Ching-San Tseng
Yu-Wen Chao
Yi-Hsiang Liu4†
Yi-Shuian Huang
Hsu-Wen Chao- 1Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
- 2Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 3Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
- 4Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- 5Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Long-term maintenance of synaptic connections is important for brain function, which depends on varying proteostatic regulations to govern the functional integrity of neuronal proteomes. Proteostasis supports an interconnection of pathways that regulates the fate of proteins from synthesis to degradation. Defects in proteostatic signaling are associated with age-related functional decline and neurodegenerative diseases. Recent studies have advanced our knowledge of how cells have evolved distinct mechanisms to safely control protein homeostasis during synthesis, folding and degradation, and in different subcellular organelles and compartments. Neurodegeneration occurs when these protein quality controls are compromised by accumulated pathogenic proteins or aging to an irreversible state. Consequently, several therapeutic strategies, such as targeting the unfolded protein response and autophagy pathways, have been developed to reduce the burden of misfolded proteins and proved useful in animal models. Here, we present a brief overview of the molecular mechanisms involved in maintaining proteostatic networks, along with some examples linking dysregulated proteostasis to neuronal diseases.
Introduction
From day-to-day operations to adapting to environmental stress, biological processes in living cells are accomplished through the spatiotemporal and dynamic integration of protein networks, known as proteostasis, which is composed of various molecular processes, including protein synthesis, folding, modification, delivery, and degradation. Neurons are non-dividing and highly polarized cells with specialized and extended compartments, such as axons and dendrites, for transmitting directional information between different circuits through specialized structures called synapses. To support synaptic connectivity and communication over time, tight control of protein synthesis and degradation is required to shape the synaptic proteome for the long-term maintenance of synaptic structure and function. Once neuronal proteostasis declines due to aging or extreme stress, proteome integrity may fail to be preserved, and the resulting misfolded proteins ultimately lead to neuronal disorders (Hetz, 2021). Here, we summarize the current understanding and recent findings regarding the mechanistic and functional roles of proteostatic pathways in neurons.
Imbalanced mRNA translation in neuronal disorders
Ribosomes are where the mRNA is translated into protein products (Figure 1). Upon activation, eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2) first forms a ternary complex (TC) with the initiator methionyl tRNA and 40S small ribosome, which scans along the mRNA to localize the start codon AUG and triggers the initiation of translation (Cao et al., 2019). Four members of eIF2α kinases in response to various cellular stresses can phosphorylate eIF2α to reduce TC formation and global translation (Bhattarai et al., 2020); however, activating transcription 4 (ATF4) mRNA is preferentially translated by a mechanism involving upstream open reading frames (Zhou et al., 2018). Consequently, stressed cells retain most of their energy to synthesize essential and stress-responsive proteins for survival (Advani and Ivanov, 2019). Unfortunately, some of the induced proteins, including beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme-1 (BACE1), may increase the production of pathological proteins in neurodegenerative diseases, such as β-amyloid precipitation in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (O'Connor et al., 2008). Another major pathway controlling translation initiation depends on the activity of a protein kinase called mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), which phosphorylates eIF4E and its binding proteins to enhance cap-dependent translation initiation (Weiss et al., 2021). Dysregulation of mTOR activity disrupts the balanced production of newly synthesized proteins (Figure 1). Hyperactivated mTOR signaling in Down’s syndrome mouse neurons augments dendritic translation and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) synthesis, resulting in insensitivity to extracellular BDNF signaling (Troca-Marin et al., 2011). Conversely, hypoactivated mTOR signaling in Rett’s syndrome downregulates BDNF expression and impairs synaptic connections (Pejhan et al., 2020).
FIGURE 1. The proteostasis network and disease disturbances. RNA translation is divided into three steps and controlled by proteostatic processes. Under cellular stress, the assembly of initiation and elongation complexes is inhibited to reduce protein synthesis. Moreover, the premature transcript is degraded by NMD to avoid the generation of aberrant proteins. Mutations in key factors involved in translational procedures induce proteome stress and cause neuronal disorders. Following synthesis, nascent proteins experience posttranslational modifications to achieve their correct folding and become functional. However, misfolded proteins are generated by proteome stress and eliminated by three types of protein degradation mechanisms. Under neuropathies, improper modifications and resistances to degradation attenuate the clearance of misfolded proteins and finally cause the protein aggregation.
