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Submitted on May 17, 2006
Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104
Corresponding Author: zhangj{at}u.washington.edu
The molecular mechanisms leading to neurodegeneration in Parkinson disease (PD) remain elusive, although many lines of evidence have indicated that
Revised on December 11, 2006
Accepted on February 10, 2007
Identification of novel proteins interacting with both a-synuclein and DJ-1
-synuclein and DJ-1, two critical proteins in PD pathogenesis, interact with each other functionally. The investigation on whether
-synuclein directly interacts with DJ-1 has been controversial. In the current study, we analyzed proteins associated with
-synuclein and/or DJ-1 with a robust proteomics technique called SILAC (stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture) in dopaminergic MES cells exposed to rotenone versus controls. We identified 324 and 306 proteins in the
-synuclein and DJ-1 associated protein complexes, respectively. Among
-synuclein-associated proteins, 141 proteins displayed significant changes in the relative abundance (increase or decrease) after rotenone treatment; among DJ-1-associated proteins, 119 proteins displayed significant changes in the relative abundance after rotenone treatment. Although no direct interaction was observed between
-synuclein and DJ-1, whether analyzed by affinity purification followed by mass spectrometry or subsequent direct co-immunoprecipitation (IP), 144 proteins were seen in association with both
-synuclein and DJ-1. Of those, 114 proteins displayed significant changes in the relative abundance in the complexes associated with
-synuclein, DJ-1, or both after rotenone treatment. A subset of these proteins (mortalin, nucleolin, grp94, calnexin and clathrin) was further validated for their association with both
-synuclein and DJ-1 using confocal microscopy, WB, and/or IP. Thus, we have not only confirmed that there was no direct interaction between
-synuclein and DJ-1, but also, for the first time, to report these five novel proteins to be associating with both
-synuclein and DJ-1. Further characterization of these docking proteins will likely shed more light on the mechanisms by which DJ-1 modulates the function of
-synuclein, and vice versa, in the setting of PD.
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