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Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 5:1193-1204, 2006.
© 2006 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.




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Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104,
Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, ¶ Thermo Electron Corporation, San Jose, California 95134, and || Gene Function Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Science City 305-8562, Japan
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In this study, we used an unbiased state-of-the-art proteomic technique called shotgun proteomics multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT) to quantitatively profile mitochondrial proteins from pathologically verified PD patients and normal age-matched controls as well as in a cellular model of PD, i.e. DAergic cells treated with parkinsonian toxicant rotenone. MudPIT uses multidimensional LC and tandem mass spectrometry to separate and fragment peptides for protein identification (9) as well as for quantification when used in combination with ICAT and stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC) techniques (10, 11). With these approaches, we identified many novel proteins with quantitative expression differences in the SNpc of PD patients as compared with controls. One of these proteins, mortalin/mthsp70/GRP75, decreased significantly in many PD brain samples and in the cellular model of PD. Several mortalin-binding proteins likely participating in rotenone-mediated toxicity were also identified. Furthermore overexpression and silencing of mortalin expression in the cellular model of PD significantly influenced PD type pathologies. Thus, we report for the first time that a mitochondrial stress protein, mortalin, manipulates PD pathogenesis by its mitochondrial and proteasomal functions as well as its effect on oxidative stress.
| EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES |
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Sample Preparation before Proteomics
The SNpc was dissected from controls and PD patients; an equal amount of tissue from each subject was pooled into two samples (i.e. control and PD SNpc) followed by isolation of mitochondria-enriched fractions using a method described previously (15, 16) with minor modifications. Briefly nigral tissues (
100 mg) were suspended in 1 ml of sucrose buffer containing 20 mM HEPES (pH 7.5), 320 mM sucrose, 1 mM PMSF, protease inhibitor mixture (Sigma), and phosphatase inhibitors (0.2 mM Na3VO3 and 1 mM NaF). The suspension was homogenized with 10 strokes using a glass homogenizer and then centrifuged at 4 °C at 800 x g for 10 min to sediment nuclei and unsuspended material. The supernatant was further centrifuged at 10,000 x g for 15 min to obtain the mitochondria-enriched fraction, which was resuspended in a sample buffer consisting of 6 M urea, 0.05% SDS, 5 mM EDTA, and 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.5). Protein concentrations were determined by Bradford assay.
ICAT Analysis of Mitochondria-enriched Fraction with LTQ MS
A comparison of the relative abundance of protein profiles in the SNpc of control and PD patients was achieved with the ICAT labeling technique that was initially described by Gygi et al. (17) and is routinely utilized in our laboratory (11, 16, 18, 19). To perform the ICAT experiment, 100 µg of mitochondria-enriched proteins from either PD or control samples were reduced, and the cysteine groups were biotinylated with a 5-fold molar excess of either heavy (13C) (PD) or light (12C) (control) cleavable ICAT reagents. Next the two labeled samples were mixed and digested with trypsin (Promega, Madison, WI) overnight at 37 °C. Then the digested peptide solution was passed consecutively over an ionic exchange column and a monomeric avidin column (Applied Biosystem, Foster City, CA). The biotinylated peptides were eluted with 0.3% TFA in 30% acetonitrile, and biotin was cleaved from the labeled peptides with concentrated TFA. Finally the peptides were separated and analyzed on an LTQ work station (Thermo Electron Corp., San Jose, CA) using automated, on-line two-dimensional LC separation (strong cation exchange and then C18 column) followed by nanoelectrospray LC/MS (20). The eluted peptides from the strong cation exchange column (10800 mM NH4Cl) were loaded onto one of the peptide traps, while peptides on the other trap and the PicoFrit column (5-µm BioBasic C18; 300-Å pore size; 75 µm x 10 cm; tip, 15 µm; New Objective, Woburn, MA) were eluted with a 065% mobile phase B gradient for 60 min and then 6585% B for 5 min. The solvents used for the reversed-phase column were 0.1% formic acid in water (A) and 0.1% formic acid in acetonitrile (B) solutions. The solvent for the sample pump was 0.1% formic acid in water (C). A flow rate of 75 µl/min before the split and 250 nl/min after the split were used for the MS