key: cord-257754-pqxkyg8z authors: Reggiori, Fulvio title: Membrane Origin for Autophagy date: 2006-07-21 journal: Curr Top Dev Biol DOI: 10.1016/s0070-2153(06)74001-7 sha: doc_id: 257754 cord_uid: pqxkyg8z Autophagy is a degradative transport route conserved among all eukaryotic organisms. During starvation, cytoplasmic components are randomly sequestered into large double‐membrane vesicles called autophagosomes and delivered into the lysosome/vacuole where they are destroyed. Cells are able to modulate autophagy in response to their needs, and under certain circumstances, cargoes, such as aberrant protein aggregates, organelles, and bacteria can be selectively and exclusively incorporated into autophagosomes. As a result, this pathway plays an active role in many physiological processes, and it is induced in numerous pathological situations because of its ability to rapidly eliminate unwanted structures. Despite the advances in understanding the functions of autophagy and the identification of several factors, named Atg proteins that mediate it, the mechanism that leads to autophagosome formation is still a mystery. A major challenge in unveiling this process arises from the fact that the origin and the transport mode of the lipids employed to compose these structures is unknown. This compendium will review and analyze the current data about the possible membrane source(s) with a particular emphasis on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the leading model organism for the study of autophagosome biogenesis, and on mammalian cells. The information acquired investigating the pathogens that subvert autophagy in order to replicate in the host cells will also be discussed because it could provide important hints for solving this mystery. In eukaryotic cells, the principal locations where protein catabolism occurs are the proteasome and the lysosome. The proteasome mostly recognizes and degrades cytosolic factors that have been specifically marked with polyubiquitin chains (Roos-Mattjus and Sistonen, 2004) . The lysosome in contrast, requires active transport in order for the diVerent substrates destined for elimination to reach its interior where the proteases are located. Four diVerent pathways can deliver intracellular proteins into the lysosome lumen: endosomal transport routes, chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), microautophagy, and macroautophagy, the latter generally referred to as autophagy Katzmann et al., 2002; Klionsky, 2004; Majeski and Dice, 2004) . The endosomal transport routes and CMA are mostly devoted to the transport of polypeptides, whereas microautophagy and autophagy deliver other cellular constituents because these pathways are the only ones able to internalize entire organelles and bacteria. Eukaryotes, in particular fungi, can use microautophagy to eliminate peroxisomes and is the only cellular function that has indisputably been assigned to this pathway . Autophagy, on the other hand, can deliver various cargoes to the lysosome interior and has multiple physiological roles. The hallmark of this catabolic pathway is the sequestration of cargoes by large cytosolic double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . The autophagosomes successively dock and fuse with mammalian lysosomes or the yeast and plant vacuoles releasing the inner vesicles into the lumen of these organelles (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . The biogenesis and consumption of these structures can be divided into six discrete steps: induction, expansion, vesicle completion, docking, fusion, and breakdown ( Fig. 1 ). Autophagosomes are generated by the elongation of a small template membrane, termed the isolation membrane or phagophore (Fengsrud et al., 2004; Mizushima et al., 2001; Noda et al., 2002; Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . There are several of these structures per cell but it still remains unknown where they are derived from. The surface of this small compartment is decorated with Atg5 and Atg16, and its formation requires phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns)-3-kinase activity (Mizushima et al., , 2003 . There are two ways of triggering the expansion of the isolation membrane, and they diVer depending if the process of autophagy is selective or nonselective (Section I.B) (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . When this Figure 1 Conceptual model for autophagy. The basic mechanism of autophagy is the sequestration of the cargo material (bulk cytoplasm, protein aggregates, organelles, or pathogens) by a cytosolic double-membrane vesicle named an autophagosome. Extracellular stimuli or the recognition of a specific intracellular cargo induce the expansion of the isolation membrane. Upon vesicle completion, the autophagosome docks with the lysosome/vacuole and successively fuses with it. In this way the inner vesicle is liberated inside the vacuole where it is finally consumed together with the cargo by resident hydrolases. This schematic represents nonspecific autophagy and does not show specific types of autophagy including the Cvt pathway. pathway is selective, the binding to the isolation membrane of the cargo that has to be specifically eliminated (or in the case of resident hydrolases, activated) leads to the expansion of this structure (Ogawa et al., 2005; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004b) . In contrast to selective autophagy, which is induced by intracellular components, the nonselective process is governed by extracellular stimuli such as nutrients or cytokines (Gutierrez et al., 2004; Lum et al., 2005; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004a) . In both cases, covalent conjugation of the ubiquitin-like Atg12-Atg5 seems to be the step that initiates the expansion of the isolation membrane . The expansion of the isolation membrane is basically the simultaneous elongation and nucleation of this little cisterna (Fig. 1) . It is not known how the Atg12-Atg5 complex recruits additional membranes, but the crescent autophagosome acquires more Atg12-Atg5 and Atg16 along with a second ubiquitin-like molecule, Atg8/LC3, that is unconventionally linked to phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and probably the rest of the Atg proteins (Mizushima et al., , 2003 . Two expansion mechanisms are possible, one that relies on delivery of lipid bilayer by vesicular traYc (vesicular expansion) and one based on the fusion of small compartments (cisternal expansion) (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . In addition, it has been suggested that retrograde traYc balances double-membrane vesicle biogenesis by recycling some Atg proteins, such as Atg9, and also recovering from the forming autophagosome membrane components specific to the compartment(s) of origin (Meiling-Wesse et al., 2005; Nazarko et al., 2005; Nice et al., 2002; Reggiori et al., 2003 Reggiori et al., , 2004a . When the two extremities of the forming autophagosomes reach each other, they fuse together sealing the vesicle (Fig. 1 ). This fusion event, at least in yeast, appears to be SNARE-independent and triggers an uncoating reaction where the externally localized components dissociate from the vesicle surface (Ishihara et al., 2001; Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005; Reggiori et al., 2004b) . In particular, the ubiquitin-like protein Atg8-PE is proteolytically released from its lipid moiety by the Atg4 protease, whereas the transmembrane protein Atg9 is completely retrieved (Kirisako et al., 1999; Reggiori et al., 2004a) . It is still unknown which factor senses completion of the double-membrane vesicle and initiates this disassembly. Once uncoated, the double-membrane vesicle docks with the lysosomes/ vacuoles (Fig. 1) . In mammalian cells, this association is facilitated by microtubules and seems to require dynein whereas in yeast it is independent of these structures (Aplin et al., 1992; Fengsrud et al., 1995; Kirisako et al., 1999; Punnonen and Reunanen, 1990; Ravikumar et al., 2005; Webb et al., 2004) . The fusion between the autophagosome and the lysosome/ vacuole occurs as soon as these organelles dock and it is mediated by a set of proteins also used for other fusion reactions with the lysosome/vacuole (Section I.C). During this event, the external membrane of the autophagosome becomes part of the lysosome/vacuole surface whereas the inner autophagosomal vesicle is liberated in the interior of this organelle and now called an autophagic body (Fig. 1) . The limiting membrane of the autophagic body is immediately attacked and consumed by resident lysosomal/vacuolar hydrolases allowing these enzymes to gain access to the content of this vesicle. As a result, the cargoes are also degraded into their basic constituents (or in the case of certain resident hydrolases, processed to their active form; Fig. 1 ). Autophagy has been known for a long time as an adaptation response to starvation and as the major factor in the turnover of long-lived proteins. But in recent years, it has become evident that autophagy plays an active role in several other physiological tasks highlighting its versatility and adaptability. We now know that this catabolic pathway participates in cellular processes such as development, cellular diVerentiation and rearrangement, elimination of aberrant structures, lifespan extension, MHC class II presentation of cytoplasmic antigens, and type II programmed cell death, as well as protecting against pathogens (both viruses and bacteria) and tumors (Cuervo et al., 2005; Debnath et al., 2005; Deretic, 2005; Thompson, 2003, 2004; Kirkegaard et al., 2004; Komatsu et al., 2005; Kondo et al., 2005; Levine and Klionsky, 2004; Paludan et al., 2005; Rubinsztein et al., 2005; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004a) . As a result, this degradative transport route plays a relevant role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, muscular, and autoimmune diseases, and some malignancies Thompson, 2003, 2004; Kondo et al., 2005; Rubinsztein et al., 2005; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004a; Towns et al., 2005 ). Autophagy provides one eVective way to adjust and cope with these various situations by rapidly delivering large fractions of the cytoplasm, aberrant protein aggregates, superfluous or damaged organelles, and invading pathogens into the lysosome/vacuole interior where they are destroyed by resident hydrolases (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . The adaptability of this pathway is due to its ability to select specific cargoes when forced by circumstances. It has been believed for a long time that autophagy was a nonspecific process because when induced by starvation, cytoplasmic components and organelles were randomly sequestered into autophagosomes; however, this pathway can also be selective (Table I) (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2005) . In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, for example, aminopeptidase I (Ape1) and -mannosidase (Ams1) form a large oligomer that is unconventionally delivered from the cytoplasm directly to the vacuole interior through a process known as the cytoplasm to vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway (Kim et al., 1997; Shintani et al., 2002) . This transport route is specific and biosynthetic. Precursor Ape1 (prApe1) is packed into double-membrane vesicles called Cvt vesicles, which are four to eight times smaller in surface area than autophagosomes Scott et al., 1997) . In