FIP200, a ULK-interacting protein, is required for autophagosome formation in mammalian cells |
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Authors: | Hara Taichi Takamura Akito Kishi Chieko Iemura Shun-Ichiro Natsume Tohru Guan Jun-Lin Mizushima Noboru |
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Institution: | Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Autophagy is a membrane-mediated intracellular degradation system. The serine/threonine kinase Atg1 plays an essential role in autophagosome formation. However, the role of the mammalian Atg1 homologues UNC-51-like kinase (ULK) 1 and 2 are not yet well understood. We found that murine ULK1 and 2 localized to autophagic isolation membrane under starvation conditions. Kinase-dead alleles of ULK1 and 2 exerted a dominant-negative effect on autophagosome formation, suggesting that ULK kinase activity is important for autophagy. We next screened for ULK binding proteins and identified the focal adhesion kinase family interacting protein of 200 kD (FIP200), which regulates diverse cellular functions such as cell size, proliferation, and migration. We found that FIP200 was redistributed from the cytoplasm to the isolation membrane under starvation conditions. In FIP200-deficient cells, autophagy induction by various treatments was abolished, and both stability and phosphorylation of ULK1 were impaired. These results suggest that FIP200 is a novel mammalian autophagy factor that functions together with ULKs. |
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