pump, and a flow rate of 150 µl/min before splitting and 2 µl/min after splitting were used for the sample pump. The spray voltage was 1.8 kV, the capillary temperature was 150 °C, and 35 units of collision energy were used to obtain the fragment spectra. Two MS/MS spectra of the most intense peaks were obtained following each full-scan mass spectrum. The dynamic exclusion feature was enabled to obtain MS/MS spectra on co-eluting peptides. Proteins from the mixture were later identified automatically using the computer program SequestTM, which searched the MS/MS spectra against the human International Protein Index (IPI, Version 2.33, 43,175 entries) database (11, 16, 18, 19). Search parameters for the cleavable ICAT-labeled samples used in this study were the following: +227.13 Da for static modification on cysteine residues labeled with cleavable ICAT, +9 Da for 13C isotopic ICAT-labeled cysteine, +16 Da for oxidized methionine, +57 Da for carbamidomethyl; mass tolerance, ±1.5 Da; restriction on Cys-containing peptides. Potential peptides and proteins were further analyzed with two newly developed computer software programs, PeptideProphetTM and ProteinProphetTM based on statistical models (11, 21, 22). PeptideProphet uses various Sequest scores and a number of other parameters to calculate a probability score for each identified peptide. The peptides were then assigned a protein identification using the ProteinProphet software. ProteinProphet allows filtering of large scale data sets with assessment of predictable sensitivity and false-positive identification error rates. In our study, only proteins with a high probability of accuracy (<5% error rate) were selected. Quantification of the ratio of each protein (isotopically light (control) versus heavy (PD)) was calculated using the ASAP Ratio program (23). The algorithm utilized for calculation of ASAP Ratios of signals recorded for the different isotopic forms of peptides of identical sequence are based on numerical and statistical methods, such as Savitzky-Golay smoothing filters, statistics for weighted samples, and Dixons test for outliers, to evaluate protein abundance ratios and their associated errors. Information about these software tools and the software tools themselves can be found on line at www.systemsbiology.org/Default.aspx?pagename_proteomicssoftware and downloaded freely.
It should be emphasized that ICAT analysis was performed with pooled samples based on the following rationales. The sampling reproducibility is about 30 and 60% for LCQ and LTQ instruments, respectively. This is largely due to the fact that LCQ or LTQ (one of the best ESI type MS systems available today) only captures a small fraction of the peptides detected by the first stage of MS analysis. Thus, it is expected that multiple runs with pooled samples can increase proteome coverage while decreasing interindividual variability. It cannot be stressed enough, however, that despite the fact that the protein profile in each ICAT experiment may vary when complex protein mixtures are analyzed multiple times due to reasons mentioned above, quantitative information is valid when the same peptide is detected simultaneously in paired samples (11, 16). This is because MS looks for the corresponding peptide (e.g. light if heavy is captured) and does so with very high sensitivity.
Cellular Model of PD
The DAergic neurons used in this study are MES cells, which express most features of human DAergic neurons and have been widely used in PD-related experiments (2426). Detailed methods for culturing MES cells have been previously described by us (26). Cells were seeded overnight and then treated with 2.510 nM rotenone (a potent inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I) or vehicle (0.1% DMSO) for 3 days.
SILAC Analysis of Proteins Associated with Mortalin
MES cells were grown in culture medium containing 12C-Arg or [13C]Arg, respectively, for at least 3 days followed by treatment with 5 nM rotenone (prelabeled with [13C]Arg) or DMSO (prelabeled with [12C]Arg) for 3 days. The cells were counted and lysed in ice-cold Nonidet P-40 lysis buffer (150 mM NaCl, 0.5% Nonidet P-40, 50 mM Tris, pH 8.0) containing a mixture of protease and phosphatase inhibitors. Lysates were then centrifuged for 10 min at 14,000 x g and 4 °C; the supernatants were precleared with Protein A/G-agarose beads (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA), and then protein concentrations were measured by standard BCA assay. Equal amounts of the protein from rotenone- and DMSO-treated cells were pooled together and incubated overnight with mortalin (GRP75) antibody followed by incubation with protein A/G-agarose beads. The pulldown proteins were eluted in buffer containing 6 M urea, 0.05% SDS, 5 mM EDTA, and 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.5) and then digested with trypsin as described previously (27). The digests were analyzed by MS with methods described above.
