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Microglial dysfunction in brain aging and Alzheimer's disease

大脑衰老和阿尔茨海默病中的小胶质细胞功能障碍

基本信息

批准号：
9911972
负责人：
TONY WYSS-CORAY
金额：
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依托单位：
VETERANS ADMIN PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-04-01 至 2020-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9911972
关键词：
Ablation Acute Affect Age Age-Months Aging Alzheimer&apos s Disease Alzheimer&apos s disease brain Alzheimer&apos s disease model American Amyloid Beta A4 Precursor Protein Amyloid beta-Protein Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor Amyloidosis Antibodies Binding Brain CD22 gene CRISPR/Cas technology Cell surface Chronic Community Health Data Degradation Pathway Disease Economic Burden Elderly Environment FDA approved Foundations Functional disorder Genetic Genomics Health Professional Human Human Amyloid Precursor Protein Immunoglobulins Impaired cognition Impairment In Vitro Knock-in Knock-out Lead Lectin Measures Mediating Microglia Modification Monoclonal Antibodies Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Mus Myeloid Cells Nerve Degeneration Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurofibrillary Tangles Pathologic Pathway interactions Patients Phagocytes Phagocytosis Phagocytosis Inhibition Polysaccharides Predisposing Factor Production Publishing Receptor Signaling Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell Regulation Research Role Senile Plaques Sialic Acids Signal Transduction Societies Solid Testing Therapeutic Therapeutic Intervention Transgenic Mice Transgenic Organisms Veterans Woman abeta accumulation age group age related age related neurodegeneration aged aging brain aging population base cognitive ability effective therapy experimental study family burden hyperphosphorylated tau immunoregulation improved in vivo inhibitor/antagonist loved ones men mouse model mutant new therapeutic target normal aging novel overexpression preclinical study protein degradation sialic acid binding Ig-like lectin sialic acid receptor single-cell RNA sequencing social statistics success tau-1 therapeutic target tool young adult

项目摘要

Alzheimer's disease (AD) produces a progressive degeneration of the brain that slowly destroys a victim's cognitive abilities and inflicts tremendous social and economic burden on families and society in general. As many as 20% of the estimated five million Americans with AD are Veterans, and with no effective treatments available currently, the Alzheimer's Association expects the number of patients will triple in the next 20 years. The cause(s) of AD is unknown in most cases but growing evidence suggests that cellular clearance and protein degradation pathways may be impaired in the disease providing potential new targets for therapeutic intervention. Indeed, the production of Aβ, which accumulates into amyloid plaques in AD brains, is not increased in sporadic AD but it is now largely accepted that, instead, its clearance is impaired. One way in which Aβ can be cleared from brains is through microglial phagocytosis. We, and others, discovered that microglia become inflamed and defective in phagocytosis with “normal” aging, and our unpublished results show that a young systemic environment can reverse some of these dysfunctions. Aged, dysfunctional microglia may thus be a predisposing factor for age-related neurodegeneration including AD. However, the mechanisms of age-related microglial dysfunction are poorly understood. We propose here to investigate the mechanisms of impaired microglial phagocytosis in the aging brain and to evaluate therapeutic strategies to reverse this impairment in models of AD. Preliminary data from an unbiased CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screen suggest that cell-surface sialic acid, an immunomodulatory glycan modification, inhibits phagocytosis in aged microglia, and that CD22, a sialic acid receptor upregulated on aged microglia in mice and in humans with AD, mediates this inhibition. Based on the available published background and our preliminary data we hypothesize that CD22 on microglia inhibits phagocytosis and that targeting CD22 can improve phagocytosis and ameliorate AD-like disease and neurodegeneration. We propose to use genomic and genetic tools to find potential modulators of CD22 function to establish CD22 as an age-related inhibitor of microglial phagocytosis and generate a framework for understanding the mechanistic basis of this function. We propose, furthermore, to inhibit CD22 genetically or using a monoclonal antibody in transgenic mice expressing mutant human amyloid precursor protein APP751Lon,Swe and developing disease around 10 months of age as well as overexpress CD22 transgenically in microglia in newly developed APP knock-in (APPki) mice, which express non-mutated human Aβ in the endogenous mouse APP gene and develop disease around 18 months of age. At completion of the proposed studies we will have a solid foundation of understanding how CD22 regulates phagocytosis in microglia, and aging microglia in particular, and whether targeting CD22 may have therapeutic potential for treating AD-like disease in Veterans and their loved ones.

阿尔茨海默病（AD）会导致大脑进行性退化，慢慢破坏患者的大脑