bims-lypmec Biomed News
on Lysosomal positioning and metabolism in cardiomyocytes
Issue of 2023‒01‒01
six papers selected by
Satoru Kobayashi
New York Institute of Technology
  1. SIDT2 Inhibits Phosphorothioate Antisense Oligonucleotide Activity by Regulating Cellular Localization of Lysosomes.
  2. From lysosomal storage disorders to Parkinson's Disease - Challenges and opportunities.
  3. p53 regulates lysosomal membrane permeabilization as well as cytoprotective autophagy in response to DNA-damaging drugs.
  4. Queueing theory model of mTOR complexes' impact on Akt-mediated adipocytes response to insulin.
  5. Mammalian hybrid prophagophore is a precursor to autophagosomes.
  6. FLIP-based autophagy-detecting technique reveals closed autophagic compartments.
  1. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2022 Dec 19.
    SIDT2 Inhibits Phosphorothioate Antisense Oligonucleotide Activity by Regulating Cellular Localization of Lysosomes.
    Jing Crystal Zhao, Aurian Saleh, Stanley T Crooke.
      Phosphorothioate (PS)-modified antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drugs enter cells through endocytic pathways where a majority are entrapped within membrane-bound endosomes and lysosomes, representing a limiting step for antisense activity. While late endosomes have been identified as a major site for productive PS-ASO release, how lysosomes regulate PS-ASO activity beyond macromolecule degradation remains not fully understood. In this study, we reported that SID1 transmembrane family, member 2 (SIDT2), a lysosome transmembrane protein, can robustly regulate PS-ASO activity. We showed that SIDT2 is required for the proper colocalization between PS-ASO and lysosomes, suggesting an important role of SIDT2 in the entrapment of PS-ASOs in lysosomes. Mechanistically, we revealed that SIDT2 regulates lysosome cellular location. Lysosome location is largely determined by its movement along microtubules. Interestingly, we also observed an enrichment of proteins involved in microtubule function among SIDT2-binding proteins, suggesting that SIDT2 regulates lysosome location via its interaction with microtubule-related proteins. Overall, our data suggest that lysosome protein SIDT2 inhibits PS-ASO activity potentially through its interaction with microtubule-related proteins to place lysosomes at perinuclear regions, thus, facilitating PS-ASO's localization to lysosomes for degradation.
    Keywords:  PS-ASO; SIDT2; lysosome; microtubule
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1089/nat.2022.0055
  2. J Mol Biol. 2022 Dec 23. pii: S0022-2836(22)00559-9. [Epub ahead of print] 167932
    From lysosomal storage disorders to Parkinson's Disease - Challenges and opportunities.
    Rebecca Mächtel, Fanni Annamaria Boros, Jan Philipp Dobert, Philipp Arnold, Friederike Zunke.
      Lysosomes are specialized organelles with an acidic pH that act as recycling hubs for intracellular and extracellular components. They harbour numerous different hydrolytic enzymes to degrade substrates like proteins, peptides, and glycolipids. Reduced catalytic activity of lysosomal enzymes can cause the accumulation of these substrates and loss of lysosomal integrity, resulting in lysosomal dysfunction and lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs). Post-mitotic cells, such as neurons, seem to be highly sensitive to damages induced by lysosomal dysfunction, thus LSDs often manifest with neurological symptoms. Interestingly, some LSDs and Parkinson's disease (PD) share common cellular pathomechanisms, suggesting convergence of aetiology of the two disease types. This is further underlined by genetic associations of several lysosomal genes involved in LSDs with PD. The increasing number of lysosome-associated genetic risk factors for PD makes it necessary to understand functions and interactions of lysosomal proteins/enzymes both in healthy and disease states, thereby holding the potential to identify new therapeutic targets. In this review, we highlight genetic and mechanistic interactions between the complex lysosomal network, LSDs and PD, and elaborate on methodical challenges in lysosomal research.
    Keywords:  Parkinson’s disease; lysosomal enzymes; lysosomal storage disorder; lysosome; neurodegeneration
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167932
  3. Cell Death Discov. 2022 Dec 29. 8(1): 502
    p53 regulates lysosomal membrane permeabilization as well as cytoprotective autophagy in response to DNA-damaging drugs.
    Gai Yamashita, Naoharu Takano, Hiromi Kazama, Kiyoaki Tsukahara, Keisuke Miyazawa.
      Lysosomes are single-membraned organelles that mediate the intracellular degradation of macromolecules. Various stress can induce lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP), translocating intralysosomal components, such as cathepsins, to the cytoplasm, which induces lysosomal-dependent cell death (LDCD). This study reports that p53 regulates LMP in response to DNA-damaging drugs. Treating wild-type TP53 A549 cells with DNA-damaging drugs (namely, doxorubicin, carboplatin, and etoposide) induced LMP and accelerated cell death more rapidly than treating TP53-knockout (KO) A549 cells. This suggested p53-dependent LMP and LDCD induction in response to DNA damage. LMP was induced by p53-dependent BID upregulation and activation, followed by translocation of truncated BID to lysosomes. Simultaneously, autophagy for damaged lysosome elimination (lysophagy) was activated via the p53-mTOR-TEFB/TFE3 pathways in response to DNA damage. These data suggested the dichotomous nature of p53 for LMP regulation; LMP induction and repression via the p53-BID axis and p53-mTOR-TFEB/TFE3 pathway, respectively. Blocking autophagy with hydroxychloroquine or azithromycin as well as ATG5 KO enhanced LMP and LDCD induction after exposure to DNA-damaging drugs. Furthermore, lysosomal membrane stabilization using U18666A, a cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick disease C1 (NPC1) inhibitor, suppressed LMP as well as LDCD in wild-type TP53, but not in TP53-KO, A549 cells. Thus, LMP is finely regulated by TP53 after exposure to DNA-damaging drugs.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41420-022-01293-x
  4. PLoS One. 2022 ;17(12): e0279573
    Queueing theory model of mTOR complexes' impact on Akt-mediated adipocytes response to insulin.
    Sylwester M Kloska, Krzysztof Pałczyński, Tomasz Marciniak, Tomasz Talaśka, Marissa Miller, Beata J Wysocki, Paul H Davis, Ghada A Soliman, Tadeusz A Wysocki.
      A queueing theory based model of mTOR complexes impact on Akt-mediated cell response to insulin is presented in this paper. The model includes several aspects including the effect of insulin on the transport of glucose from the blood into the adipocytes with the participation of GLUT4, and the role of the GAPDH enzyme as a regulator of mTORC1 activity. A genetic algorithm was used to optimize the model parameters. It can be observed that mTORC1 activity is related to the amount of GLUT4 involved in glucose transport. The results show the relationship between the amount of GAPDH in the cell and mTORC1 activity. Moreover, obtained results suggest that mTORC1 inhibitors may be an effective agent in the fight against type 2 diabetes. However, these results are based on theoretical knowledge and appropriate experimental tests should be performed before making firm conclusions.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279573
  5. Autophagy. 2022 Dec 26.
    Mammalian hybrid prophagophore is a precursor to autophagosomes.
    Suresh Kumar, Ruheena Javed, Masroor A Paddar, Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, Graham S Timmins, Vojo Deretic.
      SUMMARYThe precursors to mammalian autophagosomes originate from pre-existing membranes contributed by a number of sources, and subsequently enlarge through intermembrane lipid transfer, then close to sequester the cargo, and merge with lysosomes to degrade the cargo. Using cellular and in vitro membrane fusion analyses coupled with proteomic and biochemical studies we show that autophagosomes are formed from a hybrid membrane compartment referred to as a prophagophore or HyPAS (hybrid preautophagosomal structure). HyPAS is initially LC3-negative and subsequently becomes an LC3-positive phagophore. The prophagophore emerges through fusion of RB1CC1/FIP200-containing vesicles, derived from the cis-Golgi, with endosomally derived ATG16L1 membranes. A specialized Ca2+-responsive apparatus controls prophagophore biogenesis and can be modulated by pharmacological agents such as SIGMAR1 agonists and antagonists including chloroquine. Autophagic prophagophore formation is inhibited during SARS-CoV-2 infection and is recapitulated by expression of SARS-CoV-2 nsp6. These findings show that mammalian autophagosomal prophagophores emerge via the convergence of secretory and endosomal pathways in a process that is targeted by microbial factors including coronaviral membrane proteins.
    Keywords:  Autophagy; COVID19; Golgi; HyPAS prophagophore; LC3; calcium; endoplasmic reticulum; endosome; syntaxin
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2022.2161728
  6. Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 27. 12(1): 22452
    FLIP-based autophagy-detecting technique reveals closed autophagic compartments.
    Hajime Tajima Sakurai, Satoko Arakawa, Saori Noguchi, Shigeomi Shimizu.
      Autophagy results in the degradation of cytosolic components via two major membrane deformations. First, the isolation membrane sequesters components from the cytosol and forms autophagosomes, by which open structures become closed compartments. Second, the outer membrane of the autophagosomes fuses with lysosomes to degrade the inner membrane and its contents. The efficiency of the latter degradation process, namely autophagic flux, can be easily evaluated using lysosomal inhibitors, whereas the dynamics of the former process is difficult to analyze because of the challenges in identifying closed compartments of autophagy (autophagosomes and autolysosomes). To resolve this problem, we here developed a method to detect closed autophagic compartments by applying the FLIP technique, and named it FLIP-based Autophagy Detection (FLAD). This technique visualizes closed autophagic compartments and enables differentiation of open autophagic structures and closed autophagic compartments in live cells. In addition, FLAD analysis detects not only starvation-induced canonical autophagy but also genotoxic stress-induced alternative autophagy. By the combinational use of FLAD and LC3, we were able to distinguish the structures of canonical autophagy from those of alternative autophagy in a single cell.
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26430-5
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