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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 5, Pages 1613-1620Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817078116
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PP2C phosphatases; autophagy; ATG13; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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- National Institutes of Health [GM61766, GM127029, GM053396]
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Macroautophagy is orchestrated by the Atg1-Atg13 complex in budding yeast. Under nutrient-rich conditions, Atg13 is maintained in a hyperphosphorylated state by the TORC1 kinase. After nutrient starvation, Atg13 is dephosphorylated, triggering Atg1 kinase activity and macroautophagy induction. The phosphatases that dephosphorylate Atg13 remain uncharacterized. Here, we show that two redundant PP2C phosphatases, Ptc2 and Ptc3, regulate macroautophagy by dephosphorylating Atg13 and Atg1. In the absence of these phosphatases, starvation-induced macroautophagy and the cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting pathway are inhibited, and the recruitment of the essential autophagy machinery to the phagophore assembly site is impaired. Expressing a genomic ATG13-8SA allele lacking key TORC1 phosphorylation sites partially bypasses the macroautophagy defect in ptc2 Delta ptc3 Delta. strains. Moreover, Ptc2 and Ptc3 interact with the Atg1-Atg13 complex. Taken together, these results suggest that PP2C-type phosphatases promote macroautophagy by regulating the Atg1 complex.
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