ArticleNature genetics2012
Mutations in the RNA exosome component gene EXOSC3 cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia and spinal motor neuron degeneration.
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- Comparative analyses of disease-linked missense mutations in the RNA exosome modeled in budding yeast reveal distinct functional consequences in translation.RNA (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- EXOSC3 S1-domain variants implicated in PCH1b alter RNA exosome cap subunit abundance and thermal stability disrupting rRNA processing and targeting of AU-rich mRNA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Humanized Saccharomyces cerevisiae provides a facile and effective tool to identify damaging human variants that cause exosomopathies.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
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- Built differently or defective: can RNA exosomopathies cause ribosome heterogeneity?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Pontocerebellar hypoplasia: a review from 1912 to 2022.Brain communications · 2025Review
- Proteomic landscape of porcine induced neural stem cell reprogramming and differentiation.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Genetic modeling of degenerative diseases and mechanisms of neuronal regeneration in the zebrafish cerebellum.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2024Review
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Abstract
RNA exosomes are multi-subunit complexes conserved throughout evolution and are emerging as the major cellular machinery for processing, surveillance and turnover of a diverse spectrum of coding and noncoding RNA substrates essential for viability. By exome sequencing, we discovered recessive mutations in EXOSC3 (encoding exosome component 3) in four siblings with infantile spinal motor neuron disease, cerebellar atrophy, progressive microcephaly and profound global developmental delay, consistent with pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 1 (PCH1; MIM 607596). We identified mutations in EXOSC3 in an additional 8 of 12 families with PCH1. Morpholino knockdown of exosc3 in zebrafish embryos caused embryonic maldevelopment, resulting in small brain size and poor motility, reminiscent of human clinical features, and these defects were largely rescued by co-injection with wild-type but not mutant exosc3 mRNA. These findings represent the first example of an RNA exosome core component gene that is responsible for a human disease and further implicate dysregulation of RNA processing in cerebellar and spinal motor neuron maldevelopment and degeneration.
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