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Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease
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BACKGROUND: The complicated cellular and biochemical changes that occur in brain during Alzheimer's disease are poorly understood. In a previous study we used an unbiased label-free quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomic approach to analyze these changes at a systems level in post-mortem cortical tissue from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AsymAD), and controls. We found modules of co-expressed proteins that correlated with AD phenotypes, some of which were enriched in proteins identified as risk factors for AD by genetic studies. METHODS: The amount of information that can be obtained from such systems-level proteomic analyses is critically dependent upon the number of proteins that can be quantified across a cohort. We report here a new proteomic systems-level analysis of AD brain based on 6,533 proteins measured across AD, AsymAD, and controls using an analysis pipeline consisting of isobaric tandem mass tag (TMT) mass spectrometry and offline prefractionation. RESULTS: Our new TMT pipeline allowed us to more than double the depth of brain proteome coverage. This increased depth of coverage greatly expanded the brain protein network to reveal new protein modules that correlated with disease and were unrelated to those identified in our previous network. Differential protein abundance analysis identified 350 proteins that had altered levels between AsymAD and AD not caused by changes in specific cell type abundance, potentially reflecting biochemical changes that are associated with cognitive decline in AD. RNA binding proteins emerged as a class of proteins altered between AsymAD and AD, and were enriched in network modules that correlated with AD pathology. We developed a proteogenomic approach to investigate RNA splicing events that may be altered by RNA binding protein changes in AD. The increased proteome depth afforded by our TMT pipeline allowed us to identify and quantify a large number of alternatively spliced protein isoforms in brain, including AD risk factors such as BIN1, PICALM, PTK2B, and FERMT2. Many of the new AD protein network modules were enriched in alternatively spliced proteins and correlated with molecular markers of AD pathology and cognition. CONCLUSIONS: Further analysis of the AD brain proteome will continue to yield new insights into the biological basis of AD.
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A TMT-SPS-MS3 proteomic pipeline quantified 6,533 proteins in post-mortem DLPFC from AD, AsymAD, and control cases, more than doubling prior LFQ depth and expanding the co-expression network from 16 to 50 modules. The deeper network implicated RNA binding proteins and alternative exon–exon splicing, including in AD risk genes such as BIN1, PTK2B, and FERMT2, as features of symptomatic AD.
Key findings
- The TMT pipeline quantified 6,533 proteins across 47 DLPFC cases versus 3,069 proteins by the previous single-shot LFQ approach; the protein co-expression network expanded from 16 modules to 50 modules, with module M27 containing >70% new protein members, being predominantly glial, and correlating positively with tau tangle burden.
- Four TMT network modules were enriched for AD GWAS risk loci: M4, M7, M27, and M33; M4, M7, and M27 were predominantly glial and positively correlated with amyloid plaque and tau tangle burden, whereas M33 was more oligodendrocyte/neuronal and negatively correlated with both.
- Cell-type deconvolution showed astrocytes and microglia increased in AD compared with AsymAD and control and correlated strongly with Braak stage; neurons decreased in both AsymAD and AD. AsymAD–AD unique protein changes were largely preserved after deconvolution (from 290 to 263 proteins; the abstract reports 350 proteins altered between AsymAD and AD independent of cell-type abundance).
- RNA binding proteins were enriched in modules 10, 15, 17, 18, 29, and 40, most of which correlated with tau tangle burden. Proteogenomic analysis identified 4,830 TMT-LysC alternative exon–exon junction peptides versus 5,746 LFQ-trypsin peptides, with TMT better for quantification across case groups; alt-EEjxns in BIN1, PTK2B, and FERMT2 differed by case status.
Methods
- Post-mortem dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (Brodmann area 9) from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging: 20 AD, 14 AsymAD, and 13 control cases after excluding 11 MCI cases due to a preparation batch effect; the same homogenates were used for prior LFQ and new TMT analysis.
- Proteins were digested with LysC, labeled with isobaric tandem mass tags, prefractionated by offline ERLIC, and analyzed by LC-MS/MS with SPS-MS3; data were searched in Proteome Discoverer 2.1, then analyzed by weighted protein correlation network analysis, digital sorting algorithm cell-type deconvolution, and ANOVA with Tukey post hoc for differential abundance.
- For alternative splicing, RNA-seq from 3 control and 3 AD University of Kentucky brain bank cases was realigned with GSNAP novel-splicing mode, exon–exon junctions were summarized with spliceSites, peptides spanning alternative junctions were generated by in silico LysC digestion, appended to the Uniprot database, and quantified across TMT batches.
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- Stated: 11 MCI cases were excluded because of a preparation batch effect; MMSE scores were skewed toward 30; the RNA-seq database came from relatively few control and AD brains; alt-EEjxn quantification was limited to the peptide level and represents splicing “decisions”; TMT still has missing values; trypsin and LysC identified largely separate alt-EEjxn subsets; cell-type deconvolution was not applied to alt-EEjxn analysis.