the same organism, dysfunctional mitochondria are preferentially eliminated by autophagy (mitophagy) as well as superfluous peroxisomes (pexophagy) ( Table I) (Hutchins et al., 1999; Priault et al., 2005) . The specific sequestration of peroxisomes into double-membrane vesicles and their subsequent degradation has also been very well described in other fungi such as Pichia pastoris, Hansenula polymorpha, and Yarrowia lipolytica . Mammalian cells on the other hand, seem not to possess a transport route similar to the Cvt pathway, but there are indications that mitophagy could occur (Bota and Davies, 2001; Elmore et al., 2001; Rodriguez-Enriquez et al., 2006) . Pexophagy has also been report ed (Lui ken et al. , 1992 ; Yokota , 1993; Yoko ta et al. , 1994 ) . It has lately been shown that autophagy can be selective in mammalian cells as The diVerent types of selective autophagy, their specific cargoes, and the organisms that have been described are indicated. 6 Fulvio Reggiori well, as evidenced by the specific recognition and disposal of invading bacteria and potentially also of intracellular viruses (Table I) (Deretic, 2005; Kirkegaard et al., 2004; Levine, 2005) . In addition, a study analyzing conditional knock-out mice defective for autophagy has revealed that the mutant animal accumulates numerous ubiquitinated aggregates in the cytosol, suggesting that this covalent protein modification could serve to specifically target to autophagosomes large structures that have to be eliminated (Komatsu et al., 2005) . The process of autophagy has been known for at least 40 years, but because none of the specific components involved in this pathway were known, the studies about this degradative transport route were limited to morphological and phenomenological observations. In the last 15 years, genetic screens, mostly in the yeast S. cerevisiae and fungi such as P. pastoris and H. polymorpha, have lead to the isolation of 18 genes termed AuTophaGyrelated (ATG) genes whose products are specifically involved in this catabolic pathway (Table II) (Klionsky, 2004; Klionsky et al., 2003) . The extent of the conservation of this pathway between eukaryotes was first revealed by comparing the genomes once various sequencing projects were completed (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2002) . It became immediately evident that most of the ATG genes had one or more homologs in higher eukaryotic organisms. The cellular role of some of them has now been explored and in all the analyzed cases, it has been demonstrated that the homologs function as orthologs (Table II) (Levine and Klionsky, 2004; Reggiori and Klionsky, 2002) . The same genetic approaches have also led to the discovery of nine ATG genes dispensable for bulk autophagy but essential for the Cvt pathway and/ or pexophagy (Table III) . Their products are mostly involved in cargo selection and the final sealing of the double-membrane vesicle, indicating that additional components are required for the autophagosomes to be able to enwrap specific cargoes. It is important to note that these genes involved in specific types of autophagy do not have clear homologs in higher eukaryotes sustaining the idea that the Cvt pathway and pexophagy are probably only present in fungi (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2002) . In addition to the Atg proteins, the genetic screens in yeast have also permitted the identification of additional components required for the normal progression of autophagy that are shared with other intracellular transport routes (Table IV) . The function of several of these factors in the other pathways was already known and that has helped in clarifying the mechanism of autophagy. For example, yeast vacuoles can fuse with late 1. Membrane Origin for Autophagy . In all these cases, cells use an identical fusion machinery, which consists of SNARE proteins, Sec18 (NSF), Sec17 (-SNAP), a Rab-GTPase, and the class C Vps protein complex also known as the HOPS complex. The same components have also been found to be exploited for the fusion of double-membrane vesicles (Table IV) (Reggiori and Klionsky, 2002; Wang et al., 2003) . Similarly, it is also now evident that the dissolution of autophagic bodies is mediated by the same hydrolases that degrades the a In S. cerevisiae, these proteins also catalyze the retrieval transport from early endosomes. b Atg21 is not required for pexophagy in S. cerevisiae but is essential for the same process in H. polymorpha. c These factors have no counterparts in S. cerevisiae or the homologs do not have a role in pexophagy. ? One report has indicated that Atg21 is essential for pexophagy, another affirms that Atg21 is not required for this process. MVB internal vesicles once these are released into the vacuole lumen (Table IV) (Epple et al., 2003; Reggiori and Klionsky, 2002) . Most of the Atg components are peripheral membrane proteins that transiently associate with the nascent autophagosomes. In contrast to mammalian cells where several isolation membranes can be simultaneously activated, a single perivacuolar site of organization for double-membrane vesicle formation (named the pre-autophagosomal structure, PAS) is observed in the yeast S. cerevisiae (Kim et al., 2002; Suzuki et al., 2001) . The PAS is believed to be the yeast counterpart of a mammalian isolation membrane and in this unicellular eukaryote, most of the Atg proteins appear to be primarily restricted to this location. This unique site seems also to be present in H. polymorpha (Monastyrska et al., 2005a,b) . In P. pastoris, however, several Atg components are distributed to more than one punctate structure (Ano et al., 2005; Chang et al., 2005; Kim et al., 2001b; Mukaiyama et al., 2004; Stromhaug et al., 2001) . It is