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Ohiri JC, Dellefave‐Castillo L, Tomar G, Wilsbacher L, Choudhury L, Barefield DY, Fullenkamp D, Gacita AM, Monroe TO, Pesce L, Blancard M, Vaught L, George AL, Demonbreun AR, Puckelwartz MJ, McNally EM. Reduction of Filamin C Results in Altered Proteostasis, Cardiomyopathy, and Arrhythmias. J Am Heart Assoc 2024; 13:e030467. [PMID: 38761081 PMCID: PMC11179814 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.030467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/20/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Many cardiomyopathy-associated FLNC pathogenic variants are heterozygous truncations, and FLNC pathogenic variants are associated with arrhythmias. Arrhythmia triggers in filaminopathy are incompletely understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We describe an individual with biallelic FLNC pathogenic variants, p.Arg650X and c.970-4A>G, with peripartum cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmias. We also describe clinical findings in probands with FLNC variants including Val2715fs87X, Glu2458Serfs71X, Phe106Leu, and c.970-4A>G with hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, and ventricular tachycardia. Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) were generated. The FLNC truncation, Arg650X/c.970-4A>G, showed a marked reduction in filamin C protein consistent with biallelic loss of function mutations. To assess loss of filamin C, gene editing of a healthy control iPSC line was used to generate a homozygous FLNC disruption in the actin binding domain. Because filamin C has been linked to protein quality control, we assessed the necessity of filamin C in iPSC-CMs for response to the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib. After exposure to low-dose bortezomib, FLNC-null iPSC-CMs showed an increase in the chaperone proteins BAG3, HSP70 (heat shock protein 70), and HSPB8 (small heat shock protein B8) and in the autophagy marker LC3I/II. FLNC null iPSC-CMs had prolonged electric field potential, which was further prolonged in the presence of low-dose bortezomib. FLNC null engineered heart tissues had impaired function after low-dose bortezomib. CONCLUSIONS FLNC pathogenic variants associate with a predisposition to arrhythmias, which can be modeled in iPSC-CMs. Reduction of filamin C prolonged field potential, a surrogate for action potential, and with bortezomib-induced proteasome inhibition, reduced filamin C led to greater arrhythmia potential and impaired function.
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- Joyce C. Ohiri
- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Bluhm Cardiovascular InstituteNorthwestern MedicineChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
- Cell and Molecular PhysiologyLoyola University Stritch School of MedicineMaywoodILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
- Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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- Center for Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern UniversityChicagoILUSA
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Jonischkies K, del Angel M, Demiray YE, Loaiza Zambrano A, Stork O. The NDR family of kinases: essential regulators of aging. Front Mol Neurosci 2024; 17:1371086. [PMID: 38803357 PMCID: PMC11129689 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2024.1371086] [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: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Aging is defined as a progressive decline of cognitive and physiological functions over lifetime. Since the definition of the nine hallmarks of aging in 2013 by López-Otin, numerous studies have attempted to identify the main regulators and contributors in the aging process. One interesting group of proteins whose participation has been implicated in several aging hallmarks are the nuclear DBF2-related (NDR) family of serine-threonine AGC kinases. They are one of the core components of the Hippo signaling pathway and include NDR1, NDR2, LATS1 and LATS2 in mammals, along with its highly conserved metazoan orthologs; Trc in Drosophila melanogaster, SAX-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans, CBK1, DBF20 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and orb6 in Saccharomyces pombe. These kinases have been independently linked to the regulation of widely diverse cellular processes disrupted during aging such as the cell cycle progression, transcription, intercellular communication, nutrient homeostasis, autophagy, apoptosis, and stem cell differentiation. However, a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge regarding the post-translational modifications of and by NDR kinases in aging has not been conducted. In this review, we summarize the current understanding of the NDR family of kinases, focusing on their relevance to various aging hallmarks, and emphasize the growing body of evidence that suggests NDR kinases are essential regulators of aging across species.
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- Kevin Jonischkies
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Genetics and Molecular Neurobiology, Institute of Biology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Center for Behavioral Brain Science, Magdeburg, Germany
- Center for Intervention and Research on Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Circuits Underlying Mental Health (C-I-R-C), Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Germany
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Jena-Magdeburg-Halle, Germany
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Martin TG, Pak H, Gerhard GS, Merali S, Merali C, Lemster B, Dubey P, McTiernan CF, Bristow MR, Feldman AM, Kirk JA. Dysregulated Autophagy and Sarcomere Dysfunction in Patients With Heart Failure With Co-Occurrence of P63A and P380S BAG3 Variants. J Am Heart Assoc 2023; 12:e029938. [PMID: 38108245 PMCID: PMC10863766 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.123.029938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mutations to the co-chaperone protein BAG3 (B-cell lymphoma-2-associated athanogene-3) are a leading cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). These mutations often impact the C-terminal BAG domain (residues 420-499), which regulates heat shock protein 70-dependent protein turnover via autophagy. While mutations in other regions are less common, previous studies in patients with DCM found that co-occurrence of 2 BAG3 variants (P63A, P380S) led to worse prognosis. However, the underlying mechanism for dysfunction is not fully understood. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, we used proteomics, Western blots, and myofilament functional assays on left ventricular tissue from patients with nonfailing, DCM, and DCM with BAG363/380 to determine how these mutations impact protein quality control and cardiomyocyte contractile function. We found dysregulated autophagy and increased protein ubiquitination in patients with BAG363/380 compared with nonfailing and DCM, suggesting impaired protein turnover. Expression and myofilament localization of BAG3-binding proteins were also uniquely altered in the BAG3,63/380 including abolished localization of the small heat shock protein CRYAB (alpha-crystallin B chain) to the sarcomere. To determine whether these variants impacted sarcomere function, we used cardiomyocyte force-calcium assays and found reduced maximal calcium-activated force in DCM and BAG363/380. Interestingly, myofilament calcium sensitivity was increased in DCM but not with BAG363/380, which was not explained by differences in troponin I phosphorylation. CONCLUSIONS Together, our data support that the disease-enhancing mechanism for BAG3 variants outside of the BAG domain is through disrupted protein turnover leading to compromised sarcomere function. These findings suggest a shared mechanism of disease among pathogenic BAG3 variants, regardless of location.
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- Thomas G. Martin
- Department of Cell and Molecular PhysiologyLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of MedicineMaywoodIL
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- Department of Cell and Molecular PhysiologyLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of MedicineMaywoodIL
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular BiochemistryLewis Katz School of Medicine of Temple UniversityPhiladelphiaPA
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- Temple University School of PharmacyPhiladelphiaPA
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- The Heart and Vascular Institute, The University of Pittsburgh School of MedicinePittsburghPA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAL
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- The Heart and Vascular Institute, The University of Pittsburgh School of MedicinePittsburghPA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of CardiologyThe Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple UniversityPhiladelphiaPA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular PhysiologyLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of MedicineMaywoodIL
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Körschgen H, Baeken M, Schmitt D, Nagel H, Behl C. Co-chaperone BAG3 enters autophagic pathway via its interaction with microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta. Traffic 2023; 24:564-575. [PMID: 37654251 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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The co-chaperone BAG3 is a hub for a variety of cellular pathways via its multiple domains and its interaction with chaperones of the HSP70 family or small HSPs. During aging and under cellular stress conditions in particular, BAG3, together with molecular chaperones, ensures the sequestration of aggregated or aggregation-prone ubiquitinated proteins to the autophagic-lysosomal system via ubiquitin receptors. Accumulating evidence for BAG3-mediated selective autophagy independent of cargo ubiquitination led to analyses predicting a direct interaction of BAG3 with LC3 proteins. Phylogenetically, BAG3 comprises several highly conserved potential LIRs, LC3-interacting regions, which might allow for the direct targeting of BAG3 including its cargo to autophagosomes and drive their autophagic degradation. Based on pull-down experiments, peptide arrays and proximity ligation assays, our results provide evidence of an interaction of BAG3 with LC3B. In addition, we could demonstrate that disabling all predicted LIRs abolished the inducibility of a colocalization of BAG3 with LC3B-positive structures and resulted in a substantial decrease of BAG3 levels within purified native autophagic vesicles compared with wild-type BAG3. These results suggest an autophagic targeting of BAG3 via interaction with LC3B. Therefore, we conclude that, in addition to being a key co-chaperone to HSP70, BAG3 may also act as a cargo receptor for client proteins, which would significantly extend the role of BAG3 in selective macroautophagy and protein quality control.
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- Hagen Körschgen
- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan
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- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Zhang C, Saurat N, Cornacchia D, Chung SY, Sikder T, Minotti A, Studer L, Betel D. Identifying novel age-modulating compounds and quantifying cellular aging using novel computational framework for evaluating transcriptional age. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.07.03.547539. [PMID: 37461485 PMCID: PMC10349953 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.03.547539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/12/2023]
Abstract
The differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) provides access to most cell types and tissues. However, hPSC-derived lineages capture a fetal-stage of development and methods to accelerate progression to an aged identity are limited. Understanding the factors driving cellular age and rejuvenation is also essential for efforts aimed at extending human life and health span. A prerequisite for such studies is the development of methods to score cellular age and simple readouts to assess the relative impact of various age modifying strategies. Here we established a transcriptional score (RNAge) in young versus old primary fibroblasts, frontal cortex and substantia nigra tissue. We validated the score in independent RNA-seq datasets and demonstrated a strong cell and tissue specificity. In fibroblasts we observed a reset of RNAge during iPSC reprogramming while direct reprogramming of aged fibroblasts to induced neurons (iN) resulted in the maintenance of both a neuronal and a fibroblast aging signature. Increased RNAge in hPSC-derived neurons was confirmed for several age-inducing strategies such as SATB1 loss, progerin expression or chemical induction of senescence (SLO). Using RNAge as a probe set, we next performed an in-silico screen using the LINCS L1000 dataset. We identified and validated several novel age-inducing and rejuvenating compounds, and we observed that RNAage captures age-related changes associated with distinct cellular hallmarks of age. Our study presents a simple tool to score age manipulations and identifies compounds that greatly expand the toolset of age-modifying strategies in hPSC derived lineages.
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Liu Y, Xu R, Xu J, Wu T, Zhang X. BAG3 regulates bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell proliferation by targeting INTS7. PeerJ 2023; 11:e15828. [PMID: 37576499 PMCID: PMC10422954 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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Background BAG3 is an essential regulator of cell survival and has been investigated in the context of heart disease and cancer. Our previous study used immunoprecipitation-liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to show that BAG3 might directly interact with INTS7 and regulate bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMMSCs) proliferation. However, whether BAG3 bound INTS7 directly and how it regulated BMMSCs expansion was unclear. Methods BAG3 expression was detected by quantitative real-time PCR in BMMSCs after siRNA-mediated BAG3 knockdown. BMMSC proliferation was determined using the CCK-8 and colony formation assays. The transwell migration, flow cytometry and TUNEL assays were performed to measure BMMSC migration, cell cycle and apoptosis, respectively. Moreover, co-immunoprecipitation, protein half-life assay and western blotting analyses were used to determine the regulatory mechanism underlying the BAG3-mediated increase in BMMSC proliferation. Results The results showed that knocking down BAG3 in BMMSCs markedly decreased their proliferative activity, colony formation and migratory capacity, and induced cell apoptosis as well as cell cycle arrest. Meanwhile, overexpression of BAG3 had the opposite effect. Bioinformatics and BAG3-INTS7 co-immunoprecipitation analyses revealed that BAG3 directly interacted with INTS7. Moreover, the downregulation of BAG3 inhibited the expression of INTS7 and promoted its ubiquitination. We also observed that BAG3 knockdown increased the levels of reactive oxygen species and the extent of DNA damage in BMMSCs. Notably, the upregulation of INTS7 or the addition of an antioxidant scavenger could rescue the BMMSC phenotype induced by BAG3 downregulation. Conclusions BAG3 directly interacts with INTS7 and promotes BMMSC expansion by reducing oxidative stress.
