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C9ORF72 poly(GA) aggregates sequester and impair HR23 and nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins

2016; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 19; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/nn.4272

1546-1726

Yong‐Jie Zhang, Tania F. Gendron, Jonathan C. Grima, Hiroki Sasaguri, Karen Jansen‐West, Ya-Fei Xu, Rebecca B. Katzman, Jennifer Gass, Melissa E. Murray, Mitsuru Shinohara, Wen-Lang Lin, Aliesha Garrett, Jeannette N. Stankowski, Lillian M. Daughrity, Jimei Tong, Emilie A. Perkerson, Mei Yue, Jeannie Chew, Monica Castanedes‐Casey, Aishe Kurti, Zizhao S Wang, Amanda M. Liesinger, Jeremy D. Baker, Jie Jiang, Clotilde Lagier‐Tourenne, Dieter Edbauer, Don W. Cleveland, Rosa Rademakers, Khrista Boylan, Guojun Bu, Christopher D. Link, Chad A. Dickey, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Dennis W. Dickson, John Denis Fryer, Leonard Petrucelli,

Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding

Zhang et al. show that the poly(GA) proteins produced in patients with C9ORF72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration and behavioral abnormalities when expressed in mice. The emergence of these phenotypes requires poly(GA) aggregation, and poly(GA) inclusions sequester HR23 proteins involved in proteasomal degradation, as well as proteins involved in nucleocytoplasmic transport. Neuronal inclusions of poly(GA), a protein unconventionally translated from G4C2 repeat expansions in C9ORF72, are abundant in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) caused by this mutation. To investigate poly(GA) toxicity, we generated mice that exhibit poly(GA) pathology, neurodegeneration and behavioral abnormalities reminiscent of FTD and ALS. These phenotypes occurred in the absence of TDP-43 pathology and required poly(GA) aggregation. HR23 proteins involved in proteasomal degradation and proteins involved in nucleocytoplasmic transport were sequestered by poly(GA) in these mice. HR23A and HR23B similarly colocalized to poly(GA) inclusions in C9ORF72 expansion carriers. Sequestration was accompanied by an accumulation of ubiquitinated proteins and decreased xeroderma pigmentosum C (XPC) levels in mice, indicative of HR23A and HR23B dysfunction. Restoring HR23B levels attenuated poly(GA) aggregation and rescued poly(GA)-induced toxicity in neuronal cultures. These data demonstrate that sequestration and impairment of nuclear HR23 and nucleocytoplasmic transport proteins is an outcome of, and a contributor to, poly(GA) pathology.