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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 479-485Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2008.08.010
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Protein disulfide isomerase; Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase; Reactive oxygen species
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Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1)ause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Mechanisms of mutant SOD1 toxicity are unknown, but increased SOD1 activity can boost production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the mitochondrial intermembrane space (IMS). Using non-reducing SDS-PAGE we found that in G93A-SOD1 rats the mutant SOD1 was prominently destabilized only in the diseased spinal cord, where this mutant enzyme was also up regulated in the IMS with increased ability to bind the inner membrane of isolated non-transgenic mitoplasts. These mitoplasts increased ROS production when exposed to mutant SOD1 from the spinal cord at the presymptomatic stage. The levels of disulfide-reduced SOD1 peaked at the end stage of the disease, whereas protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), a chaperone capable of rearranging disulfide bonds between cysteine residues of SOD` was increased prior to the end stage. IMS binding and increased ROS production by destabilized SOD1may contribute to mitochondrial damage in G93A-SOD1 rats. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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