After initiation, eukaryotic elongation factors (eEFs) cooperate to decode the open reading frame sequences and control the rate of protein synthesis. Dysfunction of the elongation complex may lead to neuronal diseases, such as the early stage of epilepsy and intellectual disability with mutations in eEF1A2 (Long et al., 2020). To decelerate translation under cellular stress aggregated pathological proteins, eEF2 kinase (eEF2K) phosphorylates eEF2 to inhibit eEF2-mediated translocation of nascent peptidyl-tRNAs on ribosomes (Fabbri et al., 2021). Indeed, elevated eEF2K activity has been identified in postmortem brains of patients with AD and Parkinson’s disease (PD) (Jan et al., 2017; Jan et al., 2018). However, the excessive elongation brake attenuates neuronal responses to oxidative stress (Jan et al., 2017; Jan et al., 2018), so genetic or pharmacological inhibition of eEF2K can rescue neuronal loss and behavioral defects in mouse models of AD, PD and Dravet syndrome (Beretta et al., 2022). Mutations in the highly conserved elongator complex for tRNA modification impair tRNA maturation and the level of charged aminoacyl-tRNA, thereby leading to imbalanced protein synthesis and familial dysautonomia, a rare genetic disorder of the autonomic nervous system (Lefler et al., 2015; Chaverra et al., 2017).
Before termination, transcripts harboring a premature stop codon are eliminated to avoid the synthesis of aberrant proteins via a mechanism known as non-sense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) (Kurosaki et al., 2019). In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), mutations in transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) and fused in sarcoma (FUS) cause aberrant RNA splicing, and some of the mis-spliced transcripts need to be degraded through NMD; thus, enhancing NMD activity protects neurons in the cellular models of ALS and FTD (Barmada et al., 2015). Moreover, oxidative stress induces the cleavage of 3′-untranslated region (UTR) of RNA and consequently the accumulation of isolated 3′-UTRs in ribosomes generates redundant short-peptides and hinders translation (Sudmant et al., 2018). Several polymorphisms in the 3′-UTRs of disease-associated genes have been identified (Grunblatt et al., 2019); however, whether they contribute to isolated 3′-UTR-related pathogenesis requires further investigations.
Defective post-translational modifications in neuropathology
Some nascent proteins undergo covalent and enzymatic modifications, known as post-translational modification (PTM), to achieve correct folding (Figure 1). Aberrant PTMs can produce misfolded proteins; if not eliminated properly, they can increase the probability of forming aggregates, which are toxic components in many neurodegenerative diseases. For example, hyperphosphorylation of tau enhances the formation of tau tangles, a pathological hallmark of AD (Bai et al., 2020). More than one-third of amino acids in tau can be post-translationally modified, of which approximately one-fifth are phosphorylated (Alquezar et al., 2020). In response to aggregation, ubiquitylation of tau triggers its degradation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) (see the next section for details). Methylation of lysine residues also attenuates tau aggregation during aging and AD progression (Balmik and Chinnathambi, 2021). Although methylation can compete with ubiquitylation to modify some lysine residues in tau with the same potency to inhibit tau aggregation, methylation cannot recruit the UPS to degrade tau (Balmik and Chinnathambi, 2021). Moreover, O-linked β-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) modification of tau has been found in AD patients, suggesting that proteostatic signaling is designed to counteract tau phosphorylation and aggregation to slow disease progression (Wang et al., 2017; Wang et al., 2020). In contrast, tau acetylation prevents the degradation of phosphorylated tau and promotes its aggregation (Caballero et al., 2021). Another PTM that reciprocally opposes ubiquitylation is sumoylation, which induces tau hyperphosphorylation and inhibits its degradation (Luo et al., 2014). The location and frequency of PTMs on tau change over time as tauopathy progresses, revealing tau-associated molecular signatures at distinct disease stages (Wesseling et al., 2020). Collectively, these studies demonstrate that inappropriate PTMs impair neuronal proteostasis to drive neuropathogenesis.
