates between unicellular and multicellular phases and is recognized as a valuable biomedical model organism and an alternative to yeast, particularly for the presence of traits conserved in animal cells that were lost in fungi.
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Daste F, Sauvanet C, Bavdek A, Baye J, Pierre F, Le Borgne R, David C, Rojo M, Fuchs P, Tareste D. The heptad repeat domain 1 of Mitofusin has membrane destabilization function in mitochondrial fusion. EMBO Rep 2018; 19:embr.201643637. [PMID: 29661855 DOI: 10.15252/embr.201643637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2016] [Revised: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 03/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mitochondria are double-membrane-bound organelles that constantly change shape through membrane fusion and fission. Outer mitochondrial membrane fusion is controlled by Mitofusin, whose molecular architecture consists of an N-terminal GTPase domain, a first heptad repeat domain (HR1), two transmembrane domains, and a second heptad repeat domain (HR2). The mode of action of Mitofusin and the specific roles played by each of these functional domains in mitochondrial fusion are not fully understood. Here, using a combination of in situ and in vitro fusion assays, we show that HR1 induces membrane fusion and possesses a conserved amphipathic helix that folds upon interaction with the lipid bilayer surface. Our results strongly suggest that HR1 facilitates membrane fusion by destabilizing the lipid bilayer structure, notably in membrane regions presenting lipid packing defects. This mechanism for fusion is thus distinct from that described for the heptad repeat domains of SNARE and viral proteins, which assemble as membrane-bridging complexes, triggering close membrane apposition and fusion, and is more closely related to that of the C-terminal amphipathic tail of the Atlastin protein.
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- Frédéric Daste
- Membrane Traffic in Health & Disease, INSERM ERL U950, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, CNRS UMR 5095, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Membrane Traffic in Health & Disease, INSERM ERL U950, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Membrane Traffic in Health & Disease, INSERM ERL U950, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Membrane Traffic in Health & Disease, INSERM ERL U950, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.,Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.,Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, INSERM UMR 894, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, CNRS UMR 5095, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Institut de Biochimie et Génétique Cellulaires, CNRS UMR 5095, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France
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- Membrane Traffic in Health & Disease, INSERM ERL U950, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France .,Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS UMR 7592, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.,Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, INSERM UMR 894, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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Prévost C, Sharp ME, Kory N, Lin Q, Voth GA, Farese RV, Walther TC. Mechanism and Determinants of Amphipathic Helix-Containing Protein Targeting to Lipid Droplets. Dev Cell 2018; 44:73-86.e4. [PMID: 29316443 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cytosolic lipid droplets (LDs) are the main storage organelles for metabolic energy in most cells. They are unusual organelles that are bounded by a phospholipid monolayer and specific surface proteins, including key enzymes of lipid and energy metabolism. Proteins targeting LDs from the cytoplasm often contain amphipathic helices, but how they bind to LDs is not well understood. Combining computer simulations with experimental studies in vitro and in cells, we uncover a general mechanism for targeting of cytosolic proteins to LDs: large hydrophobic residues of amphipathic helices detect and bind to large, persistent membrane packing defects that are unique to the LD surface. Surprisingly, amphipathic helices with large hydrophobic residues from many different proteins are capable of binding to LDs. This suggests that LD protein composition is additionally determined by mechanisms that selectively prevent proteins from binding LDs, such as macromolecular crowding at the LD surface.
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- Coline Prévost
- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124, USA
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- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124, USA.
