1. Forskolin and dopamine D1 receptor activation increase huntingtin's association with endosomes in immortalized neuronal cells of striatal origin.
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Kim M, Velier J, Chase K, Laforet G, Kalchman MA, Hayden MR, Won L, Heller A, Aronin N, and Difiglia M
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- Animals, Cell Line, Transformed, Clathrin metabolism, Endocytosis, Endosomes drug effects, Endosomes ultrastructure, Huntingtin Protein, Huntington Disease metabolism, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neuroblastoma, Neurons drug effects, Neurons ultrastructure, Receptors, Dopamine D1 drug effects, Tumor Cells, Cultured, Colforsin pharmacology, Corpus Striatum metabolism, Dopamine pharmacology, Endosomes metabolism, Nerve Tissue Proteins metabolism, Neurons metabolism, Nuclear Proteins metabolism, Receptors, Dopamine D1 physiology
- Abstract
Huntingtin is a cytoplasmic protein of unknown function that associates with vesicle membranes and microtubules. Its protein interactions suggest that huntingtin has a role in endocytosis and organelle transport. In this study we sought to identify factors that regulate the transport of huntingtin in striatal neurons, which are the cells most affected in Huntington's disease. In clonal striatal cells derived from fusions of neuroblastoma and embryonic striatal neurons, huntingtin localization is diffuse and slightly punctate in the cytoplasm. When these neurons were differentiated by treatment with forskolin, huntingtin redistributed to perinuclear regions, discrete puncta along plasma membranes, and branch points and terminal growth cones in neurites. Huntingtin staining overlapped with clathrin, a coat protein involved in endocytosis. Immunoblot analysis of subcellular membrane fractions separated by differential centrifugation confirmed that huntingtin immunoreactivity in differentiated neurons markedly increased in membrane fractions enriched with clathrin and with huntingtin-interacting protein 1. Dopamine treatment altered the subcellular localization of huntingtin and increased its expression in clathrin-enriched membrane fractions. The dopamine-induced changes were blocked by the D1 antagonist SCH 23390 and were absent in a clonal cell line lacking D1 receptors. Results suggest that the transport of huntingtin and its co-expression in clathrin and huntingtin-interacting protein 1-enriched membranes is influenced by activation of adenylyl cyclase and stimulation of dopamine D1 receptors.
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- 1999
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