Drug screening for ALS using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells.
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چکیده
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a late-onset, fatal disorder in which the motor neurons degenerate. The discovery of new drugs for treating ALS has been hampered by a lack of access to motor neurons from ALS patients and appropriate disease models. We generate motor neurons from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from familial ALS patients, who carry mutations in Tar DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43). ALS patient-specific iPSC-derived motor neurons formed cytosolic aggregates similar to those seen in postmortem tissue from ALS patients and exhibited shorter neurites as seen in a zebrafish model of ALS. The ALS motor neurons were characterized by increased mutant TDP-43 protein in a detergent-insoluble form bound to a spliceosomal factor SNRPB2. Expression array analyses detected small increases in the expression of genes involved in RNA metabolism and decreases in the expression of genes encoding cytoskeletal proteins. We examined four chemical compounds and found that a histone acetyltransferase inhibitor called anacardic acid rescued the abnormal ALS motor neuron phenotype. These findings suggest that motor neurons generated from ALS patient-derived iPSCs may provide a useful tool for elucidating ALS disease pathogenesis and for screening drug candidates.
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[ALS disease modeling and drug screening using patient-specific iPS cells].
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which motor neuron (MN) loss in the spinal cord leads to progressive paralysis and death. Cytosolic aggregations in ALS MNs are composed of Tar DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43). Genetic analysis has identified more than twenty mutations of TDP-43 in ALS cases. Although accumulating evidence provides several hypotheses of dise...
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Egawa et al. recently showed the value of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in vitro. Their study and our work highlight the need for complementary assays to detect small, but potentially important, phenotypic differences between control iPSC lines and those carrying disease mutations.
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Our work and the study of Bilican et al. highlight the need for complementary assays to detect subtle phenotypic differences between control and mutant induced pluripotent stem cell lines.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science translational medicine
دوره 4 145 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012