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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 29, Issue 26, Pages 8506-8511Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0924-09.2009
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- California Institute of Regenerative Medicine
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- NIH [CO6 RR018928]
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Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal protein degradation pathway whose precise roles in age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases remain largely unknown. Here we show that the autophagy inhibitor 3-methyladenine delays neuronal cell loss caused by dysfunctional endosomal sorting complex required for transport III (ESCRT-III), either through loss of its essential component mSnf7-2 or ectopic expression of the disease protein CHMP2B(Intron5), which is associated with frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 3. Neuronal loss was also delayed by reduced activity of the autophagy genes atg5 and atg7. However, the endosomal accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins induced by dysfunctional ESCRT-III was not significantly affected, further confirming the essential contribution of dysregulated autophagy pathway in neurodegeneration. These findings show that autophagic stress by excess accumulation of autophagosomes is detrimental to neuronal survival under certain neurodegenerative conditions.
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