Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Nuclear export and translation of circular repeat-containing intronic RNA in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD

  • Shaopeng Wang,
  • Malgorzata J. Latallo,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Bo Huang,
  • Dmitriy G. Bobrovnikov,
  • Daoyuan Dong,
  • Nathan M. Livingston,
  • Wilson Tjoeng,
  • Lindsey R. Hayes,
  • Jeffrey D. Rothstein,
  • Lyle W. Ostrow,
  • Bin Wu,
  • Shuying Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25082-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Hexanucleotide repeat expansion in the intron 1 of the C9ORF72 gene can cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontal temporal dementia (FTD). Here the authors use single molecule imaging to show nuclear export and translation of circular repeat-containing C9ORF72 intronic RNA.