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Authors Papadimitriou, C. ; Celikkaya, H. ; Cosacak, M. I. ; Mashkaryan, V. ; Bray, L. ; Bhattarai, P. ; Brandt, K. ; Hollak, H. ; Chen, X. ; He, S. ; Antos, C. L. ; Lin, W. ; Thomas, A. K. ; Dahlina, A. B. ; Kurth, T. ; Friedrichs, J. ; Zhang, Y. ; Freudenberg,
Title 3D culture method for alzheimers disease modeling reveals interleukin-4 rescues A beta 42-induced Loss of human neural stem cell plasticity
Date 02.07.2018
Number 55590
Abstract Neural stem cells (NSCs) constitute an endogenous reservoir for neurons that could potentially be harnessed for regenerative therapies in disease contexts such as neurodegeneration. However, in Alzheimers disease (AD), NSCs lose plasticity and thus possible regenerative capacity. We investigate how NSCs lose their plasticity in AD by using starPEG-heparin-based hydrogels to establish a reductionist 3D cell-instructive neuro-microenvironment that promotes the proliferative and neurogenic ability of primary and induced human NSCs. We find that administration of AD-associated Amyloid-ß42 causes classical neuropathology and hampers NSC plasticity by inducing kynurenic acid (KYNA) production. Interleukin-4 restores NSC proliferative and neurogenic ability by suppressing the KYNA-producing enzyme Kynurenine aminotransferase (KAT2), which is upregulated in APP/PS1dE9 mouse model of AD and in postmortem human AD brains. Thus, our culture system enables a reductionist investigation of regulation of human NSC plasticity for the identification of potential therapeutic targets for intervention in AD.
Publisher Developmental Cell
Wikidata
Citation Developmental Cell 46 (2018) 85-101
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2018.06.005
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