TRIM28 regulates the nuclear accumulation and toxicity of both alpha-synuclein and tau
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Auteurs : Maxime Wc Rousseaux ; Maria De Haro ; Cristian A. Lasagna-Reeves ; Antonia De Maio ; Jeehye Park ; Paymaan Jafar-Nejad ; Ismael Al-Ramahi ; Ajay Sharma ; Lauren See ; Nan Lu ; Luis Vilanova-Velez ; Tiemo J. Klisch ; Thomas F. Westbrook ; Juan C. Troncoso ; Juan Botas ; Huda Y. ZoghbiSource :
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Abstract
Several neurodegenerative diseases are driven by the toxic gain-of-function of specific proteins within the brain. Elevated levels of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) appear to drive neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease (PD); neuronal accumulation of tau is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD); and their increased levels cause neurodegeneration in humans and model organisms. Despite the clinical differences between AD and PD, several lines of evidence suggest that α-Syn and tau overlap pathologically. The connections between α-Syn and tau led us to ask whether these proteins might be regulated through a shared pathway. We therefore screened for genes that affect post-translational levels of α-Syn and tau. We found that TRIM28 regulates α-Syn and tau levels and that its reduction rescues toxicity in animal models of tau- and α-Syn-mediated degeneration. TRIM28 stabilizes and promotes the nuclear accumulation and toxicity of both proteins. Intersecting screens across comorbid proteinopathies thus reveal shared mechanisms and therapeutic entry points.
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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.19809
PubMed: 27779468
PubMed Central: 5104516
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sortKey="See, Lauren" sort="See, Lauren" uniqKey="See L" first="Lauren" last="See">Lauren See</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lu, Nan" sort="Lu, Nan" uniqKey="Lu N" first="Nan" last="Lu">Nan Lu</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United 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Lasagna-Reeves</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="De Maio, Antonia" sort="De Maio, Antonia" uniqKey="De Maio A" first="Antonia" last="De Maio">Antonia De Maio</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><institution content-type="dept">Program in Developmental Biology</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>Canada</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Park, Jeehye" sort="Park, Jeehye" uniqKey="Park J" first="Jeehye" last="Park">Jeehye Park</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Jafar Nejad, Paymaan" sort="Jafar Nejad, Paymaan" uniqKey="Jafar Nejad P" first="Paymaan" last="Jafar-Nejad">Paymaan Jafar-Nejad</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Al Ramahi, Ismael" sort="Al Ramahi, Ismael" uniqKey="Al Ramahi I" first="Ismael" last="Al-Ramahi">Ismael Al-Ramahi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Sharma, Ajay" sort="Sharma, Ajay" uniqKey="Sharma A" first="Ajay" last="Sharma">Ajay Sharma</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="See, Lauren" sort="See, Lauren" uniqKey="See L" first="Lauren" last="See">Lauren See</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lu, Nan" sort="Lu, Nan" uniqKey="Lu N" first="Nan" last="Lu">Nan Lu</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Vilanova Velez, Luis" sort="Vilanova Velez, Luis" uniqKey="Vilanova Velez L" first="Luis" last="Vilanova-Velez">Luis Vilanova-Velez</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Klisch, Tiemo J" sort="Klisch, Tiemo J" uniqKey="Klisch T" first="Tiemo J" last="Klisch">Tiemo J. Klisch</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Westbrook, Thomas F" sort="Westbrook, Thomas F" uniqKey="Westbrook T" first="Thomas F" last="Westbrook">Thomas F. Westbrook</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff4"><institution content-type="dept">The Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Troncoso, Juan C" sort="Troncoso, Juan C" uniqKey="Troncoso J" first="Juan C" last="Troncoso">Juan C. Troncoso</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><institution content-type="dept">Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology</institution>,<institution>Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Baltimore</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Botas, Juan" sort="Botas, Juan" uniqKey="Botas J" first="Juan" last="Botas">Juan Botas</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zoghbi, Huda Y" sort="Zoghbi, Huda Y" uniqKey="Zoghbi H" first="Huda Y" last="Zoghbi">Huda Y. Zoghbi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><institution content-type="dept">Program in Developmental Biology</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>Canada</country></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff6"><institution content-type="dept">Howard Hughes Medical Institute</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">eLife</title><idno type="eISSN">2050-084X</idno><imprint><date when="????">????</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>Several neurodegenerative diseases are driven by the toxic gain-of-function of specific proteins within the brain. Elevated levels of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) appear to drive neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease (PD); neuronal accumulation of tau is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD); and their increased levels cause neurodegeneration in humans and model organisms. Despite the clinical differences between AD and PD, several lines of evidence suggest that α-Syn and tau overlap pathologically. The connections between α-Syn and tau led us to ask whether these proteins might be regulated through a shared pathway. We therefore screened for genes that affect post-translational levels of α-Syn and tau. We found that TRIM28 regulates α-Syn and tau levels and that its reduction rescues toxicity in animal models of tau- and α-Syn-mediated degeneration. TRIM28 stabilizes and promotes the nuclear accumulation and toxicity of both proteins. 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toxicity of both alpha-synuclein and tau</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib id="author-63152" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rousseaux</surname><given-names>Maxime WC</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-1"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con1"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-63153" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>de Haro</surname><given-names>Maria</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con2"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-31107" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lasagna-Reeves</surname><given-names>Cristian A</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-2"></xref><xref ref-type="other" 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contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lu</surname><given-names>Nan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con10"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-40238" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Vilanova-Velez</surname><given-names>Luis</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con11"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-63157" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Klisch</surname><given-names>Tiemo J</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con12"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-3015" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Westbrook</surname><given-names>Thomas F</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">4</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con13"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-63158" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Troncoso</surname><given-names>Juan C</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">5</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-4"></xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-5"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con14"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-21624" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Botas</surname><given-names>Juan</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con15"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf1"></xref></contrib><contrib id="author-1029" contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zoghbi</surname><given-names>Huda Y</given-names></name><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid" authenticated="false">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-3349</contrib-id><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">6</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">*</xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-6"></xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-7"></xref><xref ref-type="other" rid="par-8"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="con16"></xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="conf2"></xref></contrib><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><institution content-type="dept">Department of Molecular and Human Genetics</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff2"><label>2</label><institution content-type="dept">Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute</institution>,<institution>Texas Children’s Hospital</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff3"><label>3</label><institution content-type="dept">Program in Developmental Biology</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>Canada</country></aff><aff id="aff4"><label>4</label><institution content-type="dept">The Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff5"><label>5</label><institution content-type="dept">Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology</institution>,<institution>Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Baltimore</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></aff><aff id="aff6"><label>6</label><institution content-type="dept">Howard Hughes Medical Institute</institution>,<institution>Baylor College of Medicine</institution>,<addr-line>Houston</addr-line>,<country>United States</country></aff></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Ackerman</surname><given-names>Susan L</given-names></name><aff id="aff7"><institution>Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Diego</institution>,<country>United States</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><author-notes><corresp id="cor1"><email>hzoghbi@bcm.edu</email></corresp><fn fn-type="present-address" id="pa1"><label>†</label><p>Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.</p></fn><fn fn-type="present-address" id="pa2"><label>‡</label><p>Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, California, United States.</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic"><day>25</day><month>10</month><year>2016</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2016</year></pub-date><volume>5</volume><elocation-id>e19809</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>20</day><month>7</month><year>2016</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>12</day><month>10</month><year>2016</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2016, Rousseaux et al</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2016</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Rousseaux et al</copyright-holder><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This article is distributed under the terms of the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link>, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="elife-19809.pdf"></self-uri><abstract><p>Several neurodegenerative diseases are driven by the toxic gain-of-function of specific proteins within the brain. Elevated levels of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) appear to drive neurotoxicity in Parkinson's disease (PD); neuronal accumulation of tau is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD); and their increased levels cause neurodegeneration in humans and model organisms. Despite the clinical differences between AD and PD, several lines of evidence suggest that α-Syn and tau overlap pathologically. The connections between α-Syn and tau led us to ask whether these proteins might be regulated through a shared pathway. We therefore screened for genes that affect post-translational levels of α-Syn and tau. We found that TRIM28 regulates α-Syn and tau levels and that its reduction rescues toxicity in animal models of tau- and α-Syn-mediated degeneration. TRIM28 stabilizes and promotes the nuclear accumulation and toxicity of both proteins. Intersecting screens across comorbid proteinopathies thus reveal shared mechanisms and therapeutic entry points.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.001">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.001</ext-link></p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="executive-summary"><title>eLife digest</title><p>Behind many neurodegenerative diseases are specific proteins that abnormally accumulate inside neurons and damage the cells. In Parkinson’s disease, the protein alpha-synuclein accumulates; in Alzheimer’s disease, the protein tau is one of the toxic culprits; and in other neurodegenerative diseases, alpha-synuclein and tau both accumulate. Genetic studies suggest that accumulation of the two proteins may be linked, but little is known about the factors that regulate the levels of these proteins inside neurons.</p><p>Rousseaux et al. set out to identify how these proteins are regulated in the hope of finding new ways of targeting them and reducing their toxicity. Screening a subset of human genes led to one that encodes a protein called TRIM28, which regulates the levels of both alpha-synuclein and tau. When the TRIM28 protein was depleted in human and mouse cells, the levels of alpha-synuclein and tau also went down. This effect was specific because the levels of other proteins with the potential to cause neurodegeneration remained unaffected.</p><p>Models of neurodegenerative disease in fruit flies and mice were then used to explore how TRIM28 affects the levels of tau and alpha-synuclein in animals. In each case, the proteins’ levels dropped when TRIM28 was suppressed and this in turn protected the neurons from damage. Rousseaux et al. went on to show that TRIM28 affected how alpha-synuclein and tau were cleared in cells. Overexpressing TRIM28 revealed that it could encourage both alpha-synuclein and tau to accumulate in the nucleus of cells over time.</p><p>Finally, Rousseaux et al. compared post-mortem brain tissue from people who had neurodegenerative conditions that are driven by or associated with tau and alpha-synuclein with tissue from those who did not. The cell nuclei in the diseased tissue had much more TRIM28 associated with alpha-synuclein and tau than those in the healthy tissues.</p><p>Overall, the findings show that TRIM28 promotes the accumulation and damaging effects of both alpha-synuclein and tau. The next steps will be to understand how TRIM28 does this. It will also be important to determine if this effect can be targeted, whilst leaving others roles of TRIM28 intact, in order to explore it as a potential target to treat or prevent neurodegenerative diseases.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.002">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.002</ext-link></p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author-keywords"><title>Author Keywords</title><kwd>Parkinson's disease</kwd><kwd>Alzheimer's disease</kwd><kwd>neurodegeneration</kwd><kwd>synucleinopathies</kwd><kwd>tauopathies</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group kwd-group-type="research-organism"><title>Research Organism</title><kwd><italic>D. melanogaster</italic></kwd><kwd>Human</kwd><kwd>Mouse</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group id="par-1"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000024</institution-id><institution>Canadian Institutes of Health Research</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>201210MFE-290072-173743</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Rousseaux</surname><given-names>Maxime WC</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-2"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>1K22NS092688-01</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Lasagna-Reeves</surname><given-names>Cristian A</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-3"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>3R01 NS027699-25S1</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Lasagna-Reeves</surname><given-names>Cristian A</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-4"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>P50 NS38377</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Troncoso</surname><given-names>Juan C</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-5"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>P50 AG05146</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Troncoso</surname><given-names>Juan C</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-6"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000011</institution-id><institution>Howard Hughes Medical Institute</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Zoghbi</surname><given-names>Huda Y</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-7"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000864</institution-id><institution>Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>Target Validation Program 2014</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Zoghbi</surname><given-names>Huda Y</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><award-group id="par-8"><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>U54 HD083092</award-id><principal-award-recipient><name><surname>Zoghbi</surname><given-names>Huda Y</given-names></name></principal-award-recipient></award-group><funding-statement>The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.</funding-statement></funding-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>elife-xml-version</meta-name><meta-value>2.5</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta specific-use="meta-only"><meta-name>Author impact statement</meta-name><meta-value>Convergent screens targeting the levels of alpha-synuclein and tau identify TRIM28 as a driver of their stability, nuclear accumulation and subsequent toxicity.