
Alix/AIP1 is a multifunctional adaptor protein that participates in basic cellular processes, including membrane trafficking and actin cytoskeleton assembly, by binding selectively to a variety of partner proteins. However, the mechanisms regulating Alix turnover, subcellular distribution, and function in muscle cells are unknown. We now report that Alix is expressed in skeletal muscle throughout myogenic differentiation. In myotubes, a specific pool of Alix colocalizes with Ozz, the substrate-binding component of the muscle-specific ubiquitin ligase complex Ozz-E3. We found that interaction of the two endogenous proteins in the differentiated muscle fibers changes Alix conformation and promotes its ubiquitination. This in turn regulates the levels of the protein in specific subcompartments, in particular the one containing the actin polymerization factor cortactin. In Ozz(-/-) myotubes, the levels of filamentous (F)-actin is perturbed, and Alix accumulates in large puncta positive for cortactin. In line with this observation, we show that the knockdown of Alix expression in C2C12 muscle cells affects the amount and distribution of F-actin, which consequently leads to changes in cell morphology, impaired formation of sarcolemmal protrusions, and defective cell motility. These findings suggest that the Ozz-E3 ligase regulates Alix at sites where the actin cytoskeleton undergoes remodeling.
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Ozz-E3, Skeletal Muscle, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases, Muscle Fibers, Skeletal, Cell Migration, Cell Line, Skeletal Muscle Cells, F-actin, Mice, Cell Movement, Two-Hybrid System Techniques, Cell Adhesion, Animals, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Pseudopodia, Muscle, Skeletal, Mice, Knockout, Settore BIO/16 - Anatomia Umana, Calcium-Binding Proteins, Ubiquitination, Myogenesis, Ubiquitin-Protein Ligase Complexes, Repressor Proteins, Actin Cytoskeleton, Protein Transport, Alix, Cell Migration, Myogenesis, Skeletal Muscle, Ubiquitin Ligase, Ubiquitination, Alix, F-actin, Ozz-E3, Ubiquitin Ligase, Skeletal Muscle Cells, Ubiquitin Ligase, extracellular vesicles, Cortactin, Protein Binding
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