Gene Manipulation in MES Cells
Transfection of Mortalin-2 (GRP75) in MES Cells and Selection by Flow Cytometry
GFP-tagged mortalin was expressed from pEGFP-C1/mot-2. Cells were transfected with pEGFP-C1/mot-2 or pEGFP-C1 as described previously (28) and according to the manufacturers specifications (FuGENE 6, Roche Applied Science). Clones with high mortalin-2 expression levels were selected by flow cytometry using GFP and replated to form stable cell lines. Mortalin-2 expression levels were assessed by Western blot.
Mortalin siRNA Transfection in MES Cells
MES cells plated in 24-well culture dishes were transfected with 5 nM mouse mortalin-specific siRNA (Mm_Hspa9a_1 HP siRNA (Qiagen, Valencia, CA); the target sequence is CACGTTTCTGCCAAAGATAAA, located in the middle of the gene (GenBankTM accession number NM_010481)) constructs or nonspecific control siRNA constructs (Qiagen) using HiPerFect transfection reagent (Qiagen). Twenty-four hours after siRNA transfection, cells were treated with vehicle or 2.510 nM rotenone for 3 days. Neurotoxicity was measured by trypan blue exclusion assay, and then the harvested cells were used for Western blot analysis for assessment of mortalin level.
Cell Viability and Functional Analysis
Viability
Untransfected cells and cells transfected with vector or mortalin-2 were seeded in 24-well plates at 25,000 cells/well and treated with vehicle or rotenone at 2.5, 5, and 10 nM, respectively, for 3 days. The cells were collected and mixed with trypan blue dye solution before being counted with a hemacytometer.
Measurement of Mitochondrial Complex I Activity
Mitochondria were isolated and assayed for complex I activity using methods described previously (29). Briefly complex I (NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) activity was measured by monitoring the loss of absorbance at 340 nm (
= 6.81 mM1·cm1) resulting from the oxidation of n-decylubiquinone (130 µM) at 30 °C.
Measurement of Proteasomal Activity
20 S chymotrypsin-like and postglutamyl peptidase proteasomal activities were determined as described previously by measuring the fluorescence of 7-amido-4-methylcoumarin liberated from peptide-7-amido-4-methylcoumarin-linked substrates (30). The results, expressed as fluorescence units/min/mg of protein, were normalized against inhibition of total proteasomal function by 10 µM lactacystin.
Protein Carbonyl Assay for Oxidative Stress
Protein oxidation was measured by quantifying total protein carbonyl contents using 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH). The spectrum difference between DNPH-treated and control samples was determined, and results were expressed as nanomoles of DNPH incorporated/mg of protein based on the absorption at 375 nm (
= 21.0 mM1·cm1). Protein concentration was determined by standard BCA assay.
Immunofluorescent Staining of Transfected MES Cells and Confocal Microscopy Analysis
MES cells transfected with GFP or GFP-mortalin were seeded on chambered glass slides (Nalge Nunc, Naperville, IL) and then fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde followed by overnight incubation with primary antibody cytochrome c (1:200, BD Pharmingen) and then incubation with secondary antibody (1:200 Flex Fluor® 568 goat anti-mouse IgG, Molecular Probes, Eugene, OR). A laser scanning confocal microscope (Bio-Rad LS2000) was used to capture images.
Western Blot
10 µg of protein from mitochondria-enriched fractions as well as the cytosol-enriched fractions from human SNpc or MES cells, were subjected to 816% SDS-PAGE and transferred to PVDF, blocked, and probed overnight at 4 °C with mouse anti-GRP75 antibody (1:20,000, Stressgen Biotechnologies); peroxidase-conjugated secondary antibody was added at 1:20,000 and developed with enhanced chemiluminescence.
Statistical Methods
Grouped data are expressed as mean ± S.E. Changes between groups were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance or Students t test using GraphPad Prism 3.0 (San Diego, CA). All measurements were repeated at least three times in all experiments. p < 0.05 was accepted as significant.
