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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 280, Issue 27, 25864-25870, July 8, 2005

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Ketone Bodies Stimulate Chaperone-mediated Autophagy^*

Patrick F. Finn and J. Fred Dice

From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) is a selective lysosomal protein degradative process that is activated in higher organisms under conditions of prolonged starvation and in cell culture by the removal of serum. Ketone bodies are comprised of three compounds (-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, and acetone) that circulate during starvation, especially during prolonged starvation. Here we have investigated the hypothesis that ketone bodies induce CMA. We found that physiological concentrations of -hydroxybutyrate (BOH) induced proteolysis in cells maintained in media with serum and without serum; however, acetoacetate only induced proteolysis in cells maintained in media with serum. Lysosomes isolated from BOH-treated cells displayed an increased ability to degrade both glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ribonuclease A, substrates for CMA. Isolated lysosomes from cells maintained in media without serum also demonstrated an increased ability to degrade glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and ribonuclease A when the reaction was supplemented with BOH. Such treatment did not affect the levels of lysosome-associated membrane protein 2a or lysosomal heat shock cognate protein of 70 kDa, two rate-limiting proteins in CMA. However, pretreatment of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and ribonuclease A with BOH increased their rate of degradation by isolated lysosomes. Lysosomes pretreated with BOH showed no increase in proteolysis, suggesting that BOH acts on the substrates to increase their rates of proteolysis. Using OxyBlot^TM analysis to detect carbonyl formation on proteins, one common marker of protein oxidation, we showed that treatment of substrates with BOH increased their oxidation. Neither glycerol, another compound that increases in circulation during prolonged starvation, nor butanol or butanone, compounds closely related to BOH, had an effect on CMA. The induction of CMA by ketone bodies may provide an important physiological mechanism for the activation of CMA during prolonged starvation.

Received for publication, March 4, 2005 , and in revised form, April 22, 2005.

^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Arnold 809, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111. Tel.: 617-636-0408; Fax: 617-636-0445; E-mail: Patrick.Finn{at}tufts.edu.

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