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- Yubo Liu
- Department of Orthopaedics, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Histology and Embryology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Suzhou Municipal Hospital, The Affiliated Suzhou Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Gusu School, Nanjing Medical University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Cells keep their proteome functional by the action of the proteostasis network, composed of the chaperones, the ubiquitin-proteasome system and autophagy. The decline of this network results in the accumulation of protein aggregates and is associated with aging and disease. In this Cell Science at a Glance and accompanying poster, we provide an overview of the molecular mechanisms of the removal of protein aggregates by a selective autophagy pathway, termed aggrephagy. We outline how aggrephagy is regulated by post-translational modifications and via auxiliary proteins. We further describe alternative aggrephagy pathways in physiology and their disruption in pathology. In particular, we discuss aggrephagy pathways in neurons and accumulation of protein aggregates in a wide range of diseases. Finally, we highlight strategies to reprogram aggrephagy to treat protein aggregation diseases.
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- Bernd Bauer
- Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna BioCenter, Dr Bohr-Gasse 9/5, 1030 Vienna, Austria
- Vienna BioCenter PhD Program, Doctoral School of the University of Vienna and Medical University of Vienna, Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna BioCenter, Dr Bohr-Gasse 9/5, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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- Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna, Vienna BioCenter, Dr Bohr-Gasse 9/5, 1030 Vienna, Austria
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Krause K, Eggers B, Uszkoreit J, Eulitz S, Rehmann R, Güttsches AK, Schreiner A, van der Ven PFM, Fürst DO, Marcus K, Vorgerd M, Kley RA. Target formation in muscle fibres indicates reinnervation - A proteomic study in muscle samples from peripheral neuropathies. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2023; 49:e12853. [PMID: 36180966 DOI: 10.1111/nan.12853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2022] [Accepted: 07/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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AIMS Target skeletal muscle fibres - defined by different concentric areas in oxidative enzyme staining - can occur in patients with neurogenic muscular atrophy. Here, we used our established hypothesis-free proteomic approach with the aim of deciphering the protein composition of targets. We also searched for potential novel interactions between target proteins. METHODS Targets and control areas were laser microdissected from skeletal muscle sections of 20 patients with neurogenic muscular atrophy. Samples were analysed by a highly sensitive mass spectrometry approach, enabling relative protein quantification. The results were validated by immunofluorescence studies. Protein interactions were investigated by yeast two-hybrid assays, coimmunoprecipitation experiments and bimolecular fluorescence complementation. RESULTS More than 1000 proteins were identified. Among these, 55 proteins were significantly over-represented and 40 proteins were significantly under-represented in targets compared to intraindividual control samples. The majority of over-represented proteins were associated with the myofibrillar Z-disc and actin dynamics, followed by myosin and myosin-associated proteins, proteins involved in protein biosynthesis and chaperones. Under-represented proteins were mainly mitochondrial proteins. Functional studies revealed that the LIM domain of the over-represented protein LIMCH1 interacts with isoform A of Xin actin-binding repeat-containing protein 1 (XinA). CONCLUSIONS In particular, proteins involved in myofibrillogenesis are over-represented in target structures, which indicate an ongoing process of sarcomere assembly and/or remodelling within this specific area of the muscle fibres. We speculate that target structures are the result of reinnervation processes in which filamin C-associated myofibrillogenesis is tightly regulated by the BAG3-associated protein quality system.
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- Karsten Krause
- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.,Medical Proteome Analysis, Center for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI), Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.,Medical Proteome Analysis, Center for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI), Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.,Medical Proteome Analysis, Center for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI), Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Heimer Institute for Muscle Research, University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.,Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, St. Marien-Hospital Borken, Borken, Germany
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Chillappagari S, Schwarz J, Kesireddy V, Knoell J, Korfei M, Hoetzenecker K, Schmitz ML, Behl C, Bellusci S, Guenther A, Mahavadi P. Therapeutic induction of Bcl2-associated athanogene 3-mediated autophagy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Clin Transl Med 2022; 12:e935. [PMID: 35834635 PMCID: PMC9282656 DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Exaggerated fibroblast proliferation is a well-known feature in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) which may be - in part - due to insufficient autophagy, a lysosome dependent cellular surveillance pathway. Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) is a pivotal co-chaperone of the autophagy pathway. Here, we studied whether therapeutic modulation of BAG3-mediated autophagy can rescue insufficient autophagy and impact IPF fibroblast proliferation. METHODS Primary interstitial fibroblasts or precision cut lung slices (PCLS) of IPF lungs were treated with (1) the antifibrotic drug pirfenidone (Pirf), (2) the demethylating agent 5-azacytidine (Aza), (3) the BAG3 modulator cantharidin (Ctd). Autophagy flux was measured following pretreatment with the autophagy inhibitors or by GFP-RFP-LC3B transfection followed by drug treatments. Proliferation was measured by 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine assay. BAG3, filamin C (FLNC), proliferating-cell-nuclear-antigen (PCNA), collagen1A1 (COL1A1) and autophagy proteins were assessed by immunoblotting or immunofluorescence. Loss of function experiments were performed by siRNA mediated knockdown of BAG3. RESULTS In comparison with healthy donors, increased BAG3 protein was observed in IPF lung homogenates and IPF fibroblasts. In addition, the substrate of BAG3-mediated autophagy, FLNC, was increased in IPF fibroblasts, implying insufficient activation of BAG3-dependent autophagy. Therapeutic modulation of this pathway using Aza and Ctd alone or in combination with the IPF therapy drug Pirf rescued the insufficient BAG3-mediated autophagy and decreased fibroblast proliferation. Such effects were observed upon therapeutic modulation of BAG3 but not upon knock down of BAG3 per se in IPF fibroblasts. Similarly, PCLS of IPF patients showed a significant decrease in collagen deposition in response to these drugs, either alone or in a more potent form in combination with Pirf. CONCLUSIONS Our study reveals that repurposing drugs that modulate autophagy regulating proteins render therapeutic benefits in IPF. Fine tuning of this pathway may hence signify a promising therapeutic strategy to ameliorate antifibrotic properties and augment the efficacy of current IPF therapy.
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- Shashipavan Chillappagari
- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, JLU Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria
- European IPF Network and European IPF Registry, Giessen, Germany
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- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, JLU Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Member of the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), JLU Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Pathobiochemistry, The Autophagy Lab, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Member of the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), JLU Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- European IPF Network and European IPF Registry, Giessen, Germany
- Member of the Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), JLU Giessen, Giessen, Germany
- Lung Clinic, Agaplesion Evangelisches Krankenhaus Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig University (JLU) Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Giessen, Hessen, Germany
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Jacko D, Schaaf K, Masur L, Windoffer H, Aussieker T, Schiffer T, Zacher J, Bloch W, Gehlert S. Repeated and Interrupted Resistance Exercise Induces the Desensitization and Re-Sensitization of mTOR-Related Signaling in Human Skeletal Muscle Fibers. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23105431. [PMID: 35628242 PMCID: PMC9141560 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23105431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Revised: 05/07/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The acute resistance exercise (RE)-induced phosphorylation of mTOR-related signaling proteins in skeletal muscle can be blunted after repeated RE. The time frame in which the phosphorylation (p) of mTORS2448, p70S6kT421/S424, and rpS6S235/236 will be reduced during an RE training period in humans and whether progressive (PR) loading can counteract such a decline has not been described. (1) To enclose the time frame in which pmTORS2448, prpS6S235/236, and pp70S6kT421/S424 are acutely reduced after RE occurs during repeated RE. (2) To test whether PR will prevent that reduction compared to constant loading (CO) and (3) whether 10 days without RE may re-increase blunted signaling. Fourteen healthy males (24 ± 2.8 yrs.; 1.83 ± 0.1 cm; 79.3 ± 8.5 kg) were subjected to RE with either PR (n = 8) or CO (n = 6) loading. Subjects performed RE thrice per week, conducting three sets with 10−12 repetitions on a leg press and leg extension machine. Muscle biopsies were collected at rest (T0), 45 min after the first (T1), seventh (T7), 13th (T13), and 14th (X-T14) RE session. No differences were found between PR and CO for any parameter. Thus, the groups were combined, and the results show the merged values. prpS6S235/236 and pp70s6kT421/S424 were increased at T1, but were already reduced at T7 and up to T13 compared to T1. Ten days without RE re-increased prpS6S235/236 and pp70S6kT421/S424 at X-T14 to a level comparable to that of T1. pmTORS2448 was increased from T1 to X-T14 and did not decline over the training period. Single-fiber immunohistochemistry revealed a reduction in prpS6S235/236 in type I fibers from T1 to T13 and a re-increase at X-T14, which was more augmented in type II fibers at T13 (p < 0.05). The entity of myofibers revealed a high heterogeneity in the level of prpS6S235/236, possibly reflecting individual contraction-induced stress during RE. The type I and II myofiber diameter increased from T0 and T1 to T13 and X-T14 (p < 0.05) prpS6S235/236 and pp70s6kT421/S424 reflect RE-induced states of desensitization and re-sensitization in dependency on frequent loading by RE, but also by its cessation.
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- Daniel Jacko
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
- Olympic Base Center NRW/Rhineland, 50933 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
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- Outpatient Clinic for Sports Traumatology and Public Health Consultation, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany;
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- Department ofPreventative and Rehabilitative Sports and Performance Medicine, Institute of Cardiology and Sports Medicine, German Sports University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany;
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
- German Research Centre of Elite Sport (Momentum), German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine, Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports Medicine, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany; (D.J.); (K.S.); (L.M.); (H.W.); (T.A.); (W.B.)
- Institute of Sport Science, Biosciences of Sports, University of Hildesheim, 31141 Hildesheim, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-(0)-5121-883-580; Fax: +49-(0)-5121-883-591
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BAG Family Members as Mitophagy Regulators in Mammals. Cells 2022; 11:cells11040681. [PMID: 35203329 PMCID: PMC8870067 DOI: 10.3390/cells11040681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The BCL-2-associated athanogene (BAG) family is a multifunctional group of co-chaperones that are evolutionarily conserved from yeast to mammals. In addition to their common BAG domain, these proteins contain, in their sequences, many specific domains/motifs required for their various functions in cellular quality control, such as autophagy, apoptosis, and proteasomal degradation of misfolded proteins. The BAG family includes six members (BAG1 to BAG6). Recent studies reported their roles in autophagy and/or mitophagy through interaction with the autophagic machinery (LC3, Beclin 1, P62) or with the PINK1/Parkin signaling pathway. This review describes the mechanisms underlying BAG family member functions in autophagy and mitophagy and the consequences in physiopathology.
