Publications

2024

Using Drosophila amyloid toxicity models to study Alzheimer's disease

E Tsintzas, T Niccoli

Annals of Human Genetics

PolyGR and polyPR knock-in mice reveal a conserved neuroprotective extracellular matrix signature in C9orf72 ALS/FTD neurons

Carmelo Milioto, Mireia Carcolé, Ashling Giblin, Rachel Coneys, Olivia Attrebi, Mhoriam Ahmed, Samuel S Harris, Byung Il Lee, Mengke Yang, Robert A Ellingford, Raja S Nirujogi, Daniel Biggs, Sally Salomonsson, Matteo Zanovello, Paula de Oliveira, Eszter Katona, Idoia Glaria, Alla Mikheenko, Bethany Geary, Evan Udine, Deniz Vaizoglu, Sharifah Anoar, Khrisha Jotangiya, Gerard Crowley, Demelza M Smeeth, Mirjam L Adams, Teresa Niccoli, Rosa Rademakers, Marka van Blitterswijk, Anny Devoy, Soyon Hong, Linda Partridge, Alyssa N Coyne, Pietro Fratta, Dario R Alessi, Ben Davies, Marc Aurel Busche, Linda Greensmith, Elizabeth MC Fisher, Adrian M Isaacs

Nature Neuroscience, 1-13

2023

A monocarboxylate transporter rescues frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease models

Dongwei Xu, Alec Vincent, Andrés González-Gutiérrez, Benjamin Aleyakpo, Sharifah Anoar, Ashling Giblin, Magda L Atilano, Mirjam Adams, Dunxin Shen, Annora Thoeng, Elli Tsintzas, Marie Maeland, Adrian M Isaacs, Jimena Sierralta, Teresa Niccoli

PLoS genetics 19 (9), e1010893

2022

Frontotemporal dementia and glucose metabolism

LR Garrett, T Niccoli

Frontiers in Neuroscience 16, 812222

2021

Mitochondria dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: lessons from Drosophila models

S Anoar, NS Woodling, T Niccoli, Frontiers in Neuroscience 15, 786076

Activating transcription factor 4-dependent lactate dehydrogenase activation as a protective response to amyloid beta toxicity

Niccoli T, Kerr F, Snoeren I, Fabian D, Aleyakpo B, Ivanov D, Sofola- Adesakin O, Cryar A, Adcott J, Thornton J, Partridge L.

Brain Communications, 2021

Enhanced insulin signalling ameliorates C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion toxicity in Drosophila.

Atilano ML, Grönke S, Niccoli T, Kempthorne L, Hahn O, Morón-Oset J, Hendrich O, Dyson M, Adams ML, Hull A, Salcher-Konrad MT, Monaghan A, Bictash M, Glaria I, Isaacs AM, Partridge L.

Elife. 2021 Mar 19;10:e58565. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58565. PMID: 33739284 Free PMC article.

Cell type-specific modulation of healthspan by Forkhead family transcription factors in the nervous system.

Bolukbasi E, Woodling NS, Ivanov DK, Adcott J, Foley A, Rajasingam A, Gittings LM, Aleyakpo B, Niccoli T, Thornton JM, Partridge L.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 23;118(8):e2011491118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2011491118. PMID: 33593901

2020

PICALM rescues glutamatergic neurotransmission, behavioural function and survival in a Drosophila model of Aβ42 toxicity.

Yu Y, Niccoli T, Ren Z, Woodling NS, Aleyakpo B, Szabadkai G, Partridge L.

Human Molecular Genetics. 2020 July:29(14)2420–2434,doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddaa125

2019

RPS25 is required for efficient RAN translation of C9orf72 and other neurodegenerative disease-associated nucleotide repeats.

Yamada SB, Gendron TF, Niccoli T, Genuth NR, Grosely R, Shi Y, Glaria I, Kramer NJ, Nakayama L, Fang S, Dinger TJI, Thoeng A, Rocha G, Barna M, Puglisi JD, Patridge L, Ichida JK, Isaacs AM, Petrucelli L, Gitler AD

Nature Neuroscience. 29 July 2019.