- Stated: the relationship between RNA binding protein abundance and alternative splicing remained unresolved, and U1 spliceosome proteins were not strongly enriched in the network, possibly because they shift in solubility and aggregate in AD brain.
- Evident from the text: the design is cross-sectional and correlational in post-mortem tissue from one cohort and brain region, so causal direction and generalization to other cohorts or regions are not established.
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![Fig. 1 Correlational Network Analysis. a, b Proteins in frontal cortex from Alzheimer’s, asymptomatic Alzheimer’s, and control brains were analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry and quantified using either a label-free (LFQ)-based or tandem mass tag (TMT)-based quantification pipeline. The resulting data from each quantification approach were used to build separate correlational protein networks. a Modules in the LFQ-trypsin and TMT-LysC networks are represented by numbers (1–16 in LFQ and 1–50 in TMT) and a cognate color, and the correlational relationship among the different modules within a network is represented by dendrogram. The overlap of proteins within each TMT-LysC module with cell type specific protein markers from microglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes (oligo), and neurons is shown by single color heat map (increased red represents increased overlap). Correlation between modules and neuritic amyloid plaque burden (CERAD score) and tau tangle burden (Braak stage) is shown by two-color heat map for both TMT-LysC and LFQ-trypsin networks (red represents positive correlation, blue represents negative correlation). The CERAD score captures the type of amyloid plaque burden most closely associated with cognitive decline [53]. Module protein membership overlap between TMT-LysC and LFQ-trypsin modules is shown by two-color heat map in the large box (red indicates more overlap than expected, blue indicates less overlap than expected), with a summary of maximal overlap for each module with all other modules in the other network shown by single color heatmap in boxes labeled “Max”. All modules in the LFQ-trypsin network were preserved in the TMT-LysC network prior to correction for multiple comparisons. Preservation of LFQ-trypsin modules 7 and 15 in the TMT-LysC network was no longer significant after correction for multiple comparisons. The area highlighted by the dotted line box represents TMT-LysC modules that have little to no overlap in protein membership with LFQ-trypsin modules, representing protein modules unique to the TMT-LysC network. b Percent novelty of protein members within each module of the TMT-LysC network compared to the LFQ-trypsin network. Bars are color coded by heatmap for degree of significance by P value. P values shown in (a) and (b) are corrected by Benjamini-Hochberg FDR](/paper-figures/081a25ef155a461eb73a8add942a9d8b/deep-proteomic-network-analysis-of-alzheimers-disease-brain-reveals-alterations-figure-1.jpg)
![Fig. 5 TMT-LysC AD Protein Network Summary. The overlap of proteins within each TMT-LysC module with cell type specific protein markers from microglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes (oligo), and neurons is shown by single color heat map (increased red represents increased overlap). Correlation between module eigenprotein and neuritic amyloid plaque burden (CERAD score), tau tangle burden (Braak stage), Aβ17–28, phosphorylated tau pT231 peptide (VAVVRpTPPKSPSSAK), U1-70K small nuclear ribonucleoprotein, TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43), and last mini-mental state examination (MMSE) score prior to death, is shown by two-color heat map (red represents positive correlation, blue represents negative correlation). The overlap of alt-EEjxns and different classes of RNA binding proteins is shown by single color heat map. A, McKnight 570 refers to RNA binding proteins that are often found within RNA granules as described in [48]; B, Total Observed RNA binding refers to all RNA binding proteins commonly observed in our proteomic experiments; C, proteins that interact with the low complexity 2 (LC2) domain of the U1-70K small nuclear ribonucleoprotein 70 kDa (snRNP70) [54]; D, proteins that are homologous to U1-70K; E, proteins that interact with the LC1 or basic-acidic dipeptide (BAD) repeat domain of U1-70K [54]; F, low complexity arginine-serine (RS) repeat-containing proteins; G, proteins annotated as comprising the spliceosome complex in the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG); H, proteins annotated as involved in RNA translation by Gene Ontology (GO); I, proteins annotated in KEGG as belonging to the U1 spliceosome complex. Overlap was calculated by Fisher exact test. P values are corrected by Benjamini-Hochberg FDR. Bicorrelation was performed for CERAD, Braak, and molecular species. Spearman correlation was performed for MMSE. Detailed data for all correlations are provided in Supplementary Data](/paper-figures/9636cb6d44aa42c3beb9f2faf0fe664f/deep-proteomic-network-analysis-of-alzheimers-disease-brain-reveals-alterations-figure-5.jpg)
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“RNA binding proteins emerged as a class of proteins altered between AsymAD and AD, and were enriched in network modules that correlated with AD pathology.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Abstract > Results
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“We also used differential expression analysis on the enlarged proteomic dataset to identify proteins that have altered levels among AD, AsymAD, and control brains, even after accounting for changes in cellular abundance.”
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“RNA binding proteins emerged as a family of proteins that was increased in abundance in AD, and these proteins were enriched in modules that correlated with tau tangle pathology.”
