UMMS Affiliation
Department of Neurology
Publication Date
2020-08-26
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Genetics and Genomics | Nervous System Diseases | Neurology | Neuroscience and Neurobiology
Abstract
Mutations in CHMP2B, encoding a protein in the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) machinery, causes frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 3 (FTD3). FTD, the second most common form of pre-senile dementia, can also be caused by genetic mutations in other genes, including TANK-binding kinase 1 (TBK1). How FTD-causing disease genes interact is largely unknown. We found that partial loss function of Ik2, the fly homologue of TBK1 also known as I-kappaB kinase epsilon (IKKepsilon), enhanced the toxicity of mutant CHMP2B in the fly eye and that Ik2 overexpression suppressed the effect of mutant CHMP2B in neurons. Partial loss of function of Spn-F, a downstream phosphorylation target of Ik2, greatly enhanced the mutant CHMP2B phenotype. An interactome analysis to understand cellular processes regulated by Spn-F identified a network of interacting proteins including Spn-F, Ik2, dynein light chain, and Hook, an adaptor protein in early endosome transport. Partial loss of function of dynein light chain or Hook also enhanced mutant CHMP2B toxicity. These findings identify several evolutionarily conserved genes, including ik2/TBK1, cut up (encoding dynein light chain) and hook, as genetic modifiers of FTD3-associated mutant CHMP2B toxicity and implicate early endosome transport as a potential contributing pathway in FTD.
Keywords
Evolution, Neuroscience
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41598-020-71097-5
Source
Lu Y, West RJH, Pons M, Sweeney ST, Gao FB. Ik2/TBK1 and Hook/Dynein, an adaptor complex for early endosome transport, are genetic modifiers of FTD-associated mutant CHMP2B toxicity in Drosophila. Sci Rep. 2020 Aug 26;10(1):14221. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71097-5. PMID: 32848189; PMCID: PMC7450086. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Scientific reports
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PubMed ID
32848189
Repository Citation
Lu Y, West RJ, Pons M, Sweeney ST, Gao F. (2020). Ik2/TBK1 and Hook/Dynein, an adaptor complex for early endosome transport, are genetic modifiers of FTD-associated mutant CHMP2B toxicity in Drosophila. Open Access Articles. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71097-5. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/4344
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