Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Phosphorylation regulates the binding of autophagy receptors to FIP200 Claw domain for selective autophagy initiation

  • Zixuan Zhou,
  • Jianping Liu,
  • Tao Fu,
  • Ping Wu,
  • Chao Peng,
  • Xinyu Gong,
  • Yingli Wang,
  • Mingfang Zhang,
  • Ying Li,
  • Yaru Wang,
  • Xiaolong Xu,
  • Miao Li,
  • Lifeng Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21874-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cooperation between the ULK complex and autophagy receptors mediates targeting cargoes to autophagosomes. Here, the authors show that interactions of ULK subunit FIP200 with autophagy receptors CCPG1 and Optineurin can be regulated by phosphorylation, suggesting a general binding mode shared by autophagy receptors.