Aßent, Marvin: Novel Interactions of SYNPO2 in Skeletal and Smooth Muscles. - Bonn, 2024. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/12461,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-78696,
author = {{Marvin Aßent}},
title = {Novel Interactions of SYNPO2 in Skeletal and Smooth Muscles},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2024,
month = oct,

note = {Synaptopodin-2 (SYNPO2), a multiadapter protein from the synaptopodin family highly abundant in mammalian muscle cells, associates with Z-discs and dense bodies in skeletal and smooth muscle cells. It is involved in processes responsible for signaling, maintenance, and protein homeostasis. SYNPO2 interacts with a variety of proteins, including F-actin, alpha-actinin, filamin C, BAG3 and VPS18 of which the latter two link SYNPO2 to the CASA machinery and membrane vesicle trafficking.
In this work, the transcriptional coactivators YAP1 and TAZ were identified as novel interaction partners for two distinct structural elements of SYNPO2, its PDZ domain and its PPPY motif. Biochemical experiments were conducted to investigate the relationship between SYNPO2, YAP1/TAZ, and BAG3. These results demonstrate that SYNPO2 can act as a platform to constitute a ternary complex with BAG3 and YAP1/TAZ. Both, YAP1 and TAZ were found to independently bind to the PDZ domain and the PPPY motif of SYNPO2. Additional assays reveal YAP1 and TAZ to compete with BAG3 for binding to the PPPY motif, as BAG3 can displace YAP1 and TAZ.
Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays demonstrate that SYNPO2-YAP1 complexes localize to Z-discs and dense bodies in skeletal and smooth muscle cells, respectively. Furthermore, peptide binding assays and co-immunoprecipitations (co-IPs) performed in this thesis revealed that SYNPO2 phosphorylation near its PPPY motif not only affected a molecular switch of BAG3 to replace YAP1 at this site, but also indicated an impaired to abolished SYNPO2 targeting to the actin cytoskeleton in both, skeletal and smooth muscle cells. In addition, fluorescence microscopic analyses quantifying the fraction of nuclear YAP1 in skeletal muscle cells suggest the regulation of YAP1 activity to be mediated by overexpressing BAG3, but not SYNPO2. It is speculated that SYNPO2 may stabilize YAP1/TAZ in the cytoplasm along the Hippo signaling core axis, whereas may BAG3 promote their activation. Taken together, these findings provide new insights into a potential regulatory role of SYNPO2 for the Hippo signaling pathway proteins YAP1/TAZ and linking them to BAG3-mediated autophagy in skeletal muscle cells.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/12461}
}

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