</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec sec-type="intro" id="s1"><title>Introduction</title><p>A number of neurodegenerative diseases are caused by the gradual accumulation of specific proteins within neurons. As research on these ‘proteinopathies’ has progressed, certain unexpected commonalities have arisen. For example, alpha-synuclein (α-Syn, <italic>SNCA</italic>) is now thought to mediate neurotoxicity not only in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but also in Parkinson’s Disease Dementia (PDD) and Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) where it accumulates in Lewy bodies (<xref rid="bib49" ref-type="bibr">Spillantini et al., 1997</xref>). Similarly, the microtubule associated protein tau (<italic>MAPT</italic>) accumulates not only in neurons affected by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but in PD and PDD, while mutations that increase the stability of tau result in frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism (FTDP-17 (or FTD) [<xref rid="bib48" ref-type="bibr">Spillantini and Goedert, 2013</xref>]). Coding region mutations in <italic>SNCA</italic> are by no means necessary for PD to develop given that duplication or triplication of the <italic>SNCA</italic> locus is sufficient to result in forms of PD whose onset and severity correlate with gene dosage (<xref rid="bib8" ref-type="bibr">Chartier-Harlin et al., 2004</xref>; <xref rid="bib22" ref-type="bibr">Ibanez et al., 2004</xref>; <xref rid="bib47" ref-type="bibr">Singleton, 2003</xref>). Supporting these clinical findings are studies that show that overexpression of wild-type forms of either <italic>SNCA</italic> or <italic>MAPT</italic> elicit neurodegeneration in model organisms, whereas suppressing their levels appears to be neuroprotective (<xref rid="bib14" ref-type="bibr">Dauer et al., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="bib24" ref-type="bibr">Ishihara et al., 1999</xref>; <xref rid="bib26" ref-type="bibr">Jackson et al., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="bib40" ref-type="bibr">Rapoport et al., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="bib41" ref-type="bibr">Rockenstein et al., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="bib55" ref-type="bibr">Wittmann, 2001</xref>). Given the brain’s sensitivity to the dosage of either of these proteins, one would expect elevated levels of multiple proteins to be even more problematic, and this proves to be the case (<xref rid="bib36" ref-type="bibr">Moussaud et al., 2014</xref>).</p><p>Pathogenic proteins involved in different proteionopathies often interact with each other and cause cellular toxicity, either due to their additive effects on downstream activities or further compromise of protein homeostasis (<xref rid="bib11" ref-type="bibr">Clinton et al., 2010</xref>). Abnormally aggregated α-Syn and tau are often found together in postmortem cases of PD and LBD (<xref rid="bib2" ref-type="bibr">Arima et al., 1999</xref>; <xref rid="bib12" ref-type="bibr">Colom-Cadena et al., 2013</xref>; <xref rid="bib23" ref-type="bibr">Iseki et al., 2002</xref>; <xref rid="bib25" ref-type="bibr">Ishizawa et al., 2003</xref>), and genetic interaction studies in <italic>Drosophila</italic> demonstrate that α-Syn and tau synergize in promoting toxicity (<xref rid="bib43" ref-type="bibr">Roy and Jackson, 2014</xref>). Biochemical evidence even suggests that α-Syn may act as an amyloidogenic ‘seed’ for the accumulation of tau, and vice versa (<xref rid="bib21" ref-type="bibr">Guo et al., 2013</xref>; <xref rid="bib28" ref-type="bibr">Lasagna-Reeves et al., 2010</xref>; <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">Sengupta et al., 2015</xref>). Even more, several genome-wide association studies have reported genetic interaction between tau and alpha-synuclein in PD pathogenesis (<xref rid="bib46" ref-type="bibr">Simón-Sánchez et al., 2009</xref>). Thus, the interaction between tau and α-synuclein is gaining increased attention for its possible pathogenic role in synucleinopathies and tauopathies. The mechanisms governing the dual accumulation of α-Syn and tau remain elusive, but it seems plausible that decreasing levels of either or both of these proteins could prove an effective therapeutic strategy for this family of diseases.</p><p>Inspired by the extensive overlap between α-Syn and tau pathology and their corresponding clinical phenotypes (<xref rid="bib20" ref-type="bibr">Galpern and Lang, 2006</xref>), we reasoned that they may be regulated through shared pathways and that dysfunction of these regulatory pathways may lead to their pathogenic accumulation. Therefore, convergent screens to find common modulators for α-Syn and tau levels would yield the most insight into these disease processes and possibly open up new avenues for therapeutic intervention. Importantly, targeting the root cause of the disease – protein accumulation – in an unbiased manner makes neither assumption about the mechanism of toxicity nor which cellular process is affected. Through convergent RNAi screens targeting the steady-state levels of α-Syn and tau, we found that TRIM28 regulates their levels and toxicity through their toxic nuclear accumulation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="results" id="s2"><title>Results</title><sec id="s2-1"><title>TRIM28 is a key regulator of α-Syn and tau levels</title><p>We employed a screening strategy similar to one recently used to identify key modulators of ATXN1 stability (<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>; <xref rid="bib53" ref-type="bibr">Westbrook et al., 2008</xref>), using high-throughput flow cytometry to monitor the steady-state levels of α-Syn and tau in a fluorescent bicistronic reporter system (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1A</xref>). We ran parallel screens interrogating 2607 siRNAs targeting 869 potentially druggable – i.e. potentially can be targeted pharmacologically – genes to identify genes that modify the levels of both α-Syn and tau (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s1">Figure 1—figure supplement 1A–C</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Figure 1—source data 1</xref>). Applying stringent criteria and validation steps to narrow down the list of putative modifiers of α-Syn and tau levels, we uncovered Tripartite motif-containing 28 (TRIM28) as the most robust common modulator (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1B</xref>; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s2">Figure 1—figure supplement 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Figure 1—source data 1</xref>). We confirmed this effect of <italic>TRIM28</italic> knock-down on α-Syn and tau stability using three independent siRNAs on our α-Syn and tau reporter cell lines along with a negative control cell line (DsRed-IRES-EGFP) to ensure that TRIM28 was not affecting the stability of EGFP (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1B</xref>).<fig id="fig1" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.003</object-id><label>Figure 1.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 regulates levels of α-Syn and tau.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Schematic of screen approach (see also <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s1">Figure 1—figure supplement 1</xref>). The ratio of either α-Syn:EGFP/DsRed or tau:EGFP/DsRed was measured using an arrayed siRNA library covering 2607 siRNAs in biological triplicates. Venn diagram shows significant overlapping hits from both screens. (<bold>B</bold>) Representative traces for α-Syn:EGFP/DsRed and tau:EGFP/DsRed ratios: the black curve represents a control condition (<italic>siScramble</italic>), while the red and blue curves represent <italic>siTRIM28</italic> in the α-Syn and tau cell lines, respectively. Quantified ratiometric scores for three independent siRNAs against <italic>TRIM28</italic> (<italic>siTRIM28</italic>-1,-2 and -3) is presented on the right. (<bold>C</bold>) Effects of different shRNAs targeting TRIM28 on endogenous α-Syn and tau in HEK293T cells (left panel, <italic>shTRIM28-1</italic> and <italic>shTRIM28-2</italic>), primary mouse neurons (middle panel, <italic>shTrim28-1,</italic>1,-<italic>2</italic>, and <italic>-3</italic>) and in adult mouse hippocampus (right panel, where ‘I’ denotes the injection side [ipsilateral] and ‘C’ denotes the uninjected side [contralateral, an internal control]). Rightmost panel depicts the effect of the loss of one allele of <italic>Trim28</italic> in the mouse brain. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. for each group. In <bold>A</bold>, p<italic>=9.5 × 10<sup>–4</sup></italic>, hypergeometric test; in <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 per cell line, *** denotes p<italic><0.001</italic>, One-Way ANOVA followed by Dunnet’s multiple comparison test; in <bold>c</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 4–13 condition, *, **, *** and ns denote p<0.05, p<0.01, p<0.001 and p>0.05, respectively, One-way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test in two leftmost panels and Student’s t-test in two rightmost panels. Full statistical analyses for all figures are presented as <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD2-data">Supplementary file 1.</xref></p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.003">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.003</ext-link></p><p><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="SD1-data"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.004</object-id><label>Figure 1—source data 1.</label><caption><title>List of modifier genes identified in convergent screens.</title><p>Genes screened as well as the individual <italic>Z</italic>-Scores for the average of triplicate readings are presented for each siRNA/cell line in adjacent columns. Top modifiers retrieved from the primary screens meeting criteria enumerated in Online Methods. Pink column depicts screen done in DsRed-IRES-α-Syn:EGFP cells and a blue column depicts screen done in DsRed-IRES-tau:EGFP cells. Overlapping hits between both screens are indicated in grey. Validation Results from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s2">Figure 1—figure supplement 2</xref> summarized in the last columns with legend for color-coded significant changes presented at the bottom.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.004">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.004</ext-link></p></caption><media mime-subtype="xlsx" mimetype="application" xlink:href="elife-19809-fig1-data1.xlsx" orientation="portrait" id="d36e847" position="anchor"></media></supplementary-material></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig1"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig1s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.005</object-id><label>Figure 1—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>Convergent screens targeting the steady state levels of α-Syn and tau identify common modifiers.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) siRNA library composition as determined using Panther gene ontology analysis – Protein function (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.pantherdb.org/">http://www.pantherdb.org/</ext-link>). A full list of the genes tested is presented in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Figure 1—source data 1</xref>. (B) Screen workflow delineating steps used to narrow down hit lists and find top shared modifiers of α-Syn and tau levels. (<bold>C</bold>) Raw distribution of all hits in both ratiometric screens (% Change denotes change in EGFP:DsRed ratio compared to scramble siRNAs from each plate).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.005">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.005</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig1-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig1s2" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.006</object-id><label>Figure 1—figure supplement 2.</label><caption><title>Validation of shared modifiers between α-Syn and tau.</title><p>40 shared modifiers from both α-Syn- and tau-based screens were tested using three new siRNAs directed against each target ('si #1, 2, 3'). Changes in EGFP:DsRed levels are presented as a percentage (%) change in relation to Scrambled siRNAs. For each histogram, DsRed-IRES-α-Syn:EGFP, DsRed-IRES-tau:EGFP and DsRed-IRES-EGFP cell lines are represented as red, blue and white bars, respectively. % Change denotes change in EGFP:DsRed ratio compared to scramble siRNAs. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. Three independent biological replicates are presented for three independent siRNAs (siRNA codes are listed in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD2-data">Supplementary file 1</xref> for statistical comparison). *, ** and *** denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p<0.001, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparison test. Bars without asterisks denote non-significant differences.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.006">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.006</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig1-figsupp2"></graphic></fig></p><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig1s3" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.007</object-id><label>Figure 1—figure supplement 3.</label><caption><title>Validation of <italic>Trim28</italic> knockdown and lack of effect on other neurodegenerative disease-causing genes.</title><p>( <bold>A</bold>) Confirmation of viral expression was performed in the hippocampus of 12-week-old mice, 14 days after stereotaxic delivery of lentivirus. Cryosections were stained for turbo GFP (tGFP) and DAPI. Note top panels denote side injected with the virus (‘Ipsi’, ipsilateral) and bottom panels, the uninjected side (‘Contra’, contralateral). (<bold>B</bold>) Confirmation of <italic>Trim28</italic> knockdown was performed as in <bold>A</bold>, but using an antibody directed against Trim28. (<bold>C</bold>) The effect of <italic>Trim28</italic> knockdown on α-Syn and tau in primary neurons can be rescued by overexpressing an shRNA-resistant cDNA of <italic>TRIM28</italic>, (<bold>D</bold>) <italic>TRIM28</italic> knockdown in human cells does not alter <italic>MAPT</italic> transcript levels and only mildly affects <italic>SNCA</italic> expression as assayed by qRT-PCR. <italic>Trim28</italic> heterozygous (<italic>Trim28<sup>+/-</sup></italic>) mice have normal levels of <italic>Snca</italic> and <italic>Mapt</italic> in their brain. (<bold>E</bold>) <italic>TRIM28</italic> knockdown does not alter protein levels of several other neurodegenerative disease-causing genes. HEK293T cells were infected with virus targeting <italic>TRIM28</italic> (<italic>shTRIM28-1</italic>) or control (non-silencing, <italic>shScram</italic>) and levels of neurodegenerative disease-causing genes were measured by Western blot and quantified below. Data are presented as mean + s.e.m. In <bold>C</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3–4 replicates, *, ** and *** denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p<0.001, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed Holm-Sidak post-hoc test; in <bold>D</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 replicates per group, top panel: *** and ns denote p<0.001 and p>0.05, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test, bottom panel: * and ns denote p<0.05 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test; in <bold>e</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 replicates per group, ns denotes p>0.05, Student’s t-test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.007">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.007</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig1-figsupp3"></graphic></fig></p></fig></p><p>We next used species-specific shRNA lentiviral vectors to suppress <italic>TRIM28</italic> expression in human cells, in mouse primary cerebellar neurons, and in mouse hippocampus (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1C</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3A,B</xref>). In each case, partial reduction of TRIM28 led to a decrease of both α-Syn and tau, and virally reintroducing a human shRNA-resistant TRIM28 cDNA reversed this effect (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3C</xref>). In addition, we found that deleting one allele of <italic>Trim28</italic> in mice led to a modest but significant decrease of α-Syn and tau levels in mouse brain (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1C</xref>). Importantly, we observed little to no changes in <italic>SNCA</italic> nor <italic>MAPT</italic> transcript levels under conditions of TRIM28 downregulation (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3D</xref>). Nor did reduction of TRIM28 affect other neurodegeneration-causing proteins we tested (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3E</xref>). TRIM28 thus appears to be a key post-translational regulator of the steady state levels of α-Syn and tau.</p></sec><sec id="s2-2"><title>TRIM28 suppression blocks tau- and α-Syn-mediated toxicity in vivo</title><p>Based on studies showing that reducing disease protein levels can rescue neurodegeneration in other proteinopathy models (<xref rid="bib35" ref-type="bibr">Moreno et al., 2012</xref>; <xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>), we tested whether decreasing TRIM28 would mitigate the phenotypes resulting from overexpression of either α-Syn or tau. For a tauopathy model, we generated transgenic <italic>Drosophila</italic> that express wild-type human tau in the eye and develop a visible degenerative phenotype. Knockdown of the <italic>Drosophila TRIM28</italic> homolog (<italic>bonus</italic>) significantly reduced tau levels and mitigated eye degeneration (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2A</xref>; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s2">Figure 2—figure supplement 2C</xref>). Similarly, expression of wild-type tau in the <italic>Drosophila</italic> nervous system led to motor deficits in the climbing assay, but two independent partial loss-of-function alleles of <italic>TRIM28</italic> improved this behavioral phenotype without reducing the transgene expression (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2B</xref>; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s1">Figure 2—figure supplement 1</xref>; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s2">Figure 2—figure supplement 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="other" rid="media1">Video 1</xref>). To ensure that this effect was mediated through tau levels, we tested the effect of TRIM28 loss of function on transgenic tau levels and found indeed that reduction of TRIM28 could effectively decrease tau levels in this heterologous system (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2C</xref>).