Structure-Function Study on FIP200 Reveals Mechanistic Insights Into Selective Autophagy
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Structure-function study on FIP200 reveals mechanistic insights into selective autophagy Inaugural-Dissertation to obtain the academic degree Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) submitted to the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy of Freie Universität Berlin by Marie Witt 2019 II Examiners: Prof. Dr. Oliver Daumke Prof. Dr. Udo Heinemann Date of defense: August 8th, 2019 This thesis has been completed from October 2014 through March 2019 under the supervision of Oliver Daumke in the department of structural biology at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, Germany. III IV Publication Parts of this thesis have been published online in Molecular Cell on March 7, 2019: “FIP200 Claw domain binding to p62 promotes autophagosome formation at ubiquitin condensates.” Eleonora Turco*, Marie Witt*, Christine Abert*, Tobias Bock-Bierbaum*, Ming-Yuan Su*, Riccardo Trapannone, Martin Sztacho, Alberto Danieli, Xiaoshan Shi, Gabriele Zaffagnini, Annamaria Gamper, Martina Schuschnig, Dorotea Fracchiolla, Daniel Bernklau, Julia Romanov, Markus Hartl, James H. Hurley#, Oliver Daumke#, Sascha Martens# * equal contribution # senior authors Coordinates and diffraction data have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) with accession code 6GMA. V VI Table of Contents I. List of Figures .................................................................................................................................. XI II. List of Tables ................................................................................................................................. XIII III. Abstract / Zusammenfassung .................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 General principles of autophagy .................................................................................. 5 1.2 Autophagy and disease .................................................................................................... 6 1.3 The autophagy core machinery .................................................................................... 7 1.4 Selective autophagy ........................................................................................................ 11 1.4.1 Cargo recognition .............................................................................................. 12 1.4.2 The LC3-interacting region (LIR) motif ................................................... 13 1.4.3 The role of cargo receptor p62 in autophagy ........................................ 15 1.5 Selective autophagy initiation in yeast ................................................................... 17 1.6 FIP200 - the counterpart of yeast Atg11 and Atg17 .......................................... 18 1.7 Direct interaction of FIP200 C-terminal region (CTR) and p62 ................... 22 2. Scope of this thesis ....................................................................................................................... 25 3. Materials and methods ............................................................................................................... 27 3.1 Materials .............................................................................................................................. 27 3.1.1 Chemicals.............................................................................................................. 27 3.1.2 Instruments ......................................................................................................... 27 3.1.3 Enzymes ................................................................................................................ 27 3.1.4 Kits .......................................................................................................................... 28 3.1.5 Plasmids ................................................................................................................ 28 3.1.6 Bacteria Strains .................................................................................................. 28 3.1.7 Media and antibiotics ...................................................................................... 28 3.1.8 Buffers and solutions ....................................................................................... 29 3.1.9 Antibodies ............................................................................................................ 30 3.1.10 Crystallization screens................................................................................... 30 3.1.11 Software and algorithms ............................................................................... 31 3.2 Molecular biology methods ......................................................................................... 32 3.2.1 Agarose gel electrophoresis.......................................................................... 32 VII 3.2.2 DNA purification ............................................................................................... 32 3.2.3 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) .............................................................. 32 3.2.4 Restriction digest .............................................................................................. 32 3.2.5 Ligation ................................................................................................................. 32 3.2.6 Preparation of chemically competent E. coli cells ............................... 33 3.2.7 Transformation of chemically competent E. coli cells ....................... 33 3.2.8 Bacteria Storage ................................................................................................ 33 3.2.9 Site-directed mutagenesis ............................................................................ 33 3.2.10 DNA sequencing ............................................................................................... 33 3.2.11 Constructs .......................................................................................................... 34 3.3 Biochemical methods ..................................................................................................... 34 3.3.1 Sequence alignment ........................................................................................ 34 3.3.2 Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS- PAGE) ..................................................................................................................... 34 3.3.3 Protein expression ........................................................................................... 34 3.3.4 Purification of His6-tagged proteins ......................................................... 34 3.3.5 Purification of GST fusion proteins ........................................................... 35 3.3.6 Expression and purification of seleno-L-methionine labelled protein for crystallization ............................................................................. 35 3.3.7 Determination of protein concentration ................................................ 36 3.3.8 Right-angle light scattering .......................................................................... 36 3.3.9 Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) .................................................... 36 3.3.10 Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy (SPR) ............................... 36 3.3.11 Liposome preparation ................................................................................... 37 3.3.12 Liposome co-sedimentation assay ........................................................... 37 3.3.13 Peptide array ..................................................................................................... 38 3.3.14 Microscopy-based protein-protein interaction assays .................... 38 3.3.15 p62 aggregation assay ................................................................................... 39 3.4 Protein crystallization and structure determination ....................................... 39 3.4.1 Crystallization of FIP200 CTR ..................................................................... 39 3.4.2 Data collection and processing ................................................................... 40 3.4.3 Phase determination and refinement ...................................................... 40 3.4.4 Structure analysis and figure preparation ............................................. 40 VIII 3.5 Cell biology methods ...................................................................................................... 41 3.5.1 Pull-downs from HeLa and HAP1 cell lysates ....................................... 41 3.5.2 Co-immunoprecipitation from HeLa cells ............................................... 42 3.5.3 Generation of HeLa FIP200∆Claw cell line ............................................. 42 3.5.4 Immunocytochemistry .................................................................................... 42 4. Results ............................................................................................................................................... 45 4.1 Protein expression and purification......................................................................... 45 4.1.1 Expression and purification of FIP200 CTR ........................................... 45 4.1.2 Expression and purification of GST-p62 FIR variants ....................... 46 4.2 Crystallization and structure