VPS35 pathogenic mutations confer no dominant toxicity but partial loss of function in Drosophilaand genetically interact with parkin

Malik, Bilal R., Godena, Vinay K. and Whitworth, Alexander J. 2015. VPS35 pathogenic mutations confer no dominant toxicity but partial loss of function in Drosophilaand genetically interact with parkin. Human Molecular Genetics 24 (21) , pp. 6106-6117. 10.1093/hmg/ddv322

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Abstract

Mutations in VPS35 (PARK17) cause autosomal dominant, late onset Parkinson's disease (PD). VPS35 forms a core component of the retromer complex that mediates the retrieval of membrane proteins from endosomes back to either the Golgi or plasma membrane. While aberrant endosomal protein sorting has been linked to several neurodegenerative diseases, the mechanisms by which VPS35 mutations and retromer function contribute to PD pathogenesis are not clear. To address this, we generated transgenic Drosophila that express variant forms of human VPS35 found in PD cases and the corresponding variants of the Drosophila ortholog. We did not find evidence of dominant toxicity from any variant form including the pathogenic D620N mutation, even with aging. However, assessing the ability of Vps35 variants to rescue multiple vps35-mutant phenotypes, we found that the D620N mutation confers a partial loss of function. Recently, VPS35 has been linked to the formation of mitochondria-derived vesicles, which mediate the degradation of mitochondrial proteins and contribute to mitochondrial quality control. This process is also promoted by two other PD-lined genes parkin (PARK2) and PINK1 (PARK6). We demonstrate here that vps35 genetically interacts with parkin but interestingly not with pink1. Strikingly, Vps35 overexpression is able to rescue several parkin-mutant phenotypes. Together these findings provide in vivo evidence that the D620N mutation likely confers pathogenicity through a partial loss of function mechanism and that this may be linked to other known pathogenic mechanisms such as mitochondrial dysfunction.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0964-6906
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 October 2020
Date of Acceptance:	3 August 2015
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 14:33
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135349

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