RRC ID 45638
著者 Salazar DA, Butler VJ, Argouarch AR, Hsu TY, Mason A, Nakamura A, McCurdy H, Cox D, Ng R, Pan G, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Kao AW.
タイトル The Progranulin Cleavage Products, Granulins, Exacerbate TDP-43 Toxicity and Increase TDP-43 Levels.
ジャーナル J Neurosci
Abstract Mutations in the human progranulin gene resulting in protein haploinsufficiency cause frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions. Although progress has been made in understanding the normal functions of progranulin and TDP-43, the molecular interactions between these proteins remain unclear. Progranulin is proteolytically processed into granulins, but the role of granulins in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disease is unknown. We used a Caenorhabditis elegans model of neuronal TDP-43 proteinopathy to specifically interrogate the contribution of granulins to the neurodegenerative process. Complete loss of the progranulin gene did not worsen TDP-43 toxicity, whereas progranulin heterozygosity did. Interestingly, expression of individual granulins alone had little effect on behavior. In contrast, when granulins were coexpressed with TDP-43, they exacerbated its toxicity in a variety of behaviors including motor coordination. These same granulins increased TDP-43 levels via a post-translational mechanism. We further found that in human neurodegenerative disease subjects, granulin fragments accumulated specifically in diseased regions of brain. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of a toxic role for granulin fragments in a neurodegenerative disease model. These studies suggest that presence of cleaved granulins, rather than or in addition to loss of full-length progranulin, may contribute to disease in TDP-43 proteinopathies.
巻・号 35(25)
ページ 9315-28
公開日 2015-6-24
DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4808-14.2015
PII 35/25/9315
PMID 26109656
PMC PMC4478251
MeSH Animals Animals, Genetically Modified Caenorhabditis elegans DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism* Disease Models, Animal Humans Immunoblotting Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins / metabolism* Progranulins Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction TDP-43 Proteinopathies / metabolism* Zebrafish Proteins / metabolism
IF 5.674
引用数 27
WOS 分野 NEUROSCIENCES
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