1. UBR4/POE facilitates secretory trafficking to maintain circadian clock synchrony.
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Hegazi, Sara, Cheng, Arthur H., Krupp, Joshua J., Tasaki, Takafumi, Liu, Jiashu, Szulc, Daniel A., Ling, Harrod H., Rios Garcia, Julian, Seecharran, Shavanie, Basiri, Tayebeh, Amiri, Mehdi, Anwar, Zobia, Ahmad, Safa, Nayal, Kamar, Sonenberg, Nahum, Liu, Bao-Hua, Cheng, Hai-Ling Margaret, Levine, Joel D., and Cheng, Hai-Ying Mary
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UBIQUITIN ligases ,SYNCHRONIC order ,PROTEOLYSIS ,GOLGI apparatus ,UBIQUITIN ,SIGNAL processing ,NEUROPEPTIDES ,NEUROPEPTIDE Y - Abstract
Ubiquitin ligases control the degradation of core clock proteins to govern the speed and resetting properties of the circadian pacemaker. However, few studies have addressed their potential to regulate other cellular events within clock neurons beyond clock protein turnover. Here, we report that the ubiquitin ligase, UBR4/POE, strengthens the central pacemaker by facilitating neuropeptide trafficking in clock neurons and promoting network synchrony. Ubr4-deficient mice are resistant to jetlag, whereas poe knockdown flies are prone to arrhythmicity, behaviors reflective of the reduced axonal trafficking of circadian neuropeptides. At the cellular level, Ubr4 ablation impairs the export of secreted proteins from the Golgi apparatus by reducing the expression of Coronin 7, which is required for budding of Golgi-derived transport vesicles. In summary, UBR4/POE fulfills a conserved and unexpected role in the vesicular trafficking of neuropeptides, a function that has important implications for circadian clock synchrony and circuit-level signal processing. Although ubiquitin ligases are known to control clock protein degradation, their other roles in clock neurons are unclear. Here the authors report that UBR4 promotes export of neuropeptides from the Golgi for axonal trafficking, which is important for circadian clock synchrony in mice and flies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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