Ubiquitin, cellular inclusions and their role in neurodegeneration
Abstract
Covalent binding of ubiquitin to proteins marks them for degradation by the ubiquitin/ATP-dependent pathway. This pathway plays a major role in the breakdown of abnormal proteins that result from oxidative stress, neurotoxicity and mutations. Failure to eliminate ubiquitinated proteins disrupts cellular homeostasis, causing degeneration. Inclusions containing ubiquitinated proteins are commonly detected in many neurological disorders. These aggregates are mostly cytosolic; nevertheless, ubiquitinated inclusions are found in endosomes/lysosomes in Alzheimer's disease and prion encephalopathies, and in nuclei in disorders associated with CAG/polyglutamine repeats, such as Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar ataxias. Ubiquitinated aggregates must result from a malfunction or overload of the ubiquitin/ATP-dependent pathway or from structural changes in the protein substrates, halting their degradation. Prevention of protein aggregation in these diseases might offer new therapeutic leads.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Nearly every neurodegenerative disorder is marked by accumulation of misfolded proteins within or adjacent to affected neurons and glia.
“This notion is underscored by the fact that nearly every neurodegenerative disorder is marked by the accumulation of misfolded proteins within or adjacent to affected neurons and glia, in spite of heterogeneous clinical and pathological characteristics among these diseases [68,69].”
From Autophagy and ALS: mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications (2022) · cites this paper as [69]
Cites
Mutations in the parkin gene cause autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism
Kitada, T., Asakawa, S., Hattori, N., Matsumine, H., Yamamura, Y., Minoshima, S., Yokochi, M., Mizuno, Y., & Shimizu, N. (1998) · Nature · doi:10.1038/33416 · Cited by 5,227 · see citing works
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE 20S AND 26S PROTEASOMES
Coux, O., Tanaka, K., & Goldberg, A. L. (1996) · Annual Review of Biochemistry · doi:10.1146/annurev.bi.65.070196.004101 · Cited by 2,438 · see citing works
Davies, S. W., Turmaine, M., Cozens, B. A., DiFiglia, M., Sharp, A. H., Ross, C. A., Scherzinger, E., Wanker, E. E., Mangiarini, L., & Bates, G. P. (1997) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80513-9 · Cited by 2,188 · see citing works
UBIQUITIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN DEGRADATION
Hochstrasser, M. (1996) · Annual Review of Genetics · doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.30.1.405 · Cited by 1,695 · see citing works
UBE3A/E6-AP mutations cause Angelman syndrome
Kishino, T., Lalande, M., & Wagstaff, J. E. (1997) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng0197-70 · Cited by 1,304 · see citing works
Scherzinger, E., Lurz, R., Turmaine, M., Mangiarini, L., Hollenbach, B., Hasenbank, R., Bates, G. P., Davies, S. W., Lehrach, H., & Wanker, E. E. (1997) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80514-0 · Cited by 1,291 · see citing works
Protein ubiquitination involving an E1–E2–E3 enzyme ubiquitin thioester cascade
Scheffner, M., Nuber, U. A., & Huibregtse, J. M. (1995) · Nature · doi:10.1038/373081a0 · Cited by 1,017 · see citing works
De novo truncating mutations in E6-AP ubiquitin-protein ligase gene (UBE3A) in Angelman syndrome
Matsuura, T., Sutcliffe, J. S., Fang, P., Galjaard, R. H., Jiang, Y., Benton, C. S., Rommens, J. M., & Beaudet, A. L. (1997) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/ng0197-74 · Cited by 858 · see citing works
Ubiquitin Is a Component of Paired Helical Filaments in Alzheimer's Disease
Mori, H., Kondo, J., & Ihara, Y. (1987) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.3029875 · Cited by 843 · see citing works
Intranuclear Inclusions of Expanded Polyglutamine Protein in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3
Paulson, H. L., Perez, M. K., Trottier, Y., Trojanowski, J. Q., Subramony, S. H., Das, S. S., Vig, P. J. S., Mandel, J., Fischbeck, K. H., & Pittman, R. N. (1997) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80943-5 · Cited by 830 · see citing works
A Transmembrane Form of the Prion Protein in Neurodegenerative Disease
Hegde, R. S., Mastrianni, J. A., Scott, M. R. D., DeFea, K., Tremblay, P. J., Torchia, M., DeArmond, S. J., Prusiner, S. B., & Lingappa, V. R. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.279.5352.827 · Cited by 730 · see citing works
