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TBK1-mediated phosphorylation of LC3C and GABARAP-L2 controls autophagosome shedding by ATG4 protease.

ABSTRACT: Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process through which defective or otherwise harmful cellular components are targeted for degradation via the lysosomal route. Regulatory pathways, involving post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation, play a critical role in controlling this tightly orchestrated process. Here, we demonstrate that TBK1 regulates autophagy by phosphorylating autophagy modifiers LC3C and GABARAP-L2 on surface-exposed serine residues (LC3C S93 and S96; GABARAP-L2 S87 and S88). This phosphorylation event impedes their binding to the processing enzyme ATG4 by destabilizing the complex. Phosphorylated LC3C/GABARAP-L2 cannot be removed from liposomes by ATG4 and are thus protected from ATG4-mediated premature removal from nascent autophagosomes. This ensures a steady coat of lipidated LC3C/GABARAP-L2 throughout the early steps in autophagosome formation and aids in maintaining a unidirectional flow of the autophagosome to the lysosome. Taken together, we present a new regulatory mechanism of autophagy, which influences the conjugation and de-conjugation of LC3C and GABARAP-L2 to autophagosomes by TBK1-mediated phosphorylation.

SUBMITTER: Herhaus L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6945063 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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TBK1-mediated phosphorylation of LC3C and GABARAP-L2 controls autophagosome shedding by ATG4 protease.

Herhaus Lina L Bhaskara Ramachandra M RM Lystad Alf Håkon AH Gestal-Mato Uxía U Covarrubias-Pinto Adriana A Bonn Florian F Simonsen Anne A Hummer Gerhard G Dikic Ivan I

EMBO reports 20191111 1

Autophagy is a highly conserved catabolic process through which defective or otherwise harmful cellular components are targeted for degradation via the lysosomal route. Regulatory pathways, involving post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation, play a critical role in controlling this tightly orchestrated process. Here, we demonstrate that TBK1 regulates autophagy by phosphorylating autophagy modifiers LC3C and GABARAP-L2 on surface-exposed serine residues (LC3C S93 and S96; GABARAP ...[more]

PMID: 31709703

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Project description:Macroautophagy/autophagy is a cellular degradation pathway that delivers cytoplasmic material to lysosomes via double-membrane organelles called autophagosomes. Lipidation of ubiquitin-like LC3/GABARAP proteins on the autophagosome membrane is important for autophagy. The cysteine protease ATG4 executes 2 LC3/GABARAP processing events: priming of newly synthesized pro-LC3/GABARAP to enable subsequent lipidation, and delipidation/deconjugation of lipidated LC3/GABARAP (the exact purpose of which is unclear in mammals). Four ATG4 isoforms (ATG4A to ATG4D) exist in mammals; however, the functional redundancy of these proteins in cells is poorly understood. Here we show that human HAP1 and HeLa cells lacking ATG4B exhibit a severe but incomplete defect in LC3/GABARAP processing and autophagy. By further genetic depletion of ATG4 isoforms using CRISPR-Cas9 and siRNA we uncover that ATG4A, ATG4C and ATGD all contribute to residual priming activity, which is sufficient to enable lipidation of endogenous GABARAPL1 on autophagic structures. We also demonstrate that expressing high levels of pre-primed LC3B in ATG4-deficient cells can rescue a defect in autophagic degradation of the cargo receptor SQSTM1/p62, suggesting that delipidation by human ATG4 is not essential for autophagosome formation and fusion with lysosomes. Overall, our study provides a comprehensive characterization of ATG4 isoform function during autophagy in human cells. Abbreviations: Atg: autophagy-related; baf A1: bafilomycin A1; CASP3: caspase 3; CLEM: correlative light and electron microscopy; CMV: cytomegalovirus; CRISPR: clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats; DKO: double knockout; EGFP: enhanced green fluorescent protein; GABARAP: GABA type A receptor-associated protein; GABARAPL1: GABA type A receptor-associated protein like 1; GABARAPL2: GABA type A receptor-associated protein like 2; GFP: green fluorescent protein; HB: homogenization buffer; KO: knockout; LAMP1: lysosomal associated membrane protein 1; LIR: LC3 interacting region; MAP1LC3/LC3: microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3; MFN2: mitofusin 2; N.A.: numerical aperture; NEM: N-ethylmaleimide; PDHA1: pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 alpha 1 subunit; PLD: phospholipase D; PE: phosphatidylethanolamine; RLUC: Renilla luciferase; SQSTM1: sequestosome 1; TEM: transmission electron microscopy; TKO: triple knockout; ULK1: unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 1; VCL: vinculin; WT: wild-type.

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TBK1-mediated phosphorylation of LC3C and GABARAP-L2 controls autophagosome shedding by ATG4 protease.

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TBK1-mediated phosphorylation of LC3C and GABARAP-L2 controls autophagosome shedding by ATG4 protease.

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