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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2017

Biology and Pathobiology of TDP-43 and Emergent Therapeutic Strategies.

Lin Guo, James Shorter

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. TMEM106B is a selective modulator of TDP-43 pathology in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  9. Small molecule JRMS modulating importin-β1 chaperone activity as a therapeutic strategy reducing TDP-43 pathology.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lin GuoDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
James ShorterDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Defining the mechanistic basis of a prion disaggregaseR01GM099836 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SHORTER, JAMES · 2013 to 2024
$3.9M
Exploring mechanisms of TDP-43 aggregation and disaggregationR21NS067354 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI SHORTER, JAMES · 2009 to 2010
$436k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM099836NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS067354
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytoplasmic TDP-43 mislocalization and aggregation is a pathological hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. TDP-43 is an RNA-binding protein (RBP) with a prion-like domain (PrLD) that promotes TDP-43 misfolding. PrLDs possess compositional similarity to canonical prion domains of various yeast proteins, including Sup35. Strikingly, disease-causing TDP-43 mutations reside almost exclusively in the PrLD and can enhance TDP-43 misfolding and toxicity. Another ∼70 human RBPs harbor PrLDs, including FUS, TAF15, EWSR1, hnRNPA1, and hnRNPA2, which have surfaced in the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. Importantly, PrLDs enable RBP function and mediate phase transitions that partition functional ribonucleoprotein compartments. This PrLD activity, however, renders RBPs prone to populating deleterious oligomers or self-templating fibrils that might spread disease, and disease-linked PrLD mutations can exacerbate this risk. Several strategies have emerged to counter TDP-43 proteinopathies, including engineering enhanced protein disaggregases based on Hsp104.

Indexed as

DNA-Binding ProteinsHumansMutationRNA-Binding ProteinsTDP-43 ProteinopathiesDNA-Binding ProteinsRNA-Binding ProteinsTARDBP protein, human

Identifiers

PMID27920024
PMCPMC5580514
OpenAlexW2560176901

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