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Introduction<br />

where <strong>the</strong> proteasome is function<strong>in</strong>g normally (Olzmann et al., 2007; Olzmann<br />

<strong>and</strong> Ch<strong>in</strong>, 2008). Moreover, HDAC6 has been found to be a component <strong>of</strong> Lewy<br />

bodies as well as <strong>of</strong> aggresomes <strong>in</strong>duced by proteasome <strong>in</strong>hibition or ER stress<br />

(Kawaguchi et al., 2003), is required for <strong>the</strong> clearance <strong>of</strong> mutated hunt<strong>in</strong>gt<strong>in</strong><br />

via autophagy (Iwata et al., 2005) <strong>and</strong> could be shown to mediate <strong>the</strong> rescue <strong>of</strong><br />

neurodegeneration by compensatory autophagy (P<strong>and</strong>ey et al., 2007b,a). In ad-<br />

dition to its role <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> transport <strong>of</strong> polyubiquitylated prote<strong>in</strong>s to <strong>the</strong> aggresome,<br />

HDAC6 is also <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> its autophagic clearance by transport<strong>in</strong>g autophago-<br />

somal membranes as well as lysosomes to <strong>the</strong> pericentriolar region, although <strong>the</strong><br />

doma<strong>in</strong> which is responsible for <strong>the</strong> b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se structures rema<strong>in</strong>s uniden-<br />

tified (Iwata et al., 2005). Interest<strong>in</strong>gly, although catalytic activity <strong>of</strong> HDAC6 is<br />

nei<strong>the</strong>r required for <strong>the</strong> assiociation with dyne<strong>in</strong> nor for <strong>the</strong> b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> polyubiq-<br />

uitylated cargo, most studies reveal <strong>the</strong> actual transport <strong>of</strong> cargo to be dependent<br />

on its enzymatic function. Although <strong>the</strong> reasons for this requirement are un-<br />

known, this effect could be attributed to <strong>the</strong> modulation <strong>of</strong> tubul<strong>in</strong> stability or<br />

k<strong>in</strong>es<strong>in</strong>-1 association through its acetylation status (Palazzo et al., 2003; Reed<br />

et al., 2006).<br />

In addition to its role <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> transport <strong>of</strong> polyubiquitylated prote<strong>in</strong>s, HDAC6 is<br />

also <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> controll<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> cellular response to prote<strong>in</strong> aggregates. A re-<br />

cent report has demonstrated HDAC6 to act as a sensor for <strong>the</strong> accumulation <strong>of</strong><br />

polyubiquitylated prote<strong>in</strong>s <strong>and</strong> to mediate <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>duction <strong>of</strong> major cellular chap-<br />

erones by trigger<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> release <strong>of</strong> heat-shock factor 1 (HSF1) from a repressive<br />

HDAC6/HSF1/HSP90 complex (Boyault et al., 2007). Interest<strong>in</strong>gly, this function<br />

<strong>of</strong> HDAC6 is <strong>in</strong>dependent <strong>of</strong> its catalytic activity, although HSP90 has been iden-<br />

tified as a substrate <strong>of</strong> HDAC6-mediated deacetylation. Fur<strong>the</strong>rmore, HDAC6<br />

has been found to be a critical component <strong>of</strong> stress granules, which are dynamic<br />

cytoplasmatic structures <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> reversible translational repression as a re-<br />

sponse to environmental stress (Kwon et al., 2007).<br />

Through deactylation <strong>of</strong> HSP90, HDAC6 is able to modulate its chaperone activ-<br />

ity (Bali et al., 2005) <strong>and</strong> ultimately control activation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> glucocorticoid re-<br />

ceptor (Kovacs et al., 2005; Murphy et al., 2005) <strong>and</strong> growth factor-<strong>in</strong>duced act<strong>in</strong><br />

remodel<strong>in</strong>g as well as endocytosis (Gao et al., 2007). Probably through a com-<br />

b<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>of</strong> HSP90 mediated act<strong>in</strong> remodel<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> deacetylation <strong>of</strong> cortact<strong>in</strong> as<br />

well as α-tubul<strong>in</strong>, HDAC6 is <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> control <strong>of</strong> cell motility (Tran et al.,<br />

2007; Zhang et al., 2007), lymphocyte chemotaxis (Cabrero et al., 2006) <strong>and</strong> for-<br />

mation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> immune synapse (Serrador et al., 2004), although it might fur<strong>the</strong>r<br />

contribute to <strong>the</strong>se processes via deacetylase-<strong>in</strong>dependent scaffold<strong>in</strong>g functions<br />

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