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Martin TG, Delligatti CE, Muntu NA, Stachowski-Doll MJ, Kirk JA. Pharmacological inhibition of BAG3-HSP70 with the proposed cancer therapeutic JG-98 is toxic for cardiomyocytes. J Cell Biochem 2022; 123:128-141. [PMID: 34487557 PMCID: PMC10037808 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.30140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Revised: 07/11/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The co-chaperone Bcl2-associated athanogene-3 (BAG3) maintains cellular protein quality control through the regulation of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70). Cancer cells manipulate BAG3-HSP70-regulated pathways for tumor initiation and proliferation, which has led to the development of promising small molecule therapies, such as JG-98, which inhibit the BAG3-HSP70 interaction and mitigate tumor growth. However, it is not known how these broad therapies impact cardiomyocytes, where the BAG3-HSP70 complex is a key regulator of protein turnover and contractility. Here, we show that JG-98 exposure is toxic in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVMs). Using immunofluorescence microscopy to assess cell death, we found that apoptosis increased in NRVMs treated with JG-98 doses as low as 10 nM. JG-98 treatment also reduced autophagy flux and altered expression of BAG3 and several binding partners involved in BAG3-dependent autophagy, including SYNPO2 and HSPB8. We next assessed protein half-life with disruption of the BAG3-HSP70 complex by treating with JG-98 in the presence of cycloheximide and found BAG3, HSPB5, and HSPB8 half-lives were reduced, indicating that complex formation with HSP70 is important for their stability. Next, we assessed sarcomere structure using super-resolution microscopy and found that disrupting the interaction with HSP70 leads to sarcomere structural disintegration. To determine whether the effects of JG-98 could be mitigated by pharmacological autophagy induction, we cotreated NRVMs with rapamycin, which partially reduced the extent of apoptosis and sarcomere disarray. Finally, we investigated whether the effects of JG-98 extended to skeletal myocytes using C2C12 myotubes and found again increased apoptosis and reduced autophagic flux. Together, our data suggest that nonspecific targeting of the BAG3-HSP70 complex to treat cancer may be detrimental for cardiac and skeletal myocytes.
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- Corresponding Author: Jonathan A. Kirk, Ph.D., Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Center for Translational Research, Room 522, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153, Ph: 708-216-6348,
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Lin H, Koren SA, Cvetojevic G, Girardi P, Johnson GV. The role of BAG3 in health and disease: A "Magic BAG of Tricks". J Cell Biochem 2022; 123:4-21. [PMID: 33987872 PMCID: PMC8590707 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.29952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/25/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The multi-domain structure of Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) facilitates its interaction with many different proteins that participate in regulating a variety of biological pathways. After revisiting the BAG3 literature published over the past ten years with Citespace software, we classified the BAG3 research into several clusters, including cancer, cardiomyopathy, neurodegeneration, and viral propagation. We then highlighted recent key findings in each cluster. To gain greater insight into the roles of BAG3, we analyzed five different published mass spectrometry data sets of proteins that co-immunoprecipitate with BAG3. These data gave us insight into universal, as well as cell-type-specific BAG3 interactors in cancer cells, cardiomyocytes, and neurons. Finally, we mapped variable BAG3 SNPs and also mutation data from previous publications to further explore the link between the domains and function of BAG3. We believe this review will provide a better understanding of BAG3 and direct future studies towards understanding BAG3 function in physiological and pathological conditions.
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- Heng Lin
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY 14642 USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY 14642 USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY 14642 USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY 14642 USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester NY 14642 USA
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Zhang C, Tang Q, Xia H, Xu H, Bi F. PKM2 compensates for proteasome dysfunction by mediating the formation of the CHIP-HSP70-BAG3 complex and the aggregation of ubiquitinated proteins. FASEB J 2021; 36:e22121. [PMID: 34951719 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202101342rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 12/01/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Protein aggregation and degradation via autophagy (aggrephagy) are major strategies adopted by cells to remove misfolded polypeptides when there is proteasome dysfunction. The functional protein complex consisting of heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), cochaperone ubiquitin ligase carboxyl-terminal of Hsp70/Hsp90 interacting protein (CHIP), and co-chaperone Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) has been associated with the activation of protein aggregation. However, data on the mechanisms of action of the complex in the protein degradation remains scant. Here, we report that upon proteasome stress, the M2 isoform of pyruvate kinase (PKM2) promotes the aggregation of ubiquitinated proteins and its knockout or knockdown aggravates the sensitivity of cells to proteasome inhibitors. Besides, following proteasome inhibition, PKM2 promotes the interaction of BAG3 with CHIP and HSP70. Interestingly, re-expression of loss-of-function mutants in PKM2-knockout cells showed that the regulatory function of PKM2 in this progress does not depend on the activity of glycolytic enzymes or protein kinases. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that PKM2 mediates the formation of the CHIP-HSP70-BAG3 protein complex and promotes the aggregation of ubiquitinated misfolded proteins, thus compensating for proteasome stress in cells.
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- Chenliang Zhang
- Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapy in Oncology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapy in Oncology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapy in Oncology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Therapy in Oncology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Lohanadan K, Molt S, Dierck F, van der Ven PFM, Frey N, Höhfeld J, Fürst DO. Isoform-specific functions of synaptopodin-2 variants in cytoskeleton stabilization and autophagy regulation in muscle under mechanical stress. Exp Cell Res 2021; 408:112865. [PMID: 34637763 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2021.112865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Protein homeostasis (proteostasis) in multicellular organisms depends on the maintenance of force-bearing and force-generating cellular structures. Within myofibrillar Z-discs of striated muscle, isoforms of synaptopodin-2 (SYNPO2/myopodin) act as adapter proteins that are engaged in proteostasis of the actin-crosslinking protein filamin C (FLNc) under mechanical stress. SYNPO2 directly binds F-actin, FLNc and α-actinin and thus contributes to the architectural features of the actin cytoskeleton. By its association with autophagy mediating proteins, i.e. BAG3 and VPS18, SYNPO2 is also engaged in protein quality control and helps to target mechanical unfolded and damaged FLNc for degradation. Here we show that deficiency of all SYNPO2-isoforms in myotubes leads to decreased myofibrillar stability and deregulated autophagy under mechanical stress. In addition, isoform-specific proteostasis functions were revealed. The PDZ-domain containing variant SYNPO2b and the shorter, PDZ-less isoform SYNPO2e both localize to Z-discs. Yet, SYNPO2e is less stably associated with the Z-disc than SYNPO2b, and is dynamically transferred into FLNc-containing myofibrillar lesions under mechanical stress. SYNPO2e also recruits BAG3 into these lesions via interaction with the WW domain of BAG3. Our data provide evidence for a role of myofibrillar lesions as a transient quality control compartment essential to prevent and repair contraction-induced myofibril damage in muscle and indicate an important coordinating activity for SYNPO2 therein.
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- Keerthika Lohanadan
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine III, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, 24105 Kiel, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Partner Site Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany.
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Salim C, Muders H, Jäger A, Konermann A. Role of chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA) in mechanical stress protection of periodontal ligament cells. J Orofac Orthop 2021; 83:1-12. [PMID: 34735580 PMCID: PMC8766363 DOI: 10.1007/s00056-021-00358-3] [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: 09/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Objective The periodontal ligament (PDL) is exposed to constant mechanical forces potentiated by orthodontic tooth movement (OTM). The aim of our study was to investigate the involvement of chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA) in mechanosensing and cellular adaption to forces in the PDL. Materials and methods Human PDL cells were loaded with 2.5, 5, and 10% of static mechanical strain for 24 h in vitro. Untreated cells served as controls. Gene expression of HSPA8, HSPB8, BAG3, STUB1, SYNPO2 was investigated via RT-qPCR (Quantitative reverse transcription PCR). Western blot evidenced protein expression of these molecules and of Filamin A. In vivo analyses of CASA were performed via immunohistochemistry on teeth with and without OTM. Results CASA machinery genes were inherently expressed in PDL cells and exhibited transcriptional induction upon mechanical strain. Protein analyses underlined these findings, even though modulation upon force exertion also demonstrated a decrease for some molecules and loading strengths. In vivo results evidenced again the uniform upregulation of HSPA8, HSPB8, BAG3, STUB1, SYNPO2 and Filamin A in teeth with OTM compared to controls. Experiments generally evidenced a pronounced variability in the expression between donors both on the gene and protein level. Conclusions Our study is the first to identify both the expression and functional relevance of CASA in the PDL. The data reflect its probable central role in adequate adaption to forces exerted by OTM and in mechanical stress protection of cells. Deeper knowledge of the CASA pathway will allow better assessment of predisposing factors regarding side effects during mechanical force application that can be used in orthodontic practice.
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- Corinna Salim
- Department of Orthodontics, University Hospital Bonn, Welschnonnenstr. 17, 53111, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Orthodontics, University Hospital Bonn, Welschnonnenstr. 17, 53111, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Orthodontics, University Hospital Bonn, Welschnonnenstr. 17, 53111, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Orthodontics, University Hospital Bonn, Welschnonnenstr. 17, 53111, Bonn, Germany.
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Luthold C, Lambert H, Guilbert SM, Rodrigue MA, Fuchs M, Varlet AA, Fradet-Turcotte A, Lavoie JN. CDK1-Mediated Phosphorylation of BAG3 Promotes Mitotic Cell Shape Remodeling and the Molecular Assembly of Mitotic p62 Bodies. Cells 2021; 10:cells10102638. [PMID: 34685619 PMCID: PMC8534064 DOI: 10.3390/cells10102638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2021] [Revised: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The cochaperone BCL2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3), in complex with the heat shock protein HSPB8, facilitates mitotic rounding, spindle orientation, and proper abscission of daughter cells. BAG3 and HSPB8 mitotic functions implicate the sequestosome p62/SQSTM1, suggesting a role for protein quality control. However, the interplay between this chaperone-assisted pathway and the mitotic machinery is not known. Here, we show that BAG3 phosphorylation at the conserved T285 is regulated by CDK1 and activates its function in mitotic cell shape remodeling. BAG3 phosphorylation exhibited a high dynamic at mitotic entry and both a non-phosphorylatable BAG3T285A and a phosphomimetic BAG3T285D protein were unable to correct the mitotic defects in BAG3-depleted HeLa cells. We also demonstrate that BAG3 phosphorylation, HSPB8, and CDK1 activity modulate the molecular assembly of p62/SQSTM1 into mitotic bodies containing K63 polyubiquitinated chains. These findings suggest the existence of a mitotically regulated spatial quality control mechanism for the fidelity of cell shape remodeling in highly dividing cells.
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- Carole Luthold
- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Biochimie Médicale et Pathologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1V0A6, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (H.L.); (S.M.G.); (M.-A.R.); (M.F.); (A.-A.V.); (A.F.-T.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Biochimie Médicale et Pathologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Quebec, QC G1V0A6, Canada
- Correspondence:
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Molecular mechanisms of mammalian autophagy. Biochem J 2021; 478:3395-3421. [PMID: 34554214 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20210314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP) and autophagy play integral roles in cellular homeostasis. As part of their normal life cycle, most proteins undergo ubiquitination for some form of redistribution, localization and/or functional modulation. However, ubiquitination is also important to the UPP and several autophagic processes. The UPP is initiated after specific lysine residues of short-lived, damaged or misfolded proteins are conjugated to ubiquitin, which targets these proteins to proteasomes. Autophagy is the endosomal/lysosomal-dependent degradation of organelles, invading microbes, zymogen granules and macromolecules such as protein, carbohydrates and lipids. Autophagy can be broadly separated into three distinct subtypes termed microautophagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy and macroautophagy. Although autophagy was once thought of as non-selective bulk degradation, advancements in the field have led to the discovery of several selective forms of autophagy. Here, we focus on the mechanisms of primary and selective mammalian autophagy pathways and highlight the current knowledge gaps in these molecular pathways.
