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Mutations in Fis1 disrupt orderly disposal of defective mitochondria
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Mitochondrial fission is mediated by the dynamin-related protein Drp1 in metazoans. Drp1 is recruited from the cytosol to mitochondria by the mitochondrial outer membrane protein Mff. A second mitochondrial outer membrane protein, named Fis1, was previously proposed as recruitment factor, but Fis1(-/-) cells have mild or no mitochondrial fission defects. Here we show that Fis1 is nevertheless part of the mitochondrial fission complex in metazoan cells. During the fission cycle, Drp1 first binds to Mff on the surface of mitochondria, followed by entry into a complex that includes Fis1 and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteins at the ER-mitochondrial interface. Mutations in Fis1 do not normally affect fission, but they can disrupt downstream degradation events when specific mitochondrial toxins are used to induce fission. The disruptions caused by mutations in Fis1 lead to an accumulation of large LC3 aggregates. We conclude that Fis1 can act in sequence with Mff at the ER-mitochondrial interface to couple stress-induced mitochondrial fission with downstream degradation processes.
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![FIGURE 1: Effects of Mff and Fis1 on mitochondrial fission in C. elegans. (A) Mitochondria in C. elegans body wall muscles were labeled with mitochondrial outer membrane marker (YFP::Tom70, green) in strains as indicated. Right, enlargements of the Mff, Fis1 Mff, and Drp1 mutant images. (B) Effects of FIS-1 and YFP::FIS-1 overexpression with the muscle-specific myo-3 promoter. Mitochondria were labeled with YFP::TOM70. As a control for the effects of outer membrane proteins on mitochondrial morphology, we used feeding RNAi and an overexpression construct for another mitochondrial outer membrane protein (peripheral benzodiazepine receptor [PBR]). Bars, 10 μm.](/paper-figures/f2b107d9ffc3443abfc2045ffe48fb89/mutations-in-fis1-disrupt-orderly-disposal-of-defective-mitochondria-figure-1.jpg)








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- Authors
- Shen, Q., Yamano, K., Head, B. P., Kawajiri, S., Cheung, J. T. M., Wang, C., Cho, J.-H., Hattori, N., Youle, R. J., & van der Bliek, A. M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Juntendo University (JP)
- Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- ORCID
- Venue
- Molecular Biology of the Cell
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 145-159
- ISSN
- 1059-1524 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-4586
- PMC
- PMC3873885
- OpenAlex
- W2166496519
- Cited by
- 209
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 21 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 11
- FWCI
- 7.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Molecular Biology of the Cell (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007104, R01GM051866, GM-051866)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Cell death mechanisms and regulation
- Keywords
- Fis1, mitochondrial fission, Drp1, Mff, mitochondrial outer membrane proteins, mitophagy, mitochondrial toxins, dynamin-related proteins
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Endoplasmic Reticulum, HeLa Cells, Humans, Membrane Proteins, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Muscles, Caenorhabditis elegans, Mutation, Missense, Mitochondrial Proteins, Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins, HCT116 Cells, Proteolysis, Mitochondrial Dynamics
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