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ArticleCommunications biology2021

Threshold concentration and random collision determine the growth of the huntingtin inclusion from a stable core.

Sen Pei, Theresa C Swayne, Jeffrey F Morris, Lesley Emtage

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Article in Communications biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sen PeiBiology Department, City University of New York, York College, Queens, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6239-5720
Theresa C SwayneHerbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Jeffrey F MorrisDepartment of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0464-8846
Lesley EmtageBiology Department, City University of New York, York College, Queens, NY, USA. lemtage@york.cuny.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3934-2441

Funding

In vivo targeting of unfolded protein to a phase-separated Huntingtin inclusionSC3GM136517 · NIGMS · YORK COLLEGE · PI EMTAGE, LESLEY RACHEL · 2020 to 2023
$493k
Cellular mechanisms underlying detoxification of mutant HuntingtinSC2GM116697 · NIGMS · YORK COLLEGE · PI EMTAGE, LESLEY RACHEL · 2016 to 2018
$462k
NIGMS NIH HHS SC2 GM116697NIGMS NIH HHS SC3 GM136517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The processes underlying formation and growth of unfolded protein inclusions are relevant to neurodegenerative diseases but poorly characterized in living cells. In S. cerevisiae, inclusions formed by mutant huntingtin (mHtt) have some characteristics of biomolecular condensates but the physical nature and growth mechanisms of inclusion bodies remain unclear. We have probed the relationship between concentration and inclusion growth in vivo and find that growth of mHtt inclusions in living cells is triggered at a cytoplasmic threshold concentration, while reduction in cytoplasmic mHtt causes inclusions to shrink. The growth rate is consistent with incorporation of new material through collision and coalescence. A small remnant of the inclusion is relatively long-lasting, suggesting that it contains a core that is structurally distinct, and which may serve to nucleate it. These observations support a model in which aggregative particles are incorporated by random collision into a phase-separated condensate composed of a particle-rich mixture.

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Huntingtin ProteinInclusion BodiesSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsHuntingtin ProteinSaccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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PMID34400761
PMCPMC8368079

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