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- Title
The nucleolar protein nucleophosmin is essential for autophagy induced by inhibiting Pol I transcription.
- Authors
Katagiri, Naohiro; Kuroda, Takao; Kishimoto, Hiroyuki; Hayashi, Yuki; Kumazawa, Takuya; Kimura, Keiji
- Abstract
Various cellular stresses activate autophagy, which is involved in lysosomal degradation of cytoplasmic materials for maintaining nutrient homeostasis and eliminating harmful components. Here, we show that RNA polymerase I (Pol I) transcription inhibition induces nucleolar disruption and autophagy. Treatment with autophagy inhibitors or siRNA specific for autophagy-related (ATG) proteins inhibited autophagy but not nucleolar disruption induced by Pol I transcription inhibition, which suggested that nucleolar disruption was upstream of autophagy. Furthermore, treatment with siRNA specific for nucleolar protein nucleophosmin (NPM) inhibited this type of autophagy. This showed that NPM was involved in autophagy when the nucleolus was disrupted by Pol I inhibition. In contrast, NPM was not required for canonical autophagy induced by nutrient starvation, as it was not accompanied by nucleolar disruption. Thus, our results revealed that, in addition to canonical autophagy, there may be NPM-dependent autophagy associated with nucleolar disruption.
- Subjects
NUCLEAR proteins; RNA polymerases; NUCLEOPHOSMIN; CELL nuclei; ORGANIC compounds
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2015, p8903
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep08903