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Series GSE23802 Query DataSets for GSE23802
Status Public on Sep 23, 2010
Title Native functions of the androgen receptor are essential to pathogenesis in a Drosophila model of spinobulbar muscular atrophy
Organism Drosophila melanogaster
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary Spinobulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the androgen receptor (AR). This mutation confers toxic function to AR through unknown mechanisms. Mutant AR toxicity requires binding of its hormone ligand, suggesting that pathogenesis involves ligand-induced changes in AR. However, whether toxicity is mediated by native AR function or a novel AR function is unknown. We systematically investigated events downstream of ligand-dependent AR activation in a Drosophila model of SBMA. We show that nuclear translocation of AR is necessary but not sufficient for toxicity and that DNA binding by AR is necessary for toxicity. Mutagenesis studies demonstrated that a functional AF-2 domain is essential for toxicity, a finding corroborated by a genetic screen that identified AF-2 interactors as dominant modifiers of degeneration. These findings indicate that SBMA pathogenesis is mediated by misappropriation of native protein function, a mechanism that may apply broadly to polyglutamine diseases.
 
Overall design We used Affymetrix arrays to generate a molecular phenotype of degeneration in profile flies expressing wild-type or polyglutamine-expanded AR. We also expressed in the fly eye polyglutamine-expanded AR with point mutations affecting the DNA binding domain and the AF-2 domain. In some experiments, GMR-GAL4; UAR-AR flies were crossed to flies carrying a chromosomal duplication of the limpet gene. Transgene expression was induced in the eye using GMR-GAL4. Flies were crossed at 29 deg C on food containing either 1mM DHT or 1% ethanol (vehicle).
 
Contributor(s) Nedelsky NB, Pennuto M, Smith RB, Palazzolo I, Moore J, Nie Z, Neale GA, Taylor JP
Citation(s) 20869592
Submission date Aug 25, 2010
Last update date Aug 28, 2018
Contact name Geoffrey Neale
E-mail(s) [email protected]
Organization name St Jude Childrens Research Hospital
Department Hartwell Center
Street address 262 Danny Thomas Place
City Memphis
State/province TN
ZIP/Postal code 38105
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL1322 [Drosophila_2] Affymetrix Drosophila Genome 2.0 Array
Samples (54)
GSM587040 AR12Q, vehicle-treated, replicate 1
GSM587041 AR12Q, vehicle-treated, replicate 2
GSM587042 AR12Q, vehicle-treated, replicate 3
Relations
BioProject PRJNA130695

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE23802_RAW.tar 115.4 Mb (http)(custom) TAR (of CEL, CHP)
Processed data included within Sample table
Processed data provided as supplementary file

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