田邊 賢司
   Department   Research Institutes and Facilities, Research Institutes and Facilities
   Position   Associate Professor
Article types Original article
Language English
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title Microautophagy in the yeast vacuole depends on the activities of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinases, Stt4p and Pik1p.
Journal Formal name:Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes
Abbreviation:Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr
ISSN code:18792642/00052736
Domestic / ForeginForegin
Volume, Issue, Page 1862(11),pp.183416
Author and coauthor Kurokawa Yuna, Konishi Rikako, Yoshida Akane, Tomioku Kanna, Tanabe Kenji, Fujita Akikazu
Publication date 2020/11
Summary Morphologically, the lipophagy in yeast cell mimics microautophagy, which includes a direct amendment of the vacuolar membrane that engulfs lipid droplets (LDs). The molecular mechanism of the membrane modifications that elicits microautophagy still remains elusive. In this study, an analysis of membrane lipid distribution at a nanoscale level showed that PtdIns(4)P is localized in the cytoplasmic leaflet of microautophagic vesicles, which are derived when the vacuole's membrane domains engulfed LDs both in the stationary phase and in acute nitrogen starvation. Furthermore, the PtdIns(4)P-positive raft-like domains engulf LDs through a microautophagic mechanism. When single temperature-conditional mutants of STT4 or PIK1 PtdIns 4-kinases were used, in the vacuole of STT4 and PIK1 mutant cells, microautophagic vesicles drastically decreased at restrictive temperatures, and the labeling density of PtdIns(4)P on the microautophagic vesicles and the sizes of the mutants' microautophagic vesicles also decreased. These results suggest that both Stt4p and Pik1p have important roles in the microautophagy of the vacuole in the stationary phase and under nitrogen starvation conditions.
DOI 10.1016/j.bbamem.2020.183416
PMID 32726584