Ethnic Variation and Structure-Function Analysis of Tauopathy-Associated <i>PERK</i> Alleles
- Authors
- Park, Goonho; Galdamez, Angela; Song, Keon-Hyoung; Le, Masako; Kim, Kyle; Lin, Jonathan H.
- Issue Date
- May-2024
- Publisher
- WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
- Keywords
- tauopathy; ER stress; EIF2AK3; PERK Haplotype B; PERK R240H variant
- Citation
- ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
- Journal Title
- ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/26412
- DOI
- 10.1002/ijch.202300173
- ISSN
- 0021-2148
1869-5868
- Abstract
- EIF2AK3, also known as PERK, plays a pivotal role in cellular proteostasis, orchestrating the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) and Integrated Stress Response (ISR) pathways. In addition to its central position in intracellular stress regulation, human GWAS identify EIF2AK3 as a risk factor in tauopathies, neurodegenerative diseases caused by aberrant tau protein accumulation. Guided by these genomic indicators, our investigation systematically analyzed human PERK variants, focusing on those with potential tauopathy linkages. We assembled a comprehensive data set of human PERK variants associated with Wolcott Rallison Syndrome (WRS), tauopathies, and bioinformatically predicted loss-of-function, referencing the gnomAD, Ensembl, and NCBI databases. We found extensive racial/ethnic variation in the prevalence of common PERK polymorphisms linked to tauopathies. Using SWISS-MODEL, we identified structural perturbations in the ER stress-sensing luminal domain dimers/oligomers of tauopathy-associated PERK variants, Haplotypes A and B, in combination with another tauopathy-linked R240H mutation. Recombinant expression of disease-associated variants in vitro revealed altered PERK signal transduction kinetics in response to ER stress compared to the predominant non-disease variant. In summary, our data further substantiates that human PERK variants identified in tauopathy genetic studies negatively impact PERK structure, function, and downstream signaling with significant variations in prevalence among different racial and ethnic groups. image
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