自噬
生物
肌萎缩侧索硬化
蛋白酶体
疾病
泛素
神经科学
失智症
蛋白质稳态
细胞生物学
蛋白质降解
蛋白质聚集
神经退行性变
程序性细胞死亡
帕金森病
痴呆
遗传学
医学
病理
细胞凋亡
基因
作者
Laura Strohm,Christian Behrends
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.semcdb.2019.05.024
摘要
Neuronal cell death is the main pathological feature of chronic neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). As age is strongly linked to NDs, these diseases are one of the leading medical and societal challenges faced by the rapidly aging western societies. Despite the increasing prevalence, the causes and mechanisms behind most NDs are still vague. A common hallmark of several NDs is the accumulation and aggregation of proteins. Prominent examples are amyloid beta and tau in Alzheimer’s disease, α−synuclein in Parkinson’s disease and transactive response DNA binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43) in ALS and FTD. Under physiological conditions, protein quality control systems, namely the ubiquitin proteasome system and the autophagy machinery, eliminate such aberrant protein forms and thereby prevent proteotoxic stress. However, as proteins must unfold to undergo proteasomal degradation, aggregated proteins are poor substrates for the proteasome. Such proteins are thought to be primarily turned over by autophagy. Therefore, autophagy is considered a critical ND-protective pathway, which opens up potential new therapeutic interventions. One drawback is that the majority of research in NDs has been focused on elucidating the underlying pathomechanisms in neurons. However, neurons make up only about half of the brain cells with neuroglia being the other major central nervous system (CNS) cell type. Due to the ubiquitous presence of disease-causing mutations in all cells of the CNS, it is likely that non-neuronal cells contribute to the disease onset and/or progression. While our understanding of the roles of autophagy and its contribution to neurodegeneration in neurons deepened considerably over the last years, still comparatively little is known about the functions and disease contribution of the autophagy machinery in glia cells.
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