Ubiquilin-2 differentially regulates polyglutamine disease proteins.

Human Molecular Genetics
Julia E GersonLisa M Sharkey

Abstract

Divergent protein context helps explain why polyglutamine expansion diseases differ clinically and pathologically. This heterogeneity may also extend to how polyglutamine disease proteins are handled by cellular pathways of proteostasis. Studies suggest, for example, that the ubiquitin-proteasome shuttle protein Ubiquilin-2 (UBQLN2) selectively interacts with specific polyglutamine disease proteins. Here we employ cellular models, primary neurons and mouse models to investigate the potential differential regulation by UBQLN2 of two polyglutamine disease proteins, huntingtin (HTT) and ataxin-3 (ATXN3). In cells, overexpressed UBQLN2 selectively lowered levels of full-length pathogenic HTT but not of HTT exon 1 fragment or full-length ATXN3. Consistent with these results, UBQLN2 specifically reduced accumulation of aggregated mutant HTT but not mutant ATXN3 in mouse models of Huntington's disease (HD) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), respectively. Normally a cytoplasmic protein, UBQLN2 translocated to the nuclei of neurons in HD mice but not in SCA3 mice. Remarkably, instead of reducing the accumulation of nuclear mutant ATXN3, UBQLN2 induced an accumulation of cytoplasmic ATXN3 aggregates in neurons of SCA3 mice. Togeth...Continue Reading

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