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Günay KA, Silver JS, Chang TL, Bednarski OJ, Bannister KL, Rogowski CJ, Olwin BB, Anseth KS. Myoblast mechanotransduction and myotube morphology is dependent on BAG3 regulation of YAP and TAZ. Biomaterials 2021; 277:121097. [PMID: 34481290 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Revised: 07/26/2021] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Skeletal muscle tissue is mechanically dynamic with changes in stiffness influencing function, maintenance, and regeneration. We modeled skeletal muscle mechanical changes in culture with dynamically stiffening hydrogels demonstrating that the chaperone protein BAG3 transduces matrix stiffness by redistributing YAP and TAZ subcellular localization in muscle progenitor cells. BAG3 depletion increases cytoplasmic retention of YAP and TAZ, desensitizing myoblasts to changes in hydrogel elastic moduli. Upon differentiation, muscle progenitors depleted of BAG3 formed enlarged, round myotubes lacking the typical cylindrical morphology. The aberrant morphology is dependent on YAP/TAZ signaling, which was sequestered in the cytoplasm in BAG3-depleted myotubes but predominately nuclear in cylindrical myotubes of control cells. Control progenitor cells induced to differentiate on soft (E' = 4 and 12 kPa) hydrogels formed circular myotubes similar to those observed in BAG3-depleted cells. Inhibition of the Hippo pathway partially restored myotube morphologies, permitting nuclear translocation of YAP and TAZ in BAG3-depleted myogenic progenitors. Thus, BAG3 is a critical mediator of dynamic stiffness changes in muscle tissue, coupling mechanical alterations to intracellular signals and inducing changes in gene expression that influence muscle progenitor cell morphology and differentiation.
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- K Arda Günay
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
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Höhfeld J, Benzing T, Bloch W, Fürst DO, Gehlert S, Hesse M, Hoffmann B, Hoppe T, Huesgen PF, Köhn M, Kolanus W, Merkel R, Niessen CM, Pokrzywa W, Rinschen MM, Wachten D, Warscheid B. Maintaining proteostasis under mechanical stress. EMBO Rep 2021; 22:e52507. [PMID: 34309183 PMCID: PMC8339670 DOI: 10.15252/embr.202152507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cell survival, tissue integrity and organismal health depend on the ability to maintain functional protein networks even under conditions that threaten protein integrity. Protection against such stress conditions involves the adaptation of folding and degradation machineries, which help to preserve the protein network by facilitating the refolding or disposal of damaged proteins. In multicellular organisms, cells are permanently exposed to stress resulting from mechanical forces. Yet, for long time mechanical stress was not recognized as a primary stressor that perturbs protein structure and threatens proteome integrity. The identification and characterization of protein folding and degradation systems, which handle force-unfolded proteins, marks a turning point in this regard. It has become apparent that mechanical stress protection operates during cell differentiation, adhesion and migration and is essential for maintaining tissues such as skeletal muscle, heart and kidney as well as the immune system. Here, we provide an overview of recent advances in our understanding of mechanical stress protection.
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- Jörg Höhfeld
- Institute for Cell BiologyRheinische Friedrich‐Wilhelms University BonnBonnGermany
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne (CMMC)University of CologneCologneGermany
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports MedicineGerman Sport UniversityCologneGermany
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- Institute for Cell BiologyRheinische Friedrich‐Wilhelms University BonnBonnGermany
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- Institute of Cardiovascular Research and Sports MedicineGerman Sport UniversityCologneGermany
- Department for the Biosciences of SportsInstitute of Sports ScienceUniversity of HildesheimHildesheimGermany
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- Institute of Physiology I, Life & Brain CenterMedical FacultyRheinische Friedrich‐Wilhelms UniversityBonnGermany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing, IBI‐2: MechanobiologyForschungszentrum JülichJülichGermany
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- Institute for GeneticsCologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging‐Associated Diseases (CECAD) and CMMCUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
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- Central Institute for Engineering, Electronics and Analytics, ZEA3Forschungszentrum JülichJülichGermany
- CECADUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
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- Institute of Biology IIIFaculty of Biology, and Signalling Research Centres BIOSS and CIBSSAlbert‐Ludwigs‐University FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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- LIMES‐InstituteRheinische Friedrich‐Wilhelms University BonnBonnGermany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing, IBI‐2: MechanobiologyForschungszentrum JülichJülichGermany
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- Department of Dermatology and CECADUniversity of CologneCologneGermany
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- Department of Biomedicine and Aarhus Institute of Advanced StudiesAarhus UniversityAarhusDenmark
- Department of MedicineUniversity Medical Center Hamburg‐EppendorfHamburgGermany
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- Institute of Innate ImmunityUniversity Hospital BonnBonnGermany
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- Institute of Biology IIFaculty of Biology, and Signalling Research Centres BIOSS and CIBSSAlbert‐Ludwigs‐University FreiburgFreiburgGermany
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Marzullo L, Turco MC, Uversky VN. What's in the BAGs? Intrinsic disorder angle of the multifunctionality of the members of a family of chaperone regulators. J Cell Biochem 2021; 123:22-42. [PMID: 34339540 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.30123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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In humans, the family of Bcl-2 associated athanogene (BAG) proteins includes six members characterized by exceptional multifunctionality and engagement in the pathogenesis of various diseases. All of them are capable of interacting with a multitude of often unrelated binding partners. Such binding promiscuity and related functional and pathological multifacetedness cannot be explained or understood within the frames of the classical "one protein-one structure-one function" model, which also fails to explain the presence of multiple isoforms generated for BAG proteins by alternative splicing or alternative translation initiation and their extensive posttranslational modifications. However, all these mysteries can be solved by taking into account the intrinsic disorder phenomenon. In fact, high binding promiscuity and potential to participate in a broad spectrum of interactions with multiple binding partners, as well as a capability to be multifunctional and multipathogenic, are some of the characteristic features of intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions. Such functional proteins or protein regions lacking unique tertiary structures constitute a cornerstone of the protein structure-function continuum concept. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the functional roles of human BAG proteins from the perspective of protein intrinsic disorder which will provide a means for understanding their binding promiscuity, multifunctionality, and relation to the pathogenesis of various diseases.
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- Liberato Marzullo
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry Schola Medica Salernitana, University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy.,Research and Development Division, BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., Baronissi, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry Schola Medica Salernitana, University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy.,Research and Development Division, BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., Baronissi, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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De Marco M, Falco A, Iaccarino R, Raffone A, Mollo A, Guida M, Rosati A, Chetta M, Genovese G, De Caro F, Capunzo M, Turco MC, Uversky VN, Marzullo L. An emerging role for BAG3 in gynaecological malignancies. Br J Cancer 2021; 125:789-797. [PMID: 34099896 DOI: 10.1038/s41416-021-01446-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Revised: 04/23/2021] [Accepted: 05/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BAG3, a member of the BAG family of co-chaperones, is a multidomain protein with a role in several cellular processes, including the control of apoptosis, autophagy and cytoskeletal dynamics. The expression of bag3 is negligible in most cells but can be induced by stress stimuli or malignant transformation. In some tumours, BAG3 has been reported to promote cell survival and resistance to therapy. The expression of BAG3 has been documented in ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancers, and studies have revealed biochemical and functional connections of BAG3 with proteins involved in the survival, invasion and resistance to therapy of these malignancies. BAG3 expression has also been shown to correlate with the grade of dysplasia in squamous intraepithelial lesions of the uterine cervix. Some aspects of BAG3 activity, such as its biochemical and functional interaction with the human papillomavirus proteins, could help in our understanding of the mechanisms of oncogenesis induced by the virus. This review aims to highlight the potential value of BAG3 studies in the field of gynaecological tumours.
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- Margot De Marco
- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.,BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., R&D Division, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.,BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., R&D Division, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Gynaecology and Obstetrics Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences and Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Gynaecology and Obstetrics Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences and Dentistry, School of Medicine, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.,BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., R&D Division, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- University Hospital "San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi D'Aragona", Salerno, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy. .,BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., R&D Division, Baronissi, SA, Italy.
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.,Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center, Moscow region, Russia
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry "Schola Medica Salernitana", University of Salerno, Baronissi, SA, Italy.,BIOUNIVERSA s.r.l., R&D Division, Baronissi, SA, Italy
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Martin TG, Myers VD, Dubey P, Dubey S, Perez E, Moravec CS, Willis MS, Feldman AM, Kirk JA. Cardiomyocyte contractile impairment in heart failure results from reduced BAG3-mediated sarcomeric protein turnover. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2942. [PMID: 34011988 PMCID: PMC8134551 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23272-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The association between reduced myofilament force-generating capacity (Fmax) and heart failure (HF) is clear, however the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we show impaired Fmax arises from reduced BAG3-mediated sarcomere turnover. Myofilament BAG3 expression decreases in human HF and positively correlates with Fmax. We confirm this relationship using BAG3 haploinsufficient mice, which display reduced Fmax and increased myofilament ubiquitination, suggesting impaired protein turnover. We show cardiac BAG3 operates via chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA), conserved from skeletal muscle, and confirm sarcomeric CASA complex localization is BAG3/proteotoxic stress-dependent. Using mass spectrometry, we characterize the myofilament CASA interactome in the human heart and identify eight clients of BAG3-mediated turnover. To determine if increasing BAG3 expression in HF can restore sarcomere proteostasis/Fmax, HF mice were treated with rAAV9-BAG3. Gene therapy fully rescued Fmax and CASA protein turnover after four weeks. Our findings indicate BAG3-mediated sarcomere turnover is fundamental for myofilament functional maintenance. Decreased expression of BAG3 in the heart is associated with contractile dysfunction and heart failure. Here the authors show that this is due to decreased BAG3-dependent sarcomere protein turnover, which impairs mechanical function, and that sarcomere force-generating capacity is restored with BAG3 gene therapy.
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- Thomas G Martin
- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA.
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Wang H, Marrosu E, Brayson D, Wasala NB, Johnson EK, Scott CS, Yue Y, Hau KL, Trask AJ, Froehner SC, Adams ME, Zhang L, Duan D, Montanaro F. Proteomic analysis identifies key differences in the cardiac interactomes of dystrophin and micro-dystrophin. Hum Mol Genet 2021; 30:1321-1336. [PMID: 33949649 PMCID: PMC8255133 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddab133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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ΔR4-R23/ΔCT micro-dystrophin (μDys) is a miniaturized version of dystrophin currently evaluated in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy trial to treat skeletal and cardiac muscle disease. In pre-clinical studies, μDys efficiently rescues cardiac histopathology, but only partially normalizes cardiac function. To gain insights into factors that may impact the cardiac therapeutic efficacy of μDys, we compared by mass spectrometry the composition of purified dystrophin and μDys protein complexes in the mouse heart. We report that compared to dystrophin, μDys has altered associations with α1- and β2-syntrophins, as well as cavins, a group of caveolae-associated signaling proteins. In particular, we found that membrane localization of cavin-1 and cavin-4 in cardiomyocytes requires dystrophin and is profoundly disrupted in the heart of mdx5cv mice, a model of DMD. Following cardiac stress/damage, membrane-associated cavin-4 recruits the signaling molecule ERK to caveolae, which activates key cardio-protective responses. Evaluation of ERK signaling revealed a profound inhibition, below physiological baseline, in the mdx5cv mouse heart. Expression of μDys in mdx5cv mice prevented the development of cardiac histopathology but did not rescue membrane localization of cavins nor did it normalize ERK signaling. Our study provides the first comparative analysis of purified protein complexes assembled in vivo by full-length dystrophin and a therapeutic micro-dystrophin construct. This has revealed disruptions in cavins and ERK signaling that may contribute to DMD cardiomyopathy. This new knowledge is important for ongoing efforts to prevent and treat heart disease in DMD patients.
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- Hong Wang
- Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus OH 43205, USA.,Department of Pediatric Cardiology, China Medical University, Liaoning 110004, China
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- Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Molecular Neurosciences Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.,NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Molecular Neurosciences Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.,NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus OH 43205, USA
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- Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Molecular Neurosciences Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.,NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Molecular Neurosciences Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.,NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Center for Cardiovascular Research, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility, Campus Chemical Instrument Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,Department of Bioengineering, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.,Department of Biomedical, Biological and Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Center for Gene Therapy, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus OH 43205, USA.,Developmental Neuroscience Research and Teaching Department, Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Molecular Neurosciences Section, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK.,NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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Baeken MW, Behl C. On the origin of BAG(3) and its consequences for an expansion of BAG3's role in protein homeostasis. J Cell Biochem 2021; 123:102-114. [PMID: 33942360 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.29925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2021] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The B-cell CLL 2-associated athanogene (BAG) protein family in general and BAG3, in particular, are pivotal elements of cellular protein homeostasis, with BAG3 playing a major role in macroautophagy. In particular, in the contexts of senescence and degeneration, BAG3 has exhibited an essential role often related to its capabilities to organize and remove aggregated proteins. Exciting studies in different species ranging from human, murine, zebrafish, and plant samples have delivered vital insights into BAG3s' (and other BAG proteins') functions and their regulations. However, so far no studies have addressed neither BAG3's evolution nor its phylogenetic position in the BAG family.
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- Marius W Baeken
- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- The Autophagy Lab, Institute of Pathobiochemistry, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Cafe SL, Nixon B, Ecroyd H, Martin JH, Skerrett-Byrne DA, Bromfield EG. Proteostasis in the Male and Female Germline: A New Outlook on the Maintenance of Reproductive Health. Front Cell Dev Biol 2021; 9:660626. [PMID: 33937261 PMCID: PMC8085359 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2021.660626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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For fully differentiated, long lived cells the maintenance of protein homeostasis (proteostasis) becomes a crucial determinant of cellular function and viability. Neurons are the most well-known example of this phenomenon where the majority of these cells must survive the entire course of life. However, male and female germ cells are also uniquely dependent on the maintenance of proteostasis to achieve successful fertilization. Oocytes, also long-lived cells, are subjected to prolonged periods of arrest and are largely reliant on the translation of stored mRNAs, accumulated during the growth period, to support meiotic maturation and subsequent embryogenesis. Conversely, sperm cells, while relatively ephemeral, are completely reliant on proteostasis due to the absence of both transcription and translation. Despite these remarkable, cell-specific features there has been little focus on understanding protein homeostasis in reproductive cells and how/whether proteostasis is "reset" during embryogenesis. Here, we seek to capture the momentum of this growing field by highlighting novel findings regarding germline proteostasis and how this knowledge can be used to promote reproductive health. In this review we capture proteostasis in the context of both somatic cell and germline aging and discuss the influence of oxidative stress on protein function. In particular, we highlight the contributions of proteostasis changes to oocyte aging and encourage a focus in this area that may complement the extensive analyses of DNA damage and aneuploidy that have long occupied the oocyte aging field. Moreover, we discuss the influence of common non-enzymatic protein modifications on the stability of proteins in the male germline, how these changes affect sperm function, and how they may be prevented to preserve fertility. Through this review we aim to bring to light a new trajectory for our field and highlight the potential to harness the germ cell's natural proteostasis mechanisms to improve reproductive health. This manuscript will be of interest to those in the fields of proteostasis, aging, male and female gamete reproductive biology, embryogenesis, and life course health.
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- Shenae L. Cafe
- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Molecular Horizons, School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Human Genetics, McGill University Health Centre Research Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Priority Research Centre for Reproductive Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Angiomotin Counteracts the Negative Regulatory Effect of Host WWOX on Viral PPxY-Mediated Egress. J Virol 2021; 95:JVI.00121-21. [PMID: 33536174 PMCID: PMC8103691 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00121-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Filoviridae family members Ebola (EBOV) and Marburg (MARV) viruses and Arenaviridae family member Lassa virus (LASV) are emerging pathogens that can cause hemorrhagic fever and high rates of mortality in humans. A better understanding of the interplay between these viruses and the host will inform about the biology of these pathogens, and may lead to the identification of new targets for therapeutic development. Notably, expression of the filovirus VP40 and LASV Z matrix proteins alone drives assembly and egress of virus-like particles (VLPs). The conserved PPxY Late (L) domain motifs in the filovirus VP40 and LASV Z proteins play a key role in the budding process by mediating interactions with select host WW-domain containing proteins that then regulate virus egress and spread. To identify the full complement of host WW-domain interactors, we utilized WT and PPxY mutant peptides from EBOV and MARV VP40 and LASV Z proteins to screen an array of GST-WW-domain fusion proteins. We identified WW domain-containing oxidoreductase (WWOX) as a novel PPxY-dependent interactor, and we went on to show that full-length WWOX physically interacts with eVP40, mVP40 and LASV Z to negatively regulate egress of VLPs and of a live VSV/Ebola recombinant virus (M40). Interestingly, WWOX is a versatile host protein that regulates multiple signaling pathways and cellular processes via modular interactions between its WW-domains and PPxY motifs of select interacting partners, including host angiomotin (AMOT). Notably, we demonstrated recently that expression of endogenous AMOT not only positively regulates egress of VLPs, but also promotes egress and spread of live EBOV and MARV. Toward the mechanism of action, we show that the competitive and modular interplay among WWOX-AMOT-VP40/Z regulates VLP and M40 virus egress. Thus, WWOX is the newest member of an emerging group of host WW-domain interactors (e.g. BAG3; YAP/TAZ) that negatively regulate viral egress. These findings further highlight the complex interplay of virus-host PPxY/WW-domain interactions and their potential impact on the biology of both the virus and the host during infection.Author Summary Filoviruses (Ebola [EBOV] and Marburg [MARV]) and arenavirus (Lassa virus; LASV) are zoonotic, emerging pathogens that cause outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. A fundamental understanding of the virus-host interface is critical for understanding the biology of these viruses and for developing future strategies for therapeutic intervention. Here, we identified host WW-domain containing protein WWOX as a novel interactor with VP40 and Z, and showed that WWOX inhibited budding of VP40/Z virus-like particles (VLPs) and live virus in a PPxY/WW-domain dependent manner. Our findings are important to the field as they expand the repertoire of host interactors found to regulate PPxY-mediated budding of RNA viruses, and further highlight the competitive interplay and modular virus-host interactions that impact both the virus lifecycle and the host cell.
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Luthold C, Varlet AA, Lambert H, Bordeleau F, Lavoie JN. Chaperone-Assisted Mitotic Actin Remodeling by BAG3 and HSPB8 Involves the Deacetylase HDAC6 and Its Substrate Cortactin. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 22:ijms22010142. [PMID: 33375626 PMCID: PMC7795263 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22010142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The fidelity of actin dynamics relies on protein quality control, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are poorly defined. During mitosis, the cochaperone BCL2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) modulates cell rounding, cortex stability, spindle orientation, and chromosome segregation. Mitotic BAG3 shows enhanced interactions with its preferred chaperone partner HSPB8, the autophagic adaptor p62/SQSTM1, and HDAC6, a deacetylase with cytoskeletal substrates. Here, we show that depletion of BAG3, HSPB8, or p62/SQSTM1 can recapitulate the same inhibition of mitotic cell rounding. Moreover, depletion of either of these proteins also interfered with the dynamic of the subcortical actin cloud that contributes to spindle positioning. These phenotypes were corrected by drugs that limit the Arp2/3 complex or HDAC6 activity, arguing for a role for BAG3 in tuning branched actin network assembly. Mechanistically, we found that cortactin acetylation/deacetylation is mitotically regulated and is correlated with a reduced association of cortactin with HDAC6 in situ. Remarkably, BAG3 depletion hindered the mitotic decrease in cortactin–HDAC6 association. Furthermore, expression of an acetyl-mimic cortactin mutant in BAG3-depleted cells normalized mitotic cell rounding and the subcortical actin cloud organization. Together, these results reinforce a BAG3′s function for accurate mitotic actin remodeling, via tuning cortactin and HDAC6 spatial dynamics.
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- Carole Luthold
- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (A.-A.V.); (H.L.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (A.-A.V.); (H.L.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (A.-A.V.); (H.L.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (A.-A.V.); (H.L.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Biochimie Médicale et Pathologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
- Correspondence: (F.B.); (J.N.L.)
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- Centre de Recherche sur le Cancer, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada; (C.L.); (A.-A.V.); (H.L.)
- Oncology, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Québec, QC G1R 3S3, Canada
- Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Biochimie Médicale et Pathologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
- Correspondence: (F.B.); (J.N.L.)
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Koopman MB, Rüdiger SGD. Alzheimer Cells on Their Way to Derailment Show Selective Changes in Protein Quality Control Network. Front Mol Biosci 2020; 7:214. [PMID: 33330614 PMCID: PMC7715003 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.00214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2020] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Alzheimer's Disease is driven by protein aggregation and is characterized by accumulation of Tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles. In healthy neurons the cellular protein quality control is successfully in charge of protein folding, which raises the question to which extent this control is disturbed in disease. Here, we describe that brain cells in Alzheimer's Disease show very specific derailment of the protein quality control network. We performed a meta-analysis on the Alzheimer's Disease Proteome database, which provides a quantitative assessment of disease-related proteome changes in six brain regions in comparison to age-matched controls. We noted that levels of all paralogs of the conserved Hsp90 chaperone family are reduced, while most other chaperones - or their regulatory co-chaperones - do not change in disease. The notable exception is a select group consisting of the stress inducible HSP70, its nucleotide exchange factor BAG3 - which links the Hsp70 system to autophagy - and neuronal small heat shock proteins, which are upregulated in disease. They are all members of a cascade controlled in the stress response, channeling proteins towards a pathway of chaperone assisted selective autophagy. Together, our analysis reveals that in an Alzheimer's brain, with exception of Hsp90, the players of the protein quality control are still present in full strength, even in brain regions most severely affected in disease. The specific upregulation of small heat shock proteins and HSP70:BAG3, ubiquitous in all brain areas analyzed, may represent a last, unsuccessful attempt to advert cell death.
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- Margreet B. Koopman
- Cellular Protein Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Cellular Protein Chemistry, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Science for Life, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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BAG3 Proteomic Signature under Proteostasis Stress. Cells 2020; 9:cells9112416. [PMID: 33158300 PMCID: PMC7694386 DOI: 10.3390/cells9112416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The multifunctional HSP70 co-chaperone BAG3 (BCL-2-associated athanogene 3) represents a key player in the quality control of the cellular proteostasis network. In response to stress, BAG3 specifically targets aggregation-prone proteins to the perinuclear aggresome and promotes their degradation via BAG3-mediated selective macroautophagy. To adapt cellular homeostasis to stress, BAG3 modulates and functions in various cellular processes and signaling pathways. Noteworthy, dysfunction and deregulation of BAG3 and its pathway are pathophysiologically linked to myopathies, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders. Here, we report a BAG3 proteomic signature under proteostasis stress. To elucidate the dynamic and multifunctional action of BAG3 in response to stress, we established BAG3 interactomes under basal and proteostasis stress conditions by employing affinity purification combined with quantitative mass spectrometry. In addition to the identification of novel potential BAG3 interactors, we defined proteins whose interaction with BAG3 was altered upon stress. By functional annotation and protein-protein interaction enrichment analysis of the identified potential BAG3 interactors, we confirmed the multifunctionality of BAG3 and highlighted its crucial role in diverse cellular signaling pathways and processes, ensuring cellular proteostasis and cell viability. These include protein folding and degradation, gene expression, cytoskeleton dynamics (including cell cycle and transport), as well as granulostasis, in particular.
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Diofano F, Weinmann K, Schneider I, Thiessen KD, Rottbauer W, Just S. Genetic compensation prevents myopathy and heart failure in an in vivo model of Bag3 deficiency. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1009088. [PMID: 33137814 PMCID: PMC7605898 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Mutations in the molecular co-chaperone Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) are found to cause dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), resulting in systolic dysfunction and heart failure, as well as myofibrillar myopathy (MFM), which is characterized by protein aggregation and myofibrillar disintegration in skeletal muscle cells. Here, we generated a CRISPR/Cas9-induced Bag3 knockout zebrafish line and found the complete preservation of heart and skeletal muscle structure and function during embryonic development, in contrast to morpholino-mediated knockdown of Bag3. Intriguingly, genetic compensation, a process of transcriptional adaptation which acts independent of protein feedback loops, was found to prevent heart and skeletal muscle damage in our Bag3 knockout model. Proteomic profiling and quantitative real-time PCR analyses identified Bag2, another member of the Bag protein family, significantly upregulated on a transcript and protein level in bag3-/- mutants. This implied that the decay of bag3 mutant mRNA in homozygous bag3-/- embryos caused the transcriptional upregulation of bag2 expression. We further demonstrated that morpholino-mediated knockdown of Bag2 in bag3-/- embryos evoked severe functional and structural heart and skeletal muscle defects, which are similar to Bag3 morphants. However, Bag2 knockdown in bag3+/+ or bag3+/- embryos did not result in (cardio-)myopathy. Finally, we found that inhibition of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) machinery by knockdown of upf1, an essential NMD factor, caused severe heart and skeletal muscle defects in bag3-/- mutants due to the blockade of transcriptional adaptation of bag2 expression. Our findings provide evidence that genetic compensation might vitally influence the penetrance of disease-causing bag3 mutations in vivo. One form of genetic compensation is described as transcriptional adaptation of gene expression triggered by deleterious gene mutations. Although the precise molecular mechanism that induces genetic compensation needs to be defined, it represents a powerful biological phenomenon that warrants genetic robustness. We find that antisense-mediated knockdown of Bag3 in zebrafish embryos causes heart failure and myopathy. By contrast, CRISPR/Cas9-induced depletion of Bag3 does not result in the abrogation of heart and skeletal muscle function in zebrafish embryos. We find here that transcriptional activation of the Bag family member bag2 is capable of restoring heart and skeletal muscle function in bag3 mutant embryos, whereas this compensatory mechanism is not present in the bag3 morphants. Furthermore, we show that nonsense-mediated decay of bag3 mRNA is the molecular trigger for the compensatory upregulation of bag2. Our study provides evidence that genetic compensation via transcriptional adaptation is a vital modulator of disease peculiarity and penetrance in bag3 mutant zebrafish and that this biological phenomenon might also be active in certain human BAG3 mutation carriers.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/deficiency
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism
- Animals
- Apoptosis/genetics
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/deficiency
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/genetics
- Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathies/genetics
- Cardiomyopathies/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathies/pathology
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/genetics
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/pathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Heart Failure/genetics
- Heart Failure/metabolism
- Heart Failure/pathology
- Molecular Chaperones/genetics
- Molecular Chaperones/metabolism
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscular Diseases/genetics
- Muscular Diseases/metabolism
- Muscular Diseases/pathology
- Mutation
- Myocardium/metabolism
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/metabolism
- Phenotype
- Proteomics
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/deficiency
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
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- Federica Diofano
- Molecular Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Molecular Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Molecular Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Molecular Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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- Molecular Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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Girardin SE, Cuziol C, Philpott DJ, Arnoult D. The eIF2α kinase HRI in innate immunity, proteostasis, and mitochondrial stress. FEBS J 2020; 288:3094-3107. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.15553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 08/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Stephen E. Girardin
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology University of Toronto ON Canada
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- INSERM UMR_S 1197 Hôpital Paul Brousse Villejuif France
- Université Paris‐Saclay France
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- INSERM UMR_S 1197 Hôpital Paul Brousse Villejuif France
- Université Paris‐Saclay France
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Marzullo L, Turco MC, De Marco M. The multiple activities of BAG3 protein: Mechanisms. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129628. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Accepted: 04/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Collier MP, Benesch JLP. Small heat-shock proteins and their role in mechanical stress. Cell Stress Chaperones 2020; 25:601-613. [PMID: 32253742 PMCID: PMC7332611 DOI: 10.1007/s12192-020-01095-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The ability of cells to respond to stress is central to health. Stress can damage folded proteins, which are vulnerable to even minor changes in cellular conditions. To maintain proteostasis, cells have developed an intricate network in which molecular chaperones are key players. The small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs) are a widespread family of molecular chaperones, and some sHSPs are prominent in muscle, where cells and proteins must withstand high levels of applied force. sHSPs have long been thought to act as general interceptors of protein aggregation. However, evidence is accumulating that points to a more specific role for sHSPs in protecting proteins from mechanical stress. Here, we briefly introduce the sHSPs and outline the evidence for their role in responses to mechanical stress. We suggest that sHSPs interact with mechanosensitive proteins to regulate physiological extension and contraction cycles. It is likely that further study of these interactions - enabled by the development of experimental methodologies that allow protein contacts to be studied under the application of mechanical force - will expand our understanding of the activity and functions of sHSPs, and of the roles played by chaperones in general.
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- Miranda P Collier
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, 318 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.
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Zhou J, Chow HM, Liu Y, Wu D, Shi M, Li J, Wen L, Gao Y, Chen G, Zhuang K, Lin H, Zhang G, Xie W, Li H, Leng L, Wang M, Zheng N, Sun H, Zhao Y, Zhang Y, Xue M, Huang TY, Bu G, Xu H, Yuan Z, Herrup K, Zhang J. Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5-Dependent BAG3 Degradation Modulates Synaptic Protein Turnover. Biol Psychiatry 2020; 87:756-769. [PMID: 31955914 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 11/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Synaptic protein dyshomeostasis and functional loss is an early invariant feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet the unifying etiological pathway remains largely unknown. Knowing that cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) plays critical roles in synaptic formation and degeneration, its phosphorylation targets were reexamined in search of candidates with direct global impacts on synaptic protein dynamics, and the associated regulatory network was also analyzed. METHODS Quantitative phosphoproteomics and bioinformatics analyses were performed to identify top-ranked candidates. A series of biochemical assays was used to investigate the associated regulatory signaling networks. Histological, electrochemical, and behavioral assays were performed in conditional knockout, small hairpin RNA-mediated knockdown, and AD-related mice models to evaluate the relevance of CDK5 to synaptic homeostasis and functions. RESULTS Among candidates with known implications in synaptic modulations, BAG3 ranked the highest. CDK5-mediated phosphorylation on S297/S291 (mouse/human) destabilized BAG3. Loss of BAG3 unleashed the selective protein degradative function of the HSP70 machinery. In neurons, this resulted in enhanced degradation of a number of glutamatergic synaptic proteins. Conditional neuronal knockout of Bag3 in vivo led to impairment of learning and memory functions. In human AD and related mouse models, aberrant CDK5-mediated loss of BAG3 yielded similar effects on synaptic homeostasis. Detrimental effects of BAG3 loss on learning and memory functions were confirmed in these mice, and such effects were reversed by ectopic BAG3 reexpression. CONCLUSIONS Our results highlight that the neuronal CDK5-BAG3-HSP70 signaling axis plays a critical role in modulating synaptic homeostasis. Dysregulation of the signaling pathway directly contributes to synaptic dysfunction and AD pathogenesis.
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- Jiechao Zhou
- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong.
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China; Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China; Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Neuroscience Initiative, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Medical College, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Neuroscience Initiative, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California
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- Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
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- Neuroscience Initiative, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California
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- The Brain Science Center, Beijing Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research, Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
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Tachie-Menson T, Gázquez-Gutiérrez A, Fulcher LJ, Macartney TJ, Wood NT, Varghese J, Gourlay R, Soares RF, Sapkota GP. Characterisation of the biochemical and cellular roles of native and pathogenic amelogenesis imperfecta mutants of FAM83H. Cell Signal 2020; 72:109632. [PMID: 32289446 PMCID: PMC7284315 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2020.109632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 04/06/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The majority of mutations identified in patients with amelogenesis imperfecta have been mapped to FAM83H. As FAM83H expression is not limited to the enamel, how FAM83H contributes to amelogenesis is still largely unknown. We previously reported that members of the FAM83 family of proteins interact with and regulate the subcellular distribution of the promiscuous serine-threonine protein kinase CK1 family, through their shared N-terminal DUF1669 domains. FAM83H co-localises with CK1 isoforms to speckle-like structures in both the cytoplasm and nucleus. In this report, we show FAM83H, unlike other FAM83 proteins, interacts and colocalises with NCK1/2 tyrosine kinase adaptor proteins. This interaction is mediated by proline-rich motifs within the C-terminus of FAM83H, specifically interacting with the second and third SH3 domains of NCK1/2. Moreover, FAM83H pathogenic AI mutant proteins, which trigger C-terminal truncations of FAM83H, retain their interactions with CK1 isoforms but lose interaction with NCK1/2. These AI mutant FAM83H proteins acquire a nuclear localisation, and recruit CK1 isoforms to the nucleus where CK1 retains its kinase activity. As understanding the constituents of the FAM83H-localised speckles may hold the key to unravelling potential substrates of FAM83H-associated CK1 substrates, we employed a TurboID-based proximity labelling approach and uncovered several proteins including Iporin and BAG3 as potential constituents of the speckles.
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- Theresa Tachie-Menson
- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; University of Seville, Av. Sanchez Pizjuan, s/n, 41009, Seville, Spain
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Medical Research Council Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
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Brooks D, Naeem F, Stetsiv M, Goetting SC, Bawa S, Green N, Clark C, Bashirullah A, Geisbrecht ER. Drosophila NUAK functions with Starvin/BAG3 in autophagic protein turnover. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008700. [PMID: 32320396 PMCID: PMC7176095 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The inability to remove protein aggregates in post-mitotic cells such as muscles or neurons is a cellular hallmark of aging cells and is a key factor in the initiation and progression of protein misfolding diseases. While protein aggregate disorders share common features, the molecular level events that culminate in abnormal protein accumulation cannot be explained by a single mechanism. Here we show that loss of the serine/threonine kinase NUAK causes cellular degeneration resulting from the incomplete clearance of protein aggregates in Drosophila larval muscles. In NUAK mutant muscles, regions that lack the myofibrillar proteins F-actin and Myosin heavy chain (MHC) instead contain damaged organelles and the accumulation of select proteins, including Filamin (Fil) and CryAB. NUAK biochemically and genetically interacts with Drosophila Starvin (Stv), the ortholog of mammalian Bcl-2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3). Consistent with a known role for the co-chaperone BAG3 and the Heat shock cognate 71 kDa (HSC70)/HSPA8 ATPase in the autophagic clearance of proteins, RNA interference (RNAi) of Drosophila Stv, Hsc70-4, or autophagy-related 8a (Atg8a) all exhibit muscle degeneration and muscle contraction defects that phenocopy NUAK mutants. We further demonstrate that Fil is a target of NUAK kinase activity and abnormally accumulates upon loss of the BAG3-Hsc70-4 complex. In addition, Ubiquitin (Ub), ref(2)p/p62, and Atg8a are increased in regions of protein aggregation, consistent with a block in autophagy upon loss of NUAK. Collectively, our results establish a novel role for NUAK with the Stv-Hsc70-4 complex in the autophagic clearance of proteins that may eventually lead to treatment options for protein aggregate diseases.
