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ArticleStem cell reports2024

Mutations in FUS lead to synaptic dysregulation in ALS-iPSC derived neurons.

Carole Shum, Erin C Hedges, Joseph Allison, Youn-Bok Lee, Natalia Arias, Graham Cocks, Siddharthan Chandran, Marc-David Ruepp, Christopher E Shaw, Agnes L Nishimura

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Article in Stem cell reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Carole ShumUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK; Genetics & Genome Biology Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada; The Centre for Applied Genomics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON M5G 1X8, Canada.
Erin C HedgesUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK.
Joseph AllisonUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK.
Youn-Bok LeeUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK.
Natalia AriasUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Life and Natural Sciences, Brain and Behavior Group, Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain.
Graham CocksUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK.
Siddharthan ChandranMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research and Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK.
Marc-David RueppUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK.
Christopher E ShawUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK; Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, 85 Park Road, Grafton Auckland 1023, New Zealand. Electronic address: chris.shaw@kcl.ac.uk.
Agnes L NishimuraUnited Kingdom Dementia Research Institute Centre, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 5 Cutcombe Rd, London SE5 9RT, UK; Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Institute Paulo Gontijo, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: a.nishimura@qmul.ac.uk.
King's College London · GBMRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine · GBQueen Mary University of London · GBUniversity of Auckland · NZ

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N013255/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, adult-onset neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive muscular weakness due to the selective loss of motor neurons. Mutations in the gene Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) were identified as one cause of ALS. Here, we report that mutations in FUS lead to upregulation of synaptic proteins, increasing synaptic activity and abnormal release of vesicles at the synaptic cleft. Consequently, FUS-ALS neurons showed greater vulnerability to glutamate excitotoxicity, which raised neuronal swellings (varicose neurites) and led to neuronal death. Fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is an RNA-binding protein known to regulate synaptic protein translation, and its expression is reduced in the FUS-ALS lines. Collectively, our data suggest that a reduction of FMRP levels alters the synaptic protein dynamics, leading to synaptic dysfunction and glutamate excitotoxicity. Here, we present a mechanistic hypothesis linking dysregulation of peripheral translation with synaptic vulnerability in the pathogenesis of FUS-ALS.

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Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsAdultGlutamatesHumansMotor NeuronsMutationRNA-Binding Protein FUSFUS protein, humanGlutamatesRNA-Binding Protein FUSALSamyotrophic lateral sclerosisdisease modellingFMRPfragile X mental retardation proteinFUSfused in sarcomainduced pluripotent stem cellsiPSCsneuronal degenerationsynaptic dysfunction

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PMID38242131
PMCPMC10874860
OpenAlexW4390990050

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