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- Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02124, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Sun J, Zheng H. Efficient ER Fusion Requires a Dimerization and a C-Terminal Tail Mediated Membrane Anchoring of RHD3. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 176:406-417. [PMID: 29138354 PMCID: PMC5761794 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 11/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a network of tubules and sheets stretching throughout the eukaryotic cells. The formation of the ER requires homotypic membrane fusion, which is mediated by a family of Dynamin-like Atlastin GTPase proteins. The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) member ROOT HAIR DEFECTIVE3 (RHD3) has been demonstrated to mediate ER membrane fusion, but how exactly RHD3 is involved in the process is still unknown. Here we conducted systemic structure-function analyses of roles of different RHD3 domains in mediating ER fusion. We showed that efficient ER membrane fusion mediated by RHD3 requires a proper dimerization of RHD3 through the GTPase domain (GD) and the first and second three helix bundles (3HBs) in the middle domain. RHD3 has a 3HB-enriched middle domain longer than that of Atlastins, and we revealed that the third and fourth 3HBs are required for the stability of RHD3. The transmembrane segments of RHD3 are essential for targeting and retention of RHD3 in the ER and can also facilitate an oligomerization of RHD3. Furthermore, we showed that an amphipathic helix in the C-terminal cytosolic tail of RHD3 has a membrane anchoring ability that is required for efficient ER membrane fusion mediated by RHD3. This work contributes to a better understanding of a coordinated action of RHD3 in the fusion of ER membranes.
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- Jiaqi Sun
- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
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- Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1B1, Canada
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O'Donnell JP, Byrnes LJ, Cooley RB, Sondermann H. A hereditary spastic paraplegia-associated atlastin variant exhibits defective allosteric coupling in the catalytic core. J Biol Chem 2017; 293:687-700. [PMID: 29180453 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra117.000380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2017] [Revised: 11/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The dynamin-related GTPase atlastin (ATL) catalyzes membrane fusion of the endoplasmic reticulum and thus establishes a network of branched membrane tubules. When ATL function is compromised, the morphology of the endoplasmic reticulum deteriorates, and these defects can result in neurological disorders such as hereditary spastic paraplegia and hereditary sensory neuropathy. ATLs harness the energy of GTP hydrolysis to initiate a series of conformational changes that enable homodimerization and subsequent membrane fusion. Disease-associated amino acid substitutions cluster in regions adjacent to ATL's catalytic site, but the consequences for the GTPase's molecular mechanism are often poorly understood. Here, we elucidate structural and functional defects of an atypical hereditary spastic paraplegia mutant, ATL1-F151S, that is impaired in its nucleotide-hydrolysis cycle but can still adopt a high-affinity homodimer when bound to a transition-state analog. Crystal structures of mutant proteins yielded models of the monomeric pre- and post-hydrolysis states of ATL. Together, these findings define a mechanism for allosteric coupling in which Phe151 is the central residue in a hydrophobic interaction network connecting the active site to an interdomain interface responsible for nucleotide loading.
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- John P O'Donnell
- From the Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- From the Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- From the Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- From the Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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Sequences flanking the transmembrane segments facilitate mitochondrial localization and membrane fusion by mitofusin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:E9863-E9872. [PMID: 29093165 PMCID: PMC5699052 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708782114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Mitochondria constantly connect through membrane fusion. The merging of the outer mitochondrial membrane requires mitofusin (MFN) proteins. MFN is a membrane-anchored GTPase, but whether it is sufficient to achieve fusion, and if so how, is largely unknown. We have taken advantage of a similar GTPase named atlastin (ATL), which mediates fusion of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), as its mechanism is better understood. Domain swapping experiments show that MFN is capable of fusing membranes, even on the ER. The C-terminal tail of MFN contains an amphipathic helix that promotes fusion. MFN is properly inserted into the mitochondrial membrane with the help of the helix and neighboring hydrophobic residues. These findings provide insight into how mitochondria fuse. Mitochondria constantly divide and fuse. Homotypic fusion of the outer mitochondrial membranes requires the mitofusin (MFN) proteins, a family of dynamin-like GTPases. MFNs are anchored in the membrane by transmembrane (TM) segments, exposing both the N-terminal GTPase domain and the C-terminal tail (CT) to the cytosol. This arrangement is very similar to that of the atlastin (ATL) GTPases, which mediate fusion of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes. We engineered various MFN-ATL chimeras to gain mechanistic insight into MFN-mediated fusion. When MFN1 is localized to the ER by TM swapping with ATL1, it functions in the maintenance of ER morphology and fusion. In addition, an amphipathic helix in the CT of MFN1 is exchangeable with that of ATL1 and critical for mitochondrial localization of MFN1. Furthermore, hydrophobic residues N-terminal to the TM segments of MFN1 play a role in membrane targeting but not fusion. Our findings provide important insight into MFN-mediated membrane fusion.
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Molecular mechanisms of atlastin-mediated ER membrane fusion revealed by a FRET-based single-vesicle fusion assay. Sci Rep 2017; 7:8700. [PMID: 28821793 PMCID: PMC5562884 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09162-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Homotypic fusion of endoplasmic reticulum membranes is driven by atlastin GTPases; however, the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, using a FRET-based single-vesicle fusion assay with liposomes bearing the yeast atlastin Sey1p, we investigated the molecular mechanisms of atlastin-mediated membrane tethering and fusion. Although Sey1p-bearing proteoliposomes frequently underwent membrane tethering in a GTP hydrolysis-dependent manner as reported in studies using bulk assays, only a small fraction of the tethered liposomes proceeded to fusion. Strikingly, the rest of the tethered liposomes failed to fuse or dissociate. This stable tethering, however, did not require continued GTP hydrolysis because GTP omission and magnesium chelation did not disrupt tethering. Interestingly, an increased Sey1p density on the membrane markedly accelerated tethering but barely affected the fusion rate of the tethered liposomes, indicating that Sey1p requires additional factors to support efficient fusion in vivo. Finally, the assay also revealed that Sey1p-mediated liposome fusion occurs through hemifusion, suggesting the mechanistic conservation between biological membrane fusion events despite the existence of diverse fusogens.
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Ramachandran R. Mitochondrial dynamics: The dynamin superfamily and execution by collusion. Semin Cell Dev Biol 2017; 76:201-212. [PMID: 28754444 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.07.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2017] [Revised: 07/20/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Distinct dynamin superfamily GTPases catalyze the constant fission and fusion of the elaborate mitochondrial networks that navigate the eukaryotic cytoplasm. Long believed to be the singular handiwork of dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1), a cytosolic family member that transiently localizes to the mitochondrial surface, the execution of mitochondrial fission is now arguably believed to entail membrane remodeling events that are initiated upstream of Drp1 by ER-associated cytoskeletal networks and completed downstream by the prototypical dynamin, dynamin 2 (Dyn2). Recent developments in the field have also placed a sharp focus on the membrane microenvironment around the division apparatus and the potential facilitatory role of specific lipids in mitochondrial fission. Here, I will review current progress, as well as highlight the most visible gaps in knowledge, in elucidating the varied functions of the dynamin superfamily in the coordinated events of mitochondrial fission and fusion. The essential roles of protein and lipid cofactors are also highlighted.
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- Rajesh Ramachandran
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, 44106-4970, USA.
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Timing and Reset Mechanism of GTP Hydrolysis-Driven Conformational Changes of Atlastin. Structure 2017; 25:997-1010.e4. [PMID: 28602821 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2017.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2017] [Revised: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) forms a branched, dynamic membrane tubule network that is vital for cellular function. Branching arises from membrane fusion facilitated by the GTPase atlastin (ATL). Many metazoan genomes encode for three ATL isoforms that appear to fulfill partially redundant function despite differences in their intrinsic GTPase activity and localization within the ER; however, the underlying mechanistic differences between the isoforms are poorly understood. Here, we identify discrete temporal steps in the catalytic cycle for the two most dissimilar isoforms, ATL1 and ATL3, revealing an overall conserved progression of molecular events from nucleotide binding and hydrolysis to ATL dimerization and phosphate release. A crystal structure of ATL3 suggests a mechanism for the displacement of the catalytic Mg2+ ion following guanosine triphosphate (GTP) hydrolysis. Together, the data extend the mechanistic framework for how GTP hydrolysis drives conformational changes in ATL and how the cycle is reset for subsequent rounds of catalysis.
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