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ArticleNature communications2025

SON-dependent nuclear speckle rehabilitation alleviates proteinopathies.

William Dion, Yuren Tao, Maci Chambers, Shanshan Zhao, Riley K Arbuckle, Michelle Sun, Syeda Kubra, Matthew A Schaich, Yuhang Nie, Megan Ye and 14 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. 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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  3. Riboregulation: a non-canonical tau function.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2026
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  4. Resolving Sub-Nuclear Architecture from Compartments to Functional Domains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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24 authors.

William Dion *Aging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7697-9433
Yuren Tao *Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Maci ChambersAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Shanshan ZhaoDepartment of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Riley K ArbuckleDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Michelle SunAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Syeda KubraAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Matthew A SchaichUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Yuhang NieDepartment of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
Megan YeAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Imran JamalAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Mads B LarsenAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5361-0898
Daniel CamarcoAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Eleanor IckesAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-4561-7228
Haokun H WangAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6279-8003
C DuPontAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Bingjie WangDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5056-7476
Silvia LiuDepartment of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Shaohua PiDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7549-8929
Bennett Van HoutenUPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Bill B ChenAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Yuanyuan ChenDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. cheny1@pitt.edu.
Xu ChenDepartment of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. x1chen@health.ucsd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8926-3090
Bokai ZhuAging Institute of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. bzhu@pitt.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0827-5757

Funding

Virus Production and Manipulation of Protein/Gene Expression ModuleP30EY008098 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Yuanyuan Chen · 1989 to 2026
$17.8M
Pittsburgh Liver Research CenterP30DK120531 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Satdarshan Singh Monga · 2019 to 2026
$10.9M
Developing a NAMPT activator for Alzheimer’s diseaseU01AG079828 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Beibei Chen, Stacey J Rizzo · 2023 to 2026
$9.4M
Systematic Investigation of Protein Ubiquitination in ARDSR35HL139860 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHEN, BEIBEI · 2018 to 2024
$6.3M
Watching cooperative interactions between base and nucleotide excision repair proteinsR35ES031638 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Bennett Van Houten · 2020 to 2026
$6.2M
Translational Research Training in Sleep MedicineT32HL082610 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Daniel J. Buysse, PETER L FRANZEN · 2007 to 2026
$5.8M
Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Traininig ProgramT32EY017271 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Marlene Behrmann, Paul R. Kinchington · 2008 to 2026
$3.6M
Mechanisms by which the ketone body β-hydroxybutyrate counteracts tau pathogenesisR01AG074273 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Xu Chen · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Role of Testosterone in Modulating Tau Pathogenesis in FemalesR01AG078185 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Xu Chen · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Decoding the regulation and functions of mammalian 12h-clockDP2GM140924 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ZHU, BOKAI · 2020 to 2020
$2.4M
Pharmacological studies of rhodopsin metabolismR01EY030991 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Yuanyuan Chen · 2020 to 2026
$2.3M
Decoding the functions of nuclear speckle in protein quality controlR35GM157978 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Bokai Zhu · 2025 to 2026
$890k
Foundation Fighting Blindness (Foundation Fighting Blindness, Inc.) Translational Research Program AwardNEI NIH HHS P30 EY008098NEI NIH HHS R01 EY030991NEI NIH HHS T32 EY017271NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL139860NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL082610NIA NIH HHS F31 AG080998NIA NIH HHS R01 AG074273NIA NIH HHS R01 AG078185NIA NIH HHS R21 AG071893NIA NIH HHS U01 AG079828NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK120531NIEHS NIH HHS F32 ES034982NIEHS NIH HHS R35 ES031638NIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM140924NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM157978NIH HHS S10 OD028483NIH HHS S10 OD032158U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Eye Institute (NEI) P30 EY08098U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) 1R35HL139860U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) P30DK120531U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) F32ES034982U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) R35ES031638U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 1DP2GM140924U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging) 1R21AG071893U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging) R01AG074273U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging) R01AG078185U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | NIH Office of the Director (OD) S10OD028483U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | NIH Office of the Director (OD) S10OD032158
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current treatments targeting individual protein quality control pathways have limited efficacy in alleviating proteinopathies, highlighting the prerequisite for a common druggable target capable of global proteostasis modulation. Building upon our prior research establishing nuclear speckles as pivotal membrane-less organelles for transcriptional control of proteostasis, we aim to alleviate proteinopathies through nuclear speckle rehabilitation. We identify pyrvinium pamoate as a nuclear speckle rehabilitator that enhances protein quality control gene expression and suppresses YAP1 transcriptional activity via decreasing the surface/interfacial tension of nuclear speckle condensates through interaction with the intrinsically disordered region of nuclear speckle scaffold protein SON. In pre-clinical models, nanomolar pyrvinium pamoate protects against retinal degeneration and tauopathy mainly by promoting autophagy and ubiquitin-proteasome activity in a SON-dependent manner without causing stress. Aberrant nuclear speckle morphology, reduced protein quality control and increased YAP1 activity are observed in human tauopathies. Our study provides proof-of-principle of targeting nuclear speckles to ameliorate proteinopathies.

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Cell NucleusAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsAutophagyHEK293 CellsHumansMiceProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexProteostasisTranscription FactorsYAP-Signaling ProteinsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexTranscription FactorsYAP1 protein, humanYap1 protein, mouseYAP-Signaling Proteins

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