Impaired degradation of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases
The accumulation of specific protein aggregates is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases, so the clearance of neurotoxic aggregates is a challenging task for neurons. To restore proteostasis, misfolded and aggregated proteins must be eliminated by chaperone, UPS or lysosome (Figure 1). Unfortunately, this refolding/degradation machinery is compromised by aggregated proteins that cause neurodegeneration. UPS-dependent protein degradation is achieved by enzymatic addition of polyubiquitin chains to target proteins, followed by their recruitment to the 26S proteasome. Conjugated ubiquitins have been detected in extracellular Aβ plaques in AD brains (Bellia et al., 2019), implying the failure of intracellular protein degradation. Specifically, as extracellular Aβ peptides enter neurons, proteasomal activity is decreased in the cortical regions of patients with AD (Keck et al., 2003; Oh et al., 2005). Furthermore, intracellular aggregation of tau in AD, α-synuclein in PD, and huntingtin in Huntington's disease (HD) also impairs proteasomal activity to enhance neuropathies (Liu et al., 2019; Suzuki et al., 2020; Franco-Iborra et al., 2021).
The lysosome receives cytoplasmic content for enzymatic degradation in a highly conserved catabolic process known as autophagy. Lysosome biogenesis is primarily controlled by transcription factor EB (TFEB), which activates the transcription of genes responsible for lysosome formation and autophagy induction (Kobayashi et al., 2019). TFEB downregulation and abnormal autophagy have been reported in patients with AD and ALS (Tiribuzi et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2016b), and genetic or pharmacological induction of TFEB attenuates neuronal loss and pathological features in AD and PD mouse models (Wang et al., 2016a; Zhuang et al., 2020). Moreover, mutations in other autophagy-associated genes have been shown to accelerate the neuropathogenesis of ALS, FTD, PD and microcephaly (Tresse et al., 2010; Garcia-Sanz et al., 2017; Deng et al., 2020; Almannai et al., 2022). Furthermore, mutant tau and mutant α-synuclein exhibit strong resistance to autophagy (Caballero et al., 2018; Kirchner et al., 2019), commensurate with the difficulty in removing these neurotoxic aggregates.
Three major subtypes of autophagy have been identified in mammalian cells: macroautophagy, microautophagy, and chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) (Yim and Mizushima, 2020). In contrast to microautophagy and CMA, which directly transport small amounts of cytosolic materials to lysosomes, macroautophagy begins with the de novo synthesis of double-membraned vesicles known as autophagosomes, which sequester large cargos, including damaged organelles (Andrejeva et al., 2020; Schutter et al., 2020). In neurons, most autophagosomes are generated in the distal axon and then transported retrogradely toward the somatic and dendritic compartments (Maday and Holzbaur, 2014). Dystrophic and swollen neurites with accumulated autophagosomes are typical and correlated with synaptic dysfunction in the early stage of AD progression (Sharoar et al., 2019). Additionally, excessive autophagosomes have also been observed in cellular models of PD and ALS (Dehay et al., 2010; Morselli et al., 2011). Although the autophagosome formation is impervious to HD pathology, aggregated autophagosomes and impaired autophagy have been also observed in mouse and cell models of HD (Martinez-Vicente et al., 2010). Notably, depletion of wild-type huntingtin results in the abnormal accumulation of defective autophagosomes because of its function in mediating retrograde transport of autophagosomes along the axon (Zheng et al., 2010). Genetic or pharmacological activation of autophagy attenuates pathological protein aggregation and reduces neuronal pathology in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases (Heckmann et al., 2019; Pupyshev et al., 2019; Brattas et al., 2021; Xu et al., 2022). In addition to promoting translation, mTOR signaling plays an essential role in hindering autophagy induction. Therefore, pharmacological inhibition of mTOR enhances autophagy to remove protein aggregates and ameliorate neurodegeneration (Casillas-Espinosa et al., 2020).
