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Cellular prion protein mediates impairment of synaptic plasticity by amyloid-β oligomers
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A pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease is an accumulation of insoluble plaque containing the amyloid-beta peptide of 40-42 amino acid residues. Prefibrillar, soluble oligomers of amyloid-beta have been recognized to be early and key intermediates in Alzheimer's-disease-related synaptic dysfunction. At nanomolar concentrations, soluble amyloid-beta oligomers block hippocampal long-term potentiation, cause dendritic spine retraction from pyramidal cells and impair rodent spatial memory. Soluble amyloid-beta oligomers have been prepared from chemical syntheses, transfected cell culture supernatants, transgenic mouse brain and human Alzheimer's disease brain. Together, these data imply a high-affinity cell-surface receptor for soluble amyloid-beta oligomers on neurons-one that is central to the pathophysiological process in Alzheimer's disease. Here we identify the cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) as an amyloid-beta-oligomer receptor by expression cloning. Amyloid-beta oligomers bind with nanomolar affinity to PrP(C), but the interaction does not require the infectious PrP(Sc) conformation. Synaptic responsiveness in hippocampal slices from young adult PrP null mice is normal, but the amyloid-beta oligomer blockade of long-term potentiation is absent. Anti-PrP antibodies prevent amyloid-beta-oligomer binding to PrP(C) and rescue synaptic plasticity in hippocampal slices from oligomeric amyloid-beta. Thus, PrP(C) is a mediator of amyloid-beta-oligomer-induced synaptic dysfunction, and PrP(C)-specific pharmaceuticals may have therapeutic potential for Alzheimer's disease.
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“Among the Aβ binding candidates, cellular prion protein (PrPc) represents the most studied, either alone or through a complex with mGluR5 [37, 62, 72, 79].”
From Transmembrane protein 97 is a potential synaptic amyloid beta receptor in human Alzheimer’s disease (2024) · cites this paper as [37]
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“The most studied binding partner is the PrPc, which through a cascade involving a complex with mGluR5 may lead to toxicity independently or via tau [37, 62, 72, 79].”
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“Aβ binds to α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (α7 nAChRs) and to metabotropic glutamate receptors, in particular mGluR5 [31–33].”
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“A genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified PrPC as a potential high-affinity receptor for oAβ [87].”
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“Subsequent studies showed that oAβ, especially high-molecular weight oligomers [88], preferentially bind to PrPC within an N-terminal 95-111aa segment [87].”
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“oligomer binding is significantly reduced in PrPC knock-out cells (Lauren et al., 2009).”
From The Aβ oligomer hypothesis for synapse failure and memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease (2011) · cites this paper as Lauren et al., 2009
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“Aβ oligomers bind with nanomolar affinity to cellular prion protein (PrPC) and that anti-PrP antibodies reduce oligomer binding to neurons and rescue synaptic plasticity (Lauren et al., 2009).”
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“explaining the finding that knocking-down these proteins or adding antibodies against their extracellular domains blocks the accumulation of ADDL clusters (“hotspots”) at synapses (De Felice et al., 2007; Decker et al., 2010a; Lauren et al., 2009).”
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“PrPC binds synthetic Aβ oligomers with high affinity and plays a role in the oligomer-mediated inhibition of LTP (17).”
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“In an elegant study Lauren et al. (17) reported that PrPC mediates the Aβ oligomer-induced hippocampal synaptic plasticity impairment.”
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“The 22 °C-Aβ oligomers impaired recognition memory in both Prnp +/+ and Prnp 0/0 mice (Fig. 4C).”
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“When amyloid-β oligomers bind to PrPc, long-term potentiation and the formation of new memories are disrupted [129,130,131].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Laurén, J., Gimbel, D. A., Nygaard, H. B., Gilbert, J. W., & Strittmatter, S. M.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Strittmatter, Stephen M.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2009-02
- Volume
- 457
- Issue
- 7233
- Pages
- 1128-1132
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC2748841
- OpenAlex
- W2171526610
- Cited by
- 1,560
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- 37
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- FWCI
- 87.03
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- Open access
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (5T32GN07205)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (P30DA018343)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS042304, R01NS039962, R37NS033020)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- cellular prion protein, amyloid-beta oligomers, Alzheimer's disease, synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation, cell surface receptors, lipid rafts, hippocampus, anti-PrP antibodies, prion disease, expression cloning, neurotoxicity, spatial memory, neuroprotection, neurodegeneration
- MeSH terms
- Alzheimer Disease, Amyloidosis, Animals, Chlorocebus aethiops, Hippocampus, Humans, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Neuronal Plasticity, Neurons, Peptide Fragments, Prions, Protein Binding, Receptors, Cell Surface, Synapses, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Long-Term Potentiation, COS Cells, Mice, Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases, Protein Multimerization
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