Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

p62/SQSTM1-droplet serves as a platform for autophagosome formation and anti-oxidative stress response

  • Shun Kageyama,
  • Sigurdur Runar Gudmundsson,
  • Yu-Shin Sou,
  • Yoshinobu Ichimura,
  • Naoki Tamura,
  • Saiko Kazuno,
  • Takashi Ueno,
  • Yoshiki Miura,
  • Daisuke Noshiro,
  • Manabu Abe,
  • Tsunehiro Mizushima,
  • Nobuaki Miura,
  • Shujiro Okuda,
  • Hozumi Motohashi,
  • Jin-A Lee,
  • Kenji Sakimura,
  • Tomoyuki Ohe,
  • Nobuo N. Noda,
  • Satoshi Waguri,
  • Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen,
  • Masaaki Komatsu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20185-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Liquid-liquid phase separation of p62/SQSTM1 has been previously described, although the significance in vivo remains unclear. Here the authors show p62 droplets contain ubiquitin, autophagy-related proteins and Keap1 to serve as platform of not only autophagosome formation but also Nrf2 activation.