Mutant SOD1 and mitochondrial damage alter expression and splicing of genes controlling neuritogenesis in models of neurodegeneration

Human Mutation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-182

  Lenzken, Silvia C ^a   Romeo, Valentina ^a   Zolezzi, Francesca ^a   Cordero, Francesca ^b   Lamorte, Giuseppe ^a   Bonanno, Davide ^a   Biancolini, Donatella ^a   Cozzolino, Mauro ^e   Pesaresi, Maria Grazia ^e   Maracchioni, Alessia ^e   Sanges, Remo ^f   Achsel, Tilmann ^c,e   Carrì, Maria Teresa ^d,e   Calogero, Raffaele A ^b   Barabino, Silvia M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^f CBM scrl Genomics   (Italy)

Author keywords

ALS; Axon guidance; Microarray; Mitochondria; Neurodegeneration; RNA splicing; SOD1

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PARAQUAT;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURITES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79551536181     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21394     Document Type: Article

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