RRC ID 46397
著者 Li W, Zou W, Yang Y, Chai Y, Chen B, Cheng S, Tian D, Wang X, Vale RD, Ou G.
タイトル Autophagy genes function sequentially to promote apoptotic cell corpse degradation in the engulfing cell.
ジャーナル J Cell Biol
Abstract Apoptotic cell degradation is a fundamental process for organism development, and impaired clearance causes inflammatory or autoimmune disease. Although autophagy genes were reported to be essential for exposing the engulfment signal on apoptotic cells, their roles in phagocytes for apoptotic cell removal are not well understood. In this paper, we develop live-cell imaging techniques to study apoptotic cell clearance in the Caenorhabditis elegans Q neuroblast lineage. We show that the autophagy proteins LGG-1/LC3, ATG-18, and EPG-5 were sequentially recruited to internalized apoptotic Q cells in the phagocyte. In atg-18 or epg-5 mutants, apoptotic Q cells were internalized but not properly degraded; this phenotype was fully rescued by the expression of autophagy genes in the phagocyte. Time-lapse analysis of autophagy mutants revealed that recruitment of the small guanosine triphosphatases RAB-5 and RAB-7 to the phagosome and the formation of phagolysosome were all significantly delayed. Thus, autophagy genes act within the phagocyte to promote apoptotic cell degradation.
巻・号 197(1)
ページ 27-35
公開日 2012-4-2
DOI 10.1083/jcb.201111053
PII jcb.201111053
PMID 22451698
PMC PMC3317810
MeSH Animals Apoptosis / genetics* Autophagy / genetics* Caenorhabditis elegans / cytology Caenorhabditis elegans / metabolism* Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / genetics* Lysosomes / metabolism Mutation Phagocytes / cytology Phagocytes / metabolism* Phagocytosis Phagosomes / metabolism Phenotype Vesicular Transport Proteins / genetics*
IF 8.811
引用数 49
WOS 分野 CELL BIOLOGY
リソース情報
線虫 tm3425