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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 1024-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncb2589
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- Wellcome Trust
- Medical Research Council
- NIH-Oxford-Cambridge Ph.D. studentship
- Wellcome Trust [079895]
- Medical Research Council [MC_U105184323] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MC_U105184323] Funding Source: UKRI
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Autophagy targets pathogens, damaged organelles and protein aggregates for lysosomal degradation. These ubiquitylated cargoes are recognized by specific autophagy receptors, which recruit LC3-positive membranes to form autophagosomes. Subsequently, autophagosomes fuse with endosomes and lysosomes, thus facilitating degradation of their content; however, the machinery that targets and mediates fusion of these organelles with autophagosomes remains to be established. Here we demonstrate that myosin VI, in concert with its adaptor proteins NDP52, optineurin, T6BP and Tom 1, plays a crucial role in autophagy. We identify Tom1 as a myosin VI binding partner on endosomes, and demonstrate that loss of myosin VI and Tom1 reduces autophagosomal delivery of endocytic cargo and causes a block in autophagosome-lysosome fusion. We propose that myosin VI delivers endosomal membranes containing Tom1 to autophagosomes by docking to NDP52, T6BP and optineurin, thereby promoting autophagosome maturation and thus driving fusion with lysosomes.
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