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. 2012 Dec;33(12):2841-54.
doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.02.001. Epub 2012 Mar 22.

Extracellular signal-regulated kinase is involved in alpha-synuclein-induced mitochondrial dynamic disorders by regulating dynamin-like protein 1

Ya-Xing Gui  1 , Xin-Yi Wang, Wen-Yan Kang, Ying-Jie Zhang, Yu Zhang, Yong Zhou, Thomas J Quinn, Jun Liu, Sheng-Di Chen
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Extracellular signal-regulated kinase is involved in alpha-synuclein-induced mitochondrial dynamic disorders by regulating dynamin-like protein 1

Ya-Xing Gui et al. Neurobiol Aging. 2012 Dec.

Abstract

Compounding evidence suggests that alpha-synuclein (SNCA) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) by inducing neurotoxicity. Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that undergo fusion and fission processes, the imbalance of which has been viewed as a key trigger for PD. However, the underlying relationship between SNCA and mitochondrial dynamics remains unclear. This study demonstrated that SNCA overexpression not only altered mitochondrial morphology, but also significantly increased the translocation of mitochondrial fission protein dynamin-like protein 1 (DLP1). To further investigate the mechanism of SNCA's effect on mitochondrial dynamics, the proteomic technique, stable isotope labeling of amino acid in cell cultures (SILAC), was used. The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) was confirmed to be involved in the regulation of DLP1 and SNCA-mediated neurotoxicity. Finally, additional results demonstrated that SNCA inducing both mitochondrial dynamic disorders and neurotoxicity could be ameliorated by curcumin through ERK inhibition, which implied that the agent could be used to prevent and treat PD in the future.

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