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Predictive potential of circulating Ube2h mRNA as an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme for diagnosis or treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

ABSTRACT: Neurodegenerative disorders are status in which neuronal cell death, miscommunications between synapse, and abnormal accumulation of proteins in the brain. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the age-related disorders which is most common degenerative disorders today, and strongly involved memory consolidation and cognitive in the brain. Amyloid-β and tau proteins are trigger for AD pathogenesis, and usually use for AD candidate biomarkers in the clinical research. Especially, clinical exam, brain imaging and molecular biological methods are being used to diagnosis for AD. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) is new biomedical method, and use contribute to understanding of many human diseases included brain diseases. Here, we identified ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 (Ube2) gene expression in the neuron through GWAS. The subfamilies of Ube2 genetic expression and inborn errors affect ubiquitin proteasome system (UPS) leading to protein degradation in the brain. We found that only Ube2h mRNA transcription was significantly increased in the blood from AD, however we did not find change of Ube2 subfamily genes expression in the blood and brain tissue. These data may provide information of diagnosis or clinical approach, and suggest that cell-free circulating Ube2h mRNA is novel potential biomarker for AD.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE147792 | GEO | 2020/12/31

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Predictive potential of circulating Ube2h mRNA as an E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme for diagnosis or treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

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