In addition to assisting the conformational folding of proteins, chaperones deliver misfolded proteins to proteasomes and lysosomes for degradation. Chaperones help ubiquitin ligases recognize misfolded targets (Ciechanover and Kwon, 2017) and bring misfolded proteins to lysosomal membranes for embedding (Johnston and Samant, 2021). Importantly, chaperones can disengage insoluble proteins from stable aggregates that are believed to be further refolded or degraded (Shorter, 2011). During aging or neurodegeneration, the balance of chaperone expression is temporarily altered: some chaperones are induced to defend against proteostatic stress, while others are reduced due to disease insults (Auzmendi-Iriarte and Matheu, 2020). Although insufficient degradation of aggregated proteins eventually disrupts proteostasis and causes neuronal death, it also implies potential therapeutics for treating neurodegenerative diseases. For example, the genetic induction of chaperone or delivery of chaperone-simulating nanomaterials facilitates the clearance of neurotoxic proteins and promotes neuronal survival (Huang et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2022). Chaperones require non-client-binding partners as regulators of chaperone action. For example, the binding of misfolded proteins to heat shock protein (HSP) 70 is commenced by interaction with its co-chaperone HSP40 (Morgner et al., 2015). The induction of co-chaperones also alleviates the neurotoxicity-caused by pathogenic proteins (Park et al., 2018). Another example is Valosin-containing protein precursor (VCP)/p97, which is a chaperone containing ATPase activity to assist protein folding, sorting or degradation (Parzych et al., 2019). By ATP hydrolysis-dependent changes of its conformation, VCP/p97 interacts with more than 30 cofactors that connect it to different targets (Riehl et al., 2021). Dysfunction of VCP/p97 impacts various cellular activities and mutations in VCP/p97 are associated with several neurological disorders including ALS (Hall et al., 2017; Matsubara et al., 2021).
Disturbance of organelle proteostasis in neuronal diseases
In living cells, protein quality control requires the cooperation of not only lysosomes but also other organelles. Membrane and secretory proteins are synthesized by ribosomes on the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and then enter the ER tubules for a series of PTMs to complete conformational folding. Critically, misfolded proteins are detected and transferred to the endolysosomal or proteasomal system for degradation. Other organelles, including the nucleus, Golgi apparatus, and mitochondria, also collaborate to maintain proteostasis through specific and partially overlapping molecular pathways (Figure 2). Errors in protein synthesis cause prolonged expression of misfolded proteins to induce ER stress and the unfolded protein response (UPR), and consequently activates a conserved proteostatic pathway known as ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD) (Gariballa and Ali, 2020). During ERAD, a cascade of enzymatic ubiquitination processes labels misfolded protein substrates and directs them to proteasomal degradation (Carroll and Marqusee, 2022). When the ERAD capacity is overwhelmed by increasing accumulation of pathological proteins, neurons begin to undergo neurodegeneration (Abisambra et al., 2013; Leitman et al., 2013).
FIGURE 2. Subcellular proteostasis and UPR signaling. Schematic presentations of proteostasis signaling and protein trafficking in distinct organelles. Main stress sensors and transcription factors are presented. Misfolded proteins are transferred between the ER and Golgi apparatus for refolding, or to the lysosome or nucleus for degradation. In the ER, three major UPR signaling pathways trigger proteostatic processes. First, PERK phosphorylates eIF2α to inhibit the assembly of the initiation ternary complex, thereby suppressing general translation. Additionally, mitochondrial damage also induces phosphorylation of eIF2α. Conversely, some proteins such as transcription factor ATF4 are preferentially produced. Second, IRE1 mediates RNA splicing and promotes the synthesis of transcription factor XBP1. Third, ATF6 is transferred to the Golgi apparatus and cleaved into a short and active form. Furthermore, the proteome stress dephosphorylates and activates transcription factor TFEB. Together, these transcription factors drive the induction of UPR genes to ensure proteostasis.
UPR signaling is initiated by three transmembrane sensors: protein kinase R-like ER kinase (PERK, which is an eIF2α kinase), inositol-requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1), and activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) (Figure 2). Genetic or pharmacological manipulation of UPR signaling changes the pathological progression in mouse models of neurodegeneration and aging (Ganz et al., 2020; Krukowski et al., 2020). Upon ER stress, PERK phosphorylates eIF2α, and consequently inhibits translational initiation to relieve the loading of protein synthesis (Bhattarai et al., 2020). Conversely, some transcripts with unique characteristics, such as ATF4, are preferentially translated in response to stress (Zhou et al., 2018). ER stress also degrades mRNAs via the endonuclease activity of IRE1 to reduce protein synthesis (Tavernier et al., 2017). IRE1 also mediates splicing of X-box binding protein 1 (XBP1) mRNA to produce transcripts for making functional XBP1 proteins, which then translocate to the nucleus to activate transcription of genes involved in UPR and ERAD (Belyy et al., 2020). Following stress-induced translocation to the Golgi apparatus, ATF6 is proteolytically processed to release a cytosolic fragment that then enters the nucleus and activates the transcription of numerous genes involved in protein folding and degradation (Glembotski et al., 2019). In conclusion, selective inductions of UPR genes under global translational repression are caused by proteome stress. Elevated UPR activation is frequently observed in neurodegenerative brains, because the accumulation of misfolded proteins is a hallmark of neurodegeneration (Hughes and Mallucci, 2019).
