Bidirectional expression of CUG and CAG expansion transcripts and intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8
| Autor: | John W. Day, Gang Chen, Laura P.W. Ranum, Marcy R Weatherspoon, Wangcai Gao, Yoshio Ikeda, Anne K Mosemiller, Randy S. Daughters, Timothy J. Ebner, H. Brent Clark, Tao Zu, Melinda L. Moseley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Genetically modified mouse
Chromosomes Artificial Bacterial congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities RNA Untranslated Molecular Sequence Data Mice Transgenic Nerve Tissue Proteins Biology Mice Gene expression Genetics medicine Animals Humans Spinocerebellar Ataxias Base Sequence RNA medicine.disease Phenotype Molecular biology Penetrance Recombinant Proteins Disease Models Animal Ataxin Spinocerebellar ataxia RNA Long Noncoding Peptides Trinucleotide Repeat Expansion Trinucleotide repeat expansion |
| Zdroj: | Nature Genetics. 38:758-769 |
| ISSN: | 1546-1718 1061-4036 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/ng1827 |
| Popis: | We previously reported that a (CTG)n expansion causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (SCA8), a slowly progressive ataxia with reduced penetrance. We now report a transgenic mouse model in which the full-length human SCA8 mutation is transcribed using its endogenous promoter. (CTG)116 expansion, but not (CTG)11 control lines, develop a progressive neurological phenotype with in vivo imaging showing reduced cerebellar-cortical inhibition. 1C2-positive intranuclear inclusions in cerebellar Purkinje and brainstem neurons in SCA8 expansion mice and human SCA8 autopsy tissue result from translation of a polyglutamine protein, encoded on a previously unidentified antiparallel transcript (ataxin 8, ATXN8) spanning the repeat in the CAG direction. The neurological phenotype in SCA8 BAC expansion but not BAC control lines demonstrates the pathogenicity of the (CTG-CAG)n expansion. Moreover, the expression of noncoding (CUG)n expansion transcripts (ataxin 8 opposite strand, ATXN8OS) and the discovery of intranuclear polyglutamine inclusions suggests SCA8 pathogenesis involves toxic gain-of-function mechanisms at both the protein and RNA levels. |
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