Lipidation-independent vacuolar functions of Atg8 rely on its noncanonical interaction with a vacuole membrane protein
- National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
- Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Japan
- Ohio State University, United States
- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Abstract
The ubiquitin-like protein Atg8, in its lipidated form, plays central roles in autophagy. Yet, remarkably, Atg8 also carries out lipidation-independent functions in non-autophagic processes. How Atg8 performs its moonlighting roles is unclear. Here we report that in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the lipidation-independent roles of Atg8 in maintaining normal morphology and functions of the vacuole require its interaction with a vacuole membrane protein Hfl1 (homolog of human TMEM184 proteins). Crystal structures revealed that the Atg8-Hfl1 interaction is not mediated by the typical Atg8-family-interacting motif (AIM) that forms an intermolecular β-sheet with Atg8. Instead, the Atg8-binding regions in Hfl1 proteins adopt a helical conformation, thus representing a new type of AIMs (termed helical AIMs here). These results deepen our understanding of both the functional versatility of Atg8 and the mechanistic diversity of Atg8 binding.
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The atomic coordinates and reflection data of the crystal structures of fission yeast and budding yeast Atg8-Hfl1 complexes have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under accession codes 6AAF and 6AAG, respectively.
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Hitoshi Nakatogawa
Funding
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Akinori Yamasaki
- Nobuo N Noda
Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Nobuo N Noda
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- Jian-Qiu Wu
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China
- Li-Lin Du
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Reviewing Editor
- Noboru Mizushima, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Version history
- Received: August 19, 2018
- Accepted: November 18, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: November 19, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: December 4, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Liu et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Lipidation-independent vacuolar functions of Atg8 rely on its noncanonical interaction with a vacuole membrane protein
eLife 7:e41237.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41237
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