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XB-ART-57089
Mol Biol Cell 2020 Jun 15;3113:1324-1345. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E19-08-0443.
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The ABCF gene family facilitates disaggregation during animal development.

Skuodas S , Clemons A , Hayes M , Goll A , Zora B , Weeks DL , Phillips BT , Fassler JS .


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Protein aggregation, once believed to be a harbinger and/or consequence of stress, age, and pathological conditions, is emerging as a novel concept in cellular regulation. Normal versus pathological aggregation may be distinguished by the capacity of cells to regulate the formation, modification, and dissolution of aggregates. We find that Caenorhabditis elegans aggregates are observed in large cells/blastomeres (oocytes, embryos) and in smaller, further differentiated cells (primordial germ cells), and their analysis using cell biological and genetic tools is straightforward. These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that aggregates are involved in normal development. Using cross-platform analysis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, C. elegans, and Xenopus laevis, we present studies identifying a novel disaggregase family encoded by animal genomes and expressed embryonically. Our initial analysis of yeast Arb1/Abcf2 in disaggregation and animal ABCF proteins in embryogenesis is consistent with the possibility that members of the ABCF gene family may encode disaggregases needed for aggregate processing during the earliest stages of animal development.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: abcf1 abcf2 abcf3 htt pes1 sdhd


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