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- Title
Regulation of the ER stress response by a mitochondrial microprotein.
- Authors
Chu, Qian; Martinez, Thomas F.; Novak, Sammy Weiser; Donaldson, Cynthia J.; Tan, Dan; Vaughan, Joan M.; Chang, Tina; Diedrich, Jolene K.; Andrade, Leo; Kim, Andrew; Zhang, Tong; Manor, Uri; Saghatelian, Alan
- Abstract
Cellular homeostasis relies on having dedicated and coordinated responses to a variety of stresses. The accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a common stress that triggers a conserved pathway called the unfolded protein response (UPR) that mitigates damage, and dysregulation of UPR underlies several debilitating diseases. Here, we discover that a previously uncharacterized 54-amino acid microprotein PIGBOS regulates UPR. PIGBOS localizes to the mitochondrial outer membrane where it interacts with the ER protein CLCC1 at ER–mitochondria contact sites. Functional studies reveal that the loss of PIGBOS leads to heightened UPR and increased cell death. The characterization of PIGBOS reveals an undiscovered role for a mitochondrial protein, in this case a microprotein, in the regulation of UPR originating in the ER. This study demonstrates microproteins to be an unappreciated class of genes that are critical for inter-organelle communication, homeostasis, and cell survival. Cells trigger an unfolded protein response (UPR) in the endoplasmic reticulum, but its regulation by mitochondria is unclear. Here, the authors report a 54-residue microprotein PIGBOS that participates in inter-organelle contact between the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria and may regulate UPR.
- Subjects
HOMEOSTASIS; ENDOPLASMIC reticulum; MITOCHONDRIAL membranes; CELL death; AMINO acids
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-12816-z