unclear if this represents a diVerence between organisms or is due to diVerent growth conditions. P. pastoris is mostly used for the study of pexophagy and therefore grown in special media containing carbon sources that induce peroxisome proliferation. It is unclear where the PAS is derived from and at which point it becomes membranous. The study of the Cvt pathway has provided insights into how this structure is generated. After synthesis, prApe1 forms a large oligomer that first associates with the Atg19 cargo receptor and then with the Atg11 adaptor to form the Cvt complex (Shintani et al., 2002) . This large cytosolic protein aggregate then moves in close proximity to the vacuole surface, where it induces the recruitment of the rest of the Atg factors, triggering the formation of the Cvt vesicle Yorimitsu and Klionsky, 2005) . Neither the PAS nor the vesicles are eYciently formed in the absence of any of the Cvt complex components, indicating that the cargo stimulates the biogenesis of these structures . This requirement is overcome when cells are nitrogen-starved (Kim et al., 2001b; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004b) . Because of its dynamic properties, the PAS should not be seen as a static or defined organelle but more as a structure in constant remodeling. It remains unclear at which stage and how membranes are transported at the PAS, but because of their association with lipid bilayers, two proteins, Atg8 and Atg9, could be important for dissecting this event. Atg8 is a soluble ubiquitin-like protein and its carboxy-terminal arginine is removed by the Atg4 cysteine protease leaving a glycine residue at the new carboxy terminus (Kim et al., 2001a; Kirisako et al., 2000) . Atg8 is activated by the E1 enzyme Atg7 through a thioester bond between its carboxyterminal glycine and cysteine 507 of Atg7 (Kim et al., 1999; Kirisako et al., 2000; Komatsu et al., 2001) . Atg8 is subsequently transferred to the E2 enzyme Atg3 via a new thioester bond between these two proteins Kim et al., 2001a) . Atg8 is finally covalently conjugated to a PE molecule, becoming tightly membrane associated . This linkage is reversible because Atg8 can be proteolitically released from its lipid moiety by Atg4, an event that takes place once the double-membrane vesicles are completed (Section I.A.3) (Kirisako et al., 1999; Reggiori et al., 2004a) . It is unclear where the Atg8 conjugation to PE occurs. This protein is normally lipidated in mutants unable to form the PAS indicating that this modification takes place at a diVerent subcellular location (Suzuki et al., 1. Membrane Origin for Autophagy 2001) . This is supported by the fact that Atg8-PE localizes to the PAS but also to tiny cytosolic vesicles (Kirisako et al., 1999) . These data, however, do not exclude the possibility that Atg8-PE conjugates are formed at the PAS as well. The association of Atg8-PE with membranes prior to getting concentrated at the PAS suggests that the Atg8-PE structures could be at least in part the source of autophagosome lipid bilayers. This idea is supported by the observation that in the absence of Atg8, membranes fail to be delivered to the PAS and therefore the size of autophagosomes is strongly reduced (Abeliovich et al., 2000; Kirisako et al., 1999; Lang et al., 1998) . It remains a mystery where the tiny Atg8-PE containing vesicles are derived from, but one possibility is that that they originate from early compartments of the secretory pathway, for example, the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and/or the Golgi apparatus. This hypothesis is based on two experimental findings. First, Atg8 binds two vSNAREs required for both anterograde and retrograde transport between the ER and Golgi apparatus . Second, this ubiquitin homolog has been detected on autophagosome-like structures derived from the Golgi complex and/or ER (Section II.D.2) (Reggiori et al., 2004b) . Atg9 is the only integral membrane protein essential for double-membrane vesicle formation . This protein is probably transported to the PAS with at least part of the lipids or lipid bilayers required to create this structure. This notion is corroborated by the fact that the totality of Atg9 is associated with membranes Reggiori et al., 2005b) . Atg9 cycles between the PAS and several unknown punctate structures dispersed in the cytosol supporting the idea that it could partially supply the forming autophagosomes with membranes (Reggiori et al., 2004a) . A fraction of these punctate structures are Atg9 aggregates residing on the mitochondria surface (Reggiori et al., 2005b) . This suggests that this organelle could provide the nascent autophagosomes with at least part of its lipid bilayers. However, it cannot be excluded that Atg9 traYcking carries out other functions. Under certain conditions, autophagy becomes one of the principal sources of energy for the cell (Kuma et al., 2004; Lum et al., 2005) . Because the mitochondria provide the other primary supply of energy, one could imagine that Atg9 is used to coordinate the two sources. The sorting mechanism for Atg9 transit from mitochondria to the PAS is unknown, but under growing conditions this event is induced by Cvt complex assembly and requires actin (Reggiori et al., 2005a; Shintani and Klionsky, 2004b) . In contrast, the retrieval transport of this transmembrane protein from the PAS has been characterized in more detail and shown to be regula ted by the Atg1-At g13 signal ing complex and requ ires Atg2, Atg 18, and the PtdIns -3-phosp hate generat ed by the Atg14con taining Ptd Ins 3-kinase complex ( Reggiori et al. , 2004 a) . This recycl ing eve nt, howeve r, seems to be to some extent di Verentl y organiz ed in P. pasto ris dur ing micro pexoph agy, possibly because other membr