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Evaluation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 gene variants in Alzheimer's disease.

ABSTRACT: Amyloid peptide is thought to play a critical role in neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease (AD), most likely through oxidative stress. Free radical-related injury leads to DNA breaks, which subsequently activates the repair enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1). In this study, the relationship between genetic variants situated at the PARP-1 gene and AD development was investigated. We performed a case and control study from a Taiwanese population enrolled 120 AD patients and 111 healthy controls by using a polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism approach for two PARP-1 exonic polymorphisms, 414C/T (rs1805404) and 2456T/C (rs1136410), corresponding to protein residues at positions 81Asp/Asp and 762Val/Ala. There were no significant differences in allele or genotype frequencies for either PARP-1 gene variant between the case and control groups; however, upon analysis of the haplotype distribution, four haplotypes (Hts) were identified. We found that the distributions of Ht3-TT and Ht4-CC were significantly associated with an increased risk of AD (P<0.0001), whereas the Ht1-TC haplotype showed a protective effect for cases compared with the control group (P<0.05). These results reveal that the PARP-1 gene is highly associated with AD susceptibility and might contribute to a critical mechanism that mediates cell survival or death as a response to cytotoxic stress.

SUBMITTER: Liu HP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647671 | biostudies-literature | 2010 00

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evaluation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 gene variants in Alzheimer's disease.

Liu Hsin-Ping HP Lin Wei-Yong WY Wu Bor-Tsang BT Liu Shu-Hsiang SH Wang Wen-Fu WF Tsai Chon-Haw CH Lee Chun-Cheng CC Tsai Fuu-Jen FJ

Journal of clinical laboratory analysis 20100101 3

Amyloid peptide is thought to play a critical role in neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease (AD), most likely through oxidative stress. Free radical-related injury leads to DNA breaks, which subsequently activates the repair enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1). In this study, the relationship between genetic variants situated at the PARP-1 gene and AD development was investigated. We performed a case and control study from a Taiwanese population enrolled 120 AD patients and 111 healthy ...[more]

PMID: 20486200

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Project description:The poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) superfamily was originally identified as enzymes that catalyze the attachment of ADP-ribose subunits to target proteins using NAD+ as a substrate. The family is characterized by the catalytic site, termed the PARP signature. While these proteins can be found in a range of eukaryotes, they have been best studied in mammals. In these organisms, PARPs have key functions in DNA repair, genome integrity and epigenetic regulation. More recently it has been found that proteins within the PARP superfamily have altered catalytic sites, and have mono(ADP-ribose) transferase (mART) activity or are enzymatically inactive. These findings suggest that the PARP signature has a broader range of functions that initially predicted. In this study, we investigate the evolutionary history of PARP genes across the eukaryotes.We identified in silico 236 PARP proteins from 77 species across five of the six eukaryotic supergroups. We performed extensive phylogenetic analyses of the identified PARPs. They are found in all eukaryotic supergroups for which sequence is available, but some individual lineages within supergroups have independently lost these genes. The PARP superfamily can be subdivided into six clades. Two of these clades were likely found in the last common eukaryotic ancestor. In addition, we have identified PARPs in organisms in which they have not previously been described.Three main conclusions can be drawn from our study. First, the broad distribution and pattern of representation of PARP genes indicates that the ancestor of all extant eukaryotes encoded proteins of this type. Second, the ancestral PARP proteins had different functions and activities. One of these proteins was similar to human PARP1 and likely functioned in DNA damage response. The second of the ancestral PARPs had already evolved differences in its catalytic domain that suggest that these proteins may not have possessed poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation activity. Third, the diversity of the PARP superfamily is larger than previously documented, suggesting as more eukaryotic genomes become available, this gene family will grow in both number and type.

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Evaluation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 gene variants in Alzheimer's disease.

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Evaluation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 gene variants in Alzheimer's disease.

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