CPEB can also refer to the family of proteins. There are four proteins in the protein family:
This protein family can be divided into two subfamilies. The groups are separated by their ..specific properties in target/motif recognition, large-order complex co-factors, and dynamic properties and regulation during cell cycle." The first subfamily contains only CPEB1 and the second contains CPEB2 - CPEB4. The general CPE that CPEBs bind to has a canonical UUUUAU sequence, which all four of the proteins can recognize. However, CPEB1 can only recognize CPEs with the canonical sequence, while the second group of CPEB2–4 can also bind to variants of the CPE, known as G-variants due to their sequence difference (UUUUGU). This suggests that CPEB2–4 has other targets that it can hit in addition to CPEB1 targets.
Not all of the regions are the same across the different forms of CPEB. The amino terminus can differ substantially across the proteins. The prion-like isoform of CPEB found in Aplysia californica, Drosophila, mice, and humans is an example of such differentiation. This isoform is prion-like due to the presence of polyglutamine- or polyalanine-rich domains at the N-terminus.
A misstep in the process of translation with CPEB can lead to possible adverse affects on neurological development. Risk genes for autism spectrum disorder were found in brains where "...CPEB4 transcript isoform imbalance due to decreased inclusion of a neuronal-specific microexon together with a new molecular signature of global polyadenine tail shortening..." In idiopathic autism spectrum disorder individuals, CPEB4 is greatly decreased and showed significant splicing alterations. An equivalent isoform imbalance in mice mimics changes of autism spectrum disorder genes, which causes similar neuroanatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral phenotype expression.
Gene regulation of CPEB proteins is also proposed as a target for gene therapy.. Fragile X syndrome and Huntington's disease are two such disorders and diseases where CPEB regulation has been used to attempt recovery of brain function. There is not a cure for either of these afflictions, but translation dysfunction of CPEB proteins can be a cause for either. When modeling fragile X syndrome in mice, CPEB1 gene mutations reduced pathological processes associated with the disorder. A decrease in CPEB1 restored the balance of mRNA translation, which can be achieved by manipulating levels of miRNAs.
Drosophila Orb2 binds to genes implicated in long-term memory. An isoform of CPEB found in the neurons of the sea slug Aplysia californica, as well as in Drosophila, mice, and humans, contains an N-terminal domain not found in other isoforms that shows high sequence similarity to prion proteins. Experiments with the Aplysia isoform expressed in yeast reveal that CPEB has a key property associated with prions: it can cause other proteins to assume alternate protein conformations that are heritable in successive generations of yeast cells. Furthermore, the functional RNA-binding form of the CPEB protein may be the prion-like state. These observations have led to the suggestion that long-lasting bistable prionlike proteins play a role in the formation of long-term memory.
It has been suggested that "both memory storage and its underlying synaptic plasticity are mediated by the increase in. . .CPEB."
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