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USP10 is a critical factor for Tau-positive stress granule formation in neuronal cells.

Abstract
Tau aggregates in neurons of brain lesions is a hallmark pathology of tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent studies suggest that the RNA-binding protein TIA1 initiates Tau aggregation by inducing the formation of stress granules (SGs) containing Tau. SGs are stress-inducible cytoplasmic protein aggregates containing many RNA-binding proteins that has been implicated as an initial site of multiple pathogenic protein aggregates in several neurodegenerative diseases. In this study, we found that ubiquitin-specific protease 10 (USP10) is a critical factor for the formation of Tau/TIA1/USP10-positive SGs. Proteasome inhibition or TIA1-overexpression in HT22 neuronal cells induced the formation of TIA1/Tau-positive SGs, and the formations were severely attenuated by depletion of USP10. In addition, the overexpression of USP10 without stress stimuli in HT22 cells induced TIA1/Tau/USP10-positive SGs in a deubiquitinase-independent manner. In AD brain lesions, USP10 was colocalized with Tau aggregates in the cell body of neurons. The present findings suggest that USP10 plays a key role in the initiation of pathogenic Tau aggregation in AD through SG formation.
AuthorsSvetlana Piatnitskaia, Masahiko Takahashi, Hiroki Kitaura, Yoshinori Katsuragi, Taichi Kakihana, Lu Zhang, Akiyoshi Kakita, Yuriko Iwakura, Hiroyuki Nawa, Takeshi Miura, Takeshi Ikeuchi, Toshifumi Hara, Masahiro Fujii
JournalScientific reports (Sci Rep) Vol. 9 Issue 1 Pg. 10591 (07 22 2019) ISSN: 2045-2322 [Electronic] England
PMID31332267 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • USP10 protein, human
  • USP10 protein, mouse
  • tau Proteins
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase
Topics
  • Animals
  • Blotting, Western
  • Cell Line
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Cytoplasmic Granules (metabolism)
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Gene Knockdown Techniques
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Neurons (metabolism)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Ubiquitin Thiolesterase (metabolism)
  • tau Proteins (metabolism)

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