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Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration
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Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration
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Journal Article
Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration
2020
Overview
Rab-GTPases and associated effectors mediate cargo transport through the endomembrane system of eukaryotic cells, regulating key processes such as membrane turnover, signal transduction, protein recycling and degradation. Using developmental transcriptome data, we identified Rabgef1 (encoding the protein RabGEF1 or Rabex-5) as the only gene associated with Rab GTPases that exhibited strong concordance with retinal photoreceptor differentiation. Loss of Rabgef1 in mice ( Rabgef1 -/- ) resulted in defects specifically of photoreceptor morphology and almost complete loss of both rod and cone function as early as eye opening; however, aberrant outer segment formation could only partly account for visual function deficits. RabGEF1 protein in retinal photoreceptors interacts with Rabaptin-5, and RabGEF1 absence leads to reduction of early endosomes consistent with studies in other mammalian cells and tissues. Electron microscopy analyses reveal abnormal accumulation of macromolecular aggregates in autophagosome-like vacuoles and enhanced immunostaining for LC3A/B and p62 in Rabgef1 -/- photoreceptors, consistent with compromised autophagy. Transcriptome analysis of the developing Rabgef1 -/- retina reveals altered expression of 2469 genes related to multiple pathways including phototransduction, mitochondria, oxidative stress and endocytosis, suggesting an early trajectory of photoreceptor cell death. Our results implicate an essential role of the RabGEF1-modulated endocytic and autophagic pathways in photoreceptor differentiation and homeostasis. We propose that RabGEF1 and associated components are potential candidates for syndromic traits that include a retinopathy phenotype.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
/ Clathrin
/ Cytosol
/ Embryos
/ Female
/ Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors - genetics
/ Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors - metabolism
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Mice
/ Photoreceptor Cells - cytology
/ Photoreceptor Cells - metabolism
/ Proteins
/ Research and Analysis Methods
/ Retina
/ Retinal Degeneration - genetics
