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- Title
Functional multivesicular bodies are required for autophagic clearance of protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disease.
- Authors
Filimonenko, Maria; Stuffers, Susanne; Raiborg, Camilla; Yamamoto, Ai; Malerød, Lene; Fisher, Elizabeth M C; Isaacs, Adrian; Brech, Andreas; Stenmark, Harald; Simonsen, Anne
- Abstract
The endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) are required to sort integral membrane proteins into intralumenal vesicles of the multivesicular body (MVB). Mutations in the ESCRT-III subunit CHMP2B were recently associated with frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), neurodegenerative diseases characterized by abnormal ubiquitin-positive protein deposits in affected neurons. We show here that autophagic degradation is inhibited in cells depleted of ESCRT subunits and in cells expressing CHMP2B mutants, leading to accumulation of protein aggregates containing ubiquitinated proteins, p62 and Alfy. Moreover, we find that functional MVBs are required for clearance of TDP-43 (identified as the major ubiquitinated protein in ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin deposits), and of expanded polyglutamine aggregates associated with Huntington's disease. Together, our data indicate that efficient autophagic degradation requires functional MVBs and provide a possible explanation to the observed neurodegenerative phenotype seen in patients with CHMP2B mutations.
- Publication
The Journal of cell biology, 2007, Vol 179, Issue 3, p485
- ISSN
0021-9525
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1083/jcb.200702115