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Title: | Calpastatin-mediated inhibition of calpains in the mouse brain prevents mutant ataxin 3 proteolysis, nuclear localization and aggregation, relieving Machado–Joseph disease | Authors: | Simões, Ana T. Gonçalves, Nélio Koeppen, Arnulf Déglon, Nicole Kügler, Sebastian Duarte, Carlos Bandeira Almeida, Luís Pereira de |
Keywords: | Machado–Joseph disease; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3; Calpastatin; Cleavage fragment; Proteolysis | Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Citation: | SIMÕES, Ana T; GONÇALVES, Nélio; KOEPPEN, Arnulf; DÉGLON, Nicole; KÜGLER, Sebastian; DUARTE, Carlos Bandeira; ALMEIDA, Luís Pereira de - Calpastatin-mediated inhibition of calpains in the mouse brain prevents mutant ataxin 3 proteolysis, nuclear localization and aggregation, relieving Machado–Joseph disease. “Brain”. ISSN: 0006-8950. 135 (2012) 2428–243. | Serial title, monograph or event: | Brain | Volume: | 132 | Place of publication or event: | Oxford | Abstract: | Machado–Joseph disease is the most frequently found dominantly-inherited cerebellar ataxia. Over-repetition of a CAG trinucleotide in the MJD1 gene translates into a polyglutamine tract within the ataxin 3 protein, which upon proteolysis may trigger Machado–Joseph disease. We investigated the role of calpains in the generation of toxic ataxin 3 fragments and pathogenesis of Machado–Joseph disease. For this purpose, we inhibited calpain activity in mouse models of Machado–Joseph disease by overexpressing the endogenous calpain-inhibitor calpastatin. Calpain blockage reduced the size and number of mutant ataxin 3 inclusions, neuronal dysfunction and neurodegeneration. By reducing fragmentation of ataxin 3, calpastatin overexpression modified the subcellular localization of mutant ataxin 3 restraining the protein in the cytoplasm, reducing aggregation and nuclear toxicity and overcoming calpastatin depletion observed upon mutant ataxin 3 expression. Our findings are the first in vivo proof that mutant ataxin 3 proteolysis by calpains mediates its translocation to the nucleus, aggregation and toxicity and that inhibition of calpains may provide an effective therapy for Machado–Joseph disease. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/28114 | ISSN: | 0006-8950 | DOI: | 10.1093/brain/aws177 | Rights: | openAccess |
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