PUBLICATION
KYNA/Ahr Signaling Suppresses Neural Stem Cell Plasticity and Neurogenesis in Adult Zebrafish Model of Alzheimer's Disease
- Authors
- Siddiqui, T., Bhattarai, P., Popova, S., Cosacak, M.I., Sariya, S., Zhang, Y., Mayeux, R., Tosto, G., Kizil, C.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-211025-54
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- Cells 10(10): (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Cosacak, Mehmet Ilyas, Kizil, Caghan
- Keywords
- Alzheimer’s disease, kynurenic acid, neural stem cell, neurogenesis, plasticity, proliferation, regeneration, transcriptome-wide association study, zebrafish
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE124162, GEO:GSE118577, GEO:GSE74326
- MeSH Terms
-
- Cohort Studies
- Disease Models, Animal
- Brain/metabolism
- Brain/pathology
- Kynurenic Acid/metabolism*
- Humans
- Neurogenesis*
- Zebrafish/metabolism*
- Neural Stem Cells/metabolism*
- Alzheimer Disease/pathology*
- Alzheimer Disease/physiopathology*
- Signal Transduction
- Cell Proliferation
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- Animals
- Transcriptome/genetics
- Models, Biological
- Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon/metabolism*
- Neuronal Plasticity*
- PubMed
- 34685728 Full text @ Cells
Citation
Siddiqui, T., Bhattarai, P., Popova, S., Cosacak, M.I., Sariya, S., Zhang, Y., Mayeux, R., Tosto, G., Kizil, C. (2021) KYNA/Ahr Signaling Suppresses Neural Stem Cell Plasticity and Neurogenesis in Adult Zebrafish Model of Alzheimer's Disease. Cells. 10(10):.
Abstract
Neurogenesis decreases in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, suggesting that restoring the normal neurogenic response could be a disease modifying intervention. To study the mechanisms of pathology-induced neuro-regeneration in vertebrate brains, zebrafish is an excellent model due to its extensive neural regeneration capacity. Here, we report that Kynurenic acid (KYNA), a metabolite of the amino acid tryptophan, negatively regulates neural stem cell (NSC) plasticity in adult zebrafish brain through its receptor, aryl hydrocarbon receptor 2 (Ahr2). The production of KYNA is suppressed after amyloid-toxicity through reduction of the levels of Kynurenine amino transferase 2 (KAT2), the key enzyme producing KYNA. NSC proliferation is enhanced by an antagonist for Ahr2 and is reduced with Ahr2 agonists or KYNA. A subset of Ahr2-expressing zebrafish NSCs do not express other regulatory receptors such as il4r or ngfra, indicating that ahr2-positive NSCs constitute a new subset of neural progenitors that are responsive to amyloid-toxicity. By performing transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) in three late onset Alzheimer disease (LOAD) brain autopsy cohorts, we also found that several genes that are components of KYNA metabolism or AHR signaling are differentially expressed in LOAD, suggesting a strong link between KYNA/Ahr2 signaling axis to neurogenesis in LOAD.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping