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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2018

The intellectual disability gene PQBP1 rescues Alzheimer's disease pathology.

Hikari Tanaka, Kanoh Kondo, Xigui Chen, Hidenori Homma, Kazuhiko Tagawa, Aurelian Kerever, Shigeki Aoki, Takashi Saito, Takaomi Saido, Shin-Ichi Muramatsu and 2 more

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Hikari TanakaDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Kanoh KondoDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Xigui ChenDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Hidenori HommaDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Kazuhiko TagawaDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Aurelian KereverDepartment of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0980-9896
Shigeki AokiDepartment of Radiology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8421, Japan.
Takashi SaitoLaboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-9251
Takaomi SaidoLaboratory for Proteolytic Neuroscience, Center for Brain Science, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1970-6903
Shin-Ichi MuramatsuDepartment of Neurology, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0496, Japan.
Kyota FujitaDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan.
Hitoshi OkazawaDepartment of Neuropathology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan. okazawa-tky@umin.ac.jp.
Tokyo Medical and Dental University · JPJuntendo University · JPRIKEN Center for Brain Science · JPJichi Medical University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early-phase pathologies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are attracting much attention after clinical trials of drugs designed to remove beta-amyloid (Aβ) aggregates failed to recover memory and cognitive function in symptomatic AD patients. Here, we show that phosphorylation of serine/arginine repetitive matrix 2 (SRRM2) at Ser1068, which is observed in the brains of early phase AD mouse models and postmortem end-stage AD patients, prevents its nuclear translocation by inhibiting interaction with T-complex protein subunit α. SRRM2 deficiency in neurons destabilized polyglutamine binding protein 1 (PQBP1), a causative gene for intellectual disability (ID), greatly affecting the splicing patterns of synapse-related genes, as demonstrated in a newly generated PQBP1-conditional knockout model. PQBP1 and SRRM2 were downregulated in cortical neurons of human AD patients and mouse AD models, and the AAV-PQBP1 vector recovered RNA splicing, the synapse phenotype, and the cognitive decline in the two mouse models. Finally, the kinases responsible for the phosphorylation of SRRM2 at Ser1068 were identified as ERK1/2 (MAPK3/1). These results collectively reveal a new aspect of AD pathology in which a phosphorylation signal affecting RNA splicing and synapse integrity precedes the formation of extracellular Aβ aggregates and may progress in parallel with tau phosphorylation.

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Active Transport, Cell NucleusAlzheimer DiseaseAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorAnimalsBrainCarrier ProteinsCognitionDisease Models, AnimalDNA-Binding ProteinsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsIntellectual DisabilityMAP Kinase Signaling SystemMiceMice, KnockoutAmyloid beta-PeptidesAmyloid beta-Protein PrecursorCarrier ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesNuclear ProteinsPQBP1 protein, humanRNA-Binding ProteinsSRRM2 protein, humantau Proteins

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PMID30283027
PMCPMC6250680
OpenAlexW2895568734

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