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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-4
pubmed:abstractText
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative illness associated with a selective loss of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway of the brain. Despite the overall rarity of the familial forms of PD, the identification of single genes linked to the disease has yielded crucial insights into possible mechanisms of neurodegeneration. Recently, a putative mitochondrial kinase, PINK1, has been found mutated in an inherited form of parkinsonism. Here, we describe that PINK1 mutations confer different autophosphorylation activity, which is regulated by the C-terminal portion of the protein. We also demonstrate the mitochondrial localization of both wild-type and mutant PINK1 proteins unequivocally and prove that a short N-terminal part of PINK1 is sufficient for its mitochondrial targeting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0964-6906
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3477-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Codon, Nonsense, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Genes, Recessive, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-HeLa Cells, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Intracellular Fluid, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Mitochondria, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Mutation, Missense, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Parkinsonian Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Protein Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Protein Transport, pubmed-meshheading:16207731-Solubility
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Mitochondrial import and enzymatic activity of PINK1 mutants associated to recessive parkinsonism.
pubmed:affiliation
Human Molecular Genetics Unit, Dibit-San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't