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蛋白质RNA复合物和ALS:来自iCLIP的见解

Protein-RNA complexes & ALS: insights from iCLIP
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/encals2017_ule_iclip_insights/  
主讲教师: Jernej Ule
开课单位: 伦敦大学学院
开课时间: 2017-07-21
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
几种RNA结合蛋白(RBP)的突变导致ALS,包括TDP43、hnRNPA1、hnRNPA2/B1、FUS和MATRIN3。致病突变通常集中在这些RBP的内在无序区(IDR)。为了了解这些突变的机制,我们和其他人研究了这些RBP如何组装成更大的蛋白质RNA复合物。为此目的,我们采取的一种方法是使用单个核苷酸分辨率UV交联和免疫沉淀(iCLIP)研究它们的蛋白质-RNA相互作用,使用质谱法研究RNA-RNA相互作用,以及它们与RNA-Seq和PolyASeq的功能。我们的研究表明,IDR作为蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用的对接平台,进而影响RBP的RNA结合特性。由于肌萎缩侧索硬化症和所有神经退行性疾病都与衰老有关,我们还希望了解它们的致病机制如何与不同脑区衰老时发生的分子事件和细胞变化的相互作用有关。为此,我们对年龄在16岁至106岁之间的480名个体的10个人脑区域的老化改变基因表达变化进行了表征。我们发现星形胶质细胞和少突胶质细胞特异性基因(而非神经元特异性基因)随着年龄的增长而改变其区域表达模式,特别是在海马和黑质,而小胶质细胞和内皮特异性基因的表达在所有脑区都增加。与这些变化一致,高分辨率免疫组织化学显示老化大脑皮层中少突胶质细胞和神经元亚群的数量减少,胶质细胞特异性基因比神经元特异性基因更准确地预测年龄。我将讨论蛋白RNA复合物在调节细胞命运以及在衰老和晚期疾病中神经元-胶质细胞相互作用中可能发挥的作用。
课程简介: Mutations in several RNA binding proteins (RBPs) cause ALS, including TDP43, hnRNPA1, hnRNPA2/B1, FUS and MATRIN3. Disease-causing mutations are most often concentrated within the intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of these RBPs. To understand the mechanisms of these mutations, we and others study how these RBPs assemble into larger protein-RNA complexes. One approach we take towards this purpose is to study their protein-RNA interactions with the use of individualnucleotide resolution UV crosslinking and immunoprecipitation (iCLIP), RNA-RNA interactions with Mass Spectrometry, and their function with RNA-Seq and PolyASeq. Our study indicates that the IDRs serve as a docking platform for protein-protein interactions, which in turn affect the RNA binding properties of RBPs. Since ALS and all neurodegenerative diseases are linked to aging, we also wish to understand how their causative mechanisms are linked to the interplay of molecular events and cellular changes that take place upon aging in different brain regions. For this purpose, we characterized aging-altered gene expression changes across 10 human brain regions from 480 individuals ranging in age from 16 to 106. We found that astrocyte and oligodendrocyte-specific, but not neuron-specific genes shift their regional expression patterns upon aging, particularly in the hippocampus and substantia nigra, while the expression of microglia and endothelial-specific genes increase in all brain regions. In line with these changes, high-resolution immunohistochemistry demonstrated decreased numbers of oligodendrocytes and of neuronal subpopulations in the aging brain cortex, and glial-specific genes predict age with greater precision than neuron-specific genes. I will discuss the role that proteinRNA complexes may play in regulating cellular fates, and in neuron-glia interactions in aging and late-life diseases.
关 键 词: RNA结合蛋白; 致病突变; 肌萎缩侧索硬化症
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数据采集: 2021-12-17:zkj
最后编审: 2021-12-17:zkj
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