Genetic and immunopathological analysis of CHCHD10 in Australian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia and transgenic TDP-43 mice

Autor: Denis C. Bauer, Britt A. Berning, Jennifer A. Fifita, Olivier Piguet, Julie D. Atkin, John B.J. Kwok, Adam K. Walker, Sarah E. Freckleton, Alison L. Hogan, Prachi Mehta, Sandrine Chan Moi Fat, Kelly L. Williams, Emily P. McCann, Shu Yang, Dominic B. Rowe, Garth A. Nicholson, Natalie A. Twine, Glenda M. Halliday, Matthew C. Kiernan, Ian P. Blair, Sharlynn Wu, Katharine Y. Zhang, Cyril J. Jagaraj, John R. Hodges, Jasmin Galper, Lyndal Henden, Natalie Grima
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Genetically modified mouse
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Blotting
Western

Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Neurogenetics
Mice
Transgenic

Neuropathology
Gene mutation
Mitochondrial Proteins
Pathogenesis
Mice
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Exome Sequencing
mental disorders
medicine
Animals
Humans
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Aged
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Whole Genome Sequencing
business.industry
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Australia
Motor Cortex
Brain
Genetic Variation
nutritional and metabolic diseases
Human brain
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
Psychiatry and Mental health
medicine.anatomical_structure
Spinal Cord
Frontotemporal Dementia
Female
Surgery
Neurology (clinical)
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Frontotemporal dementia
Zdroj: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 91:162-171
ISSN: 1468-330X
0022-3050
Popis: ObjectiveSince the first report of CHCHD10 gene mutations in amyotrophiclateral sclerosis (ALS)/frontotemporaldementia (FTD) patients, genetic variation in CHCHD10 has been inconsistently linked to disease. A pathological assessment of the CHCHD10 protein in patient neuronal tissue also remains to be reported. We sought to characterise the genetic and pathological contribution of CHCHD10 to ALS/FTD in Australia.MethodsWhole-exome and whole-genome sequencing data from 81 familial and 635 sporadic ALS, and 108 sporadic FTD cases, were assessed for genetic variation in CHCHD10. CHCHD10 protein expression was characterised by immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and western blotting in control, ALS and/or FTD postmortem tissues and further in a transgenic mouse model of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) pathology.ResultsNo causal, novel or disease-associated variants in CHCHD10 were identified in Australian ALS and/or FTD patients. In human brain and spinal cord tissues, CHCHD10 was specifically expressed in neurons. A significant decrease in CHCHD10 protein level was observed in ALS patient spinal cord and FTD patient frontal cortex. In a TDP-43 mouse model with a regulatable nuclear localisation signal (rNLS TDP-43 mouse), CHCHD10 protein levels were unaltered at disease onset and early in disease, but were significantly decreased in cortex in mid-stage disease.ConclusionsGenetic variation in CHCHD10 is not a common cause of ALS/FTD in Australia. However, we showed that in humans, CHCHD10 may play a neuron-specific role and a loss of CHCHD10 function may be linked to ALS and/or FTD. Our data from the rNLS TDP-43 transgenic mice suggest that a decrease in CHCHD10 levels is a late event in aberrant TDP-43-induced ALS/FTD pathogenesis.
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