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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 115, Issue 27, Pages E6237-E6244Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1805032115
Keywords
selective autophagy; ER-shaping proteins; ER organization
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) [1R01GM115422]
- NIGMS [1R01GM35370, 1R01GM082861]
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The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) forms a contiguous network of tubules and sheets that is predominantly associated with the cell cortex in yeast. Upon treatment with rapamycin, the ER undergoes degradation by selective autophagy. This process, termed ER-phagy, requires Atg40, a selective autophagy receptor that localizes to the cortical ER. Here we report that ER-phagy also requires Lnp1, an ER membrane protein that normally resides at the three-way junctions of the ER network, where it serves to stabilize the network as it is continually remodeled. Rapamycin treatment increases the expression of Atg40, driving ER domains marked by Atg40 puncta to associate with Atg11, a scaffold protein needed to form autophagosomes. Although Atg40 largely localizes to the cortical ER, the autophagy machinery resides in the cell interior. The localization of Atg40 to sites of autophagosome formation is blocked in an lnp1. mutant or upon treatment of wild-type cells with the actin-depolymerizing drug Latrunculin A. This prevents the association of Atg40 with Atg11 and the packaging of the ER into autophagosomes. We propose that Lnp1 is needed to stabilize the actin-dependent remodeling of the ER that is essential for ER-phagy.
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