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Published 5 June 2006. doi:10.1083/jcb.200512142
The Rockefeller University Press, 0021-9525 $8.00
JCB, Volume 173, Number 5, 709-717
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 PI4P-signaling pathway for the synthesis of a nascent membrane structure in selective autophagy

Shun-ichi Yamashita, Masahide Oku, Yuko Wasada, Yoshitaka Ano, and Yasuyoshi Sakai

Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

Correspondence to Yasuyoshi Sakai: ysakai{at}kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Phosphoinositides regulate a wide range of cellular activities, including membrane trafficking and biogenesis, via interaction with various effector proteins that contain phosphoinositide binding motifs. We show that in the yeast Pichia pastoris, phosphatidylinositol 4'-monophosphate (PI4P) initiates de novo membrane synthesis that is required for peroxisome degradation by selective autophagy and that this PI4P signaling is modulated by an ergosterol-converting PpAtg26 (autophagy-related) protein harboring a novel PI4P binding GRAM (glucosyltransferase, Rab-like GTPase activators, and myotubularins) domain. A phosphatidylinositol-4-OH kinase, PpPik1, is the primary source of PI4P. PI4P concentrated in a protein–lipid nucleation complex recruits PpAtg26 through an interaction with the GRAM domain. Sterol conversion by PpAtg26 at the nucleation complex is necessary for elongation and maturation of the membrane structure. This study reveals the role of the PI4P-signaling pathway in selective autophagy, a process comprising multistep molecular events that lead to the de novo membrane formation.

S. Yamashita and M. Oku contributed equally to this work.

M. Oku's present address is National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan.

Abbreviations used in this paper: GRAM, glucosyltransferase, Rab-like GTPase activators, and myotubularins; MIPA, micropexophagy-specific membrane apparatus; PAS, preautophagosomal structure; PBD, phosphoinositide binding domain; PH, pleckstrin homology; PI3K, phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase; PI3P, phosphatidylinositol 3'-monophosphate; trGRAM, truncated GRAM; UBD, UDP-sugar binding domain.


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