• All roads lead to the lysosome: exploring the degradation of TNIP1 by selective autophagy 

      Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2023-04-21)
      Selective autophagy is important for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Generally, autophagy is considered cytoprotective and anti-inflammatory, acting to limit infection and accumulation of deleterious material. Key to this function is the ability to select cargo to be degraded, and here, selective autophagy receptors play a central role. In this thesis, we show that the anti-inflammatory and ...
    • The inflammation repressor TNIP1/ABIN-1 is degraded by autophagy following TBK1 phosphorylation of its LIR 

      Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander; Zhou, Jianwen; Olsvik, Hallvard Lauritz; Kaeser-Pebernard, Stéphanie; Lamark, Trond; Dengjel, Joern; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-03-09)
      The inflammatory repressor TNIP1/ABIN-1 is important for keeping in check inflammatory and cell-death pathways to avoid potentially dangerous sustained activation of these pathways. We have now found that TNIP1 is rapidly degraded by selective macroautophagy/autophagy early (0–4 h) after activation of TLR3 by poly(I:C)-treatment to allow expression of pro-inflammatory genes and proteins. A few hours ...
    • NBR1: The archetypal selective autophagy receptor 

      Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander; Kournoutis, Athanasios; Lamark, Trond; Johansen, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-18)
      NBR1 was discovered as an autophagy receptor not long after the first described vertebrate autophagy receptor p62/SQSTM1. Since then, p62 has currently been mentioned in >10,000 papers on PubMed, while NBR1 is mentioned in <350 papers. Nonetheless, evolutionary analysis reveals that NBR1, and likely also selective autophagy, was present already in the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA), while ...
    • Regulation of gap junction intercellular communication by connexin ubiquitination: physiological and pathophysiological implications 

      Totland, Max; Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander; Knudsen, Lars Mørland; Leithe, Edward (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-09)
      Gap junctions consist of arrays of intercellular channels that enable adjacent cells to communicate both electrically and metabolically. Gap junctions have a wide diversity of physiological functions, playing critical roles in both excitable and non-excitable tissues. Gap junction channels are formed by integral membrane proteins called connexins. Inherited or acquired alterations in connexins are ...
    • TBK1 phosphorylation activates LIR-dependent degradation of the inflammation repressor TNIP1 

      Zhou, Jianwen; Rasmussen, Nikoline Lander; Olsvik, Hallvard Lauritz; Akimov, Vyacheslav; Hu, Zehan; Evjen, Gry; Kaeser-Pebernard, Stéphanie; Sankar, Devanarayanan Siva; Roubaty, Carole; Verlhac, Pauline; van de Beck, Nicole; Reggiori, Fulvio; Abudu, Yakubu Princely; Blagoev, Blagoy; Lamark, Trond; Johansen, Terje; Dengjel, Jörn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022-12-27)
      Limitation of excessive inflammation due to selective degradation of pro-inflammatory proteins is one of the cytoprotective functions attributed to autophagy. In the current study, we highlight that selective autophagy also plays a vital role in promoting the establishment of a robust inflammatory response. Under inflammatory conditions, here TLR3-activation by poly(I:C) treatment, the inflammation ...