Ribonuclease recruitment using a small molecule reduced c9ALS/FTD r(G4C2) repeat expansion in vitro and in vivo ALS models
SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE(2021)
摘要
The most common cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (c9ALS/FTD) is an expanded G(4)C(2) RNA repeat [r(G(4)C(2))(exp)] in chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 (C9orf72), which elicits pathology through several mechanisms. Here, we developed and characterized a small molecule for targeted degradation of r(G(4)C(2))(exp). The compound was able to selectively bind r(G(4)C(2))(exp)'s structure and to assemble an endogenous nuclease onto the target, provoking removal of the transcript by native RNA quality control mechanisms. In c9ALS patient-derived spinal neurons, the compound selectively degraded the mutant C9orf72 allele with limited off-targets and reduced quantities of toxic dipeptide repeat proteins (DPRs) translated from r(G(4)C(2))(exp). In vivo work in a rodent model showed that abundance of both the mutant allele harboring the repeat expansion and DPRs were selectively reduced by this compound. These results demonstrate that targeted small-molecule degradation of r(G(4)C(2))(exp) is a strategy for mitigating c9ALS/FTD-associated pathologies and studying disease-associated pathways in preclinical models.
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RNA processing
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