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TDP-43 condensation properties specify its RNA binding and regulation

Hallegger, M; Chakrabarti, A; Lee, F; Amalietti, A; Kuret, K; Huppertz, I; Luscombe, N; (2021) TDP-43 condensation properties specify its RNA binding and regulation. Cell 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.018. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Summary: Mutations causing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) often affect the condensation properties of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). However, the role of RBP condensation in the specificity and function of protein-RNA complexes remains unclear. We created a series of TDP-43 C-terminal domain (CTD) variants that exhibited a gradient of low to high condensation propensity, as observed in vitro and by nuclear mobility and foci formation. Notably, a capacity for condensation was required for efficient TDP-43 assembly on subsets of RNA-binding regions, which contain unusually long clusters of motifs of characteristic types and density. These “binding-region condensates” are promoted by homomeric CTD-driven interactions and required for efficient regulation of a subset of bound transcripts, including autoregulation of TDP-43 mRNA. We establish that RBP condensation can occur in a binding-region-specific manner to selectively modulate transcriptome-wide RNA regulation, which has implications for remodeling RNA networks in the context of signaling, disease, and evolution.

Type: Article
Title: TDP-43 condensation properties specify its RNA binding and regulation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.018
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.018
Language: English
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Keywords: Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Department of Neuromuscular Diseases
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133077
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