An ER phospholipid hydrolase drives ER-associated mitochondrial constriction for fission and fusion
- University of Colorado Boulder, United States
Abstract
Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that undergo cycles of fission and fusion at a unified platform defined by endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-mitochondria membrane contact sites (MCSs). These MCSs or nodes co-localize fission and fusion machinery. We set out to identify how ER-associated mitochondrial nodes can regulate both fission and fusion machinery assembly. We have used a promiscuous biotin ligase linked to the fusion machinery, Mfn1, and proteomics to identify an ER membrane protein, ABHD16A, as a major regulator of node formation. In the absence of ABHD16A, fission and fusion machineries fail to recruit to ER-associated mitochondrial nodes and fission and fusion rates are significantly reduced. ABHD16A contains an acyltransferase motif and an α/β hydrolase domain and point mutations in critical residues of these regions fail to rescue the formation of ER-associated mitochondrial hot spots. These data suggest a mechanism whereby ABHD16A functions by altering phospholipid composition at ER-mitochondria MCSs. Our data present the first example of an ER membrane protein that regulates the recruitment of both fission and fusion machineries to mitochondria.
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National Institutes of Health (T32 Training Grants GM008759 and GM142607)
- Tricia T Nguyen
National Institutes of Health (GM120998)
- Gia K Voeltz
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Gia K Voeltz
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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- Randy Schekman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, United States
Version history
- Received: October 18, 2022
- Preprint posted: October 24, 2022 (view preprint)
- Accepted: November 29, 2022
- Accepted Manuscript published: November 30, 2022 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: December 6, 2022 (version 2)
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© 2022, Nguyen & Voeltz
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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An ER phospholipid hydrolase drives ER-associated mitochondrial constriction for fission and fusion
eLife 11:e84279.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84279
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