Stress-primed secretory autophagy drives extracellular BDNF maturation
Martinelli, S.; Anderzhanova, E. A.; Wiechmann, S.; Dethloff, F.; Weckmann, K.; Bajaj, T.; Hartmann, J.; Hafner, K.; Poehlmann, M. L.; Jollans, L.; Maccarrone, G.; Hausch, F.; Turck, C. W.; Philipsen, A.; Schmidt, M. V.; Kuster, B.; Gassen, N. C.
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The stress response is an essential mechanism that strives to maintain homeostasis, and its disruption is implicated in several psychiatric disorders. As a cellular response to stressors, autophagy is activated to regulate homeostasis through protein degradation and recycling. Secretory autophagy is a recently described pathway where autophagosomes fuse with the plasma membrane rather than lysosomes. In this study, we demonstrate that glucocorticoid-mediated stress enhances secretory autophagy, via the stress-responsive co-chaperone FK506-binding protein 51. We identified the matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP9) as one of the stress-induced secreted proteins. Using cellular assays and in vivo microdialysis, we further found that stress-enhanced MMP9 secretion increases the cleavage of pro-brain derived neurotrophic factor (proBDNF) to its mature form. BDNF is essential for adult synaptic plasticity and its pathway is associated with major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. These findings unravel a novel mechanistic link between stress, stress adaptation and the development of psychiatric disorders, with possible therapeutic implications.
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