• NIPSNAP1 and NIPSNAP2 Act as “Eat Me” Signals for Mitophagy 

      Abudu, Yakubu Princely; Pankiv, Serhiy; Mathai, Benan John; Lystad, Alf Håkon; Bindesbøll, Christian; Brenne, Hanne Britt; Ng, Matthew Yoke Wui; Thiede, Bernd; Yamamoto, Ai; Nthiga, Thaddaeus Mutugi; Lamark, Trond; Esguerra, Camila Vicencio; Johansen, Terje; Simonsen, Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-11)
      The clearance of damaged or dysfunctional mitochondria by selective autophagy (mitophagy) is important for cellular homeostasis and prevention of disease. Our understanding of the mitochondrial signals that trigger their recognition and targeting by mitophagy is limited. Here, we show that the mitochondrial matrix proteins 4-Nitrophenylphosphatase domain and non-neuronal SNAP25-like protein homolog ...
    • SAMM50 acts with p62 in piecemeal basal- and OXPHOS-induced mitophagy of SAM and MICOS components 

      Abudu, Yakubu Princely; Shrestha, Birendra Kumar; Zhang, Wenxin; Palara, Anthimi; Brenne, Hanne Britt; Larsen, Kenneth Bowitz; Wolfson, Deanna; Dumitriu, Gianina; Øie, Cristina Ionica; Ahluwalia, Balpreet Singh; Levy, Gahl; Behrends, Christian; Tooze, Sharon A; Mouilleron, Stephane; Lamark, Trond; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-26)
      Mitophagy is the degradation of surplus or damaged mitochondria by autophagy. In addition to programmed and stress-induced mitophagy, basal mitophagy processes exert organelle quality control. Here, we show that the sorting and assembly machinery (SAM) complex protein SAMM50 interacts directly with ATG8 family proteins and p62/SQSTM1 to act as a receptor for a basal mitophagy of components of the ...
    • Starvation induces rapid degradation of selective autophagy receptors by endosomal microautophagy 

      Mejlvang, Jakob; Olsvik, Hallvard Lauritz; Svenning, Steingrim; Bruun, Jack-Ansgar; Abudu, Yakubu Princely; Larsen, Kenneth Bowitz; Brech, Andreas; Hansen, Tom Egil; Brenne, Hanne Britt; Hansen, Terkel; Stenmark, Harald Alfred; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-17)
      It is not clear to what extent starvation-induced autophagy affects the proteome on a global scale and whether it is selective. In this study, we report based on quantitative proteomics that cells during the first 4 h of acute starvation elicit lysosomal degradation of up to 2–3% of the proteome. The most significant changes are caused by an immediate autophagic response elicited by shortage of amino ...