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2 peptides and a single peptide are listed in Supplemental Appendix I (a total of 653 proteins/groups) and Supplemental Appendix II (a total of 189 proteins/groups), respectively. The rationales for pooling samples and combining results from all runs are discussed briefly under "Experimental Procedures" but in greater detail in our previous publications (10, 11, 16, 18, 19). As expected, the majority of proteins listed in Supplemental Appendices I and II with known functions are related to mitochondria with a significant portion of them (
40%) being linked to either signal transduction, the ubiquitin proteasomal system, or regulation of oxidative stress, all of which have been implicated in PD pathogenesis (3133).
Table I lists the 119 proteins that displayed significant changes in relative abundance between PD and controls in at least two independent experiments; these proteins are more likely to play major roles in PD development or progression. For example, a subunit of NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (part of mitochondrial complex I) was significantly decreased in PD compared with controls; this is consistent with earlier observations showing decreased mitochondrial complex I activity in PD patients (3437). To catalog our data for further analysis, we have separated the proteins into four groups in alphabetical order within each category (Table I): proteins whose levels 1) increased
2-fold (ASAP Ratio
0.5), 2) increased between 1.25- and 2-fold (0.5 < ASAP Ratio
0.75), 3) decreased
2-fold (ASAP Ratio
2), and 4) decreased between 1.25- and 2-fold (1.25
ASAP Ratio < 2) when 100 µg of protein from PD was paired with 100 µg from control.
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Both proteomic and Western blot analyses were done with pooled samples; this approach, although advantageous in many aspects, cannot determine whether the decrease in mortalin resulted from a large decrease in a single patient or from smaller decreases in multiple patients. Furthermore although immunohistochemical studies were performed in individual cases, it is not a reliable technique for demonstrating decreased mortalin expression in DAergic neurons of PD patients compared with controls (Fig. 1B). To address these issues, Western blot analyses were conducted in individual cases from which the samples were pooled. Fig. 1, C and D, show that mortalin expression decreased in the majority of mitochondria-enriched fractions from the PD cases (p < 0.05), whereas there was no significant change in cytosol-enriched fractions.
Investigation of Mortalin in a Cellular Model of PD
Rotenone, a potent mitochondrial inhibitor, produces selective DAergic neurodegeneration with formation of Lewy body-like inclusions in the remaining DAergic neurons in rodents (5, 39). We as well as others have demonstrated in a cellular model of PD that rotenone-mediated neurotoxicity is largely associated with increased oxidative stress and/or proteasomal dysfunction (5, 40). Thus, we next investigated whether a decrease in mortalin level is upheld in the cellular model of PD. As can be seen in Fig. 2A, consistent with our previous results (11), rotenone exposure at 2.510 nM produced a dose-dependant neurotoxicity 3 days after treatment. More importantly, although rotenone exposure had no significant effect on mortalin level when total lysate was analyzed, mortalin level was reduced in the mitochondria-enriched fractions (Fig. 2B), consistent with the results obtained in human SNpc as shown in Fig. 1.
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Effects of Manipulating Mortalin Expression on Rotenone-induced Neurotoxicity
Investigation of mortalin in human PD and a cellular model of PD have clearly indicated that mortalin and/or its associated proteins are likely to play major roles in PD pathogenesis. Thus, we went on to ask whether the loss of mortalin was contributing to toxicity and whether its replacement would offset such toxicity. Fig. 3A, left panel, shows that transfection of the mortalin gene increased mortalin expression to 200% of controls transfected with empty vector. To study the cellular distribution of overexpressed mortalin, we analyzed GFP-tagged mortalin in both fractionated cells and its relation to the mitochondrial protein cytochrome c. It is clear that not only did mortalin transfection increase cellular mortalin, but the mortalin level was also increased preferentially in the mitochondrial fraction (Fig. 3B). Semiquantitative analysis indicated that the mortalin level after gene transfection was 2- and 1.5-fold of vector-transfected cells in the mitochondria- and cytosol-enriched fractions, respectively. In addition, the majority of GFP-tagged mortalin was co-localized with cytochrome c in the mitochondria, whereas control GFP was distributed throughout the cells (Fig. 3C), further confirming that overexpressed mortalin was indeed transported into the mitochondria. When cell viability was measured (Fig. 3D), mortalin overexpression had no effect on cell viability in vehicle-treated cells (Fig. 3D, left panel) but substantially enhanced rather than attenuated rotenone-mediated neurotoxicity (Fig. 3D, right panel), suggesting that rotenone toxicity may be mediated in part via mortalin or its associated proteins with the eventual outcome being reduced mitochondrial mortalin level.
