Inhibition of Autophagy Induction Delays Neuronal Cell Loss Caused by Dysfunctional ESCRT-III in Frontotemporal Dementia
Open Access
- 1 July 2009
- journal article
- Published by Society for Neuroscience in Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 29 (26), 8506-8511
- https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0924-09.2009
Abstract
Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal protein degradation pathway whose precise roles in age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases remain largely unknown. Here we show that the autophagy inhibitor 3-methyladenine delays neuronal cell loss caused by dysfunctional endosomal sorting complex required for transport III (ESCRT-III), either through loss of its essential component mSnf7-2 or ectopic expression of the disease protein CHMP2BIntron5, which is associated with frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 3. Neuronal loss was also delayed by reduced activity of the autophagy genes atg5 and atg7. However, the endosomal accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins induced by dysfunctional ESCRT-III was not significantly affected, further confirming the essential contribution of dysregulated autophagy pathway in neurodegeneration. These findings show that autophagic stress by excess accumulation of autophagosomes is detrimental to neuronal survival under certain neurodegenerative conditions.Keywords
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