scholarly journals Deletion of the Capn1 Gene Results in Alterations in Signaling Pathways Related to Alzheimer’s Disease, Protein Quality Control and Synaptic Plasticity in Mouse Brain

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyue Su ◽  
Qian Zhou ◽  
Yubin Wang ◽  
Athar Chishti ◽  
Qingshun Q. Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Synaptic Plasticity ◽  
Signaling Pathways ◽  
Mouse Brain ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Protein Quality Control ◽  
Disease Protein

scholarly journals Alzheimer Cells on Their Way to Derailment Show Selective Changes in Protein Quality Control Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margreet B. Koopman ◽  
Stefan G. D. Rüdiger
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Heat Shock ◽  
Heat Shock Proteins ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Protein Quality Control ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Control Network ◽  
Shock Proteins

Alzheimer’s Disease is driven by protein aggregation and is characterized by accumulation of Tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles. In healthy neurons the cellular protein quality control is successfully in charge of protein folding, which raises the question to which extent this control is disturbed in disease. Here, we describe that brain cells in Alzheimer’s Disease show very specific derailment of the protein quality control network. We performed a meta-analysis on the Alzheimer’s Disease Proteome database, which provides a quantitative assessment of disease-related proteome changes in six brain regions in comparison to age-matched controls. We noted that levels of all paralogs of the conserved Hsp90 chaperone family are reduced, while most other chaperones – or their regulatory co-chaperones - do not change in disease. The notable exception is a select group consisting of the stress inducible HSP70, its nucleotide exchange factor BAG3 – which links the Hsp70 system to autophagy - and neuronal small heat shock proteins, which are upregulated in disease. They are all members of a cascade controlled in the stress response, channeling proteins towards a pathway of chaperone assisted selective autophagy. Together, our analysis reveals that in an Alzheimer’s brain, with exception of Hsp90, the players of the protein quality control are still present in full strength, even in brain regions most severely affected in disease. The specific upregulation of small heat shock proteins and HSP70:BAG3, ubiquitous in all brain areas analyzed, may represent a last, unsuccessful attempt to advert cell death.

scholarly journals Roles and Mechanisms of the Protein Quality Control System in Alzheimer’s Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Yaping Liu ◽  
Runrong Ding ◽  
Ze Xu ◽  
Yuan Xue ◽  
Dongdong Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Control System ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Senile Plaques ◽  
Protein Quality Control ◽  
Quality Control System ◽  
Protein Quality Control System

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of senile plaques (SPs) and the formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NTFs), as well as neuronal dysfunctions in the brain, but in fact, patients have shown a sustained disease progression for at least 10 to 15 years before these pathologic biomarkers can be detected. Consequently, as the most common chronic neurological disease in the elderly, the challenge of AD treatment is that it is short of effective biomarkers for early diagnosis. The protein quality control system is a collection of cellular pathways that can recognize damaged proteins and thereby modulate their turnover. Abundant evidence indicates that the accumulation of abnormal proteins in AD is closely related to the dysfunction of the protein quality control system. In particular, it is the synthesis, degradation, and removal of essential biological components that have already changed in the early stage of AD, which further encourages us to pay more attention to the protein quality control system. The review mainly focuses on the endoplasmic reticulum system (ERS), autophagy–lysosome system (ALS) and the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS), and deeply discusses the relationship between the protein quality control system and the abnormal proteins of AD, which can not only help us to understand how and why the complex regulatory system becomes malfunctional during AD progression, but also provide more novel therapeutic strategies to prevent the development of AD.

scholarly journals Alzheimer cells on their way to derailment show selective changes in protein quality control network

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margreet B. Koopman ◽  
Stefan G.D Rüdiger
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Heat Shock ◽  
Heat Shock Proteins ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Protein Quality Control ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Control Network ◽  
Shock Proteins

