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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
Parkinson disease is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer disease. A subset of genetic forms of Parkinson disease has been attributed to alpha-synuclein, a synaptic protein with remarkable chaperone properties. Synphilin-1 is a cytoplasmic protein that has been identified as a partner of alpha-synuclein (Engelender, S., Kaminsky, Z., Guo, X., Sharp, A. H., Amaravi, R. K., Kleiderlein, J. J., Margolis, R. L., Troncoso, J. C., Lanahan, A. A., Worley, P. F., Dawson, V. L., Dawson, T. M., and Ross, C. A. (1999) Nat. Gen. 22, 110-114), but its function remains totally unknown. We show here for the first time that synphilin-1 displays an antiapoptotic function in the control of cell death. We have established transient and stable transfectants overexpressing wild-type synphilin-1 in human embryonic kidney 293 cells, telecephalon-specific murine 1 neurons, and SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells, and we show that both cell systems display lower responsiveness to staurosporine and 6-hydroxydopamine. Thus, synphilin-1 reduces procaspase-3 hydrolysis and thereby caspase-3 activity and decreases poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavage, two main indicators of apoptotic cell death. Furthermore, we establish that synphilin-1 drastically reduces p53 transcriptional activity and expression and lowers p53 promoter transactivation and mRNA levels. Interestingly, we demonstrate that synphilin-1 catabolism is enhanced by staurosporine and blocked by caspase-3 inhibitors. Accordingly, we show by transcription/translation assay that recombinant caspase-3 and, to a lesser extent, caspase-6 but not caspase-7 hydrolyze synphilin-1. Furthermore, we demonstrate that mutated synphilin-1, in which a consensus caspase-3 target sequence has been disrupted, resists proteolysis by cellular and recombinant caspases and displays drastically reduced antiapoptotic phenotype. We further show that the caspase-3-derived C-terminal fragment of synphilin-1 was probably responsible for the antiapoptotic phenotype elicited by the parent wild-type protein. Altogether, our study is the first demonstration that synphilin-1 harbors a protective function that is controlled by the C-terminal fragment generated by its proteolysis by caspase-3.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Adrenergic Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/CASP3 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspase 3, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Caspases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Oxidopamine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SNCAIP protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Staurosporine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
28
pubmed:volume
281
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11515-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Adrenergic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Apoptosis, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Caspase 3, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Caspases, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Kidney, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Neuroblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Oxidopamine, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Staurosporine, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Transcription, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Transcriptional Activation, pubmed-meshheading:16495229-Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Caspase-3-derived C-terminal product of synphilin-1 displays antiapoptotic function via modulation of the p53-dependent cell death pathway.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut de Pharmacologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, UMR6097/Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Equipe Labellisée Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale, 660 Route des Lucioles, 06560, Valbonne, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't