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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2011

Misalignment of PLP/DM20 transmembrane domains determines protein misfolding in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.

Ajit Singh Dhaunchak, David R Colman, Klaus-Armin Nave

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ajit Singh DhaunchakDepartment of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany. ajit.dhaunchak@mcgill.ca
David R Colman
Klaus-Armin Nave
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine · DEMcGill University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A large number of genetic diseases have been associated with truncated or misfolded membrane proteins trapped in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In the ER, they activate the unfolded protein response, which can trigger cell death. Hence, a better understanding of protein misfolding features might help in developing novel therapies. Here, we have studied the molecular basis of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, a leukodystrophy defined by mutations of the PLP1 gene and ER retention of two encoded tetraspan myelin proteins, PLP and DM20. In mouse oligodendroglial cells, mutant isoforms of PLP/DM20 with fewer than all four transmembrane (TM) domains are fully ER retained. Surprisingly, a truncated PLP with only two N-terminal TM domains shows normal cell-surface expression when coexpressed with a second truncated PLP harboring the two C-terminal TM domains. This striking ability to properly self-align the TM domains is disease relevant, as shown for the smaller splice isoform DM20. Here, the increased length of TM domain 3 allows for compensation of the effect of several PLP1 point mutations that impose a conformational constraint onto the adjacent extracellular loop region. We conclude that an important determinant in the quality control of polytopic membrane proteins is the free alignment of their TM domains.

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Protein FoldingAnimalsCell Line, TransformedChlorocebus aethiopsCloning, MolecularEndoplasmic ReticulumGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansModels, MolecularMyelin Proteolipid ProteinOligodendrogliaPelizaeus-Merzbacher DiseasePoint MutationProtein Structure, TertiaryProtein TransportTransfectionenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMyelin Proteolipid ProteinPLP1 protein, human

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PMID22016529
PMCPMC6623585
OpenAlexW2055550014

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