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Non-nuclear Pool of Splicing Factor SFPQ Regulates Axonal Transcripts Required for Normal Motor Development.

Neuron | 2017

Recent progress revealed the complexity of RNA processing and its association to human disorders. Here, we unveil a new facet of this complexity. Complete loss of function of the ubiquitous splicing factor SFPQ affects zebrafish motoneuron differentiation cell autonomously. In addition to its nuclear localization, the protein unexpectedly localizes to motor axons. The cytosolic version of SFPQ abolishes motor axonal defects, rescuing key transcripts, and restores motility in the paralyzed sfpq null mutants, indicating a non-nuclear processing role in motor axons. Novel variants affecting the conserved coiled-coil domain, so far exclusively found in fALS exomes, specifically affect the ability of SFPQ to localize in axons. They broadly rescue morphology and motility in the zebrafish mutant, but alter motor axon morphology, demonstrating functional requirement for axonal SFPQ. Altogether, we uncover the axonal function of the splicing factor SFPQ in motor development and highlight the importance of the coiled-coil domain in this process. VIDEO ABSTRACT.

Pubmed ID: 28392072 RIS Download

Associated grants

  • Agency: Motor Neurone Disease Association, United Kingdom
    Id: SMITH/APR16/847-791
  • Agency: MRF, United Kingdom
    Id: MRF_MRF-060-0003-RG-SMITH
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MR/N026063/1
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: MC_G1000733
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: G0900688
  • Agency: Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
  • Agency: Medical Research Council, United Kingdom
    Id: G0901525

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