Journal
NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE
Volume 78, Issue -, Pages 57-67Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2015.03.027
Keywords
ARCA1; Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia Type I; Cerebellar granule neuron; Cerebellar mossy fiber; Cerebellum; KASH; KLNes1g; Nesprin; Spinocerebellar ataxia
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Funding
- NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant [S10RR0227552]
- McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology [26275K]
- National Eye Institute [R01EY022632]
- National Eye Institute Center Core Grant [P30EY002687]
- Research to Prevent Blindness
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Nonsense mutations across the whole coding sequence of Syne1/Nesprin1 have been linked to autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia Type I (ARCA1). However, nothing is known about the molecular etiology of this late-onset debilitating pathology. In this work, we report that Nesprin1 giant is specifically expressed in CNS tissues. We also identified a CNS-specific splicing event that leads to the abundant expression of a KASH-LESS variant of Nesprin1 giant (KLNes1g) in the cerebellum. KLNes1g displayed a noncanonical localization at glomeruli of cerebellar mossy fibers whereas Nesprin2 exclusively decorated the nuclear envelope of all cerebellar neurons. In immunogold electron microscopy, KLNes1g colocalized both with synaptic vesicles within mossy fibers and with dendritic membranes of cerebellar granule neurons. We further identified vesicle- and membrane-associated proteins in KLNes1g immunoprecipitates. Together, our results suggest that the loss of function of KLNes1g resulting from Nesprin1 nonsense mutations underlies the molecular etiology of ARCA1. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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