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Mutant huntingtin interacts with {beta}-tubulin and disrupts vesicular transport and insulin secretion.

Författare

Summary, in English

Huntington's disease is a severe progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG-expansion in the IT15 gene, which encodes huntingtin. The disease primarily affects the neostriatum and cerebral cortex and also associates with increased incidence of diabetes. Here, we show that mutant huntingtin disrupts intracellular transport and insulin secretion by direct interference with microtubular beta-tubulin. We demonstrate that mutant huntingtin impairs glucose-stimulated insulin secretion in insulin-producing beta-cells, without altering stored levels of insulin. Using VSVG-YFP, we show that mutant huntingtin retards post-Golgi transport. Moreover, we demonstrate that the speed of insulin vesicle trafficking is reduced. Using immunoprecipitation of mutant and wild-type huntingtin in combination with mass spectrometry, we reveal an enhanced and aberrant interaction between mutant huntingtin and beta-tubulin, implying the underlying mechanism of impaired intracellular transport. Thus, our findings have revealed a novel pathogenetic process by which mutant huntingtin may disrupt hormone exocytosis from beta-cells and possibly impair vesicular transport in any cell that expresses the pathogenic protein.

Publiceringsår

2009

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

3942-3954

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Human Molecular Genetics

Volym

18

Issue

20

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Medical Genetics

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Insulin Signal Transduction
  • Islet cell physiology
  • Translational Neuroendocrinology

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0964-6906