Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

EL Feldman, SA Goutman, S Petri, L Mazzini… - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal CNS neurodegenerative disease. Despite intensive
research, current management of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis remains suboptimal from …

Emerging insights into the complex genetics and pathophysiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SA Goutman, O Hardiman, A Al-Chalabi… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. The discovery of genes
associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commencing with SOD1 in 1993, started fairly …

Genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: seeking therapeutic targets in the era of gene therapy

N Suzuki, A Nishiyama, H Warita, M Aoki - Journal of human genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an intractable disease that causes respiratory failure
leading to mortality. The main locus of ALS is motor neurons. The success of antisense …

Nuclear pore complexes—a doorway to neural injury in neurodegeneration

AN Coyne, JD Rothstein - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
The genetic underpinnings and end-stage pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative
diseases are increasingly well defined, but the cellular pathophysiology of disease initiation …

Nucleocytoplasmic mRNA redistribution accompanies RNA binding protein mislocalization in ALS motor neurons and is restored by VCP ATPase inhibition

OJ Ziff, J Harley, Y Wang, J Neeves, G Tyzack… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by nucleocytoplasmic mislocalization of
the RNA-binding protein (RBP) TDP-43. However, emerging evidence suggests more …

The nuclear pore complex: birth, life, and death of a cellular behemoth

E Dultz, M Wojtynek, O Medalia, E Onischenko - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are the only transport channels that cross the nuclear
envelope. Constructed from~ 500–1000 nucleoporin proteins each, they are among the …

[HTML][HTML] NUP62 localizes to ALS/FTLD pathological assemblies and contributes to TDP-43 insolubility

AM Gleixner, BM Verdone, CG Otte… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract A G4C2 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene is the most common
genetic cause of ALS and FTLD (C9-ALS/FTLD) with cytoplasmic TDP-43 inclusions …

SUN1 facilitates CHMP7 nuclear influx and injury cascades in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

V Baskerville, S Rapuri, E Mehlhop, AN Coyne - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We have recently identified the aberrant nuclear accumulation of the ESCRT-III protein
CHMP7 as an initiating event that leads to a significant injury to the nuclear pore complex …

Integrative genetic analysis illuminates ALS heritability and identifies risk genes

S Megat, N Mora, J Sanogo, O Roman… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has substantial heritability, in part shared with fronto-
temporal dementia (FTD). We show that ALS heritability is enriched in splicing variants and …

Nuclear import receptors are recruited by FG-nucleoporins to rescue hallmarks of TDP-43 proteinopathy

B Khalil, D Chhangani, MC Wren, CL Smith… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background Cytoplasmic mislocalization and aggregation of TAR DNA-binding protein-43
(TDP-43) is a hallmark of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia …