期刊
ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA
卷 144, 期 3, 页码 465-488出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-022-02471-y
关键词
C9orf72; ALS; RNA toxicity; HNRNPK; RRM2; DNA damage
资金
- VIB, the University of Leuven [C14-17-107]
- Opening the Future' fund
- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) [G0C1620N]
- ALS Association (ALSA)
- Thierry Latran Foundation
- Association Belge contre les Maladies neuro-Musculairesaide a la recherche ASBL (ABMM)
- Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)
- ALS Liga Belgie (A Cure for ALS)
- Target ALS
- FWO-Vlaanderen [1145621N, 1S46219N, 11A2321N, 12Y9120N]
- E. von Behring Chair for Neuromuscular Disorders
- KU Leuven ALS fund `Een hart voor ALS'
- Anne Rowling-DRI fellowship
- UK DRI Ltd
- MRC
- Alzheimer's Society
- Medical Research Council (MRC)
- Motor Neurone Disease Association [MR/R001162/1]
- Rowling Scholars scheme
- FWO-Odysseus grant [G0F8516N]
- Alzheimer's Research UK
This study demonstrates the important roles of HNRNPK and RRM2 in C9orf72 ALS, revealing the link between RNA toxicity mechanism and aberrant DNA damage response. It provides new avenues for the treatment of C9orf72 ALS/FTD.
A 'GGGGCC' repeat expansion in the first intron of the C9orf72 gene is the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The exact mechanism resulting in these neurodegenerative diseases remains elusive, but C9 repeat RNA toxicity has been implicated as a gain-of-function mechanism. Our aim was to use a zebrafish model for C9orf72 RNA toxicity to identify modifiers of the ALS-linked phenotype. We discovered that the RNA-binding protein heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (HNRNPK) reverses the toxicity of both sense and antisense repeat RNA, which is dependent on its subcellular localization and RNA recognition, and not on C9orf72 repeat RNA binding. We observed HNRNPK cytoplasmic mislocalization in C9orf72 ALS patient fibroblasts, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived motor neurons and post-mortem motor cortex and spinal cord, in line with a disrupted HNRNPK function in C9orf72 ALS. In C9orf72 ALS/FTD patient tissue, we discovered an increased nuclear translocation, but reduced expression of ribonucleotide reductase regulatory subunit M2 (RRM2), a downstream target of HNRNPK involved in the DNA damage response. Last but not least, we showed that increasing the expression of HNRNPK or RRM2 was sufficient to mitigate DNA damage in our C9orf72 RNA toxicity zebrafish model. Overall, our study strengthens the relevance of RNA toxicity as a pathogenic mechanism in C9orf72 ALS and demonstrates its link with an aberrant DNA damage response, opening novel therapeutic avenues for C9orf72 ALS/FTD.
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