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Analysis of Autophagic Activity Using ATG8 Lipidation Assay in Arabidopsis thaliana

通过分析ATG8脂化解析拟南芥的自噬活性

ML Mengqian Luo
XZ Xiaohong Zhuang

发布: 2018年06月20日第8卷第12期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2880 浏览次数: 8508

评审: Zhibing LaiYasin DagdasAnonymous reviewer(s)

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Abstract

As a fundamental metabolic pathway to degrade and recycle cellular cargos, autophagy is highly induced upon stress, starvation and senescence conditions in plants. A double-membrane structure named autophagosome will form during this process for cargo sequestration and delivery into the vacuole.

A number of regulators have been characterized in plants, including the autophagy-related (ATG) proteins and other plant-specific proteins. Among them, ATG8 will undergo a lipidation process to become a membrane-bound ATG8-phosphatidylethanolamine form and mark the growing autophagosomal membrane as well as the completed autophagosome. Therefore, ATG8 has been regarded as a marker for autophagosomes; and biochemical detection of the membrane-associated form of ATG8 is used as one of the principal methods for measurement of autophagic activity. Here, we describe an ATG8 lipidation assay for detection of the ATG8-PE form using Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings.

Keywords: ATG8 (ATG8) search ATG8-PE (ATG8-PE) search Lipidation (脂化) search Autophagy (自噬) search Autophagosome (自噬体) search

Background

Autophagy is an essential metabolic process which mediates the bulk degradation of the damaged organelles and unwanted cellular contents. During autophagy, a double-membrane structure called autophagosome will form and deliver the cargos into the vacuole for degradation. The autophagy-related (ATG) proteins are required to regulate the autophagic activity (Liu and Bassham, 2012). Among them, two conjugation systems, including ATG8 conjugate and ATG5-ATG12 conjugate, are involved for autophagosome formation. Upon autophagic induction, the ATG5-ATG12 conjugate forms and functions as an E3-like enzyme to promote ATG8 lipidation for binding to the phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) on the autophagosome membrane (Ohsumi, 2001). Although ATG8-PE on the outer membrane will be recycled before the autophagosome fusion with the vacuole, ATG8-PE on inner membrane will traffic together with the cargo into the vacuole for degradation. Thus, the amount of ATG8-PE usually correlates with the number of punctate ATG8-positive structures as well as autophagic activity (Mizushima et al., 2010). Particularly, due to the high hydrophobicity of ATG8-PE, ATG8-PE migrates faster than ATG8 in SDS-PAGE gel, though the actual molecular weight of ATG8-PE is larger than the unconjugated ATG8 (Mizushima and Yoshimori, 2007). Accordingly, the amount of ATG8-PE from cell membrane fraction (CM) can be detected by immunoblotting with ATG8 antibodies. For example, in Arabidopsis atg5 mutant, the level of ATG8-PE is severely impaired upon autophagic induction, whereas no autophagosome structures labeled by ATG8 are formed (Chung et al., 2010). Therefore, biochemical detection of the ATG8 lipidation can serve as a useful method to access the autophagic activity when combined with different treatments, which has been applied in our previous study as well as others related to plant autophagy (Chung et al., 2010; Suttangkakul et al., 2011; Li et al., 2014; Zhuang et al., 2017). Here, we describe the protocol for ATG8 lipidation detection by ultracentrifuge separation of the membrane and cytosol fractions using acibenzolar-S-methyl (BTH)-treated seedlings (Zhuang et al., 2017).

