Nature Communications (May 2021)

Cytoplasmic FUS triggers early behavioral alterations linked to cortical neuronal hyperactivity and inhibitory synaptic defects

  • Jelena Scekic-Zahirovic,
  • Inmaculada Sanjuan-Ruiz,
  • Vanessa Kan,
  • Salim Megat,
  • Pierre De Rossi,
  • Stéphane Dieterlé,
  • Raphaelle Cassel,
  • Marguerite Jamet,
  • Pascal Kessler,
  • Diana Wiesner,
  • Laura Tzeplaeff,
  • Valérie Demais,
  • Sonu Sahadevan,
  • Katharina M. Hembach,
  • Hans-Peter Muller,
  • Gina Picchiarelli,
  • Nibha Mishra,
  • Stefano Antonucci,
  • Sylvie Dirrig-Grosch,
  • Jan Kassubek,
  • Volker Rasche,
  • Albert Ludolph,
  • Anne-Laurence Boutillier,
  • Francesco Roselli,
  • Magdalini Polymenidou,
  • Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne,
  • Sabine Liebscher,
  • Luc Dupuis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23187-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Mutations in the RNA binding protein FUS are associated with ALS. Here the authors show that in FUS knock-in mice there is a progressive increase in neuronal activity in the frontal cortex which is associated with altered synaptic gene expression.