テラワキ　セイゴウ   Seigo Terawaki   寺脇　正剛    所属   川崎医科大学  医学部 基礎医学　分子遺伝医学    職種   特任講師
論文種別	総説
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読なし
表題	RUFY4: Immunity piggybacking on autophagy?
掲載誌名	正式名：Autophagy 略　 称：Autophagy ISSNコード：15548635/15548627
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	12(3),pp.598-600
著者・共著者	Terawaki Seigo, Camosseto Voahirana, Pierre Philippe, Gatti Evelina
担当区分	筆頭著者
発行年月	2016/07/13
概要	Although autophagy is a highly conserved mechanism among species and cell types, few are the molecules involved with the autophagic process that display cell- or tissue- specific expression. We have unraveled the positive regulatory role on autophagy of RUFY4 (RUN and FYVE domain containing 4), which is expressed in subsets of immune cells, including dendritic cells (DCs). DCs orchestrate the eradication of pathogens by coordinating the action of the different cell types involved in microbe recognition and destruction during the immune response. To fulfill this function, DC display particular regulation of their endocytic and autophagy pathways in response to the immune environment. Autophagy flux is downmodulated in DCs upon microbe sensing, but is remarkably augmented, when cells are differentiated in the presence of the pleiotropic cytokine IL4 (interleukin 4). From gene expression studies aimed at comparing the impact of IL4 on DC differentiation, we identified RUFY4, as a novel regulator that augments autophagy flux and, when overexpressed, induces drastic membrane redistribution and strongly tethers lysosomes. RUFY4 is therefore one of the few known positive regulators of autophagy that is expressed in a cell-specific manner or under specific immunological conditions associated with IL4 expression such as allergic asthma.
DOI	10.1080/15548627.2015.1136772
PMID	26760128