Roles of USP2/E2F4 axis in autophagic machinery essential for cancer progression
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens
SUBMITTER: 
Qiangsong Tong
PROVIDER: PXD029858 | iProX | Fri Nov 19 00:00:00 GMT 2021
REPOSITORIES: iProX
Publications
Therapeutic targeting of the USP2-E2F4 axis inhibits autophagic machinery essential for zinc homeostasis in cancer progression.
Xiao Wenjing W Wang Jianqun J Wang Xiaojing X Cai Shuang S Guo Yanhua Y Ye Lin L Li Dan D Hu Anpei A Jin Shikai S Yuan Boling B Zhou Yi Y Li Qilan Q Tong Qiangsong Q Zheng Liduan L
Autophagy 20220306 11
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a conserved cellular process associated with tumorigenesis and aggressiveness, while mechanisms regulating expression of autophagic machinery genes in cancers still remain elusive. Herein, we identified E2F4 (E2F transcription factor 4) as a novel transcriptional activator of cytoprotective autophagy crucial for zinc homeostasis in cancer cells. Gain- and loss-of-function studies showed that <i>E2F4</i> promoted autophagy in a cell cycle-dependent manner, resulting in ...[more]
Similar Datasets
Project description:Macroautophagy/autophagy is a conserved cellular process associated with tumorigenesis and aggressiveness, while mechanisms regulating expression of autophagic machinery genes in cancers still remain elusive. Herein, we identified E2F4 (E2F transcription factor 4) as a novel transcriptional activator of cytoprotective autophagy crucial for zinc homeostasis in cancer cells. Gain- and loss-of-function studies showed that E2F4 promoted autophagy in a cell cycle-dependent manner, resulting in facilitated degradation of MT (metallothionein) proteins, elevated distribution of Zn2+ within autophagosomes, decreased labile intracellular zinc ions, and increased growth, invasion, and metastasis of gastric cancer cells. Mechanistically, E2F4 directly regulated the transcription of ATG2A (autophagy related 2A) and ULK2 (unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 2), leading to autophagic degradation of MT1E, MT1M, and MT1X, while USP2 (ubiquitin specific peptidase 2) stabilized E2F4 protein to induce its transactivation via physical interaction and deubiquitination in cancer cells. Rescue experiments revealed that USP2 harbored oncogenic properties via E2F4-facilitated autophagy and zinc homeostasis. Emetine, a small chemical inhibitor of autophagy, was able to block interaction between UPS2 and E2F4, increase labile intracellular zinc ions, and suppress tumorigenesis and aggressiveness. In clinical gastric cancer specimens, both USP2 and E2F4 were upregulated and associated with poor outcome of patients. These findings indicate that therapeutic targeting of the USP2-E2F4 axis inhibits autophagic machinery essential for zinc homeostasis in cancer progression.Abbreviations: 3-MA: 3-methyladenine; ANOVA: analysis of variance; ATG2A: autophagy related 2A; ATG5: autophagy related 5; ATP: adenosine triphosphate; BECN1: beclin 1; BiFC: bimolecular fluorescence complementation; CCND1: cyclin D1; CDK: cyclin dependent kinase; ChIP: chromatin immunoprecipitation; CHX: cycloheximide; Co-IP: co-immunoprecipitation; DAPI: 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole; E2F4: E2F transcription factor 4; eATP: extracellular adenosine triphosphate; EBSS: Earle's balanced salt solution; FP: first progression; FRET: fluorescence resonance energy transfer; FUCCI: fluorescent ubiquitination-based cell cycle indicator; GFP: green fluorescent protein; GST: glutathione S-transferase; HA: hemagglutinin; MAP1LC3B/LC3B: microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3 beta; MDM2: MDM2 proto-oncogene; MKI67/Ki-67: marker of proliferation Ki-67; MT: metallothionein; MT1E: metallothionein 1E; MT1M: metallothionein 1M; MT1X: metallothionein 1X; MTT: 3-(4,5-dimethyltriazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide; OS: overall survival; PECAM1/CD31: platelet and endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1; PIK3C3: phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit type 3; qPCR: quantitative PCR; RFP: red fluorescent protein; SQSTM1/p62: sequestosome 1; UBXN1: UBX domain protein 1; Ub: ubiquitin; ULK2: unc-51 like autophagy activating kinase 2; USP14: ubiquitin specific peptidase 14; USP2: ubiquitin specific peptidase 2; USP5: ubiquitin specific peptidase 5; USP7: ubiquitin specific peptidase 7; ZnCl2: zinc chloride.
| S-EPMC9629121 | biostudies-literature
Project description:This study examined the effects of genetic knockdown of autophagy genes on vertebrate cardiac development We performed microarray studies comparing the hearts of control zebrafish embryos to the hearts of embryos with decreased expression of the autophagy genes atg5, becn1 or atg7. The results provide insight into the role of autophagy in developmental morphogenesis. Hearts were purified from 3 day-old zebrafish embryos injected with control or autophagy gene-specific morpholino oligonucleotides. RNA was prepared from all samples and hybridized to zebrafish-specific Affymetricx arrays.