Materials and Reagents

  1. 10 µl pipette tips (Thermo Fisher Scientific, catalog number: 3510 )
  2. 200 µl pipette tips (Wolf Laboratories, catalog number: 2100.YN )
  3. 1,000 µl pipette tips (Thermo Fisher Scientific, catalog number: 3580 )
  4. 1.5 ml microcentrifuge tubes (Corning, Axygen®, catalog number: MCT-150-C )
  5. PVDF membrane
  6. X-ray film (Advansta, catalog number: L-07014-100 )
  7. 5-day-old seedlings
  8. MS salt (Caisson, catalog number: MSP01-50LT )
  9. UltraPureTM Sucrose (Thermo Fisher Scientific, InvitrogenTM, catalog number: 15503022 )
  10. BTH (Acibenzolar-S-methyl) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: 32820 ) 
  11. Methanol (VWR, BDH, catalog number: 10158 )
  12. Liquid nitrogen 
  13. PIC (Protease Inhibitor Mixture) (Roche Diagnostics, catalog number: 11873580001 )
  14. Tris Base (Caisson, catalog number: T041-1KG )
  15. NaCl (Alfa Aesar, USB, catalog number: J21618 )
  16. EDTA (Alfa Aesar, USB, catalog number: J15701 )
  17. SDS (Sodium dodecyl sulfate) (Alfa Aesar, USB, catalog number: J75819 )
  18. Triton X-100 (GE Healthcare, Amerrsham, catalog number: 17-1315-01 )
  19. Glycerol ultrapure (Alfa Aesar, USB, catalog number: J16374 )
  20. Bromophenol Blue (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: B5525 )
  21. β-mercaptoethanol (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: M3148 )
  22. Urea (Alfa Aesar, USB, catalog number: J75826 )
  23. 40% Acrylamide/Bis Solution (Bio-Rad Laboratories, catalog number: 161-0148 )
  24. TEMED (Bio-Rad Laboratories, catalog number: 161-0801 )
  25. APS (Ammonium persulfate) (USB, catalog number: US76322 )
  26. Non-fat milk powder
  27. ATG8 antibody (Agrisera, catalog number: AS14 2769 )
  28. cFBPase (Agrisera, catalog number: AS04 043 )
  29. Secondary antibody (Anti-rabbit IgG peroxidase conjugate, Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: A6154 ) 
  30. Precision Plus ProteinTM Dual Color Standards (Bio-Rad Laboratories, catalog number: 161-0374 )
  31. Sodium hydrogen carbonate (NaHCO3) (VWR, catalog number: 144-55-8 )
  32. Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) (USB, catalog number: 21602 ) 
  33. Sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate (NaH2PO4·H2O) (USB, catalog number: 20233 )
  34. Sodium phosphate dibasic dihydrate (Na2HPO4·2H2O) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: 04272 )
  35. Potassium chloride (KCl) (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: 31248 )
  36. Tween-20 (Sigma-Aldrich, catalog number: 63158 )
  37. MS liquid medium (see Recipes)
  38. 10 mM BTH stock (see Recipes)
  39. 25x PIC (see Recipes)
  40. 10% (v/v) Triton X-100 (see Recipes)
  41. 1 M Tris-HCl stock (pH 6.8 or pH 7.4) (see Recipes)
  42. 0.5 M EDTA (pH 8.0) (see Recipes)
  43. 5x extraction buffer (see Recipes)
  44. 1x extraction buffer containing 1x PIC and 1% (v/v) Triton X-100 (see Recipes)
  45. 5x sample loading dye (see Recipes)
  46. 30% APS (see Recipes)
  47. 3x separation buffer (see Recipes)
  48. 5x stacking buffer (see Recipes)
  49. 15% SDS-PAGE gel with 6 M urea (see Recipes)
    1. 15% Urea separating gel
    2. 5% Stacking gel
  50. Running buffer (see Recipes)
  51. Transfer buffer (see Recipes)
  52. PBS (see Recipes) 
  53. PBS-T (see Recipes)

Equipment

  1. Eppendorf Research® plus Pipette 0.5-10 µl (Eppendorf, catalog number: 3120000020 )
  2. Eppendorf Research® plus Pipette 10-100 µl (Eppendorf, catalog number: 3120000046 )
  3. Eppendorf Research® plus Pipette 100-1,000 µl (Eppendorf, catalog number: 3120000062 )
  4. Mortar and pestle
  5. Centrifuge (Eppendorf, model: 5430 )
  6. X-ray film cassette (Amersham Biosciences HypercassetteTM)
  7. Ultracentrifuge tube (7 x 20 mm)
  8. Ultracentrifuge (Beckman Coulter, model: OptimaTM MAX-XP )
  9. Western Blotting apparatus (Bio-Rad)
  10. Developer machine (Fujifilm FPM100A)

Procedure

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Luo, M. and Zhuang, X. (2018). Analysis of Autophagic Activity Using ATG8 Lipidation Assay in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bio-protocol 8(12): e2880. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2880.

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