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Converging mechanisms in ALS and FTD: disrupted RNA and protein homeostasis.

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It is presented the case here that these two processes are intimately linked, with disease-initiated perturbation of either leading to further deviation of both protein and RNA homeostasis through a feedforward loop including cell-to-cell prion-like spread that may represent the mechanism for relentless disease progression.
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This article is published in Neuron.The article was published on 2013-08-07 and is currently open access. It has received 1347 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: C9orf72 Protein & Valosin-containing protein.

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A census of human RNA-binding proteins.

TL;DR: This work presents a census of 1,542 manually curated RBPs that are analysed for their interactions with different classes of RNA, their evolutionary conservation, their abundance and their tissue-specific expression, a critical step towards the comprehensive characterization of proteins involved in human RNA metabolism.
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Principles and Properties of Stress Granules

TL;DR: Assembly and disassembly of stress granules are modulated by various post-translational modifications as well as numerous ATP-dependent RNP or protein remodeling complexes, illustrating that stress granule formation represents an active liquid wherein energy input maintains their dynamic state.
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RNA mis-splicing in disease

TL;DR: An overview of RNA splicing mechanisms is provided followed by a discussion of disease-associated errors, with an emphasis on recently described mutations that have provided new insights into splicing regulation.
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Alternative polyadenylation of mRNA precursors.

TL;DR: The roles of APA in diverse cellular processes, including mRNA metabolism, protein diversification and protein localization, and more generally in gene regulation are discussed, and the molecular mechanisms underlying APA are discussed.
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Mutations in Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene are associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

TL;DR: Tight genetic linkage between FALS and a gene that encodes a cytosolic, Cu/Zn-binding superoxide dismutase (SOD1), a homodimeric metalloenzyme that catalyzes the dismutation of the toxic superoxide anion O–2 to O2 and H2O2 is reported.
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A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

Alan E. Renton, +85 more
- 20 Oct 2011 - 
TL;DR: The chromosome 9p21 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal dementia (ALS-FTD) locus contains one of the last major unidentified autosomal-dominant genes underlying these common neurodegenerative diseases, and a large hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the first intron of C9ORF72 is shown.
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A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the cause of chromosome 9p21-linked ALS-FTD

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