Alzheimer’s Disease is driven by protein aggregation and is characterised by accumulation of Tau protein into neurofibrillary tangles. In healthy neurons the cellular protein quality control is successfully in charge of protein folding, which raises the question to which extent this control is disturbed in disease. Here we describe that brain cells in Alzheimer’s Disease show very specific derailment of the protein quality control network. We performed a meta-analysis on the Alzheimer’s Disease Proteasome database, which provides a quantitative assessment of disease-related proteome changes in six brain regions in comparison with age-matched controls. We noted that levels of all paralogues of the conserved Hsp90 chaperone family are reduced, while most other chaperones – or their regulatory co-chaperones – do not change in disease. The notable exception is a select group consisting of the stress inducible HSP70, its nucleotide exchange factor BAG3 – which links the Hsp70 system to autophagy – and neuronal small heat shock proteins, which are upregulated in disease. They are all members of a cascade controlled in the stress response, channelling proteins towards a pathway of chaperone assisted selective autophagy. Together, our analysis reveals that in an Alzheimer’s brain, with exception of Hsp90, the players of the protein quality control are still present in full strength, even in brain regions most severely affected in disease. The specific upregulation of small heat shock proteins and HSP70:BAG3, ubiquitous in all brain areas analysed, may represent a last, unsuccessful attempt to advert neuronal cell death.

scholarly journals Possible involvement of endoplasmic reticulum stress in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Hosoi ◽  
Jun Nomura ◽  
Koichiro Ozawa ◽  
Akinori Nishi ◽  
Yasuyuki Nomura
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Er Stress ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Unfolded Proteins ◽  
Unfolded Protein ◽  
The Unfolded Protein Response ◽  
Protein Response

AbstractThe endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an organelle that plays a crucial role in protein quality control such as protein folding. Evidence to indicate the involvement of ER in maintaining cellular homeostasis is increasing. However, when cells are exposed to stressful conditions, which perturb ER function, unfolded proteins accumulate leading to ER stress. Cells then activate the unfolded protein response (UPR) to cope with this stressful condition. In the present review, we will discuss and summarize recent advances in research on the basic mechanisms of the UPR. We also discuss the possible involvement of ER stress in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Potential therapeutic opportunities for diseases targeting ER stress is also described.

scholarly journals RTL8 promotes nuclear localization of UBQLN2 to subnuclear compartments associated with protein quality control

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harihar Milaganur Mohan ◽  
Amit Pithadia ◽  
Hanna Trzeciakiewicz ◽  
Emily V. Crowley ◽  
Regina Pacitto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Mouse Brain ◽  
Protein Quality ◽  
Nuclear Translocation ◽  
Protein Quality Control ◽  
Adaptor Proteins ◽  
Ubiquitin Proteasome System ◽  
Subnuclear Localization

AbstractThe brain expressed ubiquilins (UBQLNs) 1, 2 and 4 are a family of ubiquitin adaptor proteins that participate broadly in protein quality control (PQC) pathways, including the ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS). One family member, UBQLN2, has been implicated in numerous neurodegenerative diseases including ALS/FTD. UBQLN2 typically resides in the cytoplasm but in disease can translocate to the nucleus, as in Huntington’s disease where it promotes the clearance of mutant Huntingtin protein. How UBQLN2 translocates to the nucleus and clears aberrant nuclear proteins, however, is not well understood. In a mass spectrometry screen to discover UBQLN2 interactors, we identified a family of small (13 kDa), highly homologous uncharacterized proteins, RTL8, and confirmed the interaction between UBQLN2 and RTL8 both in vitro using recombinant proteins and in vivo using mouse brain tissue. Under endogenous and overexpressed conditions, RTL8 localizes to nucleoli. When co-expressed with UBQLN2, RTL8 promotes nuclear translocation of UBQLN2. UBQLN2 and RTL8 colocalize within ubiquitin-enriched subnuclear structures containing PQC components. The robust effect of RTL8 on the nuclear translocation and subnuclear localization of UBQLN2 does not extend to the other brain-expressed ubiquilins, UBQLN1 and UBQLN4. Moreover, compared to UBQLN1 and UBQLN4, UBQLN2 preferentially stabilizes RTL8 levels in human cell lines and in mouse brain, supporting functional heterogeneity among UBQLNs. As a novel UBQLN2 interactor that recruits UBQLN2 to specific nuclear compartments, RTL8 may regulate UBQLN2 function in nuclear protein quality control.

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