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Cargo recognition failure is responsible for inefficient autophagy in Huntington’s disease
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Continuous turnover of intracellular components by autophagy is necessary to preserve cellular homeostasis in all tissues. Alterations in macroautophagy, the main process responsible for bulk autophagic degradation, have been proposed to contribute to pathogenesis in Huntington's disease (HD), a genetic neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin protein. However, the precise mechanism behind macroautophagy malfunction in HD is poorly understood. In this work, using cellular and mouse models of HD and cells from humans with HD, we have identified a primary defect in the ability of autophagic vacuoles to recognize cytosolic cargo in HD cells. Autophagic vacuoles form at normal or even enhanced rates in HD cells and are adequately eliminated by lysosomes, but they fail to efficiently trap cytosolic cargo in their lumen. We propose that inefficient engulfment of cytosolic components by autophagosomes is responsible for their slower turnover, functional decay and accumulation inside HD cells.
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“4) an accumulation of autophagy substrates, including p62 (Komatsu et al., 2007a), lipid droplets and damaged mitochondria (Martinez-Vicente et al., 2010), in Tsc2+/- primary neuronal cultures (Figs S5 B, C, D, E);”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Martinez-Vicente, M., Talloczy, Z., Wong, E., Tang, G., Koga, H., Kaushik, S., de Vries, R., Arias, E., Harris, S., Sulzer, D., & Cuervo, A. M.
- Affiliations
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sulzer, David
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2010-04-11
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 567-576
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC2860687
- OpenAlex
- W2129447571
- Cited by
- 885
- References
- 45
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- FWCI
- 22.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG021904, R37AG021904, P01AG031782, AG-021904, AG031782, T32AG023475)
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK041918, P01DK041918)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P50NS038370)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics (clinical) › Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
- Keywords
- Huntington's disease, autophagy, cargo recognition, autophagosome formation, autophagosome degradation, lysosomal clearance, neurodegeneration, striatal neurons
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Autophagy, Cells, Cultured, Disease Models, Animal, Enzyme Inhibitors, Humans, Huntington Disease, Immunosuppressive Agents, Lysosomes, Mice, Transgenic, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Mitochondria, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neurons, Peptides, Subcellular Fractions, Time Factors, Vinca Alkaloids, Apoptosis, Thapsigargin, Sirolimus, Hepatocytes, Serum, Microscopy, Electron, Transmission, Serotonin Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, Mice
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