De Castro IP 2013 Cell Death Dis
de Castro IP, Costa AC, Celardo I, Tufi R, Dinsdale D, Loh SH, Martins LM (2013) Drosophila ref(2)P is required for the parkin-mediated suppression of mitochondrial dysfunction in pink1 mutants. Cell Death Dis 24:e873. |
de Castro IP, Costa AC, Celardo I, Tufi R, Dinsdale D, Loh SH, Martins LM (2013) Cell Death Dis
Abstract: Autophagy is a critical regulator of organellar homeostasis, particularly of mitochondria. Upon the loss of membrane potential, dysfunctional mitochondria are selectively removed by autophagy through recruitment of the E3 ligase Parkin by the PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) and subsequent ubiquitination of mitochondrial membrane proteins. Mammalian sequestrome-1 (p62/SQSTM1) is an autophagy adaptor, which has been proposed to shuttle ubiquitinated cargo for autophagic degradation downstream of Parkin. Here, we show that loss of ref(2)P, the Drosophila orthologue of mammalian P62, results in abnormalities, including mitochondrial defects and an accumulation of mitochondrial DNA with heteroplasmic mutations, correlated with locomotor defects. Furthermore, we show that expression of Ref(2)P is able to ameliorate the defects caused by loss of Pink1 and that this depends on the presence of functional Parkin. Finally, we show that both the PB1 and UBA domains of Ref(2)P are crucial for mitochondrial clustering. We conclude that Ref(2)P is a crucial downstream effector of a pathway involving Pink1 and Parkin and is responsible for the maintenance of a viable pool of cellular mitochondria by promoting their aggregation and autophagic clearance. β’ Keywords: Drosophila, Mitochondria, Parkinson's disease, Stress, Unfolded proteins
β’ O2k-Network Lab: UK Leicester Martins LM
Labels: MiParea: Respiration, Genetic knockout;overexpression, Comparative MiP;environmental MiP
Organism: Drosophila
Preparation: Homogenate
Coupling state: LEAK, OXPHOS, ET
Pathway: N, S
HRR: Oxygraph-2k