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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 125, Issue 11, Pages 2665-2674Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.098954
Keywords
Aggresome; eEF1A; Proteasome; Synphilin 1; Puromycin; Emetine; Ubiquitin
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM086890]
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Aggresome formation is initiated upon proteasome failure, and facilitates autophagic clearance of protein aggregates to protect cells from proteotoxicity. Here we demonstrate that proteasome inhibition generates a signaling event to trigger aggresome formation. In aggresome signaling, the cell senses a build-up of aberrant newly synthesized proteins. The translation elongation factor eEF1A associated with these species, and knockdown of this factor suppressed aggresome formation. We used the Legionella toxin SidI to distinguish between the function of eEF1A in translation and its novel function in the aggresome formation. In fact, although it strongly inhibited translation, this toxin had only a marginal effect on aggresome formation. Furthermore, SidI reduced the threshold of the aberrant ribosomal products for triggering aggresome formation. Therefore, eEF1A binds defective polypeptides released from ribosomes, which generates a signal that triggers aggresome formation.
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