VAPB-mediated ER-targeting stabilizes IRS-1 signalosomes to regulate insulin/IGF signaling

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The scaffold protein IRS-1 is an essential node in insulin/IGF signaling. It has long been recognized that the stability of IRS-1 is dependent on its endomembrane targeting. However, how IRS-1 targets the intracellular membrane, and what type of intracellular membrane is actually targeted, remains poorly understood. Here, we found that the phase separation-mediated IRS-1 puncta attached to endoplasmic reticulum (ER). VAPB, an ER-anchored protein that mediates tethers between ER and membranes of other organelles, was identified as a direct interacting partner of IRS-1. VAPB mainly binds active IRS-1 because IGF-1 enhanced the VAPB-IRS-1 association and replacing of the nine tyrosine residues of YXXM motifs disrupted the VAPB-IRS-1 association. We further delineated that the Y745 and Y746 residues in the FFAT-like motif of IRS-1 mediated the association with VAPB. Notably, VAPB targeted IRS-1 to the ER and subsequently maintained its stability. Consistently, ablation of VAPB in mice led to downregulation of IRS-1, suppression of insulin signaling, and glucose intolerance. The amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-derived VAPB P56S mutant also impaired IRS-1 stability by interfering with the ER-tethering of IRS-1. Our findings thus revealed a previously unappreciated condensate-membrane contact (CMC), by which VAPB stabilizes the membraneless IRS-1 signalosome through targeting it to ER membrane.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

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Cell discovery - 9(2023), 1 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 83

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Englisch

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Gao, Xiu Kui [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Zu Kang [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Ye Hong [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yu Ting [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Xi Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Lin Jing [VerfasserIn]
Cong, Xiao Xia [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Xiao [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Hao Bo [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Man [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Jian-Sheng [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Liang Jun [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Li Ling [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Yi Ting [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 04.08.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41421-023-00576-6

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NLM360278612