The role of hnRNPs in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A Bampton, LM Gittings, P Fratta, T Lashley… - Acta Neuropathologica, 2020 - Springer
Dysregulated RNA metabolism is emerging as a crucially important mechanism
underpinning the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and the clinically …

Synaptic dysfunction in ALS and FTD: anatomical and molecular changes provide insights into mechanisms of disease

PA Gelon, PA Dutchak, CF Sephton - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Synaptic loss is a pathological feature of all neurodegenerative diseases including
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). ALS is a disease of …

TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A

AL Brown, OG Wilkins, MJ Keuss, SE Hill, M Zanovello… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Variants of UNC13A, a critical gene for synapse function, increase the risk of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia,–, two related neurodegenerative diseases …

Antisense oligonucleotide silencing of FUS expression as a therapeutic approach in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

VA Korobeynikov, AK Lyashchenko… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is an RNA-binding protein that is genetically and pathologically
associated with rare and aggressive forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and …

[HTML][HTML] Gene architecture directs splicing outcome in separate nuclear spatial regions

L Tammer, O Hameiri, I Keydar, VR Roy… - Molecular Cell, 2022 - cell.com
How the splicing machinery defines exons or introns as the spliced unit has remained a
puzzle for 30 years. Here, we demonstrate that peripheral and central regions of the nucleus …

Aberrant interaction of FUS with the U1 snRNA provides a molecular mechanism of FUS induced amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

D Jutzi, S Campagne, R Schmidt, S Reber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations in the RNA-binding protein Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) cause early-onset
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, a detailed understanding of central RNA …

G-quadruplexes control hepatitis B virus replication by promoting cccDNA transcription and phase separation in hepatocytes

G Giraud, M Rodà, P Huchon, M Michelet… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phase separation regulates fundamental processes in gene expression and is mediated by
the local concentration of proteins and nucleic acids, as well as nucleic acid secondary …

FUS-ALS mutants alter FMRP phase separation equilibrium and impair protein translation

N Birsa, AM Ule, MG Garone, B Tsang, F Mattedi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
FUsed in Sarcoma (FUS) is a multifunctional RNA binding protein (RBP). FUS mutations
lead to its cytoplasmic mislocalization and cause the neurodegenerative disease …

FUS alters circRNA metabolism in human motor neurons carrying the ALS-linked P525L mutation

A Colantoni, D Capauto, V Alfano, E D'Ambra… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Deregulation of RNA metabolism has emerged as one of the key events leading to the
degeneration of motor neurons (MNs) in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) disease …

Widespread intron retention impairs protein homeostasis in C9orf72 ALS brains

Q Wang, EG Conlon, JL Manley, DC Rio - Genome research, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
The GGGGCC hexanucleotide expansion in C9orf72 (C9) is the most frequent known cause
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), yet a clear …