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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2023

Synaptic expression of TAR-DNA-binding protein 43 in the mouse spinal cord determined using super-resolution microscopy.

Matthew J Broadhead, Ani Ayvazian-Hancock, Katherine Doucet, Owen Kantelberg, Lesley Motherwell, Fei Zhu, Seth G N Grant, Mathew H Horrocks, Gareth B Miles

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Matthew J BroadheadSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
Ani Ayvazian-HancockSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
Katherine DoucetSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
Owen KantelbergEaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Lesley MotherwellSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
Fei ZhuGenes to Cognition Program, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Seth G N GrantGenes to Cognition Program, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Mathew H HorrocksEaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Gareth B MilesSchool of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
University of Edinburgh · GBUniversity of St Andrews · GBHeriot-Watt University · GB

Funding

Motor Neurone Disease Association MILES/APR18/863-791
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is characterised by a loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that is preceded by early-stage changes in synapses that may be associated with TAR-DNA-Binding Protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology. Cellular inclusions of hyperphosphorylated TDP-43 (pTDP-43) are a key hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such ALS. However, there has been little characterisation of the synaptic expression of TDP-43 inside subpopulations of spinal cord synapses. This study utilises a range of high-resolution and super-resolution microscopy techniques with immunolabelling, as well as an aptamer-based TDP-43 labelling strategy visualised with single-molecule localisation microscopy, to characterise and quantify the presence of pTDP-43 in populations of excitatory synapses near where motor neurons reside in the lateral ventral horn of the mouse lumbar spinal cord. We observe that TDP-43 is expressed in approximately half of spinal cord synapses as nanoscale clusters. Synaptic TDP-43 clusters are found most abundantly at synapses associated with VGLUT1-positive presynaptic terminals, compared to VGLUT2-associated synapses. Our nanoscopy techniques showed no difference in the subsynaptic expression of pTDP-43 in the ALS mouse model, SOD1

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ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)spinal cordsuper-resolutionsynapseTDP-43 (43 kDa TAR DNA-binding protein)

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