LSM12-EPAC1 defines a neuroprotective pathway that sustains the nucleocytoplasmic RAN gradient
- Authors
- Lee, Jongbo; Park, Jumin; Kim, Ji-hyung; Lee, Giwook; Park, Tae-Eun; Yoon, Ki-Jun; Kim, Yoon Ki; Lim, Chunghun
- Issue Date
- 12월-2020
- Publisher
- PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
- Citation
- PLOS BIOLOGY, v.18, no.12
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- PLOS BIOLOGY
- Volume
- 18
- Number
- 12
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/51228
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001002
- ISSN
- 1544-9173
- Abstract
- Nucleocytoplasmic transport (NCT) defects have been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as C9ORF72-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia (C9-ALS/FTD). Here, we identify a neuroprotective pathway of like-Sm protein 12 (LSM12) and exchange protein directly activated by cyclic AMP 1 (EPAC1) that sustains the nucleocytoplasmic RAN gradient and thereby suppresses NCT dysfunction by the C9ORF72-derived poly(glycine-arginine) protein. LSM12 depletion in human neuroblastoma cells aggravated poly(GR)-induced impairment of NCT and nuclear integrity while promoting the nuclear accumulation of poly(GR) granules. In fact, LSM12 posttranscriptionally up-regulated EPAC1 expression, whereas EPAC1 overexpression rescued the RAN gradient and NCT defects in LSM12-deleted cells. C9-ALS patient-derived neurons differentiated from induced pluripotent stem cells (C9-ALS iPSNs) displayed low expression of LSM12 and EPAC1. Lentiviral overexpression of LSM12 or EPAC1 indeed restored the RAN gradient, mitigated the pathogenic mislocalization of TDP-43, and suppressed caspase-3 activation for apoptosis in C9-ALS iPSNs. EPAC1 depletion biochemically dissociated RAN-importin beta 1 from the cytoplasmic nuclear pore complex, thereby dissipating the nucleocytoplasmic RAN gradient essential for NCT. These findings define the LSM12-EPAC1 pathway as an important suppressor of the NCT-related pathologies in C9-ALS/FTD.
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