PUBLICATION
Accelerated brain aging towards transcriptional inversion in a zebrafish model of the K115fs mutation of human PSEN2
- Authors
- Hin, N., Newman, M., Kaslin, J., Douek, A.M., Lumsden, A., Nik, S.H.M., Dong, Y., Zhou, X.F., Mañucat-Tan, N.B., Ludington, A., Adelson, D.L., Pederson, S., Lardelli, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-200125-10
- Date
- 2020
- Source
- PLoS One 15: e0227258 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Douek, Alon M., Kaslin, Jan, Lardelli, Michael, Newman, Morgan
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Aging/genetics*
- Aging/pathology
- Alternative Splicing
- Alzheimer Disease/genetics*
- Alzheimer Disease/immunology
- Alzheimer Disease/pathology
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Brain/cytology
- Brain/immunology
- Brain/pathology*
- Datasets as Topic
- Disease Models, Animal
- Down-Regulation
- Female
- Frameshift Mutation
- Gene Editing
- Gene Regulatory Networks*
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Microglia/immunology
- Microglia/pathology
- Presenilin-1/genetics*
- Presenilin-1/metabolism
- Presenilin-2/genetics
- Presenilin-2/metabolism
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Isoforms/metabolism
- Proteomics
- RNA-Seq
- Up-Regulation
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 31978074 Full text @ PLoS One
Citation
Hin, N., Newman, M., Kaslin, J., Douek, A.M., Lumsden, A., Nik, S.H.M., Dong, Y., Zhou, X.F., Mañucat-Tan, N.B., Ludington, A., Adelson, D.L., Pederson, S., Lardelli, M. (2020) Accelerated brain aging towards transcriptional inversion in a zebrafish model of the K115fs mutation of human PSEN2. PLoS One. 15:e0227258.
Abstract
Background The molecular changes involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression remain unclear since we cannot easily access antemortem human brains. Some non-mammalian vertebrates such as the zebrafish preserve AD-relevant transcript isoforms of the PRESENILIN genes lost from mice and rats. One example is PS2V, the alternative transcript isoform of the PSEN2 gene. PS2V is induced by hypoxia/oxidative stress and shows increased expression in late onset, sporadic AD brains. A unique, early onset familial AD mutation of PSEN2, K115fs, mimics the PS2V coding sequence suggesting that forced, early expression of PS2V-like isoforms may contribute to AD pathogenesis. Here we use zebrafish to model the K115fs mutation to investigate the effects of forced PS2V-like expression on the transcriptomes of young adult and aged adult brains.
Methods We edited the zebrafish genome to model the K115fs mutation. To explore its effects at the molecular level, we analysed the brain transcriptome and proteome of young (6-month-old) and aged (24-month-old) wild type and heterozygous mutant female sibling zebrafish. Finally, we used gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) to compare molecular changes in the brains of these fish to human AD.
Results Young heterozygous mutant fish show transcriptional changes suggesting accelerated brain aging and increased glucocorticoid signalling. These early changes precede a transcriptional 'inversion' that leads to glucocorticoid resistance and other likely pathological changes in aged heterozygous mutant fish. Notably, microglia-associated immune responses regulated by the ETS transcription factor family are altered in both our zebrafish mutant model and in human AD. The molecular changes we observe in aged heterozygous mutant fish occur without obvious histopathology and possibly in the absence of Aβ.
Conclusions Our results suggest that forced expression of a PS2V-like isoform contributes to immune and stress responses favouring AD pathogenesis. This highlights the value of our zebrafish genetic model for exploring molecular mechanisms involved in AD pathogenesis.
Errata / Notes
ENA:PRJEB24858
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping