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A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B
Upon induction of autophagy, the ubiquitin-like protein LC3 is conjugated to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the inner and outer membrane of autophagosomes to allow cargo selection and autophagosome formation. LC3 undergoes two processing steps, the proteolytic cleavage of pro-LC3 and the de-lipida...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00303-2 |
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author | Pengo, N. Agrotis, A. Prak, K. Jones, J. Ketteler, R. |
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description | Upon induction of autophagy, the ubiquitin-like protein LC3 is conjugated to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the inner and outer membrane of autophagosomes to allow cargo selection and autophagosome formation. LC3 undergoes two processing steps, the proteolytic cleavage of pro-LC3 and the de-lipidation of LC3-PE from autophagosomes, both executed by the same cysteine protease ATG4. How ATG4 activity is regulated to co-ordinate these events is currently unknown. Here we find that ULK1, a protein kinase activated at the autophagosome formation site, phosphorylates human ATG4B on serine 316. Phosphorylation at this residue results in inhibition of its catalytic activity in vitro and in vivo. On the other hand, phosphatase PP2A-PP2R3B can remove this inhibitory phosphorylation. We propose that the opposing activities of ULK1-mediated phosphorylation and PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation provide a phospho-switch that regulates the cellular activity of ATG4B to control LC3 processing. |
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spelling | pubmed-55628572017-08-28 A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B Pengo, N. Agrotis, A. Prak, K. Jones, J. Ketteler, R. Nat Commun Article Upon induction of autophagy, the ubiquitin-like protein LC3 is conjugated to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the inner and outer membrane of autophagosomes to allow cargo selection and autophagosome formation. LC3 undergoes two processing steps, the proteolytic cleavage of pro-LC3 and the de-lipidation of LC3-PE from autophagosomes, both executed by the same cysteine protease ATG4. How ATG4 activity is regulated to co-ordinate these events is currently unknown. Here we find that ULK1, a protein kinase activated at the autophagosome formation site, phosphorylates human ATG4B on serine 316. Phosphorylation at this residue results in inhibition of its catalytic activity in vitro and in vivo. On the other hand, phosphatase PP2A-PP2R3B can remove this inhibitory phosphorylation. We propose that the opposing activities of ULK1-mediated phosphorylation and PP2A-mediated dephosphorylation provide a phospho-switch that regulates the cellular activity of ATG4B to control LC3 processing. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5562857/ /pubmed/28821708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00303-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Pengo, N. Agrotis, A. Prak, K. Jones, J. Ketteler, R. A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title | A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title_full | A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title_fullStr | A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title_full_unstemmed | A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title_short | A reversible phospho-switch mediated by ULK1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease ATG4B |
title_sort | reversible phospho-switch mediated by ulk1 regulates the activity of autophagy protease atg4b |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5562857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28821708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00303-2 |
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