Mortalin (HSPA9) facilitates BRAF-mutant tumor cell survival by suppressing ANT3-mediated mitochondrial membrane permeability. Sci Signal 2020 Mar 10;13(622)
Date
03/12/2020Pubmed ID
32156782Pubmed Central ID
PMC7099430DOI
10.1126/scisignal.aay1478Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85081677231 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 26 CitationsAbstract
Mortalin [also known as heat shock protein family A (HSP70) member 9 (HSPA9) or glucose-regulated protein 75 (GRP75)] is a mitochondrial molecular chaperone that is often up-regulated and mislocalized in tumors with abnormal activation of the kinases MEK and ERK. Here, we found that mortalin depletion was selectively lethal to tumor and immortalized normal cells expressing the mutant kinase B-RafV600E or the chimeric protein ΔRaf-1:ER and that MEK-ERK-sensitive regulation of the peptide-binding domain in mortalin was critical to cell survival or death. Proteomics screening identified adenine nucleotide translocase 3 (ANT3) as a previously unknown mortalin substrate and cell survival/death effector. Mechanistically, increased MEK-ERK signaling activity and mortalin function converged opposingly on the regulation of mitochondrial permeability. Specifically, whereas MEK-ERK activity increased mitochondrial permeability by promoting the interaction between ANT3 and the peptidyl-prolyl isomerase cyclophilin D (CypD), mortalin decreased mitochondrial permeability by inhibiting this interaction. Hence, mortalin depletion increased mitochondrial permeability in MEK-ERK-deregulated cells to an extent that triggered cell death. HSP70 inhibitor derivatives that effectively inhibited mortalin suppressed the proliferation of B-RafV600E tumor cells in culture and in vivo, including their B-Raf inhibitor-resistant progenies. These findings suggest that targeting mortalin has potential as a selective therapeutic strategy in B-Raf-mutant or MEK-ERK-driven tumors.
Author List
Wu PK, Hong SK, Chen W, Becker AE, Gundry RL, Lin CW, Shao H, Gestwicki JE, Park JIAuthors
Chien-Wei Lin PhD Associate Professor in the Data Science Institute department at Medical College of WisconsinJong-In Park PhD Professor in the Biochemistry department at Medical College of Wisconsin
MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Adenine Nucleotide Translocator 3Cell Line, Tumor
HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
Humans
Mitochondria
Mitochondrial Membranes
Mitochondrial Proteins
Mutation
Neoplasms
Permeability
Proto-Oncogene Proteins B-raf
