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Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration
Neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Huntington’s disease (HD), are characterized by intracellular aggregation of proteins. In the case of ALS and FTD, these protein aggregates are found in the cytoplasm of affected neurons and c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30486313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells7120232 |
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description | Neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Huntington’s disease (HD), are characterized by intracellular aggregation of proteins. In the case of ALS and FTD, these protein aggregates are found in the cytoplasm of affected neurons and contain certain RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), namely the TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) and the fused in sarcoma (FUS) gene product. TDP-43 and FUS are nuclear proteins and their displacement to the cytoplasm is thought to be adverse in at least two ways: loss-of-function in the nucleus and gain-of-toxicity in the cytoplasm. In the case of HD, expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch within the N-terminal domain of the Huntingtin (HTT) protein leads to nuclear accumulation of polyQ HTT (or mHTT) and a toxic gain-of-function phenotype resulting in neurodegeneration. Numerous studies in recent years have provided evidence that defects in nucleocytoplasmic transport critically contribute to the pathology of these neurodegenerative diseases. A new mechanistic view is emerging, implicating three types of perturbations in normal cellular pathways that rely on nucleocytoplasmic transport: displacement of nuclear transport receptors and nucleoporins from nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), mislocalization and aggregation of RNA-binding proteins, and weakening of the chaperone activity of nuclear import receptors. |
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spelling | pubmed-63164342019-01-09 Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration Fahrenkrog, Birthe Harel, Amnon Cells Commentary Neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and Huntington’s disease (HD), are characterized by intracellular aggregation of proteins. In the case of ALS and FTD, these protein aggregates are found in the cytoplasm of affected neurons and contain certain RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), namely the TAR DNA-binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) and the fused in sarcoma (FUS) gene product. TDP-43 and FUS are nuclear proteins and their displacement to the cytoplasm is thought to be adverse in at least two ways: loss-of-function in the nucleus and gain-of-toxicity in the cytoplasm. In the case of HD, expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch within the N-terminal domain of the Huntingtin (HTT) protein leads to nuclear accumulation of polyQ HTT (or mHTT) and a toxic gain-of-function phenotype resulting in neurodegeneration. Numerous studies in recent years have provided evidence that defects in nucleocytoplasmic transport critically contribute to the pathology of these neurodegenerative diseases. A new mechanistic view is emerging, implicating three types of perturbations in normal cellular pathways that rely on nucleocytoplasmic transport: displacement of nuclear transport receptors and nucleoporins from nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), mislocalization and aggregation of RNA-binding proteins, and weakening of the chaperone activity of nuclear import receptors. MDPI 2018-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6316434/ /pubmed/30486313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells7120232 Text en © 2018 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Fahrenkrog, Birthe Harel, Amnon Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title | Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title_full | Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title_fullStr | Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title_full_unstemmed | Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title_short | Perturbations in Traffic: Aberrant Nucleocytoplasmic Transport at the Heart of Neurodegeneration |
title_sort | perturbations in traffic: aberrant nucleocytoplasmic transport at the heart of neurodegeneration |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316434/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30486313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cells7120232 |
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