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Journal Article
Niemann-Pick disease type C1 is a sphingosine storage disease that causes deregulation of lysosomal calcium
2008
Overview
Niemann-Pick type C1 is a lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in the
NPC1
gene. The authors show that NPC1 regulates calcium levels in the lysosome, and calcium dysregulation could be the proximal event in inducing the accumulation of lipids that characterizes the disease.
Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1) disease is a neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the acidic compartment (which we define as the late endosome and the lysosome) protein, NPC1. The function of NPC1 is unknown, but when it is dysfunctional, sphingosine, glycosphingolipids, sphingomyelin and cholesterol accumulate. We have found that NPC1-mutant cells have a large reduction in the acidic compartment calcium store compared to wild-type cells. Chelating luminal endocytic calcium in normal cells with high-affinity Rhod-dextran induced an NPC disease cellular phenotype. In a drug-induced NPC disease cellular model, sphingosine storage in the acidic compartment led to calcium depletion in these organelles, which then resulted in cholesterol, sphingomyelin and glycosphingolipid storage in these compartments. Sphingosine storage is therefore an initiating factor in NPC1 disease pathogenesis that causes altered calcium homeostasis, leading to the secondary storage of sphingolipids and cholesterol. This unique calcium phenotype represents a new target for therapeutic intervention, as elevation of cytosolic calcium with curcumin normalized NPC1 disease cellular phenotypes and prolonged survival of the NPC1 mouse.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group US,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ Animals
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Calcium
/ Calcium metabolism disorders
/ Carrier Proteins - metabolism
/ Glycosphingolipids - metabolism
/ Humans
/ Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
/ Membrane Glycoproteins - genetics
/ Membrane Glycoproteins - metabolism
/ Mice
/ Mutation
/ Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C - classification
/ Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C - drug therapy
/ Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C - genetics
