Neuromuscular organoids model spinal neuromuscular pathologies in C9orf72 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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Hexanucleotide repeat expansions in the C9orf72 gene are the most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. Due to the lack of trunk neuromuscular organoids (NMOs) from ALS patients' induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), an organoid system was missing to model the trunk spinal neuromuscular neurodegeneration. With the C9orf72 ALS patient-derived iPSCs and isogenic controls, we used an NMO system containing trunk spinal cord neural and peripheral muscular tissues to show that the ALS NMOs could model peripheral defects in ALS, including contraction weakness, neural denervation, and loss of Schwann cells. The neurons and astrocytes in ALS NMOs manifested the RNA foci and dipeptide repeat proteins. Acute treatment with the unfolded protein response inhibitor GSK2606414 increased the glutamatergic muscular contraction 2-fold and reduced the dipeptide repeat protein aggregation and autophagy. This study provides an organoid system for spinal neuromuscular pathologies in ALS and its application for drug testing.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

Enthalten in:

Cell reports - 43(2024), 3 vom: 26. März, Seite 113892

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gao, Chong [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Qinghua [VerfasserIn]
Pan, Xue [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jiajia [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yuhong [VerfasserIn]
Lang, Jiali [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Shan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xiaodong [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Tian-Lin [VerfasserIn]
Lei, Kai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

ALS
Autophagy
C9orf72
C9orf72 Protein
C9orf72 protein, human
CP: Neuroscience
Dipeptide repeat proteins
Dipeptides
GSK2606414
Journal Article
Muscle denervation
NMO
Neural degeneration
Proteins

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Date Completed 01.04.2024

Date Revised 01.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113892

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369217144