PPARδ repression in Huntington’s disease and its essential role in CNS translate into a potent agonist therapy

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG-polyglutamine repeat expansion in the huntingtin ( htt ) gene. We found that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARδ) interacts with htt and that mutant htt represses PPARδ-mediated transactivation....

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Veröffentlicht in:Nature medicine 2015-12, Vol.22 (1), p.37-45
Hauptverfasser: Dickey, Audrey S., Pineda, Victor V., Tsunemi, Taiji, Liu, Patrick P., Miranda, Helen C., Gilmore-Hall, Stephen K., Lomas, Nicole, Sampat, Kunal R., Buttgereit, Anne, Torres, Mark-Joseph Manalang, Flores, April L., Arreola, Martin, Arbez, Nicolas, Akimov, Sergey S., Gaasterland, Terry, Lazarowski, Eduardo R., Ross, Christopher A., Yeo, Gene W., Sopher, Bryce L., Magnuson, Gavin K., Pinkerton, Anthony B., Masliah, Eliezer, La Spada, Albert R.
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Zusammenfassung:Huntington’s disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG-polyglutamine repeat expansion in the huntingtin ( htt ) gene. We found that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor delta (PPARδ) interacts with htt and that mutant htt represses PPARδ-mediated transactivation. Increased PPARδ transactivation ameliorated mitochondrial dysfunction and improved cell survival of HD neurons. Expression of dominant-negative PPARδ in CNS was sufficient to induce motor dysfunction, neurodegeneration, mitochondrial abnormalities, and transcriptional alterations that recapitulated HD-like phenotypes. Expression of dominant-negative PPARδ specifically in the striatum of medium spiny neurons in mice yielded HD-like motor phenotypes, accompanied by striatal neuron loss. In mouse models of HD, pharmacologic activation of PPAR δ, using the agonist KD3010, improved motor function, reduced neurodegeneration, and increased survival. PPAR δ activation also reduced htt-induced neurotoxicity in vitro and in medium spiny-like neurons generated from human HD stem cells, indicating that PPAR δ activation may be beneficial in individuals with HD and related disorders.
ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/nm.4003