Luca Muzio, Riccardo Sirtori, Davide Gornati, Simona Eleuteri, Andrea Fossaghi, Diego Brancaccio, Leonardo Manzoni, Linda Ottoboni, Luca De Feo, Angelo Quattrini, Eloise Mastrangelo, Luca Sorrentino, Emanuele Scalone, Giancarlo Comi, Luciana Marinelli, Nilo Riva, Mario Milani, Pierfausto Seneci, Gianvito Martino
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease characterized by the degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons (MNs). We find a significant reduction of the retromer complex subunit VPS35 in iPSCs-derived MNs from ALS patients, in MNs from ALS post mortem explants and in MNs from SOD1G93A mice. Being the retromer involved in trafficking of hydrolases, a pathological hallmark in ALS, we design, synthesize and characterize an array of retromer stabilizers based on bis-guanylhydrazones connected by a 1,3-phenyl ring linker...
July 31, 2020: Nature Communications