Stress granules and neurodegeneration

B Wolozin, P Ivanov - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances suggest that the response of RNA metabolism to stress has an important
role in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly amyotrophic lateral …

ALS genetics: gains, losses, and implications for future therapies

G Kim, O Gautier, E Tassoni-Tsuchida, XR Ma… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by the loss
of motor neurons from the brain and spinal cord. The ALS community has made remarkable …

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 …

TDP-43 represses cryptic exon inclusion in the FTD–ALS gene UNC13A

XR Ma, M Prudencio, Y Koike, SC Vatsavayai, G Kim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark pathological feature of the neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is the depletion of RNA-binding protein …

The role of TDP-43 mislocalization in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TR Suk, MWC Rousseaux - Molecular neurodegeneration, 2020 - Springer
Since its discovery as a primary component in cytoplasmic aggregates in post-mortem tissue
of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), TAR DNA Binding Protein 43 kDa (TDP …

HSP70 chaperones RNA-free TDP-43 into anisotropic intranuclear liquid spherical shells

H Yu, S Lu, K Gasior, D Singh, S Vazquez-Sanchez… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Aggregation of the RNA binding protein TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein
43) is a common pathological hallmark shared by several age-related neurodegenerative …

Integrative transcriptomic analysis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord implicates glial activation and suggests new risk genes

J Humphrey, S Venkatesh, R Hasan, JT Herb… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively fatal neurodegenerative disease
affecting motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. In this study, we investigated gene …

TDP-43 proteinopathies: a new wave of neurodegenerative diseases

EMJ De Boer, VK Orie, T Williams, MR Baker… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Inclusions of pathogenic deposits containing TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) are
evident in the brain and spinal cord of patients that present across a spectrum of …

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics in patients with Alzheimer's disease reveals five molecular subtypes with distinct genetic risk profiles

BM Tijms, EM Vromen, O Mjaavatten, H Holstege… - Nature aging, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is heterogenous at the molecular level. Understanding this
heterogeneity is critical for AD drug development. Here we define AD molecular subtypes …

Mis-spliced transcripts generate de novo proteins in TDP-43–related ALS/FTD

S Seddighi, YA Qi, AL Brown, OG Wilkins… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Functional loss of TDP-43, an RNA binding protein genetically and pathologically linked to
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), leads to the …