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Differential aggregation and functional impairment induced by polyalanine expansions in FOXL2, a transcription factor involved in cranio-facial and ovarian development

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Polyalanine (polyAla) tract expansions have been associated with an increasing number of human diseases. Here, we have undertaken a functional study of the effects of polyAla expansions in the context of the transcription factor FOXL2, involved in cranio-facial and ovarian development. Using two cellular models, we show that FOXL2 polyAla expansions lead to protein mislocalization and aggregation in a length-dependent manner. The fraction of cells containing cytoplasmic staining displays a sigmoidal relationship with respect to the length of the polyAla tract, suggesting the existence of a threshold length above which protein mislocalization occurs. The existence of such a threshold might be rationalized if we consider that the longer the polyAla tract is, the higher its tendency to misfolding or to inducing spurious interactions with cytoplasmic components. To study the intranuclear dynamics of polyAla-expanded FOXL2, we performed fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments. The most unexpected result concerned the pathogenic protein containing 19 Ala residues in the run, which was virtually immobile, although this variant does not present a classical aggregation pattern. Luciferase assays and real time RT-PCR of many potential target genes showed that polyAla expansions induce different losses of activity according to the target promoters tested. We provide molecular explanations for these findings. Although our main focus is the mechanisms of pathogenesis of polyAla-expanded proteins, we discuss the potential relevance of polyAla length variation in micro- and macroevolution because polyAla-containing proteins tend to be transcription factors.

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hal-02665177 , version 1 (31-05-2020)

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Lara Moumné, Aurélie Dipietromaria, Frank Batista, Ayhan Kocer, Marc Fellous, et al.. Differential aggregation and functional impairment induced by polyalanine expansions in FOXL2, a transcription factor involved in cranio-facial and ovarian development. Human Molecular Genetics, 2008, 17 (7), pp.1010-1019. ⟨10.1093/hmg/ddm373⟩. ⟨hal-02665177⟩
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