Journal
CURRENT NEUROVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 222-230Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/15672026113109990060
Keywords
ALS; Drp1; Fis1; fission; fusion; Mfn1; mitochondria; Opa1
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- Research Committee from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan [21390267, 22659260]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22659260] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Mitochondria dynamically change their shape through frequent fusion and fission to continuously perform their function in the cell. Although a change in mitochondrial morphology was reported in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), detailed changes of mitochondrial fusion and fission proteins have not been reported in ALS model mice. In transgenic (Tg) mice with the G93A human SOD1 mutation (G93ASOD1), both mitochondrial fusion proteins (Mfn1 and Opal) and fission proteins (Drp1 and Fis1) showed a significant increase in the anterior half of the lumbar spinal cord. Such changes in Tg mice were already noticeable at presymptomatic 10 week (W) compared with wildtype (WT) mice, detected through immunohistochemical as well as Western blot analyses. Furthermore, fusion protein levels of Mfn1 and Opa1 showed a progressive decrease from 10 to 18 W in Tg mice while fission protein levels of P-Drp1 and Fis1 maintained a high level of expression in Tg mice from 10 to 18 W. These data suggest that abnormal changes in mitochondrial morphology began before the onset of ALS and that the balanced mitochondrial morphology becomes altered by fissions in motor neurons (MNs) in this ALS model.
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