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Sedimentation Velocity Analysis with Fluorescence Detection of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1 Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans
- Source :
- Biochemistry. 56:4676-4688
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2017.
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Abstract
- At least nine neurodegenerative diseases that are caused by the aggregation induced by long tracts of glutamine sequences have been identified. One such polyglutamine-containing protein is huntingtin, which is the primary factor responsible for Huntington's disease. Sedimentation velocity with fluorescence detection is applied to perform a comparative study of the aggregation of the huntingtin exon 1 protein fragment upon transgenic expression in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans. This approach allows the detection of aggregation in complex mixtures under physiologically relevant conditions. Complementary methods used to support this biophysical approach included fluorescence microscopy and semidenaturing detergent agarose gel electrophoresis, as a point of comparison with earlier studies. New analysis tools developed for the analytical ultracentrifuge have made it possible to readily identify a wide range of aggregating species, including the monomer, a set of intermediate aggregates, and insoluble inclusion bodies. Differences in aggregation in the two animal model systems are noted, possibly because of differences in levels of expression of glutamine-rich sequences. An increased level of aggregation is shown to correlate with increased toxicity for both animal models. Co-expression of the human Hsp70 in D. melanogaster showed some mitigation of aggregation and toxicity, correlating best with inclusion body formation. The comparative study emphasizes the value of the analytical ultracentrifuge equipped with fluorescence detection as a useful and rigorous tool for in situ aggregation analysis to assess commonalities in aggregation across animal model systems.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Huntingtin
Protein Conformation
Blotting, Western
Biochemistry
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Exon
Fluorescence microscope
Animals
Drosophila Proteins
Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
Caenorhabditis elegans
Huntingtin Protein
biology
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
biology.organism_classification
Molecular biology
Drosophila melanogaster
030104 developmental biology
Larva
Mutation
Agarose gel electrophoresis
Protein Fragment
Biophysics
Ultracentrifuge
Ultracentrifugation
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15204995 and 00062960
- Volume :
- 56
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biochemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f12d0e3410dc283f6a21e9883999938