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Neurodegenerative disorders characterized by neuronal and glial lesions containing aggregated pathological TDP-43 protein in the cytoplasm, nucleus, or neurites are collectively referred to as TDP-43 proteinopathies. Lesions containing aggregated TDP-43 protein are a hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitinated inclusions (FTLD-U). In addition, mutations in human TDP-43 cause ALS. We have developed a Caenorhabditis elegans model of TDP-43 proteinopathies to study the cellular, molecular, and genetic underpinnings of TDP-43-mediated neurotoxicity. Expression of normal human TDP-43 in all C. elegans neurons causes moderate motor defects, whereas ALS-mutant G290A, A315T, or M337V TDP-43 transgenes cause severe motor dysfunction. The model recapitulates some characteristic features of ALS and FTLD-U including age-induced decline in motor function, decreased life span, and degeneration of motor neurons accompanied by hyperphosphorylation, truncation, and ubiquitination of TDP-43 protein that accumulates in detergent-insoluble protein deposits. In C. elegans, TDP-43 neurotoxicity is independent of activity of the cell death caspase CED-3. Furthermore, phosphorylation of TDP-43 at serine residues 409/410 drives mutant TDP-43 toxicity. This model provides a tractable system for additional dissection of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying TDP-43 neuropathology.

Phosphorylation Promotes Neurotoxicity in aCaenorhabditis elegansModel of TDP-43 Proteinopathy