期刊
CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
卷 68, 期 7, 页码 1255-1267出版社
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0522-4
关键词
CAG and CUG repeats; RNA toxicity; C. elegans; Muscleblind; Sequestration
资金
- National Science Council of Taiwan [NSC 95-2320-B-040-040-MY2, NSC-97-2320-B-040-013-MY3, NSC 96-2320-B-194-006-MY3]
We have utilized Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to investigate the toxicity and underlying mechanism of untranslated CAG repeats in comparison to CUG repeats. Our results indicate that CAG repeats can be toxic at the RNA level in a length-dependent manner, similar to that of CUG repeats. Both CAG and CUG repeats of toxic length form nuclear foci and co-localize with C. elegans muscleblind (CeMBL), implying that CeMBL may play a role in repeat RNA toxicity. Consistently, the phenotypes of worms expressing toxic CAG and CUG repeats, including shortened life span and reduced motility rate, were partially reversed by CeMbl over-expression. These results provide the first experimental evidence to show that the RNA toxicity induced by expanded CAG and CUG repeats can be mediated, at least in part, through the functional alteration of muscleblind in worms.
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