RNA binding proteins and the pathological cascade in ALS/FTD neurodegeneration

TIA1 Mutations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Promote Phase Separation and Alter Stress Granule Dynamics

(2017) Ian R. Mackenzie et al.   NEURON

Disturbance of proteasomal and autophagic protein degradation pathways by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutations in ubiquilin 2

(2016) Mayuko Osaka et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Mislocated FUS is sufficient for gain-of-toxic-function amyotrophic lateral sclerosis phenotypes in mice

(2016) Gen Shiihashi et al.   BRAIN

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

(2016) Jelena Scekic‐Zahirovic et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

C9ORF72 Regulates Stress Granule Formation and Its Deficiency Impairs Stress Granule Assembly, Hypersensitizing Cells to Stress

(2016) Niran Maharjan et al.   MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

C9ORF72 poly(GA) aggregates sequester and impair HR23 and nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins

(2016) Yong-Jie Zhang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

C9orf72 BAC Mouse Model with Motor Deficits and Neurodegenerative Features of ALS/FTD

(2016) Yuanjing Liu et al.   NEURON

C9orf72 is required for proper macrophage and microglial function in mice

(2016) J. G. ORourke et al.   SCIENCE

C9orf72 Hexanucleotide Expansions Are Associated with Altered Endoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Homeostasis and Stress Granule Formation in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons from Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Demen

(2016) Ruxandra Dafinca et al.   STEM CELLS

ALS-associated mutant FUS induces selective motor neuron degeneration through toxic gain of function

(2016) Aarti Sharma et al.   Nature Communications

CCNF mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

(2016) Kelly L. Williams et al.   Nature Communications

ALS-Causing Mutations Significantly Perturb the Self-Assembly and Interaction with Nucleic Acid of the Intrinsically Disordered Prion-Like Domain of TDP-43

(2016) Liangzhong Lim et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A C9ORF72/SMCR8-containing complex regulates ULK1 and plays a dual role in autophagy

(2016) M. Yang et al.   Science Advances

C9orf72 ablation in mice does not cause motor neuron degeneration or motor deficits

(2015) Max Koppers et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Mutations in the ubiquitin-binding domain of OPTN/optineurin interfere with autophagy-mediated degradation of misfolded proteins by a dominant-negative mechanism

(2015) Wen-Chuan Shen et al.   Autophagy

Phase Separation by Low Complexity Domains Promotes Stress Granule Assembly and Drives Pathological Fibrillization

(2015) Amandine Molliex et al.   CELL

A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation

(2015) Avinash Patel et al.   CELL

TDP-43 is intercellularly transmitted across axon terminals

(2015) Marisa S. Feiler et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Development of Passive Immunotherapies for Synucleinopathies

(2015) Ann-Louise Bergström et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

The C9orf72 repeat expansion disrupts nucleocytoplasmic transport

(2015) Ke Zhang et al.   NATURE

GGGGCC repeat expansion in C9orf72 compromises nucleocytoplasmic transport

(2015) Brian D. Freibaum et al.   NATURE

Haploinsufficiency of TBK1 causes familial ALS and fronto-temporal dementia

(2015) Axel Freischmidt et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Modifiers of C9orf72 dipeptide repeat toxicity connect nucleocytoplasmic transport defects to FTD/ALS

(2015) Ana Jovičić et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

ALS/FTD Mutation-Induced Phase Transition of FUS Liquid Droplets and Reversible Hydrogels into Irreversible Hydrogels Impairs RNP Granule Function

(2015) Tetsuro Murakami et al.   NEURON

Defective Proteasome Delivery of Polyubiquitinated Proteins by Ubiquilin-2 Proteins Containing ALS Mutations

(2015) Lydia Chang et al.   PLoS One

Cytoplasmic protein aggregates interfere with nucleocytoplasmic transport of protein and RNA

(2015) A. C. Woerner et al.   SCIENCE

C9ORF72 repeat expansions in mice cause TDP-43 pathology, neuronal loss, and behavioral deficits

(2015) J. Chew et al.   SCIENCE

TDP-43 repression of nonconserved cryptic exons is compromised in ALS-FTD

(2015) J. P. Ling et al.   SCIENCE

Exome sequencing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identifies risk genes and pathways

(2015) E. T. Cirulli et al.   SCIENCE

Tau immunotherapy for Alzheimer's disease

(2015) Jan Torleif Pedersen et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

FUS regulates AMPA receptor function and FTLD/ALS-associated behaviour via GluA1 mRNA stabilization

(2015) Tsuyoshi Udagawa et al.   Nature Communications

Dipeptide repeat protein inclusions are rare in the spinal cord and almost absent from motor neurons in C9ORF72 mutant amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and are unlikely to cause their degeneration