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Effects of Mortalin Transfection on Mitochondrial Complex I Activity, Oxidative Stress, and Proteasomal Function
Although the above experiments argue solidly that mortalin is a major target of rotenone, the mechanisms involved are largely unknown. It is well known that rotenone is a potent inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I that in turn produces significant oxidative stress and inhibits proteasomal function in MES cells (5, 42). To further determine the role(s) of mortalin in the rotenone effect, we compared the effects of rotenone on mitochondrial complex I and proteasomal function as well as oxidative stress in cells with or without overexpression of mortalin. Similar to our observation that overexpression of mortalin was nontoxic in the absence of rotenone (see Fig. 3D), we found no difference in these endpoints between untreated cells with and without overexpressed mortalin. However, in the presence of rotenone, we observed marked differences. Consistent with the observations of others (5, 42) as well as our own (11), 5 nM rotenone treatment of untransfected and vector-transfected cells for 3 days significantly suppressed mitochondrial complex I activity, increased oxidative stress, and induced inhibition of both chymotrypsin-like and glutamyl peptidase activities. Also consistent with the observation of neurotoxicity shown in Fig. 3D, mortalin transfection significantly enhanced mitochondrial inhibition, oxidative stress, and proteasomal dysfunction induced by rotenone (Fig. 4).
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A total of 842 proteins were identified and quantified with a robust proteomic technique in the mitochondria-enriched fractions isolated from human SNpc; however, some mitochondrial proteins reported in the literature were not observed in our study. Besides the limitation of MS, a few other potential explanations can account for this discrepancy, including the following. 1) Some mitochondrial proteins do not contain cysteine residues (e.g. cytochrome oxidase polypeptide Vic) and thus are transparent to the ICAT method, and 2) several reported mitochondrial proteins such as mitochondrial import inner membrane translocase subunit TIM8 B, were identified in our study by one peptide but failed to meet our criteria or those of most investigators in proteomic research (43). Finally it should be noted that a few cytoplasmic proteins are also listed in Supplemental Appendices I and II; this should not be surprising as the samples used were mitochondria-enriched fractions, not purified mitochondria, and thus contained a few other membranous elements.
ICAT quantification of the mitochondria-enriched fractions of SNpc identified numerous proteins with significant quantitative differences between PD and controls. In particular, numerous subunits of the mitochondrial complexes were substantially decreased in PD patients, including those associated with complex I (e.g. NADH-ubiquinone 42-kDa B14.7 subunit) as well as other mitochondrial complexes including cytochrome c oxidase (complex III) polypeptide I. These observations are noteworthy as they provide protein substrates for mitochondrial dysfunction in PD pathogenesis (16). Nonetheless despite the fact that all proteins with quantitative differences between two groups may have a potential role in PD pathogenesis, all of them need to be validated not only for identification but also quantification (as we did for mortalin) before their functional roles are pursued extensively. This is because proteins could be misidentified by proteomics due to the incompleteness of the current database.
SILAC analysis of mortalin-associated proteins after rotenone exposure revealed many proteins, some of which are clearly related to mitochondrial function. It is obvious that proteins whose levels are modulated by rotenone, e.g. acyl-CoA dehydrogenase family member 9 and phosphate carrier protein (Table II), are worth further pursuit because they are likely to be key players in mediating the effects of mortalin on rotenone-induced neurotoxicity. On the other hand, despite the fact that rotenone did not change the level of hsp60 in mortalin-associated protein complex, it is still possible that the function of hsp60 could be altered if the nature of mortalin changes (see "Discussion" below). It should be noted here that hsp60 has already been validated recently by one of our co-authors to interact with mortalin both in vivo and in vitro in a different experimental system (44).
