Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, I-40126, Italy.
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, I-35121, Italy.
Cell Death Dis. 2023 Jan 23;14(1):54. doi: 10.1038/s41419-023-05572-y.
The mitochondrial protein IF1 binds to the catalytic domain of the ATP synthase and inhibits ATP hydrolysis in ischemic tissues. Moreover, IF1 is overexpressed in many tumors and has been shown to act as a pro-oncogenic protein, although its mechanism of action is still debated. Here, we show that ATP5IF1 gene disruption in HeLa cells decreases colony formation in soft agar and tumor mass development in xenografts, underlining the role of IF1 in cancer. Notably, the lack of IF1 does not affect proliferation or oligomycin-sensitive mitochondrial respiration, but it sensitizes the cells to the opening of the permeability transition pore (PTP). Immunoprecipitation and proximity ligation analysis show that IF1 binds to the ATP synthase OSCP subunit in HeLa cells under oxidative phosphorylation conditions. The IF1-OSCP interaction is confirmed by NMR spectroscopy analysis of the recombinant soluble proteins. Overall, our results suggest that the IF1-OSCP interaction protects cancer cells from PTP-dependent apoptosis under normoxic conditions.
线粒体蛋白 IF1 与 ATP 合酶的催化结构域结合,并抑制缺血组织中的 ATP 水解。此外,IF1 在许多肿瘤中过度表达,并已被证明具有致癌蛋白的作用,尽管其作用机制仍存在争议。在这里,我们表明在 HeLa 细胞中敲除 ATP5IF1 基因会减少软琼脂中的集落形成和异种移植中的肿瘤质量发展,强调了 IF1 在癌症中的作用。值得注意的是,缺乏 IF1 不会影响增殖或寡霉素敏感的线粒体呼吸,但它使细胞对通透性过渡孔 (PTP) 的开放敏感。免疫沉淀和接近连接分析表明,IF1 在 HeLa 细胞中在氧化磷酸化条件下与 ATP 合酶 OSCP 亚基结合。IF1-OSCP 相互作用通过重组可溶性蛋白的 NMR 光谱分析得到证实。总的来说,我们的研究结果表明,IF1-OSCP 相互作用在常氧条件下保护癌细胞免受 PTP 依赖性细胞凋亡。
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