RNA interference mediates RNA toxicity with parent-of-origin effects in C. elegans expressing CTG repeats
Braun, M.; Shoshani, S.; Teixeira, J.; Mellul-Shtern, A.; Miller, M.; Granot, Z.; Fischer, S.; Garcia, S. M. D. A.; Tabach, Y.
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Nucleotide repeat expansions are a hallmark of over 40 neurodegenerative diseases. These repeats cause RNA toxicity and trigger multisystemic symptoms that worsen with age. RNA toxicity can trigger, through an unclear mechanism, severe disease manifestation in infants that inherited repeats from their mothers. Here we show in Caenorhabditis elegans how RNA interference machinery causes intergenerational toxicity through inheritance of siRNAs derived from CUG repeats. The maternal repeat-derived small RNAs cause transcriptomic changes in the offspring, reduce motility and shorten lifespan. However, the toxicity phenotypes in the offspring can be rescued by perturbing the RNAi machinery in affected mothers. This points to a novel mechanism linking maternal bias and the RNAi machinery and suggests that toxic RNA is transmitted to offspring and causes disease phenotypes through intergenerational epigenetic inheritance.
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