Selective VPS34 inhibitor blocks autophagy and uncovers a role for NCOA4 in ferritin degradation and iron homeostasis in vivo - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2014 Nov;16(11):1069-79.

doi: 10.1038/ncb3053. Epub 2014 Oct 19.

Beat Nyfeler 2, Jane Nagel 1, Robert A Elling 3, Shanming Liu 1, Ellen Triantafellow 1, Suchithra Menon 1, Zuncai Wang 1, Ayako Honda 1, Gwynn Pardee 3, John Cantwell 3, Catherine Luu 3, Ivan Cornella-Taracido 1, Edmund Harrington 1, Peter Fekkes 1, Hong Lei 1, Qing Fang 1, Mary Ellen Digan 1, Debra Burdick 1, Andrew F Powers 1, Stephen B Helliwell 2, Simon D'Aquin 2, Julie Bastien 2, Henry Wang 1, Dmitri Wiederschain 1, Jenny Kuerth 1, Philip Bergman 1, David Schwalb 1, Jason Thomas 1, Savuth Ugwonali 1, Fred Harbinski 1, John Tallarico 1, Christopher J Wilson 1, Vic E Myer 1, Jeffery A Porter 1, Dirksen E Bussiere 3, Peter M Finan 1, Mark A Labow 1, Xiaohong Mao 1, Lawrence G Hamann 1, Brendan D Manning 4, Reginald A Valdez 1, Thomas Nicholson 1, Markus Schirle 1, Mark S Knapp 3, Erin P Keaney 1, Leon O Murphy 1

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Selective VPS34 inhibitor blocks autophagy and uncovers a role for NCOA4 in ferritin degradation and iron homeostasis in vivo

William E Dowdle et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2014 Nov.

Abstract

Cells rely on autophagy to clear misfolded proteins and damaged organelles to maintain cellular homeostasis. In this study we use the new autophagy inhibitor PIK-III to screen for autophagy substrates. PIK-III is a selective inhibitor of VPS34 that binds a unique hydrophobic pocket not present in related kinases such as PI(3)Kα. PIK-III acutely inhibits autophagy and de novo lipidation of LC3, and leads to the stabilization of autophagy substrates. By performing ubiquitin-affinity proteomics on PIK-III-treated cells we identified substrates including NCOA4, which accumulates in ATG7-deficient cells and co-localizes with autolysosomes. NCOA4 directly binds ferritin heavy chain-1 (FTH1) to target the iron-binding ferritin complex with a relative molecular mass of 450,000 to autolysosomes following starvation or iron depletion. Interestingly, Ncoa4(-/-) mice exhibit a profound accumulation of iron in splenic macrophages, which are critical for the reutilization of iron from engulfed red blood cells. Taken together, the results of this study provide a new mechanism for selective autophagy of ferritin and reveal a previously unappreciated role for autophagy and NCOA4 in the control of iron homeostasis in vivo.

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