Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the appearance of amyloid-β plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and inflammation in brain regions involved in memory. Using mass spectrometry, we have quantified the phosphoproteome of the CK-p25, 5XFAD, and Tau P301S mouse models of neurodegeneration. We identified a shared response involving Siglec-F which was upregulated on a subset of reactive microglia. The human paralog Siglec-8 was also upregulated on microglia in AD. Siglec-F and Siglec-8 were upregulated following microglial activation with interferon gamma (IFNγ) in BV-2 cell line and human stem cell-derived microglia models. Siglec-F overexpression activates an endocytic and pyroptotic inflammatory response in BV-2 cells, dependent on its sialic acid substrates and immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif (ITIM) phosphorylation sites. Related human Siglecs induced a similar response in BV-2 cells. Collectively, our results point to an important role for mouse Siglec-F and human Siglec-8 in regulating microglial activation during neurodegeneration.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e9819 |
Journal | Molecular Systems Biology |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease
- Siglec-8
- Siglec-F
- microglia
- phosphoproteomics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Information Systems
- Applied Mathematics
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- Computational Theory and Mathematics