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LC3, a mammalian homologue of yeast Apg8p, is localized in autophagosome membranes after processing.
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Little is known about the protein constituents of autophagosome membranes in mammalian cells. Here we demonstrate that the rat microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3), a homologue of Apg8p essential for autophagy in yeast, is associated to the autophagosome membranes after processing. Two forms of LC3, called LC3-I and -II, were produced post-translationally in various cells. LC3-I is cytosolic, whereas LC3-II is membrane bound. The autophagic vacuole fraction prepared from starved rat liver was enriched with LC3-II. Immunoelectron microscopy on LC3 revealed specific labelling of autophagosome membranes in addition to the cytoplasmic labelling. LC3-II was present both inside and outside of autophagosomes. Mutational analyses suggest that LC3-I is formed by the removal of the C-terminal 22 amino acids from newly synthesized LC3, followed by the conversion of a fraction of LC3-I into LC3-II. The amount of LC3-II is correlated with the extent of autophagosome formation. LC3-II is the first mammalian protein identified that specifically associates with autophagosome membranes.
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“As LC3II is a lipidated form of LC3 (Kabeya et al., 2000), these results indicated an increase in autophagosome formation.”
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“The cytosolic form of LC3 (designated LC3-I) is conjugated to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and in this form (designated LC3-II) it is recruited to the growing autophagosome membrane [26].”
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- Authors
- Kabeya, Y., Mizushima, N., Ueno, T., Yamamoto, A., Kirisako, T., Noda, T., Kominami, E., Ohsumi, Y., & Yoshimori, T.
- Affiliations
- National Institute for Basic Biology (JP)
- Juntendo University (JP)
- Kansai Medical University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Yoshimori, Tamotsu
- ORCID
- Mizushima, Noboru
- Venue
- The EMBO Journal
- Published
- 2000-11-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 5720-5728
- ISSN
- 0261-4189 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-2075
- PMC
- PMC305793
- OpenAlex
- W1977767269
- Cited by
- 6,605
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 18.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2003-09-01)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The EMBO Journal (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Tokyo Tech Research Repository (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute for Basic Biology
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Cellular transport and secretion
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Keywords
- LC3, autophagy, LC3-II, post-translational processing, C-terminal truncation, autophagosomes, yeast homologue
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Base Sequence, Fungal Proteins, HeLa Cells, Humans, Intracellular Membranes, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Phagosomes, Protein Processing, Post-Translational, Subcellular Fractions, Transfection, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, DNA Primers, Rats
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