<fig id="fig2" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.008</object-id><label>Figure 2.</label><caption><title>Loss of TRIM28 mitigates tau-mediated neurodegenerative phenotypes in <italic>Drosophila</italic>.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) tau overexpression in the <italic>Drosophila</italic> eye produces a rough eye phenotype (third panel) compared to negative controls (first panel). Decreasing the levels of <italic>Trim28</italic> (dsTrim28) ameliorates this defect (fourth panel). Decreasing Trim28 alone does not result in any overt degenerative phenotypes (second panel). (<bold>B</bold>) Expression of tau in the <italic>Drosophila</italic> nervous system (solid blue lines) leads to motor performance deficits that can be quantified in a climbing assay when compared with control flies (black lines). This phenotype is mitigated by partial TRIM28 loss of function (hatched blue lines). Two independent cohorts (15 animals per replicate) are shown per genotype. (<bold>C</bold>) Western blot images and quantification showing decreased tau levels in the adult <italic>Drosophila</italic> retina, upon Trim28 knockdown. This reduction of tau protein levels is concordant with the suppression of tau phenotypes shown in A and B. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. for each group. In <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 15 flies per replicate and 2 replicas per genotype *** denotes p<0.001, Two-Way ANOVA followed by Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test; in <bold>C</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 6 replicates per group, *** denotes p<0.001, Student’s t-test. Scale bars in <bold>A</bold>: 100 µm (inset 10 µm).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.008">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.008</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig2"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig2s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.009</object-id><label>Figure 2—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>Reduced function of TRIM28 alone does not produce abnormal behavioral phenotypes in <italic>Drosophila</italic> but rescues tau-mediated degeneration.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) expression of a <italic>Trim28</italic> loss of function allele in the CNS (Trim28<sup>LOF-1</sup>, yellow line) does not induce motor performance deficits when compared to control flies (black line). (<bold>B</bold>) tau-mediated motor phenotypes (solid blue lines) are suppressed by a second loss of function TRIM28 allele (Trim28<sup>LOF-2</sup>, hatched blue lines). (<bold>C</bold>) Quantification of ommatidial phenotypes from <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2A</xref>. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. In <bold>A</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 15 flies per group, **, *** and ns denote p<0.01, p<0.001 and p>0.05, respectively, Two-Way ANOVA followed by Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.009">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.009</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig2-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig2s2" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.010</object-id><label>Figure 2—figure supplement 2.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 loss does not inhibit Gal4 driver expression.</title><p>Levels of Gal4 expression were assayed using qPCR from the three different driver lines: elav-Gal4 (<bold>A</bold>), GMR-Gal4 (<bold>B</bold>) and Rh1-Gal4 (<bold>C</bold>). No significant decreases in expression were observed in the driver expression that could account for the suppression of phenotypes observed in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> *** and ns denote p<0.001 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.010">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.010</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig2-figsupp2"></graphic></fig></p></fig><fig id="media1" position="anchor"><label>Video 1.</label><caption><title>Representative video.</title><p>Partial loss of TRIM28 function in fruit flies overexpressing tau rescues motor behavior in the climbing assay. Video recording shows the three groups of animals tested in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2B</xref>. The number of fruit flies climbing up 9 cm (dotted line) in 15 s was recorded.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.011">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.011</ext-link></p></caption><media xlink:href="elife-19809-media1.mp4" mimetype="video" mime-subtype="mp4"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.011</object-id></media></fig></p><p>To test whether Trim28 mediates neurodegeneration in a synucleinopathy, we turned into a mouse model of α-Syn-overexpression-induced Parkinsonism (<xref rid="bib5" ref-type="bibr">Burré et al., 2012</xref>), since the degenerative phenotypes of α-Syn-overexpressing flies are generally very mild. We co-injected lentiviral vectors expressing α-Syn together with a lentiviral vector expressing an shRNA against mouse <italic>Trim28</italic> into the <italic>Substantia Nigra pars compacta</italic>(SNc) of mice and evaluated dopaminergic cell integrity eight weeks afterward. Mice infected with viruses overexpressing α-Syn and a control shRNA suffered a 50% reduction in tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive dopaminergic neurons (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3A,B</xref><bold>-top panels</bold> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3s1">Figure 3—figure supplement 1C</xref>). Remarkably, mice that received the <italic>shTrim28</italic> virus together with α-Syn overexpression maintained their dopaminergic cells in the SNc and the corresponding fibers in the striatum (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3A,B</xref><bold>-bottom panels</bold>). We confirmed that <italic>Trim28</italic> was expressed (and effectively knocked down in the case of <italic>shTrim28</italic> treatment) in these nigral neurons and that this rescue was due to a decrease in α-Syn levels and not the silencing of the α-Syn expression vector (measured by IRES-driven GFP expression, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3s1">Figure 3—figure supplement 1A,B</xref>). Lastly, to test whether this phenotypic rescue would hold true in a non-acute paradigm, we tested whether loss of one copy of <italic>Trim28</italic> in mice could rescue some of the pathology observed in α-Syn-overexpressing mice (<xref rid="bib41" ref-type="bibr">Rockenstein et al., 2002</xref>). These mice possess a transgene driving wildtype α-Syn under the control of the mThy1 promoter and demonstrate age-dependent accumulation and aggregation of α-Syn that is demarked by its S129 phosphorylated form. We found that a 50% reduction in Trim28 significantly reduced pathological, phosphorylated α-Syn accumulation in the hippocampus where it is highly expressed (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3C,D</xref>) (<xref rid="bib10" ref-type="bibr">Chesselet et al., 2012</xref>).<fig id="fig3" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.012</object-id><label>Figure 3.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 knockdown suppresses α-Syn-mediated neurodegenerative phenotypes in vivo.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Representative photomicrographs of midbrain sections stained for tyrosine hydroxylase (<bold>TH</bold>) at the level of the Substantia Nigra <italic>pars compacta</italic> (SNc, top panels) or in the striatum (bottom panels) on the ipsilateral side to the virus injection. (<bold>B</bold>) Stereological quantification of TH<sup>+</sup> cells (top) in the SNc and quantification of optical density of TH<sup>+</sup> fibers (bottom) is presented on the right. (<bold>C</bold>) Western blot analysis of 3.5 month old α-Syn transgenic (<bold>TG</bold>) mice carrying two (no mark, <italic>Trim28<sup>+/+</sup></italic>) or one (<italic>Trim28<sup>+/-</sup></italic>) copies of Trim28. (<bold>D</bold>) phosphorylation of α-Syn at serine 129 (pS129) staining at the level of the CA1 in these mice and quantification of positive cell numbers is presented on the right. Data are presented as mean + s.e.m. for each group. In <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 5–11 per group, * and ** denote p<0.05 and p<0.01, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test; in <bold>B</bold>–<bold>D</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3–7 mice per group, * and ** denote p<0.05 and p<0.01, respectively, Student’s t-test. Scale bars in <bold>A</bold>: 400 µm (top panels) 150 µm (bottom panels), <bold>C:</bold> 50 µm.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.012">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.012</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig3"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig3s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.013</object-id><label>Figure 3—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 is expressed in the mouse SNc, and can be effectively knocked down in vivo.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) On the left, representative immunofluorescence photomicrographs depicting uniform expression of Trim28 (Red) in the Substantia Nigra <italic>pars compacta</italic> (SNc, stained by TH, Green). Knockdown of <italic>Trim28</italic> was confirmed on the side of the injection (Ipsi, top panel) compared to the non-injected side (Contra, bottom panel). (<bold>B</bold>) Representative western blot of tissue punches from the SNc two weeks following stereotaxic injection showing that <italic>Trim28</italic> knockdown downregulates exogenous α-Syn (Myc tagged) but has no effect on the transcription of the viral vector (GFP, expressed under the same promoter as Myc-α-Syn separated by IRES). (<bold>C</bold>) Nissl staining quantification pertaining to <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3B</xref>. Nissl positive (Nissl<sup>+</sup>) cells in the medial terminal nucleus (MTN) region of the SNc were quantified to assess SNc viability. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. In <bold>B</bold> and <bold>C</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 4 animals per condition; in <bold>D</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 6–7 animals per condition, ** and ns denote p<0.01 and p>0.05, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test. Scale bars in <bold>B</bold>: 20 µm.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.013">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.013</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig3-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p></fig></p></sec><sec id="s2-3"><title>TRIM28 stabilizes α-Syn and tau and drives their pathology</title><p>Since loss of TRIM28 rescued the neurodegenerative phenotypes, we surmised that increasing TRIM28 might exacerbate pathology. We performed bilateral lentiviral overexpression of TRIM28 in pre-symptomatic mouse models of synucleinopathy (<xref rid="bib41" ref-type="bibr">Rockenstein et al., 2002</xref>) and tauopathy (<xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr">Yoshiyama et al., 2007</xref>) and found that injection with TRIM28, but not control lentivirus, worsened each aspect of neuropathology tested in both models (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4A,B</xref>; and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4s1">Figure 4—figure supplement 1A,B</xref>). We were particularly intrigued to find pathological, phosphorylated, forms of α-Syn (S129) and tau (S396) accumulating at this earlier stage. Given the efficacy of TRIM28 at tightly regulating the levels of α-Syn and tau in a post-translational manner, we reasoned that TRIM28 was likely stabilizing these proteins therefore promoting their toxic accumulation. To test this, we generated doxycycline-inducible cell lines where we could carefully assess the half-lives of α-Syn and tau without altering global protein homeostasis (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5A</xref>) (<xref rid="bib33" ref-type="bibr">Meerbrey et al., 2011</xref>). Specifically, we cloned wild-type α-Syn and tau into doxycycline-inducible lentiviral vectors (pINDUCER system), infected SH-SY5Y cells and selected for clones that stably express either α-Syn or tau upon induction. We found that the half-lives of α-Syn and tau (measured following a 48 hr pulse of doxycycline) in this system resembled those previously observed by others (23.3 hr for α-Syn and 28.1 hr for tau [<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">Li, 2004</xref>; <xref rid="bib34" ref-type="bibr">Min et al., 2010</xref>]). Importantly, we found that TRIM28 lentiviral overexpression could significantly increase the half-life of each protein by approximately 50% (LV-TRIM28 vs. LV-Ctrl, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5B,C</xref>), without affecting their RNA stability (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5s1">Figure 5—figure supplement 1</xref>). Together, these studies suggest that TRIM28 promotes the accumulation of the amyloidogenic proteins α-Syn and tau.<fig id="fig4" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.014</object-id><label>Figure 4.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 expression worsens histopathology in mouse models of synucleinopathy and tauopathy.</title><p>Transgenic mice overexpressing α-Syn (<bold>A</bold>, mThy-Syn 'Line 61') or P301S tau (<bold>B</bold>, PS19) were injected at a presymptomatic stage in the hippocampus with lentiviruses expressing TRIM28. Pathological evaluation of phosphorylation of α-Syn at serine 129 (pS129, top panels); Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP, middle panels) as well as Nissl staining (bottom panels) in the CA1 region of α-Syn transgenic (TG) mice (solid bars) and their wild-type littermates (hatched bars) was performed (quantification on the right of each panel sets). Similar pathological evaluation of phosphorylation of tau at serine 396 (pS396 tau); GFAP; as well as Nissl staining in the CA1 region of P301S tau Transgenic mice. Data are represented as mean + s.e.m. In <bold>A</bold> and <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 for each genotype and treatment for each experiment, *, ** and *** denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p<0.001, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test. Scale bars in <bold>A</bold> and <bold>B</bold>: 25 µm (top panels), 100 µm (middle panels) and 50 µm (bottom panels).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.014">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.014</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig4"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig4s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.015</object-id><label>Figure 4—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>Effective transduction of lentivirus expressing TRIM28 in the hippocampus intensifies biochemical accumulation of α-Syn and tau in prodromal mouse models of synucleinopathy and tauopathy.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Representative photomicrographs of mCherry staining in the hippocampus of a mouse injected with a control lentivirus expressing mCherry (left panel) or TRIM28 fused to mCherry (right panel). (<bold>B</bold>) Representative western blot of hippocampal punches from α-Syn Transgenic and littermate mice (left panel) and tau P301S transgenic and littermate mice (right panel) injected with lentiviruses overexpressing TRIM28 (or control lentiviruses). Levels of pS129 or total α-Syn (in the case of α-Syn TG mice) or pS396 or total tau (in the case of tau TG mice) are quantified to the right of the blots. Data are represented as mean + s.e.m. In <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3–6 for each genotype and treatment for each experiment, * and ** denote p<0.05 and p<0.01, respectively. Scale bars in <bold>A</bold>: 100 µm (top panels) and 20 µm (bottom panels).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.015">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.015</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig4-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p></fig><fig id="fig5" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.016</object-id><label>Figure 5.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 stabilizes α-Syn and tau protein levels.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Schematic of viral vector used to generate stable cell lines (adapted from [<xref rid="bib33" ref-type="bibr">Meerbrey et al., 2011</xref>]) and assay design. (<bold>B</bold>) Representative western blots of transgenic α-Syn (top) and tau (bottom) cell lines following different times of doxycycline (DOX) removal; NT denotes <underline>n</underline>on-DOX <underline>t</underline>reated cells; * denotes detection of endogenous tau (not quantified). (<bold>C</bold>) Quantification of α-Syn and tau stability are presented as a % of baseline and fit to a logarithmic (log<sub>2</sub>) scale. Dashed lines denote control groups whereas solid lines denote TRIM28 overexpression. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. for each group. In <bold>C</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 6 per group, per time point. Protein levels follow a one-phase exponential decay with both curves being significantly different from one another (Comparison of fits, p<italic>=</italic>0.0111, α-Syn;<italic>LV-Ctrl</italic> vs. α-Syn;<italic>LV-TRIM28;</italic> p=0.0003, tau; <italic>LV-Ctrl</italic> vs. tau;<italic>LV-TRIM28</italic>).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.016">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.016</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig5"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig5s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.017</object-id><label>Figure 5—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 overexpression does not affect SNCA and MAPT RNA stability.</title><p>Quantification of SNCA and MAPT levels following indicated doxycycline withdrawal time points reveals expected RNA decay over time, one-phase exponential decay fit to a logarithmic (log<sub>2</sub>) scale. No significant changes were observed following TRIM28 overexpression (Comparison of fits, ns denotes p>0.05, SNCA;LV-Ctrl vs. SNCA;LV-TRIM28 or MAPT;LV-Ctrl vs. MAPT;LV-TRIM28).</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.017">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.017</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig5-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p></fig></p></sec><sec id="s2-4"><title>TRIM28 binds to and promotes the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau</title><p>Given that TRIM28 regulates the stability of these two proteins, we next sought the consequence of TRIM28-mediated regulation of α-Syn and tau. We asked whether TRIM28 modulates α-Syn and tau by forming a complex with them and found that they did indeed interact, albeit weakly, in human cells (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6A</xref>). We also used an alternative approach to confirm our findings: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC; <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6B</xref>). We generated stable cell lines expressing N-terminal YFP tagged versions of α-Syn and tau (nYFP-α-Syn and nYFP-tau). By themselves, the cell lines did not generate any fluorescence (data not shown) but when a known interactor of each (in this case, tau) was co-transfected as a prey, we could elicit a strong fluorescent signal (tested by flow cytometry). We found that using TRIM28 as a prey could elicit a signal roughly eight times lower than that of tau thus confirming the transiency of the interaction. Intriguingly, TRIM28:α-Syn and TRIM28:tau complexes accumulated in nuclei after some time. To confirm that this effect was not an artifact of the BiFC approach, we overexpressed a mCherry-fused TRIM28 lentiviral construct in primary cerebellar granule neurons and looked at the endogenous localization of α-Syn and tau. Again, both by immunofluorescence and by biochemical fractionation, we found that viral expression of TRIM28 dramatically promoted the nuclear accumulation of these two proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6C</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s1">Figure 6—figure supplement 1</xref>). Given our previous data suggesting that the effects of TRIM28 on α-Syn and tau are posttranslational, we explored whether the RING domain of TRIM28 might play a role in its modulatory effect. To this end, we focused on the known E3-ligase catalytic activity of TRIM28. We overexpressed an inactive TRIM28 E3 ligase mutant ([C65A/C68A], ‘<italic>TRIM28-Mut</italic>’) (<xref rid="bib16" ref-type="bibr">Doyle et al., 2010</xref>) and found that this mutant could no longer promote the toxic nuclear accumulation of these proteins (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6C</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s1">Figure 6—figure supplement 1</xref>). Importantly, we found that the TRIM28 E3 ligase mutant, while less stable, could still bind α-Syn and tau (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s2">Figure 6—figure supplement 2</xref>), suggesting that its effect on α-Syn and tau nuclear accumulation is functionally, rather than structurally, driven. Taken together, TRIM28 governs the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau through its E3-ligase domain, and its persistent expression aggravates the neuropathology of both proteins.<fig id="fig6" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.018</object-id><label>Figure 6.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 binds to and drives the nuclear localization of α-Syn and tau.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Immunoprecipitation for endogenous α-Syn (top panel) and tau (bottom panel) from HEK293T cells showing the interaction between the former proteins and TRIM28. (<bold>B</bold>) Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation studies using stable cell lines expressing either α-Syn or tau fused to an n-Terminal moiety of YFP (α-Syn:nYFP or tau:nYFP, respectively) and TRIM28 (solid), tau (positive control, hatched) or MSK1 (negative control, white) fused to a c-terminal moiety of YFP (TRIM28:cYFP, tau:cYFP and MSK1:cYFP, respectively). Visualization of the epifluorescence generated through protein-protein interaction is depicted in the photomicrographs and quantified by flow cytometry on the right. Note the nuclear accumulation of the interacting proteins 72 hr following transfection. (<bold>C</bold>) Primary mouse neurons infected with lentiviruses harboring TRIM28, TRIM28 E3 ligase mutant and control were stained for endogenous α-Syn (left panel), and tau in (middle panel) and the relative nuclear fraction of each was quantified (right panel). Arrows point to endogenous α-Syn and tau in the nucleus. Data are represented as mean + s.e.m. In <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 per group and *** denotes p<0.001, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test; in <bold>C</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 3 per group and *, ** and ns denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p>0.05, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.018">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.018</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig6"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig6s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.019</object-id><label>Figure 6—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 promotes the nuclear localization and accumulation of α-Syn and tau.</title><p>Primary mouse neurons infected with lentiviruses harboring TRIM28, TRIM28-Mut or a control mCherry fluorophore were biochemically fractionated into cytoplasmic (‘Cyto.’) and nuclear (‘Nuc.’) components. Relative α-Syn and tau were measured both in the cytoplasm and nucleus in each condition. Notably, the TRIM28-E3 mutant construct consistently exhibited diminished levels. Data are presented as mean + s.e.m. <italic>n</italic> = 3–4 replicates per condition. *, ** and ns denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p>0.05, respectively, One-Way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak post-hoc test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.019">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.019</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig6-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig6s2" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.020</object-id><label>Figure 6—figure supplement 2.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 catalytic mutant retains some binding capacity to α-Syn and tau.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) α-Syn and tau were immunoprecipitated from HEK293T cells transfected with HA-tagged wild-type TRIM28 or its E3 ligase mutant (C65A/C68A) counterpart. * denotes IgG heavy chain immunoreactivity. (<bold>B</bold>) Quantification of the relative amount of HA-TRIM28 (or its mutant) bound to α-Syn and tau reveals a decrease in binding affinity in the catalytic mutant. * and ns denote p<0.05 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.020">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.020</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig6-figsupp2"></graphic></fig></p></fig></p></sec><sec id="s2-5"><title>Aberrant TRIM28 levels are linked to nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau in human synucleinopathies and tauopathies</title><p>If TRIM28 is indeed promoting accumulation of α-Syn and tau in a disease context, levels of TRIM28 could also be deregulated. We therefore obtained post-mortem tissue from individuals who had had PDD, AD, or progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), along with age-matched controls, and examined the biochemical distribution of TRIM28. In all cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy, a greater proportion of TRIM28 accumulated in an insoluble form (Formic Acid fraction) than the more soluble form (RIPA fraction) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplement 1A–D</xref>). Subcellular fractionation on these post-mortem tissues revealed that α-Syn and tau accumulated in the nucleus in most cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s2">Figure 7—figure supplement 2A,B</xref>). Then, we looked at α-Syn and tau subcellular localization in relation to TRIM28 in the context of PD and AD, respectively. We found that α-Syn and tau nuclear co-localization with TRIM28 was greater in PD and AD than in age-matched controls (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7A,B</xref>). Taken together, our findings suggest that TRIM28 is aberrantly increased in cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy and is pathologically associated with the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau in a diseased state.<fig id="fig7" position="float" orientation="portrait"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.021</object-id><label>Figure 7.</label><caption><title>α-Syn and tau colocalize with TRIM28 in the nucleus in cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Representative photomicrographs of the medial frontal gyrus of cases of PDD and age-matched controls stained for α-Syn, TRIM28 and DAPI. The relative proportion of DAPI positive cells were quantified and are presented as the fraction of total nuclei counted. (<bold>B</bold>) Representative photomicrographs as in <bold>A</bold> but for cases of AD and respective age-matched controls, quantification on the right. Data are represented as a fraction of total. In <bold>A</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 4 per post-mortem group, ** and ns denote p<0.01 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test; in <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 5 per post-mortem group, * and ns denote p<0.05 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.021">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.021</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig7"></graphic><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig7s1" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.022</object-id><label>Figure 7—figure supplement 1.</label><caption><title>TRIM28 levels are deregulated in human cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Medial frontal gyrus (MFG) samples from post-mortem Parkinson’s disease with dementia (PDD) or age-matched control cases sequentially lysed in RIPA buffer (left panel) followed by Formic Acid (right panel). (<bold>B</bold>) Pons samples from Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and control cases prepared as in <bold>A</bold>. (<bold>C</bold>) MFG samples from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Control cases prepared as in <bold>A</bold>. (<bold>D</bold>) Quantification of the relative amount of insoluble – FA enriched – TRIM28 relative to RIPA-soluble TRIM28. Left, middle and right panels denote quantification of PDD, AD and PSP cases, respectively. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. In <bold>D</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 5–10 cases per group, * and ** denote p<0.05 and p<0.01, respectively, Student’s t-test with Welch’s correction.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.022">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.022</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig7-figsupp1"></graphic></fig></p><p content-type="supplemental-figure"><fig id="fig7s2" specific-use="child-fig" orientation="portrait" position="anchor"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.023</object-id><label>Figure 7—figure supplement 2.</label><caption><title>α-Syn and tau accumulate in the nucleus in cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy.</title><p>(<bold>A</bold>) Quantitative assessment of nuclear and cytoplasmic localization of α-Syn and tau in the pons of post-mortem cases of PDD (top panel), PSP (middle panel) and AD (bottom panel) compared to age-matched/tissue-matched controls. (<bold>B</bold>) Quantification of relative nuclear enrichment of α-Syn (top) and tau (bottom). (<bold>C</bold>) <italic>Model</italic>: In normal conditions, TRIM28 resides primarily in the nucleus, whereas α-Syn and tau perform their respective physiological functions in the cytoplasm and their levels are tightly controlled by cytosolic quality control mechanisms; in disease conditions the levels of α-Syn and tau as well as TRIM28 are abnormally high. TRIM28 mediates the nuclear accumulation, potentially via SUMOylation (denoted by the ‘S’) of α-Syn and tau where they become toxic. Data are presented as mean ± s.e.m. In <bold>B</bold>, <italic>n</italic> = 10 cases per condition. * and ns denote p<0.05 and p>0.05, respectively, Student’s t-test with Welch’s correction.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.023">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.023</ext-link></p></caption><graphic xlink:href="elife-19809-fig7-figsupp2"></graphic></fig></p></fig></p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion" id="s3"><title>Discussion</title><p>The mechanism(s) underlying the neurotoxicity of α-Syn and tau have been difficult to pin down (<xref rid="bib13" ref-type="bibr">Cookson and van der Brug, 2008</xref>; <xref rid="bib52" ref-type="bibr">Ward et al., 2012</xref>). Although accumulating evidence suggests that α-Syn and tau pathology propagate from cell to cell, the exact mechanism driving their initial accumulation and toxicity remains unclear. Given that both α-Syn and tau accumulate in Parkinson Disease Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia (<xref rid="bib36" ref-type="bibr">Moussaud et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib45" ref-type="bibr">Sengupta et al., 2015</xref>), we rationalized that there must be some proteins that regulate both of them. Thus, when screening for posttranslational regulators that modulate the levels of each protein, we were most interested in regulators that can modify the levels of both α-Syn and tau. Through such convergent screens, we found that TRIM28 regulates the levels of both disease-driving proteins. Our finding that TRIM28 regulates α-Syn and tau by promoting their nuclear localization and accumulation dovetails nicely with studies indicating that altered cellular distribution of α-Syn and tau contributes to neurodegeneration (<xref rid="bib17" ref-type="bibr">Fares et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib18" ref-type="bibr">Fernández-Nogales et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib27" ref-type="bibr">Kontopoulos et al., 2006</xref>). Indeed, several lines of evidence suggest that mislocalization or missorting of α-Syn and tau as a result of mutations, post-translational modification or overexpression, rather than their respective aggregation in the form of Lewy bodies and NFTs, are what promotes neurodegeneration (<xref rid="bib19" ref-type="bibr">Frandemiche et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib54" ref-type="bibr">Wilson et al., 2004</xref>). For instance, α-Syn is much more toxic in a fly model of synucleinopathy when it is tagged with a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) (<xref rid="bib27" ref-type="bibr">Kontopoulos et al., 2006</xref>). Further, PD-causing mutations in α-Syn increase its nuclear accumulation (<xref rid="bib17" ref-type="bibr">Fares et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib27" ref-type="bibr">Kontopoulos et al., 2006</xref>). Moreover, postmortem studies of tissue from AD and Huntington disease patients indicate that misfolded tau accumulates in the nucleus of neurons in the form of rod-like deposits (<xref rid="bib18" ref-type="bibr">Fernández-Nogales et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib51" ref-type="bibr">Vuono et al., 2015</xref>). Our finding that TRIM28 drives the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau provides new mechanistic insight into the steps that lead to the pathogenicity of these proteins and highlights a shared pathway for therapeutic targeting.</p><p>The molecular mechanism through which TRIM28 stabilizes and mediates the nuclear localization of α-Syn and tau is not elucidated at this point. Indeed, it is possible that TRIM28 mediates its effects on α-Syn and tau indirectly through a yet undiscovered mediator, through epigenetic remodeling or indirect binding and/or modification of an intermediate (<xref rid="bib9" ref-type="bibr">Cheng, 2014</xref>). However, the evidence we present suggests that this less likely of a mechanism. For instance, we show that TRIM28 does not affect the RNA of α-Syn and tau but rather their protein stability. Moreover, we show that TRIM28 can form a complex with the two proteins and that its effect on nuclear accumulation is mediated via its E3-ligase domain. This would therefore suggest that TRIM28 may mediate this effect through SUMOylation or ubiquitination. Since SUMOylation has previously been suggested to mediate the nuclear localization of certain proteins, we hypothesize that TRIM28 acting as a SUMO ligase for α-Syn and tau. Future studies will dissect such a mechanism through the use of genetically engineered mice that permit monitoring of either modification in vivo.</p><p>In the present study, we found that TRIM28 has important post-transcriptional functions in the brain. While the <italic>Trim28</italic> null mice are embryonic lethal (<xref rid="bib7" ref-type="bibr">Cammas et al., 2000</xref>), we found that the <italic>Trim28<sup>+/-</sup></italic> mice looked and behaved normally and that 50% loss of Trim28 was sufficient to reduce α-Syn and tau and ameliorate toxicity. This finding is particularly encouraging when it comes to therapeutics as it suggests that only partially inhibiting TRIM28 function may be effective at blocking neurotoxicity. Moreover, having discovered that mutating the E3 ligase catalytic activity of TRIM28 effectively is sufficient to regulate α-Syn and tau levels and for this specific effect behaves like a null allele, narrows down a target domain within TRIM28 for inhibition. This finding sets the stage for future studies to dissect the native function of the E3 ligase domain of TRIM28 versus its other essential domains and provides a potential opportunity for targeting TRIM28 as a source of therapy for these debilitating disorders.