(2015) Jorge Gomez-Deza et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

FUS/TLS deficiency causes behavioral and pathological abnormalities distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2015) Yoshihiro Kino et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Aggregation-prone c9FTD/ALS poly(GA) RAN-translated proteins cause neurotoxicity by inducing ER stress

(2014) Yong-Jie Zhang et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

TDP-43 pathology and neuronal loss in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord

(2014) Johannes Brettschneider et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Phenotype of matrin-3-related distal myopathy in 16 German patients

(2014) Tobias J. Müller et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Neuronal uptake of tau/pS422 antibody and reduced progression of tau pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer‘s disease

(2014) Ludovic Collin et al.   BRAIN

Evidence of a link between ubiquilin 2 and optineurin in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2014) Mayuko Osaka et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

C9ORF72, implicated in amytrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, regulates endosomal trafficking

(2014) Manal A. Farg et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Characterization of the dipeptide repeat protein in the molecular pathogenesis of c9FTD/ALS

(2014) Mai Yamakawa et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Profilin 1 Associates with Stress Granules and ALS-Linked Mutations Alter Stress Granule Dynamics

(2014) M. D. Figley et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

ALS-Linked Mutations Enlarge TDP-43-Enriched Neuronal RNA Granules in the Dendritic Arbor

(2014) L. Liu-Yesucevitz et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mutations in the Matrin 3 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2014) Janel O Johnson et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

An ALS-associated mutation in the FUS 3′-UTR disrupts a microRNA–FUS regulatory circuitry

(2014) Stefano Dini Modigliani et al.   Nature Communications

Dipeptide repeat protein pathology in C9ORF72 mutation cases: clinico-pathological correlations

(2013) Ian R. Mackenzie et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Mutations in SQSTM1 encoding p62 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: genetics and neuropathology

(2013) Elisa Teyssou et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Stages of pTDP-43 pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2013) Johannes Brettschneider et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Eukaryotic Stress Granules Are Cleared by Autophagy and Cdc48/VCP Function

(2013) J. Ross Buchan et al.   CELL

Mutations in the 3′ untranslated region of FUS causing FUS overexpression are associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2013) Mario Sabatelli et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Antibody Uptake into Neurons Occurs Primarily via Clathrin-dependent Fcγ Receptor Endocytosis and Is a Prerequisite for Acute Tau Protein Clearance

(2013) Erin E. Congdon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Stress granules as crucibles of ALS pathogenesis

(2013) Yun R. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Mutations in prion-like domains in hnRNPA2B1 and hnRNPA1 cause multisystem proteinopathy and ALS

(2013) Hong Joo Kim et al.   NATURE

State of play in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis genetics

(2013) Alan E Renton et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Unconventional Translation of C9ORF72 GGGGCC Expansion Generates Insoluble Polypeptides Specific to c9FTD/ALS

(2013) Peter E.A. Ash et al.   NEURON

Converging Mechanisms in ALS and FTD: Disrupted RNA and Protein Homeostasis

(2013) Shuo-Chien Ling et al.   NEURON

The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS

(2013) K. Mori et al.   SCIENCE

Prion-like Properties of Pathological TDP-43 Aggregates from Diseased Brains

(2013) Takashi Nonaka et al.   Cell Reports

[18F]Flutemetamol PET imaging and cortical biopsy histopathology for fibrillar amyloid β detection in living subjects with normal pressure hydrocephalus: pooled analysis of four studies

(2012) Juha O. Rinne et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Overexpression of human wild-type FUS causes progressive motor neuron degeneration in an age- and dose-dependent fashion

(2012) Jacqueline C. Mitchell et al.   ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA

Exome Sequencing Identifies FUS Mutations as a Cause of Essential Tremor

(2012) Nancy D. Merner et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Welander distal myopathy is caused by a mutation in the RNA-binding protein TIA1

(2012) Peter Hackman et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

The tip of the iceberg: RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in neurodegenerative disease

(2012) Oliver D. King et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Cell-free Formation of RNA Granules: Low Complexity Sequence Domains Form Dynamic Fibers within Hydrogels

(2012) Masato Kato et al.   CELL

Evaluating the role of the FUS/TLS-related gene EWSR1 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2012) Julien Couthouis et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

TBK-1 Promotes Autophagy-Mediated Antimicrobial Defense by Controlling Autophagosome Maturation

(2012) Manohar Pilli et al.   IMMUNITY

Roles of Ataxin-2 in Pathological Cascades Mediated by TAR DNA-binding Protein 43 (TDP-43) and Fused in Sarcoma (FUS)

(2012) Yoshihiro Nihei et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Requirements for Stress Granule Recruitment of Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) and TAR DNA-binding Protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43)

