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Systematic elucidation of neuron-astrocyte interaction in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using multi-modal integrated bioinformatics workflow

ABSTRACT: Cell-to-cell communications are critical determinants of pathophysiological phenotypes, but methodologies for their systematic elucidation are lacking. Herein, we propose an approach for the Systematic Elucidation and Assessment of Regulatory Cell-to-cell Interaction Networks (SEARCHIN) to elucidate ligand-mediated interactions between distinct cellular compartments. To test this approach, we selected a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in which astrocytes expressing mutant superoxide dismutase-1 (mutSOD1) kill wild-type motor neurons (MNs) by an unknown mechanism. Integrative analysis that combines proteomics and regulatory network analysis infers the interaction between astrocyte-released amyloid precursor protein (APP) and death receptor-6 (DR6) on MNs as the top predicted ligand-receptor pair. The inferred deleterious role of APP and DR6 is confirmed in vitro in models of ALS. Moreover, the DR6 knockdown in MNs of transgenic mutSOD1 mice attenuates the ALS-like phenotype. Our results support the usefulness of integrative, systems biology approach to gain insights into complex neurobiological disease processes as in ALS and posit that the proposed methodology is not restricted to this biological context and could be used in a variety of other non-cell-autonomous communication mechanisms.

INSTRUMENT(S): LTQ Orbitrap

ORGANISM(S): Rattus Rattus (black Rat)

SUBMITTER: Hossein Fazelinia

LAB HEAD: Serge Przedborski

PROVIDER: PXD021773 | Pride | 2021-09-09

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Systematic elucidation of neuron-astrocyte interaction in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using multi-modal integrated bioinformatics workflow.

Mishra Vartika V Re Diane B DB Le Verche Virginia V Alvarez Mariano J MJ Vasciaveo Alessandro A Jacquier Arnaud A Doulias Paschalis-Tomas PT Greco Todd M TM Nizzardo Monica M Papadimitriou Dimitra D Nagata Tetsuya T Rinchetti Paola P Perez-Torres Eduardo J EJ Politi Kristin A KA Ikiz Burcin B Clare Kevin K Than Manuel E ME Corti Stefania S Ischiropoulos Harry H Lotti Francesco F Califano Andrea A Przedborski Serge S

Nature communications 20201104 1

Cell-to-cell communications are critical determinants of pathophysiological phenotypes, but methodologies for their systematic elucidation are lacking. Herein, we propose an approach for the Systematic Elucidation and Assessment of Regulatory Cell-to-cell Interaction Networks (SEARCHIN) to identify ligand-mediated interactions between distinct cellular compartments. To test this approach, we selected a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in which astrocytes expressing mutant superoxide ...[more]

PMID: 33149111

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