Regulation of ubiquitin‐dependent processes by deubiquitinating enzymes
Wilkinson, K. D. (1997) · The FASEB Journal · doi:10.1096/fasebj.11.14.9409543 · Cited by 575 · see citing works
Frameshift Mutants of β Amyloid Precursor Protein and Ubiquitin-B in Alzheimer's and Down Patients
van Leeuwen, F. W., de Kleijn, D. P. V., van den Hurk, H., Neubauer, A., Sonnemans, M. A. F., Sluijs, J. A., Köycü, S., Ramdjielal, R. D. J., Salehi, A., Martens, G. J. M., et al. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.279.5348.242 · Cited by 561 · see citing works
Lowe, J., Blanchard, A., Morrell, K., Lennox, G., Reynolds, L., Billett, M., Landon, M., & Mayer, R. J. (1988) · The Journal of Pathology · doi:10.1002/path.1711550105 · Cited by 539 · see citing works
The multicatalytic proteinase complex, a major extralysosomal proteolytic system
Orłowski, M. (1990) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi00497a001 · Cited by 459 · see citing works
Proteolysis in Cultured Liver Epithelial Cells during Oxidative Stress
Grune, T., Reinheckel, T., Joshi, M., & Davies, K. J. A. (1995) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.270.5.2344 · Cited by 407 · see citing works
Heat shock proteins: the search for functions.
Schlesinger, M. J. (1986) · The Journal of Cell Biology · doi:10.1083/jcb.103.2.321 · Cited by 396 · see citing works
Ordway, J. M., Tallaksen‐Greene, S. J., Gutekunst, C., Bernstein, E. M., Cearley, J. A., Wiener, H. W., Dure, L. S., Lindsey, R., Hersch, S. M., Jope, R. S., et al. (1997) · Cell · doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80464-x · Cited by 370 · see citing works
Targeting of substrates to the 26S proteasome
Pickart, C. M. (1997) · The FASEB Journal · doi:10.1096/fasebj.11.13.9367341 · Cited by 367 · see citing works
Lowe, J. S., McDermott, H., Landon, M., Mayer, R. J., & Wilkinson, K. D. (1990) · The Journal of Pathology · doi:10.1002/path.1711610210 · Cited by 359 · see citing works
Modification of protein surface hydrophobicity and methionine oxidation by oxidative systems
Chao, C., Ma, Y.-S., & Stadtman, E. R. (1997) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.94.7.2969 · Cited by 336 · see citing works
Ubiquitin‐dependent internalization and down‐regulation of plasma membrane proteins
Hicke, L. (1997) · The FASEB Journal · doi:10.1096/fasebj.11.14.9409540 · Cited by 271 · see citing works
Resistance to cadmium mediated by ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis
Jungmann, J., Reins, H., Schobert, C., & Jentsch, S. (1993) · Nature · doi:10.1038/361369a0 · Cited by 261 · see citing works
The dynamic state of heat shock proteins in chicken embryo fibroblasts.
Collier, N. C., & Schlesinger, M. J. (1986) · The Journal of Cell Biology · doi:10.1083/jcb.103.4.1495 · Cited by 234 · see citing works
Amyloid β-Protein Inhibits Ubiquitin-dependent Protein Degradation in Vitro
Gregori, L. L., Fuchs, C., Figueiredo‐Pereira, M. E., Nostrand, W. E. V., & Goldgaber, D. (1995) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.270.34.19702 · Cited by 232 · see citing works
Self-citationActivity of Ubiquitin-dependent Pathway in Response to Oxidative Stress
Shang, F., Gong, X., & Taylor, A. (1997) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.272.37.23086 · Cited by 231 · see citing works
Ii, K., Ito, H., Tanaka, K., & Hirano, A. (1997) · Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology · doi:10.1097/00005072-199702000-00002 · Cited by 215 · see citing works
Endoproteolytic Cleavage and Proteasomal Degradation of Presenilin 2 in Transfected Cells
Kim, T., Pettingell, W. H., Hallmark, O. G., Moir, R. D., Wasco, W., & Tanzi, R. E. (1997) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.272.17.11006 · Cited by 208 · see citing works
Figueiredo‐Pereira, M. E., Yakushin, S., & Cohen, G. (1998) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.273.21.12703 · Cited by 184 · see citing works
Self-citationFigueiredo‐Pereira, M. E., Berg, K. A., & Wilk, S. (1994) · Journal of Neurochemistry · doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.63041578.x · Cited by 182 · see citing works
Self-citationSubpopulations of proteasomes in rat liver nuclei, microsomes and cytosol
Palmer, A., Rivett, A. J., Thomson, S., Hendil, K. B., Butcher, G. W., Fuertes, G., & Knecht, E. (1996) · Biochemical Journal · doi:10.1042/bj3160401 · Cited by 171 · see citing works
Structural Neurology: Are Seeds at the Root of Neuronal Degeneration?
