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ArticleJournal of neurochemistry2015

Ca(2+) handling in isolated brain mitochondria and cultured neurons derived from the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington's disease.

Jessica J Pellman, James Hamilton, Tatiana Brustovetsky, Nickolay Brustovetsky

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Article in Journal of neurochemistry, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Mitochondrial membranes modify mutant huntingtin aggregation.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes · 2021
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  19. Dysfunction of Mitochondrial CaFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jessica J PellmanDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
James HamiltonDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Tatiana BrustovetskyDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Nickolay BrustovetskyDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Indiana University School of Medicine

Funding

The Role of STEP in SchizophreniaR01MH091037 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LOMBROSO, PAUL J · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
Mitochondrial Porin in Bioenergetic Defects in Huntingtons DiseaseR01NS078008 · NINDS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI BRUSTOVETSKY, NICKOLAY · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
NIMH NIH HHS MH091037NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS078008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated Ca(2+) handling in isolated brain synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondria and in cultured striatal neurons from the YAC128 mouse model of Huntington's disease. Both synaptic and non-synaptic mitochondria from 2- and 12-month-old YAC128 mice had larger Ca(2+) uptake capacity than mitochondria from YAC18 and wild-type FVB/NJ mice. Synaptic mitochondria from 12-month-old YAC128 mice had further augmented Ca(2+) capacity compared with mitochondria from 2-month-old YAC128 mice and age-matched YAC18 and FVB/NJ mice. This increase in Ca(2+) uptake capacity correlated with an increase in the amount of mutant huntingtin protein (mHtt) associated with mitochondria from 12-month-old YAC128 mice. We speculate that this may happen because of mHtt-mediated sequestration of free fatty acids thereby increasing resistance of mitochondria to Ca(2+)-induced damage. In experiments with striatal neurons from YAC128 and FVB/NJ mice, brief exposure to 25 or 100 μM glutamate produced transient elevations in cytosolic Ca(2+) followed by recovery to near resting levels. Following recovery of cytosolic Ca(2+), mitochondrial depolarization with FCCP produced comparable elevations in cytosolic Ca(2+), suggesting similar Ca(2+) release and, consequently, Ca(2+) loads in neuronal mitochondria from YAC128 and FVB/NJ mice. Together, our data argue against a detrimental effect of mHtt on Ca(2+) handling in brain mitochondria of YAC128 mice. We demonstrate that mutant huntingtin (mHtt) binds to brain synaptic and nonsynaptic mitochondria and the amount of mitochondria-bound mHtt correlates with increased mitochondrial Ca(2+) uptake capacity. We propose that this may happen due to mHtt-mediated sequestration of free fatty acids thereby increasing resistance of mitochondria to Ca(2+)-induced damage.

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Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsBrainCalcium SignalingCells, CulturedFemaleHumansHuntington DiseaseMaleMiceMice, TransgenicMitochondriaNeuronscalciumHuntington's diseasemitochondrianeuronpermeability transition porestriatum

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