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Ligand promotes intranuclear inclusions in a novel cell model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy.

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, Kennedy's disease) is one of a group of progressive neurodegenerative diseases resulting from a polyglutamine repeat expansion. In SBMA the polymorphic trinucleotide CAG repeat in exon 1 of the androgen receptor (AR) gene is increased, resulting in expansion of a polyglutamine tract. Patient autopsy material reveals neuronal intranuclear inclusions (NII) in affected regions that contain only amino-terminal epitopes of the AR. Cell models have previously been unable to produce intranuclear inclusions containing only a portion of the AR. We report here the creation of an inducible cell model of SBMA that reproduces this important characteristic of disease pathology. PC12 cells expressing highly expanded AR form ubiquitinated intranuclear inclusions containing amino-terminal epitopes of the AR as well as heat shock proteins. Inclusions appear as distinct granular electron-dense structures in the nucleus by immunoelectron microscopy. Dihydrotestosterone treatment of mutant AR-expressing cells results in increased inclusion load. This model mimics the formation of ubiquitinated intranuclear inclusions containing the amino-terminal portion of AR observed in patient tissue and reveals a role for ligand in the pathogenesis of SBMA.

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