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PINK1 Is Necessary for Long Term Survival and Mitochondrial Function in Human Dopaminergic Neurons

Wood-Kaczmar, A; Gandhi, S; Yao, Z; Abramov, ASY; Miljan, EA; Keen, G; Stanyer, L; ... Wood, NW; + view all (2008) PINK1 Is Necessary for Long Term Survival and Mitochondrial Function in Human Dopaminergic Neurons. PLOS ONE , 3 (6) , Article e2455. 10.1371/journal.pone.0002455. Green open access

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Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected to address the following errors. 1.The fourth author's name appears incorrectly in the author byline and in the citation. It should read: Andrey Y. Abramov, and the citation should read: Wood-Kaczmar A, Gandhi S, Yao Z, Abramov AY, Miljan EA, et al. (2008) PINK1 Is Necessary for Long... (read formal correction) 2.Figure 3Ba and 3Be are identical by mistake. Please view the entire corrected Figure 3 here: http://www.plosone.org/corrections/pone.0002455.g003.cn.pdf Abstract: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common age-related neurodegenerative disease and it is critical to develop models which recapitulate the pathogenic process including the effect of the ageing process. Although the pathogenesis of sporadic PD is unknown, the identification of the mendelian genetic factor PINK1 has provided new mechanistic insights. In order to investigate the role of PINK1 in Parkinson's disease, we studied PINK1 loss of function in human and primary mouse neurons. Using RNAi, we created stable PINK1 knockdown in human dopaminergic neurons differentiated from foetal ventral mesencephalon stem cells, as well as in an immortalised human neuroblastoma cell line. We sought to validate our findings in primary neurons derived from a transgenic PINK1 knockout mouse. For the first time we demonstrate an age dependent neurodegenerative phenotype in human and mouse neurons. PINK1 deficiency leads to reduced long-term viability in human neurons, which die via the mitochondrial apoptosis pathway. Human neurons lacking PINK1 demonstrate features of marked oxidative stress with widespread mitochondrial dysfunction and abnormal mitochondrial morphology. We report that PINK1 plays a neuroprotective role in the mitochondria of mammalian neurons, especially against stress such as staurosporine. In addition we provide evidence that cellular compensatory mechanisms such as mitochondrial biogenesis and upregulation of lysosomal degradation pathways occur in PINK1 deficiency. The phenotypic effects of PINK1 loss-of function described here in mammalian neurons provides mechanistic insight into the age-related degeneration of nigral dopaminergic neurons seen in PD.

Type: Article
Title: PINK1 Is Necessary for Long Term Survival and Mitochondrial Function in Human Dopaminergic Neurons
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002455
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002455
Language: English
Additional information: © 2008 Wood-Kaczmar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. MRC UK program grant, Wellcome Trust research Training Fellowship
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/151957
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