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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
Huntington disease is one of nine inherited neurodegenerative disorders caused by a polyglutamine tract expansion. Expanded polyglutamine proteins accumulate abnormally in intracellular aggregates. Here we show that mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is sequestered in polyglutamine aggregates in cell models, transgenic mice and human brains. Sequestration of mTOR impairs its kinase activity and induces autophagy, a key clearance pathway for mutant huntingtin fragments. This protects against polyglutamine toxicity, as the specific mTOR inhibitor rapamycin attenuates huntingtin accumulation and cell death in cell models of Huntington disease, and inhibition of autophagy has the converse effects. Furthermore, rapamycin protects against neurodegeneration in a fly model of Huntington disease, and the rapamycin analog CCI-779 improved performance on four different behavioral tasks and decreased aggregate formation in a mouse model of Huntington disease. Our data provide proof-of-principle for the potential of inducing autophagy to treat Huntington disease.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/HD protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hdh protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/MTOR protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Macromolecular Substances, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nuclear Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptides, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinase Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Sirolimus, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/mTOR protein, mouse, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/polyglutamine
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
585-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Autophagy, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Drosophila melanogaster, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Female, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Huntington Disease, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Macromolecular Substances, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Nuclear Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Peptides, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Protein Biosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Protein Kinase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-Sirolimus, pubmed-meshheading:15146184-TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Inhibition of mTOR induces autophagy and reduces toxicity of polyglutamine expansions in fly and mouse models of Huntington disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2XY, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't