scholarly journals PARP-1 dependent recruitment of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated protein FUS/TLS to sites of oxidative DNA damage

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart L. Rulten ◽  
Amy Rotheray ◽  
Ryan L. Green ◽  
Gabrielle J. Grundy ◽  
Duncan A. Q. Moore ◽  
...  
2011 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 1679-1691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Coppedè

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is an adult onset neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the degeneration of cortical and spinal cord motor neurons, resulting in progressive muscular weakness and death. Increasing evidence supports mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative DNA damage in ALS motor neurons. Several DNA repair enzymes are activated following DNA damage to restore genome integrity, and impairments in DNA repair capabilities could contribute to motor neuron degeneration. After a brief description of the evidence of DNA damage in ALS, this paper focuses on the available data on DNA repair activity in ALS neuronal tissue and disease animal models. Moreover, biochemical and genetic data on DNA repair in ALS are discussed in light of similar findings in other neurodegenerative diseases.


2007 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Schwerdtle ◽  
Ingrit Hamann ◽  
Gunnar Jahnke ◽  
Ingo Walter ◽  
Constanze Richter ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 3137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Konopka ◽  
Julie Atkin

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a behavioural disorder resulting in early-onset dementia. Hexanucleotide (G4C2) repeat expansions in the gene encoding chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) are the major cause of familial forms of both ALS (~40%) and FTD (~20%) worldwide. The C9orf72 repeat expansion is known to form abnormal nuclei acid structures, such as hairpins, G-quadruplexes, and R-loops, which are increasingly associated with human diseases involving microsatellite repeats. These configurations form during normal cellular processes, but if they persist they also damage DNA, and hence are a serious threat to genome integrity. It is unclear how the repeat expansion in C9orf72 causes ALS, but recent evidence implicates DNA damage in neurodegeneration. This may arise from abnormal nucleic acid structures, the greatly expanded C9orf72 RNA, or by repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation, which generates toxic dipeptide repeat proteins. In this review, we detail recent advances implicating DNA damage in C9orf72-ALS. Furthermore, we also discuss increasing evidence that targeting these aberrant C9orf72 confirmations may have therapeutic value for ALS, thus revealing new avenues for drug discovery for this disorder.


PLoS Genetics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e1009260
Author(s):  
Marta Giannini ◽  
Aleix Bayona-Feliu ◽  
Daisy Sproviero ◽  
Sonia I. Barroso ◽  
Cristina Cereda ◽  
...  

TDP-43 is a DNA and RNA binding protein involved in RNA processing and with structural resemblance to heterogeneous ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs), whose depletion sensitizes neurons to double strand DNA breaks (DSBs). Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder, in which 97% of patients are familial and sporadic cases associated with TDP-43 proteinopathies and conditions clearing TDP-43 from the nucleus, but we know little about the molecular basis of the disease. After showing with the non-neuronal model of HeLa cells that TDP-43 depletion increases R loops and associated genome instability, we prove that mislocalization of mutated TDP-43 (A382T) in transfected neuronal SH-SY5Y and lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) from an ALS patient cause R-loop accumulation, R loop-dependent increased DSBs and Fanconi Anemia repair centers. These results uncover a new role of TDP-43 in the control of co-transcriptional R loops and the maintenance of genome integrity by preventing harmful R-loop accumulation. Our findings thus link TDP-43 pathology to increased R loops and R loop-mediated DNA damage opening the possibility that R-loop modulation in TDP-43-defective cells might help develop ALS therapies.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matteo Bordoni ◽  
Orietta Pansarasa ◽  
Michela Dell’Orco ◽  
Valeria Crippa ◽  
Stella Gagliardi ◽  
...  

We already demonstrated that in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (sALS) patients, superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) was present in an aggregated form in the cytoplasmic compartment. Here, we investigated the possible effect of soluble SOD1 decrease and its consequent aggregation. We found an increase in DNA damage in patients PBMCs characterized by a high level of aggregated SOD1, while we found no DNA damage in PBMCs with normal soluble SOD1. We found an activation of ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated (ATM)/Chk2 and ATM and Rad3-related (ATR)/Chk1 DNA damage response pathways, which lead to phosphorylation of SOD1. Moreover, data showed that phosphorylation allows SOD1 to shift from the cytoplasm to the nucleus, protecting DNA from oxidative damage. Such pathway was finally confirmed in our cellular model. Our data lead us to suppose that in a sub-group of patients this physiologic pathway is non-functional, leading to an accumulation of DNA damage that causes the death of particularly susceptible cells, like motor neurons. In conclusion, during oxidative stress SOD1 is phosphorylated by Chk2 leading to its translocation in the nuclear compartment, in which SOD1 protects DNA from oxidative damage. This pathway, inefficient in sALS patients, could represent an innovative therapeutic target.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Atkin ◽  
Sina Shadfar ◽  
Marta Vidal ◽  
Sonam Parakh ◽  
Angela Laird

Protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) is a chaperone that catalyses the formation of thiol-disulphide bonds during protein folding. Whilst up-regulation of PDI is a protective mechanism to regulate protein folding, an increasingly wide range of cellular functions have been ascribed to PDI. Originally identified in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), PDI has now been detected in many cellular locations, including the nucleus. However, its role in this cellular compartment remains undefined. PDI is implicated in multiple diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal and rapidly progressing neurodegenerative condition affecting motor neurons. Loss of essential proteins from the nucleus is an important feature of ALS. This includes TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43), a DNA/RNA binding protein present in a pathological form in the cytoplasm in almost all (97%) ALS cases, that is also mutated in a proportion of familial cases. PDI is protective against disease-relevant phenotypes associated with dysregulation of protein homeostasis (proteostasis) in ALS. DNA damage is also increasingly linked to ALS, which is induced by pathological forms of TDP-43 by impairment of its normal function in the non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) mechanism of DNA repair. However, it remains unclear whether PDI is protective against DNA damage in ALS. In this study we demonstrate that PDI was protective against several types of DNA damage, induced by either etoposide, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), or ALS-associated mutant TDP-43M337V in neuronal cells. This was demonstrated using widely used DNA damage markers, phosphorylated H2AX and 53BP1, which is specific for NHEJ. Moreover, we also show that PDI translocates into the nucleus following DNA damage. Here PDI is recruited directly to sites of DNA damage, implying that it has a direct role in DNA repair. This study therefore identifies a novel role of PDI in the nucleus in preventing DNA damage.


2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 117906951988016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Mitra ◽  
Muralidhar L Hegde

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating, motor neuron degenerative disease without any cure. About 95% of the ALS patients feature abnormalities in the RNA/DNA-binding protein, TDP-43, involving its nucleo-cytoplasmic mislocalization in spinal motor neurons. How TDP-43 pathology triggers neuronal apoptosis remains unclear. In a recent study, we reported for the first time that TDP-43 participates in the DNA damage response (DDR) in neurons, and its nuclear clearance in spinal motor neurons caused DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair defects in ALS. We documented that TDP-43 was a key component of the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) pathway of DSB repair, which is likely the major pathway for repair of DSBs in post-mitotic neurons. We have also uncovered molecular insights into the role of TDP-43 in DSB repair and showed that TDP-43 acts as a scaffold in recruiting the XRCC4/DNA Ligase 4 complex at DSB damage sites and thus regulates a critical rate-limiting function in DSB repair. Significant DSB accumulation in the genomes of TDP-43-depleted, human neural stem cell-derived motor neurons as well as in ALS patient spinal cords with TDP-43 pathology, strongly supported a TDP-43 involvement in genome maintenance and toxicity-induced genome repair defects in ALS. In this commentary, we highlight our findings that have uncovered a link between TDP-43 pathology and impaired DNA repair and suggest potential possibilities for DNA repair-targeted therapies for TDP-43-ALS.


Blood ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 119 (18) ◽  
pp. 4162-4173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Li ◽  
Jared Sipple ◽  
Qishen Pang ◽  
Wei Du

Abstract Salidroside is a phenylpropanoid glycoside isolated from the medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea, which has potent antioxidant properties. Here we show that salidroside prevented the loss of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in mice under oxidative stress. Quiescent HSCs were recruited into cell cycling on in vivo challenge with oxidative stress, which was blocked by salidroside. Surprisingly, salidroside does not prevent the production of reactive oxygen species but reduces hydrogen peroxide–induced DNA-strand breaks in bone marrow cells enriched for HSCs. We tested whether salidroside enhances oxidative DNA damage repair in mice deficient for 5 DNA repair pathways known to be involved in oxidative DNA damage repair; we found that salidroside activated poly(ADP-ribose)polymerase-1 (PARP-1), a component of the base excision repair pathway, in mouse bone marrow HSCs as well as primary fibroblasts and human lymphoblasts. PARP-1 activation by salidroside protects quiescent HSCs from oxidative stress–induced cycling in native animals and self-renewal defect in transplanted recipients, which was abrogated by genetic ablation or pharmacologic inhibition of PARP-1. Together, these findings suggest that activation of PARP-1 by salidroside could affect the homeostasis and function of HSCs and contribute to the antioxidant effects of salidroside.


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