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20848157

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-14
pubmed:abstractText
We have utilized Caenorhabditis elegans as a model to investigate the toxicity and underlying mechanism of untranslated CAG repeats in comparison to CUG repeats. Our results indicate that CAG repeats can be toxic at the RNA level in a length-dependent manner, similar to that of CUG repeats. Both CAG and CUG repeats of toxic length form nuclear foci and co-localize with C. elegans muscleblind (CeMBL), implying that CeMBL may play a role in repeat RNA toxicity. Consistently, the phenotypes of worms expressing toxic CAG and CUG repeats, including shortened life span and reduced motility rate, were partially reversed by CeMbl over-expression. These results provide the first experimental evidence to show that the RNA toxicity induced by expanded CAG and CUG repeats can be mediated, at least in part, through the functional alteration of muscleblind in worms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1420-9071
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
68
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1255-67
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Muscleblind participates in RNA toxicity of expanded CAG and CUG repeats in Caenorhabditis elegans.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, 402, Taiwan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't