In the current study, we validated that the mortalin level was not only decreased in the mitochondrial fraction of PD patients but also in a cellular model of PD. Previous studies, largely focused on cancer biology, have suggested a role of mortalin as an antiapoptosis protein because 1) overexpression of mortalin resulted in malignant transformation of NIH 3T3 (45) and lifespan extension of normal human fibroblasts (46), 2) expression levels of mortalin were elevated in human brain tumors (47), and 3) reduction in the mortalin level by its antisense expression caused senescence-like growth arrest in immortalized human cells (48). The function(s) of mortalin in DAergic cells, or more specifically in the mitochondria of these cells, is unknown. Neither overexpression nor silencing of mortalin level had any significant effects on the viability of MES cells treated with vehicle, suggesting that decreasing mortalin level alone is probably insufficient in causing neurodegeneration. In fact, a decrease in mortalin level has also been observed in aging kidneys (49). Nonetheless overexpression of mortalin rendered DAergic cells more vulnerable to rotenone-induced neurotoxicity, whereas down-regulated mortalin expression produced opposite effects, arguing strongly that mortalin is a critical player in rotenone-mediated neurotoxicity. We ruled out the possibility that increased neurotoxicity was due to the inability of overexpressed mortalin to enter the mitochondria, thereby disrupting normal cytosolic protein functions (Fig. 3). We also confirmed that the mechanisms by which mortalin mediates rotenone associated toxicity involved enhanced oxidative stress as well as mitochondrial and proteasomal dysfunction (Fig. 4), all of which have been implicated in PD pathogenesis. The question that remains to be answered is how precisely does mortalin execute its effect on rotenone-mediated neurotoxicity? Rotenone exposure reduced the mitochondrial mortalin level, but silencing native mortalin offset rotenone-mediated toxicity, suggesting that it is the delicate balance of mortalin and its associated proteins (not necessarily the absolute level of mortalin) that determines the sensitivity of DAergic cells to rotenone. To this end, we have already identified several mortalin-binding proteins, and their biological functions in rotenone-mediated toxicity will be investigated further. Finally mortalin appears to be oxidized in an animal model of Alzheimer disease (50), raising the possibility that changes in mortalin structure may also be important in neurodegenerative diseases. It is feasible that increased oxidative stress due to rotenone exposure oxidizes mortalin, particularly when it is overexpressed, thereby influencing the functions of mortalin and/or its associated proteins, e.g. hsp60, and ultimately affecting rotenone-induced neurotoxicity. However, it should be noted that we have not examined the nature and/or extent of post-translational modification of mortalin, including whether it is oxidized when exposed to rotenone, in our studies. Post-translational modification of mortalin, if present in this model, can be as important as the change in its relative abundance in terms of modulating rotenone-mediated neurotoxicity or even human PD.
In summary, with pathologically verified human tissues we identified numerous novel proteins that likely contribute to PD pathogenesis. We validated one of these proteins, mortalin, in both human samples and a cellular model of PD and demonstrated that it was preferentially decreased in mitochondrial fractions. Furthermore overexpression and silencing of mortalin level in DAergic cells significantly influenced cell viability when treated with rotenone, suggesting that mortalin is a major mediator of neurotoxicity induced by this widely used parkinsonian toxicant. Finally although detailed mechanisms underlying the interactions between mortalin and its associated proteins remain to be characterized, the effects of mortalin on rotenone-mediated toxicity appeared to involve oxidative stress as well as mitochondrial and proteasomal dysfunction.
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Published, March 1, 2006
Published, MCP Papers in Press, March 24, 2006, DOI 10.1074/mcp.M500382-MCP200
1 The abbreviations used are: PD, Parkinson disease; ASAP, automated statistical analysis of protein abundance; DA, dopamine; DAergic, dopaminergic; DNPH, 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine; IPI, International Protein Index; MudPIT, multidimensional protein identification technology; SILAC, stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture; SNpc, substantia nigra pars compacta; GFP, green fluorescent protein; siRNA, small interfering RNA; MES, rat mesencephalic neuronal cell line. ![]()
* This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grants ES012703 and AG025327 (to J. Z.). The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. ![]()
S The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.mcponline.org) contains supplemental material. ![]()

To whom correspondence should be addressed: Division of Neuropathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Box 359635 Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104. Tel.: 206-341-5245; Fax: 206-341-5249; E-mail: zhangj{at}u.washington.edu
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