Project description:To clarify the functional properties of FUS, we established the differentially expressed alternative exons in FUS-silenced primary motor neurons by using exon-sensitive microarray technology. To clarify the functional properties of FUS, we established the differentially expressed alternative exons in FUS-silenced primary glial cells by using exon-sensitive microarray technology. To clarify the functional properties of FUS, we established the differentially expressed alternative exons in FUS-silenced primary cerebellar neurons by using exon-sensitive microarray technology.
2012-11-21 | GSE42421 | GEO
Project description:Expression profiles of primary cortical neurons after knocking down Tdp-43 and Cugbp1
Project description:TDP-43, FUS, and TAF15 are implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia. We integrate CLIP-seq and RNA Bind-N-Seq technologies to discover that TAF15 binds to ~4,900 RNAs enriched for GGUA motifs. In the mouse brain, TAF15 and FUS, but not TDP-43, exhibit strikingly similar RNA binding profiles, yet they alter the expression of distinct mRNA populations upon their individual depletions. TAF15 has a minimal role in alternative splicing and instead affects RNA turnover, consistent with an enrichment of TAF15 binding sites in 3â?? untranslated regions. In human stem cell-derived motor neurons, loss of both TAF15 and FUS affected mRNAs distinct from those altered by loss of either protein alone, revealing redundant roles for TAF15 and FUS in maintaining mRNA levels. Furthermore, concomitant rather than individual depletion of TAF15 and FUS more closely resembles RNA profiles of motor neurons derived from FUS R521G ALS patients or from late-stage, sporadic ALS patients. Our study reveals convergent and divergent mechanisms by which FUS, TAF15 and TDP-43 affects RNA metabolism in neurological disease. RNA-seq, CLIP-seq and arrays in mouse and human against TAF15 knockdowns This Series represents CLIP-seq sample(s).
