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Toxic gain of function from mutant FUS protein is crucial to trigger cell autonomous motor neuron loss

Scekic-Zahirovic, Jelena, Sendscheid, Oliver, El Oussini, Hajer, Jambeau, Mélanie, Sun, Ying, Mersmann, Sina, Wagner, Marina, Dieterle, Stéphane, Sinniger, Jerome, Dirrig-Grosch, Sylvie, Drenner, Kevin, Birling, Marie‐Christine, Qiu, Jinsong, Zhou, Yu, Li, Hairi, Fu, Xiang‐Dong, Rouaux, Caroline, Shelkovnikova, Tatyana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-5309, Witting, Anke, Ludolph, Albert C., Kiefer, Friedemann, Storkebaum, Erik, Lagier-Tourenne, Clotilde and Dupuis, Luc 2016. Toxic gain of function from mutant FUS protein is crucial to trigger cell autonomous motor neuron loss. EMBO Journal 35 (10) , pp. 1077-1097. 10.15252/embj.201592559

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Abstract

FUS is an RNA‐binding protein involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Cytoplasmic FUS‐containing aggregates are often associated with concomitant loss of nuclear FUS. Whether loss of nuclear FUS function, gain of a cytoplasmic function, or a combination of both lead to neurodegeneration remains elusive. To address this question, we generated knockin mice expressing mislocalized cytoplasmic FUS and complete FUS knockout mice. Both mouse models display similar perinatal lethality with respiratory insufficiency, reduced body weight and length, and largely similar alterations in gene expression and mRNA splicing patterns, indicating that mislocalized FUS results in loss of its normal function. However, FUS knockin mice, but not FUS knockout mice, display reduced motor neuron numbers at birth, associated with enhanced motor neuron apoptosis, which can be rescued by cell‐specific CRE‐mediated expression of wild‐type FUS within motor neurons. Together, our findings indicate that cytoplasmic FUS mislocalization not only leads to nuclear loss of function, but also triggers motor neuron death through a toxic gain of function within motor neurons

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Additional Information: Published under the terms of the CC BY NC ND 4.0 license
Publisher: European Molecular Biology Organization; Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 0261-4189
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 April 2016
Date of Acceptance: 1 February 2016
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 02:50
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88644

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