“…The list of ALS-linked mutations in genes encoding mRNP components and modulators is rapidly expanding, and includes TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43; Sreedharan et al, 2008), Fused in Sarcoma (FUS; Kwiatowski et al, 2009; Vance et al, 2009), hnRNP1 and hnRNPA2 (Kim et al, 2013), and, more recently, Gle1 (Kaneb et al 2015). Gle1 is a highly conserved and essential modulator of RNA-dependent DEAD-box ATPases during mRNA export (Alcazar-Roman et al, 2008; Murphy and Wente, 1996; Folkmann et al, 2013), translation (Bolger et al, 2008; Alcazar-Roman et al, 2010; Bolger and Wente, 2011) and stress granule dynamics (Aditi et al, 2015). By inducing the release of select RBPs, DEAD-box proteins facilitate changes in the mRNP protein composition through a process termed mRNP remodeling, and these mRNP changes play critical roles in an mRNA’s processing (Jarmoskaite and Russell, 2014).…”