ArticleNature communications2017
TFEB regulates lysosomal positioning by modulating TMEM55B expression and JIP4 recruitment to lysosomes.
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- Global cellular responses to lysosomal damage.Current biology : CB · 2026Review
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- Ultrastructural studies reveal a new role for JIP3/MAPK8IP3 in endo-lysosomal maturation within the neuronal cell body.Molecular biology of the cell · 2026Article
- A pathogenic Tau mutation drives autophagy-lysosome dysfunction that limits Tau degradation in a model of frontotemporal dementia.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Control of lysosome function by the GTPase-activating protein TBC1D9B and its binding partner TMEM55B.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A Syd and RUFY dynein adaptor complex mediates axonal circulation of dense core vesicles.The Journal of cell biology · 2026Article
- Unraveling Lysosomal Exocytosis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Physiological Functions.Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) · 2026Review
- Subcellular Cartography of the Phosphoinositide Multiverse.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids · 2026Review
- Loss of TMEM55B modulates lipid metabolism through dysregulated lipophagy and mitochondrial function.Cell death & disease · 2026Article
- The E193K LRRK2 mutation interferes with the autophagosome processing through the impairment of the LRRK2-Dynein-1 complex.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Proteomics Insights Into Lysosome Biogenesis and Maturation.Proteomics · 2025Review
- Fundamental role of spatial positioning of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mycobacterial survival in macrophages.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Endosome maturation during ER stress relies on the ubiquitin-binding domain of histone deacetylase 6.Molecular biology of the cell · 2025Article
- BLOC-1 and BORC: Complex regulators of endolysosomal dynamics.Cell chemical biology · 2025Review
- Drug-Induced Reversible Lysosomal Changes Tracked in Live Cells by Holo-Tomographic Flow Cytometry.ACS nano · 2025Article
- Decoding the dual role of autophagy in cancer through transcriptional and epigenetic regulation.FEBS letters · 2025Review
- TMEM55A-mediated PI5P signalling regulates alpha cell actin depolymerisation and glucagon secretion.Diabetologia · 2025Article
- JIP4 deficiency causes a lysosomal storage disease arising from impaired cystine efflux.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Fat traffic control: S-acylation in axonal transport.Molecular pharmacology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Lysosomal distribution is linked to the role of lysosomes in many cellular functions, including autophagosome degradation, cholesterol homeostasis, antigen presentation, and cell invasion. Alterations in lysosomal positioning contribute to different human pathologies, such as cancer, neurodegeneration, and lysosomal storage diseases. Here we report the identification of a novel mechanism of lysosomal trafficking regulation. We found that the lysosomal transmembrane protein TMEM55B recruits JIP4 to the lysosomal surface, inducing dynein-dependent transport of lysosomes toward the microtubules minus-end. TMEM55B overexpression causes lysosomes to collapse into the cell center, whereas depletion of either TMEM55B or JIP4 results in dispersion toward the cell periphery. TMEM55B levels are transcriptionally upregulated following TFEB and TFE3 activation by starvation or cholesterol-induced lysosomal stress. TMEM55B or JIP4 depletion abolishes starvation-induced retrograde lysosomal transport and prevents autophagosome-lysosome fusion. Overall our data suggest that the TFEB/TMEM55B/JIP4 pathway coordinates lysosome movement in response to a variety of stress conditions.
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