RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Parkin knockout inhibits neuronal development via regulation of proteasomal degradation of p21 JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 093294 DO 10.1101/093294 A1 Mi Hee Park A1 Hwa Jeong Lee A1 Hye Lim Lee A1 Dong Ju Son A1 Jung Hoon Ju A1 Byung Kook Hyun A1 Sung Hee Jung A1 Ju-Kyoung Song A1 Dong-Hoon Lee A1 Chul-Ju Hwang A1 Sang Bae Han A1 Sanghyeon Kim A1 Jin Tae Hong YR 2016 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/12/093294.abstract AB PARK2 encodes for the E3 ubiquitin ligase parkin and iimplicates in the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although the neuroprotective role of parkin is well known, the mechanism of parkin’s function in neural stem differentiation is not clear. Co-expressions network analysis showed that SNAP25 and BDNF were positively correlated with parkin, but negatively correlated with p21 in human patient brain. Therefore, we investigated a link between the ubiquitin E3 ligase parkin and proteasomal degradation of p21 for the control of neural stem cell differentiation. We discovered that p21 directly binds with parkin and is ubiquitinated by parkin resulting in the loss of cell differentiation ability. Tranfection of p21 shRNA in PARK2 KO mice significantly rescued the differentiation efficacy as well as SNAP25 and BDNF expression. We also defined the decreased p21 ubiquitination and differentiation ability were reversed after treatment with JNK inhibitor, SP600125 in PARK2 KO mice derived neural stem cells. Thus, the present study indicated that parkin knockout inhibits neural stem cell differentiation by JNK-dependent proteasomal degradation of p21.Summary statement The present study indicated that parkin knockout inhibits neural stem cell differentiation by JNK-dependent proteasomal degradation of p21.