期刊
BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
卷 441, 期 -, 页码 417-424出版社
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20110621
关键词
Astragalus membranaceus; lifespan; neurodegeneration; polyglutamine; polysaccharide; proteostasis
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30973664]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [3081004, 20103010101000186]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council China [1603]
- European Research Council [233232]
Late-onset neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by progressive accumulation of aggregation-prone proteins and global disruption of the proteostasis network, e.g. abnormal polyQ (polyglutamine) aggregation in Huntington's disease. Astragalus membranaceus polysaccharide (astragalan) has recently been shown to modulate aging and proteotoxic stress pathways. Using Caenorhabditis elegans models, we now show that astragalan not only reduces polyQ aggregation, but also alleviates the associated neurotoxicity. We also reveal that astragalan can extend the adult lifespan of wild-type and polyQ nematodes, indicating a connection of its anti-aging benefit with the toxicity-suppressing effect. Further examination demonstrates that astragalan can extend the lifespan of daf-2 and age-1, but not daf-16, mutant nematodes of the insulin-like aging and stress pathway, suggesting a lifespan-regulation signalling independent of DAF (abnormal dauer formation)-2/IGF-IR (insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor), but dependent on the DAF-16/FOXO (forkhead box 0) transcription factor, a pivotal integrator of divergent signalling pathways related to both lifespan regulation and stress resistance. We also show that a subset of DAF-16 downstream genes are regulated by astragalan, including the DAF-16 transcriptional target gene scl-20. which is itself constitutively up-regulated in transgenic polyQ nematodes. These findings, together with our previous work on LEA (late embryogenesis abundant) proteins and trehalose, provide a revealing insight into the potential of stress and lifespan regulators in the prevention of proteotoxic disorders.
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