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“The increased proteome depth afforded by our TMT pipeline allowed us to identify and quantify a large number of alternatively spliced protein isoforms in brain, including AD risk factors such as BIN1, PICALM, PTK2B, and FERMT2.”
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“Differential protein abundance analysis identified 350 proteins that had altered levels between AsymAD and AD not caused by changes in specific cell type abundance, potentially reflecting biochemical changes that are associated with cognitive decline in AD.”
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“RNA binding proteins emerged as a family of proteins that was increased in abundance in AD, and these proteins were enriched in modules that correlated with tau tangle pathology.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Abstract > Results
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“RNA binding proteins emerged as a class of proteins altered between AsymAD and AD, and were enriched in network modules that correlated with AD pathology.”
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“Module M27, however, was the most unique module in the TMT network compared to the previous LFQ network (Fig. 1b), and showed enrichment in GWAS protein candidates including PICALM, FERMT2, and TMEM106B, among others (Additional file 12: Figure S5).”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > AD genetic risk factors cluster in glial modules
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“Three out of four of these modules (M4, M7, and M27) were predominantly glial in nature and correlated positively with amyloid plaque and tau tangle burden, whereas one module, M33, contained more proteins associated with oligodendrocytes and neurons, and correlated negatively with amyloid plaques and tau tangles (Fig. 1a).”
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“One of the most unique modules contained strong enrichment in AD risk loci identified by the International Genetics of Alzheimer’s Project (IGAP) GWAS [12], correlated with tau tangle burden, and contained more glial than neuronal proteins.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Lambert JC, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Harold D, Naj AC, Sims R, Bellenguez C, DeStafano AL, Bis JC, Beecham GW, Grenier-Boley B, et al. Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2013;45:1452–8. source
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“This proteogenomic approach, coupled with the increased depth of proteome coverage and superior quantitation afforded by our TMT pipeline compared to our previous LFQ approach, allowed us to identify and quantify a number of alternative exon-exon splicing events in brain at the protein level, including alternative exon-exon junctions in AD risk factor proteins such as BIN1, PICALM, PTK2B, and FER”
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“This increased depth of coverage greatly expanded the brain protein network to reveal new protein modules that correlated with disease and were unrelated to those identified in our previous network.”
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“Many of the identified alternative exon-exon junction splicing events were highly enriched in modules unique to the TMT network, and correlated with disease, suggesting a potential role for aberrant RNA splicing in AD pathogenesis.”
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“The increased depth of proteome coverage allowed us to build a protein network that consisted of approximately threefold more protein modules, two-thirds of which shared little overlap with the modules previously identified in our LFQ network.”
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“Many of the new AD protein network modules were enriched in alternatively spliced proteins and correlated with molecular markers of AD pathology and cognition.”
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“Other modules unique to the TMT network that were significantly correlated with AD neuropathology included M17 and M29, which were associated with increased tau tangle burden, and M47, which was associated with decreased tau tangle burden.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > TMT quantification pipeline increases the depth of proteomic network analysis of human brain tissues
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“The oligodendrocyte population increased in AsymAD, and then decreased slightly in AD compared to AsymAD.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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“TMT modules with cognate modules in the LFQ network that were strongly associated with AD traits included M1 and M3, which were negatively correlated with AD pathology, and M4 and M7, which were positively correlated with AD pathology, among others.”
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“While most of the new modules did not display a strong association with any of the four brain cell types we analyzed (microglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, or neurons), M27 was predominantly glial in nature and correlated positively with tau tangle burden (Braak stage).”
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“Tau had a number of alt-EEjxn peptides that were significantly increased in AD, and these mapped to the 3- and 4- microtubule binding domain repeat isoforms of the protein in this analysis because either isoform can be considered constitutively expressed in humans.”
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“Modules 4 and 7—glial modules enriched in AD risk factors from GWAS—did not contain more alt-EEjxn peptides than expected, but two other GWAS modules, M27 and M33, were enriched, with M33 being highly enriched.”
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“Three of the five GWAS proteins had alt-EEjxns that were different in abundance by case status, and included BIN1, PTK2B, and FERMT2 (Additional file 7: Table S7).”
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“There were slightly more proteins that were significantly lower in abundance compared to those that were higher in abundance in AD compared to AsymAD after cell type deconvolution (Additional file 14: Figure S7).”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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“As shown in Fig. 4d, we found there were more alt-EEjxn peptides that were reduced in AD compared to AsymAD, similar to the total protein abundance differences between AD and AsymAD.”
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“After cell type deconvolution of protein abundance changes, we noted with keen interest the preservation of RNA binding proteins as hubs of differentially abundant proteins between control and AsymAD (Additional file 15: Figure S8), and between AsymAD and AD (Fig. 3e and Additional file 16: Figure S9).”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > RNA binding protein enrichment in the AD brain TMT proteomic network
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“All of these modules were strongly glial in nature, with M35 a strongly astrocytic module.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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“TMTs also allow for relative protein measurements across multiple case groups within a single batch, minimizing the missing value problem for quantification across case groups.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Module 35, which contained a number of differentially abundant alt-EEjxns, showed strong correlation to Aβ as well as to tau pT231, and correlated with worsened cognitive function.”
