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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2207414119
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Pak1; Arf-like GTPase; HYPK; protein stability; cell migration
资金
- National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan [NHRI-EX110-10902B1]
- Center of Precision Medicine from the Featured Areas Research Center Program (2020) within the Ministry of Education in Taiwan
This study reveals that Arl4A/D proteins are stabilized by fibronectin stimulation, promoting their function in cell migration. Phosphorylation modifications and the chaperone protein HYPK are shown to play important roles in the stability and plasma membrane localization of Arl4A/D.
The Arl4 small GTPases participate in a variety of cellular events, including cytoskeleton remodeling, vesicle trafficking, cell migration, and neuronal development. Whereas small GTPases are typically regulated by their GTPase cycle, Arl4 proteins have been found to act independent of this canonical regulatory mechanism. Here, we show that Arl4A and Arl4D (Arl4A/D) are unstable due to proteasomal degradation, but stimulation of cells by fibronectin (FN) inhibits this degradation to promote Arl4A/D stability. Proteomic analysis reveals that FN stimulation induces phosphorylation at S143 of Arl4A and at S144 of Arl4D. We identify Pak1 as the responsible kinase for these phos-phorylations. Moreover, these phosphorylations promote the chaperone protein HYPK to bind Arl4A/D, which stabilizes their recruitment to the plasma membrane to promote cell migration. These findings not only advance a major mechanistic understanding of how Arl4 proteins act in cell migration but also achieve a fundamental understanding of how these small GTPases are modulated by revealing that protein stability, rather than the GTPase cycle, acts as a key regulatory mechanism.
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