Project description:Induction of the one-carbon cycle is an early hallmark of mitochondrial dysfunction and cancer metabolism. Vital intermediary steps are localized to mitochondria, but it remains unclear how one-carbon availability connects to mitochondrial function. Here, we show that the one-carbon metabolite and methyl group donor S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is pivotal for energy metabolism. A gradual decline in mitochondrial SAM (mitoSAM) causes hierarchical defects in fly and mouse, comprising loss of mitoSAM-dependent metabolites and impaired assembly of the oxidative phosphorylation system. Complex I stability and iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis are directly controlled by mitoSAM levels, while other protein targets are predominantly methylated outside of the organelle before import. The mitoSAM pool follows its cytosolic production, establishing mitochondria as responsive receivers of one-carbon units. Thus, we demonstrate that cellular methylation potential is required for energy metabolism, with direct relevance for pathophysiology, aging, and cancer.
Project description:S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is the principle biological methyl group donor for a diverse range of substrates. It is synthesised in the cytosolic methionine cycle and shuttled throughout the cell. The mitochondrial SAM (mitoSAM) pool depends on import through the inner-membrane SAMC and supports the maturation of metabolites and mitochondrial RNAs. Mutations in SAMC in patients cause a severe metabolic crisis, however, the organellar regulation of mitoSAM and the protein methylation landscape within mitochondria are largely unknown. Using fly and mouse models, we demonstrate that titrating mitoSAM differentially effects mitochondrial function. Metabolite and iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis are disrupted due to acutely decreased methylation potential, while prolonged mitoSAM deficiency affects fly longevity and OXPHOS stability. The herein uploaded raw data was used for total larvae and total cell proteome quantification in the established lines. Our results define the critical role of cytoplasmic SAM production for mitochondrial methylation events and highlight the indirect effect of one-carbon metabolism on cellular bioenergetics.
Project description:Drosophila melanogaster has been a workhorse of genetics and cell biology for more than a century. However, proteomic-based methods have been limited due to the complexity and dynamic range of the fly proteome and the lack of efficient labelling methods. Here, we advanced a chemically defined food source into direct stable-isotope labelling of amino acids in flies (SILAF). It allows for the rapid and cost-efficient generation of a large number of larvae or flies, with full incorporation of lysine-[13C6] after six labelling days. SILAF followed by fractionation and enrichment gave proteomic insights at a depth of 7,196 proteins and 8,451 phosphorylation sites, which substantiated metabolic regulation on enzymatic level. We applied SILAF to quantify the mitochondrial phosphoproteome of an early-stage leucine-rich PPR motif-containing protein (LRPPRC)-knockdown fly model of mitochondrial disease that almost exclusively affects protein levels of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system. While the mitochondrial compartment was hypo-phosphorylated, two conserved phospho-sites on OXPHOS subunits NDUFB10 and NDUFA4 were significantly upregulated upon impaired OXPHOS function. The ease and versatility of the method actuates the fruit fly as an appealing model in proteomic and post-translational modification studies and it enlarges potential metabolic applications based on heavy amino acid diets.
Project description:In our research, we identified GLAD as a regulator gene of longevity and glia-associated neurodegeneration. This is the RNA-seq data of RNAi-GLAD fruit flies and the control (RNAi-GFP).
Project description:GSE31386: Microarray expression analysis of Drosophila DrosDel deficiency lines GSE31401:RNA-Seq on SOLiD platform of DrosDel deficiency and w1118 flies GSE31549: RNA-Seq on Illumnia platform of DrosDel deficiency and w1118 lines GSE31550: DNA-Seq of Drosophila DrosDel deficiency and w1118 lines Refer to individual Series
Project description:RNAseq was performed from Drosophila head tissue of a mitochondrial complex I deficiency model. The NDUFS1 homolog ND-75 was knocked down in Drosophila neurons using nSybGal4. Heads were collected from control of ND-75 knockdown flies and used for RNAseq analysis.
Project description:RNAseq was performed from Drosophila head tissue of two mitochondrial complex I deficiency models. The NDUFS1 homolog ND-75 was knocked down in Drosophila neurons using nSybGal4. Heads were collected from control of ND-75 knockdown flies and used for RNAseq analysis.
Project description:To determine the error rate of mitochondrial transcription, we ananlyzed 33 and 37 million reads respectively for wild type (WT) and mutant (E423P) mitochondrial RNA polymerase (POLRMT) overexpression flies and found that the error frequency of mitochondrial transcripts were over 5 fold higher in E423P flies than that of WT. To gain more insight into the molecular mechanisms that drive the error rate of transcription by POLRMT, we examined its distribution of errors along the mitochondrial genome. We also evaluated mitochondrial RNA processing by quantifying the frequency of a single read spanning two adjacent genes. There was no significant increase of unprocessed RNAs in E423P than that of WT. These observations concluded that overexpression of E423P POLRMT in adult flies leads to a statistically significant increase of mitochondrial transcripts errors.