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“We therefore identified a number of alternative splicing events that strongly correlated with network modules enriched in AD GWAS risk factor proteins, and some of these isoforms differed in abundance in AsymAD and AD.”
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“Prefractionation significantly increases the depth of proteome coverage achievable by LC-MS/MS of complex tissues such as brain.”
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“Modules 11 and 20 had corrected p values for enrichment of 4.1e− 15 and 1.7e− 13, respectively, and by GO analysis were most likely to be involved in regulation of immune system processes (data not shown).”
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“This region of the TMT network was not strongly associated with a particular cell type or strongly correlated with standard histopathological measures of AD.”
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“Interestingly, the neuron population decreased between control and AsymAD, with a further decrease between AsymAD and AD.”
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“From the molecular analyses we also identified modules such as M18 that, although not enriched in alt-EEjxn peptides, were observed to be strongly enriched in RNA binding proteins (Additional file 22: Figure S15), were strongly correlated in a positive direction with tau pT231, U1-70K, and TDP-43, and were correlated in a negative direction with cognitive function.”
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“The deeper protein coexpression network analysis revealed new protein modules that correlated with pathological measures of AD and were enriched in AD risk factors identified by GWAS.”
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“as well as splicing events in other proteins that correlated with network modules enriched in AD risk factor proteins and were altered in AD.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Interestingly, the highly related modules 11 and 36 showed opposite correlation with cognition, with increases in M11 associated with worsened cognitive function and increases in M36 associated with improved cognitive function, suggesting that protein splicing changes may be highly specific in their relationships to different types of AD pathology and cognitive function.”
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“This module was also enriched for AD GWAS risk factors and correlated with AD pathology”
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“We found that alt-EEjxns at a global level tended to cluster into the unique area of the TMT-LysC network, but did not significantly overlap with modules enriched in RNA binding proteins.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Our comparison between LFQ-trypsin and TMT-LysC analytical pipelines found that the TMT-LysC approach was slightly superior to LFQ-trypsin for quantification of alt-EEjxns, and even better when quantifying alt-EEjxns across case groups.”
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“M18 was significantly correlated with phosphorylated tau, U1-70K, TDP-43, and cognitive decline”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Module 29 contained five snRNPs and was annotated as being involved in mRNA splicing by GO analysis, but did not show enrichment of alt-EEjxn peptides.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“We developed a TMT-based quantification pipeline for proteomic analysis of brain tissue that significantly increased our depth of proteome coverage of control and AD brain and led to additional insights into the protein changes that characterize AD pathophysiology, including changes in RNA splicing.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Conclusions
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“In addition to these n = 47 cases, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) cases (n = 11) were homogenized separately on a different day and included in the batched TMT-MS design, but were later excluded from the analysis due to a preparation batch effect that was refractory to post-hoc correction.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Tissue samples
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“These modules were enriched for AD risk loci identified by genome-wide association studies (GWAS), and contained a large number of glial proteins.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
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“Spectra matches were filtered by Percolator [15] to a peptide-spectrum match false discovery rate of < 1%.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Database search and quantification via TMT SPS-MS3 intensities
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Kall L, Canterbury JD, Weston J, Noble WS, MacCoss MJ. Semi-supervised learning for peptide identification from shotgun proteomics datasets. Nat Methods. 2007;4:923–5. source
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“The most recent generation of TMTs can be used to report the relative levels of a given peptide from a pool consisting of up to 11 separate and independent samples [10].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [10] Ping L, Duong DM, Yin L, Gearing M, Lah JJ, Levey AI, Seyfried NT: Global quantitative analysis of the human brain proteome in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Nature Scientific Data 2018.
