Androgen receptor (AR) is a member of the steroid hormone receptor family of molecules, and expansion of a CAG repeat encoding polyglutamine (poly-Q) in AR gene are associated with a progressive neuromuscular disease known as spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) or Kennedy disease. The hallmark of SBMA diseases is formation of juxtanuclear AR inclusions that have been termed ¡¥AR aggregates¡¦.Previous studies showed that transgenic mice overexpressing wild-type AR exclusively in the skeletal muscle fibers display similar abnormalities to those observed in models of SBMA disease.
To elucidate the mechanisms underlying toxicity conferred by wild-type protein aggregation within normal cells, a mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) model with non-genetic modified settings in AR overexpression was used to display the common features of polyglutamine disease in this experiment. It was found that wild-type AR proteins are highly expressed and form nuclear aggregate inclusions in response to androgen treatment in ES cells, the formation of AR aggregates inhibit the differentiation of embryonic bodys and enhanced caspase-3 activity in androgens -induced apoptosis.
In addition, it was also investigated that relation between chaperones¡BAR and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-induced pathways in ES cells in this study, and it was found that chaperones could colocalize with AR aggregates, these findings may help us to better understand the roles of the chaperones on AR aggregates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0215112-152652 |
| Date | 15 February 2012 |
| Creators | Hsiao, Po-Lun |
| Contributors | Chin-Tsui Chen, Hong-Yo Kang, Chinng-Mei Hsu, Hsiu-Mei Hsieh |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0215112-152652 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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