α-Synuclein levels modulate Huntington's disease in mice.

Abstract:

:α-Synuclein and mutant huntingtin are the major constituents of the intracellular aggregates that characterize the pathology of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD), respectively. α-Synuclein is likely to be a major contributor to PD, since overexpression of this protein resulting from genetic triplication is sufficient to cause human forms of PD. We have previously demonstrated that wild-type α-synuclein overexpression impairs macroautophagy in mammalian cells and in transgenic mice. Overexpression of human wild-type α-synuclein in cells and Drosophila models of HD worsens the disease phenotype. Here, we examined whether α-synuclein overexpression also worsens the HD phenotype in a mammalian system using two widely used N-terminal HD mouse models (R6/1 and N171-82Q). We also tested the effects of α-synuclein deletion in the same N-terminal HD mouse models, as well as assessed the effects of α-synuclein deletion on macroautophagy in mouse brains. We show that overexpression of wild-type α-synuclein in both mouse models of HD enhances the onset of tremors and has some influence on the rate of weight loss. On the other hand, α-synuclein deletion in both HD models increases autophagosome numbers and this is associated with a delayed onset of tremors and weight loss, two of the most prominent endophenotypes of the HD-like disease in mice. We have therefore established a functional link between these two aggregate-prone proteins in mammals and provide further support for the model that wild-type α-synuclein negatively regulates autophagy even at physiological levels.

journal_name

Hum Mol Genet

journal_title

Human molecular genetics

authors

Corrochano S,Renna M,Carter S,Chrobot N,Kent R,Stewart M,Cooper J,Brown SD,Rubinsztein DC,Acevedo-Arozena A

doi

10.1093/hmg/ddr477

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-02-01 00:00:00

pages

485-94

issue

3

eissn

0964-6906

issn

1460-2083

pii

ddr477

journal_volume

21

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