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Dynein mutations impair autophagic clearance of aggregate-prone proteins
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Mutations that affect the dynein motor machinery are sufficient to cause motor neuron disease. It is not known why there are aggregates or inclusions in affected tissues in mice with such mutations and in most forms of human motor neuron disease. Here we identify a new mechanism of inclusion formation by showing that decreased dynein function impairs autophagic clearance of aggregate-prone proteins. We show that mutations of the dynein machinery enhanced the toxicity of the mutation that causes Huntington disease in fly and mouse models. Furthermore, loss of dynein function resulted in premature aggregate formation by mutant huntingtin and increased levels of the autophagosome marker LC3-II in both cell culture and mouse models, compatible with impaired autophagosome-lysosome fusion.
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Defects in induction, maturation, or lysosomal clearance impair protein degradation.
“Defects in induction, maturation, or lysosomal clearance impair protein degradation (Zhong et al. 2009), (Pickford et al. 2008), (Ravikumar et al. 2005), (Webb et al. 2004), (Iwata et al. 2005), (Kimura et al. 2008), (Wong and Cuervo 2010), (Lee et al. 2010), and is assessable via LC3-II turnover or p62 degradation (Mizushima et al. 2010), (Ju et al. 2010), (Klionsky et al. 2008b), (Tanida et al.”
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- Ravikumar, B., Acevedo-Arozena, A., Imarisio, S., Berger, Z., Vacher, C., O'Kane, C. J., Brown, S. D. M., & Rubinsztein, D. C.
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- Nature Genetics
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- 2005-06-26
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- 37
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- 7
- Pages
- 771-776
- ISSN
- 1061-4036
- 1546-1718
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