Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-6-2022
Abstract
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neurodegenerative and neuromuscular genetic disease caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine-encoding CAG tract in the androgen receptor (AR) gene. The AR is an important transcriptional regulator of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily; its levels are regulated in many ways including by ubiquitin-dependent degradation. Ubiquitination is a post-translational modification (PTM) which plays a key role in both AR transcriptional activity and its degradation. Moreover, the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) is a fundamental component of cellular functioning and has been implicated in diseases of protein misfolding and aggregation, including polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat expansion diseases such as Huntington's disease and SBMA. In this review, we discuss the details of the UPS system, its functions and regulation, and the role of AR ubiquitination and UPS components in SBMA. We also discuss aspects of the UPS that may be manipulated for therapeutic effect in SBMA.
Recommended Citation
Sengupta, Medha; Pluciennik, Anna; and Merry, Diane E., "The Role of Ubiquitination in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy" (2022). Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers. Paper 229.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/bmpfp/229
PubMed ID
36277484
Language
English
Comments
This is the author's final published version in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, Volume 15, October 2022, Article number 1020143.
The published version is available online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.1020143