論文

査読有り 国際誌
2020年

Monitoring the autophagy-endolysosomal system using monomeric Keima-fused MAP1LC3B.

PloS one
  • Hideki Hayashi
  • Ting Wang
  • Masayuki Tanaka
  • Sanae Ogiwara
  • Chisa Okada
  • Masatoshi Ito
  • Nahoko Fukunishi
  • Yumi Iida
  • Ayaka Nakamura
  • Ayumi Sasaki
  • Shunji Amano
  • Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Asako Otomo
  • Masato Ohtsuka
  • Shinji Hadano
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開始ページ
e0234180
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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0234180

The autophagy-endolysosomal pathway is an evolutionally conserved degradation system that is tightly linked to a wide variety of physiological processes. Dysfunction of this system is associated with many pathological conditions such as cancer, inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore, monitoring the cellular autophagy-endolysosomal activity is crucial for studies on the pathogenesis as well as therapeutics of such disorders. To this end, we here sought to create a novel means exploiting Keima, an acid-stable fluorescent protein possessing pH-dependent fluorescence excitation spectra, for precisely monitoring the autophagy-endolysosomal system. First, we generated three lines of transgenic (tg) mouse expressing monomeric Keima-fused MAP1LC3B (mKeima-LC3B). Then, these tg mice were subjected to starvation by food-restriction, and also challenged to neurodegeneration by genetically crossing with a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; i.e., SOD1H46R transgenic mouse. Unexpectedly, despite that a lipidated-form of endogenous LC3 (LC3-II) was significantly increased, those of mKeima-LC3B (mKeima-LC3B-II) were not changed under both stressed conditions. It was also noted that mKeima-LC3B-positive aggregates were progressively accumulated in the spinal cord of SOD1H46R;mKeima-LC3B double-tg mice, suggestive of acid-resistance and aggregate-prone natures of long-term overexpressed mKeima-LC3B in vivo. Next, we characterized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) derived from mKeima-LC3B-tg mice. In contrast with in vivo, levels of mKeima-LC3B-I were decreased under starved conditions. Furthermore, when starved MEFs were treated with chloroquine (CQ), the abundance of mKeima-LC3B-II was significantly increased. Remarkably, when cultured medium was repeatedly changed between DMEM (nutrient-rich) and EBSS (starvation), acidic/neutral signal ratios of mKeima-LC3B-positive compartments were rapidly and reversibly shifted, which were suppressed by the CQ treatment, indicating that intraluminal pH of mKeima-LC3B-positive vesicles was changeable upon nutritional conditions of culture media. Taken together, although mKeima-LC3B-tg mice may not be an appropriate tool to monitor the autophagy-endolysosomal system in vivo, mKeima-LC3B must be one of the most sensitive reporter molecules for monitoring this system under in vitro cultured conditions.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234180
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32511278
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279612
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0234180
  • PubMed ID : 32511278
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC7279612

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