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Stem Cell Res
February 2025
Precision Medicine and Prenatal Diagnosis Lab, Shenzhen Hosptial of Southern Medical University, PR China. Electronic address:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Four major genes associated with ALS-SOD1, TARDBP, FUS, and C9orf72-have been identified, with the fused in sarcoma (FUS) gene demonstrating considerable genetic heterogeneity. Our research group has previously established an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell line harboring the c.
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October 2024
Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB), Faculty of Medicine & Faculty of Life Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of motoneurons (MNs), and despite progress, there is no effective treatment. A large body of evidence shows that astrocytes expressing ALS-linked mutant proteins cause non-cell autonomous toxicity of MNs. Although MNs innervate muscle fibers and ALS is characterized by the early disruption of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and axon degeneration, there are controversies about whether muscle contributes to non-cell-autonomous toxicity to MNs.
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October 2024
Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Increasing evidence suggests an essential function for autophagy in unconventional protein secretion (UPS). However, despite its relevance for the secretion of aggregate-prone proteins, the mechanisms of secretory autophagy in neurons have remained elusive. Here we show that the lower motoneuron disease-associated guanine exchange factor Plekhg5 drives the UPS of Sod1.
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August 2024
Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
A structural alteration in copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is one of the common features caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-linked mutations. Although a large number of SOD1 variants have been reported in ALS patients, the detailed structural properties of each variant are not well summarized. We present SoDCoD, a database of superoxide dismutase conformational diversity, collecting our comprehensive biochemical analyses of the structural changes in SOD1 caused by ALS-linked gene mutations and other perturbations.
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July 2024
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Hyogo Medical University, 1-1 Mukogawa-Cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, 663-8501, Japan.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with an unknown pathogenesis. It has been reported that mutations in the gene for Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause familial ALS. Mutant SOD1 undergoes aggregation and forms amyloid more easily, and SOD1-immunopositive inclusions have been observed in the spinal cords of ALS patients.
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