Key result
Actinin interacts with IGF2BP2 to localize electron transport chain transcripts, playing an essential role in metabolic responses to pathological sarcomere activation.
Why the study?
Actinins are strain-sensing actin cross-linkers that harbor mutations in human diseases, but their interactomes and functional crosstalk in human cardiomyocytes were incompletely understood.
The study uncovers a novel interaction between actinin and IGF2BP2 in cardiomyocytes, linking sarcomere function to oxidative metabolism and metabolic adaptation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Actinins are strain-sensing actin cross-linkers that are ubiquitously expressed and harbor mutations in human diseases. We utilize CRISPR, pluripotent stem cells, and BioID to study actinin interactomes in human cardiomyocytes. We identify 324 actinin proximity partners, including those that are dependent on sarcomere assembly. We confirm 19 known interactors and identify a network of RNA-binding proteins, including those with RNA localization functions. In vivo and biochemical interaction studies support that IGF2BP2 localizes electron transport chain transcripts to actinin neighborhoods through interactions between its K homology (KH) domain and actinin's rod domain. We combine alanine scanning mutagenesis and metabolic assays to disrupt and functionally interrogate actinin-IGF2BP2 interactions, which reveal an essential role in metabolic responses to pathological sarcomere activation using a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy model. This study expands our functional knowledge of actinin, uncovers sarcomere interaction partners, and reveals sarcomere crosstalk with IGF2BP2 for metabolic adaptation relevant to human disease.
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Ladha et al. (2021) studied Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (experimental model). Disruption of actinin-IGF2BP2 interactions was evaluated on Actinin proximity partners and metabolic responses. Actinin interacts with IGF2BP2 to localize electron transport chain transcripts, playing an essential role in metabolic responses to pathological sarcomere activation.
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