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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
Several mutations have been found in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 gene (LRRK2), encoding the protein dardarin, which are associated with autosomal dominant Parkinson disease. We have previously shown that mutant LRRK2/dardarin is toxic to neurons and neuron-like cell lines in culture and that some mutations are also associated with an inclusion-body phenotype. There is a homologous kinase, LRRK1, which has a similar domain structure but is not known to carry mutations causing Parkinson disease. In the current study, we introduced mutations at equivalent residues in both LRRK2 and LRRK1 to determine their effects in cells. We show that mutations in dardarin are more prone to form inclusion bodies in transfected cells and are more toxic than equivalent mutations in LRRK1. This work suggests that dardarin/LRRK2 is inherently more damaging than LRRK1.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0022-3042
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
93-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-COS Cells, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Cercopithecus aethiops, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Cytosol, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Guanosine Triphosphate, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Immunoprecipitation, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Parkinson Disease, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Plasmids, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:17394548-Transfection
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Mutations in LRRK2/dardarin associated with Parkinson disease are more toxic than equivalent mutations in the homologous kinase LRRK1.
pubmed:affiliation
Cell Biology and Gene Expression Unit, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland 20982-3707, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural