Dysregulated expression of cholesterol biosynthetic genes in Alzheimer's disease alters epigenomic signatures of hippocampal neurons

Autor: Isabel Paiva, Jonathan Seguin, Iris Grgurina, Akash Kumar Singh, Brigitte Cosquer, Damien Plassard, Laura Tzeplaeff, Stephanie Le Gras, Ludovica Cotellessa, Charles Decraene, Johanne Gambi, Rafael Alcala-Vida, Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy, Luc Buée, Jean-Christophe Cassel, Paolo Giacobini, David Blum, Karine Merienne, Tapas K. Kundu, Anne-Laurence Boutillier
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Neurobiology of Disease, Vol 198, Iss , Pp 106538- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1095-953X
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106538
Popis: Aging is the main risk factor of cognitive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, with epigenome alterations as a contributing factor. Here, we compared transcriptomic/epigenomic changes in the hippocampus, modified by aging and by tauopathy, an AD-related feature. We show that the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway is severely impaired in hippocampal neurons of tauopathic but not of aged mice pointing to vulnerability of these neurons in the disease. At the epigenomic level, histone hyperacetylation was observed at neuronal enhancers associated with glutamatergic regulations only in the tauopathy. Lastly, a treatment of tau mice with the CSP-TTK21 epi-drug that restored expression of key cholesterol biosynthesis genes counteracted hyperacetylation at neuronal enhancers and restored object memory. As acetyl-CoA is the primary substrate of both pathways, these data suggest that the rate of the cholesterol biosynthesis in hippocampal neurons may trigger epigenetic-driven changes, that may compromise the functions of hippocampal neurons in pathological conditions.
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