期刊
BRAIN
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 1320-1333出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awy062
关键词
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; TDP-43; hnRNP A1; alternative splicing; protein aggregation
资金
- NSERC
- ALS Society of Canada-Brain Canada Arthur J. Hudson Translational Team grant
- CIHR [MOP-136948]
- Universitede Montreal Faculty of Medicine
- A*MIDEX [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology and Space [53140]
- Legacy Heritage Science Initiative (LHSI) of The Israel Science Foundation [817/13]
- Howard and Diana Wendy pre-doctoral fellowship
The RNA binding proteins TDP-43 (encoded by TARDBP) and hnRNP A1 (HNRNPA1) are each mutated in certain amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases and are often mislocalized in cytoplasmic aggregates within motor neurons of affected patients. Cytoplasmic inclusions of TDP-43, which are accompanied by a depletion of nuclear TDP-43, are observed in most amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases and nearly half of frontotemporal dementia cases. Here, we report that TDP-43 binds HNRNPA1 pre-mRNA and modulates its splicing, and that depletion of nuclear TDP-43 results in increased inclusion of a cassette exon in the HNRNPA1 transcript, and consequently elevated protein levels of an isoform containing an elongated prion-like domain, referred to as hnRNP A1B. Combined in vivo and in vitro approaches demonstrated greater fibrillization propensity for hnRNP A1B, which drives protein aggregation and is toxic to cells. Moreover, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients with documented TDP-43 pathology showed neuronal hnRNP A1B cytoplasmic accumulation, indicating that TDP-43 mislocalization may contribute to neuronal vulnerability and loss via altered HNRNPA1 pre-mRNA splicing and function. Given that TDP-43 and hnRNP A1 each bind, and thus modulate, a third of the transcriptome, our data suggest a much broader disruption in RNA metabolism than previously considered.
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