期刊
EMBO MOLECULAR MEDICINE
卷 3, 期 1, 页码 35-49出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201000109
关键词
anti-aggregation drug; Drosophila model; muscular dystrophy; PABPN1; ribosomal RNA
资金
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique [UPR1142]
- GIS 'Maladies Rares' [35]
- ANR-Maladies Rares [ANR-06-MRAR-035-01]
- ANR Genopat [ANR-09-GENO-025-01]
- FRM
- European Commission [TRI-EX QLG2-CT-2001-01673, PolyALA LSHM-CT-2005-018675]
- ANR Blanche [ANR-06-BLAN-0056-01]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [SFB 610]
- Association Francaise contre les Myopathies
- INSERM
- Graduiertenkolleg [GRK1026]
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is an adult-onset syndrome characterized by progressive degeneration of specific muscles. OPMD is caused by extension of a polyalanine tract in poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1). Insoluble nuclear inclusions form in diseased muscles. We have generated a Drosophila model of OPMD that recapitulates the features of the disorder. Here, we show that the antiprion drugs 6-aminophenanthridine (6AP) and guanabenz acetate (GA), which prevent formation of amyloid fibers by prion proteins in cell models, alleviate OPMD phenotypes in Drosophila, including muscle degeneration and nuclear inclusion formation. The large ribosomal RNA and its activity in protein folding were recently identified as a specific cellular target of 6AP and GA. We show that deletions of the ribosomal DNA locus reduce OPMD phenotypes and act synergistically with sub-effective doses of 6AP. In a complementary approach, we demonstrate that ribosomal RNA accelerates in vitro fibril formation of PABPN1 N-terminal domain. These results reveal the conserved role of ribosomal RNA in different protein aggregation disorders and identify 6AP and GA as general anti-aggregation molecules.
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