PMID:17267552

Citation	Sang, TK, Chang, HY, Lawless, GM, Ratnaparkhi, A, Mee, L, Ackerson, LC, Maidment, NT, Krantz, DE and Jackson, GR (2007) A Drosophila model of mutant human parkin-induced toxicity demonstrates selective loss of dopaminergic neurons and dependence on cellular dopamine. J. Neurosci. 27:981-92
Abstract	Mutations in human parkin have been identified in familial Parkinson's disease and in some sporadic cases. Here, we report that expression of mutant but not wild-type human parkin in Drosophila causes age-dependent, selective degeneration of dopaminergic (DA) neurons accompanied by a progressive motor impairment. Overexpression or knockdown of the Drosophila vesicular monoamine transporter, which regulates cytosolic DA homeostasis, partially rescues or exacerbates, respectively, the degenerative phenotypes caused by mutant human parkin. These results support a model in which the vulnerability of DA neurons to parkin-induced neurotoxicity results from the interaction of mutant parkin with cytoplasmic dopamine.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4810-06.2007
Keywords	Age Factors; Animals; Animals, Genetically Modified; Brain/pathology; Cell Count; Disease Models, Animal; Dopamine/genetics; Dopamine/physiology; Drosophila; Drosophila Proteins/genetics; Drosophila Proteins/physiology; Drosophila Proteins/toxicity; Gene Expression Regulation/physiology; Humans; Mutation; Nerve Degeneration/chemically induced; Nerve Degeneration/genetics; Nerve Degeneration/pathology; Neurons/pathology; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/genetics; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/physiology; Ubiquitin-Protein Ligases/toxicity
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