ano us struc tures a re used an d assem bled in a di Verent way during this invaginati on pro cess ( Chang et al. , 2005 ) . An initial analys is concerning the role of yeast early secretion (sec ) mutant s in autoph agy has reveal ed that several of them are essent ial for autop hagosome form ation (Ishiha ra et al. , 2001 ) . This class of genes is involved in trans port out of the ER (Kais er an d Schekman, 1990 ). Successi ve studi es, howeve r, have shown that these mutant s ha ve an indir ect negati ve e Vect on both the Cvt pa thway and au tophagy ( Hama saki et al. , 2003; Reggiori et al. , 2004b ) . One possibl e explanation of their phe notype is that they alter the ER morpho logy and con sequently impair severa l function s of this organel le, includi ng the put ative one to supp ly membra nes for doublemembr ane vesic le formati on. For example, the ER is structural ly connected wi th the mitoc hondria and the disruption of the ER organ ization in the early sec mutant s causes the fragmenta tion of the mitocho ndrial reti culum ( Prinz et al. , 2000 ) . As mention ed, Atg 9 partiall y local izes to mito chondria, and in this class of mutants its traY cking out of this compartmen t is severe ly impai red (Re ggiori and Klio nsky, sub mitted). Atg20 , Atg24, Tlg1, Tl g2, Trs85, Vps45, and the subunit s of the Vpsfiftythree (VFT) complex are part of retrieval transp ort routes from en dosomal compart ments back to the Golgi app aratus, and consequ ently they are important in maintaining certain functions of this organelle (Hettema et al., 2003; Holthuis et al., 1998; Sacher et al., 2000 Sacher et al., , 2001 Siniossoglou and Pelham, 2001) . These proteins have also been shown to be required for the Cvt pathway and some of them also play an important role in doublemembr ane vesicle biog enesis during pe xophagy and autophagy (Tables III and IV Reggiori et al., 2003) . It is unclear, however, why these pathways are impaired in the absence of these factors. One possibility is that retrograde traYc from the forming double-membrane vesicles is 1. Membrane Origin for Autophagy essential for the expansion and/or completion of these structures (Meiling-Wesse et al., 2005; Reggiori et al., 2004a,b) . A second hypothesis is that similarly to what was predicted for early sec mutants, an alteration of the Golgi apparatus functions could interfere with the lipid bilayer delivery essential for the creation of these large vesicles. The major diYculty in investigating the contribution to autophagy of both the ER and the Golgi apparatus is that these two organelles depend on each other for their proper function. Mutations that aVect one of these two compartments indirectly perturb the other one. Along these lines, the interpretation of the block of both the Cvt pathway and autophagy in the sec7 mutant is not simple (Reggiori et al., 2004b) . Nevertheless, the analysis of this strain has led to important information. Sec7 is a GDP/GTP exchange factor required for traYcking through the Golgi complex (FranzusoV and Schekman, 1989; Jackson and Casanova, 2000) . The inactivation of this protein provokes the accumulation of unsealed, autophagosome-like structures that are decorated with Atg8 (Reggiori et al., 2004b) . These membranous arrangements enwrap ribosomes and cytosol and have been previously named Berkeley bodies (Esmon et al., 1981; Novick et al., 1980) . This surprising result indicates that potentially, double-membrane vesicles can be created in large part by altering the activity of a single enzyme; however, it cannot be excluded that this is an indirect phenomenon. Vps4 is a protein essential for the invagination of the late endosome limiting membranes and therefore MVB biogenesis (Babst et al., 1998; Katzmann et al., 2002) . A unique VPS4 allele was isolated in a screen for mutations that result in autophagy induction even in the presence of nutrients (Shirahama et al., 1997) . This led to an initial interpretation that endosomes play a relevant role in autophagosomes biogenesis. However, reports where the functions of these compartments have been severely impaired by specific gene deletions have revealed that the integrity of the endosomal system is not essential for either the Cvt pathway or autophagy (Epple et al., 2003; Reggiori et al., 2004b) . In contrast to the late stages of the autophagosome biogenesis where lipid bilayers are derived from endosomal compartments, the origin of the mammalian isolation membrane or phagophore remains uncertain. It is still unknown if this small sequestering cisterna is formed de novo or derived from a preexisting organelle (Fengsrud et al., 2004) . A major problem in trying to investigate its origin is that these structures and autophagosomes are mostly composed of lipids and depleted in transmembrane proteins making particularly diYcult the detection of specific organelle markers (Fengsrud et al., 2000; Hirsimaki et al., 1982; Punnonen et al., 1989; Reunanen et al., 1985; Stromhaug et al., 1998) . This unique characteristic is one line of evidence that the isolation membranes and autophagosomes diVer structurally from the other subcellular organelles. This observation also implies that whatever the origin of the lipid bilayers used to form autophagosomes, integral membrane components are segregated away from them. Two models could explain how protein-depleted membranes are obtained. In the first, isolation membranes are derived from a specialized organelle subdomain where autochthonous proteins are gradually excluded. A similar process has been shown to occur during peroxisome biogenesis from the ER Tabak et al., 2003; Tam et al., 2005) . In the second model, the same cisterna is progressively emptied of integral membrane factors by retrieval transport-a