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“Using an appropriate pooled sample study design and mass spectrometry instrumentation that can perform MS3 reporter quantitation, missing values can be minimized within an experimental cohort using a TMT approach while avoiding dynamic range compression effects [8].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ting L, Rad R, Gygi SP, Haas W. MS3 eliminates ratio distortion in isobaric multiplexed quantitative proteomics. Nat Methods. 2011;8:937–40. source
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“A naïve first pass regression was performed by considering age, sex, post-mortem interval (PMI), and disease status group contributions to each sample-specific protein abundance measurement set (n = 47), explicitly modeled using 1000 iterations of ordinary nonparametric bootstrap regression.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Regression for covariates
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“The amount of information that can be obtained from such systems-level proteomic analyses is critically dependent upon the number of proteins that can be quantified across a cohort.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Abstract > Methods
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“Finally, proteins with more than 23 missing log2(ratio) values were excluded from analysis, and then 11 MCI cases were dropped, leaving a matrix of n = 47 control, AsymAD, and AD cases with no more than 23 missing values (< 50%) per protein measurement, for a total of 6532 proteins.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > TMT quantitative data normalization
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“Furthermore, proteins with more than 4 unquantifiable batches (out of a total of 8 batches) due to 0 or NA value for the GIS channel 126 reporter Proteome Discoverer 2.1-normalized value (pre-ratio calculation) were excluded from consideration.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > TMT quantitative data normalization
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“One strategy to minimize the missing value problem is to measure peptide and protein levels using a multiplex tagging approach with isobaric tandem mass tags (TMTs) [8–11].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [8] Ting L, Rad R, Gygi SP, Haas W. MS3 eliminates ratio distortion in isobaric multiplexed quantitative proteomics. Nat Methods. 2011;8:937–40. source
- Not checked yetcites [9] Rauniyar N, Yates JR 3rd. Isobaric labeling-based relative quantification in shotgun proteomics. J Proteome Res. 2014;13:5293–309. source
- Not checked yetcites [10] Ping L, Duong DM, Yin L, Gearing M, Lah JJ, Levey AI, Seyfried NT: Global quantitative analysis of the human brain proteome in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. Nature Scientific Data 2018.
- Not checked yetcites [11] Rangaraju S, Dammer EB, Raza SA, Gao T, Xiao H, Betarbet R, Duong DM, Webster JA, Hales CM, Lah JJ, et al. Quantitative proteomics of acutely-isolated mouse microglia identifies novel immune Alzheimer's disease-related proteins. Mol Neurodegener. 2018;13:34. source
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“We found modules of co-expressed proteins that correlated with AD phenotypes, some of which were enriched in proteins identified as risk factors for AD by genetic studies.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Abstract > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
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“Systems-based approaches such as weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) can be used to analyze biochemical and cellular changes in brain, and are useful to help capture the complexity of perturbations in biological networks that are related to disease [2–4].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Huan T, Zhang B, Wang Z, Joehanes R, Zhu J, Johnson AD, Ying S, Munson PJ, Raghavachari N, Wang R, et al. A systems biology framework identifies molecular underpinnings of coronary heart disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2013;33:1427–34. source
- Not checked yetcites [3] Miller JA, Oldham MC, Geschwind DH. A systems level analysis of transcriptional changes in Alzheimer's disease and normal aging. J Neurosci. 2008;28:1410–20. source
- Not checked yetcites [4] Oldham MC, Konopka G, Iwamoto K, Langfelder P, Kato T, Horvath S, Geschwind DH. Functional organization of the transcriptome in human brain. Nat Neurosci. 2008;11:1271–82. source
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“In a previous study we used an unbiased label-free quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomic approach to analyze these changes at a systems level in post-mortem cortical tissue from patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), asymptomatic Alzheimer’s disease (AsymAD), and controls.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Abstract > Background
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
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“Peptides from different genomic sites that were 100% homologous to the junction-spanning peptides were considered duplicates and were removed from consideration.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Proteogenomic RNA alternative splicing analysis based on gapped transcriptome reads
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“The Aβ17–28 peptide is a proteolytic fragment of Aβ generated by both trypsin and LysC enzymatic digestion of the full-length Aβ peptide, and therefore represents a peptide with a very large change in abundance across the sample cohort due to aggregation of Aβ into amyloid plaques in AsymAD and AD cases [5].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > TMT quantification pipeline increases the depth of proteomic network analysis of human brain tissues
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
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“For the purposes of avoiding spurious correlations, no more than 25 out of 47 missing values were allowed for any peptide.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Proteogenomic RNA alternative splicing analysis based on gapped transcriptome reads
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“This asymptomatic phase of AD (AsymAD) is currently considered a preclinical stage of the disease [27, 28].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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- Not checked yetcites [27] Dubois B, Hampel H, Feldman HH, Scheltens P, Aisen P, Andrieu S, Bakardjian H, Benali H, Bertram L, Blennow K, et al. Preclinical Alzheimer's disease: definition, natural history, and diagnostic criteria. Alzheimers Dement. 2016;12:292–323. source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Sperling RA, Aisen PS, Beckett LA, Bennett DA, Craft S, Fagan AM, Iwatsubo T, Jack CR Jr, Kaye J, Montine TJ, et al. Toward defining the preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2011;7:280–92. source
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“The neuropathological changes that are quintessential for AD diagnosis—namely, the development of amyloid plaques and tau tangles—are considered to develop years before onset of the cognitive changes that characterize AD dementia [26].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Jack CR, Jr., Knopman DS, Jagust WJ, Shaw LM, Aisen PS, Weiner MW, Petersen RC, Trojanowski JQ: Hypothetical model of dynamic biomarkers of the Alzheimer's pathological cascade. Lancet Neurol 2010, 9:119–128. source
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“Threshold power Beta for reduction of false positive correlations (i.e. the beneficial effect of enforcing scale free topology) was sampled in increments of 0.5 and selected as the lowest power at which scale free topology R2 was approximately 0.80, or in the case of the cell type weight-regressed network, the power at which a horizontal asymptote (plateau) was nearly approached, near a scale free”
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“Regression for age, sex, and PMI covariation was performed in R on all log2 transformed values except for 781 that could not be regressed due to a high number of missing values.”
