Abstract
Protein activities and mechanisms related to aging has become a growing interest nowadays. Since SUMOylation is implicated in several cellular processes, its investigation related to senescence, aging and frailty is of high interest.In our study, wild type mice cortical lysates, synaptosomes and plasma have been processed to evaluate SUMOylation and SUMO machinery expression (Ubc9 and SENP1 enzymes) profile at different ages. In cortical lysates, SUMO-1ylation reached a peak at 6 months followed by a decrease; while in synaptosomes, it progressively increased till 18 months. Regarding SUMO-2/3ylation, it was observed a similar trend in both lysate and synaptosomes where the protein conjugation was the highest at 6 months but interestingly decreased afterwards. In addition, Ubc9 and SENP1 enzymes showed a linear increased expression level in both brain preparations. Since SUMOylation process is ubiquitously expressed, we were interested to identify SUMO conjugation at peripheral level too. Thus, SUMO-1ylation and SUMO-2/3ylation expression level has been detected in mouse plasma that revealed an inverted U-shaped curve trend during mice lifespan. Surprisingly, SENP1 enzyme was not present in the plasma while Ubc9 enzyme reached a plateau at 6 months and was highly expressed till 18 months.In conclusion, our data indicates that SUMOylation is highly correlated with age-related processes which indisputably need to be considered for further investigation.
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