TMEM79/MATTRIN defines a pathway for Frizzled regulation and is required for Xenopus embryogenesis
- F M Kirby Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract
Wnt signaling through the Frizzled (FZD) family of serpentine receptors is essential for embryogenesis and homeostasis, and stringent control of the FZD protein level is critical for stem cell regulation. Through CRISPR/Cas9 genome-wide screening in human cells, we identified TMEM79/MATTRIN, an orphan multi-span transmembrane protein, as a specific inhibitor of Wnt/FZD signaling. TMEM79 interacts with FZD during biogenesis and promotes FZD degradation independent of ZNRF3/RNF43 ubiquitin ligases (R-spondin receptors). TMEM79 interacts with ubiquitin-specific protease 8 (USP8), whose activating mutations underlie human tumorigenesis. TMEM79 specifically inhibits USP8 deubiquitination of FZD, thereby governing USP8 substrate specificity and promoting FZD degradation. Tmem79 and Usp8 genes have a pre-bilaterian origin, and Tmem79 inhibition of Usp8 and Wnt signaling is required for anterior neural development and gastrulation in Xenopus embryos. TMEM79 is a predisposition gene for Atopic dermatitis, suggesting deregulation of Wnt/FZD signaling a possible cause for this most common yet enigmatic inflammatory skin disease.
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All datasets associated with this article are available. Source data were uploaded. Raw data for Xenopus are in the Supplementary file 1.
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MEM79/MATTRIN defines a pathway for Frizzled regulation and is required for Xenopus embryogenesisMendeley Data, DOI 10.17632/2v5jg2zksj.1.
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National Institutes of Health (R01GM126120)
- Xi He
Boston Children's Hospital (Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) Pilot and Translational Research Program (TRP) grants)
- Xi He
Boston Children's Hospital (BCH Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (P30 HD-18655))
- Xi He
Harvard Medical School (Goldenson fellowship)
- Nathalia Amado
Chinese Scholarship Council and Central South University (visiting scholarship)
- Jieqiong Tan
CNPq and Rio de Janeiro State Foundation for Science support
- Jose Garcia Abreu
American Cancer Society
- Xi He
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R35GM134953)
- Xi He
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All Xenopus experiments were approved by Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and performed under protocol 18-09-3780R.
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© 2020, Chen et al.
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TMEM79/MATTRIN defines a pathway for Frizzled regulation and is required for Xenopus embryogenesis
eLife 9:e56793.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.56793
