cGMP via PKG activates 26S proteasomes and enhances degradation of proteins, including ones that cause neurodegenerative diseases

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Because raising cAMP enhances 26S proteasome activity and the degradation of cell proteins, including the selective breakdown of misfolded proteins, we investigated whether agents that raise cGMP may also regulate protein degradation. Treating various cell lines with inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 5 or stimulators of soluble guanylyl cyclase rapidly enhanced multiple proteasome activities and cellular levels of ubiquitinated proteins by activating protein kinase G (PKG). PKG stimulated purified 26S proteasomes by phosphorylating a different 26S component than is modified by protein kinase A. In cells and cell extracts, raising cGMP also enhanced within minutes ubiquitin conjugation to cell proteins. Raising cGMP, like raising cAMP, stimulated the degradation of short-lived cell proteins, but unlike cAMP, also markedly increased proteasomal degradation of long-lived proteins (the bulk of cell proteins) without affecting lysosomal proteolysis. We also tested if raising cGMP, like cAMP, can promote the degradation of mutant proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases. Treating zebrafish models of tauopathies or Huntington's disease with a PDE5 inhibitor reduced the levels of the mutant huntingtin and tau proteins, cell death, and the resulting morphological abnormalities. Thus, PKG rapidly activates cytosolic proteasomes, protein ubiquitination, and overall protein degradation, and agents that raise cGMP may help combat the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:117

Enthalten in:

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 117(2020), 25 vom: 23. Juni, Seite 14220-14230

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

VerPlank, Jordan J S [VerfasserIn]
Tyrkalska, Sylwia D [VerfasserIn]
Fleming, Angeleen [VerfasserIn]
Rubinsztein, David C [VerfasserIn]
Goldberg, Alfred L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ATP dependent 26S protease
CGMP
Cyclic AMP
Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
Cyclic GMP
Cyclic GMP-Dependent Protein Kinases
E0399OZS9N
EC 2.7.11.11
EC 2.7.11.12
EC 3.4.25.1
EC 3.4.99.-
H2D2X058MU
Journal Article
Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex
Proteasome phosphorylation
Protein degradation
Protein kinase G
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tau Proteins
Ubiquitin
Ubiquitinated Proteins

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Date Completed 28.08.2020

Date Revised 18.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.2003277117

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31093205X