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Overexpression of heat shock protein 70 in R6/2 Huntington's disease mice has only modest effects on disease progression.

Hansson, Oskar ; Nylandsted, Jesper ; Castilho, Roger F ; Leist, Marcel ; Jäättelä, Marja and Brundin, Patrik LU (2003) In Brain Research 970(1-2). p.47-57
Abstract
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a polyglutamine tract in a protein called huntingtin. The inducible form of heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) has been shown to reduce polyglutamine-induced toxicity. To investigate if overexpression of Hsp70 can affect disease progression in a mouse model of HD, we crossed R6/2 mice, expressing exon 1 of the HD gene with an expanded CAG repeat, with mice overexpressing Hsp70 (both types of transgenic mice were of the CBAxC57BL/6 strain). The resulting R6/2-Hsp70 transgenics exhibited 5- to 15-fold increases in Hsp70 expression in neocortical, hippocampal and basal ganglia regions. This correlated with a delayed loss of body weight compared to R6/2 mice. However,... (More)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a polyglutamine tract in a protein called huntingtin. The inducible form of heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) has been shown to reduce polyglutamine-induced toxicity. To investigate if overexpression of Hsp70 can affect disease progression in a mouse model of HD, we crossed R6/2 mice, expressing exon 1 of the HD gene with an expanded CAG repeat, with mice overexpressing Hsp70 (both types of transgenic mice were of the CBAxC57BL/6 strain). The resulting R6/2-Hsp70 transgenics exhibited 5- to 15-fold increases in Hsp70 expression in neocortical, hippocampal and basal ganglia regions. This correlated with a delayed loss of body weight compared to R6/2 mice. However, the number or size of nuclear inclusions, the loss of brain weight, reduction of striatal volume, reduction in size of striatal projection neurons, downregulation of DARPP-32, development of paw clasping phenotype and early death of the mice were not affected by Hsp70 overexpression. Interestingly, the polyglutamine protein affected the potential rescuing agent, because in older R6/2-Hsp70 mice a large proportion of the Hsp70 protein was sequestrated in nuclear inclusions. (Less)
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Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70), Inclusion, Huntington’s disease, Chaperone, Transgenic, Mouse
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Brain Research
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970
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1-2
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47 - 57
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Elsevier
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1872-6240
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10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04275-0
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  author       = {{Hansson, Oskar and Nylandsted, Jesper and Castilho, Roger F and Leist, Marcel and Jäättelä, Marja and Brundin, Patrik}},
  issn         = {{1872-6240}},
  keywords     = {{Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70); Inclusion; Huntington’s disease; Chaperone; Transgenic; Mouse}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1-2}},
  pages        = {{47--57}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Brain Research}},
  title        = {{Overexpression of heat shock protein 70 in R6/2 Huntington's disease mice has only modest effects on disease progression.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04275-0}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/S0006-8993(02)04275-0}},
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