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- David Brooks
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States of America
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Koehler S, Kuczkowski A, Kuehne L, Jüngst C, Hoehne M, Grahammer F, Eddy S, Kretzler M, Beck BB, Höhfeld J, Schermer B, Benzing T, Brinkkoetter PT, Rinschen MM. Proteome Analysis of Isolated Podocytes Reveals Stress Responses in Glomerular Sclerosis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2020; 31:544-559. [PMID: 32047005 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2019030312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Understanding podocyte-specific responses to injury at a systems level is difficult because injury leads to podocyte loss or an increase of extracellular matrix, altering glomerular cellular composition. Finding a window into early podocyte injury might help identify molecular pathways involved in the podocyte stress response. METHODS We developed an approach to apply proteome analysis to very small samples of purified podocyte fractions. To examine podocytes in early disease states in FSGS mouse models, we used podocyte fractions isolated from individual mice after chemical induction of glomerular disease (with Doxorubicin or LPS). We also applied single-glomerular proteome analysis to tissue from patients with FSGS. RESULTS Transcriptome and proteome analysis of glomeruli from patients with FSGS revealed an underrepresentation of podocyte-specific genes and proteins in late-stage disease. Proteome analysis of purified podocyte fractions from FSGS mouse models showed an early stress response that includes perturbations of metabolic, mechanical, and proteostasis proteins. Additional analysis revealed a high correlation between the amount of proteinuria and expression levels of the mechanosensor protein Filamin-B. Increased expression of Filamin-B in podocytes in biopsy samples from patients with FSGS, in single glomeruli from proteinuric rats, and in podocytes undergoing mechanical stress suggests that this protein has a role in detrimental stress responses. In Drosophila, nephrocytes with reduced filamin homolog Cher displayed altered filtration capacity, but exhibited no change in slit diaphragm structure. CONCLUSIONS We identified conserved mechanisms of the podocyte stress response through ultrasensitive proteome analysis of human glomerular FSGS tissue and purified native mouse podocytes during early disease stages. This approach enables systematic comparisons of large-scale proteomics data and phenotype-to-protein correlation.
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- Sybille Koehler
- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- III. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, and
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, and.,Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Human Genetics, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany;
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- Department II of Internal Medicine and Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; .,Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Center for Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
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Prill K, Dawson JF. Assembly and Maintenance of Sarcomere Thin Filaments and Associated Diseases. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E542. [PMID: 31952119 PMCID: PMC7013991 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21020542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Sarcomere assembly and maintenance are essential physiological processes required for cardiac and skeletal muscle function and organism mobility. Over decades of research, components of the sarcomere and factors involved in the formation and maintenance of this contractile unit have been identified. Although we have a general understanding of sarcomere assembly and maintenance, much less is known about the development of the thin filaments and associated factors within the sarcomere. In the last decade, advancements in medical intervention and genome sequencing have uncovered patients with novel mutations in sarcomere thin filaments. Pairing this sequencing with reverse genetics and the ability to generate patient avatars in model organisms has begun to deepen our understanding of sarcomere thin filament development. In this review, we provide a summary of recent findings regarding sarcomere assembly, maintenance, and disease with respect to thin filaments, building on the previous knowledge in the field. We highlight debated and unknown areas within these processes to clearly define open research questions.
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Investigations, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada;
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Tang F, Gao R, Jeevan-Raj B, Wyss CB, Kalathur RKR, Piscuoglio S, Ng CKY, Hindupur SK, Nuciforo S, Dazert E, Bock T, Song S, Buechel D, Morini MF, Hergovich A, Matthias P, Lim DS, Terracciano LM, Heim MH, Hall MN, Christofori G. LATS1 but not LATS2 represses autophagy by a kinase-independent scaffold function. Nat Commun 2019; 10:5755. [PMID: 31848340 PMCID: PMC6917744 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13591-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Autophagy perturbation represents an emerging therapeutic strategy in cancer. Although LATS1 and LATS2 kinases, core components of the mammalian Hippo pathway, have been shown to exert tumor suppressive activities, here we report a pro-survival role of LATS1 but not LATS2 in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells. Specifically, LATS1 restricts lethal autophagy in HCC cells induced by sorafenib, the standard of care for advanced HCC patients. Notably, autophagy regulation by LATS1 is independent of its kinase activity. Instead, LATS1 stabilizes the autophagy core-machinery component Beclin-1 by promoting K27-linked ubiquitination at lysine residues K32 and K263 on Beclin-1. Consequently, ubiquitination of Beclin-1 negatively regulates autophagy by promoting inactive dimer formation of Beclin-1. Our study highlights a functional diversity between LATS1 and LATS2, and uncovers a scaffolding role of LATS1 in mediating a cross-talk between the Hippo signaling pathway and autophagy.
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- Fengyuan Tang
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
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- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Kulessa M, Weyer-Menkhoff I, Viergutz L, Kornblum C, Claeys KG, Schneider I, Plöckinger U, Young P, Boentert M, Vielhaber S, Mawrin C, Bergmann M, Weis J, Ziagaki A, Stenzel W, Deschauer M, Nolte D, Hahn A, Schoser B, Schänzer A. An integrative correlation of myopathology, phenotype and genotype in late onset Pompe disease. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2019; 46:359-374. [PMID: 31545528 DOI: 10.1111/nan.12580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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AIMS Pompe disease is caused by pathogenic mutations in the alpha 1,4-glucosidase (GAA) gene and in patients with late onset Pome disease (LOPD), genotype-phenotype correlations are unpredictable. Skeletal muscle pathology includes glycogen accumulation and altered autophagy of various degrees. A correlation of the muscle morphology with clinical features and the genetic background in GAA may contribute to the understanding of the phenotypic variability. METHODS Muscle biopsies taken before enzyme replacement therapy were analysed from 53 patients with LOPD. On resin sections, glycogen accumulation, fibrosis, autophagic vacuoles and the degree of muscle damage (morphology-score) were analysed and the results were compared with clinical findings. Additional autophagy markers microtubule-associated protein 1A/1B-light chain 3, p62 and Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 were analysed on cryosections from 22 LOPD biopsies. RESULTS The myopathology showed a high variability with, in most patients, a moderate glycogen accumulation and a low morphology-score. High morphology-scores were associated with increased fibrosis and autophagy highlighting the role of autophagy in severe stages of skeletal muscle damage. The morphology-score did not correlate with the patient's age at biopsy, disease duration, nor with the residual GAA enzyme activity or creatine-kinase levels. In 37 patients with LOPD, genetic analysis identified the most frequent mutation, c.-32-13T>G, in 95%, most commonly in combination with c.525delT (19%). No significant correlation was found between the different GAA genotypes and muscle morphology type. CONCLUSIONS Muscle morphology in LOPD patients shows a high variability with, in most cases, moderate pathology. Increased pathology is associated with more fibrosis and autophagy.
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- M Kulessa
- Institute of Neuropathology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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- Institute of Neuropathology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Center for Rare Diseases, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Laboratory for Muscle Diseases and Neuropathies, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Centre of Metabolism: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Sleep Medicine and Neuromuscular Disorders, Muenster University Hospital, Münster, Germany.,Medical Park Reithofpark, Bad Feilnbach, Germany
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- Department of Sleep Medicine and Neuromuscular Disorders, Muenster University Hospital, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Neuropathology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute of Clinical Neuropathology, Klinikum Bremen-Mitte, Bremen, Germany
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- Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Centre of Metabolism: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neuropathology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Child Neurology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, LMU University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Neuropathology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
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Klimek C, Jahnke R, Wördehoff J, Kathage B, Stadel D, Behrends C, Hergovich A, Höhfeld J. The Hippo network kinase STK38 contributes to protein homeostasis by inhibiting BAG3-mediated autophagy. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2019; 1866:1556-1566. [PMID: 31326538 PMCID: PMC6692498 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2019.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Chaperone-assisted selective autophagy (CASA) initiated by the cochaperone Bcl2-associated athanogene 3 (BAG3) represents an important mechanism for the disposal of misfolded and damaged proteins in mammalian cells. Under mechanical stress, the cochaperone cooperates with the small heat shock protein HSPB8 and the cytoskeleton-associated protein SYNPO2 to degrade force-unfolded forms of the actin-crosslinking protein filamin. This is essential for muscle maintenance in flies, fish, mice and men. Here, we identify the serine/threonine protein kinase 38 (STK38), which is part of the Hippo signaling network, as a novel interactor of BAG3. STK38 was previously shown to facilitate cytoskeleton assembly and to promote mitophagy as well as starvation and detachment induced autophagy. Significantly, our study reveals that STK38 exerts an inhibitory activity on BAG3-mediated autophagy. Inhibition relies on a disruption of the functional interplay of BAG3 with HSPB8 and SYNPO2 upon binding of STK38 to the cochaperone. Of note, STK38 attenuates CASA independently of its kinase activity, whereas previously established regulatory functions of STK38 involve target phosphorylation. The ability to exert different modes of regulation on central protein homeostasis (proteostasis) machineries apparently allows STK38 to coordinate the execution of diverse macroautophagy pathways and to balance cytoskeleton assembly and degradation.
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- Christina Klimek
- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Ulrich-Haberland-Str. 61a, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Ulrich-Haberland-Str. 61a, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Ulrich-Haberland-Str. 61a, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Ulrich-Haberland-Str. 61a, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Feodor-Lynen Strasse 17, 81377 München, Germany
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- Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Ulrich-Haberland-Str. 61a, 53121 Bonn, Germany.
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Webster JM, Darling AL, Uversky VN, Blair LJ. Small Heat Shock Proteins, Big Impact on Protein Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease. Front Pharmacol 2019; 10:1047. [PMID: 31619995 PMCID: PMC6759932 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2019.01047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Misfolding, aggregation, and aberrant accumulation of proteins are central components in the progression of neurodegenerative disease. Cellular molecular chaperone systems modulate proteostasis, and, therefore, are primed to influence aberrant protein-induced neurotoxicity and disease progression. Molecular chaperones have a wide range of functions from facilitating proper nascent folding and refolding to degradation or sequestration of misfolded substrates. In disease states, molecular chaperones can display protective or aberrant effects, including the promotion and stabilization of toxic protein aggregates. This seems to be dependent on the aggregating protein and discrete chaperone interaction. Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are a class of molecular chaperones that typically associate early with misfolded proteins. These interactions hold proteins in a reversible state that helps facilitate refolding or degradation by other chaperones and co-factors. These sHsp interactions require dynamic oligomerization state changes in response to diverse cellular triggers and, unlike later steps in the chaperone cascade of events, are ATP-independent. Here, we review evidence for modulation of neurodegenerative disease-relevant protein aggregation by sHsps. This includes data supporting direct physical interactions and potential roles of sHsps in the stewardship of pathological protein aggregates in brain. A greater understanding of the mechanisms of sHsp chaperone activity may help in the development of novel therapeutic strategies to modulate the aggregation of pathological, amyloidogenic proteins. sHsps-targeting strategies including modulators of expression or post-translational modification of endogenous sHsps, small molecules targeted to sHsp domains, and delivery of engineered molecular chaperones, are also discussed.
