PUBLICATION
A novel ALS-associated variant in UBQLN4 regulates motor axon morphogenesis.
- Authors
- Edens, B.M., Yan, J., Deng, H.X., Siddique, T., Ma, Y.C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170504-13
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- eLIFE 6: (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- cell biology, neuroscience, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
-
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/genetics*
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/pathology*
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins/genetics*
- Disease Models, Animal
- Mice
- Morphogenesis*
- Motor Neurons/cytology*
- Nuclear Proteins/genetics*
- Proteasome Endopeptidase Complex/metabolism
- Proteolysis
- Zebrafish
- beta Catenin/metabolism
- PubMed
- 28463112 Full text @ Elife
Citation
Edens, B.M., Yan, J., Deng, H.X., Siddique, T., Ma, Y.C. (2017) A novel ALS-associated variant in UBQLN4 regulates motor axon morphogenesis.. eLIFE. 6.
Abstract
The etiological underpinnings of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are complex and incompletely understood, although contributions to pathogenesis by regulators of proteolytic pathways have become increasingly apparent. Here, we present a novel variant in UBQLN4 that is associated with ALS and show that its expression compromises motor axon morphogenesis in mouse motor neurons and in zebrafish. We further demonstrate that the ALS-associated UBQLN4 variant impairs proteasomal function, and identify the Wnt signaling pathway effector beta-catenin as a UBQLN4 substrate. Inhibition of beta-catenin function rescues the UBQLN4 variant-induced motor axon phenotypes. These findings provide a strong link between the regulation of axonal morphogenesis and a new ALS-associated gene variant mediated by protein degradation pathways.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping