Astrocytes from familial and sporadic ALS patients are toxic to motor neurons (original) (raw)
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- Published: 10 August 2011
- Mark E Hester1 na1,
- Carlos J Miranda1 na1,
- Kathrin Meyer1,
- Lyndsey Braun1,
- Ashley Frakes1,2,
- SungWon Song1,3,
- Shibi Likhite1,3,
- Matthew J Murtha1,3,
- Kevin D Foust1,
- Meghan Rao1,
- Amy Eagle1,
- Anja Kammesheidt4,
- Ashley Christensen4,
- Jerry R Mendell1,2,
- Arthur H M Burghes5 &
- …
- Brian K Kaspar1,2,3,6
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal motor neuron disease, with astrocytes implicated as contributing substantially to motor neuron death in familial (F)ALS1,2,3,4,5. However, the proposed role of astrocytes in the pathology of ALS derives in part from rodent models of FALS based upon dominant mutations within the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) gene, which account for <2% of all ALS cases2,4,5. Their role in sporadic (S)ALS, which affects >90% of ALS patients, remains to be established. Using astrocytes generated from postmortem tissue from both FALS and SALS patients, we show that astrocytes derived from both patient groups are similarly toxic to motor neurons. We also demonstrate that SOD1 is a viable target for SALS, as its knockdown significantly attenuates astrocyte-mediated toxicity toward motor neurons. Our data highlight astrocytes as a non–cell autonomous component in SALS and provide an in vitro model system to investigate common disease mechanisms and evaluate potential therapies for SALS and FALS.
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This work was funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 NS644912-1A1, RC2 NS69476-01, Project A.L.S. and Packard Center for ALS Research (P2ALS) and Helping Link Foundation to B.K.K., and an NIH grant NRSAF31NS058224 to A.M.H.-P., K.M. is supported by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Amanda M Haidet-Phillips, Mark E Hester, Carlos J Miranda, Kathrin Meyer, Lyndsey Braun, Ashley Frakes, SungWon Song, Shibi Likhite, Matthew J Murtha, Kevin D Foust, Meghan Rao, Amy Eagle, Jerry R Mendell & Brian K Kaspar - Integrated Biomedical Science Graduate Program, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Amanda M Haidet-Phillips, Ashley Frakes, Jerry R Mendell & Brian K Kaspar - Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
SungWon Song, Shibi Likhite, Matthew J Murtha & Brian K Kaspar - Ambry Genetics, Aliso Viejo, California, USA
Anja Kammesheidt & Ashley Christensen - Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Arthur H M Burghes - Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Conceived and designed the experiments: M.E.H., A.M.H.-P., C.J.M., A.H.M.B., J.R.M. and B.K.K. Performed the experiments: M.E.H., A.M.H.-P., C.J.M., K.M., L.B., A.F., S.S., S.L., M.J.M., K.D.F., M.R., A.E., A.K. and A.C. Analyzed the data: B.K.K., M.E.H., A.M.H. and C.J.M. Wrote the manuscript: M.E.H., A.M.H.-P., C.J.M. and B.K.K with input from the other co-authors.
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Haidet-Phillips, A., Hester, M., Miranda, C. et al. Astrocytes from familial and sporadic ALS patients are toxic to motor neurons.Nat Biotechnol 29, 824–828 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1957
- Received: 15 July 2011
- Accepted: 26 July 2011
- Published: 10 August 2011
- Issue Date: September 2011
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1957