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AUTOPHAGY
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages 711-712Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/15548627.2015.1123375
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- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA143811] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [P30ES023512] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA143811] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P30 ES023512] Funding Source: Medline
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Peroxisomes are autonomously replicating and highly metabolic organelles necessary for -oxidation of fatty acids, a process that generates large amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Maintaining a balance between biogenesis and degradation of peroxisomes is essential to maintain cellular redox balance, but how cells do this has remained somewhat of a mystery. While it is known that peroxisomes can be degraded via selective autophagy (pexophagy), little is known about how mammalian cells regulate pexophagy to maintain peroxisome homeostasis. We have uncovered a mechanism for regulating pexophagy in mammalian cells that defines a new role for ATM (ATM serine/threonine kinase) kinase as a first responder to peroxisomal ROS. ATM is delivered to the peroxisome by the PEX5 import receptor, which recognizes an SRL sequence located at the C terminus of ATM to localize this kinase to peroxisomes. In response to ROS, the ATM kinase is activated and performs 2 functions: i) it signals to AMPK, which activates TSC2 to suppresses MTORC1 and phosphorylates ULK1 to induce autophagy, and ii) targets specific peroxisomes for pexophagy by phosphorylating PEX5 at Ser141, which triggers ubiquitnation of PEX5 at Lys209 and binding of the autophagy receptor protein SQSTM1/p62 to induce pexophagy.
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