TABLE 3.
Main dysregulated long non-coding RNAs in Huntington’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Disease | LncRNA | Target mRNA | Biological function | References |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | NEAT1/MALAT1 | TDP-43 | Improving toxicity of TDP-43 | Hutchinson et al., 2007; Tollervey et al., 2011; Militello et al., 2018 |
MEG3 | Hox | promotes the formation of PRC2-Jarid2 complexes | Yen et al., 2018; Vangoor et al., 2020 | |
C9ORF72-AS | C9ORF72 | Regulates repetition of (G4C2)n in C9ORF72 | Kovanda et al., 2015; DeJesus-Hernandez et al., 2017; Shelkovnikova et al., 2018 | |
Huntington’s disease | NEAT1 | HTT/TP53 | Reducing the expression of endogenous HTT and TP53. | Chanda et al., 2018 |
TUG1 | P53 | Regulates P53 transcriptional regulatory pathway in HD | Khalil et al., 2009 |