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Excessive tubulin polyglutamylation causes neurodegeneration and perturbs neuronal transport

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Posttranslational modifications of tubulin are emerging regulators of microtubule functions. We have shown earlier that upregulated polyglutamylation is linked to rapid degeneration of Purkinje cells in mice with a mutation in the deglutamylating enzyme CCP1. How polyglutamylation leads to degeneration, whether it affects multiple neuron types, or which physiological processes it regulates in healthy neurons has remained unknown. Here, we demonstrate that excessive polyglutamylation induces neurodegeneration in a cell-autonomous manner and can occur in many parts of the central nervous system. Degeneration of selected neurons in CCP1-deficient mice can be fully rescued by simultaneous knockout of the counteracting polyglutamylase TTLL1. Excessive polyglutamylation reduces the efficiency of neuronal transport in cultured hippocampal neurons, suggesting that impaired cargo transport plays an important role in the observed degenerative phenotypes. We thus establish polyglutamylation as a cell-autonomous mechanism for neurodegen-eration that might be therapeutically accessible through manipulation of the enzymes that control this posttranslational modification.
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hal-02395225 , version 1 (09-12-2019)

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Maria M Magiera, Satish Bodakuntla, Jakub Ziak, Sabrina Lacomme, Patricia Marques Sousa, et al.. Excessive tubulin polyglutamylation causes neurodegeneration and perturbs neuronal transport. EMBO Journal, 2018, ⟨10.15252/embj.2018100440⟩. ⟨hal-02395225⟩
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