Phosphorylation-regulated phase separation of syndecan-4 and syntenin promotes the biogenesis of exosomes

Abstract

The biogenesis of exosomes that mediate cell-to-cell communication by transporting numerous biomolecules to neighbouring cells is an essential cellular process. The interaction between the transmembrane protein syndecan-4 (SDC4) and cytosolic protein syntenin plays a key role in the biogenesis of exosomes. However, how the relatively weak binding of syntenin to SDC4 efficiently enables syntenin sorting for packaging into exosomes remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that SDC4 can undergo liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) to form condensates both in vitro and in the cell membrane and that, the SDC4 cytoplasmic domain (SDC4-CD) is a key contributor to this process. The phase separation of SDC4 greatly enhances the recruitment of syntenin to the plasma membrane (PM) despite the weak SDC4-syntenin interaction, facilitating syntenin sorting for inclusion in exosomes. Interestingly, phosphorylation at the only serine (179) in the SDC4-CD (Ser179) disrupts SDC4 LLPS, and inhibited phosphorylation or dephosphorylation restores the SDC4 LLPS to promote its recruitment of syntenin to the PM and syntenin inclusion into exosomes. This research reveals a novel phosphorylation-regulated phase separation property of SDC4 in the PM through which SDC4 efficiently recruits cytosolic syntenin and facilitates the biogenesis of exosomes, providing potential intervention targets for exosome-mediated biomedical events.

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