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Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease resulting in muscle atrophy and neurodegeneration, and is the leading genetic cause of infant death. SMA arises when there are homozygous deletion mutations in the human SMN1 gene, leading to a decrease in corre...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33106327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dmm.041350 |
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author | Doyle, James J. Vrancx, Celine Maios, Claudia Labarre, Audrey Patten, Shunmoogum A. Parker, J. Alex |
author_facet | Doyle, James J. Vrancx, Celine Maios, Claudia Labarre, Audrey Patten, Shunmoogum A. Parker, J. Alex |
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description | Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease resulting in muscle atrophy and neurodegeneration, and is the leading genetic cause of infant death. SMA arises when there are homozygous deletion mutations in the human SMN1 gene, leading to a decrease in corresponding SMN1 protein. Although SMN1 is expressed across multiple tissue types, much of the previous research into SMA focused on the neuronal aspect of the disease, overlooking many of the potential non-neuronal aspects of the disease. Therefore, we sought to address this gap in knowledge by modeling SMA in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We mutated a previously uncharacterized allele, which resulted in the onset of mild SMA-like phenotypes, allowing us to monitor the onset of phenotypes at different stages. We observed that these mutant animals recapitulated many key features of the human disease, and most importantly, we observed that muscle dysfunction preceded neurodegeneration. Furthermore, we tested the therapeutic efficacy of targeting endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in non-neuronal cells and found it to be more effective than targeting ER stress in neuronal cells. We also found that the most potent therapeutic potential came from a combination of ER- and neuromuscular junction-targeted drugs. Together, our results suggest an important non-neuronal component of SMA pathology and highlight new considerations for therapeutic intervention. |
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spelling | pubmed-77749022021-01-04 Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy Doyle, James J. Vrancx, Celine Maios, Claudia Labarre, Audrey Patten, Shunmoogum A. Parker, J. Alex Dis Model Mech Research Article Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease resulting in muscle atrophy and neurodegeneration, and is the leading genetic cause of infant death. SMA arises when there are homozygous deletion mutations in the human SMN1 gene, leading to a decrease in corresponding SMN1 protein. Although SMN1 is expressed across multiple tissue types, much of the previous research into SMA focused on the neuronal aspect of the disease, overlooking many of the potential non-neuronal aspects of the disease. Therefore, we sought to address this gap in knowledge by modeling SMA in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. We mutated a previously uncharacterized allele, which resulted in the onset of mild SMA-like phenotypes, allowing us to monitor the onset of phenotypes at different stages. We observed that these mutant animals recapitulated many key features of the human disease, and most importantly, we observed that muscle dysfunction preceded neurodegeneration. Furthermore, we tested the therapeutic efficacy of targeting endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in non-neuronal cells and found it to be more effective than targeting ER stress in neuronal cells. We also found that the most potent therapeutic potential came from a combination of ER- and neuromuscular junction-targeted drugs. Together, our results suggest an important non-neuronal component of SMA pathology and highlight new considerations for therapeutic intervention. The Company of Biologists Ltd 2020-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7774902/ /pubmed/33106327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dmm.041350 Text en © 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Doyle, James J. Vrancx, Celine Maios, Claudia Labarre, Audrey Patten, Shunmoogum A. Parker, J. Alex Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title | Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title_full | Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title_fullStr | Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title_full_unstemmed | Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title_short | Modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a Caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
title_sort | modulating the endoplasmic reticulum stress response attenuates neurodegeneration in a caenorhabditis
elegans model of spinal muscular atrophy |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33106327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dmm.041350 |
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