Lansbury, P. T. (1997) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80406-7 · Cited by 169 · see citing works
Shang, F., & Taylor, A. (1995) · Biochemical Journal · doi:10.1042/bj3070297 · Cited by 157 · see citing works
Structure of Tetraubiquitin Shows How Multiubiquitin Chains Can Be Formed
Cook, W. J., Jeffrey, L. C., Kasperek, E. M., & Pickart, C. M. (1994) · Journal of Molecular Biology · doi:10.1006/jmbi.1994.1169 · Cited by 156 · see citing works
Binding of Amyloid β Protein to the 20 S Proteasome
Gregori, L. L., Hainfeld, J. F., Simon, M. N., & Goldgaber, D. (1997) · Journal of Biological Chemistry · doi:10.1074/jbc.272.1.58 · Cited by 151 · see citing works
Self-citationE-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal is cytotoxic and cross-links cytoskeletal proteins in P19 neuroglial cultures.
Montine, T. J., Amarnath, K., Martin, M. E., Strittmatter, W. J., & Graham, D. G. (1996) · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · Cited by 136 · see citing works
Tu, P., Gurney, M. E., Julien, J., Lee, V. M. ‐., & Trojanowski, J. Q. (1997) · PubMed · Cited by 115 · see citing works
Goedert, M. (1997) · Nature · doi:10.1038/40767 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Impairment of protein ubiquitination may cause delayed neuronal death
Magnusson, K., & Wieloch, T. W. (1989) · Neuroscience Letters · doi:10.1016/0304-3940(89)90389-3 · Cited by 95 · see citing works
Cheng, L., Watt, R., & Piper, P. W. (1994) · Molecular and General Genetics MGG · doi:10.1007/bf00301072 · Cited by 82 · see citing works
Alzheimer disease: correlation of cerebro-spinal fluid and brain ubiquitin levels
Kudo, T., Iqbal, K., Ravid, R., Swaab, D. F., & Grundke, I. (1994) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0006-8993(94)91757-4 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
Kenward, N., Hope, J., Landon, M., et al. (1994) · Journal of Neurochemistry · doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.1994.62051870.x · Cited by 65 · see citing works
Synthetic Signals for Ubiquitin-Dependent Proteolysis
Sadis, S., Atienza, C. A., & Finley, D. (1995) · Molecular and Cellular Biology · doi:10.1128/mcb.15.8.4086 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Ivy, G. O., Kitani, K., & Ihara, Y. (1989) · Brain Research · doi:10.1016/0006-8993(89)91117-7 · Cited by 62 · see citing works
Scherrer, K., & Fayçal, B. E. Y. (1994) · Progress in nucleic acid research and molecular biology · doi:10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60047-1 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Structural basis of dementia in neurodegenerative disorders
Jellinger, K. A. (1996) · Journal of neural transmission. Supplementum · doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-6892-9_1 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Activation of the Multicatalytic Endopeptidase by Oxidants. Effects on Enzyme Structure
Strack, P. R., Waxman, L., & Fagan, J. M. (1996) · Biochemistry · doi:10.1021/bi9518048 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Polyglutamines, nuclear inclusions and neurodegeneration
Lunkes, A., & Mandel, J. (1997) · Nature Medicine · doi:10.1038/nm1197-1201 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Endosome-Lysosomes, Ubiquitin and Neurodegeneration
Mayer, R. J., Tipler, C., Arnold, J., László, L., Al-Khedhairy, A. A., Lowe, J. S., & Landon, M. (1996) · Advances in experimental medicine and biology · doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-0335-0_33 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
Changes in proteasome activity following transient ischemia
Kamikubo, T., & Hayashi, T. (1996) · Neurochemistry International · doi:10.1016/0197-0186(95)00071-2 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
Protein degradation: The ins and outs of the matter
Cresswell, P., & Hughes, E. (1997) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00279-x · Cited by 33 · see citing works
Uney, J. B., Anderton, B. H., & Thomas, S. M. (1993) · Journal of Neurochemistry · doi:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1993.tb03198.x · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Berggren, U., Ahlenius, S., & Engel, J. (1980) · Journal of Neural Transmission · doi:10.1007/bf01256634 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
Ubiquitin and the molecular pathology of chronic degenerative diseases
Mayer, R. J., Lowe, J. S., & Landon, M. (1991) · The Journal of Pathology · doi:10.1002/path.1711630402 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
Iseki, E., Odawara, T., Li, F., Kosaka, K., Nishimura, T., Akiyama, H., & Ikeda, K. (1996) · Journal of the Neurological Sciences · doi:10.1016/0022-510x(96)00024-x · Cited by 22 · see citing works
On the spatial organization of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in HeLa cells.
