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 |
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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 |