(2012) Eva Bentmann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Mutations in the profilin 1 gene cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2012) Chi-Hong Wu et al.   NATURE

Mutational analysis reveals the FUS homolog TAF15 as a candidate gene for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2011) N. Ticozzi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART B-NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS

SQSTM1 Mutations in Familial and Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2011) Faisal Fecto   ARCHIVES OF NEUROLOGY

FET proteins TAF15 and EWS are selective markers that distinguish FTLD with FUS pathology from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with FUS mutations

(2011) Manuela Neumann et al.   BRAIN

Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia

(2011) Han-Xiang Deng et al.   NATURE

Long pre-mRNA depletion and RNA missplicing contribute to neuronal vulnerability from loss of TDP-43

(2011) Magdalini Polymenidou et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Characterizing the RNA targets and position-dependent splicing regulation by TDP-43

(2011) James R Tollervey et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

RNA targets of wild-type and mutant FET family proteins

(2011) Jessica I Hoell et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Conjoint pathologic cascades mediated by ALS/FTLD-U linked RNA-binding proteins TDP-43 and FUS

(2011) D. Ito et al.   NEUROLOGY

Expanded GGGGCC Hexanucleotide Repeat in Noncoding Region of C9ORF72 Causes Chromosome 9p-Linked FTD and ALS

(2011) Mariely DeJesus-Hernandez et al.   NEURON

A Hexanucleotide Repeat Expansion in C9ORF72 Is the Cause of Chromosome 9p21-Linked ALS-FTD

(2011) Alan E. Renton et al.   NEURON

A yeast functional screen predicts new candidate ALS disease genes

(2011) J. Couthouis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phosphorylation of the Autophagy Receptor Optineurin Restricts Salmonella Growth

(2011) P. Wild et al.   SCIENCE

Nuclear transport impairment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked mutations in FUS/TLS

(2010) Daisuke Ito et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Ubiquilin at a crossroads in protein degradation pathways

(2010) Cara Rothenberg et al.   Autophagy

ALS-associated fused in sarcoma (FUS) mutations disrupt Transportin-mediated nuclear import

(2010) Dorothee Dormann et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

TDP-43 and FUS/TLS: emerging roles in RNA processing and neurodegeneration

(2010) C. Lagier-Tourenne et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Regulation of TDP-43 aggregation by phosphorylation andp62/SQSTM1

(2010) Owen A. Brady et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

TDP-43 and FUS in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia

(2010) Ian RA Mackenzie et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Ataxin-2 intermediate-length polyglutamine expansions are associated with increased risk for ALS

(2010) Andrew C. Elden et al.   NATURE

Mutations of optineurin in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2010) Hirofumi Maruyama et al.   NATURE

Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CSF1, OPTN and TNFRSF11A as genetic risk factors for Paget's disease of bone

(2010) Omar M E Albagha et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Prion-like transmission of protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases

(2010) Patrik Brundin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Novel missense and truncating mutations in FUS/TLS in familial ALS

(2010) S. Waibel et al.   NEUROLOGY

Exome Sequencing Reveals VCP Mutations as a Cause of Familial ALS

(2010) Janel O. Johnson et al.   NEURON

Tar DNA Binding Protein-43 (TDP-43) Associates with Stress Granules: Analysis of Cultured Cells and Pathological Brain Tissue

(2010) Liqun Liu-Yesucevitz et al.   PLoS One

Deletion of TDP-43 down-regulates Tbc1d1, a gene linked to obesity, and alters body fat metabolism

(2010) P.-M. Chiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is associated with a mutation in D-amino acid oxidase

(2010) J. Mitchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TDP-43 transgenic mice develop spastic paralysis and neuronal inclusions characteristic of ALS and frontotemporal lobar degeneration

(2010) Hans Wils et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Autosomal-Dominant Distal Myopathy Associated with a Recurrent Missense Mutation in the Gene Encoding the Nuclear Matrix Protein, Matrin 3

(2009) Jan Senderek et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Characterization of Alternative Isoforms and Inclusion Body of the TAR DNA-binding Protein-43

(2009) Yoshinori Nishimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

TDP-43 Is a Developmentally Regulated Protein Essential for Early Embryonic Development

(2009) Chantelle F. Sephton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

ALS motor phenotype heterogeneity, focality, and spread: Deconstructing motor neuron degeneration

(2009) J. M. Ravits et al.   NEUROLOGY

Mutations in FUS, an RNA Processing Protein, Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Type 6

(2009) C. Vance et al.   SCIENCE

Mutations in the FUS/TLS Gene on Chromosome 16 Cause Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

(2009) T. J. Kwiatkowski et al.   SCIENCE

Phosphorylated TDP-43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

(2008) Masato Hasegawa et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Stress granules: the Tao of RNA triage

(2008) Paul Anderson et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES