TY - JOUR A1 - Kreis, Patricia A1 - Gallrein, Christian A1 - Rojas Puente, Eugenia A1 - Mack, Till G. A. A1 - Kroon, Cristina A1 - Dinkel, Viktor A1 - Willmes, Claudia A1 - Murk, Kai A1 - tom-Dieck, Susanne A1 - Schuman, Erin A1 - Kirstein, Janine A1 - Eickholt, Britta T1 - ATM phosphorylation of the actin-binding protein drebrin controls oxidation stress-resistance in mammalian neurons and C. elegans T2 - Nature Communications N2 - Drebrin (DBN) regulates cytoskeletal functions during neuronal development, and is thought to contribute to structural and functional synaptic changes associated with aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Here we show that DBN coordinates stress signalling with cytoskeletal dynamics, via a mechanism involving kinase ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM). An excess of reactive oxygen species (ROS) stimulates ATM-dependent phosphorylation of DBN at serine-647, which enhances protein stability and accounts for improved stress resilience in dendritic spines. We generated a humanized DBN Caenorhabditis elegans model and show that a phospho-DBN mutant disrupts the protective ATM effect on lifespan under sustained oxidative stress. Our data indicate a master regulatory function of ATM-DBN in integrating cytosolic stress-induced signalling with the dynamics of actin remodelling to provide protection from synapse dysfunction and ROS-triggered reduced lifespan. They further suggest that DBN protein abundance governs actin filament stability to contribute to the consequences of oxidative stress in physiological and pathological conditions. KW - Actin KW - Cellular neuroscience Y1 - 2019 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50246 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-502463 SN - 2041-1723 N1 - Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. VL - 10 IS - 1, Art. 486 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Nature Publishing Group UK CY - [London] ER -