McGurk Leeanne, Lee Virginia M, Trojanowksi John Q, Van Deerlin Vivianna M, Lee Edward B, Bonini Nancy M
From the Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania (LM, NMB); Translational Neuropathology Research Laboratory, Stellar Chance Laboratories (EBL); and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine (VML, JQT, VMVD, EBL), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2014 Sep;73(9):837-45. doi: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000102.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset motor neuron disease in which the loss of spinal cord motor neurons leads to paralysis and death within a few years of clinical disease onset. In almost all cases of ALS, transactive response DNA binding protein of 43 kDa (TDP-43) forms cytoplasmic neuronal inclusions. A second causative gene for a subset of ALS is fused in sarcoma, an RNA binding protein that also forms cytoplasmic inclusions in spinal cord motor neurons. Poly-A binding protein-1 (PABP-1) is a marker of stress granules (i.e. accumulations of proteins and RNA indicative of translational arrest in cells under stress). We report on the colocalization of PABP-1 to both TDP-43 and fused-in-sarcoma inclusions in 4 patient cohorts: ALS without a mutation, ALS with an intermediate polyglutamine repeat expansion in ATXN2, ALS with a GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9orf72, and ALS with basophilic inclusion body disease. Notably, PABP-1 colocalization to TDP-43 was twice as frequent in ALS with C9orf72 expansions compared to ALS with no mutation. This study highlights PABP-1 as a protein that is important to the pathology of ALS and indicates that the proteomic profile of TDP-43 inclusions in ALS may differ depending on the causative genetic mutation.
肌萎缩侧索硬化症(ALS)是一种成年发病的运动神经元疾病,脊髓运动神经元的丧失会导致患者在临床发病后的几年内出现瘫痪并死亡。在几乎所有的ALS病例中,43 kDa的反式激活应答DNA结合蛋白(TDP - 43)会形成细胞质神经元包涵体。ALS一部分病例的第二个致病基因是肉瘤融合基因,这是一种RNA结合蛋白,在脊髓运动神经元中也会形成细胞质包涵体。多聚腺苷酸结合蛋白1(PABP - 1)是应激颗粒的标志物(即蛋白质和RNA的聚集物,表明应激状态下细胞中的翻译停滞)。我们报告了在4个患者队列中PABP - 1与TDP - 43和肉瘤融合基因包涵体的共定位情况:无突变的ALS、ATXN2中存在中间型多聚谷氨酰胺重复扩增的ALS、C9orf72中存在GGGGCC六核苷酸重复扩增的ALS以及患有嗜碱性包涵体病的ALS。值得注意的是,与无突变的ALS相比,C9orf72扩增的ALS中PABP - 1与TDP - 43的共定位频率高出两倍。这项研究强调了PABP - 1作为一种对ALS病理学很重要的蛋白质,并表明ALS中TDP - 43包涵体的蛋白质组学特征可能因致病基因突变而异。