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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 45, Issue 13, Pages 8026-8045Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx477
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- Thierry Latran Fondation (REHNPALS)
- EU Joint Programme-Neurodegenerative Diseases JPND (RiMod-FTD, Italy, Ministero della Sanita'/MIUR)
- SCREENCELLS4ALS, Ministero Affari Esteri, MAE, Italy
- ARISLA (CHRONOS)
- JPND (RIMOD-FTD)
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Nuclear factor TDP-43 is known to play an important role in several neurodegenerative pathologies. In general, TDP-43 is an abundant protein within the eukaryotic nucleus that binds to many coding and non-coding RNAs and influence their processing. Using Drosophila, we have performed a functional screening to establish the ability of major hnRNP proteins to affect TDP-43 overexpression/depletion phenotypes. Interestingly, we observed that lowering hnRNP and TDP-43 expression has a generally harmful effect on flies locomotor abilities. In parallel, our study has also identified a distinct set of hnRNPs that is capable of powerfully rescuing TDP-43 toxicity in the fly eye (Hrb27c, CG42458, Glo and Syp). Most importantly, removing the human orthologs of Hrb27c (DAZAP1) in human neuronal cell lines can correct several pre-mRNA splicing events altered by TDP-43 depletion. Moreover, using RNA sequencing analysis we show that DAZAP1 and TDP-43 can co-regulate an extensive number of biological processes and molecular functions potentially important for the neuron/motor neuron pathophysiology. Our results suggest that changes in hnRNP expression levels can significantly modulate TDP-43 functions and affect pathological outcomes.
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