2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Functional analysis of Survival Motor Neuron protein in Neuronal cells.
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23500431
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Nerve anatomy/Neuropathology
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| Research Institution | Jikei University School of Medicine |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | Survival Motor Neuron / 脊髄性筋萎縮症 / hnRNP A2 / RNA結合タンパク質 / Translational control / Motor Neuron Disease |
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| Research Abstract |
Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein is involved in snRNPs assembly, essential components in splicing. A lack of SMN due to homologous loss of SMN1 gene results hereditary neurodegenerative disease, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Previously we found that the specific suppression of hnRNP A2 by RNAi treatment induced a reduction of SMN production in SMA patient fibroblast cell. We have analyzed the molecular detail of this regulation. We provided evidences that hnRNP A2 specifically binds A2 binding sequence at 3-UTR of SMN mRNA, and increases the interaction of mRNAs and polyribosome to enhance translation efficiency. Our data suggests that hnRNP A2 is essential for the effective translation of SMN1/2 mRNA, and that this A2 binding site functions as a translation enhancer. Our findings not only define the new regulatory mechanism to control SMN translation by hnRNP A2 specifically, but also implicate the new therapeutic drug development for treatment of SMA.
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Research Products
(2 results)
