Jessica Sultana, Audrey M G Ragagnin, Sonam Parakh, Sayanthooran Saravanabavan, Kai Ying Soo, Marta Vidal, Cyril Jones Jagaraj, Kunjie Ding, Sharlynn Wu, Sina Shadfar, Emily K Don, Anand Deva, Garth Nicholson, Dominic B Rowe, Ian Blair, Shu Yang, Julie D Atkin
Hexanucleotide repeat expansions (HREs) in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72) gene are the most frequent genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Both are debilitating neurodegenerative conditions affecting either motor neurons (ALS) in the brain and spinal cord or neurons in the frontal and/or temporal cortical lobes (FTD). HREs undergo repeat-associated non-ATG (RAN) translation on both sense and anti-sense strands, generating five distinct dipeptide repeat proteins (DPRs), poly-GA, -GR, -GP, -PA and -PR...
May 9, 2024: Molecular Neurobiology