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- Title
Noncoding RNAs and Midbrain DA Neurons: Novel Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets in Health and Disease.
- Authors
Pascale, Emilia; Divisato, Giuseppina; Palladino, Renata; Auriemma, Margherita; Ngalya, Edward Faustine; Caiazzo, Massimiliano
- Abstract
Midbrain dopamine neurons have crucial functions in motor and emotional control and their degeneration leads to several neurological dysfunctions such as Parkinson's disease, addiction, depression, schizophrenia, and others. Despite advances in the understanding of specific altered proteins and coding genes, little is known about cumulative changes in the transcriptional landscape of noncoding genes in midbrain dopamine neurons. Noncoding RNAs—specifically microRNAs and long noncoding RNAs—are emerging as crucial post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression in the brain. The identification of noncoding RNA networks underlying all stages of dopamine neuron development and plasticity is an essential step to deeply understand their physiological role and also their involvement in the etiology of dopaminergic diseases. Here, we provide an update about noncoding RNAs involved in dopaminergic development and metabolism, and the related evidence of these biomolecules for applications in potential treatments for dopaminergic neurodegeneration.
- Subjects
NON-coding RNA; DOPAMINERGIC neurons; MESENCEPHALON; ETIOLOGY of diseases; PARKINSON'S disease; NEURONS
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 9, p1269
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom10091269