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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue 10, Pages 1359-1368Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24569
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- Associazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC) [10620, 14046]
- MERIT [RBNE08E8CZ_002]
- POR Campania FSE Project CREME
- Fondazione Berlucchi
- NIH/NIA [AG031782, AG03872]
- Federazione Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro (FIRC)
- Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship
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PED/PEA-15 is a death effector domain (DED) family member with a variety of effects on cell growth and metabolism. To get further insight into the role of PED in cancer, we aimed to find new PED interactors. Using tandem affinity purification, we identified HSC70 (Heat Shock Cognate Protein of 70 kDa)-which, among other processes, is involved in chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)-as a PED-interacting protein. We found that PED has two CMA-like motifs (i.e., KFERQ), one of which is located within a phosphorylation site, and demonstrate that PED is a bona fide CMA substrate and the first example in which phosphorylation modifies the ability of HSC70 to access KFERQ-like motifs and target the protein for lysosomal degradation. Phosphorylation of PED switches its function from tumor suppression to tumor promotion, and we show that HSC70 preferentially targets the unphosphorylated form of PED to CMA. Therefore, we propose that the up-regulated CMA activity characteristic of most types of cancer cell enhances oncogenesis by shifting the balance of PED function toward tumor promotion. This mechanism is consistent with the notion of a therapeutic potential for targeting CMA in cancer, as inhibition of this autophagic pathway may help restore a physiological ratio of PED forms. (C) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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