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NLRP3 is activated in Alzheimer’s disease and contributes to pathology in APP/PS1 mice
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Alzheimer’s disease is the world’s most common dementing illness. Deposition of amyloid-β peptide drives cerebral neuroinflammation by activating microglia. Indeed, amyloid-β activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome in microglia is fundamental for interleukin-1β maturation and subsequent inflammatory events. However, it remains unknown whether NLRP3 activation contributes to Alzheimer’s disease in vivo. Here we demonstrate strongly enhanced active caspase-1 expression in human mild cognitive impairment and brains with Alzheimer’s disease, suggesting a role for the inflammasome in this neurodegenerative disease. Nlrp3−/− or Casp1−/− mice carrying mutations associated with familial Alzheimer’s disease were largely protected from loss of spatial memory and other sequelae associated with Alzheimer’s disease, and demonstrated reduced brain caspase-1 and interleukin-1β activation as well as enhanced amyloid-β clearance. Furthermore, NLRP3 inflammasome deficiency skewed microglial cells to an M2 phenotype and resulted in the decreased deposition of amyloid-β in the APP/PS1 model of Alzheimer’s disease. These results show an important role for the NLRP3/caspase-1 axis in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease, and suggest that NLRP3 inflammasome inhibition represents a new therapeutic intervention for the disease.
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“Rat research has identified the NLRP3-ASC inflammasome as a major mechanism through which microglia may drive pathological features of AD [92,93,94].”
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“Both beta-amyloids and tau can activate the NLRP3-ASC inflammasome within microglia [92,93].”
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“The nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor, pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3), within microglia recruits the adaptor protein apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a C-terminal caspase recruitment domain (ASC) to form an inflammasome complex.”
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“ITGAM/CD11b (or CR3A), is a cell surface receptor involved in activation, migration and phagocytosis of immune cells, so much so that ITGAM/CD11b is used as a marker of activated microglia (Matsuoka et al., 2001; Heneka et al., 2013; Kamphuis et al., 2016).”
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“In APP/PS1 mice model, NLRP3 knockout reduced Aβ deposition by enhancing phagocytic clearance capacity and increasing extracellular Aβ degradation by insulin- degrading enzyme (IDE).354”
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“The activation of hippocampal NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated pyroptosis is associated with neuronal damage, cognitive decline, and neuronal death (Hanslik & Ulland, 2020; Heneka et al., 2013; Ising et al., 2019; Venegas et al., 2017).”
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“NLRP3 or caspase-1 knockdown in AD mouse models has yielded promising results in decreasing Aβ accumulation, improving spatial memory, and alleviating other AD-related symptoms (Heneka et al., 2013).”
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“Ablation of Nlrp3 or Casp1 in APP/PS1 mice rescued spatial memory and behavioral deficits, LTP suppression and spine loss observed in these mice [77].”
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“However, another study reported strongly increased levels of active caspase-1 in early-onset AD and LOAD patients as well as in MCI individuals [77].”
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“APP/PS1/Nlrp3−/− and APP/PS1/Casp1−/− mice also displayed decreased Aβ plaque deposition, suggesting that NLRP3 inflammasome activation impairs microglial capacity to clear Aβ [77].”
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“APP/PS1/Nlrp3−/− and APP/PS1/Casp1−/− mice also displayed decreased Aβ plaque deposition, suggesting that NLRP3 inflammasome activation impairs microglial capacity to clear Aβ [77].”
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“The decreased plaque deposition was also related to increased levels of the proteolytic enzyme insulin-degrading enzyme (IDE) [77], previously reported to degrade Aβ [83].”
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“NLRP3 deficiency reduces amyloid deposition and rescues memory deficits in the APP/PS1 model of AD [18].”
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“One of the key biological functions of CASP1 is the cleavage of prointerleukin-1β (IL-1β) into the mature biological active cytokine, which is largely overexpressed in brains of patients with AD.44”
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“CASP1, an essential component of NLPR3 inflammasomes, encodes a cysteine protease that is largely overexpressed in brains of patients with AD.44”
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“Notably, Aβ also can activate NF-κB signaling and the NLRP3-ASC inflammasome [426, 427], suggesting that Aβ and tau share common mechanisms in microglia activation.”
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“Microglia express multiple receptors that can bind Aβ and trigger inflammation, such as CD36 (105), TLR2, TLR4, TLR6 (17), and NLRP3 (106)”
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“NLRP3 and caspase-1 genetic deletion results in decreased Aβ deposition, reduced IL-1β release from microglia and improved cognitive performance in APPPS1 mice (Heneka et al., 2013).”
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“Animal studies confirmed this significant involvement of NLRP activation, as APP/PS1 mice, lacking the expression of ASC, caspase-1, or NLRP3 had significantly reduced hippocampal and cortical amyloid plaque deposition and ameliorated disease outcome (229, 230).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heneka, M. T., Kummer, M. P., Stutz, A., Delekate, A., Schwartz, S., Vieira-Saecker, A., Griep, A., Axt, D., Remus, A., Tzeng, T.-C., Gelpi, E., Halle, A., Korte, M., Latz, E., & Golenbock, D. T.
- Affiliations
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Technische Universität Braunschweig (DE)
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
- Center of Advanced European Studies and Research (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Heneka, Michael T.
- Latz, Eicke
- Golenbock, Douglas T.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2012-12-19
- Volume
- 493
- Issue
- 7434
- Pages
- 674-678
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC3812809
- OpenAlex
- W1993976394
- Semantic Scholar
- 3a962c33176c94bc0dd8bfea4ebe2eb83be8a01e
- Cited by
- 2,898
- References
- 34
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- FWCI
- 35.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
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- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- DZNE Pub (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Institutes of Health
- Genentech
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL093262)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM054060)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U19AI084048, R01AI083713)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Inflammasome and immune disorders
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Keywords
- NLRP3 inflammasome, caspase-1, Alzheimer's disease, amyloid-beta, APP/PS1 mice, microglia, neuroinflammation, IL-1β, amyloid-beta clearance, spatial memory, NLRP3 knockout mice, cognitive impairment, therapeutic target
- MeSH terms
- NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Carrier Proteins, Humans, Memory, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Phagocytosis, Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, Amyloid beta-Peptides, Caspase 1, Mice, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II, Interleukin-1beta, Inflammasomes, Cognitive Dysfunction
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