Arginine-rich dipeptide repeat proteins (R-DPRs), abnormal translational products of a GGGGCC hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 , play a critical role in C9ORF72 -related amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the most common genetic form of the disorders (c9ALS/FTD). R-DPRs form liquid condensates in vitro, induce stress granule formation in cultured cells, aggregate, and sometimes coaggregate with TDP-43 in postmortem tissue from patients with c9ALS/FTD. However, how these processes are regulated is unclear. Here, we show that loss of poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) suppresses neurodegeneration in c9ALS/FTD fly models and neurons differentiated from patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. Mechanistically, PAR induces R-DPR condensation and promotes R-DPR–induced stress granule formation and TDP-43 aggregation. Moreover, PAR associates with insoluble R-DPR and TDP-43 in postmortem tissue from patients. These findings identified PAR as a promoter of R-DPR toxicity and thus a potential target for treating c9ALS/FTD.
IC‐02‐06: LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN BRAIN MRI AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES IN ASYMPTOMATIC AND SYMPTOMATIC FAMILIAL FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION WITH MUTATIONS IN MAPT
P1‐264: LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN BRAIN MRI AND NEUROPSYCHOMETRICS IN ASYMPTOMATIC AND SYMPTOMATIC FAMILIAL FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION WITH MUTATIONS IN MAPT
O3‐03‐05: LONGITUDINAL MRI AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN SYMPTOMATIC FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION SUBJECTS WITH MUTATIONS IN MAPT, PGRN, AND C9ORF72