Wójcik, C. (1997) · PubMed · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Bacci, B., Cochran, E., Nunzi, M. G., Izeki, E., Mizutani, T., Patton, A., Hite, S., Lm, S., AUTILIO‐GAMBETTI, L., & Gambetti, P. L. (1994) · PubMed Central · Cited by 12 · see citing works
Jayaraman, D., Giasson, B. I., & Mushynski, W. E. (1995) · International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience · doi:10.1016/0736-5748(95)00060-7 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
Okada, M., Miyake, T., Kitamura, T., et al. (1994) · Neuroscience Research · doi:10.1016/0168-0102(94)90008-6 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Familial Parkinson disease gene product, parkin, is a ubiquitin-protein ligase
Shimura, H., Hattori, N., Kubo, S.-I., Mizuno, Y., Asakawa, S., Minoshima, S., Shimizu, N., Iwai, K., Chiba, T., Tanaka, K., et al. (2000) · Nature Genetics · doi:10.1038/77060 · Cited by 2,024 · see citing works
Myocytes Die by Multiple Mechanisms in Failing Human Hearts
Kostin, S., Pool, L., Elsässer, A., Hein, S., Drexler, H. C. A., Arnon, E., Hayakawa, Y., Zimmermann, R., Bauer, E., Klövekorn, W.-P., et al. (2003) · Circulation Research · doi:10.1161/01.res.0000067471.95890.5c · Cited by 564 · see citing works
Autophagy and ALS: mechanistic insights and therapeutic implications
Chua, J. P., De Calbiac, H., Kabashi, E., & Barmada, S. J. (2022) · Autophagy · doi:10.1080/15548627.2021.1926656 · Cited by 189 · see citing works
“This notion is underscored by the fact that nearly every neurodegenerative disorder is marked by the accumulation of misfolded proteins within or adjacent to affected neurons and glia, in spite of heterogeneous clinical and pathological characteristics among these diseases [68,69].”
BackgroundKuusisto, E., Suuronen, T., & Salminen, A. (2001) · Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications · doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.4107 · Cited by 131 · see citing works
Dendritic spine loss and neurodegeneration is rescued by Rab11 in models of Huntington's disease
Richards, P., Didszun, C., Campesan, S., Simpson, A., Horley, B., Young, K. W., Glynn, P., Cain, K., Kyriacou, C. P., Giorgini, F., et al. (2011) · Cell Death & Differentiation · doi:10.1038/cdd.2010.127 · Cited by 82 · see citing works
The interrelationship of proteasome impairment and oligomeric intermediates in neurodegeneration
Deger, J. M., Gerson, J. E., & Kayed, R. (2015) · Aging Cell · doi:10.1111/acel.12359 · Cited by 69 · see citing works
Rho GTPases in neurodegeneration diseases
DeGeer, J., & Lamarche-Vane, N. (2013) · Experimental Cell Research · doi:10.1016/j.yexcr.2013.06.016 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
- Authors
- Alves-Rodrigues, A., Gregori, L., & Figueiredo-Pereira, M. E.
- Affiliations
- Baltimore VA Medical Center (US)
- ORCID
- Gregori, Luisa
- Venue
- Trends in Neurosciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1998-12
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 516-520
- ISSN
- 0166-2236 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2116552323
- Cited by
- 393
- References
- 59
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 2.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Neurosciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01ns034018-08)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-34018)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Keywords
- ubiquitin, ubiquitin-proteasome system, protein aggregation, neurodegeneration, cellular inclusions, protein degradation, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, spinocerebellar ataxia, polyglutamine repeat, lysosomal inclusions, proteostasis
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Inclusion Bodies, Humans, Lysosomes, Models, Molecular, Mutation, Neurons, Endosomes, Ubiquitins, Reactive Oxygen Species, Neurodegenerative Diseases
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review