Alternative systems for misfolded protein clearance: life beyond the proteasome

HE Johnston, RS Samant - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Protein misfolding is a major driver of ageing‐associated frailty and disease pathology.
Although all cells possess multiple, well‐characterised protein quality control systems to …

Soluble forms of polyQ-expanded huntingtin rather than large aggregates cause endoplasmic reticulum stress

J Leitman, F Ulrich Hartl, GZ Lederkremer - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
In Huntington's disease, as in other neurodegenerative diseases, it was initially thought that
insoluble protein aggregates are the toxic species. However, growing evidence implicates …

Spatially organized aggregation of misfolded proteins as cellular stress defense strategy

SBM Miller, A Mogk, B Bukau - Journal of molecular biology, 2015 - Elsevier
An evolutionary conserved response of cells to proteotoxic stress is the organized
sequestration of misfolded proteins into subcellular deposition sites. In Saccharomyces …

Prion-like transmission of neuronal huntingtin aggregates to phagocytic glia in the Drosophila brain

MMP Pearce, EJ Spartz, W Hong, L Luo… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The brain has a limited capacity to self-protect against protein aggregate-associated
pathology, and mounting evidence supports a role for phagocytic glia in this process. We …

Protein misfolding and ER stress in Huntington's disease

T Shacham, N Sharma… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence in recent years indicates that protein misfolding and aggregation,
leading to ER stress, are central factors of pathogenicity in neurodegenerative diseases …

Complete suppression of Htt fibrilization and disaggregation of Htt fibrils by a trimeric chaperone complex

A Scior, A Buntru, K Arnsburg, A Ast, M Iburg… - The EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the huntingtin gene (HTT). Molecular chaperones have been …

Distinct partitioning of ALS associated TDP-43, FUS and SOD1 mutants into cellular inclusions

NE Farrawell, IA Lambert-Smith, ST Warraich, IP Blair… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease
associated with protein misfolding and aggregation. Most cases are characterized by TDP …

Cell rearrangement and oxidant/antioxidant imbalance in Huntington's disease

F D'Egidio, V Castelli, A Cimini, M d'Angelo - Antioxidants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Huntington's Disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by the
expansion of a CAG triplet repeat in the HTT gene, resulting in the production of an aberrant …

The ubiquitin-proteasome system in neurodegeneration

C McKinnon, SJ Tabrizi - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Significance: Impairment of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) has been implicated in
the pathogenesis of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress response in yeast and humans

H Wu, BSH Ng, G Thibault - Bioscience Reports, 2014 - portlandpress.com
Stress pathways monitor intracellular systems and deploy a range of regulatory mechanisms
in response to stress. One of the best-characterized pathways, the UPR (unfolded protein …