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Rit2 loss in dopaminergic neurons drives a progressive Parkinsonian phenotype

Kearney, P. J.; Zhang, Y.; Tan, Y.; Kahuno, E.; Conklin, T.; Fagan, R. R.; Yue, Z.; Melikian, H. E.; Shaffer, S. A.; Pavchinskiy, R. G.

2023-04-28 neuroscience
10.1101/2023.04.26.538430 bioRxiv
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Parkinsons disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease and arises from dopamine (DA) neuron death selectively in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). Rit2 is a reported PD risk allele, and recent single cell transcriptomic studies identified a major RIT2 cluster in PD DA neurons, potentially linking Rit2 expression loss to a PD patient cohort. However, it is still unknown whether Rit2 loss itself is causative for PD or PD-like symptoms. Here we report that conditional Rit2 silencing in mouse DA neurons drove motor dysfunction that occurred earlier in males than females and was rescued at early stages by either inhibiting the DA transporter (DAT) or with L-DOPA treatment. Motor dysfunction was accompanied by decreased DA release, striatal DA content, phenotypic DAergic markers, DA neurons, and DAergic terminals, with increased pSer129-alpha synuclein and pSer935-LRRK2 expression. These results provide the first evidence that Rit2 loss is causal for SNc cell death and a PD-like phenotype, and reveal key sex-specific differences in the response to Rit2 loss.

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