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- Jack M Webster
- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Byrd Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Byrd Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Byrd Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Byrd Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
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Mohseni Ahooyi T, Torkzaban B, Shekarabi M, Tahrir FG, Decoppet EA, Cotto B, Langford D, Amini S, Khalili K. Perturbation of synapsins homeostasis through HIV-1 Tat-mediated suppression of BAG3 in primary neuronal cells. Cell Death Dis 2019; 10:473. [PMID: 31209204 PMCID: PMC6572798 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-019-1702-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Revised: 03/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
Abstract
HIV-1 Tat is known to be released by HIV infected non-neuronal cells in the brain, and after entering neurons, compromises brain homeostasis by impairing pro-survival pathways, thus contributing to the development of HIV-associated CNS disorders commonly observed in individuals living with HIV. Here, we demonstrate that synapsins, phosphoproteins that are predominantly expressed in neuronal cells and play a vital role in modulating neurotransmitter release at the pre-synaptic terminal, and neuronal differentiation become targets for Tat through autophagy and protein quality control pathways. We demonstrate that the presence of Tat in neurons results in downregulation of BAG3, a co-chaperone for heat shock proteins (Hsp70/Hsc70) that is implicated in protein quality control (PQC) processes by eliminating mis-folded and damaged proteins, and selective macroautophagy. Our results show that treatment of cells with Tat or suppression of BAG3 expression by siRNA in neuronal cells disturbs subcellular distribution of synapsins and synaptotagmin 1 (Syt1) leading to their accumulation in the neuronal soma and along axons in a punctate pattern, rather than being properly distributed at axon-terminals. Further, our results revealed that synapsins partially lost their stability and their removal via lysosomal autophagy was noticeably impaired in cells with low levels of BAG3. The observed impairment of lysosomal autophagy, under this condition, is likely caused by cells losing their ability to process LC3-I to LC3-II, in part due to a decrease in the ATG5 levels upon BAG3 knockdown. These observations ascribe a new function for BAG3 in controlling synaptic communications and illuminate a new downstream target for Tat to elicit its pathogenic effect in impacting neuronal cell function and behavior.
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- Taha Mohseni Ahooyi
- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience Center for Neurovirology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, 3500N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA.
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Roperto S, Russo V, De Falco F, Urraro C, Maiolino P, Del Piero F, Roperto F. Bovine papillomavirus E5 oncoprotein expression and its association with an interactor network in aggresome-autophagy pathway. Vet Microbiol 2019; 233:39-46. [PMID: 31176410 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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E5 protein, the major oncoprotein of bovine Deltapapillomavirus (BPV), was found to be expressed in 18 of 21 examined urothelial cancers of cattle. E5 oncoprotein was found to interact with p62 which was degraded through the autophagosome-lysosome pathway as well as LC3-II and appeared to be involved in the phosphorylation of the α-subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2α). Autophagy was morphologically documented by transmission electron microscope (TEM) through the detection of double-membrane autophagosomes and autolysosomes. Overexpression of Bag3 known to mediate selective autophagy was also demonstrated. Furthermore, Bag3 and BPV E5 oncoprotein were seen to co-localize with dynein and 14-3-3γ, which suggested that Bag3 could be involved in inducing the retrograde transport of BPV E5 along microtubules to aggresomes, perinuclear sites with high autophagic flux. Electron dense perinuclear structures consistent with aggresomes were also documented by TEM in urothelial cancer cells. Finally, Bag3 was found to also interact with synaptopodin 2 (Synpo2), which would seem to contribute to cargo degradation as it has been shown to facilitate autophagosome formation. This study provides mechanistic insights into the potential role(s) of autophagy in BPV disease, which can help to develop future treatment and control measures for BPV infection. Activation of autophagy correlates positively with BPV infection and may play a role in biological behavior of bladder cancer as urothelial carcinomas of cattle are known to be characterized by a relatively low rate of metastasis.
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- Sante Roperto
- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Veterinaria e Produzioni Animali, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, USA
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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Ji C, Tang M, Zeidler C, Höhfeld J, Johnson GV. BAG3 and SYNPO (synaptopodin) facilitate phospho-MAPT/Tau degradation via autophagy in neuronal processes. Autophagy 2019; 15:1199-1213. [PMID: 30744518 DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2019.1580096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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A major cellular catabolic pathway in neurons is macroautophagy/autophagy, through which misfolded or aggregation-prone proteins are sequestered into autophagosomes that fuse with lysosomes, and are degraded. MAPT (microtubule-associated protein tau) is one of the protein clients of autophagy. Given that accumulation of hyperphosphorylated MAPT contributes to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease and other tauopathies, decreasing endogenous MAPT levels has been shown to be beneficial to neuronal health in models of these diseases. A previous study demonstrated that the HSPA/HSP70 co-chaperone BAG3 (BCL2-associated athanogene 3) facilitates endogenous MAPT clearance through autophagy. These findings prompted us to further investigate the mechanisms underlying BAG3-mediated autophagy in the degradation of endogenous MAPT. Here we demonstrate for the first time that BAG3 plays an important role in autophagic flux in the neurites of mature neurons (20-24 days in vitro [DIV]) through interaction with the post-synaptic cytoskeleton protein SYNPO (synaptopodin). Loss of either BAG3 or SYNPO impeded the fusion of autophagosomes and lysosomes predominantly in the post-synaptic compartment. A block of autophagy leads to accumulation of the autophagic receptor protein SQSTM1/p62 (sequestosome 1) as well as MAPT phosphorylated at Ser262 (p-Ser262). Furthermore, p-Ser262 appears to accumulate in autophagosomes at post-synaptic densities. Overall these data provide evidence of a novel role for the co-chaperone BAG3 in synapses. In cooperation with SYNPO, it functions as part of a surveillance complex that facilitates the autophagic clearance of MAPT p-Ser262, and possibly other MAPT species at the post-synapse. This appears to be crucial for the maintenance of a healthy, functional synapse.Abbreviations: aa: amino acids; ACTB: actin beta; BafA1: bafilomycin A1; BAG3: BCL2 associated athanogene 3; CQ chloroquine; CTSL: cathepsin L; DIV: days in vitro; DLG4/PSD95: discs large MAGUK scaffold protein 4; HSPA/HSP70: heat shock protein family A (Hsp70); MAP1LC3B/LC3B: microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta; MAP2: microtubule associated protein 2; MAPT: microtubule associated protein tau; p-Ser262: MAPT phosphorylated at serine 262; p-Ser396/404: MAPT phosphorylated at serines 396 and 404; p-Thr231: MAPT phosphorylated at threonine 231; PBS: phosphate buffered saline; PK: proteinase K; scr: scrambled; shRNA: short hairpin RNA; SQSTM1/p62 sequestosome 1; SYN1: synapsin I; SYNPO synaptopodin; SYNPO2/myopodin: synaptopodin 2; VPS: vacuolar protein sorting.
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- Changyi Ji
- a Department of Anesthesiology , University of Rochester , Rochester , NY , USA
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- a Department of Anesthesiology , University of Rochester , Rochester , NY , USA
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- b Institute for Cell Biology , University of Bonn , Bonn , Germany
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- b Institute for Cell Biology , University of Bonn , Bonn , Germany
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- a Department of Anesthesiology , University of Rochester , Rochester , NY , USA
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Lamin B is a target for selective nuclear PQC by BAG3: implication for nuclear envelopathies. Cell Death Dis 2019; 10:23. [PMID: 30631036 PMCID: PMC6328609 DOI: 10.1038/s41419-018-1255-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Revised: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nuclear envelopathies are recognized genetic disorders affecting individuals with mutations in their genes encoding members of the lamin family of nuclear envelope proteins that are responsible for maintaining the architectural structure of the nucleus. Irregularity in shape and size of the nuclei, nuclear membrane rupture, and appearance of micronuclei in the cytoplasm are among the pathological features of the syndrome. Here, we demonstrate that Bcl2-associated anthanogene-3 (BAG3), a stress-induced co-chaperone protein that by association with heat-shock protein 70 (HSP70) participates in regulation of autophagy, plays a critical role in the integrity of the nuclear membrane in cardiomyocytes. Cells subjected to proteotoxic stress or BAG3 downregulation show perinuclear accumulation of the aberrant ubiquitinated proteins that are often associated with the appearance of misshapen, enlarged, and elongated nuclei. There were dense accumulations of lamin B in the perinuclear area and distribution of lamin B-positive micronuclei in the cytoplasmic space, indicative of nuclear envelope rupture. Overexpression of BAG3 in cells under proteotoxic stress ameliorated pathological nuclear morphology and reduced cytoplasmic distribution of the micronuclei particles. Subcellular co-localization and co-immunoprecipitation demonstrated interaction of lamin B with the BAG domain of BAG3 and HSP70, suggesting the importance of BAG3 in the selective clearance of a surplus of aggregated lamin B that is generated during stress conditions. Our findings define a novel role for BAG3 in nuclear protein quality control and suggest an alternative pathogenetic pathway that contributes to the development of nuclear envelopathies.
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Tang M, Harrison J, Deaton CA, Johnson GVW. Tau Clearance Mechanisms. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1184:57-68. [PMID: 32096028 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9358-8_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Efficient quality control mechanisms are essential for a healthy, functional neuron. Recognition and degradation of misfolded, damaged, or potentially toxic proteins, is a crucial aspect of protein quality control. Tau is a protein that is highly expressed in neurons, and plays an important role in modulating a number of physiological processes. Maintaining appropriate levels of tau is key for neuronal health; hence perturbations in tau clearance mechanisms are likely significant contributors to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. In this chapter we will first briefly review the two primary degradative mechanisms that mediate tau clearance: the proteasome system and the autophagy-lysosome pathway. This will be followed by a discussion about what is known about the contribution of each of these pathways to tau clearance. We will also present recent findings on tau degradation through the endolysosomal system. Further, how deficits in these degradative systems may contribute to the accumulation of dysfunctional or toxic forms of tau in neurodegenerative conditions is considered.
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The Autophagy-Lysosomal Pathways and Their Emerging Roles in Modulating Proteostasis in Tumors. Cells 2018; 8:cells8010004. [PMID: 30577555 PMCID: PMC6356230 DOI: 10.3390/cells8010004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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In normal physiological condition, the maintenance of cellular proteostasis is a prerequisite for cell growth, functioning, adapting to changing micro-environments, and responding to extracellular stress. Cellular proteostasis is maintained by specific proteostasis networks (PNs) to prevent protein misfolding, aggregating, and accumulating in subcellular compartments. Commonly, the PNs are composed of protein synthesis, molecular chaperones, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), unfolded protein response (UPR), stress response pathways (SRPs), secretions, ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS), and autophagy-lysosomal pathways (ALPs). Although great efforts have been made to explore the underlying detailed mechanisms of proteostasis, there are many questions remain to explore, especially in proteostasis regulated by the ALPs. Proteostasis out-off-balance is correlated with various human diseases such as diabetes, stroke, inflammation, hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Enhanced regulation of PNs is observed in tumors, thereby indicating that proteostasis may play a pivotal role in tumorigenesis and cancer development. Recently, inhibitors targeting the UPS have shown to be failed in solid tumor treatment. However, there is growing evidence showing that the ALPs play important roles in regulation of proteostasis alone or with a crosstalk with other PNs in tumors. In this review, we provide insights into the proteostatic process and how it is regulated by the ALPs, such as macroautophagy, aggrephagy, chaperone-mediated autophagy, microautophagy, as well as mitophagy during tumor development.
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Kocaturk NM, Gozuacik D. Crosstalk Between Mammalian Autophagy and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System. Front Cell Dev Biol 2018; 6:128. [PMID: 30333975 PMCID: PMC6175981 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2018.00128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 271] [Impact Index Per Article: 45.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) are the two major intracellular quality control and recycling mechanisms that are responsible for cellular homeostasis in eukaryotes. Ubiquitylation is utilized as a degradation signal by both systems, yet, different mechanisms are in play. The UPS is responsible for the degradation of short-lived proteins and soluble misfolded proteins whereas autophagy eliminates long-lived proteins, insoluble protein aggregates and even whole organelles (e.g., mitochondria, peroxisomes) and intracellular parasites (e.g., bacteria). Both the UPS and selective autophagy recognize their targets through their ubiquitin tags. In addition to an indirect connection between the two systems through ubiquitylated proteins, recent data indicate the presence of connections and reciprocal regulation mechanisms between these degradation pathways. In this review, we summarize these direct and indirect interactions and crosstalks between autophagy and the UPS, and their implications for cellular stress responses and homeostasis.
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- Nur Mehpare Kocaturk
- Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano Diagnostics (EFSUN), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
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