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NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 172, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2022.105832
Keywords
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy; Motor neuron disease; Polyglutamine disease
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
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This study found that SYNJ2BP is increased in diseased motor neurons and under stress in iPSC-derived motor neurons. Proteomic analysis showed that elevated SYNJ2BP alters the distribution of mitochondria and increases mitochondrial-ER membrane contact sites. Additionally, decreasing SYNJ2BP levels improves mitochondrial oxidative function in diseased motor neurons.
Synaptojanin 2 binding protein (SYNJ2BP) is an outer mitochondrial membrane protein with a cytosolic PDZ domain that functions as a cellular signaling hub. Few studies have evaluated its role in disease. Here we use induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived motor neurons and post-mortem tissue from patients with two hereditary motor neuron diseases, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis type 4 (ALS4), and show that SYNJ2BP expression is increased in diseased motor neurons. Similarly, we show that SYNJ2BP expression increases in iPSC-derived motor neurons undergoing stress. Using proteomic analysis, we found that elevated SYNJ2BP alters the cellular distribution of mitochondria and increases mitochondrial-ER membrane contact sites. Furthermore, decreasing SYNJ2BP levels improves mitochondrial oxidative function in the diseased motor neurons. Together, our observations offer new insight into the molecular pathology of motor neuron disease and the role of SYNJ2BP in mitochondrial dysfunction.
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