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An integrated omics approach reveals synaptic plasticity changes in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer´s mouse model

ABSTRACT: Synaptic dysfunction occurs early in Alzheimer´s disease. However, efforts to protect against these detriments have not been possible due to the inadequate understanding of synaptic signalling pathways involved in the neuropathological disease process. The aim of this study was to elucidate the molecular mechanisms behind Alzheimer´s and synaptic plasticity-related signalling using a multi-omics and in situ imaging approach. We used an Alzheimer´s mouse model (APPswe/PSN1dE9, age of 12 month) (APP/PS1) and compared the changes on the proteome including global phosphorylation and N-linked glycosylation pattern, pathway-focused transcriptome and neurological disease-associated miRNAome with age-matched control mice in the neocortex, hippocampus, olfactory bulb and brainstem. Our analysis showed that signalling pathways related to synaptic functions associated to dendritic spine morphology, neurite outgrowth, long-term potentiaiton, CREB signalling and cytoskeletal dynamics were altered in the APP/PS1 transgenic mice, particular in the neocortex and olfactory bulb. This was associated with Aβ plaques and neurofibrillary tangle formation as well as microglial clustering in all brain regions except brainstem. The responses may be epigenetically modulated by the interaction with a number of miRNAs. We suggest that the alterations in synaptic plasticity-related signalling are associated to neurocognitive dysfunctions that resemble the situtation in human AD patients.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive

ORGANISM(S): Mus Musculus (mouse)

TISSUE(S): Brain

DISEASE(S): Alzheimer's Disease

SUBMITTER: Stefan J. Kempf

LAB HEAD: Martin R. Larsen

PROVIDER: PXD003312 | Pride | 2016-05-11

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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Project description:Neuroinflammation is a major contributor to disease progression in Alzheimer´s disease (AD) and is characterized by the activity of brain resident glial cells, in particular microglia cells. However, there is increasing evidence that peripheral immune cells infiltrate the brain at certain stages of AD progression and shape disease pathology. We recently identified CD8+ T-cells in the brain parenchyma of APP-PS1 transgenic mice being tightly associated with microglia as well as with neuronal structures. The functional role of CD8+ T-cells in the AD brain is however completely unexplored. Here, we demonstrate increased numbers of intra-parenchymal CD8+ T-cells in human AD post-mortem hippocampus, which was replicated in APP-PS1 mice. Also, aged WT mice show a remarkable infiltration of CD8+ T-cells, which was more pronounced and had an earlier onset in APP-PS1 mice. To address their functional relevance in AD, we successfully ablated the pool of CD8+ T-cells in the blood, spleen and brain from 12 months-old APP-PS1 and WT mice for a total of 4 weeks using an anti-CD8 antibody treatment. While the treatment at this time of disease stage did neither affect the cognitive outcome nor plaque pathology, RNAseq analysis of the hippocampal transcriptome from APP-PS1 mice lacking CD8+ T-cells revealed highly altered neuronal- and synapse-related gene expression including an up-regulation for neuronal immediate early genes (IEGs) such as the Activity Regulated Cytoskeleton Associated Protein (Arc) and the Neuronal PAS Domain Protein 4 (Npas4). Gene ontology enrichment analysis illustrated that the biological processes “regulation of neuronal synaptic plasticity” and the cellular components “postsynapses” were over-represented upon CD8+ T-cell ablation. Additionally, Kegg pathway analysis showed up-regulated pathways for “calcium signaling”, “long-term potentiation”, “glutamatergic synapse” and “axon guidance”. Therefore, we conclude that CD8+ T-cells infiltrate the aged and AD brain and that brain CD8+ T-cells might directly contribute to neuronal dysfunction in modulating synaptic plasticity. Further analysis will be essential to uncover the exact mechanism of how CD8+ T-cells modulate the neuronal landscape and thereby contribute to AD pathology.

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An integrated omics approach reveals synaptic plasticity changes in an APP/PS1 Alzheimer´s mouse model

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