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YAP1 nuclear efflux and transcriptional reprograming is triggered by membrane diminution upon VSV-G-induced cell fusion

ABSTRACT: Cells in many tissues, such as bone, muscle, and placenta, fuse into syncytia to acquire new functions and transcriptional programs. While it is known that fused cells are specialized, it is unclear whether cell-fusion itself promotes programmatic changes that generate the new cellular state. To address this, we employed a fusogen-mediated, cell-fusion system to create syncytia from undifferentiated cells. RNA-seq analysis revealed cell-fusion initiates dramatic transcriptional changes. To gain mechanistic insights, we measured plasma membrane surface area after cell-fusion and found it diminished through increased endocytosis. Consequently, glucose transporters are internalized, and cytoplasmic glucose and ATP transiently decrease. This reduced energetic state activates AMPK, which inhibits YAP1, causing extensive transcriptional- reprogramming and cell-cycle arrest. Impairing either endocytosis or AMPK activity prevents YAP1 inhibition and cell-cycle arrest after fusion. Together, these data demonstrate plasma membrane diminishment upon cell-fusion causes transient nutrient stress that promotes transcriptional-reprogramming independent from extrinsic cues.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE168125 | GEO | 2021/05/13

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 (PARP-1) is a nuclear enzyme that catalyse the transfer of ADP-ribose units from NAD+ to several target proteins involved in cellular stress responses. Using the cell line WRL68, we have previously shown that the activation of PARP-1 induced by oxidative stress after H2O2 treatment lead to depletion of cellular NAD+ and ATP, which promote cell death. In this work, we used LC-MS/MS based phosphoproteomics to show that the oxidative damage induced by H2O2 treatment modified the phosphorylation of several proteins in WRL68 cells, most of them related to transcription process. Interestingly, genetic or pharmacological inhibition of PARP-1 reduced the phosphorylation of YAP1, a transcriptional coactivator involved in cell survival, in WRL68 cells after H2O2 treatment. Inhibition of PARP-1 increased cell viability after oxidative treatment and diminished the degradation of YAP1; the elimination of YAP1 by gene silencing abrogated the protective effect of PARP-1 inhibition, indicating that YAP1 is important for the survival of WRL68 cells after oxidative damage. In the same way, the supplementation of NAD+, substrate of PARP-1, on WRL68 cells suffering oxidative damage reduced the phosphorylation of YAP1, suggesting that the loss of cellular NAD+ caused by PARP-1 activation after oxidative treatment is responsible for the phosphorylation of YAP1. Finally, PARP-1 silencing after oxidative treatment diminished the activation of AMPK, a master regulator of cell metabolism implicated in the restoration of energy balance during metabolic stress. Since NAD+ supplementation reduced the phosphorylation of some AMPK substrates in WRL68 cells after oxidative treatment, we hypothesize that the loss of cellular NAD+ after PARP-1 activation may induce a metabolic stress that activates AMPK. In summary, we showed a new crucial role of PARP-1 in the response to oxidative stress in WRL68 cells; PARP-1 activation reduces the cell viability by promoting the phosphorylation and degradation of YAP1, which is mediated by the energy stress caused by PARP-1 activation.

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YAP1 nuclear efflux and transcriptional reprograming is triggered by membrane diminution upon VSV-G-induced cell fusion

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