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ArticleScience advances2023

Structural basis for ATG9A recruitment to the ULK1 complex in mitophagy initiation.

Xuefeng Ren, Thanh N Nguyen, Wai Kit Lam, Cosmo Z Buffalo, Michael Lazarou, Adam L Yokom, James H Hurley

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
14.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Autophagy in ocular diseases: from mechanisms to therapeutic potential.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  15. The human autophagy-initiating complexes ULK1C and PI3KC3-C1.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2025
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  16. Progress on multifunctional transmembrane protein ATG9A.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Xuefeng RenDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4822-4316
Thanh N NguyenAligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9698-0020
Wai Kit LamAligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.
Cosmo Z BuffaloDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Michael LazarouAligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP) Collaborative Research Network, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2150-5545
Adam L YokomDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
James H HurleyDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5054-5445
QB3 · USThe University of Melbourne · AUWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research · AU

Funding

A Synchrotron Radiation Structural Biology ResourcesP30GM133894 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Aina E. Cohen, KEITH O HODGSON · 2020 to 2026
$43.3M
The Autophagy Initiation ComplexesR01GM111730 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI HURLEY, JAMES H · 2014 to 2021
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM133894NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM111730
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The assembly of the autophagy initiation machinery nucleates autophagosome biogenesis, including in the PINK1- and Parkin-dependent mitophagy pathway implicated in Parkinson's disease. The structural interaction between the sole transmembrane autophagy protein, autophagy-related protein 9A (ATG9A), and components of the Unc-51-like autophagy activating kinase (ULK1) complex is one of the major missing links needed to complete a structural map of autophagy initiation. We determined the 2.4-Å x-ray crystallographic structure of the ternary structure of ATG9A carboxyl-terminal tail bound to the ATG13:ATG101 Hop1/Rev7/Mad2 (HORMA) dimer, which is part of the ULK1 complex. We term the interacting portion of the extreme carboxyl-terminal part of the ATG9A tail the "HORMA dimer-interacting region" (HDIR). This structure shows that the HDIR binds to the HORMA domain of ATG101 by β sheet complementation such that the ATG9A tail resides in a deep cleft at the ATG13:ATG101 interface. Disruption of this complex in cells impairs damage-induced PINK1/Parkin mitophagy mediated by the cargo receptor NDP52.

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Membrane ProteinsMitophagyAutophagy-Related ProteinsProtein KinasesUbiquitin-Protein LigasesAutophagy-Related ProteinsMembrane ProteinsProtein KinasesUbiquitin-Protein Ligases

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PMID36791199
PMCPMC9931213
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