phenomenon hypothesized to occur during double-membrane vesicle formation in yeast (Reggiori et al., 2004a,b) . It is also possible that both mechanisms coexist. Numerous studies have been published investigating the source for autophagosome lipid bilayers in mammalian cells but their conclusions often contrast. Thus various organelles, such as the ER, the Golgi complex, and the plasma membrane, have been suggested to be the origin of doublemembrane vesicles. Because of the heterogeneity in the results, no unanimous agreement in the field has been reached. For example, several studies have reported the presence of ER-marker proteins in the isolation membranes and autophagosomes but others have shown that these structures lack ER-resident factors (Arstila and Trump, 1968; Dunn, 1990a; Furuno et al., 1990; Reunanen et al., 1985; Stromhaug et al., 1998; Yamamoto et al., 1990; Yokota et al., 1994) . As with the ER, the role of the Golgi complex as a lipid donor for the early autophagosome intermediates remains ambiguous. Some studies have shown the presence of Golgi protein markers in these structures whereas others have failed to detect them (Arstila and Trump, 1968; Dunn, 1990a; Frank and Christensen, 1968; Locke and Sykes, 1975; Yang and Chiang, 1997; Yokota et al., 1994) . The membranes of the cis-Golgi network have been shown to possess the same compositional characteristics of the isolation membrane (Fengsrud et al., 2004; Locke and Sykes, 1975; Reunanen et al., 1988; Yamamoto et al., 1990) . Only a few reports have indicated that the autophagic cisternae are derived from the plasma membrane and their conclusions have been challenged when other investigators have failed to detect plasma membrane protein markers in these structures (Araki et al., 1995; Arstila and Trump, 1968; Bosabalidis, 1994; Ericsson, 1969; Fengsrud et al., 2004; Oledzka-Slotwinska and Desmet, 1969; Reunanen et al., 1988) . Importantly, autophagosomes have a low cholesterol content validating the idea that their membranes are not derived from the plasma membrane (Reunanen et al., 1985) . The discrepancy between all these analyses could be due, in part, to diVerent experimental approaches and techniques used in the various laboratories. But one possibility that should not be discarded a priori is that autophagosomes could be a mosaic of membranes derived from more than one organelle. For example, the isolation membrane could originate from one compartment and the additional lipid bilayers required for its expansion be acquired from other sources. In addition, the diVerent contributions could vary depending on the tissues with cells able to derive the membranes from the most suitable reservoirs. The Atg8 conjugation system is highly conserved in higher eukaryotic cells (Table II) Tanida et al., 2004) . In mammals, there are at least three Atg8 homologs: the microtubule-associated protein 1 (MAP1) light chain 3 (LC3), the Golgi-associated ATPase enhancer of 16 kDa (GATE-16), and the -aminobutyric acid (GABA) A -receptorassociated protein (GABARAP) (Mann and Hammarback, 1994; Sagiv et al., 2000; Wang et al., 1999) . It should be noted that these three proteins were first isolated because of their involvement in other traYcking pathways. The mammalian counterparts of Atg4 process these three Atg8 homologs by exposing their conserved C-terminal glycine which then interacts with mammalian Atg7 and Atg3 homologs before being covalently linked to a lipid (Hemelaar et al., 2003; Scherz-Shouval et al., 2003; Tanida et al., 2001 Tanida et al., , 2002 . The target phospholipid has not yet been unequivocally identified, but strong evidence suggests that it is PE (Kabeya et al., 2004; Tanida et al., 2004) . Of the three homologs, LC3 has been best characterized as an autophagosomal marker in mammalian autophagy. The newly synthesized LC3 precursor is processed cotranslationally to generate a soluble LC3 form (LC3-I) that, upon starvation, becomes membrane-bound and has greater mobility than LC3-I when resolved by SDS-PAGE . The lipidated protein, called LC3-II, localizes on both autophagosomes and autolysosomes . These in vitro results have been confirmed using transgenic mice expressing GFP-LC3 . Unfortunately, the small amount of LC3-II generated prior to induction of autophagy is already associated with the double-membrane vesicles formed by the basal activity of this pathway and LC3-I is not clearly associated with a distinct membranous structure (Kabeya et al., 2004) . Therefore, the subcellular localization of these molecules has not furnished insights about the lipid bilayer source. Both GATE-16 and GABARAP possess a form II and localize to LC3positive autophagosomes that are induced by starvation (Kabeya et al., 2004) . Thus, it remains a possibility that they participate in autophagy in addition to, or instead of, their originally described functions. Because the three mammalian Atg8 homologs are diVerently expressed in various tissues (Tanida et al., 2004) , another intriguing option is that these proteins are involved in supplying the autophagosome with membranes derived from diVerent compartments depending on the cell type; for example, GATE-16 from the Golgi complex and GABARAP from the same organelle as well as the synaptic cisternae (Kittler et al., 2001; Kneussel et al., 2000; Sagiv et al., 2000) . A report has demonstrated that the two human proteins with high homology to Atg9, HsAtg9L1 and HsAtg9L2, are its orthologs (Yamada et al., 2005) . In human adult tissues, HsATG9L1 is ubiquitously expressed, whereas HsATG9L2 is highly expressed in placenta and pituitary gland. Importantly, the authors have also shown that these two factors are not distributed on mitochondria. Instead they localize to a perinuclear region, suggesting that