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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 9, Issue 44, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh2584
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The gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated (GABAergic) system plays a role in organismal physiology and disease, including proteostasis and neuronal dysfunction. This study reveals that GABAergic redox signaling activates stress response pathways and enhances vulnerability to proteostasis disease in the absence of oxidative stress in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
The gamma-aminobutyric acid-mediated (GABAergic) system participates in many aspects of organismal physiology and disease, including proteostasis, neuronal dysfunction, and life-span extension. Many of these phenotypes are also regulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS), but the redox mechanisms linking the GABAergic system to these phenotypes are not well defined. Here, we report that GABAergic redox signaling cell nonautonomously activates many stress response pathways in Caenorhabditis elegans and enhances vulnerability to proteostasis disease in the absence of oxidative stress. Cell nonautonomous redox activation of the mitochondrial unfolded protein response (mitoUPR) proteostasis network requires UNC-49, a GABA(A) receptor that we show is activated by hydrogen peroxide. MitoUPR induction by a spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) C. elegans neurodegenerative disease model was similarly dependent on UNC-49 in C. elegans. These results demonstrate a multi-tissue paradigm for redox signaling in the GABAergic system that is transduced via a GABA(A) receptor to function in cell nonautonomous regulation of health, proteostasis, and disease.
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