Abstract
Misfolded protein toxicity and failure of protein quality control underlie neurodegenerative diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. Here, we identified Lethal(3)malignant brain tumor-like protein 1 (L3MBTL1) as a key regulator of protein quality control, the loss of which protected against the proteotoxicity of mutant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase or C9orf72 dipeptide repeat proteins. L3MBTL1 acts by regulating p53-dependent quality control systems that degrade misfolded proteins. SET domain-containing protein 8, an L3MBTL1-associated p53-binding protein, also regulated clearance of misfolded proteins and was increased by proteotoxicity-associated stresses in mammalian cells. Both L3MBTL1 and SET domain-containing protein 8 were upregulated in the central nervous systems of mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/frontotemporal dementia. The role of L3MBTL1 in protein quality control is conserved from Caenorhabditis elegans to mammalian neurons. These results reveal a protein quality-control pathway that operates in both normal stress response and proteotoxicity-associated neurodegenerative diseases.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 875-886 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Nature neuroscience |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 1 2019 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Neuroscience(all)