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Delta-secretase triggers Alzheimer's disease pathologies in wild-type hAPP/hMAPT double transgenic mice.

ABSTRACT: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease with multifactorial pathologies including A? containing senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) consisted of aggregated Tau. Most of the AD patients are sporadic and the familial mutation hereditary patients are composed only 1% of all cases. However, the current AD mouse models employ mutated APP, PS1, or even Tau mutant, in order to display a portion of AD pathologies. Delta-secretase (legumain, or asparaginyl endopeptidase, AEP) simultaneously cleaves both APP and Tau and augments A? production and Tau hyperphosphorylation and aggregation, contributing to AD pathogenesis. Here we show that ?-secretase is sufficient to promote prominent AD pathologies in wild-type hAPP/hMAPT double transgenic mice. We crossed hAPP l5 mice and hMAPT mice to generate double transgenic mouse model carrying both human wild-type APP and Tau. Compared to the single transgenic parents, these double transgenic mice demonstrated AD-related pathologies in one-year-old hAPP/hMAPT mice. Notably, overexpression of ?-secretase in hAPP/hMAPT double-transgenic mice evidently accelerated enormous senile plaques and NFT, associated with prominent synaptic defects and cognitive deficits. Hence, ?-secretase facilitates AD pathogenesis independent of any patient-derived mutation.

SUBMITTER: Wu Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733592 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Delta-secretase triggers Alzheimer's disease pathologies in wild-type hAPP/hMAPT double transgenic mice.

Wu Zhourui Z Liu Xia X Cheng Liming L Ye Keqiang K

Cell death & disease 20201212 12

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease with multifactorial pathologies including Aβ containing senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) consisted of aggregated Tau. Most of the AD patients are sporadic and the familial mutation hereditary patients are composed only 1% of all cases. However, the current AD mouse models employ mutated APP, PS1, or even Tau mutant, in order to display a portion of AD pathologies. Delta-secretase (legumain, or asparaginyl endop ...[more]

PMID: 33311478

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Project description:BackgroundCurrently, there is no cure for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therapeutics that can modify the early stage of AD are urgently needed. Recent studies have shown that the pathogenesis of AD is closely regulated by an endo/lysosomal asparaginyl endopeptidase (AEP). Inhibition of AEP has been reported to prevent neural degeneration in transgenic mouse models of AD. However, more than 90% of AD cases are age-related sporadic AD rather than hereditary AD. The therapeutic efficacy of AEP inhibition in ageing-associated sporadic AD remains unknown.MethodsThe senescence-accelerated mouse prone 8 (SAMP8) was chosen as an approximate model of sporadic AD and treated with a selective AEP inhibitor,: δ-secretase inhibitor 11. Activation of AEP was determined by enzymatic activity assay. Concentration of soluble amyloid β (Aβ) in the brain was determined by ELISA. Morris water maze test was performed to assess the learning and memory-related cognitive ability. Pathological changes in the brain were explored by morphological and western blot analyses.ResultsThe enzymatic activity of AEP in the SAMP8 mouse brain was significantly higher than that in the age-matched SAMR1 mice. The half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) for δ-secretase inhibitor 11 to inhibit AEP in vitro is was around 150 nM. Chronic treatment with δ-secretase inhibitor 11 markedly decreased the brain AEP activity, reduced the generation of Aβ1-40/42 and ameliorated memory loss. The inhibition of AEP with this reagent not only reduced the AEP-cleaved tau fragments and tau hyperphosphorylation, but also attenuated neuroinflammation in the form of microglial activation. Moreover, treatment with δ-secretase inhibitor 11 prevented the synaptic loss and alleviated dendritic disruption in SAMP8 mouse brain.ConclusionsPharmacological inhibition of AEP can intervene and prevent AD-like pathological progress in the model of sporadic AD. The up-regulated AEP in the brain could be a promising target for early treatment of AD. The δ-secretase inhibitor 11 can be used as a lead compound for translational development of AD treatment.

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Delta-secretase triggers Alzheimer's disease pathologies in wild-type hAPP/hMAPT double transgenic mice.

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Delta-secretase triggers Alzheimer's disease pathologies in wild-type hAPP/hMAPT double transgenic mice.

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