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ELIFE
卷 11, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.78923
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autophagy; autophagic flux; lysosome; lysosomal degradation; protein degradation; protein turnover; Human; Mouse
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- Japan Science and Technology Agency Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) [JPMJER1702]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Transformative Research Areas (A) [21H05256]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Specially Promoted Research [22H04919]
Monitoring autophagic flux is crucial for autophagy studies. Current assays for mammalian cells are complicated and yield less accurate results. This paper presents a HaloTag-based processing assay to monitor autophagic flux in mammalian cells, which provides a simple and effective method for precise measurement.
Monitoring autophagic flux is necessary for most autophagy studies. The autophagic flux assays currently available for mammalian cells are generally complicated and do not yield highly quantitative results. Yeast autophagic flux is routinely monitored with the green fluorescence protein (GFP)-based processing assay, whereby the amount of GFP proteolytically released from GFP-containing reporters (e.g. GFP-Atg8), detected by immunoblotting, reflects autophagic flux. However, this simple and effective assay is typically inapplicable to mammalian cells because GFP is efficiently degraded in lysosomes while the more proteolytically resistant red fluorescent protein (RFP) accumulates in lysosomes under basal conditions. Here, we report a HaloTag (Halo)-based reporter processing assay to monitor mammalian autophagic flux. We found that Halo is sensitive to lysosomal proteolysis but becomes resistant upon ligand binding. When delivered into lysosomes by autophagy, pulse-labeled Halo-based reporters (e.g. Halo-LC3 and Halo-GFP) are proteolytically processed to generate Halo(ligand) when delivered into lysosomes by autophagy. Hence, the amount of free Halo(ligand) detected by immunoblotting or in-gel fluorescence imaging reflects autophagic flux. We demonstrate the applications of this assay by monitoring the autophagy pathways, macroautophagy, selective autophagy, and even bulk nonselective autophagy. With the Halo-based processing assay, mammalian autophagic flux and lysosome-mediated degradation can be monitored easily and precisely.
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