Similar to the response to ER stress, mitochondrial damage also activates eIF2α kinases to phosphorylate eIF2α (Fessler et al., 2020; Guo et al., 2020) and eventually initiates eIF2α-independent translation of pro-survival factors. Mitochondria also uptake misfolded proteins from the cytoplasmic matrix to activate their own UPR (Ruan et al., 2017). Interestingly, exogenous mitochondria can be delivered from astrocytes to neurons to help neurons recover after injury (Hayakawa et al., 2016). Unfortunately, mitochondrial function and integrity decline in aging and neurodegenerative diseases (Godoy et al., 2021). When mitochondria are irreversibly damaged, they can be removed via mitophagy, a subtype of macroautophagy. However, excessive mitophagy hinders neuronal recovery from UPR stress, which is often observed in neurodegenerative diseases (Fang et al., 2019; Yakhine-Diop et al., 2019).
As a post-ER compartment in the synthesis of membrane and secretory proteins, the Golgi apparatus controls protein quality through two distinct pathways, returning abnormal proteins back to the ER (Brauer et al., 2019; Pennauer et al., 2022) or transferring these proteins for lysosomal degradation (Hellerschmied et al., 2019). Continuous sorting of mutant proteins from the Golgi apparatus to the ER leads to aberrant accumulation in neurodegeneration (Sirkis et al., 2017). Interestingly, the population of misfolded mutant prions persists in the Golgi rather than in the ER (Ashok and Hegde, 2009; Zavodszky and Hegde, 2019), implying that mutant prions have altered trafficking routes and/or the resistance to protein quality control. In contrast to the well-studied ER and mitochondrial UPR mechanisms, Golgi UPR is less understood. Accumulating evidence indicates that Golgi stress responses can trigger specific transcriptional signals (Taniguchi et al., 2016; Serebrenik et al., 2018) and activate ER-resident molecular chaperones (Miyata et al., 2013).
Although the nucleus rarely encounters the accumulation of misfolded proteins, it retains proteasome-dependent degradation to ensure its architecture and genome stability (Almacellas et al., 2021; Shmueli et al., 2022). Nuclear proteasomes eliminate not only nuclear proteins but also proteins transported from the cytoplasmic compartment. Under cellular stress, heat shock proteins help deliver misfolded proteins from the cytoplasm to the nucleus for proteasomal degradation (den Brave et al., 2020), suggesting their essential role in partitioning protein degradation loads between the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments. However, several neuropathic proteins, such as mutant huntingtin and aggregated tau, impede nucleocytoplasmic transport (Grima et al., 2017; Lester et al., 2021), thereby attenuating protein turnover and leading to neurodegeneration.
Aberrant aggregation of neuropathic proteins in stress granules
In addition to membrane-bound organelles, many membrane-less organelles are liquid-like droplets that arise from the condensation of cellular materials. Membrane-less RNA-containing organelles can exist constantly like nucleoli and P-bodies or form under specific conditions such as stress granules (SGs), all of which contribute to proteostatic regulation, including ribosome biogenesis, RNA degradation, and translational repression (Riggs et al., 2020; Lafontaine et al., 2021). The formation of these membrane-less condensates depends on the sequestration of biomolecules, including RNAs, RNA-binding proteins, and other proteins, which function like liquid droplets that allow the molecular components to switch between diluted and condensed phases (Espinosa et al., 2020). This demixing phenomenon is referred to as liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). By locally increasing the protein concentration, these granules create a condition for phase separation between dissolution and accumulation of internal proteins, finally leading to protein condensation with solid-like characteristics (Guo et al., 2018; Garaizar et al., 2022). Interestingly, many RNA-binding proteins contain not only RNA-binding domains, but also intrinsically disordered regions that drive phase transitions to assemble RNA granules that include translationally silenced mRNAs (Hayashi et al., 2021). Stress-induced eIF2α phosphorylation also initiates the transient assembly of SGs containing 40S ribosomal subunits, translation initiation factors, RNA-binding proteins and mRNAs, thereby retaining these molecules for protein synthesis after recovery from stress (Riggs et al., 2020).
