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JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE
Volume 127, Issue 15, Pages 3280-3293Publisher
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.146035
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Parkin; Ubiquitin; Proteasome; Mitophagy; UBE2
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- German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- National Genome Research Network NGFNplus
- European Research Consortium on Mendelian Forms of Parkinsonism (MEFOPA)
- Faculty of Medicine Tubingen [2072-0-0]
- Hertie Foundation
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Depolarized mitochondria are degraded by mitophagy in a process that depends on the Parkinson's disease gene products PINK1 and Parkin. This is accompanied by ubiquitylation of several mitochondrial substrates. The roles of E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (UBE2) in mitophagy are poorly understood. Here, we investigate a set of UBE2 enzymes that might regulate Parkin-mediated mitophagy. Knockdown of the E2 enzymes UBE2N, UBE2L3 or UBE2D2 and UBE2D3 (UBE2D2/3) significantly reduced autophagic clearance of depolarized mitochondria. However, this did not interfere with mitochondrial PINK1 stabilization and Parkin translocation. UBE2N knockdown prevented specifically K63-linked ubiquitylation at mitochondrial sites. Nevertheless, polyubiquitin and p62 (officially known as SQSTM1) were still found on mitochondria after individual UBE2 knockdown. Knockdown of all of these UBE2s together significantly reduced mitochondrial polyubiquitylation and p62 recruitment. Moreover, reduced ubiquitylation of mitofusins, the mitochondrial import receptor subunits TOM20 and TOM70, the voltage-dependent anion channel protein 1 and Parkin was observed in cells silenced for all of these UBE2s. A version of Parkin with a mutation in the active site (C431S) failed to ubiquitylate these mitochondrial substrates even in the presence of UBE2s. We conclude that UBE2N, UBE2L3 and UBE2D2/3 synergistically contribute to Parkin-mediated mitophagy.
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