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EMBO J ; 40(21): e107568, 2021 11 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34617299

RESUMEN

While aggregation-prone proteins are known to accelerate aging and cause age-related diseases, the cellular mechanisms that drive their cytotoxicity remain unresolved. The orthologous proteins MOAG-4, SERF1A, and SERF2 have recently been identified as cellular modifiers of such proteotoxicity. Using a peptide array screening approach on human amyloidogenic proteins, we found that SERF2 interacted with protein segments enriched in negatively charged and hydrophobic, aromatic amino acids. The absence of such segments, or the neutralization of the positive charge in SERF2, prevented these interactions and abolished the amyloid-promoting activity of SERF2. In protein aggregation models in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, protein aggregation and toxicity were suppressed by mutating the endogenous locus of MOAG-4 to neutralize charge. Our data indicate that MOAG-4 and SERF2 drive protein aggregation and toxicity by interactions with negatively charged segments in aggregation-prone proteins. Such charge interactions might accelerate primary nucleation of amyloid by initiating structural changes and by decreasing colloidal stability. Our study points at charge interactions between cellular modifiers and amyloidogenic proteins as potential targets for interventions to reduce age-related protein toxicity.


Asunto(s)
Amiloide/química , Proteínas Amiloidogénicas/química , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/química , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Péptidos y Proteínas de Señalización Intracelular/química , Proteínas del Tejido Nervioso/química , alfa-Sinucleína/química , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Amiloide/genética , Amiloide/metabolismo , Proteínas Amiloidogénicas/genética , Proteínas Amiloidogénicas/metabolismo , Animales , Sitios de Unión , Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Regulación de la Expresión Génica , Células HEK293 , Humanos , Interacciones Hidrofóbicas e Hidrofílicas , Péptidos y Proteínas de Señalización Intracelular/genética , Péptidos y Proteínas de Señalización Intracelular/metabolismo , Proteínas del Tejido Nervioso/genética , Proteínas del Tejido Nervioso/metabolismo , Péptidos/genética , Péptidos/metabolismo , Agregado de Proteínas , Análisis por Matrices de Proteínas , Unión Proteica , Transducción de Señal , Electricidad Estática , alfa-Sinucleína/genética , alfa-Sinucleína/metabolismo
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Mol Cell ; 65(6): 1096-1108.e6, 2017 Mar 16.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28306505

RESUMEN

Protein aggregation is associated with age-related neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's and polyglutamine diseases. As a causal relationship between protein aggregation and neurodegeneration remains elusive, understanding the cellular mechanisms regulating protein aggregation will help develop future treatments. To identify such mechanisms, we conducted a forward genetic screen in a C. elegans model of polyglutamine aggregation and identified the protein MOAG-2/LIR-3 as a driver of protein aggregation. In the absence of polyglutamine, MOAG-2/LIR-3 regulates the RNA polymerase III-associated transcription of small non-coding RNAs. This regulation is lost in the presence of polyglutamine, which mislocalizes MOAG-2/LIR-3 from the nucleus to the cytosol. We then show biochemically that MOAG-2/LIR-3 can also catalyze the aggregation of polyglutamine-expanded huntingtin. These results suggest that polyglutamine can induce an aggregation-promoting activity of MOAG-2/LIR-3 in the cytosol. The concept that certain aggregation-prone proteins can convert other endogenous proteins into drivers of aggregation and toxicity adds to the understanding of how cellular homeostasis can be deteriorated in protein misfolding diseases.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/metabolismo , Caenorhabditis elegans/enzimología , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/enzimología , Péptidos/metabolismo , Agregado de Proteínas , Agregación Patológica de Proteínas , ARN Polimerasa III/metabolismo , Factores de Transcripción/metabolismo , Transporte Activo de Núcleo Celular , Animales , Animales Modificados Genéticamente , Sitios de Unión , Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Proteínas de Caenorhabditis elegans/genética , Núcleo Celular/enzimología , Citosol/enzimología , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/genética , Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/patología , Regiones Promotoras Genéticas , Unión Proteica , Interferencia de ARN , ARN Polimerasa III/genética , ARN Pequeño no Traducido/genética , ARN Pequeño no Traducido/metabolismo , Factores de Transcripción/genética , Transcripción Genética
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Life Sci Alliance ; 6(7)2023 07.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37130781

RESUMEN

In age-related neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, disease-specific proteins become aggregation-prone and form amyloid-like deposits. Depletion of SERF proteins ameliorates this toxic process in worm and human cell models for diseases. Whether SERF modifies amyloid pathology in mammalian brain, however, has remained unknown. Here, we generated conditional Serf2 knockout mice and found that full-body deletion of Serf2 delayed embryonic development, causing premature birth and perinatal lethality. Brain-specific Serf2 knockout mice, on the other hand, were viable, and showed no major behavioral or cognitive abnormalities. In a mouse model for amyloid-ß aggregation, brain depletion of Serf2 altered the binding of structure-specific amyloid dyes, previously used to distinguish amyloid polymorphisms in the human brain. These results suggest that Serf2 depletion changed the structure of amyloid deposits, which was further supported by scanning transmission electron microscopy, but further study will be required to confirm this observation. Altogether, our data reveal the pleiotropic functions of SERF2 in embryonic development and in the brain and support the existence of modifying factors of amyloid deposition in mammalian brain, which offer possibilities for polymorphism-based interventions.


