The SAC1 phosphatase domain of synaptojanin-1 is activated by interacting with polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing phosphatidic acids.

Fumi Hoshino, Fumio Sakane

FEBS letters 2021 Oct

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Although there are many phosphatidic acid (PA) molecular species based on its fatty acyl compositions, their interacting partners have been poorly investigated. Here, we identified synaptojanin-1 (SYNJ1), Parkinson's disease-related protein that is essential for regulating clathrin-mediated synaptic vesicle endocytosis via dually dephosphorylating D5 and D4 position phosphates from phosphatidylinositol (PI) (4,5)-bisphosphate, as a 1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl (18:0/22:6)-PA-binding protein. SYNJ1 failed to substantially associate with other acidic phospholipids. Although SYNJ1 interacted with 18:0/20:4-PA in addition to 18:0/22:6-PA, the association of the enzyme with 16:0/16:0-, 16:0/18:1-, 18:0/18:0-, or 18:1/18:1-PA was not considerable. 18:0/20:4- and 18:0/22:6-PAs bound to SYNJ1 via its SAC1 domain, which preferentially hydrolyses D4 position phosphate. Moreover, 18:0/20:4- and 18:0/22:6-PA selectively enhanced the D4-phosphatase activity, but not the D5-phosphatase activity, of SYNJ1. © 2021 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

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Fumi Hoshino, Fumio Sakane. The SAC1 phosphatase domain of synaptojanin-1 is activated by interacting with polyunsaturated fatty acid-containing phosphatidic acids. FEBS letters. 2021 Oct;595(19):2479-2492