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Sarm1 Deletion, but Not WldS, Confers Lifelong Rescue in a Mouse Model of Severe Axonopathy

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Gilley, JN 
Ribchester, RR 
Coleman, MP 

Abstract

Studies with the WldS mutant mouse have shown that axon and synapse pathology in several models of neurodegenerative diseases are mechanistically related to injury-induced axon degeneration (Wallerian degeneration). Crucially, an absence of SARM1 delays Wallerian degeneration as robustly as WldS, but their relative capacities to confer long-term protection against related, non-injury axonopathy and/or synaptopathy have not been directly compared. Whilst Sarm1 deletion or WldS can each rescue perinatal lethality and widespread Wallerian-like axonopathy in young NMNAT2-deficient mice, we now report that an absence of SARM1 enables these mice to survive into old age with no overt phenotype whereas those rescued by WldS invariantly develop a progressive neuromuscular defect in their hindlimbs from around 3 months of age. We therefore propose Sarm1 deletion as a more reliable tool than WldS for investigating Wallerian-like mechanisms in disease models and suggest that SARM1 blockade may have greater therapeutic potential than WLDS-related strategies.

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NMNAT2-deficient mice, Sarm1, Wld(S), aging, axonopathy, disease model, motor function, neurodegeneration, neuromuscular junction, synaptopathy, Animals, Armadillo Domain Proteins, Axons, Cytoskeletal Proteins, Disease Models, Animal, Female, Gene Deletion, Gene Expression Regulation, Genes, Lethal, Hindlimb, Humans, Locomotion, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Knockout, Muscular Atrophy, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Nicotinamide-Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase, RNA, Small Interfering, Signal Transduction, Time Factors, Wallerian Degeneration

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Cell Reports

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2211-1247
2211-1247

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21

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Elsevier
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Medical Research Council (MR/N004582/1)
This work was funded by an Institute Strategic Programme grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Medical Research Council grants MR/N004582/1 and MR/M024075/1, and Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA) grant 838-791.
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