Article: Mutational Analysis of Sigma-1 Receptor's Role in Synaptic Stability.
2019 Volume 13, Page(s) 1012
Abstract: Sigma-1 receptor (S1R) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident transmembrane protein. In our previous experiments, we demonstrated neuroprotective effects of pridopidine, an agonist of S1R, in cellular and animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) and ...
Abstract | Sigma-1 receptor (S1R) is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) resident transmembrane protein. In our previous experiments, we demonstrated neuroprotective effects of pridopidine, an agonist of S1R, in cellular and animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Consistent with previous observations, deletion of endogenous S1R with CRISPR/Cas9 in cultured hippocampal neurons resulted in fewer mushroom-shaped dendritic spines. Overexpression of human S1R restored mushroom spine density to control levels. In contrast, overexpression of S1R with the Δ31-50 deletion (linked to distal hereditary motor neuropathy) or the E102Q mutation (linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) destabilized mushroom spines. Recently a crystal structure of S1R was determined in lipidic cubic phase. In the present study, we took an advantage of this structural information and performed docking studies with pridopidine and the S1R structural model. We generated a series of S1R point mutations based on residues predicted to be involved in direct association with pridopidine. We discovered that all ligand binding-site mutants were able to compensate for loss of endogenous S1R. However, most of these mutants were not able to support pridopidine-induced rescue of mushroom spines in presenilin-1-mutant cultures. Our mutational analysis was in agreement with |
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Language | English |
Publishing date | 2019-09-19 |
Publishing country | Switzerland |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2411902-7 |
ISSN | 1662-453X ; 1662-4548 |
ISSN (online) | 1662-453X |
ISSN | 1662-4548 |
DOI | 10.3389/fnins.2019.01012 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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