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“Therefore, the changes associated with progression to AsymAD are a decrease in neurons and an increase in oligodendrocytes mostly associated with amyloid burden.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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“All junction-spanning peptides considered were ones that had alternative events represented by other gapped reads that shared a left (5′) or right (3′) end with another set of gapped reads, and not “singleton” or brain constitutive exon-exon junctions.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Proteogenomic RNA alternative splicing analysis based on gapped transcriptome reads
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“A second, two-pass regression scheme was performed by first considering DSA estimated cell type weight for the four Sharma dataset brain cell types (microglia, astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendroglia) as four sets of variables for regression.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Regression for covariates
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“Genetic variants that impart increased or decreased risk for AD have been mapped by genome wide association studies (GWAS), which collectively have identified over 20 genetic loci associated with AD at genome-wide significance, and many other loci that fall below genome-wide significance [12, 25].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > AD genetic risk factors cluster in glial modules
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Lambert JC, Ibrahim-Verbaas CA, Harold D, Naj AC, Sims R, Bellenguez C, DeStafano AL, Bis JC, Beecham GW, Grenier-Boley B, et al. Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2013;45:1452–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [25] Sims R, van der Lee SJ, Naj AC, Bellenguez C, Badarinarayan N, Jakobsdottir J, Kunkle BW, Boland A, Raybould R, Bis JC, et al. Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet. 2017;49:1373–84. source
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“The cell type “character” of each module can be assessed by examining the overlap of module protein membership with cell type specific protein expression data [5, 17].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > TMT quantification pipeline increases the depth of proteomic network analysis of human brain tissues
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
- Not checked yetcites [17] Sharma K, Schmitt S, Bergner CG, Tyanova S, Kannaiyan N, Manrique-Hoyos N, Kongi K, Cantuti L, Hanisch UK, Philips MA, et al. Cell type- and brain region-resolved mouse brain proteome. Nat Neurosci. 2015;18:1819–31. source
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“Importantly, missing values did not require imputation for bootstrap covariate regression.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Regression for covariates
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“Quantitations of within-batch normalized abundances were then scaled across batches to set the average of all GIS measurements within batch to be identical across batches.”
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“Following normalization of cell type abundance variation across the samples, the prior age, sex, and PMI regression scheme was used to remove these covariate effects.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Regression for covariates
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“Then age, sex, and PMI covarying components of the measurement were subtracted to arrive at a regressed protein abundance measurement set.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Methods > Regression for covariates
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“As part of the new analysis approach, we also relaxed the data inclusion criteria to require missing values in < 50% rather than < 10% of the samples, given that the WGCNA algorithm for coexpression network analysis well-tolerates missing values up to 50%.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > TMT quantification pipeline increases the depth of proteomic network analysis of human brain tissues
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“Progression from AsymAD to AD—that is, symptom onset—is associated with an increase in astrocytes and microglia, and is associated with neurofibrillary tangle burden.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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“This approach has previously been applied to transcriptomic data to remove the confounding effects of cell type changes on gene expression [30], but to our knowledge has not previously been applied to proteomic data.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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- Not checked yetcites [30] Allen M, Wang X, Burgess JD, Watzlawik J, Serie DJ, Younkin CS, Nguyen T, Malphrus KG, Lincoln S, Carrasquillo MM, et al. Conserved brain myelination networks are altered in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Alzheimers Dement. 2018;14:352–66. source
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“In summary, we identified a number of alternative splicing decisions at the protein level in brain that significantly change in AD, including in AD risk factor proteins identified from GWAS.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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“Interestingly, our previous studies demonstrated that many of the U1 snRNPs colocalize with neurofibrillary tangles and paired helical filaments in AD brain [24, 32–34], and that accumulation of insoluble snRNPs correlates strongly with both amyloid and Tau pathology [32–37].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > RNA binding protein enrichment in the AD brain TMT proteomic network
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Deng Q, Duong DM, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Thambisetty M, Lah JJ, Shulman JM, Levey AI, Seyfried NT. Changes in the detergent-insoluble brain proteome linked to amyloid and tau in Alzheimer's disease progression. Proteomics. 2016;16:3042–53. source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Diner I, Yi H, Seyfried NT, Gearing M, Glass JD, Montine TJ, Levey AI, Lah JJ. Aggregates of small nuclear ribonucleic acids (snRNAs) in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Pathol. 2014;24:344–51. source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Hales CM, Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Duong D, Yi H, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Mufson EJ, Thambisetty M, Levey AI, Lah JJ. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) aggregate in Alzheimer's disease due to autosomal dominant genetic mutations and trisomy 21. Mol Neurodegener. 2014;9:15. source
