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Mutations in Auxilin cause parkinsonism via impaired clathrin-mediated trafficking at the Golgi apparatus and synapse

Roosen, D. A.; Landeck, N.; Conti, M.; Smith, N.; Saez-Atienzar, S.; Ding, J.; Beilina, A.; Kumaran, R.; Kaganovich, A.; du Hoffmann, J.; Williamson, C.; Gershlick, D. C.; Bonet-Ponce, L.; Sampieri, L.; Bleck, C. K. E.; Liu, C.; Bonifacino, J. S.; Li, Y.; Lewis, P. A.; Cookson, M. R.

2019-11-05 neuroscience
10.1101/830802 bioRxiv
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Parkinsons disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative motor disorder characterized in part by neuropathological lesions in the nigrostriatal pathway. Loss of function mutations in Auxilin, the major neuronal clathrin uncoating protein, cause an aggressive form of juvenile onset PD. How mutations in Auxilin cause PD, is currently not understood. Here, we generated a novel mouse model carrying an endogenous pathogenic Auxilin mutation that phenocopies neurological features observed in patients, including motor impairments and seizures. Unbiased mapping of the Auxilin interactome identified synaptic and Golgi-resident clathrin adaptor proteins as novel interactors. Impaired clathrin-mediated trafficking in mutant Auxilin mice, both at the Golgi and the synapse, results in neuropathological lesions in the nigrostriatal pathway. Collectively, these results provide molecular mechanisms of PD pathogenesis in Auxilin mutation carriers, reinforcing a key role for clathrin-mediated trafficking in PD, and expand our understanding of the cellular function of Auxilin.

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