Mechanisms of C9orf72-associated dipeptide toxicity

C9orf72相关二肽毒性机制

基本信息

批准号：
9016727
负责人：
SAMUEL T LAMITINA
金额：
$ 23.1万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2015-08-15 至 2017-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9016727
关键词：
Address Age of Onset Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Arginine Biological Assay Biological Models C9ORF72 Caenorhabditis elegans Candidate Disease Gene Cell Culture Techniques Cells Cerebellar cortex structure Clinical Data Defect Diagnosis Dipeptides Disease Dose Drosophila genus Exhibits Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Frontotemporal Dementia Future Genes Genetic Genetic Screening Glutaminase Health Heterogeneity Homologous Gene Human Impaired cognition Introns Length Link Longevity Mammalian Cell Mediating Modeling Molecular Motor Neurons Mus Mutation Nerve Degeneration Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurons Pathogenesis Pathway interactions Patients Phenotype Play Production Property Proteins RNA RNA Interference Reading Frames Reporting Risk Factors Role Sampling Small Interfering RNA Symptoms System Temporal Lobe Time Tissue Sample Toxic effect Translating Translations Validation cell motility clinically relevant cost disease-causing mutation effective therapy experience fly frontal lobe frontotemporal lobar dementia-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis gain of function genetic approach human tissue insight killings motor neuron function mutant neurotoxic neurotoxicity new therapeutic target novel overexpression prevent protein expression

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hexanucleotide expansions in the C9orf72 gene cause ~50% of all familial ALS cases. The mechanism(s) by which this expansion causes disease are not known. Current hypotheses to explain the disease mechanism include haploinsufficiency and gain-of-function RNA and/or protein toxicity. Despite its presence in an intron, the disease causing expansion is translated into protein in multiple reading frames from both the sense and anti-sense strands to produce five distinct dipeptide proteins. Expression of each of these dipeptides has been specifically detected in ALS patient samples. Several recent studies, as well as our own data, show that the arginine dipeptides exhibit substantial neurotoxicity through unknown mechanisms. Here, we will use genetic screening in C. elegans, followed by validation in Drosophila and mammalian cells, to identify these mechanisms. Our studies will provide significant new insights into the pathways by which dipeptides engages and kill motor neurons and may identify novel risk factors and new therapeutic targets for treating this currently incurable disease

描述（由适用提供）：C9orf72基因中的六核苷酸扩展导致所有农场ALS病例的50％。这种扩张引起疾病的机制尚不清楚。目前的假设来解释疾病机制包括单倍弥补和功能获得的RNA和/或蛋白质毒性。尽管它存在于内含子中，但引起膨胀的疾病仍被转化为从感官和反义链的多个阅读框架中，产生了五种不同的二肽蛋白。在ALS患者样品中已明确检测到这些二肽的每个二肽的表达。最近的一些研究以及我们自己的数据表明，精氨酸二肽通过未知机制暴露了实质性神经毒性。在这里，我们将在秀丽隐杆线虫中使用遗传筛查，然后在果蝇和哺乳动物细胞中进行验证，以识别这些机制。我们的研究将为二肽交战并杀死运动神经元的途径提供重大新见解，并可能确定新的危险因素和新的治疗靶标，以治疗这种目前无法治愈的疾病