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Recruitment of BAF to the nuclear envelope couples the LINC complex to endoreplication.

ABSTRACT: DNA endoreplication has been implicated as a cell strategy for cell growth and in tissue injury. Here, we demonstrate that barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) represses endoreplication in Drosophila myofibers. We show that BAF localization at the nuclear envelope is eliminated in flies with mutations of the linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex in which the LEM-domain protein Otefin is excluded, or after disruption of the nucleus-sarcomere connections. Furthermore, BAF localization at the nuclear envelope requires the activity of the BAF kinase VRK1/Ball, and, consistently, non-phosphorylatable BAF-GFP is excluded from the nuclear envelope. Importantly, removal of BAF from the nuclear envelope correlates with increased DNA content in the myonuclei. E2F1, a key regulator of endoreplication, overlaps BAF localization at the myonuclear envelope, and BAF removal from the nuclear envelope results in increased E2F1 levels in the nucleoplasm and subsequent elevated DNA content. We suggest that LINC-dependent and phosphosensitive attachment of BAF to the nuclear envelope, through its binding to Otefin, tethers E2F1 to the nuclear envelope thus inhibiting its accumulation in the nucleoplasm.

SUBMITTER: Unnikannan CP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7758627 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recruitment of BAF to the nuclear envelope couples the LINC complex to endoreplication.

Unnikannan C P CP Reuveny Adriana A Grunberg Dvorah D Volk Talila T

Development (Cambridge, England) 20201213 23

DNA endoreplication has been implicated as a cell strategy for cell growth and in tissue injury. Here, we demonstrate that barrier-to-autointegration factor (BAF) represses endoreplication in <i>Drosophila</i> myofibers. We show that BAF localization at the nuclear envelope is eliminated in flies with mutations of the linker of nucleoskeleton and cytoskeleton (LINC) complex in which the LEM-domain protein Otefin is excluded, or after disruption of the nucleus-sarcomere connections. Furthermore, ...[more]

PMID: 33168584

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Project description:BACKGROUND: DYT1 dystonia is an autosomal dominant neurological condition caused by a mutation that removes a single glutamic acid residue (?E) from the torsinA (torA) AAA+ protein. TorA appears to possess a nuclear envelope (NE) localized activity that requires Lamina-Associated-Polypeptide 1 (LAP1), which is an inner nuclear membrane localized torA-binding partner. Although hypoactive, the DYT1 dystonia torA-?E isoform often concentrates in the NE, suggesting that torA-?E also interacts with an NE-localized binding partner. RESULTS: We confirm that NE-localized torA-?E does not co-immunoprecipitate with LAP1, and find that torA-?E continues to concentrate in the NE of cells that lack LAP1. Instead, we find that variability in torA-?E localization correlates with the presence of the SUN-domain and Nesprin proteins that assemble into the LINC complex. We also find that siRNA depletion of SUN1, but not other LINC complex components, removes torA-?E from the NE. In contrast, the LAP1-dependent NE-accumulation of an ATP-locked torA mutant is unaffected by loss of LINC complex proteins. This SUN1 dependent torA-?E localization requires the torA membrane association domain, as well as a putative substrate-interaction residue, Y147, neither of which are required for torA interaction with LAP1. We also find that mutation of these motifs, or depletion of SUN1, decreases the amount of torA-WT that colocalizes with NE markers, indicating that each also underlies a normal NE-localized torA binding interaction. CONCLUSIONS: These data suggest that the disease causing ?E mutation promotes an association between torA and SUN1 that is distinct to the interaction between LAP1 and ATP-bound torA. This evidence for two NE-localized binding partners suggests that torA may act on multiple substrates and/or possesses regulatory co-factor partners. In addition, finding that the DYT1 mutation causes abnormal association with SUN1 implicates LINC complex dysfunction in DYT1 dystonia pathogenesis, and suggests a gain-of-function activity contributes to this dominantly inherited disease.

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Recruitment of BAF to the nuclear envelope couples the LINC complex to endoreplication.

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Recruitment of BAF to the nuclear envelope couples the LINC complex to endoreplication.

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