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Pandey UB Nie Z Batlevi Y McCray BA Ritson GP Nedelsky NB Schwartz SL DiProspero NA Knight MA Schuldiner O Padmanabhan R Hild M Berry DL Garza D Hubbert CC Yao TP Baehrecke EH Taylor JP 《Nature》2007,447(7146):859-863
A prominent feature of late-onset neurodegenerative diseases is accumulation of misfolded protein in vulnerable neurons. When levels of misfolded protein overwhelm degradative pathways, the result is cellular toxicity and neurodegeneration. Cellular mechanisms for degrading misfolded protein include the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS), the main non-lysosomal degradative pathway for ubiquitinated proteins, and autophagy, a lysosome-mediated degradative pathway. The UPS and autophagy have long been viewed as complementary degradation systems with no point of intersection. This view has been challenged by two observations suggesting an apparent interaction: impairment of the UPS induces autophagy in vitro, and conditional knockout of autophagy in the mouse brain leads to neurodegeneration with ubiquitin-positive pathology. It is not known whether autophagy is strictly a parallel degradation system, or whether it is a compensatory degradation system when the UPS is impaired; furthermore, if there is a compensatory interaction between these systems, the molecular link is not known. Here we show that autophagy acts as a compensatory degradation system when the UPS is impaired in Drosophila melanogaster, and that histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6), a microtubule-associated deacetylase that interacts with polyubiquitinated proteins, is an essential mechanistic link in this compensatory interaction. We found that compensatory autophagy was induced in response to mutations affecting the proteasome and in response to UPS impairment in a fly model of the neurodegenerative disease spinobulbar muscular atrophy. Autophagy compensated for impaired UPS function in an HDAC6-dependent manner. Furthermore, expression of HDAC6 was sufficient to rescue degeneration associated with UPS dysfunction in vivo in an autophagy-dependent manner. This study suggests that impairment of autophagy (for example, associated with ageing or genetic variation) might predispose to neurodegeneration. Morover, these findings suggest that it may be possible to intervene in neurodegeneration by augmenting HDAC6 to enhance autophagy. 相似文献
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T. Sampath Kumar S. Balasivanandha Prabu Geetha Manivasagam K. A. Padmanabhan 《矿物冶金与材料学报》2014,21(8):796-805
Monolayer and bilayer coatings of TiAlN, AlCrN, and AlCrN/TiAlN were deposited onto tungsten carbide inserts using the plasma enhanced physical vapor deposition process. The microstructures of the coatings were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The SEM micrographs revealed that the AlCrN and AlCrN/TiAlN coatings were uniform and highly dense and contained only a limited number of microvoids. The TiAlN coating was non-uniform and highly porous and contained more micro droplets. The hardness and scratch resistance of the specimens were measured using a nanoindentation tester and scratch tester, respectively. Different phases formed in the coatings were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The AlCrN/TiAlN coating exhibited a higher hardness (32.75 GPa), a higher Young’s modulus (561.97 GPa), and superior scratch resistance (LCN = 46 N) compared to conventional coatings such as TiAlN, AlCrN, and TiN. 相似文献
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Sotoodehnia N Isaacs A de Bakker PI Dörr M Newton-Cheh C Nolte IM van der Harst P Müller M Eijgelsheim M Alonso A Hicks AA Padmanabhan S Hayward C Smith AV Polasek O Giovannone S Fu J Magnani JW Marciante KD Pfeufer A Gharib SA Teumer A Li M Bis JC Rivadeneira F Aspelund T Köttgen A Johnson T Rice K Sie MP Wang YA Klopp N Fuchsberger C Wild SH Mateo Leach I Estrada K Völker U Wright AF Asselbergs FW Qu J Chakravarti A Sinner MF Kors JA Petersmann A Harris TB Soliman EZ Munroe PB Psaty BM 《Nature genetics》2010,42(12):1068-1076
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Relative helix-forming tendencies of nonpolar amino acids 总被引:39,自引:0,他引:39
An important issue in understanding the relationship between protein sequence and structure is the degree to which different amino acids favour the formation of particular types of secondary structure. Estimates of the 'helix-forming tendency' of amino acids have been made based on 'host-guest' experiments, in which copolymers are made of the amino acid of interest (the 'guest') and a host residue (typically hydroxypropyl- or hydroxybutyl-L-glutamine). Recently, however, short alanine-based peptides were found to form stable monomeric helices in water, contrary to the result predicted from host-guest experiments. We have now measured the helix-forming tendency of five different nonpolar amino acids (Ala, Ile, Leu, Phe, Val) by substituting each in turn for alanine in a 17-residue alanine-based peptide and determining the extent of alpha-helix formation. Our results differ from those of host-guest experiments both in the degree of variation in helix-forming tendency of different amino acids, and in the rank order of the helix-forming tendency. We conclude that the helix-forming tendency of a particular amino acid depends on the sequence context in which it occurs; and the restriction of side-chain rotamer conformations is important in determining the helix-forming tendency. 相似文献
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