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ReviewCells2026

ELAVL Proteins, miRNA Fate, and Extracellular RNA Communication in Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration.

Kamalika Mukherjee, Suvendra N Bhattacharyya

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Kamalika MukherjeeDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6520-4846
Suvendra N BhattacharyyaDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9697-3824

Funding

UNMC Start Up Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain aging is accompanied by changes in RNA homeostasis, intercellular communication, and stress responses that increase vulnerability to neurodegenerative diseases. The neuronal protein HuD (ELAVL4) and the broadly expressed HuR (ELAVL1) regulate RNA stability, translation, localization, and selected microRNA (miRNA) activities. Recent studies further show that HuD can promote export of let-7a and miR-125b during differentiation of PC12 cells, whereas HuR can bind selected miRNAs and engage endosomal export or intracellular buffering mechanisms in other cellular contexts. These observations support an emerging ELAVL-miRNA-extracellular vesicle (EV) framework. They do not yet establish an integrated HuD/HuR-dependent neuron-glia pathway in aging human brain or Alzheimer's disease (AD). We therefore distinguish direct, model-specific findings from hypotheses that age-, amyloid-, or inflammation-associated changes in ELAVL abundance, localization, or RNA binding could redistribute miRNAs between intracellular pools and EVs. Testing this framework in primary human neural cells, induced pluripotent stem cell-derived systems, organoids, and

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AgingBrainELAV ProteinsMicroRNAsNeurodegenerative DiseasesAnimalsExtracellular VesiclesHumansNeuronsELAV ProteinsMicroRNAsbrain agingELAVLextracellular vesiclesHuDHuRmiRNA fateneurodegenerationneuron–glia communication

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PMID42782750
PMCPMC13605490

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