- Not checked yetcites [35] Ash PE, Vanderweyde TE, Youmans KL, Apicco DJ, Wolozin B. Pathological stress granules in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Res. 2014;1584:52–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [36] Maziuk BF, Apicco DJ, Cruz AL, Jiang L, Ash PEA, da Rocha EL, Zhang C, Yu WH, Leszyk J, Abisambra JF, et al. RNA binding proteins co-localize with small tau inclusions in tauopathy. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2018;6:71. source
- Not checked yetcites [37] Vanderweyde T, Yu H, Varnum M, Liu-Yesucevitz L, Citro A, Ikezu T, Duff K, Wolozin B. Contrasting pathology of the stress granule proteins TIA-1 and G3BP in tauopathies. J Neurosci. 2012;32:8270–83. source
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“In summary, these findings suggest that a majority of the differences in protein abundance between AsymAD and AD appear to be independent of simple brain cell type abundance changes, in contrast to the protein abundance differences between control and AsymAD and control and AD.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Brain cell type changes and protein abundance differences between asymptomatic and symptomatic AD
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“potentially reflecting AD “resilience” modules.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“We have previously shown that U1 snRNPs are a major component of the AD insoluble proteome [24, 32–34].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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- Not checked yetcites [24] Bai B, Hales CM, Chen PC, Gozal Y, Dammer EB, Fritz JJ, Wang X, Xia Q, Duong DM, Street C, et al. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex and RNA splicing alterations in Alzheimer's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110:16562–7. source
- Not checked yetcites [32] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Deng Q, Duong DM, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Thambisetty M, Lah JJ, Shulman JM, Levey AI, Seyfried NT. Changes in the detergent-insoluble brain proteome linked to amyloid and tau in Alzheimer's disease progression. Proteomics. 2016;16:3042–53. source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Diner I, Yi H, Seyfried NT, Gearing M, Glass JD, Montine TJ, Levey AI, Lah JJ. Aggregates of small nuclear ribonucleic acids (snRNAs) in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Pathol. 2014;24:344–51. source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Hales CM, Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Duong D, Yi H, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Mufson EJ, Thambisetty M, Levey AI, Lah JJ. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) aggregate in Alzheimer's disease due to autosomal dominant genetic mutations and trisomy 21. Mol Neurodegener. 2014;9:15. source
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“Modules that are enriched in alt-EEjxns do not overlap significantly with RNA binding protein modules, but many are located within the unique region of the TMT network and correlate with molecular markers of AD pathology.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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“Some of these modules are strongly enriched with alt-EEjxns and correlate with cognitive function.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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“The correlation between inflammation and tangle formation has also been noted in other tauopathies, such as frontotemporal dementia and chronic traumatic encephalopathy [42–45].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [42] Bellucci A, Bugiani O, Ghetti B, Spillantini MG. Presence of reactive microglia and neuroinflammatory mediators in a case of frontotemporal dementia with P301S mutation. Neurodegener Dis. 2011;8:221–9. source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Cherry JD, Tripodis Y, Alvarez VE, Huber B, Kiernan PT, Daneshvar DH, Mez J, Montenigro PH, Solomon TM, Alosco ML, et al. Microglial neuroinflammation contributes to tau accumulation in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2016;4:112. source
- Not checked yetcites [44] Maphis N, Xu G, Kokiko-Cochran ON, Jiang S, Cardona A, Ransohoff RM, Lamb BT, Bhaskar K. Reactive microglia drive tau pathology and contribute to the spreading of pathological tau in the brain. Brain. 2015;138:1738–55. source
- Not checked yetcites [45] Yoshiyama Y, Higuchi M, Zhang B, Huang SM, Iwata N, Saido TC, Maeda J, Suhara T, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM. Synapse loss and microglial activation precede tangles in a P301S tauopathy mouse model. Neuron. 2007;53:337–51. source
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“Overall, we found that RNA binding proteins are enriched within specific network modules, and that these modules are generally positively correlated with AD pathology and negatively correlated with cognitive function.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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“This finding lends validity to the previous LFQ network generated from the BLSA cohort, and by extension to LFQ-based networks of other cohorts we have analyzed ([41], unpublished data).”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Umoh ME, Dammer EB, Dai J, Duong DM, Lah JJ, Levey AI, Gearing M, Glass JD, Seyfried NT. A proteomic network approach across the ALS-FTD disease spectrum resolves clinical phenotypes and genetic vulnerability in human brain. EMBO Mol Med. 2018;10:48–62. source
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“TPI1 is involved in gluconeogenesis, but has also been identified as interacting directly with the Parkin protein, a ubiquitin protein ligase, and potentially affecting mitochondrial function [39].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with modules enriched in AD risk factor proteins
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- Not checked yetcites [39] Davison EJ, Pennington K, Hung CC, Peng J, Rafiq R, Ostareck-Lederer A, Ostareck DH, Ardley HC, Banks RE, Robinson PA. Proteomic analysis of increased Parkin expression and its interactants provides evidence for a role in modulation of mitochondrial function. Proteomics. 2009;9:4284–97. source
