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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 37, 34462-34470, September 13, 2002

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Aggregation of Misfolded Proteins Can Be a Selective Process Dependent upon Peptide Composition^*

Micha I. Milewski^§, John E. Mickle, John K. Forrest, Bruce A. Stanton^¶, and Garry R. Cutting

From the  Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, the ^§ Department of Medical Genetics, Institute of Mother and Child, Kasprzaka 17a, 01-211 Warsaw, Poland, and the ^¶ Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03758

Intracellular aggregation of misfolded proteins is observed in a number of human diseases, in particular, neurologic disorders in which expanded tracts of polyglutamine residues play a central role. A variety of other proteins are prone to aggregation when mutated, indicating that this process is a common pathologic mechanism for inherited disorders. However, little is known about the relationship between the sequence of aggregating peptides and the specificity of intracellular accumulation. Here we demonstrate that substitution of two residues eliminates aggregation of a 111-amino acid peptide derived from the C-terminal portion of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). We also show that fusion to a reporter protein considerably alters the subcellular distribution of aggregating peptide. When fused to green fluorescent protein, the peptide containing amino acids 1370-1480 of CFTR accumulates in large perinuclear or nuclear aggregates. The same CFTR fragment devoid of green fluorescent protein localizes predominantly to discrete accumulations associated with mitochondria. Importantly, both types of accumulation are dependent on the presence of the same two amino acids within the CFTR sequence. Co-expression studies show that both CFTR-derived proteins can co-localize in large cytoplasmic/nuclear aggregates. However, neither CFTR construct accumulates in intracellular inclusions formed by N-terminal fragment of huntingtin. In addition to unique accumulation patterns, each aggregating peptide shows differences in association with chaperone proteins. Thus, our results indicate that the process of intracellular aggregation can be a selective process determined by the composition of the aggregating peptides.

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