C9orf72 arginine-rich dipeptide proteins interact with ribosomal proteins in vivo to induce a toxic translational arrest that is rescued by eIF1A.

Moens TG, Niccoli T, Wilson KM, Atilano ML, Birsa N, Gittings LM, Holbling BV, Dyson MC, Thoeng A, Neeves J, Glaria I, Yu L, Bussmann J, Storkebaum E, Pardo M, Choudhary JS, Fratta P, Partridge L, Isaacs AM.

Acta Neuropathol. 2019 Mar;137(3):487-500. doi: 10.1007/s00401-018-1946-4. Epub 2019 Jan 2.

2018

Sense and antisense RNA are not toxic in Drosophila models of C9orf72-associated ALS/FTD.

Moens TG, Mizielinska S, Niccoli T, Mitchell JS, Thoeng A, Ridler CE, Grönke S, Esser J, Heslegrave A, Zetterberg H, Partridge L, Isaacs AM.

Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Mar;135(3):445-457. doi: 10.1007/s00401-017-1798-3. Epub 2018 Jan 29.

G-quadruplex-binding small molecules ameliorate C9orf72 FTD/ALS pathology in vitro and in vivo.

Simone R, Balendra R, Moens TG, Preza E, Wilson KM, Heslegrave A, Woodling NS, Niccoli T, Gilbert-Jaramillo J, Abdelkarim S, Clayton EL, Clarke M, Konrad MT, Nicoll AJ, Mitchell JS, Calvo A, Chio A, Houlden H, Polke JM, Ismail MA, Stephens CE, Vo T, Farahat AA, Wilson WD, Boykin DW, Zetterberg H, Partridge L, Wray S, Parkinson G, Neidle S, Patani R, Fratta P, Isaacs AM.

EMBO Mol Med. 2018 Jan;10(1):22-31. doi: 10.15252/emmm.201707850.

2017

Ageing as a risk factor for ALS/FTD.

Niccoli T, Partridge L, Isaacs AM.

Hum Mol Genet. 2017 Oct 1;26(R2):R105-R113. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddx247.

2016

Increased Glucose Transport into Neurons Rescues Aβ Toxicity in Drosophila.

Niccoli T, Cabecinha M, Tillmann A, Kerr F, Wong CT, Cardenes D, Vincent AJ, Bettedi L, Li L, Grönke S, Dols J, Partridge L.

Curr Biol. 2016 Sep 26;26(18):2550. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.018. Epub 2016 Sep 26.

2014

C9orf72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila through arginine-rich proteins.

Mizielinska S, Grönke S, Niccoli T, Ridler CE, Clayton EL, Devoy A, Moens T, Norona FE, Woollacott IOC, Pietrzyk J, Cleverley K, Nicoll AJ, Pickering-Brown S, Dols J, Cabecinha M, Hendrich O, Fratta P, Fisher EMC, Partridge L, Isaacs AM.

Science. 2014 Sep 5;345(6201):1192-1194. doi: 10.1126/science.1256800. Epub 2014 Aug 7.

Cell-nonautonomous effects of dFOXO/DAF-16 in aging.

Alic N, Tullet JM, Niccoli T, Broughton S, Hoddinott MP, Slack C, Gems D, Partridge L.

Cell Rep. 2014 Feb 27;6(4):608-16. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.01.015. Epub 2014 Feb 6.

2012

Ageing as a risk factor for disease.

Niccoli T, Partridge L.

Curr Biol. 2012 Sep 11;22(17):R741-52. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.07.024.

2007

Capu and Spire assemble a cytoplasmic actin mesh that maintains microtubule organization in the Drosophila oocyte.

Dahlgaard K, Raposo AA, Niccoli T, St Johnston D.

Dev Cell. 2007 Oct;13(4):539-53.