Microglial translational profiling reveals a convergent APOE pathway from aging, amyloid, and tau

  • Silvia S. Kang
  • , Mark T.W. Ebbert
  • , Kelsey E. Baker
  • , Casey Cook
  • , Xuewei Wang
  • , Jonathon P. Sens
  • , Jeanne Pierre Kocher
  • , Leonard Petrucelli
  • , John D. Fryer

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Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-associated neurodegenerative disease characterized by amyloidosis, tauopathy, and activation of microglia, the brain resident innate immune cells. We show that a RiboTag translational profiling approach can bypass biases due to cellular enrichment/cell sorting. Using this approach in models of amyloidosis, tauopathy, and aging, we revealed a common set of alterations and identified a central APOE-driven network that converged on CCL3 and CCL4 across all conditions. Notably, aged females demonstrated a significant exacerbation of many of these shared transcripts in this APOE network, revealing a potential mechanism for increased AD susceptibility in females. This study has broad implications for microglial transcriptomic approaches and provides new insights into microglial pathways associated with different pathological aspects of aging and AD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2235-2245
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of Experimental Medicine
Volume215
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018

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Funding

This work was supported by grants from Mayo Foundation, GHR Foundation, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic Gerstner Family Career Development Award, Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program of Florida Department of Health (grant 6AZ06 to J.D. Fryer), and National Institutes of Health grants NS094137, AG047327, and AG049992 (to J.D. Fryer); MH103632 (to S.S. Kang); AG057997 and AG016574 (J.D. Fryer and S.S. Kang); NS100693, NS097273, NS084974, and NS100693 (L. Petrucelli). The authors declare no competing financial interests.

FundersFunder number
Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program of Florida Department of Health6AZ06
GHR Foundation
National Institutes of Health (NIH)NS097273, AG049992, AG016574, NS084974, MH103632, NS100693, AG047327, AG057997
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke CouncilR01NS094137
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Immunology and Allergy
    • Immunology

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