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Functional Implications of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases (PRMTs) in Neurodegenerative Diseases

SIMPLE SUMMARY: In search of common pathophysiological events among neurodegenerative diseases, arginine methylation of proteins has been revealed as a crucial molecular mechanism regulating several cellular processes, including neuronal cell survival and excitability, axonal transport, synaptic mat...

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Autores principales: Angelopoulou, Efthalia, Pyrgelis, Efstratios-Stylianos, Ahire, Chetana, Suman, Prachi, Mishra, Awanish, Piperi, Christina
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10525691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology12091257
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author Angelopoulou, Efthalia
Pyrgelis, Efstratios-Stylianos
Ahire, Chetana
Suman, Prachi
Mishra, Awanish
Piperi, Christina
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Ahire, Chetana
Suman, Prachi
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Piperi, Christina
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: In search of common pathophysiological events among neurodegenerative diseases, arginine methylation of proteins has been revealed as a crucial molecular mechanism regulating several cellular processes, including neuronal cell survival and excitability, axonal transport, synaptic maturation, and myelination. Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), which catalyze the arginine methylation reaction, are expressed in high levels in the nervous system, and their aberrant function has been recently implicated in the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying several prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, presenting promising future therapeutic targets. ABSTRACT: During the aging of the global population, the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases will be continuously growing. Although each disorder is characterized by disease-specific protein accumulations, several common pathophysiological mechanisms encompassing both genetic and environmental factors have been detected. Among them, protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), which catalyze the methylation of arginine of various substrates, have been revealed to regulate several cellular mechanisms, including neuronal cell survival and excitability, axonal transport, synaptic maturation, and myelination. Emerging evidence highlights their critical involvement in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), frontotemporal dementia–amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FTD-ALS) spectrum, Huntington’s disease (HD), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Underlying mechanisms include the regulation of gene transcription and RNA splicing, as well as their implication in various signaling pathways related to oxidative stress responses, apoptosis, neuroinflammation, vacuole degeneration, abnormal protein accumulation and neurotransmission. The targeting of PRMTs is a therapeutic approach initially developed against various forms of cancer but currently presents a novel potential strategy for neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we discuss the accumulating evidence on the role of PRMTs in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, enlightening their pathogenesis and stimulating future research.
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spelling pubmed-105256912023-09-28 Functional Implications of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases (PRMTs) in Neurodegenerative Diseases Angelopoulou, Efthalia Pyrgelis, Efstratios-Stylianos Ahire, Chetana Suman, Prachi Mishra, Awanish Piperi, Christina Biology (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: In search of common pathophysiological events among neurodegenerative diseases, arginine methylation of proteins has been revealed as a crucial molecular mechanism regulating several cellular processes, including neuronal cell survival and excitability, axonal transport, synaptic maturation, and myelination. Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), which catalyze the arginine methylation reaction, are expressed in high levels in the nervous system, and their aberrant function has been recently implicated in the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying several prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, presenting promising future therapeutic targets. ABSTRACT: During the aging of the global population, the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases will be continuously growing. Although each disorder is characterized by disease-specific protein accumulations, several common pathophysiological mechanisms encompassing both genetic and environmental factors have been detected. Among them, protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs), which catalyze the methylation of arginine of various substrates, have been revealed to regulate several cellular mechanisms, including neuronal cell survival and excitability, axonal transport, synaptic maturation, and myelination. Emerging evidence highlights their critical involvement in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), frontotemporal dementia–amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FTD-ALS) spectrum, Huntington’s disease (HD), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA). Underlying mechanisms include the regulation of gene transcription and RNA splicing, as well as their implication in various signaling pathways related to oxidative stress responses, apoptosis, neuroinflammation, vacuole degeneration, abnormal protein accumulation and neurotransmission. The targeting of PRMTs is a therapeutic approach initially developed against various forms of cancer but currently presents a novel potential strategy for neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we discuss the accumulating evidence on the role of PRMTs in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, enlightening their pathogenesis and stimulating future research. MDPI 2023-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10525691/ /pubmed/37759656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology12091257 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Functional Implications of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases (PRMTs) in Neurodegenerative Diseases
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title_short Functional Implications of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases (PRMTs) in Neurodegenerative Diseases
title_sort functional implications of protein arginine methyltransferases (prmts) in neurodegenerative diseases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10525691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37759656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology12091257
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