2014-03-01 | E-GEOD-51541 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Mitophagy is a conserved intracellular catabolic process responsible for the selective removal of dysfunctional or superfluous mitochondria to maintain mitochondrial quality and need in cells. Here, we examine the mechanisms of receptor-mediated mitophagy activation, with the focus on BNIP3L/NIX mitophagy receptor, proven to be indispensable for selective removal of mitochondria during the terminal differentiation of reticulocytes. The molecular mechanisms of selecting damaged mitochondria from healthy ones are still very obscure. We investigated BNIP3L dimerization as a potentially novel molecular mechanism underlying BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy. Forming stable homodimers, BNIP3L recruits autophagosomes more robustly than its monomeric form. Amino acid substitutions of key transmembrane residues of BNIP3L, BNIP3LG204A or BNIP3LG208V, led to the abolishment of dimer formation, resulting in the lower LC3A-BNIP3L recognition and subsequently lower mitophagy induction. Moreover, we identified the serine 212 as the main amino acid residue at the C-terminal of BNIP3L, which extends to the intermembrane space, responsible for dimerization. In accordance, the phosphomimetic mutation BNIP3LS212E leads to a complete loss of BNIP3L dimerization. Thus, the interplay between BNIP3L phosphorylation and dimerization indicates that the combined mechanism of LIR phosphorylation and receptor dimerization is needed for proper BNIP3L-dependent mitophagy initiation and progression.Abbreviations: AMBRA1: autophagy and beclin 1 regulator 1; Baf A1: bafilomycin A1; BH3: BCL2 homology 3; BNIP3: BCL2 interacting protein 3; BNIP3L/NIX: BCL2 interacting protein 3 like; CCCP: carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenylhydrazone; CoCl2: cobalt (II) chloride; FKBP8: FKBP prolyl isomerase 8; FUNDC1: FUN14 domain containing 1; GABARAP: GABA type A receptor-associated protein; GST: glutathione S-transferase; IMM: inner mitochondrial membrane; LIR: LC3-interacting region; MAP1LC3/LC3: microtubule associated protein 1 light chain 3; OMM: outer mitochondrial membrane; PHB2: prohibitin 2; PI: propidium iodide; PINK1: PTEN induced kinase 1; TM: transmembrane domain; TOMM20: translocase of outer mitochondrial membrane 20.
| S-EPMC8143235 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Miz1 is a zinc finger protein that regulates expression of cell cycle inhibitors as part of a complex with Myc. Cell cycle-independent functions of Miz1 are poorly understood. Here, we use a Nestin-Cre transgene to delete an essential domain of Miz1 in the central nervous system (Miz1M-NM-^TPOZNes). Miz1M-NM-^TPOZNes mice display cerebellar neurodegeneration characterized by the progressive loss of Purkinje cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing and biochemical analyses show that Miz1 activates transcription upon binding to a non-palindromic sequence present in core promoters. Target genes of Miz1 encode regulators of autophagy and proteins involved in vesicular transport that are required for autophagy. Miz1M-NM-^TPOZ neuronal progenitors and fibroblasts show reduced autophagic flux. Consistently, polyubiquitinated proteins and p62/Sqtm1 accumulate in the cerebella of Miz1M-NM-^TPOZNes mice, characteristic features of defective autophagy. Our data suggest that Miz1 may link cell growth and ribosome biogenesis to the transcriptional regulation of vesicular transport and autophagy. ChIP-Seq with H190 and G18 on an Illumina Genome Analyzer IIx.
2013-09-27 | E-GEOD-48602 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Peroxisome degradation, known as pexophagy, is essential for eliminating surplus and dysfunctional peroxisomes, with dysregulation linked to various diseases. Previous research revealed that ectopic expression of optineurin (OPTN), a versatile autophagy adaptor involved in multiple autophagic pathways (e.g., mitophagy, aggrephagy, and xenophagy), triggers pexophagy in HEK-293 cells. However, the underlying mechanism remained elusive. Here, we demonstrate that OPTN-mediated pexophagy is a cell type-specific process. In addition, using proximity labeling, we identified PEX14, a peroxisomal membrane protein, as an OPTN-interacting partner. GFP-Trap analyses confirmed this interaction and revealed that PEX14 and OPTN interact through their respective coiled-coil and C-terminal ubiquitin-binding domains, independently of ubiquitin. Furthermore, our results indicate that the C-terminal half of OPTN-GFP induces pexophagy by oligomerization with endogenous OPTN. Overall, these findings propose PEX14 as a docking factor for OPTN at the peroxisomal membrane, facilitating the connection between peroxisomes and the autophagic membrane scaffold during OPTN-mediated pexophagy.
2025-09-23 | PXD053489 | Pride
Project description:This study examined the effects of genetic knockdown of autophagy genes on vertebrate cardiac development We performed microarray studies comparing the hearts of control zebrafish embryos to the hearts of embryos with decreased expression of the autophagy genes atg5, becn1 or atg7. The results provide insight into the role of autophagy in developmental morphogenesis.
