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Quantitative proteomics identifies NCOA4 as the cargo receptor mediating ferritinophagy
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Autophagy, the process by which proteins and organelles are sequestered in double-membrane structures called autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation, is critical in diseases such as cancer and neurodegeneration. Much of our understanding of this process has emerged from analysis of bulk cytoplasmic autophagy, but our understanding of how specific cargo, including organelles, proteins or intracellular pathogens, are targeted for selective autophagy is limited. Here we use quantitative proteomics to identify a cohort of novel and known autophagosome-enriched proteins in human cells, including cargo receptors. Like known cargo receptors, nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4) was highly enriched in autophagosomes, and associated with ATG8 proteins that recruit cargo-receptor complexes into autophagosomes. Unbiased identification of NCOA4-associated proteins revealed ferritin heavy and light chains, components of an iron-filled cage structure that protects cells from reactive iron species but is degraded via autophagy to release iron through an unknown mechanism. We found that delivery of ferritin to lysosomes required NCOA4, and an inability of NCOA4-deficient cells to degrade ferritin led to decreased bioavailable intracellular iron. This work identifies NCOA4 as a selective cargo receptor for autophagic turnover of ferritin (ferritinophagy), which is critical for iron homeostasis, and provides a resource for further dissection of autophagosomal cargo-receptor connectivity.
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“Cuprizone-mediated reduction in oligodendrocytes between days 1–4 coincides with reduction of the iron storage protein ferritin and an increase of the ferroptosis marker nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4).”
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“Recently, nuclear receptor coactivator 4 (NCOA4) was identified as the cargo receptor for autophagocytotic turnover of ferritin”
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“This process is specifically mediated via NCOA4 to traffic ferritin to the autophagosome for degradation”
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“Ferritin degradation was then stimulated with the iron chelator deferoxamine (Dfo) (50 µM) as previously described [51], [53], [56] and occurred substantially within 6 h of treatment (Fig. 5A(i)).”
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“Ferritinophagy, the process of ferritin being sequestered into autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation, is important for liberating iron from ferritin and thus for maintaining cellular iron homeostasis [51], [53], [54], [55].”
From Iron accumulation in senescent cells is coupled with impaired ferritinophagy and inhibition of ferroptosis (2018) · cites this paper as [53]
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“Ferritin is selectively targeted for autophagic/lysosomal degradation by the cargo receptor NCOA4 [53], a process required for liberating iron making it bioavailable to the cell [51], [53], [65].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mancias, J. D., Wang, X., Gygi, S. P., Harper, J. W., & Kimmelman, A. C.
- Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Harper, J. Wade
- Kimmelman, Alec C.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2014-03-30
- Volume
- 509
- Issue
- 7498
- Pages
- 105-109
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4180099
- OpenAlex
- W1996152690
- Cited by
- 2,084
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 289 · 2025: 335 · 2024: 311 · 2023: 292 · 2022: 212 · 2021: 192 · 2020: 110 · 2019: 96 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 69 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 19
- FWCI
- 45.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (P50CA127003, R01CA157490)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM095567, R01GM070565, GM095567, GM070565)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Keywords
- NCOA4, ferritinophagy, selective autophagy, cargo receptors, autophagosomes, iron homeostasis, iron starvation, ferritin degradation, ATG8, lysosomal degradation, iron metabolism, quantitative proteomics, lysosomal biogenesis
- MeSH terms
- Autophagy-Related Protein 8 Family, Autophagy, Biological Availability, Ferritins, Homeostasis, Humans, Iron, Lysosomes, Microfilament Proteins, Phagosomes, Protein Binding, Substrate Specificity, Protein Transport, Proteomics, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Nuclear Receptor Coactivators
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