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Nix is a selective autophagy receptor for mitochondrial clearance
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Autophagy is the cellular homeostatic pathway that delivers large cytosolic materials for degradation in the lysosome. Recent evidence indicates that autophagy mediates selective removal of protein aggregates, organelles and microbes in cells. Yet, the specificity in targeting a particular substrate to the autophagy pathway remains poorly understood. Here, we show that the mitochondrial protein Nix is a selective autophagy receptor by binding to LC3/GABARAP proteins, ubiquitin-like modifiers that are required for the growth of autophagosomal membranes. In cultured cells, Nix recruits GABARAP-L1 to damaged mitochondria through its amino-terminal LC3-interacting region. Furthermore, ablation of the Nix:LC3/GABARAP interaction retards mitochondrial clearance in maturing murine reticulocytes. Thus, Nix functions as an autophagy receptor, which mediates mitochondrial clearance after mitochondrial damage and during erythrocyte differentiation.
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- Authors
- Novak, I., Kirkin, V., McEwan, D. G., Zhang, J., Wild, P., Rozenknop, A., Rogov, V., Löhr, F., Popovic, D., Occhipinti, A., Reichert, A. S., Terzic, J., Dötsch, V., Ney, P. A., & Dikic, I.
- Affiliations
- Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (HR)
- Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- The EMBO Reports
- Published
- 2009-12-11
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-51
- ISSN
- 1469-221X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-3178
- PMC
- PMC2816619
- OpenAlex
- W2127440157
- Cited by
- 1,309
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 63 · 2025: 77 · 2024: 79 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 106 · 2020: 96 · 2019: 86 · 2018: 77 · 2017: 74 · 2016: 85 · 2015: 72 · 2014: 77 · 2013: 63 · 2012: 90
- FWCI
- 44.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- EMBO Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ((EXC 115).)
- Terry Fox Foundation
- National Institutes of Health (CA21765))
- National Cancer Institute (P 30CA 21765, P30CA021765)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK074519, R21DK074519)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Physiology › Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
- Keywords
- Nix, selective autophagy, mitophagy, autophagy receptors, LC3, GABARAP, LC3-interacting region, mitochondrial clearance, mitochondrial damage, reticulocytes, erythroid differentiation, ubiquitin-like proteins
- MeSH terms
- Autophagy-Related Protein 8 Family, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Autophagy, Binding Sites, Cells, Cultured, Chlorocebus aethiops, Humans, Membrane Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Mitochondria, Molecular Sequence Data, Protein Binding, Proto-Oncogene Proteins, Receptors, GABA-A, Reticulocytes, Substrate Specificity, Blotting, Western, COS Cells, Amino Acid Motifs, Mitochondrial Proteins, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Mice
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