Reinstating aberrant mTORC1 activity in Huntington's disease mice improves disease phenotypes.
Neuron
; 85(2): 303-15, 2015 Jan 21.
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ABSTRACT
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by a polyglutamine tract expansion in huntingtin (HTT). Despite HTTs ubiquitous expression, there is early and robust vulnerability in striatum, the cause of which is poorly understood. Here, we provide evidence that impaired striatal mTORC1 activity underlies varied metabolic and degenerative phenotypes in HD brain and show that introducing the constitutively active form of the mTORC1 regulator, Rheb, into HD mouse brain, alleviates mitochondrial dysfunction, aberrant cholesterol homeostasis, striatal atrophy, impaired dopamine signaling, and increases autophagy. We also find that the expression of Rhes, a striatum-enriched mTOR activator, is reduced in HD patient and mouse brain and that exogenous addition of Rhes alleviates motor deficits and improves brain pathology in HD mice. Our combined work indicates that impaired Rhes/mTORC1 activity in HD brain may underlie the notable striatal susceptibility and thus presents a promising therapeutic target for HD therapy.
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Neuropeptídeos
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Transdução de Sinais
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Neostriado
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Doença de Huntington
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Proteínas de Ligação ao GTP
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Proteínas Monoméricas de Ligação ao GTP
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Complexos Multiproteicos
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Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Serotonina
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Serina-Treonina Quinases TOR
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Animals
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article