</p><p>The unusual accumulation of TRIM28 in cases of synucleinopathy and tauopathy was a curious finding, though it remains solely an observation of correlative nature at this point. While we found that both α-Syn and tau co-localized with TRIM28 in the nucleus in cases of PD and AD, respectively, it was also interesting to find that TRIM28 accumulated in the insoluble biochemical fractions from post-mortem tissue. Moreover, though TRIM28 accumulation occurs in both diseases, irrespective of the driving pathological protein, α-Syn and tau appeared to more selectively accumulate in the nucleus in the context of their respective disease. Teasing out the precise mechanisms that affect TRIM28 accumulation as well as α-Syn and tau nuclear localization in human tissue will provide additional context for the understanding of disease pathogenesis.</p><p>We posit two potential mechanisms through which deregulated TRIM28 activity could promote neurodegeneration. By driving α-Syn and tau to the nucleus, TRIM28 could: (1) prevent their degradation by native quality control mechanisms, thereby enhancing their overall bioavailability and toxicity (a passive mechanism); or (2) allow for a toxic gain of function in the nucleus (an active mechanism) (model, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s2">Figure 7—figure supplement 2</xref>). Though some studies have suggested various roles for α-Syn and tau in the nucleus (<xref rid="bib18" ref-type="bibr">Fernández-Nogales et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib27" ref-type="bibr">Kontopoulos et al., 2006</xref>; <xref rid="bib50" ref-type="bibr">Sultan et al., 2011</xref>), careful studies testing the kinetics and the outcome of this nuclear build-up will surely shed light on disease pathogenesis.</p><p>As the sensitivity of the brain to protein levels becomes clearer, and more neurodegenerative diseases are found to involve elevated levels of more than one protein (<xref rid="bib36" ref-type="bibr">Moussaud et al., 2014</xref>; <xref rid="bib39" ref-type="bibr">Ramanan and Saykin, 2013</xref>), it will become more important to identify shared modifiers and regulatory mechanisms of the steady-state levels of disease proteins, both to understand pathogenesis and to find the best candidate targets for therapeutic interventions.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="s4"><title>Materials and methods</title><sec id="s4-1"><title>Abbreviations</title><p>α-Syn, alpha-synuclein; AD, Alzheimer disease; BCA, bicinchoninic acid; BiFC, bimolecular fluorescence complementation; CA1, Cornu Ammonis 1; ‘C’ or CONTRA, contralateral; cDNA, complementary DNA; DsRed, Discosoma red fluorescent protein; DMEM, dulbecco’s modified eagle medium; DOX, Doxycycline; EGFP, enhanced green fluorescent protein; FACS, fluorescent activated cell sorting; FBS, fetal bovine serum; FTD, Frontal Temporal Dementia; GFAP, Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein; HEK, human embryonic kidney; HTS, high throughput sampler; ‘I’ or IPSI, ipsilateral; IP, immunoprecipitation; IRES, internal ribosomal entry site; LBD, Lewy Body Demetia; LV, Lentivirus; Mut, mutant; PD, Parkinson disease; PDD, Parkinson disease with dementia; PFA, paraformaldehyde; RNAi, ribonucleic acid interference; PSP, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy; RIPA, Radioimmunoprecipitation assay (buffer); RRE, Rev response element; siRNA, small interfering ribonucleic acid; shRNA, short hairpin ribonucleic acid; SNc, substantia nigra <italic>pars compacta</italic>; SUMO, Small Ubiquitin-Like Modifier; TH, tyrosine hydroxylase; TU, Transducing units; TRIM28, Tripartite Motif Containing 28; UBC9, Ubiquitin carrier protein 9; and VSVG, vesicular stomatitis virus-G.</p></sec><sec id="s4-2"><title>Antibodies, shRNAs, plasmids and primers</title><p>The collection of antibodies (and their concentrations), shRNAs (and their sequences), Plasmids (and their construction) as well as qRT-PCR primers used are presented in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD3-data">Supplementary file 2</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4-3"><title>Virus generation, concentration and infection</title><p>Lentiviral vectors (pHAGE, L302, LV-mCherry, pGIPz or pZip) and their respective packaging vectors (VSVG, Rev and RRE for L302; psPAX2 and pMD2G for LV-mCherry, pGIPz and pZip) were cotransfected into HEK293T cells in a 1:1:1:1 or 4:3:1 molar ratio, respectively. Media was changed 16 hr following transfection to low volume media (5 mL for a 10 cm dish). Media was collected at 48 hr following transfection, replaced with fresh media (5 mL) and collected again at 72 hr. Viral supernatant was cleared from cell debris via centrifugation (10 min at 4000 rpm) as well as filtration through a 0.45 µM polyethersulfone membrane (VWR). Cleared supernatants were concentrated using Lenti-X concentrator (Clontec) to 1/50–1/100 of the original volume. Viruses were titered using the Open Biosystems (Thermoscientific, Waltham, MA) method (counting either fluorescence-positive colonies or puromycin-resistant colonies).</p></sec><sec id="s4-4"><title>Generation of stable cell lines</title><p>DsRed-IRES-α-Syn:EGFP, DsRed-IRES-tau:EGFP, DsRed-IRES-EGFP, α-Syn:nYFP and tau:nYFP cell lines were generated as previously described (<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>). Briefly, each construct was cloned into a pHAGE vector, packaged into lentiviruses and infected into Daoy cells at low multiplicity of infection (0.3) to promote single copy integration. Cells were then selected by puromycin (1 µg/mL) and single clonal populations were obtained using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) using an Aria II cell sorter (BD Biosciences) and sorting a single double-positive (DsRed and EGFP) cell per well. Clones were expanded and the ones with the best qualities for screening (i.e., low transgene expression, low variation, homogenous population) were expanded for screening purposes.</p></sec><sec id="s4-5"><title>Flow cytometry analysis and cell-based RNAi screen</title><p>Flow cytometry was carried out on a LSRII Fortessa coupled with an HTS module (BD Biosciences). Gates for analysis were set using single-positive and double-positive cells as well as negative cells. For the RNAi Screens, DsRed-IRES-α-Syn:GFP or DsRed-IRES-tau:EGFP cells were plated onto 96-well round bottom plates. For each RNAi plate, cells were plated in triplicate to assay for technical variance. The following day, individual siRNAs were transfected as previously reported (<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>) and incubated for 72 hr for downstream flow cytometry analysis. For each plate tested, <italic>Z</italic>-Scores were calculated by comparing each sample to the plate mean. A cut-off <italic>Z</italic>-Score of 1.5 was set in either direction for a first pass of hits. Next, individual t-tests were performed on hits by comparing them to the average of three scrambled siRNA sequences (with Low-, Medium-, and High GC content) to control for variability between triplicates. Hits meeting a p-value cut-off of <0.05 were kept for downstream analysis. Top hits from each screen met the <italic>Z</italic>-score and p<italic>-</italic>value cut-off and had more than two siRNAs with a significant effect (regardless of the directionality of said effect) (<xref rid="bib4" ref-type="bibr">Birmingham et al., 2009</xref>). Validation of top hits was performed by ordering new siRNAs against most robust hits and revalidating in the same platform but this time including a DsRed-IRES-GFP cell line as a negative control (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s2">Figure 1—figure supplement 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD1-data">Figure 1—source data 1</xref>). Hits that significantly altered the DsRed-IRES-GFP cell line in the same direction were excluded. Further downstream analysis consisted of generating viral shRNAs against the top hits (using the human pGIPz collection, ThermoScientific) and testing for their effect on endogenous α-Syn and tau levels in HEK293T cells as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1C</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4-6"><title>Cell culture, lysate preparation and western blot analysis</title><p>Daoy, HeLa or HEK293T cells (obtained and certified from ATCC) were cultured in DMEM (Invitrogen) containing 10% FBS and antibiotics (Penicillin/Streptomycin). These lines are not misidentified as per ICLAC and are free from mycoplasma contamination. siRNAs were transfected using DharmaFECT (Dharmacon) and incubated for 72 hr prior to analysis by flow cytometry or western blot. shRNA viruses were generated as described below, infected into cells, and left for 9 days prior to analysis. Plasmids were transfected using Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen) and left to express from 30 to 72 hr, depending on the downstream application. Unless otherwise mentioned, cells were lysed with RIPA buffer (50 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 150 mM NaCl, 1 % NP-40, 0.5% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% SDS) supplemented with protease inhibitors (Roche) on ice for 20 min with vortexing. Lysates were cleared by centrifugation (20 min, 15,000 r.p.m, 4°C) followed by protein quantification via BCA assay (Pierce). Sample buffer with reducing agent was added to each lysate followed by a 10 min incubation at 95°C. Samples were spun down and run on a 4–12% Bis-Tris gel, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and blocked for one hour with 5% non-fat milk prior to primary antibody incubation.</p></sec><sec id="s4-7"><title>Primary neuron culture</title><p>Primary cerebellar granule precursors were generated as previously described (<xref rid="bib1" ref-type="bibr">Aleyasin et al., 2007</xref>) with slight modifications. Briefly, cerebella from P5-P9 mice were dissected and dissociated with trypsin. Granule neurons were specifically isolated using a Percoll gradient following which single cell suspensions were plated onto 12-well plates previously coated with poly-L-lysine. Cells were left to recover for 24 hr prior to infection with 4 µL of concentrated virus (~1E7 Transducing units [TU] / µL). Cerebellar granule neurons were used as opposed to cortical and hippocampal cultures due to their ease in infectivity (>80% infected, data not shown) and their homogeneity thus allowing for clean biochemical experiments.</p></sec><sec id="s4-8"><title>Stereotaxic injections</title><p>Stereotaxic injections were performed as previously described (<xref rid="bib29" ref-type="bibr">Lasagna-Reeves et al., 2015b</xref>). Briefly, 8–12 week-old mice were deeply anesthetized with a ketamine/xylazine cocktail; their heads were shaven and cleaned using aseptic solution. A midline incision was performed to reveal Bregma and a burr hole was drilled at the appropriate coordinates. Mice were injected with concentrated lentiviral solution (1E7 TU / µL; 1 µL unilateral, left hemisphere for SNc injections, 3 µL of 2.5E7 TU / µL bilaterally for hippocampal injections) at a flow rate of 0.125 µL/min. For the hippocampal injections, coordinates relative to Bregma were: 2.1 mm posterior, 1.3 mm lateral and 1.5 mm ventral. For SNc injections, coordinates relative to Bregma were 3.2 mm posterior, 1 mm lateral and 4.2 mm ventral. Incisions were glued together using VetBond (3 M). Mice were followed for proper recovery following injection and received daily fluids (0.5 mL subcutaneous saline) and analgesics (100 µL IP Ketoprofen) for 72 hr following the injection.</p></sec><sec id="s4-9"><title>Immunofluorescence staining</title><p>Free floating or slide-mounted sections were stained as before (<xref rid="bib30" ref-type="bibr">Lasagna-Reeves et al., 2015a</xref>; <xref rid="bib42" ref-type="bibr">Rousseaux et al., 2012</xref>). Briefly, sections were permeabilized and blocked in PBS containing 0.3% Triton X-100 and 5% normal goat serum. Samples were incubated with primary antibody overnight in blocking buffer and were washed three times the next day prior to adding fluorescent-conjugated secondary antibody (either Alexa 488 or Alexa 568, 1:700 concentration) and incubating an additional hour at room temperature. Tissue was then washed three more times during and DAPI was added during one of the washes to permit nuclear visualization. Slides were coverslipped using fluoromount and imaged using a Zeiss LSM710 confocal microscope.</p></sec><sec id="s4-10"><title>Mouse breeding and colony management</title><p>mThy1-α-Syn (Line 61 [<xref rid="bib41" ref-type="bibr">Rockenstein et al., 2002</xref>]) mice were a gift from Marie-Francoise Chesselet and were bred and maintained on a C57Bl/6J background. Note that in our hands, these mice exhibited stronger pathological phenotypes than those originally reported; this may be due to their background (data not shown). tau transgenic mice, overexpressing human tau with a P301S mutation (PS19 [<xref rid="bib56" ref-type="bibr">Yoshiyama et al., 2007</xref>]), were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory were maintained on a C57Bl/6J background. <italic>Trim28<sup>+/-</sup></italic> mice were generated by crossing <italic>Trim28<sup>flox/+</sup></italic>(<xref rid="bib7" ref-type="bibr">Cammas et al., 2000</xref>) (B6.129S2[SJL]-<italic>Trim28<sup>tm1.1Ipc</sup></italic>/J, Jackson Laboratory) mice with CMV-Cre mice (<xref rid="bib44" ref-type="bibr">Schwenk et al., 1995</xref>) (B6.C-Tg[CMV-cre]1Cgn/J, Jackson Laboratory). Genotyping for <italic>Trim28<sup>+/-</sup></italic> mice was performed using standard methods and the following primers to detect the recombined allele: 5’-TTGTTTATTTGGGAATGGTTGTTC-3’ and 5’-GCGAGCACGAATCAAGGTC-3’. <italic>Mapt<sup>-/-</sup></italic> mice were a generous gift from J. Noebels (BCM) and <italic>Snca<sup>-/-</sup></italic> mice were obtained from the Jackson Laboratory (B6;129 X 1-<italic>Snca<sup>tm1Rosl</sup></italic>/J). C57Bl/6J mice used for stereotaxic surgery in this study were aged 8–12 weeks. For all studies, mice of both sexes were used, unless specified. Up to five mice were housed per cage and kept on a 12 hr light; 12 hr dark cycle and were given water and standard rodent chow <italic>ad libitum</italic>. All procedures carried out in mice were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for Baylor College of Medicine and Affiliates.</p></sec><sec id="s4-11"><title>Stability assay</title><p>SH-SY5Y cell lines stably expressing α-Syn or tau were generated using the pINDUCER system (<xref rid="bib33" ref-type="bibr">Meerbrey et al., 2011</xref>). Briefly, myc-tagged α-Syn or tau was inserted into the pINDUCER20 (ORF-UN) cassette. Lentivirus was generated as above and naïve SH-SY5Y cells were infected and selected for more than a week in geneticin-containing medium (G418, 150 µg/mL). Cells were then split into a 24 well plate and treated with doxycycline (DOX, 100 ng/mL) for 48 hr. DOX-containing media was replaced with regular media (containing no tetracycline) at indicated time points. All cells were harvested at the same time as described above for downstream western-blot testing. Half-lives were calculated from normalized densitometric values obtained by Image J and solving x when y = 50% for the following equation: <italic>y</italic> = <italic>f(e<sup>−kx</sup>)</italic> as previously described (<xref rid="bib32" ref-type="bibr">Li, 2004</xref>). Alternatively, RNA was isolated from the indicated time points qPCR was performed using the primers presented in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD3-data">Supplementary file 2</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4-12"><title>RNA extraction and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR)</title><p>HEK293T cells were infected with lentiviral constructs harboring shRNAs to <italic>TRIM28</italic> or scrambled controls. Eight days following infection and puromycin selection, cells were spun down and RNA was extracted using the miRNeasy kit (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. For the in vivo quantification of genes expression RNA was extracted from whole mouse brain tissue.</p><p>RNA was quantified using the NanoDrop 1000 (Thermo Fisher) and quality assessed by gel electrophoresis. cDNA was synthesized using a Quantitect Reverse Transcription kit (Qiagen) starting from 1 μg of RNA. Quantitative RT-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) experiments were performed using the CFX96 Touch Real-Time PCR Detection System (Bio-Rad Laboratories) with PerfeCTa SYBR Green FastMix, ROX (Quanta Biosciences). Real-time PCR results were analyzed using the comparative Ct method and normalized against the housekeeping gene <italic>Hs-GAPDH</italic> or <italic>mm-Hprt</italic>. The range of expression levels was determined by calculating the standard deviation of the ΔCt (<xref rid="bib38" ref-type="bibr">Pfaffl, 2001</xref>). Primers used to amplify specific exons of the target genes have been designed across introns to distinguish spliced cDNA from genomic contamination. Primers sequences are presented in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD3-data">Supplementary file 2.</xref></p></sec><sec id="s4-13"><title><italic>Drosophila</italic> methods</title><p>Drosophila lines were obtained from the Bloomington Stock Center (Indiana) and VDRC (Vienna). Human tau transgenic flies were generated by cloning human wild-type 4 repeat tau under the control of a UAS promoter, and injected in w- embryos following standard transgenesis procedures. For eye assays, expression of wild-type 4 repeat human tau was driven to the eye using GMR-Gal4 and fruit flies, cultured at 28°C, were processed for scanning electron microscopy analysis as previously described (<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>). tau levels were analyzed in <italic>Drosophila</italic> expressing tau in the adult eye under the control of Rh1-Gal4 at 28.5°C. Animals were aged for ten days, heads were collected, homogenized in LDS Buffer (Invitrogen), 10% β-mercaptoethanol and loaded in 4–12% Bis-Tris gel, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane, blocked for one hour with 5% non-fat milk and incubated overnight with primary antibody. For motor performance analysis, expression of tau was driven specifically in neurons with elav-Gal4, and crosses were performed at 26°C. Motor performance was assessed in a climbing assay as previously described (<xref rid="bib37" ref-type="bibr">Park et al., 2013</xref>). Briefly, % motor performance was calculated as the percentage of flies that managed to climb up 9 cm in 15 s (averaged over 10 trials per time point).</p><p>For a list of all <italic>Drosophila</italic> strains used in this study, please see <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD3-data">Supplementary file 2</xref>, tab 'Fly lines'. Trim28<sup>LOF-1</sup> corresponds to the allele P{EPg}bonHP32434, which is a mobile activating P element inserted in the 5’UTR of bonus (the Drosophila homologue of Trim28). These P elements can cause loss of function when inserted in the orientation of the negative strand of the inserted gene. Trim28<sup>LOF-2</sup> carries a loss of function allele [21B], previously characterized as missing all but 12 bp of exon 1 and the first 324 bp of intron 1. We confirmed that Trim28<sup>LOF-1</sup> is a loss of function allele of bonus because it failed to complement Trim28<sup>LOF-2</sup>, which has already been described as a bonus LOF allele (<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">Beckstead et al., 2001</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4-14"><title>Quantification of dopaminergic cell survival</title><p>Eight weeks after virus injection, mice were deeply anesthetized and transcardially perfused with 0.9% saline followed by 4% PFA. Brains were removed, placed in 4% PFA overnight for post-fixation and dehydrated using 10% Sucrose in PBS (twice a day for 3 days). Brains were frozen in O.C.T. compound (Tissue-Tek) and 30 µm free-floating sections were cut from the striatum and Substantia Nigra <italic>pars compacta</italic> (SNc). Tyrosine hydroxylase and Nissl staining in both the SNc and Striatum was performed as previously described (<xref rid="bib42" ref-type="bibr">Rousseaux et al., 2012</xref>). Unbiased stereology using the optical fractionation method was used to estimate total dopaminergic cell counts in the SNc of each treatment group (StereoInvestigator 11, MBF Bioscience). Samples missing multiple sections or with staining artifacts were excluded from stereological analysis prior to unblinding. For striatal TH optical density quantification, images were captured using a 10x objective (both Ipsi- and Contralateral sides). Pictures were processes using an in house automated Adobe Photoshop CS5 workflow (Automator, Mac OSX) to convert the image to gray scale, invert (so that the intensity of staining is a positive value) and saved as a new file. Five regions were sampled per picture in the TH-positive striatum and these were normalized to negative stained background (corpus callosum). Normalized values across three independent sections were used to compare the relative TH optic density between groups.</p></sec><sec id="s4-15"><title>Pathology assessment in mouse models of synucleinopathy and tauopathy</title><p>An experimenter blind to the treatment or mouse genotype injected 6–8 week old α-Syn and tau transgenic mice (mThy1-α-Syn and P301S tau) and their respective wild-type littermate controls bilaterally with virus harboring TRIM28-mCherry or mCherry as a control into the CA1 region of the hippocampus (<xref rid="bib15" ref-type="bibr">Dhungel et al., 2015</xref>). One month following injection, mice were euthanized by isofluorane inhalation followed by cervical dislocation and decapitation. Brains were dissected, split down the midline and either post-fixed for 48 hr in 4% PFA or collected for downstream biochemical analysis. Post-fixed brains were dehydrated in 10% sucrose (as above) and sectioned directly on slides at a thickness of 20 µm. Alternatively, sections were paraffin embedded and sectioned at 5 µm for IHC analysis. Slides were then stained for pS129 α-Syn, pS396 tau and GFAP and visualization was performed using the ABC detection method (Vectastain, Vector Labs) as previously described (<xref rid="bib29" ref-type="bibr">Lasagna-Reeves et al., 2015b</xref>). Nissl staining was performed as described previously (<xref rid="bib42" ref-type="bibr">Rousseaux et al., 2012</xref>). Quantification of each pathological parameter was performed at an area surrounding the injection site (though not directly beside the needle tract to avoid staining artifacts) on three independent sections per animal with at least three animals for each tested condition. Counts were performed in a defined area (i.e. 1000 × 1000 pixels) using ImageJ 1.47v.</p></sec><sec id="s4-16"><title>Immunoprecipitation</title><p>Immunoprecipitation of protein complexes was performed as previously described (<xref rid="bib6" ref-type="bibr">Burré et al., 2010</xref>). Briefly, cell lysis was performed on ice for 20 min with brief vortexing using lysis buffer (1% Triton X-100, 150 mM NaCl, 10 mM Tris pH 8.0, 10% glycerol, 20 mM N-ethyl maleimide and protease inhibitors [Roche]). Cell debris were removed by centrifugation (20 min at 15,000 r.p.m, 4°C) and pre-cleared with un-conjugated beads. In parallel, 2 µg of antibody was conjugated to Dynabeads for one hour at 4°C with rocking. Lysate was then added to the conjugated beads for 2 hr. Beads were then washed 5 × 500 µL of lysis buffer before being eluted in Laemmli buffer at 85°C for ten minutes.</p></sec><sec id="s4-17"><title>Bimolecular fluorescence complementation assay</title><p>Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (Split-YFP assay) was performed as previously described with some modifications (<xref rid="bib31" ref-type="bibr">Lee et al., 2011</xref>). N-terminal or C-terminally tagged α-Syn and tau pBABE retroviral constructs were generated containing either the N-terminal or C-terminal portion of YFP. Viruses were generated from these constructs and stable cell lines (using HeLa cells, infected with constructs and selected with G418 for over a week) were created for both α-Syn and tau using the N-terminal portion of YFP, termed ‘Bait’. Once generated, these cell lines (5 × 10<sup>4</sup> cells) were transfected with 250 ng of ‘Prey’ plasmid (tau, MSK1 and TRIM28 containing the C-terminal portion of YFP). Cells were monitored for fluorescence for 48–72 hr (fluorescence begins around 24–30 hr) and cells were either collected for flow cytometry analysis (at 48 hr, using a BD LSR Fortessa with HTS [high throughput sampler] module) or fixed for fluorescence microscopy. Cells visualized for fluorescence microscopy were permeabilized and stained for DAPI to visualize nuclei and epifluorescence from the complementation was monitored.</p></sec><sec id="s4-18"><title>Quantification of nuclear translocation (IF)</title><p>The relative amount of nuclear versus cytoplasmic stained protein (α-Syn or tau) was performed in primary granule neurons previously infected (for 7 days) with lentiviral constructs overexpressing mCherry, TRIM28:mCherry or TRIM28-Mut:mCherry on coverslips. The nucleus was outlined using DAPI and the cytoplasmic outline was determined by DIC (not shown). For each biological replicate, at least 15 cells were sampled and the nuclear fraction of each cell was calculated as the intensity of the nuclear localized fluorophore divided by the intensity of the fluorophore spanning the cytoplasm and the nucleus (total intensity) and multiplied by 100. Three independent coverslips per condition were tested and statistics were based on these three biological replicates. Alternatively, postmortem medial frontal gyrus tissue was stained for α-Syn or tau together with TRIM28 and nuclei were visualized using DAPI. Positive nuclear co-localization was set as a threshold of staining co-localizing with DAPI. At least 150 cells over the span of 5 fields (at 40x magnification) were counted per human case.</p></sec><sec id="s4-19"><title>Subcellular fractionation assay</title><p>Nuclear/Cytoplasmic fractionation was carried out in freshly spun down cells 7 days following infection (or alternatively in frozen pre-weighed post-mortem samples). Briefly, the NE-PER Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Extraction Kit (Thermo Scientific, Product #78835) was used to isolate nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions of primary neurons or tissue. Of note, the protocol of the NE-PER kit was modified to incorporate an additional PBS-wash of the nuclear pellet following the cytosolic extraction as we found it increased purity of the preparation. Probing with antibodies specific to each compartment (i.e. Lamin A and histone H3 for the nuclear fraction and Vinculin and GAPDH for the cytoplasmic fraction) was used as a measure of extraction purity and for normalization.</p></sec><sec id="s4-20"><title>Post-mortem tissue from human cases</title><p>Tissue from patients with PD, AD, PSP and control subjects were obtained from the Neuropathology Core at the Johns Hopkins Udall Centre. Tissue was obtained from consenting donors and use conformed to JHMI Institutional Review Board approved protocols. Neuropathological assessment conformed to the National Institute on Aging-Reagan consensus criteria and similar post-mortem intervals were used between samples. For this study, tissues from the frontal cortex (for PD, AD and their respective controls) or pons (for PSP and their respective controls) was utilized. Please see <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD4-data">Supplementary file 3</xref> for full demographics and pathological analysis. Frozen tissue was either fractionated as per the protocol above or was alternatively processed for biochemical fractionation. In the latter case, each sample was homogenized in RIPA buffer containing protease inhibitors using a dilution of brain: RIPA of 1:10 (w/v). Samples were then centrifuged at 10,000 rpm for 20 min at 4°C. The supernatants were portioned into aliquots, snap-frozen, and stored at –80°C. The pellets were then resuspended in 88% formic acid to solubilize aggregate/insoluble protein for one hour at room temperature. Samples were then diluted to 22% in PBS and lyophilized overnight using a Savant automatic environmental speedvac system (Aes1010). Pellets were then solubilized in the same volume as the original RIPA volume and subsequently sonicated at output 2 for 30 cycles on a Branson sonicator. Independent blocks of frozen tissue were cut from PD, AD and control subjects for immunofluorescence analysis (10 µm sections).</p></sec><sec id="s4-21"><title>Statistical analyses</title><p>Experimental analysis and data collection were performed in a blinded fashion whenever possible. The sample size was chosen based on previous studies using the models described in the study in order to ensure adequate statistical power. Pre-determined exclusion criteria were used in the nuclear/cytoplasmic biochemical fractionation by determining purity of the prep. If the fractionation was not adequate (as per Lamin A, Histone H3, GAPDH and Vinculin levels), sample was re-fractionated or omitted from the study. Tissue sections with high background staining/staining artifacts were removed and/or re-stained for the analysis. Randomization together with blinding was used for histological quantification as well as human case studies. Randomization was done using Microsoft Excel and blinding was performed by assigning new non-descript codes to cases. Unblinding was only done following analysis. Outliers for histology were removed if there was a lack of detectable viral expression in the animal and if the sample met the Grubb’s outlier test p-value. p values were determined using the appropriate statistical method via GraphPad Prism, as described throughout the manuscript. For simple comparisons, two-tailed Student’s <italic>t</italic>-test was used whereas for multiple comparisons, ANOVA followed by the appropriate <italic>post hoc</italic> analysis were utilized. The summary of all statistical analysis is presented in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD2-data">Supplementary file 1</xref>. All data presented are of mean + (or ±) s.e.m. *, ** and *** denote p<0.05, p<0.01 and p<0.001, respectively. ns denotes p>0.05.</p></sec></sec></body><back><sec sec-type="funding-information"><title>Funding Information</title><p>This paper was supported by the following grants:</p><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000024</institution-id><institution>Canadian Institutes of Health Research</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>201210MFE-290072-173743</award-id> to Maxime WC Rousseaux.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>1K22NS092688-01</award-id> to Cristian A Lasagna-Reeves.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>3R01 NS027699-25S1</award-id> to Cristian A Lasagna-Reeves.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>P50 NS38377</award-id> to Juan C Troncoso.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>P50 AG05146</award-id> to Juan C Troncoso.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000011</institution-id><institution>Howard Hughes Medical Institute</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source> to Huda Y Zoghbi.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000864</institution-id><institution>Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>Target Validation Program 2014</award-id> to Huda Y Zoghbi.</p></list-item><list-item><p><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution-id institution-id-type="FundRef">http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000002</institution-id><institution>National Institutes of Health</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source><award-id>U54 HD083092</award-id> to Huda Y Zoghbi.</p></list-item></list></sec><ack id="ack"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The authors wish to thank the families of all patients who agreed to donate post-mortem tissue. The authors thank Drs. T Südhof (HHMI, Stanford University), M-F Chesselet (University of California Los Angeles), J Burré (Weill Cornell Medical College), J Noebels (Baylor College of Medicine), F Zhu (Florida State University), G Salvesen (Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute), P Tsoulfas (University of Miami) and J Yuan (Harvard Medical School) for providing plasmids and animals used in this study; Dr. Olga Pletniková from the Johns Hopkins Clinical and Neuropathology Core for collecting postmortem tissue samples; and Vicky Brandt, Laura Lavery, Gabriel Vasquez-Velez, Asante Hatcher, Laura Lombardi, Sishir Subedi, Steven Baker, Vitaliy Bondar, Xiuyun Liu, and members of the Zoghbi lab for technical assistance, valuable insight and comments on the manuscript. This research was supported in part by the Michael J. Fox Foundation (target validation program 2014), the Robert A and Renée E Belfer Family Foundation, the Huffington Foundation, the Hamill Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HYZ), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship 201210MFE-290072–173743 (MWCR), the NIH/NINDS 3R01 NS027699-25S1 and 1K22NS092688-01 (CALR), the Gordon and Mary Cain Pediatric Neurology Research Foundation Laboratories, the Cell Based Assay Screening Service Core at BCM, and the confocal core at the BCM Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (NIH U54 HD083092 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). PDD, AD, PSP and control tissues for this research were provided by the Johns Hopkins University Morris Udall Parkinson’s Disease Center of Excellence (NINDS P50 NS38377) and Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (NIA P50 AG05146).</p></ack><sec id="s5" sec-type="additional-information"><title>Additional information</title><fn-group content-type="competing-interest"><title><bold>Competing interests</bold></title><fn fn-type="COI-statement" id="conf2"><p>HYZ: Senior editor, <italic>eLife</italic>.</p></fn><fn fn-type="COI-statement" id="conf1"><p>The other authors declare that no competing interests exist.</p></fn></fn-group><fn-group content-type="author-contribution"><title><bold>Author contributions</bold></title><fn fn-type="con" id="con1"><p>MWCR, Conceived the study, Designed experiments, Analyzed and interpreted the data, Wrote the manuscript, Performed molecular and biochemical experiments, Performed the cell-based screens, Performed mouse genotyping, surgery, histology and microscopy.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con2"><p>MdH, Performed the Drosophila experiments, Conception and design, Analysis and interpretation of data.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con3"><p>CAL-R, Performed mouse genotyping, surgery, histology and microscopy, Aided in data interpretation and helped in editing the manuscript.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con4"><p>ADM, Performed the cell-based screens, Analysis and interpretation of data.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con5"><p>JP, Provided tools and reagents.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con6"><p>PJ-N, Performed the cell-based screens.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con7"><p>IA-R, Performed the Drosophila experiments, Analysis and interpretation of data.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con8"><p>AS, Performed mouse genotyping, surgery, histology and microscopy.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con9"><p>LS, Performed mouse genotyping, surgery, histology and microscopy.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con10"><p>NL, Performed the cell-based screens.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con11"><p>LV-V, Performed mouse genotyping, surgery, histology and microscopy.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con12"><p>TJK, Provided tools and reagents.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con13"><p>TFW, Provided reagents and aided in data interpretation.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con14"><p>JCT, Performed human pathological analysis and provided tissue.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con15"><p>JB, Provided reagents and aided in data interpretation, Conception and design.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con" id="con16"><p>HYZ, Conceived the study, Designed experiments, Analyzed and interpreted the data, Wrote the manuscript, Contributed unpublished essential data or reagents.</p></fn></fn-group><fn-group content-type="ethics-information"><title><bold>Ethics</bold></title><fn fn-type="other"><p>Human subjects: Tissue from patients with PD, AD, PSP and control subjects were obtained from the Neuropathology Core at the Johns Hopkins Udall Centre. Tissue was obtained from consenting donors and use conformed to JHMI Institutional Review Board approved protocols.</p></fn><fn fn-type="other"><p>Animal experimentation: Up to five mice were housed per cage and kept on a 12 h light; 12 h dark cycle and were given water and standard rodent chow ad libitum. All procedures carried out in mice were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for Baylor College of Medicine and Affiliates.</p></fn></fn-group></sec><sec id="s6" sec-type="supplementary-material"><title>Additional files</title><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="SD2-data"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.024</object-id><label>Supplementary file 1.</label><caption><title>Summary of all statistics used throughout the manuscript.