bims-smemid Biomed News
on Stress metabolism in mitochondrial dysfunction
Issue of 2024‒03‒03
two papers selected by
Deepti Mudartha, The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines
  1. Translational response to mitochondrial stresses is orchestrated by tRNA modifications.
  2. ATF4-dependent increase in mitochondrial-endoplasmic reticulum tethering following OPA1 deletion in skeletal muscle.
  1. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 14. pii: 2024.02.14.580389. [Epub ahead of print]
    Translational response to mitochondrial stresses is orchestrated by tRNA modifications.
    Sherif Rashad, Shadi Al-Mesitef, Abdulrahman Mousa, Yuan Zhou, Daisuke Ando, Guangxin Sun, Tomoko Fukuuchi, Yuko Iwasaki, Jingdong Xiang, Shane R Byrne, Jingjing Sun, Masamitsu Maekawa, Daisuke Saigusa, Thomas J Begley, Peter C Dedon, Kuniyasu Niizuma.
      Mitochondrial stress and dysfunction play important roles in many pathologies. However, how cells respond to mitochondrial stress is not fully understood. Here, we examined the translational response to electron transport chain (ETC) inhibition and arsenite induced mitochondrial stresses. Our analysis revealed that during mitochondrial stress, tRNA modifications (namely f5C, hm5C, queuosine and its derivatives, and mcm5U) dynamically change to fine tune codon decoding, usage, and optimality. These changes in codon optimality drive the translation of many pathways and gene sets, such as the ATF4 pathway and selenoproteins, involved in the cellular response to mitochondrial stress. We further examined several of these modifications using targeted approaches. ALKBH1 knockout (KO) abrogated f5C and hm5C levels and led to mitochondrial dysfunction, reduced proliferation, and impacted mRNA translation rates. Our analysis revealed that tRNA queuosine (tRNA-Q) is a master regulator of the mitochondrial stress response. KO of QTRT1 or QTRT2, the enzymes responsible for tRNA-Q synthesis, led to mitochondrial dysfunction, translational dysregulation, and metabolic alterations in mitochondria-related pathways, without altering cellular proliferation. In addition, our analysis revealed that tRNA-Q loss led to a domino effect on various tRNA modifications. Some of these changes could be explained by metabolic profiling. Our analysis also revealed that utilizing serum deprivation or alteration with Queuine supplementation to study tRNA-Q or stress response can introduce various confounding factors by altering many other tRNA modifications. In summary, our data show that tRNA modifications are master regulators of the mitochondrial stress response by driving changes in codon decoding.
    Keywords:  Codon usage; Mitochondrial stress; Oxidative stress; Queuine; Queuosine; RNA modifications; mRNA translation; tRNA; tRNA modifications
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.14.580389
  2. J Cell Physiol. 2024 Feb 28.
    ATF4-dependent increase in mitochondrial-endoplasmic reticulum tethering following OPA1 deletion in skeletal muscle.
    Antentor Hinton, Prasanna Katti, Margaret Mungai, Duane D Hall, Olha Koval, Jianqiang Shao, Zer Vue, Edgar Garza Lopez, Rahmati Rostami, Kit Neikirk, Jessica Ponce, Jennifer Streeter, Brandon Schickling, Serif Bacevac, Chad Grueter, Andrea Marshall, Heather K Beasley, Young Do Koo, Sue C Bodine, Nayeli G Reyes Nava, Anita M Quintana, Long-Sheng Song, Isabella M Grumbach, Renata O Pereira, Brian Glancy, E Dale Abel.
      Mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contact sites (MERCs) are protein- and lipid-enriched hubs that mediate interorganellar communication by contributing to the dynamic transfer of Ca2+ , lipid, and other metabolites between these organelles. Defective MERCs are associated with cellular oxidative stress, neurodegenerative disease, and cardiac and skeletal muscle pathology via mechanisms that are poorly understood. We previously demonstrated that skeletal muscle-specific knockdown (KD) of the mitochondrial fusion mediator optic atrophy 1 (OPA1) induced ER stress and correlated with an induction of Mitofusin-2, a known MERC protein. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that Opa1 downregulation in skeletal muscle cells alters MERC formation by evaluating multiple myocyte systems, including from mice and Drosophila, and in primary myotubes. Our results revealed that OPA1 deficiency induced tighter and more frequent MERCs in concert with a greater abundance of MERC proteins involved in calcium exchange. Additionally, loss of OPA1 increased the expression of activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4), an integrated stress response (ISR) pathway effector. Reducing Atf4 expression prevented the OPA1-loss-induced tightening of MERC structures. OPA1 reduction was associated with decreased mitochondrial and sarcoplasmic reticulum, a specialized form of ER, calcium, which was reversed following ATF4 repression. These data suggest that mitochondrial stress, induced by OPA1 deficiency, regulates skeletal muscle MERC formation in an ATF4-dependent manner.
    Keywords:  activating transcription factor 4; endoplasmic reticulum; integrated stress response; interorganelle communication; mitochondria
    DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.31204
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