C9orf72 Poly(PR) Mediated Neurodegeneration Is Associated With Nucleolar Stress
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Article
Publication Date
7-28-2023
Abstract
The ALS/FTD-linked intronic hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the C9orf72 gene is aberrantly translated in the sense and antisense directions into dipeptide repeat proteins, among which poly proline-arginine (PR) displays the most aggressive neurotoxicity in-vitro and in-vivo. PR partitions to the nucleus when heterologously expressed in neurons and other cell types. We show that by lessening the nuclear accumulation of PR, we can drastically reduce its neurotoxicity. PR strongly accumulates in the nucleolus, a nuclear structure critical in regulating the cell stress response. We determined that, in neurons, PR caused nucleolar stress and increased levels of the transcription factor p53. Downregulating p53 levels also prevented PR-mediated neurotoxicity both in in-vitro and in-vivo models. We investigated if PR could induce the senescence phenotype in neurons. However, we did not observe any indications of such an effect. Instead, we found evidence for the induction of programmed cell death via caspase-3 activation.
Recommended Citation
Cicardi, M. E.; Hallgren, J. H.; Mawrie, D.; Krishnamurthy, K.; Markandaiah, S. S.; Nelson, A. T.; Kankate, V.; Anderson, E. N.; Pasinelli, P.; Pandey, U. B.; Eischen, C. M.; and Trotti, D., "C9orf72 Poly(PR) Mediated Neurodegeneration Is Associated With Nucleolar Stress" (2023). Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers. Paper 51.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/farberneursofp/51
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English
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This article is the author's final published version in iScience, Volume 26, Issue 9, 15 September 2023, Article number 107505.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107505. Copyright © 2023 The Authors.