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C. elegans-based screen identifies lysosome-damaging alkaloids that induce STAT3-dependent lysosomal cell death.


ABSTRACT: Lysosomes are degradation and signaling centers within the cell, and their dysfunction impairs a wide variety of cellular processes. To understand the cellular effect of lysosome damage, we screened natural small-molecule compounds that induce lysosomal abnormality using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model system. A group of vobasinyl-ibogan type bisindole alkaloids (ervachinines A-D) were identified that caused lysosome enlargement in C. elegans macrophage-like cells. Intriguingly, these compounds triggered cell death in the germ line independently of the canonical apoptosis pathway. In mammalian cells, ervachinines A-D induced lysosomal enlargement and damage, leading to leakage of cathepsin proteases, inhibition of autophagosome degradation and necrotic cell death. Further analysis revealed that this ervachinine-induced lysosome damage and lysosomal cell death depended on STAT3 signaling, but not RIP1 or RIP3 signaling. These findings suggest that lysosome-damaging compounds are promising reagents for dissecting signaling mechanisms underlying lysosome homeostasis and lysosome-related human disorders.

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6251801 | biostudies-other | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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C. elegans-based screen identifies lysosome-damaging alkaloids that induce STAT3-dependent lysosomal cell death.

Li Yang Y   Zhang Yu Y   Gan Qiwen Q   Xu Meng M   Ding Xiao X   Tang Guihua G   Liang Jingjing J   Liu Kai K   Liu Xuezhao X   Wang Xin X   Guo Lingli L   Gao Zhiyang Z   Hao Xiaojiang X   Yang Chonglin C  

Protein & cell 20180402 12


Lysosomes are degradation and signaling centers within the cell, and their dysfunction impairs a wide variety of cellular processes. To understand the cellular effect of lysosome damage, we screened natural small-molecule compounds that induce lysosomal abnormality using Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model system. A group of vobasinyl-ibogan type bisindole alkaloids (ervachinines A-D) were identified that caused lysosome enlargement in C. elegans macrophage-like cells. Intriguingly, t  ...[more]

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