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Long pre-mRNA depletion and RNA missplicing contribute to neuronal vulnerability from loss of TDP-43

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Polymenidou, Magdalini, Lagier-Tourenne, Clotilde, Hutt, Kasey R, Huelga, Stephanie C, Moran, Jacqueline, Liang, Tiffany Y, Ling, Shuo-Chien, Sun, Eveline +9 more·2011·Nature Neuroscience

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We used cross-linking and immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput sequencing to identify binding sites in 6,304 genes as the brain RNA targets for TDP-43, an RNA binding protein that, when mutated, causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Massively parallel sequencing and splicing-sensitive junction arrays revealed that levels of 601 mRNAs were changed (including Fus (Tls), progranulin and other transcripts encoding neurodegenerative disease-associated proteins) and 965 altered splicing events were detected (including in sortilin, the receptor for progranulin) following depletion of TDP-43 from mouse adult brain with antisense oligonucleotides. RNAs whose levels were most depleted by reduction in TDP-43 were derived from genes with very long introns and that encode proteins involved in synaptic activity. Lastly, we found that TDP-43 autoregulates its synthesis, in part by directly binding and enhancing splicing of an intron in the 3' untranslated region of its own transcript, thereby triggering nonsense-mediated RNA degradation.

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  • Both ALS-associated mutations and changes in wild-type TDP43 expression alter a large programme of alternative exons in mutant mice.

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  • Less than a quarter of affected exons are shared between the transgenic and RNA interference-depletion mouse models of TDP43.

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Polymenidou, M., Lagier-Tourenne, C., Hutt, K. R., Huelga, S. C., Moran, J., Liang, T. Y., Ling, S.-C., Sun, E., Wancewicz, E., Mazur, C., Kordasiewicz, H., Sedaghat, Y., Donohue, J. P., Shiue, L., Bennett, C. F., Yeo, G. W., & Cleveland, D. W.
Affiliations
  • University of California San Diego (US)
  • Ionis Pharmaceuticals (United States) (US)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
Corresponding author
  • Yeo, Gene W
  • Cleveland, Don W
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2011-02-27
Volume
14
Issue
4
Pages
459-468
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W2101042581
Cited by
1,335
References
51
Citations by year
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FWCI
63.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (089701)
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (HG004659, R01HG004659)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM084317, GM084317)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R37 NS 27036, R37NS027036)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA Research and Splicing
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Keywords
TDP-43, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, RNA-binding proteins, RNA splicing, long introns, neuronal vulnerability, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, 3' untranslated region, progranulin, sortilin, FUS, synaptic proteins, antisense oligonucleotides, brain transcriptome, neurodegeneration
MeSH terms
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Animals, DNA-Binding Proteins, Female, Homeostasis, Humans, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Nerve Degeneration, Neurons, RNA Precursors, RNA, Messenger, Oligonucleotides, Antisense, Alternative Splicing, 3' Untranslated Regions, Mice

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