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ReviewAging cell2015

The interrelationship of proteasome impairment and oligomeric intermediates in neurodegeneration.

Jennifer M Deger, Julia E Gerson, Rakez Kayed

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Review in Aging cell, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jennifer M DegerDepartments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Building, Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX, 77555-1045, USA.
Julia E GersonDepartments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Building, Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX, 77555-1045, USA.
Rakez KayedDepartments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Building, Medical Research Building, Galveston, TX, 77555-1045, USA.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Various neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the accumulation of amyloidogenic proteins such as tau, α-synuclein, and amyloid-β. Prior to the formation of these stable aggregates, intermediate species of the respective proteins-oligomers-appear. Recently acquired data have shown that oligomers may be the most toxic and pathologically significant to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The covalent modification of these oligomers may be critically important for biological processes in disease. Ubiquitin and small ubiquitin-like modifiers are the commonly used tags for degradation. While the modification of large amyloid aggregates by ubiquitination is well established, very little is known about the role ubiquitin may play in oligomer processing and the importance of the more recently discovered sumoylation. Many proteins involved in neurodegeneration have been found to be sumoylated, notably tau protein in brains afflicted with Alzheimer's. This evidence suggests that while the cell may not have difficulty recognizing dangerous proteins, in brains afflicted with neurodegenerative disease, the proteasome may be unable to properly digest the tagged proteins. This would allow toxic aggregates to develop, leading to even more proteasome impairment in a snowball effect that could explain the exponential progression in most neurodegenerative diseases. A better understanding of the covalent modifications of oligomers could have a huge impact on the development of therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases. This review will focus on the proteolysis of tau and other amyloidogenic proteins induced by covalent modification, and recent findings suggesting a relationship between tau oligomers and sumoylation.

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AnimalsHumansModels, MolecularNeurodegenerative DiseasesProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProteolysistau ProteinsProteasome Endopeptidase Complextau ProteinsAlzheimer's diseasecovalent modificationHuntington's diseaseneurodegenerationParkinson's diseasesmall ubiquitin-like modifierstau oligomerstauopathiesubiquitinationubiquitin proteasome system

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PMID26053162
PMCPMC4568959
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