in higher eukaryotes Atg9 could supply autophagy with membranes by deriving lipid bilayers from a diVerent reservoir. This observation could also explain why HsAtg9L1 and HsAtg9L2 cannot substitute for the yeast Atg9 (Reggiori et al., 2005b; Yamada et al., 2005) . However, HsAtg9L2 possesses a nonfunctional mitochondrial targeting sequence that is also present in its closest higher eukaryote homologs (Yamada et al., 2005) . This characteristic raises the possibility that this is an ancient localization signal. Because the subcellular distribution of HsAtg9L1 and HsAtg9L2 have not been carefully examined and the preliminary localization analysis was performed with overexpressed proteins, the identification of the precise localization of these two proteins could provide insights into membrane dynamics during autophagosome biogenesis in mammals. In mammalian cells, autophagosomes, also called initial autophagic vacuoles (AVi), undergo a stepwise maturation process that can be followed ultrastructurally by monitoring the disintegration status of their internal lipid 1. Membrane Origin for Autophagy bilayer and cargoes (Fig. 2) (Dunn, 1990b; Eskelinen, 2005; Fengsrud et al., 2004; Rabouille et al., 1993) . These morphological changes correlate with the increasing acquisition of lysosomal makers Dunn, 1990b; Liou et al., 1997; Tanaka et al., 2000) . Autophagosomes, which contain intact cytosol and organelles, fuse first with endosomal vesicles and MVB turning into early degradative autophagic vacuoles (AVd) or amphisomes. These structures successively fuse together or with lysosomes becoming late AVd or autolysosomes. The degradation of the internal material starts in the early AVd and continues in the late AVd until completion. In contrast to yeast, the endosomal system plays an essential role in mammalian autophagy (see Section II.D.3). This divergence between species has been highlighted by the discovery that SKD1 is necessary for autophagosome maturation in mouse cells (Nara et al., 2002) . SKD1 is the mouse homolog of yeast Vps4 and, as its counterpart, it is also essential to maintain endosome morphology and endosomal transport . As mentioned, Vps4 is not required for autophagy in yeast (Section II.D.3) (Reggiori et al., 2004b; Shirahama et al., 1997) . It is unclear why mammalian autophagosomes need the additional maturation step characterized by their fusion with endosome-and/or trans-Golgi network (TGN)-derived transport vesicles and MVB. In yeast, doublemembrane vesicles fuse with a much larger vacuole one after the other. Therefore, their cargoes do not influence the hydrolytic capacity of this compartment by altering, for example, the pH because the volume of their contents is just a fraction of that of the entire vacuole. Lysosomes, in contrast, are much smaller than vacuoles and their size is comparable to that of autophagosomes. Figure 2 Autophagosome maturation in mammalian cells. Once sealed, the autophagosome (or AVi) fuses with endosome-and/or TGN-derived transport vesicles and the MVB becoming an amphisome (or early AVd). This event leads to the acquisition of hydrolytic enzymes that initiate the consumption of the autophagosome cargo. The amphisome then fuses with a lysosome generating a new organelle termed autolysosome (or late AVd) where the degradation of the content of the initial autophagosome is completed. Consequently, if these two structures would immediately fuse together, an important dilution of the lysosome content could occur impairing its internal enzymatic activity. Addition of extra hydrolytic enzymes prior to autolysosome formation could help to compensate for this dilution phenomenon. Autophagy provides a cellular defense against invading pathogens but unfortunately, some of them have developed systems to avoid the sequestration and elimination by double-membrane vesicles (Deretic, 2005; Kirkegaard et al., 2004; Levine, 2005) . In addition, there are virus and bacteria that exploit this transport route to enter and replicate inside the host cell (Kirkegaard et al., 2004) . The study of this latter class of pathogens has furnished some indications about the possible origin of autophagosome membranes even if it should be kept in mind that these invading microorganisms are also altering other cellular pathways, and therefore autophagy could progress in part diVerently in the infected cells. Upon infection, positive-strand viruses disassemble and release their genomic RNA into the cytoplasm of the host cell. The genomic RNA is subsequently translated to produce the replicase proteins that induce the formation of the RNA replication complexes. These complexes are assembled and anchored on membrane surfaces and this is an essential requisite for their virulence. Some of the positive-strand viruses, such as the poliovirus, the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), the equine arterivirus (EAV), and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus, seen to use autophagosomes as a membrane platform (Kirkegaard et al., 2004) . Factors of the poliovirus RNA-replication complex localize to doublemembrane vesicles that are derived from the ER by the action of viral proteins 2BC and 3A by a mechanism that excludes resident host proteins (Schlegel et al., 1996; Suhy et al., 2000) . Importantly, these structures contain LC3/Atg8 and are highlighted with the fluorophore monodansylcadaverine, a dye that specifically stains autophagosomes (Jackson et al., 2005) . The idea that poliovirus subverts components of the cellular autophagy machinery to promote its replication is also supported by the fact that inhibition of this pathway by 3-methyladenine or by RNA interference against mRNAs that encode two diVerent Atg proteins (LC3/Atg8 and Atg12) decrease the poliovirus