Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22105292
Keywords
neurodegenerative disease; RNA-binding protein; microRNA
Funding
- Naito Science & Engineering Foundation
- Research Fund of Teikyo University
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With the increasing number of older adults, there is a rising number of patients with neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), posing a potential medical and social crisis. NDs encompass a wide range of diseases, with dysfunction of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) and miRNAs playing important roles in these disorders.
The number of patients with neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) is increasing, along with the growing number of older adults. This escalation threatens to create a medical and social crisis. NDs include a large spectrum of heterogeneous and multifactorial pathologies, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and multiple system atrophy, and the formation of inclusion bodies resulting from protein misfolding and aggregation is a hallmark of these disorders. The proteinaceous components of the pathological inclusions include several RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), which play important roles in splicing, stability, transcription and translation. In addition, RBPs were shown to play a critical role in regulating miRNA biogenesis and metabolism. The dysfunction of both RBPs and miRNAs is often observed in several NDs. Thus, the data about the interplay among RBPs and miRNAs and their cooperation in brain functions would be important to know for better understanding NDs and the development of effective therapeutics. In this review, we focused on the connection between miRNAs, RBPs and neurodegenerative diseases.
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