Mechanisms of C9orf72-associated dipeptide toxicity

C9orf72相关二肽毒性机制

基本信息

批准号：
9121638
负责人：
SAMUEL T LAMITINA
金额：
$ 19.25万
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 2018-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9121638
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 screen 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（由申请人提供）：C9orf72 基因中的六核苷酸扩增导致约 50% 的家族性 ALS 病例。目前解释该疾病机制的假设包括单倍体不足和增益。功能失调的RNA和/或蛋白质毒性尽管存在于内含子中，但引起扩增的疾病会从有义链和反义链翻译成多个读码框中的蛋白质，从而产生五种蛋白质。最近的几项研究以及我们自己的数据表明，精氨酸二肽通过未知的机制表现出显着的神经毒性。线虫，然后在果蝇和哺乳动物细胞中进行验证，以确定这些机制，我们的研究将为二肽参与和杀死运动神经元的途径提供重要的新见解，并可能确定新的危险因素和新的治疗靶点。用于治疗这种目前无法治愈的疾病