Autophagosome formation can be achieved in the absence of Atg18 by expressing engineered PAS-targeted Atg2

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• 作者：Takafumi Kobayashi ; Kuninori Suzuki ; Yoshinori Ohsumi
• 关键词：ATG ; autophagy-related ; PAS ; pre-autophagosomal structure ; CVT ; cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting ; Ape1 ; aminopeptidase I ; prApe1 ; the proform of Ape1 ; mApe1 ; mature Ape1 ; PtdIns ; phosphatidylinositol ; PtdIns(3)P ; phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate ; PtdIns(3 ; 5
• 刊名：FEBS Letters
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：30 July, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：586
• 期：16
• 页码：2473-2478
• 全文大小：1194 K

文摘

The Atg2-Atg18 complex is essential for autophagosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this paper, we show that partial induction of autophagy can proceed in cells expressing engineered variants of Atg2 capable of localizing to the pre-autophagosomal structure (PAS) in the absence of Atg18. Specifically, through the construction of fusion proteins, we show that the fusion to Atg2 of either the phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate-binding FYVE domain or the core autophagy protein Atg8 allowed limited Atg18-independent recovery of autophagosome formation. These results indicate that effective targeting of Atg2 to the PAS can compensate for loss of Atg18 function in autophagy.