yield (Jackson et al., 2005) . Coronaviruses (MHV and SARS) and arteriviruses (EAV) are the two families within the order Nidovirales. Cells infected by these viruses accumulate double-membrane vesicles and the viral RNA-replication complexes are associated with them (Goldsmith et al., 2004; Gosert et al., 2002; Pedersen et al., 1999; Shi et al., 1999; van der Meer et al., 1998) . In the case of the MHV and SARS coronaviruses, it has also been shown that these structures are decorated with LC3/Atg8, revealing that they are autophagosomes (Prentice et al., 2004a,b) . For the MHV in addition, it has been demonstrated that the autophagy machinery is required to generate these compartments and in its absence the virus replication is severely blocked (Prentice et al., 2004a) . Importantly, studies about the origin of these doublemembrane vesicles generated in cells infected by nidoviruses indicate that they are derived from the ER (Pedersen et al., 1999; Prentice et al., 2004a; Shi et al., 1999; van der Meer et al., 1998) . After endosomal uptake of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Brucella abortus, by the host cell, the endosomes that contain these bacteria immediately fuse with structures resembling autophagosomes (Dorn et al., 2001; Pizarro-Cerda et al., 1998a,b; Progulske-Fox et al., 1999) . This event prevents their delivery to the lysosome where they would be eliminated. In addition containing endosomal factors, the double membranes surrounding these two pathogens are decorated with ER protein markers and their formation is blocked by autophagy inhibitors such as 3-methyladenine and wortmannin (Rich et al., 2003) . Legionella pneumophila is a Gram-negative bacterium that can replicate within human macrophages. After being taken up by phagosomes, this pathogen becomes enwrapped within a double-membrane compartment that contains the ER resident chaperone BiP through an unknown mechanism, and starts to replicate (Coers et al., 2000; Joshi et al., 2001; Sturgill-Koszycki and Swanson, 2000; Swanson and Isberg, 1995) . It has been shown that this compartment also progressively becomes decorated with typical autophagosome markers such as Atg7 and Atg8 (Amer and Swanson, 2005) . However, it remains unclear if these structures are autophagosomes or similar conformations derived from the ER that at successive stage acquire autophagosomal membranes or subvert the autophagy machinery to complete their biogenesis (Kagan and Roy, 2002; Tilney et al., 2001) . In Dictyostelium discoideum, a natural host for L. pneumophila, deletion of ATG genes leads to a defect in autophagy without aVecting the formation of the doublemembrane compartment and therefore the replication of this invading microorganism is unaVected (Otto et al., 2004) . But this could just reflect host-specific diVerences. Listeria monocytogenes is another Gram-negative bacterium that after entering into host cells destroys the phagosome membrane using hemolysin to gain access to the cytoplasm where it starts to multiply. However, when infected cells are treated with chloramphenicol, an inhibitor of bacterial protein synthesis, or lack the actA gene, the bacteria become trapped into double-membrane compartments shortly after phagosome lysis (Rich et al., 2003) . These structures are autophagosomes because L. monocytogenes sequestration is enhanced by autophagic induction through serum withdrawal and blocked by autophagy inhibitors such as 3-methyladenine and wortmannin (Rich et al., 2003) . The formation of these autophagosomes seems to be mediated by the assembly of small vesicles and cisternae with variable morphology, which contain the ER protein marker protein disulfide isomerase (PDI). Importantly, PDI-positive vesicular structures are accumulated around the cytoplasmic bacteria during the early stages of autophagosome biogenesis but not at later stages when these structures begin to acquire endosomal makers (Rich et al., 2003) . Our knowledge about the physiological roles of autophagy has enormously increased and we have realized how important this pathway is for cell survival in several extreme situations. Despite the identification and partial characterization of the Atg proteins, however, the molecular mechanism of this catabolic transport route remains largely unknown. A major challenge in studying this process arises from the fact that the origin and the transport mode of the lipids employed to compose these structures is unknown. Investigations on this topic seem to indicate that the ER and possibly the Golgi complex are involved in supplying the nascent autophagosomes with membranes. Endosomal compartments, in contrast, play a relevant role only in mammalian cells and at a later stage during autophagosome maturation. The large majority of the morphological characterization of autophagosome formation was done 10-15 years ago, when specific autophagy markers were unavailable. Atg proteins provide now the researchers with the longawaited markers that could be used to at least dissect this transport route at an ultrastructural level, thus solving some of the mysteries that surround the double-membrane vesicle origin and biogenesis. Analysis of pathogens and their gene products has helped in the past to unveil and analyze numerous cellular pathways. The discovery of the existence of viruses and bacteria subverting autophagy will probably have a similar impact. The study of these microorganisms will help us to understand how lipid bilayers are derived from the membrane source(s) but will also potentially lead to the isolation of agents that will allow investigators to manipulate this process. 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The author also wishes to thank Marc van Peski and René Scriwanek for Figs. 1 and 2.