</title><p>Statistical summary of each figure, including comparisons between each group. Figure in question is in column <bold>A</bold>. Assay and quantitative measurement from that figure are in columns <bold>B</bold> and <bold>C</bold>. Statistical test employed and sample size (<italic>n</italic>) are in <bold>D</bold> and <bold>E</bold>. Statistical comparison is in <bold>F</bold>. <bold>F</bold> values, t values (when applicable) and degrees of freedom are present in column <bold>G</bold>. Calculated p value is presented in column <bold>H</bold>.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.024">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.024</ext-link></p></caption><media mime-subtype="xlsx" mimetype="application" xlink:href="elife-19809-supp1.xlsx" orientation="portrait" id="d36e2405" position="anchor"></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="SD3-data"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.025</object-id><label>Supplementary file 2.</label><caption><title>Summary of reagents used throughout the manuscript.</title><p>First tab shows antibodies used including concentration and application. Second tab shows shRNA sequences used. Third tab shows Plasmids used and cloning approach if applicable. Fourth tab shows qRT-PCR primers used.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.025">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.025</ext-link></p></caption><media mime-subtype="xlsx" mimetype="application" xlink:href="elife-19809-supp2.xlsx" orientation="portrait" id="d36e2422" position="anchor"></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="SD4-data"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.026</object-id><label>Supplementary file 3.</label><caption><title>Summary of post-mortem cases used.</title><p>Demographics, pathological assessment, post-mortem delay and tissue studied are presented.</p><p><bold>DOI:</bold><ext-link ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="10.7554/eLife.19809.026">http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.19809.026</ext-link></p></caption><media mime-subtype="xlsx" mimetype="application" xlink:href="elife-19809-supp3.xlsx" orientation="portrait" id="d36e2439" 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A lightly edited version of the letter sent to the authors after peer review is shown, indicating the most substantive concerns; minor comments are not usually included.</p></boxed-text><p>Thank you for submitting your article "TRIM28 regulates the nuclear accumulation and toxicity of both α-synuclein and tau" for consideration by <italic>eLife</italic>. Your article has been reviewed by three peer reviewers, and the evaluation has been overseen by a Reviewing Editor. The reviewers have opted to remain anonymous.</p><p>The reviewers have discussed the reviews with one another and the Reviewing Editor has drafted this decision to help you prepare a revised submission.</p><p>Summary:</p><p>In a shRNA screen, Rousseaux et al. identify TRIM28 as a regulator of α-synuclein and tau, two proteins involved in neurodegeneration. The authors' data suggests that deceasing levels of TRIM28 decreases levels of these two proteins and their toxicity, and conversely increasing levels has the opposite consequences. The authors go on to further investigate the role of TRIM28 on the intracellular localization of synuclein and tau, potential physical interactions, and potential effects of TRIM28 on the half-lives of these proteins. Overall the manuscript presents interesting and novel data.</p><p>Essential revisions:</p><p>1) In several places the addition of experimental details would greatly enhance the readability of the manuscript. Several places where details would help are listed in individual reviews.</p><p>2) The authors show data that TRIM28 acts on synuclein and tau stabilization. However, there is much literature on other functions of TRIM28 in gene regulation and epigenetic control. Data from experiments described in this manuscript could be consistent with an indirect function of TRIM28 on synuclein and tau. This should be acknowledged and commented on.</p><p>3) The half-life experiment examining TRIM28's effect on synuclein and tau should examine transcript levels of these genes in this experiment (and in experiments utilizing primary neurons or transgenic mouse brains). Since vinculin is used as a control, it's half-life should also be described. Also how do the author's rule out that translational changes (that do not have to do with protein half-life) are not affected by TRIM28.</p><p>4) In terms of determining whether the ligase activity of TRIM28 is necessary for nuclear localization of tau and synuclein the authors examine mutant TRIM28. These results need to be interpreted in light of whether the mutant protein still interacts with tau and synuclein.</p><p>5) Finally, the authors suggest that changes in TRIM28 levels and localization may be a "driving force" in nuclear accumulation of synuclein and tau. However, the reviewers suggest that this data does not suggest causality. Additional important questions regarding this experiments (see Reviewer 2 comments) should be addressed and the conclusions from TRIM28 localization changes in diseased human brain need to be reinterpreted in light of reviewer's comments.</p><p>Reviewer #1:</p><p>In a shRNA screen Rousseaux et al. found that TRIM28 regulate the localization of α-synuclein and tau. Further, the authors demonstrated that TRIM28 regulates the toxicity of these proteins in both the fly eye and mouse brain. Although the manuscript fails to elucidate mechanism, given that α-synuclein and tau are associated with neurodegenerative disorders, these findings are of interest to the neurodegeneration field. However additional data would strengthen the authors' findings. For example, the authors have obtained a conditional allele of Trim 28, what is the effect of complete deletion on the pathology associated with α-synuclein or tau expression. Does deletion of Trim28 have additional actions on the transcriptional profile that could secondarily affect stability of α-synuclein and tau?</p><p>Using a Dox inducible cell line of α-synuclein and tau, the authors suggest that Trim 28 changes the stability of these proteins. Do the transcript levels change with Trim28 changes? What is the effect of Trim28 on endogenous levels of α-synuclein and tau. Is there a change in localization of these proteins in these cells which could explain the difference in protein decay?</p><p>Other points:</p><p>Overall the manuscript would benefit with more description of experiments within the text (this reviewer had to look in legends and in methods often). Examples are given below.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>. What primary neurons were used? Do the dots in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1C</xref> (and other bar graphs) represent individual experiments?</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>. In the right 2 panels is a tau/GFP transgene expressed (versus just tau)? The reference for the tau-transgenic <italic>Drosophila</italic> should be included in the text of the results. In panel B, were an n=15 used for each experiment and were there two experiments performed? What tissue is used in panel C? How much of a "partial" loss of function are the two Trim28 alleles i.e., how much wild type Trim28 remains?</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>. A sentence explaining the α-Syn overexpressing mice and an explanation on why serine 129-phosphorylated α-Syn and hippocampus (instead of SN) was would be helpful for the reader.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>. CA1 thickness was measured and shown to decrease in when Trim28 was overexpressed in α-Syn and tau transgenic mice. Does the neuron number change? Are dying neurons observed?</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>. An explanation of the pINDUCER20 cell lines would be helpful for the reader. What cells were these experiments performed in?</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. The authors perform IP and BiFC to ask whether Trim28 directly binds α-Syn and tau. However, these approaches do not test direct interactions. Do bacterial recombinant proteins interact? Does the C65A/C68A mutant Trim28 still form a complex with α-Syn and tau?</p><p>Reviewer #2:</p><p>The current study by Rousseaux et al. identifies a novel regulator of both α-Synuclein and Tau protein levels, TRIM28. Using a number of in vitro and in vivo models the authors convincingly show that knock-down of TRIM28 is sufficient to reduce α-Synuclein and Tau levels and their associated neurotoxicity. Conversely, overexpression of TRIM28 increases α-Synuclein and Tau half-lives, and accordingly further exacerbates their neurotoxicity in vivo. Overall the authors are commended for very nicely executed, elegant experiments particularly in vitro and in the animal models and this work is of sufficient novelty and interest for a broad audience in the neurodegenerative disease field.</p><p>That being said, we have reservations regarding the interpretation of the patient data presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figures 7</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplements 1</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s2">2</xref>, where the authors conclude that aberrant TRIM28 underlie disease pathologies. Overall, looking at the biochemical data we do not see a clear increase in overall TRIM28 levels under disease conditions. The authors indeed find a statistically significant shift of TRIM28 to the insoluble form in these conditions, but we wonder how TRIM28 could participate in actively bringing α-Synuclein/Tau into the nucleus if it's bound up in aggregates, presumable inactive. By staining (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>), the nuclear localization of TRIM28 in both control and disease patient brain also makes us wonder how TRIM28 would access these cytosolic proteins to bring them into the nucleus. Moreover, when looking at individual human samples in the biochemistry provided in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplement 1</xref>, there is no clear correlation between TRIM28 levels and α-Synuclein/Tau levels; For example, in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplement 1</xref>, Panel C, right, the up/down levels of TRIM28 in the insoluble fraction does not correlate with the increase/decrease of phospho-Tau levels of the same patient. Perhaps in an earlier disease stage the data would make more sense. Overall it seems the human data is not as black-and-white as the more conclusive animal model data presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figures 1</xref>–<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">6</xref> and the manuscript should be modified to make the conclusions more modest.</p><p>Reviewer #3:</p><p>In this manuscript the authors report the results of a focused genetic screen looking for genes that co-regulate levels of tau and synuclein, proteins that contribute to multiple neurodegenerative diseases, and the identification of TRIM28. Decreasing levels of TRIM28 decreases tau and synuclein levels and toxicity, while overexpression has the opposite effect. The focus is on possible direct physical interactions that might mediate localization of tau and synuclein to the nucleus. Overall the findings are interesting and novel.</p><p>1) The authors tested changes in levels of other degeneration-causing proteins and did not see any change. They conclude that TRIM28 is likely to be a key postranslational regulator of tau and synuclein. However, the list of proteins tested is small. There is a rather large literature on TRIM28 and its roles in multiple cellular processes. TRIM28 has also been shown to be a global regulator of many aspects of gene regulation and epigenitic control. I would encourage the authors to consider and comment on these activities and the possibility that effects on tau and synuclein might have an indirect component.</p><p>2) The authors may want to define the term "druggable", as the definition may be different depending on the investigator.</p><p>3) For the fly experiments involving tau overexpression in the eye, it would be useful to know that there are no effects on other GMR promoter-dependent phenotypes. This would act as a stand in for changes in transcriptional regulation. The climbing assay has similar issues in that a specific promoter is being used and TRIM28 is known to have effects on transcriptional regulation.</p><p>4) Next, they moved to mice overexpressing synuclein in dopaminergic neurons. This experiment has a nice control in that there is a GFP included as an IRES element. This figure (<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>) shows that while GFP levels remain constant, synuclein levels decrease. Importantly, the number of TH positive neurons decreases in the presence of synuclein, and this is reversed following RNAi of TRIM28. These observations also are consistent with a direct mode of action, but probably do not exclude indirect modes of action through intermediate proteins. Again, I think the authors should acknowledge this possibility.</p><p>5) Finally, the authors used a TRIM28 heterozygote to look for dose-dependent effects on phosphorylated synuclein. Can they comment on why this assay was used as opposed to that in the above panels? Is this simply more sensitive? Does it reflect a particular pathology? If so, can they provide a reference for this biology?</p><p>6) The authors did a half-life experiment suggesting that TRIM28 expression stabilizes synuclein and tau. It would be important to show that other proteins are not stabilized, and to know what Vinculin's half-life is in order for it to be a useful control. For example, if its half-life is very long, its levels would not change much even if it was being affected. Can the authors rule out effects on translation from existing transcripts? I just point this out because if translation is not inhibited (there is no evidence that cyclohexamide was used to block translation in the half life experiments), there could be effects on protein abundance over time that are translational, and would otherwise be scored as alterations in protein half-life.</p><p>7) The authors asked if TRIM28's ligase activity is required for nuclear localization of tau and synuclein. They did this by expressing a mutant version of TRIM28 that has two cysteine mutations in the ring domain. As these cysteines play a structural role in the ring domain, these mutations could disrupt the overall folding/conformation of this domain. It is important to determine if mutant versions of TRIM28 still interacts with tau and synuclein. This would be an important experiment to distinguish between ligase-dependent mechanisms of regulation versus physical binding and recruitment to the nuclear compartment. If binding is lost it would be difficult to conclude more than that interactions are important.</p><p>8) The authors saw increased levels of TRIM28 in an insoluble fraction in human disease brains and that tau and synuclein were enriched in nuclei. From this they suggested that "The aberrant change in TRIM28 levels and distribution could therefore be a driving force in the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau. " To test this they look for colocalization of TRIM28 in nuclei of disease brains and see significantly more cells that have colocalization of synuclein, tau and TRIM28 than in controls. This result is interesting. But could it just be that TRIM28 becomes trapped in insoluble nuclear complexes with synuclein and tau in disease brains? I am not sure I see a link that is necessarily causal. Can the authors discuss why an increase in number of nuclei with TRIM28, synuclein and tau should be taken to indicate that TRIM28 is driving the process rather than being carried along for the ride as an interacting protein?</p></body></sub-article><sub-article id="SA2" article-type="reply"><front-stub><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7554/eLife.19809.028</article-id><title-group><article-title>Author response</article-title></title-group></front-stub><body><p><italic>Essential revisions:</italic></p><p><italic>1) In several places the addition of experimental details would greatly enhance the readability of the manuscript. Several places where details would help are listed in individual reviews.</italic></p><p>We have expanded on our description of experimental details throughout the manuscript, particularly in the Results section.</p><p>2) The authors show data that TRIM28 acts on synuclein and tau stabilization. However, there is much literature on other functions of TRIM28 in gene regulation and epigenetic control. Data from experiments described in this manuscript could be consistent with an indirect function of TRIM28 on synuclein and tau. This should be acknowledged and commented on.</p><p>We now acknowledge and comment on a putative indirect mechanism in the Discussion section.</p><p><italic>3) The half-life experiment examining TRIM28's effect on synuclein and tau should examine transcript levels of these genes in this experiment (and in experiments utilizing primary neurons or transgenic mouse brains). Since vinculin is used as a control, it's half-life should also be described. Also how do the author's rule out that translational changes (that do not have to do with protein half-life) are not affected by TRIM28.</italic></p><p>We repeated the stability assay and monitored levels of <italic>SNCA</italic> and <italic>MAPT</italic> transcripts (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5s1">Figure 5—figure supplement 1</xref>). We find that TRIM28 overexpression does not alter RNA decay kinetics thus suggesting that TRIM28 acts post-translationally on protein stability. While we did not test the effect of TRIM28 overexpression on <italic>Snca</italic> and <italic>Mapt</italic> in primary neurons, we have looked at their transcripts in mice lacking a copy of Trim28 and do not see any changes in their transcript levels (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3D</xref>, lower panel) suggesting again that TRIM28 acts on the protein levels of α-Syn and tau, not their DNA or RNA. Moreover, we wish to clarify that, since this is a doxycycline-inducible system (and not a cycloheximide assay) we only affect the expression of α-Syn and tau under the control of a doxycycline-inducible element, therefore vinculin levels (and total protein levels for that matter) do not change during the time course.</p><p><italic>4) In terms of determining whether the ligase activity of TRIM28 is necessary for nuclear localization of tau and synuclein the authors examine mutant TRIM28. These results need to be interpreted in light of whether the mutant protein still interacts with tau and synuclein.