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Mechanism of innate immune activation in a Drosophila model of Alzheimer's disease related dementia

阿尔茨海默病相关痴呆果蝇模型中先天免疫激活机制

基本信息

批准号：
10554427
负责人：
Leo J Pallanck
金额：
$ 38.88万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-02-01 至 2027-01-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10554427
关键词：
ATF2 gene Address Affect Age-associated memory impairment Alzheimer&apos s disease model Alzheimer&apos s disease related dementia Alzheimer&apos s disease risk American Biochemical Biogenesis Biological Assay Biology Blood Brain Central Nervous System Defect Development Dimerization Disease Drosophila genus Enzymes Genes Genetic Genetic Transcription Glucosylceramides Glycosphingolipids Hemolymph Immune Immune response Immune system Impairment Innate Immune System Insecta Intervention Lead Learning Lewy Body Dementia Ligands Link Mediating Medical Membrane Mitogens Modeling Mutation Nature Nerve Degeneration Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurofibrillary Tangles Neuroglia Neurons Orthologous Gene Pathogenesis Pathway interactions Persons Phenotype Play Process Production Property Protein Kinase Proteins Proteomics RNA interference screen Receptor Activation Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases Regulation Reporting Risk Risk Factors Role Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Source Sphingolipids Testing Transcript Tyrosine Phosphorylation Ubiquitin Work activating transcription factor brain cell experimental study extracellular vesicles fly follow-up genetic risk factor glucosylceramidase immune activation innate immune mechanisms innate immune pathways knock-down mutant neuroinflammation novel p38 Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase pharmacologic prevent protein aggregation response transcriptome sequencing upstream kinase vesicular release

项目摘要

ABSTRACT: Lewy body dementia is an Alzheimer’s disease–related dementia that affects more than one million Americans. The strongest risk factor for this devastating neurodegenerative disease is mutation of the GBA gene, which encodes the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GCase). GBA mutations can impair the ability of GCase to break down its substrate, the glycosphingolipid glucosylceramide (GlcCer), but it is not clear how defects in GlcCer breakdown increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease–related dementias. To study this problem, we created a fly lacking the Drosophila ortholog of GBA, Gba1b, as a model of GCase deficiency. Our Gba1b mutant shows accumulation of GlcCer and recapitulates features of Alzheimer’s disease–related dementias including neurodegeneration, brain protein aggregates, and age-related cognitive decline. We now propose to use the Gba1b mutant to test a novel model of neurodegeneration associated with GCase deficiency, in which GlcCer accumulation leads to neuroinflammation via changes in extracellular vesicles (EVs). In earlier work, we found that Gba1b mutants had increased abundance and turnover of EV proteins, and that genetically suppressing neuronal EV production ameliorated mutant phenotypes. More recently, RNA-Seq experiments revealed that Gba1b mutants had marked innate immune activation. A followup RNAi screen of major innate immune pathways found that neuronal knockdown of two p38 MAPK pathway components, the transcription factor Atf-2 and its upstream kinase licorne, also suppressed Gba1b mutant phenotypes. Based on these and other findings, we hypothesize that immune-mediated neurodegeneration in Gba1b mutants is a process driven by excess GlcCer in two separate roles. Specifically, we hypothesize that excess GlcCer in neurons triggers ligand-independent receptor tyrosine kinase activity and p38 MAPK signaling, stimulating EV release; GlcCer in the released EVs then causes glia to secrete immune effector proteins, leading to protein aggregation and neurodegeneration. We propose three aims to address these hypotheses. The first will delineate the intraneuronal signaling pathway that leads to abnormal EV release; the second will investigate the nature of the EV alterations; the third will determine how those EVs trigger immune effector secretion from glia. Given the abundant evidence for neuroinflammation in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, we anticipate that our work will have broad medical significance.

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