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ArticleHuman molecular genetics2015

Oxr1 improves pathogenic cellular features of ALS-associated FUS and TDP-43 mutations.

Mattéa J Finelli, Kevin X Liu, Yixing Wu, Peter L Oliver, Kay E Davies

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Article in Human molecular genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mattéa J FinelliMRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
Kevin X LiuMRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
Yixing WuMRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
Peter L OliverMRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK kay.davies@dpag.ox.ac.uk peter.oliver@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
Kay E DaviesMRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK kay.davies@dpag.ox.ac.uk peter.oliver@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
Genomics (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12021/2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of motor neuron-like cells. Mutations in the RNA- and DNA-binding proteins, fused in sarcoma (FUS) and transactive response DNA-binding protein 43 kDa (TDP-43), are responsible for 5-10% of familial and 1% of sporadic ALS cases. Importantly, aggregation of misfolded FUS or TDP-43 is also characteristic of several neurodegenerative disorders in addition to ALS, including frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Moreover, splicing deregulation of FUS and TDP-43 target genes as well as mitochondrial abnormalities are associated with disease-causing FUS and TDP-43 mutants. While progress has been made to understand the functions of these proteins, the exact mechanisms by which FUS and TDP-43 cause ALS remain unknown. Recently, we discovered that, in addition to being up-regulated in spinal cords of ALS patients, the novel protein oxidative resistance 1 (Oxr1) protects neurons from oxidative stress-induced apoptosis. To further understand the function of Oxr1, we present here the first interaction study of the protein. We show that Oxr1 binds to Fus and Tdp-43 and that certain ALS-associated mutations in Fus and Tdp-43 affect their Oxr1-binding properties. We further demonstrate that increasing Oxr1 levels in cells expressing specific Fus and Tdp-43 mutants improves the three main cellular features associated with ALS: cytoplasmic mis-localization and aggregation, splicing changes of a mitochondrial gene and mitochondrial defects. Taken together, these findings suggest that OXR1 may have therapeutic benefits for the treatment of ALS and related neurodegenerative disorders with TDP-43 pathology.

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MutationAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsArginineAutophagyCytoplasmDNA-Binding ProteinsHumansMethylationMiceMitochondrial ProteinsOxidative StressProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein Aggregation, PathologicalProtein BindingProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsArginineDNA-Binding ProteinsMitochondrial ProteinsOXR1 protein, humanProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProtein IsoformsProteinsRNA-Binding Protein FUS

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PMID25792726
PMCPMC4498158
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