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Published on: September 27, 2015
Implications of mRNA translation dysregulation for neurological disorders
Aya Jishi1, Xin Qi1, Helen C Miranda2
1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Abstract:
The translation of information encoded in the DNA into functional proteins is one of the tenets of cellular biology. Cell survival and function depend on the tightly controlled processes of transcription and translation. Growing evidence suggests that dysregulation in mRNA translation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of several neurodevelopmental diseases, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS) as well as neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In this review, we provide an overview of mRNA translation and its modes of regulation that have been implicated in neurological disease.
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