Asunto(s)
Encéfalo , Péptidos y Proteínas de Señalización Intracelular , Placa Amiloide , Animales , Humanos , Ratones , Péptidos beta-Amiloides/metabolismo , Encéfalo/embriología , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Desarrollo Embrionario/genética , Péptidos y Proteínas de Señalización Intracelular/metabolismo , Ratones Noqueados , Placa Amiloide/metabolismo
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Front Neurosci ; 11: 64, 2017.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28261044

RESUMEN

As the population is aging, the incidence of age-related neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer and Parkinson disease, is growing. The pathology of neurodegenerative diseases is characterized by the presence of protein aggregates of disease specific proteins in the brain of patients. Under certain conditions these disease proteins can undergo structural rearrangements resulting in misfolded proteins that can lead to the formation of aggregates with a fibrillar amyloid-like structure. Cells have different mechanisms to deal with this protein aggregation, where the molecular chaperone machinery constitutes the first line of defense against misfolded proteins. Proteins that cannot be refolded are subjected to degradation and compartmentalization processes. Amyloid formation has traditionally been described as responsible for the proteotoxicity associated with different neurodegenerative disorders. Several mechanisms have been suggested to explain such toxicity, including the sequestration of key proteins and the overload of the protein quality control system. Here, we review different aspects of the involvement of amyloid-forming proteins in disease, mechanisms of toxicity, structural features, and biological functions of amyloids, as well as the cellular mechanisms that modulate and regulate protein aggregation, including the presence of enhancers and suppressors of aggregation, and how aging impacts the functioning of these mechanisms, with special attention to the molecular chaperones.

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PLoS One ; 9(6): e100574, 2014.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24959868

RESUMEN

Infiltration of leukocytes is a major pathological event in white matter lesion formation in the brain of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. In grey matter lesions, less infiltration of these cells occur, but microglial activation is present. Thus far, the interaction of ß-integrins with extracellular matrix proteins, e.g. fibronectin, is considered to be of importance for the influx of immune cells. Recent in vitro studies indicate a possible role for the enzyme tissue Transglutaminase (TG2) in mediating cell adhesion and migration. In the present study we questioned whether TG2 is present in white and grey matter lesions observed in the marmoset model for MS. To this end, immunohistochemical studies were performed. We observed that TG2, expressed by infiltrating monocytes in white matter lesions co-expressed ß1-integrin and is located in close apposition to deposited fibronectin. These data suggest an important role for TG2 in the adhesion and migration of infiltrating monocytes during white matter lesion formation. Moreover, in grey matter lesions, TG2 is mainly present in microglial cells together with some ß1-integrin, whereas fibronectin is absent in these lesions. These data imply an alternative role for microglial-derived TG2 in grey matter lesions, e.g. cell proliferation. Further research should clarify the functional role of TG2 in monocytes or microglial cells in MS lesion formation.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas de Unión al GTP/metabolismo , Esclerosis Múltiple/enzimología , Esclerosis Múltiple/patología , Transglutaminasas/metabolismo , Animales , Astrocitos/metabolismo , Callithrix , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Encefalomielitis Autoinmune Experimental/enzimología , Encefalomielitis Autoinmune Experimental/patología , Fibronectinas/inmunología , Fibronectinas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Unión al GTP/genética , Proteínas de Unión al GTP/inmunología , Expresión Génica , Sustancia Gris/enzimología , Sustancia Gris/inmunología , Sustancia Gris/patología , Inmunohistoquímica , Integrina beta1/inmunología , Integrina beta1/metabolismo , Subgrupos Linfocitarios/inmunología , Subgrupos Linfocitarios/metabolismo , Microglía/metabolismo , Monocitos/metabolismo , Esclerosis Múltiple/genética , Esclerosis Múltiple/inmunología , Oligodendroglía , Especificidad de Órganos , Proteína Glutamina Gamma Glutamiltransferasa 2 , Transglutaminasas/genética , Transglutaminasas/inmunología , Sustancia Blanca/enzimología , Sustancia Blanca/inmunología , Sustancia Blanca/patología
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