Under prolonged cellular stress, phase separation can also promote the formation of insoluble protein aggregates. The assembly of SGs is initially beneficial because the high concentration of RNA and poly ADP-ribose (PAR) keeps proteins accumulated during liquid-liquid phase separation (McGurk et al., 2018a; Mann et al., 2019). However, the persistent or repetitive assembly of SGs evolves the phase transition into neurotoxic aggregates (Hofweber et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2019). Numerous disease-related proteins, including FUS, Tau, and TDP-43, have been reported to aggregate in liquid droplets (Murthy et al., 2019; Conicella et al., 2020; Parolini et al., 2022). FUS and TDP-43 are nucleus-abundant RNA-binding proteins that are phase-segregated into SGs in the cytoplasm; therefore, such a stress-induced phase transition has been proposed to facilitate their cytoplasmic aggregation to cause ALS. Moreover, pathogenic mutations in the diverse regions of FUS and TDP-43, including RNA recognition motifs, oligomerization domains and intrinsically disordered and low-complexity regions, promote phase separation and protein aggregation (McGurk et al., 2018a; Murthy et al., 2019; Conicella et al., 2020) because some mutations of FUS and TDP-43 disrupt their electrostatic interactions through posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation and subsequently affect protein phase separation (McGurk et al., 2018a; Owen et al., 2020). Furthermore, the genetic or pharmacological inhibition of PARylation suppresses phase separation and granule formation (McGurk et al., 2018b; Duan et al., 2019). During AD progression, tau protein also displays an intrinsically disordered conformation, which can undergo liquid-liquid phase separation and eventually become neurotoxic aggregates (Boyko et al., 2020; Parolini et al., 2022).
Conclusion
From mRNA translation to protein degradation, the proteostatic machinery ensures the functional and conformational integrity of neuronal proteomes. Many molecular pathways have been discovered to contribute to the proteostatic networks of different organelles. Recently, accumulating evidence has shown that defective protein quality control caused by accumulating pathogenic proteins and the aging-associated decline in the regulation of proteostasis have a dramatic impact on the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Further research may provide the basis for understanding the neuropathy caused by misfolded and aggregated proteins to facilitate the development of clinical applications.
Author contributions
C-ST, Y-WC, and Y-HL performed data collection (literature reviewing) and prepared the original draft of the manuscript. C-ST, Y-SH, and H-WC revised and wrote the final version of the manuscript. C-ST, Y-SH, and H-WC revised and edited the manuscript for critically important intellectual content. Y-SH and H-WC conceptualized the writing and edited the manuscript.
Funding
This work was supported by grants from MoST (110-2320-B-038-089-MY3) and Taipei Medical University (TMU105-AE1-B35) in H-WC’s laboratory. Y-SH’s laboratory was supported by MoST (111-2311-B-001-020-MY3).
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the Science and Technology of Taiwan (MoST) for support. We thank Tsung-Hung Hung for help with the figures. We also acknowledge Seau-Feng Hong for English editing.
Conflict of interest
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Keywords: protein degradation, mRNA translation, stress granule, neurodegeneration, post-translation modification
Citation: Tseng C-S, Chao Y-W, Liu Y-H, Huang Y-S and Chao H-W (2023) Dysregulated proteostasis network in neuronal diseases. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11:1075215. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2023.1075215
Received: 20 October 2022; Accepted: 15 February 2023;
Published: 24 February 2023.
Edited by:
Yanzhou Yang, Ningxia Medical University, ChinaReviewed by:
Fenglei Chen, Yangzhou University, ChinaXiaomin Zheng, Wuxi Maternity and Child Healthcare Hospital, China
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*Correspondence: Hsu-Wen Chao, chaohw3619@tmu.edu.tw; Yi-Shuian Huang, yishuian@ibms.sinica.edu.tw
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