HSP70 chaperones RNA-free TDP-43 into anisotropic intranuclear liquid spherical shells

Autor: Digvijay Singh, Kelsey Gasior, Shan Lu, Olga Tapia, Amy S. Gladfelter, Elizabeth Villa, Don W. Cleveland, John R. Yates, Sandrine Da Cruz, Melinda S. Beccari, Divek Toprani, Jay M. Newby, Haiyang Yu, Miguel Lafarga, Sonia Vazquez-Sanchez
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Science
ISSN: 1095-9203
0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.abb4309
Popis: The makings of anisosomes Phase separation of proteins within the cell can produce a liquid-inside-a-liquid phase resembling oil droplets in water. Yu et al. now report that an RNA-binding protein called TDP-43, in which mutation and aggregation are linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, phase separates into complex droplets, which they named anisosomes. This process occurred when TDP-43 lost its ability to bind RNA through disease-causing mutation or posttranslational acetylation. Anisosomes have spherical shells of TDP-43 (with properties of a liquid crystal) surrounding centers of the protein chaperone HSP70. Chaperone activity was required to maintain liquidity. Anisosomes formed in neurons in vivo when proteasome activity was inhibited and were converted into aggregates when adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels fell. Science , this issue p. eabb4309
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