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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 5, Pages 1128-1139Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2015.12.018
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- International Graduate School in Development Health and Disease at the University of Cologne, Germany
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [BR2955/4-1, SCHE1562/2-1, SFB635, SFB829]
- Koln Fortune Program of the University of Cologne, Germany
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Mitochondrial fusion is essential for maintenance of mitochondrial function and requires the prohibitin ring complex subunit prohibitin-2 (PHB2) at the mitochondria inner membrane. Loss of the stomatin/PHB/flotitlin/HflK/C (SPFH) domain containing protein PHB2 causes mitochondrial dysfunction and defective mitochondria-mediated signaling, which is implicated in a variety of human diseases, including progressive renal disease. Here, we provide evidence of additional, extra-mitochondria functions of this membrane-anchored protein. Immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling detected PHB2 at mitochondria membranes and at the slit diaphragm, a specialized cell junction at the filtration slit of glomerular podocytes. PHB2 coprecipitated with podocin, another SPFH domain-containing protein, essential for the assembly of the slit diaphragm protein-Lipid supercomplex. Consistent with an evolutionarily conserved extra-mitochondria function, the ortholog of PHB2 in Caenorhabditis elegans was also not restricted to mitochondria but colocalized with the mechanosensory complex that requires the podocin ortholog MEC2 for assembly. Knockdown of phb-2 partially phenocopied Loss of mec-2 in touch neurons of the nematode, resulting in impaired gentle touch sensitivity. Collectively, these data indicate that, besides its established role in mitochondria, PHB2 may have an additional function in conserved protein lipid complexes at the plasma membrane.
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