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Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 7, 121-127, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press

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Truncated forms of the androgen receptor are associated with polyglutamine expansion in X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

R Butler, PN Leigh, MJ McPhaul and JM Gallo
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Institute of Psychiatry and King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK.

X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare form of motor neuron degeneration linked to a CAG repeat expansion in the first exon of the androgen receptor gene coding for a polyglutamine tract. In order to investigate the properties of the SBMA androgen receptor in neuronal cells, cDNAs coding for a wild-type (19 CAG repeats) and a SBMA mutant androgen receptor (52 CAG repeats) were transfected into mouse neuroblastoma NB2a/d1 cells. The full length androgen receptor proteins, of 110-112 kDa and 114-116 kDa for the wild-type and mutant protein, respectively, were detected by Western blotting in transfected cells. In addition, the presence of an expanded polyglutamine tract in the SBMA androgen receptor appears to enhance the production of C- terminally truncated fragments of the protein. A 74 kDa fragment was particularly prominent in cells expressing the SBMA androgen receptor. From its size, it can be deduced that the 74 kDa fragment lacks the hormone binding domain but retains the DNA binding domain. The 74 kDa fragment may therefore be toxic to motor neurons by initiating the transcription of specific genes in the absence of hormonal control. Immunofluorescence microscopy on transfected NB2a/d1 cells showed that, after hormone activation, the wild-type androgen receptor translocated to the nucleus whereas the SBMA androgen receptor was mainly localized in the cytoplasm in the form of dense aggregates with very little androgen receptor protein in the nucleus. This could explain the reduction in transcriptional activity of the SBMA mutant as compared with wild-type androgen receptor.
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