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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41419-020-02862-7
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- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2018R1A2B6002232]
- Center for Women In Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET) - Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) [WISET-2019-491]
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Emerging evidence indicates that neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) result from a failure to clear toxic protein aggregates rather than from their generation. We previously showed N-acetylglucosamine kinase (NAGK) promotes dynein functionality and suggested this might promote aggregate removal and effectively address proteinopathies. Here, we report NAGK interacts with dynein light chain roadblock type 1 (DYNLRB1) and efficiently suppresses mutant huntingtin (mHtt) (Q74) and alpha -synuclein (alpha -syn) A53T aggregation in mouse brain cells. A kinase-inactive NAGK(D107A) also efficiently cleared Q74 aggregates. Yeast two-hybrid selection and in silico protein-protein docking analysis showed the small domain of NAGK (NAGK-D-S) binds to the C-terminal of DYNLRB1. Furthermore, a small peptide derived from NAGK-D-S interfered with Q74 clearance. We propose binding of NAGK-D-S to DYNLRB1 'pushes up' the tail of dynein light chain and confers momentum for inactive phi- to active open-dynein transition.
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