2010
DOI: 10.1038/ng.544
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Mutations in the mitochondrial protease gene AFG3L2 cause dominant hereditary ataxia SCA28

Abstract: Autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are genetically heterogeneous neurological disorders characterized by cerebellar dysfunction mostly due to Purkinje cell degeneration. Here we show that AFG3L2 mutations cause SCA type 28. Along with paraplegin, which causes recessive spastic paraplegia, AFG3L2 is a component of the conserved m-AAA metalloprotease complex involved in the maintenance of the mitochondrial proteome. We identified heterozygous missense mutations in five unrelated SCA families and f… Show more

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“…Interestingly, mutations that affect only hetero-oligomeric or both hetero-and homo-oligomeric human m-AAA protease complexes are linked to two distinct neurological disorders. Although mutations in the Paraplegin subunit are responsible for hereditary spastic paraplegia (12), it was shown more recently that mutations in AFG3L2 cause a dominant form of hereditary spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA28) (13). These findings raise the question whether homo-and hetero-oligomeric complexes are functionally and mechanistically equivalent.…”
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“…Interestingly, mutations that affect only hetero-oligomeric or both hetero-and homo-oligomeric human m-AAA protease complexes are linked to two distinct neurological disorders. Although mutations in the Paraplegin subunit are responsible for hereditary spastic paraplegia (12), it was shown more recently that mutations in AFG3L2 cause a dominant form of hereditary spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA28) (13). These findings raise the question whether homo-and hetero-oligomeric complexes are functionally and mechanistically equivalent.…”
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“…It is therefore conceivable that alterations of amino acid residues at the PD interface during evolution gave rise to homo-and hetero-oligomeric m-AAA protease complexes and fine-tuned their specific cellular activities. Interestingly, mutations in Yta12, which allow homooligomerization, cluster within the same region of the PD as disease-causing mutations in SCA28 patients (13), suggesting that these mutations may also affect assembly of human m-AAA proteases.…”
Section: Determinants For Hetero-oligomeric Assembly Of M-aaamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Mgr1 and Mgr3 have been proposed to act as substrate adaptors of the yeast i-AAA protease, required for the turnover of misfolded substrates (Dunn et al 2008). The importance of quality control across the IM is highlighted by the finding that mutations in both of the genes encoding for paraplegin and Afg3l2 lead to the neurological diseases hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 28 (SCA28), respectively (Rugarli and Langer 2006;Martinelli et al 2009;Di Bella et al 2010;Martinelli and Rugarli 2010).…”
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“…7 Mutations in the mitochondrial m-AAA proteases are responsible for neurodegenerative disorders including hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA28) and spastic ataxia neuropathy syndrome. [8][9][10] However, the degenerative mechanisms remain elusive, 11 and the presence of multiple mitochondrial m-AAA proteases with redundant functions in eukaryotes complicates their analysis in animal models. By contrast, only one mitochondrial i-AAA protease has been identified in eukaryotic genomes.…”
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