A coherent FOXO3-SNAI2 feed-forward loop in autophagy.
A coherent FOXO3-SNAI2 feed-forward loop in autophagy.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2118285119
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发表时间:
2022-03-15
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Xue L
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作者:
Guo X;Li Z;Zhu X;Zhan M;Wu C;Ding X;Peng K;Li W;Ma X;Lv Z;Lu L;Xue L
Understanding autophagy regulation is instrumental in developing therapeutic interventions for autophagy-associated disease. Here, we identified SNAI2 as a regulator of autophagy from a genome-wide screen in HeLa cells. Upon energy stress, SNAI2 is transcriptionally activated by FOXO3 and interacts with FOXO3 to form a feed-forward regulatory loop to reinforce the expression of autophagy genes. Of note, SNAI2-increased FOXO3-DNA binding abrogates CRM1-dependent FOXO3 nuclear export, illuminating a pivotal role of DNA in the nuclear retention of nucleocytoplasmic shuttling proteins. Moreover, a dFoxO-Snail feed-forward loop regulates both autophagy and cell size in Drosophila, suggesting this evolutionarily conserved regulatory loop is engaged in more physiological activities. Autophagy is a highly conserved programmed degradation process that regulates a variety of physiological and pathological activities in health, aging, and disease. To identify additional factors that modulate autophagy, we utilized serum-free starvation or Torin1 to induce autophagy in HeLa cells for unbiased mRNA-sequencing analysis and identified SNAI2, a crucial player in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer progression, as a regulator of autophagy. Mechanistically, SNAI2 promotes autophagy by physically interacting with FOXO3 and enhancing FOXO3 binding affinity to its response elements in autophagy-related genes. Intriguingly, binding to the DNA targets appears necessary and sufficient for FOXO3 to antagonize its CRM1-dependent nuclear export, illustrating a critical role of DNA in regulating protein nuclear localization. Moreover, stress-elevated SNAI2 expression is mediated by FOXO3, which activates SNAI2 transcription by directly binding to its promoter. Herein, FOXO3 and SNAI2 form a coherent feed-forward regulatory loop to reinforce autophagy genes induction in response to energy stress. Strikingly, a dFoxO-Snail feed-forward circuit also regulates autophagy in Drosophila, suggesting this mechanism is evolutionarily conserved from fly to human.
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