Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 10, Pages 1692-1696Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pro.700
Keywords
SOD1-YFP; hydrogen-deuterium exchange
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Mutations of cytosolic Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) in humans and overexpression of mutant human SOD1 genes in transgenic mice are associated with the motor neuron degenerative condition known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig's disease). Gain-of-function toxicity from the mutant protein expressed in motor neurons, associated with its misfolding and aggregation, leads to dysfunction and cell death, associated with paralyzing disease. Here, using hydrogen-deuterium exchange in intact mice in vivo, we have addressed whether an ALS-associated mutant protein, G85R SOD1-YFP, is subject to the same rate of turnover in spinal cord both early in the course of the disease and later. We find that the mutant protein turns over about 10-fold faster than a similarly expressed wild-type fusion and that there is no significant change in the rate of turnover as animals age and disease progresses.
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