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    Mutant GGGGCC RNA prevents YY1 from binding to Fuzzy promoter which stimulates Wnt/β-catenin pathway in C9ALS/FTD

    The GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion mutation in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) gene is a major genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9ALS/FTD). In t...

    Zhefan Stephen Chen, Mingxi Ou, Stephanie Taylor, Ruxandra Dafinca in Nature Communications (2023)

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    C9orf72-ALS human iPSC microglia are pro-inflammatory and toxic to co-cultured motor neurons via MMP9

    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor neuron loss, with additional pathophysiological involvement of non-neuronal cells such as microglia. The co...

    Björn F. Vahsen, Sumedha Nalluru, Georgia R. Morgan in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Human iPSC co-culture model to investigate the interaction between microglia and motor neurons

    Motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are primarily characterized by motor neuron degeneration with additional involvement of non-neuronal cells, in particular, microglia. In previous wor...

    Björn F. Vahsen, Elizabeth Gray, Ana Candalija, Kaitlyn M. L. Cramb in Scientific Reports (2022)

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    Axonal TDP-43 condensates drive neuromuscular junction disruption through inhibition of local synthesis of nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins

    Mislocalization of the predominantly nuclear RNA/DNA binding protein, TDP-43, occurs in motor neurons of ~95% of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients, but the contribution of axonal TDP-43 to this neur...

    Topaz Altman, Ariel Ionescu, Amjad Ibraheem, Dominik Priesmann in Nature Communications (2021)