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Hiroshi Doi1, Shigeru Koyano, Yume Suzuki
1Department of Clinical Neurology and Stroke Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan. doi@rkd.d-bs.com
Abstract:
Neuronal intranuclear inclusions (NIIs) are the pathological hallmark of polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases. We previously found that the RNA-binding protein FUS/TLS is the major component of nuclear polyQ aggregates of a cellular model of Huntington disease. In this study, we revealed that FUS/TLS binds to NIIs in the human brains from patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, 2, 3, and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy. Recent reports have revealed that mutations in FUS/TLS gene are responsible for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 6 (ALS6). Our results indicated that changing FUS/TLS to an insoluble form may be a common process in polyQ diseases and ALS6.
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