2014-03-01 | GSE51541 | GEO
Project description:Neurons are reliant on autophagy to constitutively degrade damaged proteins and organelles in order to maintain cellular homeostasis. Autophagic dysfunction is associated with neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson Disease. Mutations in the kinase LRRK2 are one of the most common causes of familial Parkinson disease; neurons expressing pathogenic LRRK2 mutations exhibit impaired autophagosome maturation. Here, we use biochemical, live cell imaging and unbiased proteomic approaches to demonstrate that LRRK2 mutant neurons engage two distinct secretory autophagy pathways as compensatory quality control mechanisms. First, we find that LRRK2 mutant neurons upregulate secretory autophagy, releasing cargos usually degraded by basal autophagy such as synaptic proteins and mitochondria. Second, we find that LRRK2 mutant neurons exhibit increased release of MVB-derived exosomes. We propose that these two secretory pathways act in tandem to dispose of cellular waste and to induce transcellular communication, respectively. We demonstrate that both pathways are upregulated in a knockin mouse model expressing pathogenic LRRK2 and that exosomal release prevents the apoptosis-mediated cell death of neurons from this mouse. These findings identify compensatory pathways that are upregulated by expression of pathogenic mutations disrupting neuronal autophagy. These pathways contribute to the maintenance of cellular homeostasis and thus may delay neurodegenerative disease progression over the short term, but have the potential to exacerbate degeneration over the longer term through the release of proinflammatory components such as mitochondrial DNA.
2024-07-24 | MSV000095428 | MassIVE
Project description:The turnover of cytoplasmic material via autophagic encapsulation and delivery to vacuoles is essential for recycling cellular constituents, especially under nutrient-limiting conditions. To determine how cells/tissues rely on autophagy, we applied in-depth multi-omic analyses to study maize (Zea mays) autophagy mutants grown after fixed carbon starvation. Surprisingly, broad alterations in the leaf metabolome were evident in plants missing the core autophagy component ATG12 even without stress, particularly affecting products of lipid turnover and secondary metabolites, which were underpinned by substantial changes in the transcriptome and/or proteome. Cross-comparison of mRNA and protein abundances allowed for the identification of organelles, protein complexes, and individual proteins targeted for selective autophagic clearance, and revealed several processes controlled by this catabolism. Fixed carbon starvation induced the proteins involved in alternative respiration together with the upregulation of various alternative catabolic processes. Collectively, we describe a facile proteomic strategy to survey autophagic substrates, and show that autophagy has a greater than expected influence in sculpting plant proteomes and membranes both before and during nitrogen stress.
2020-07-15 | PXD017077 | Pride
Project description:We performed a loss-of-function, RNA interference screen to define new therapeutic targets in multiple myeloma, a genetically diverse plasma cell malignancy. Unexpectedly, we discovered that all myeloma lines require caspase-10 for survival, irrespective of their genetic abnormalities. The transcription factor IRF4 induces both caspase-10 and its associated protein cFLIPL in myeloma, generating a protease that does not induce apoptosis but rather blocks an autophagy-dependent cell death pathway. Caspase-10 inhibits autophagy by cleaving the BCL2-interacting protein BCLAF1, itself a strong inducer of autophagy that acts by displacing beclin-1 from BCL2. While myeloma cells require a basal level of autophagy for survival, caspase-10 tempers this response to avoid cell death. Drugs that disrupt this vital balance may have therapeutic potential in myeloma. To generate a gene expression signature of caspase 10 signaling in multiple myeloma, cell lines (SKMM1 n=16, KMS12 n=8 and H929 n=12) were transduced with retroviral vectors expressing either shCasp10-2 or shCasp10-3. Similarly, lymphoma cell lines (OCI-Ly7 n=2 and OCI-Ly19 n=2) were transduced and used as a control. Following puromycin selection, shRNA expression was induced for 24 to 120 hours and gene expression was measured, comparing uninduced (Cy3) to induced (Cy5) cells, using lymphochip microarrays. Biological repeats were performed of H929 and SKMM1 samples.
2013-03-13 | E-GEOD-43878 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:In contrast to mechanisms mediating uptake of intracellular bacterial pathogens, bacterial egress and cell-to-cell transmission are poorly understood. Previously, we showed that the transmission of pathogenic mycobacteria between phagocytic cells also depends on nonlytic ejection through an F-actin based structure, called the ejectosome. How the host cell maintains integrity of its plasma membrane during the ejection process was unknown. Here, we reveal an unexpected function for the autophagic machinery in nonlytic spreading of bacteria. We show that ejecting mycobacteria are escorted by a distinct polar autophagocytic vacuole. If autophagy is impaired, cell-to-cell transmission is inhibited, the host plasma membrane becomes compromised and the host cells die. These findings highlight a previously unidentified, highly ordered interaction between bacteria and the autophagic pathway and might represent the ancient way to ensure nonlytic egress of bacteria.
| S-EPMC4343083 | biostudies-literature