PUBLICATION
Autophagy Is Required for Maturation of Surfactant-Containing Lamellar Bodies in the Lung and Swim Bladder
- Authors
- Morishita, H., Kanda, Y., Kaizuka, T., Chino, H., Nakao, K., Miki, Y., Taketomi, Y., Guan, J.L., Murakami, M., Aiba, A., Mizushima, N.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-201210-10
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- Cell Reports 33: 108477 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Mizushima, Noboru, Morishita, Hideaki
- Keywords
- autophagy, autophagy-related gene, lamellar body, lung, lysosome-related organelle, surfactant, swim bladder
- MeSH Terms
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- Air Sacs/metabolism*
- Air Sacs/pathology
- Alveolar Epithelial Cells/metabolism
- Animals
- Autophagy/physiology*
- Autophagy-Related Proteins/metabolism
- Autophagy-Related Proteins/physiology
- Epithelial Cells/metabolism
- Female
- Lung/metabolism*
- Lung/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Organelles/metabolism
- Pulmonary Surfactants/metabolism
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 33296658 Full text @ Cell Rep.
Citation
Morishita, H., Kanda, Y., Kaizuka, T., Chino, H., Nakao, K., Miki, Y., Taketomi, Y., Guan, J.L., Murakami, M., Aiba, A., Mizushima, N. (2020) Autophagy Is Required for Maturation of Surfactant-Containing Lamellar Bodies in the Lung and Swim Bladder. Cell Reports. 33:108477.
Abstract
Autophagy is an intracellular degradation system, but its physiological functions in vertebrates are not yet fully understood. Here, we show that autophagy is required for inflation of air-filled organs: zebrafish swim bladder and mouse lung. In wild-type zebrafish swim bladder and mouse lung type II pulmonary epithelial cells, autophagosomes are formed and frequently fuse with lamellar bodies. The lamellar body is a lysosome-related organelle that stores a phospholipid-containing surfactant complex that lines the air-liquid interface and reduces surface tension. We find that autophagy is critical for maturation of the lamellar body. Accordingly, atg-deficient zebrafish fail to maintain their position in the water, and type-II-pneumocyte-specific Fip200-deficient mice show neonatal lethality with respiratory failure. Autophagy suppression does not affect synthesis of the surfactant phospholipid, suggesting that autophagy supplies lipids and membranes to lamellar bodies. These results demonstrate an evolutionarily conserved role of autophagy in lamellar body maturation.
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