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Ribosome inhibition by C9ORF72-ALS/FTD-associated poly-PR and poly-GR proteins revealed by cryo-EM

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30418-0

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  1. Dan and Diane Riccio Fund for Neuroscience
  2. NIH [R01NS101986, R37NS057553, R01GM107465, R35GM127094]

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This study reveals the structural mechanism of how poly-GR and poly-PR inhibit translation and may perturb ribosome assembly.
Toxic dipeptide-repeat (DPR) proteins are produced from expanded G(4)C(2) repeats in the C9ORF72 gene, the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Two DPR proteins, poly-PR and poly-GR, repress cellular translation but the molecular mechanism remains unknown. Here we show that poly-PR and poly-GR of >= 20 repeats inhibit the ribosome's peptidyl-transferase activity at nanomolar concentrations, comparable to specific translation inhibitors. High-resolution cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reveals that poly-PR and poly-GR block the polypeptide tunnel of the ribosome, extending into the peptidyl-transferase center (PTC). Consistent with these findings, the macrolide erythromycin, which binds in the tunnel, competes with poly-PR and restores peptidyl-transferase activity. Our results demonstrate that strong and specific binding of poly-PR and poly-GR in the ribosomal tunnel blocks translation, revealing the structural basis of their toxicity in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD. The expansion of GGGGCC repeats in the C9ORF72 gene results in the production of disease causing abnormal proteins with polymeric glycine-arginine (poly-GR) and polymeric glycine-proline (poly-PR). Here the authors demonstrate a structural mechanism of how poly-GR and poly-PR inhibit translation and how they might also perturb ribosome assembly.

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