</italic></p><p>We tested the binding affinity of α-Syn and tau for TRIM28 in the context of this E3-ligase mutant and found that, while TRIM28 E3-ligase mutant was itself less stable (as previously noted in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s1">Figure 6—figure supplement 1</xref>), its binding to α-Syn and tau was not abolished. This suggests that the loss of nuclear localization seen when comparing TRIM28-WT to TRIM28-Mut is at least partly due to a loss of function in addition to this structure disruption. These results are now presented as <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s2">Figure 6—figure supplement 2</xref>.</p><p><italic>5) Finally, the authors suggest that changes in TRIM28 levels and localization may be a "driving force" in nuclear accumulation of synuclein and tau. However, the reviewers suggest that this data does not suggest causality. Additional important questions regarding this experiments (see Reviewer 2 comments) should be addressed and the conclusions from TRIM28 localization changes in diseased human brain need to be reinterpreted in light of reviewer's comments.</italic></p><p>We agree that human data from post mortem tissue rarely suggests causality (as it is just a snapshot of time, little can be definitively concluded) and have thus toned down the interpretation in the Results and Discussion.</p><p><italic>Reviewer #1:</italic></p><p><italic>In a shRNA screen Rousseaux et al. found that TRIM28 regulate the localization of α-synuclein and tau. Further, the authors demonstrated that TRIM28 regulates the toxicity of these proteins in both the fly eye and mouse brain. Although the manuscript fails to elucidate mechanism, given that α-synuclein and tau are associated with neurodegenerative disorders, these findings are of interest to the neurodegeneration field. However additional data would strengthen the authors' findings. For example, the authors have obtained a conditional allele of Trim 28, what is the effect of complete deletion on the pathology associated with α-synuclein or tau expression. Does deletion of Trim28 have additional actions on the transcriptional profile that could secondarily affect stability of α-synuclein and tau?</italic></p><p>We thank the reviewer for their constructive feedback. Given that complete deletion of TRIM28 is embryonic lethal, we employed Trim28 heterozygous mice as a model to genetically control for TRIM28 levels. Although conditional null mice have transcriptional changes (Jakobsson et al., 2008), we suspect that a heterozygous mouse should have much less effects on global transcriptional changes, though we cannot rule this out without performing a large scale profiling experiment on the brain which is beyond the scope of this study.</p><p><italic>Using a Dox inducible cell line of α-synuclein and tau, the authors suggest that Trim 28 changes the stability of these proteins. Do the transcript levels change with Trim28 changes? What is the effect of Trim28 on endogenous levels of α-synuclein and tau. Is there a change in localization of these proteins in these cells which could explain the difference in protein decay?</italic></p><p>As per this reviewer’s suggestion, we examined <italic>SNCA</italic> and <italic>MAPT</italic> transcript levels in the Dox-inducible cell line in response to TRIM28 expression. We found that the RNA decay rates were not altered upon TRIM28 overexpression suggesting that TRIM28 acts post-translationally (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5s1">Figure 5—figure supplement 1</xref>). Moreover, we show that TRIM28 increases the endogenous levels of α-Syn and tau in primary cerebellar granule neurons (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1s3">Figure 1—figure supplement 3C</xref>). We did not test whether the change in localization of these proteins affect protein decay rates but propose that the difference in protein decay may be attributed to nuclear-localized α-Syn or tau escaping their native quality control mechanism(s).</p><p><italic>Other points:</italic></p><p><italic>Overall the manuscript would benefit with more description of experiments within the text (this reviewer had to look in legends and in methods often). Examples are given below.</italic></p><p>We have clarified certain experiments throughout the text. We have answered these point-by-point below.</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref>. What primary neurons were used? Do the dots in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1C</xref> (and other bar graphs) represent individual experiments?</italic></p><p>We used primary cerebellar granule neurons from P7-9 pups. This has been clarified throughout the text and in the Methods section. Each dot in the bar graphs represents an individual experiment (i.e. individual culture or animal).</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>. In the right 2 panels is a tau/GFP transgene expressed (versus just tau)? The reference for the tau-transgenic Drosophila should be included in the text of the results. In panel B, were an n=15 used for each experiment and were there two experiments performed? What tissue is used in panel C? How much of a "partial" loss of function are the two Trim28 alleles i.e., how much wild type Trim28 remains?</italic></p><p>The genotypes for the panels in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2A</xref> are specified in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="SD3-data">Supplementary file 2</xref>, tab “Fly lines”. The allele for <italic>Drosophila</italic> dsTrim28 is under the control of a UAS promoter and is expressed using the Gal4/UAS system. To avoid potential artifacts due to titration of Gal4 we routinely use a neutral UAS (UAS-eGFP), in order to achieve similar expression of tau in both the control (UAS-tau/UAS-GFP) and the experimental (UAS-tau/UAS-dsTrim28).</p><p>These tau <italic>Drosophila</italic> transgenic lines have not been previously published. A detailed description of how we generated them is included in the <italic>Drosophila</italic> Methods under the “Materials and methods” section as a “human wild-type 4 repeat tau under the control of a UAS promoter”.</p><p>The legend for <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> has been modified to include number of experiments and tissue used in panel C (adult <italic>Drosophila</italic> retina expressing tau/GFP or tau/dsTrim28).</p><p>The description of the Trim28 alleles used is in the Methods section. Trim28<sup>LOF-1</sup> is a loss of function allele of bonus because it fails to complement Trim28<sup>LOF-2</sup>, which has already been described as a bonus null allele (Beckstead et al., 2001). These alleles show a 50% reduction in heterozygosis.</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>. A sentence explaining the α-Syn overexpressing mice and an explanation on why serine 129-phosphorylated α-Syn and hippocampus (instead of SN) was would be helpful for the reader.</italic></p><p>We have clarified this in the Results section. Both native and transgenic α-Syn are highly expressed in the hippocampus and its clear phosphorylation in this location is more readily quantifiable (Chesselet et al., 2012).</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>. CA1 thickness was measured and shown to decrease in when Trim28 was overexpressed in α-Syn and tau transgenic mice. Does the neuron number change? Are dying neurons observed?</italic></p><p>We cannot definitively say that there is neuronal loss following Trim28 overexpression as NeuN staining on paraffin sections hasn’t worked nicely in our hands. That said, previous reports suggest that NeuN loss in this mouse model is accompanied by astrocyte accumulation (Dhungel et al., 2015). Given that we observe an increase in astrocytic number in the CA1 (with a concomitant decrease in CA1 thickness), this would be suggestive of cell loss. We have not tested whether neurons themselves are dying as the mechanism through which α-Syn and tau cause the demise of neurons (i.e. apoptosis, autophagy, etc.) in these models is not entirely clear.</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>. An explanation of the pINDUCER20 cell lines would be helpful for the reader. What cells were these experiments performed in?</italic></p><p>We have clarified this in the Results section to explain the system in more detail. SH-SY5Y cells stably expressing the pINDUCER constructs (G418 selected) were used.</p><p><italic><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>. The authors perform IP and BiFC to ask whether Trim28 directly binds α-Syn and tau. However, these approaches do not test direct interactions. Do bacterial recombinant proteins interact? Does the C65A/C68A mutant Trim28 still form a complex with α-Syn and tau?</italic></p><p>We agree that these results suggest that TRIM28 forms a complex with α-Syn and tau but does not mean that they directly interact. While we have had difficulty in purifying recombinant TRIM28 to test the direct interaction, we have now tested the E3-ligase mutant in the context of the immunoprecipitation experiment. We find that, while the C65A/C68A mutant is less stable, it can still form a complex with α-Syn and tau (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s2">Figure 6—figure supplement 2</xref>).</p><p><italic>Reviewer #2:</italic></p><p><italic>et al.α</italic>in vitroin vivo<italic>αα</italic>in vivoin vitro<italic>[…]Overall, looking at the biochemical data we do not see a clear increase in overall TRIM28 levels under disease conditions. The authors indeed find a statistically significant shift of TRIM28 to the insoluble form in these conditions, but we wonder how TRIM28 could participate in actively bringing α-Synuclein/Tau into the nucleus if it's bound up in aggregates, presumable inactive. By staining (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>), the nuclear localization of TRIM28 in both control and disease patient brain also makes us wonder how TRIM28 would access these cytosolic proteins to bring them into the nucleus. Moreover, when looking at individual human samples in the biochemistry provided in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplement 1</xref>, there is no clear correlation between TRIM28 levels and α-Synuclein/Tau levels; For example, in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7s1">Figure 7—figure supplement 1</xref>, Panel C, right, the up/down levels of TRIM28 in the insoluble fraction does not correlate with the increase/decrease of phospho-Tau levels of the same patient. Perhaps in an earlier disease stage the data would make more sense. Overall it seems the human data is not as black-and-white as the more conclusive animal model data presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figures 1</xref>–<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">6</xref> and the manuscript should be modified to make the conclusions more modest.</italic></p><p>We thank the reviewer for their appreciation of this work and its impact. We agree that pathological analysis of human tissue data in the context of TRIM28 can be difficult to interpret and have thus toned down our conclusions to make them more modest (Results and Discussion).</p><p><italic>Reviewer #3:</italic></p><p>[…]</p><p><italic>1) The authors tested changes in levels of other degeneration-causing proteins and did not see any change. They conclude that TRIM28 is likely to be a key postranslational regulator of tau and synuclein. However, the list of proteins tested is small. There is a rather large literature on TRIM28 and its roles in multiple cellular processes. TRIM28 has also been shown to be a global regulator of many aspects of gene regulation and epigenitic control. I would encourage the authors to consider and comment on these activities and the possibility that effects on tau and synuclein might have an indirect component.</italic></p><p>We now comment more on the potential indirect effect of TRIM28 on α-Syn and tau in the Discussion section.</p><p>2) The authors may want to define the term "druggable", as the definition may be different depending on the investigator.</p><p>We have clarified our definition for “druggable” in the first paragraph of the Results section.</p><p><italic>3) For the fly experiments involving tau overexpression in the eye, it would be useful to know that there are no effects on other GMR promoter-dependent phenotypes. This would act as a stand in for changes in transcriptional regulation. The climbing assay has similar issues in that a specific promoter is being used and TRIM28 is known to have effects on transcriptional regulation.</italic></p><p>To address the reviewers concern we have performed qPCR on animals carrying Trim28 LOF alleles used in this study. All the results show that partial knockdown of Trim28 does not decrease the levels of Gal4 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2s2">Figure 2—figure supplement 2</xref>).</p><p><italic>4) Next, they moved to mice overexpressing synuclein in dopaminergic neurons. This experiment has a nice control in that there is a GFP included as an IRES element. This figure (<xref rid="bib3" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>) shows that while GFP levels remain constant, synuclein levels decrease. Importantly, the number of TH positive neurons decreases in the presence of synuclein, and this is reversed following RNAi of TRIM28. These observations also are consistent with a direct mode of action, but probably do not exclude indirect modes of action through intermediate proteins. Again, I think the authors should acknowledge this possibility.</italic></p><p>Please see answer to point #1.</p><p><italic>5) Finally, the authors used a TRIM28 heterozygote to look for dose-dependent effects on phosphorylated synuclein. Can they comment on why this assay was used as opposed to that in the above panels? Is this simply more sensitive? Does it reflect a particular pathology? If so, can they provide a reference for this biology?</italic></p><p>We used this approach as a complementary approach to the dual-virus approach. This animal model recapitulates certain facets of PD that are not seen in the dual virus model such as pathological phosphorylation of α-syn. As such, we wanted to test whether reduction of TRIM28 could not only decrease cell toxicity but also pathological phosphorylation of α-syn. We have now referenced this model in more detail in the Results section as well as in the Materials and methods.</p><p><italic>6) The authors did a half-life experiment suggesting that TRIM28 expression stabilizes synuclein and tau. It would be important to show that other proteins are not stabilized, and to know what Vinculin's half-life is in order for it to be a useful control. For example, if its half-life is very long, its levels would not change much even if it was being affected. Can the authors rule out effects on translation from existing transcripts? I just point this out because if translation is not inhibited (there is no evidence that cyclohexamide was used to block translation in the half life experiments), there could be effects on protein abundance over time that are translational, and would otherwise be scored as alterations in protein half-life.</italic></p><p>We have now tested RNA decay kinetics in the pINDUCER system following TRIM28 overexpression. We find that <italic>SNCA</italic> and <italic>MAPT</italic> RNA decay is unaffected by TRIM28 overexpression status. These data are now presented as <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5s1">Figure 5—figure supplement 1</xref>. In this inducible system, like all the other systems tested, vinculin levels did not change following dox addition or TRIM28 overexpression.</p><p><italic>7) The authors asked if TRIM28's ligase activity is required for nuclear localization of tau and synuclein. They did this by expressing a mutant version of TRIM28 that has two cysteine mutations in the ring domain. As these cysteines play a structural role in the ring domain, these mutations could disrupt the overall folding/conformation of this domain. It is important to determine if mutant versions of TRIM28 still interacts with tau and synuclein. This would be an important experiment to distinguish between ligase-dependent mechanisms of regulation versus physical binding and recruitment to the nuclear compartment. If binding is lost it would be difficult to conclude more than that interactions are important.</italic></p><p>We thank the reviewer for the good suggestion. We have tested the interaction of α-Syn and tau with either wild type TRIM28 or E3 ligase mutant TRIM28. We find that, while the TRIM28 E3 mutant itself is less stable, it can still interact with α-Syn and tau thus suggesting that the nuclear localization is at least partly mediated through its E3 ligase activity (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6s2">Figure 6—figure supplement 2</xref>).</p><p><italic>8) The authors saw increased levels of TRIM28 in an insoluble fraction in human disease brains and that tau and synuclein were enriched in nuclei. From this they suggested that "The aberrant change in TRIM28 levels and distribution could therefore be a driving force in the nuclear accumulation of α-Syn and tau. " To test this they look for colocalization of TRIM28 in nuclei of disease brains and see significantly more cells that have colocalization of synuclein, tau and TRIM28 than in controls. This result is interesting. But could it just be that TRIM28 becomes trapped in insoluble nuclear complexes with synuclein and tau in disease brains? I am not sure I see a link that is necessarily causal. Can the authors discuss why an increase in number of nuclei with TRIM28, synuclein and tau should be taken to indicate that TRIM28 is driving the process rather than being carried along for the ride as an interacting protein?</italic></p><p>We agree that post-mortem data only offers a snapshot of time and cannot suggest causality. Thus, per the suggestions of reviewers #1 and 2, we have toned down our claim that TRIM28 drives the nuclear localization of α-Syn and tau in human disease.</p><p>References:</p><p>Jakobsson, J., Cordero, M.I., Bisaz, R., Groner, A.C., Busskamp, V., Bensadoun, J.C., Cammas, F., Losson, R., Mansuy, I.M., Sandi, C.<italic>, et al.</italic> (2008). KAP1-mediated epigenetic repression in the forebrain modulates behavioral vulnerability to stress. Neuron <italic>60</italic>, 818-831.</p></body></sub-article></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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