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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14231-w
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- NNSF of China [31690102, 31600651, 31701030, 91753204]
- MOST of China [2016YFA0500100]
- 111 Project of Ministry of Education of China [B16036]
- Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE
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Insig-2 is an ER membrane protein negatively controlling lipid biosynthesis. Here, we find that Insig-2 is increased in the tissues, including liver, but unaltered in the muscle of gp78-deficient mice. In hepatocytes and undifferentiated C2C12 myoblasts, Insig-2 is ubiquitylated on Cys215 by gp78 and degraded. However, the C215 residue is oxidized by elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) during C2C12 myoblasts differentiating into myotubes, preventing Insig-2 from ubiquitylation and degradation. The stabilized Insig-2 downregulates lipogenesis through inhibiting the SREBP pathway, helping to channel the carbon flux to ATP generation and protecting myotubes from lipid over-accumulation. Evolutionary analysis shows that the YECK (in which C represents Cys215 in human Insig-2) tetrapeptide sequence in Insig-2 is highly conserved in amniotes but not in aquatic amphibians and fishes, suggesting it may have been shaped by differential selection. Together, this study suggests that competitive oxidation-ubiquitylation on Cys215 of Insig-2 senses ROS and prevents muscle cells from lipid accumulation.
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