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Identification of New ATG8s-binding Proteins with Canonical LC3-interacting Region in Autophagosomes of Barley Callus

Journal

PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 508-520

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcac015

Keywords

ATG8; Autophagy; Barley; Callus; Interactor; LIR

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31771776, 31971932]
  2. Key Research Projects of Zhejiang Province [2021C02064-3]
  3. Key Science Technology Project of Medicine and Health, Zhejiang Province
  4. Foundation of Scientific Research of National Health Care Commission [WKJ-ZJ2009]
  5. China Agriculture Research System [CARS-05-05A]

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This study identified five new proteins that interact with ATG8 in autophagy and demonstrated the direct interaction between RPP3 and ATG8. The results provide a basis for further investigations on novel receptors and functions of autophagy in plants.
Autophagy is essential to maintain cellular homeostasis for normal cell growth and development. In selective autophagy, ATG8 plays a crucial role in cargo target recognition by binding to various adaptors and receptors with the ATG8-interacting motif, also known as the LC3-interacting region (LIR). However, the process of autophagy in the callus, as a proliferating cell type, is largely unknown. In this study, we overexpressed green fluorescent protein (GFP)-ATG8a and GFP-ATG8b transgenic barley callus and checked their autophagic activities. We identified five new ATG8 candidate interactors containing the canonical LIR motif by using immunoprecipitation coupled with mass spectrometry: RPP3, COPE, NCLN, RAE1 and CTSL. The binding activities between these candidate interactors and ATG8 were further demonstrated in the punctate structure. Notably, RPP3 was colocalized in ATG8-labeled autophagosomes under tunicamycin-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress. Glutathione S-transferase pull-down assays showed that the interaction between RPP3 and ATG8 could be prevented by mutating the LIR of RPP3 or the LIR docking site (LDS) of ATG8, suggesting that RPP3 directly interacted with ATG8 in an LIR-dependent manner via the LDS. Our findings would provide the basis for further investigations on novel receptors and functions of autophagy in plants, especially in the physiological state of cell de-differentiation.

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