Ning Deng, Yun-Yun Wu, Yanan Feng, Wen-Chieh Hsieh, Jen-Shin Song, Yu-Shiuan Lin, Ya-Hsien Tseng, Wan-Jhu Liao, Yi-Fan Chu, Yu-Cheng Liu, En-Cheng Chang, Chia-Rung Liu, Sheh-Yi Sheu, Ming-Tsan Su, Hung-Chih Kuo, Stanley N Cohen, Tzu-Hao Cheng
Earlier work has shown that siRNA-mediated reduction of the SUPT4H or SUPT5H proteins, which interact to form the DSIF complex and facilitate transcript elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII), can decrease expression of mutant gene alleles containing nucleotide repeat expansions differentially. Using luminescence and fluorescence assays, we identified chemical compounds that interfere with the SUPT4H-SUPT5H interaction and then investigated their effects on synthesis of mRNA and protein encoded by mutant alleles containing repeat expansions in the huntingtin gene ( HTT ), which causes the inherited neurodegenerative disorder, Huntington's Disease (HD)...
August 9, 2022: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America