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- Title
A functional deficiency of TERA/VCP/p97 contributes to impaired DNA repair in multiple polyglutamine diseases.
- Authors
Fujita, Kyota; Nakamura, Yoko; Oka, Tsutomu; Ito, Hikaru; Tamura, Takuya; Tagawa, Kazuhiko; Sasabe, Toshikazu; Katsuta, Asuka; Motoki, Kazumi; Shiwaku, Hiroki; Sone, Masaki; Yoshida, Chisato; Katsuno, Masahisa; Eishi, Yoshinobu; Murata, Miho; Paul Taylor, J.; Wanker, Erich E.; Kono, Kazuteru; Tashiro, Satoshi; Sobue, Gen
- Abstract
It is hypothesized that a common underlying mechanism links multiple neurodegenerative disorders. Here we show that transitional endoplasmic reticulum ATPase (TERA)/valosin-containing protein (VCP)/p97 directly binds to multiple polyglutamine disease proteins (huntingtin, ataxin-1, ataxin-7 and androgen receptor) via polyglutamine sequence. Although normal and mutant polyglutamine proteins interact with TERA/VCP/p97, only mutant proteins affect dynamism of TERA/VCP/p97. Among multiple functions of TERA/VCP/p97, we reveal that functional defect of TERA/VCP/p97 in DNA double-stranded break repair is critical for the pathology of neurons in which TERA/VCP/p97 is located dominantly in the nucleus in vivo. Mutant polyglutamine proteins impair accumulation of TERA/VCP/p97 and interaction of related double-stranded break repair proteins, finally causing the increase of unrepaired double-stranded break. Consistently, the recovery of lifespan in polyglutamine disease fly models by TERA/VCP/p97 corresponds well to the improvement of double-stranded break in neurons. Taken together, our results provide a novel common pathomechanism in multiple polyglutamine diseases that is mediated by DNA repair function of TERA/VCP/p97.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 5, p1816
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ncomms2828