Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

ATAD3A oligomerization causes neurodegeneration by coupling mitochondrial fragmentation and bioenergetics defects

  • Yuanyuan Zhao,
  • Xiaoyan Sun,
  • Di Hu,
  • Domenick A. Prosdocimo,
  • Charles Hoppel,
  • Mukesh K. Jain,
  • Rajesh Ramachandran,
  • Xin Qi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09291-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Huntington’s disease leads to mitochondrial fragmentation and bioenergetic failure, although how the two events are connected is poorly understood. Here, Zhao et al. identify ATAD3A as a molecular linker and show that a peptide inhibitor of ATAD3A oligomerization suppresses HD phenotypes.