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- Title
Humanized mutant FUS drives progressive motor neuron degeneration without aggregation in 'FUSDelta14' knockin mice.
- Authors
Devoy, Anny; Kalmar, Bernadett; Stewart, Michelle; Park, Heesoon; Burke, Beverley; Noy, Suzanna J.; Redhead, Yushi; Humphrey, Jack; Lo, Kitty; Jaeger, Julian; Mejia Maza, Alan; Sivakumar, Prasanth; Bertolin, Cinzia; Soraru, Gianni; Plagno, Vincent; Greensmith, Linda; Arozena, Abraham Acevedo; Isaacs, Adrian M.; Davies, Benjamin; Fratta, Pietro
- Abstract
Mutations in FUS are causative for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a dominant mode of inheritance. In trying to model FUS-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in mouse it is clear that FUS is dosage-sensitive and effects arise from overexpression per se in transgenic strains. Novel models are required that maintain physiological levels of FUS expression and that recapitulate the human disease-with progressive loss of motor neurons in heterozygous animals. Here, we describe a new humanized FUS-ALS mouse with a frameshift mutation, which fulfils both criteria: the FUS Delta14 mouse. Heterozygous animals express mutant humanized FUS protein at physiological levels and have adult onset progressive motor neuron loss and denervation of neuromuscular junctions. Additionally, we generated a novel antibody to the unique human frameshift peptide epitope, allowing specific identification of mutant FUS only. Using our new FUSDelta14 ALS mouse-antibody system we show that neurodegeneration occurs in the absence of FUS protein aggregation. FUS mislocalization increases as disease progresses, and mutant FUS accumulates at the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Further, transcriptomic analyses show progressive changes in ribosomal protein levels and mitochondrial function as early disease stages are initiated. Thus, our new physiological mouse model has provided novel insight into the early pathogenesis of FUS-ALS.
- Subjects
HIGH-intensity focused ultrasound; MOTOR neurons; AMYOTROPHIC lateral sclerosis; GENETIC overexpression; DENERVATION
- Publication
Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 2017, Vol 140, Issue 11, p2797
- ISSN
0006-8950
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/brain/awx248