Autoinhibition and regulation by phosphoinositides of ATP8B1, a human lipid flippase associated with intrahepatic cholestatic disorders

Abstract

P4-ATPases flip lipids from the exoplasmic to the cytosolic leaflet, thus maintaining lipid asymmetry in eukaryotic cell membranes. Mutations in several human P4-ATPase genes are associated with severe diseases, e.g. in ATP8B1 causing progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, a rare inherited disorder progressing toward liver failure. ATP8B1 forms a binary complex with CDC50A and displays a broad specificity to glycerophospholipids, but regulatory mechanisms are unknown. Here, we report functional studies and the cryo-EM structure of the human lipid flippase ATP8B1-CDC50A at 3.1 Å resolution. We find that ATP8B1 is autoinhibited by its N- and C-terminal tails, which form extensive interactions with the catalytic sites and flexible domain interfaces. Consistently, ATP hydrolysis is unleashed by truncation of the C-terminus, but also requires phosphoinositides, most markedly phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-phosphate (PI(3,4,5)P3), and removal of both N- and C-termini results in full activation. Restored inhibition of ATP8B1 truncation constructs with a synthetic peptide mimicking the C-terminal segment further suggests molecular communication between N- and C-termini in the autoinhibition and demonstrates that the regulatory mechanism can be interfered with by exogenous compounds. A recurring (G/A)(Y/F)AFS motif of the C-terminal segment suggests that this mechanism is employed widely across P4-ATPase lipid flippases in plasma membrane and endomembranes.

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Refined coordinates for the atomic model of the autoinhibited state of ATP8B1 have been deposited in PDB under the accession code 7PY4.The cryo-EM map of autoinhibited ATP8B1 has been deposited in EMDB under the accession code EMD-13711.

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  1. Thibaud Dieudonné

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  2. Sara Abad Herrera

    Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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  3. Michelle Juknaviciute Laursen

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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  4. Maylis Lejeune

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  5. Charlott Stock

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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  6. Kahina Slimani

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  7. Christine Jaxel

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  8. Joseph A Lyons

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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  9. Cédric Montigny

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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  10. Thomas Günther Pomorski

    Department of Molecular Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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  11. Poul Nissen

    Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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  12. Guillaume Lenoir

    Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Funding

EMBO (Short-term fellowship,7881)

  • Thibaud Dieudonné

French Infrastructure for Integrated Structural Biology (FRISBI,ANR-10-INSB-05)

  • Christine Jaxel
  • Cédric Montigny
  • Guillaume Lenoir

French ministry for higher education (PhD fellowship)

  • Thibaud Dieudonné

European Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship)

  • Thibaud Dieudonné

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Young investigator grant,ANR-14-CE09-0022)

  • Guillaume Lenoir

Lundbeckfonden (Professorship grant)

  • Poul Nissen

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GU 1133/11-1)

  • Thomas Günther Pomorski

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Thibaud Dieudonné
  2. Sara Abad Herrera
  3. Michelle Juknaviciute Laursen
  4. Maylis Lejeune
  5. Charlott Stock
  6. Kahina Slimani
  7. Christine Jaxel
  8. Joseph A Lyons
  9. Cédric Montigny
  10. Thomas Günther Pomorski
  11. Poul Nissen
  12. Guillaume Lenoir
(2022)
Autoinhibition and regulation by phosphoinositides of ATP8B1, a human lipid flippase associated with intrahepatic cholestatic disorders
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