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“However, missing values are not eliminated in the TMT approach as it still relies on data-dependent acquisition techniques within each batch, and therefore not all batches contain the protein measurement of interest.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Phosphorylation of tau at T231 has been associated with AD [38], and levels of this peptide are moderately correlated with tau tangle burden (Additional file 10: Figure S3D).”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Results > Alternative splicing events associated with AD pathology and cognitive function
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Hampel H, Blennow K, Shaw LM, Hoessler YC, Zetterberg H, Trojanowski JQ. Total and phosphorylated tau protein as biological markers of Alzheimer's disease. Exp Gerontol. 2010;45:30–40. source
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“The databases we generated to identify alt-EEjxn peptides from brain were based on RNAseq data from relatively few control and AD brains from the University of Kentucky Brain Bank.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“as well as proteins with low complexity domains such as U1-70K that bind to RNA and that have been associated with other neurodegenerative conditions such as frontotemporal dementia [49].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [49] King OD, Gitler AD, Shorter J. The tip of the iceberg: RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains in neurodegenerative disease. Brain Res. 2012;1462:61–80. source
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“given that tangle burden is more closely correlated with cortical atrophy and cognitive decline [46]”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [46] Nelson PT, Alafuzoff I, Bigio EH, Bouras C, Braak H, Cairns NJ, Castellani RJ, Crain BJ, Davies P, Del Tredici K, et al. Correlation of Alzheimer disease neuropathologic changes with cognitive status: a review of the literature. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2012;71:362–81. source
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“unlike modules such as M4 and M7 which we have previously found to be astroglial and strongly associated with AD [5].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Swarup V, Nandakumar D, Duong DM, Yin L, Deng Q, Nguyen T, Hales CM, Wingo T, et al. A multi-network approach identifies protein-specific co-expression in asymptomatic and symptomatic Alzheimer's disease. Cell Syst. 2017;4:60–72 e64. source
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“Although we have previously observed that snRNP alterations are associated with deficits in RNA splicing in AD brain [24, 32]—a finding recently confirmed by others [52]”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [24] Bai B, Hales CM, Chen PC, Gozal Y, Dammer EB, Fritz JJ, Wang X, Xia Q, Duong DM, Street C, et al. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex and RNA splicing alterations in Alzheimer's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110:16562–7. source
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“This is likely the case because trypsin digestion is more efficient than LysC and provides deeper coverage of the proteome”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“Because brain contains a large number of alternatively spliced proteins [50]”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Yeo G, Holste D, Kreiman G, Burge CB. Variation in alternative splicing across human tissues. Genome Biol. 2004;5. source
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“we consider it likely that deeper characterization of protein splice variants in brain will uncover even more local splice variations that are translated into protein, with some being potentially relevant to disease.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“but it seems likely based on abundant steady state transcript levels that a majority of these splice isoforms are translated into protein.”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“which is consistent with recent transcriptomic data suggesting alterations in oligodendrocyte and myelination biology in AD brain [30, 47].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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“This may be due to the fact that U1 spliceosome proteins undergo a dramatic shift in solubility in AD brain, and aggregate in close proximity to neurofibrillary tangles [24, 32–34].”
§ Deep proteomic network analysis of Alzheimer’s disease brain reveals alterations in RNA binding proteins and RNA splicing associated with disease > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [24] Bai B, Hales CM, Chen PC, Gozal Y, Dammer EB, Fritz JJ, Wang X, Xia Q, Duong DM, Street C, et al. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein complex and RNA splicing alterations in Alzheimer's disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110:16562–7. source
- Not checked yetcites [32] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Deng Q, Duong DM, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Thambisetty M, Lah JJ, Shulman JM, Levey AI, Seyfried NT. Changes in the detergent-insoluble brain proteome linked to amyloid and tau in Alzheimer's disease progression. Proteomics. 2016;16:3042–53. source
- Not checked yetcites [33] Hales CM, Dammer EB, Diner I, Yi H, Seyfried NT, Gearing M, Glass JD, Montine TJ, Levey AI, Lah JJ. Aggregates of small nuclear ribonucleic acids (snRNAs) in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Pathol. 2014;24:344–51. source
- Not checked yetcites [34] Hales CM, Seyfried NT, Dammer EB, Duong D, Yi H, Gearing M, Troncoso JC, Mufson EJ, Thambisetty M, Levey AI, Lah JJ. U1 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) aggregate in Alzheimer's disease due to autosomal dominant genetic mutations and trisomy 21. Mol Neurodegener. 2014;9:15. source
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The altered biochemical and cellular processes that eventually lead to changes in cognition and pathology in AD are not well understood.
“While AD is currently defined by cognitive decline in the presence of amyloid plaque and tau tangle accumulation within the brain, the altered biochemical and cellular processes that eventually lead to changes in cognition and pathology are not well understood.”
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The WGCNA algorithm for coexpression network analysis well-tolerates missing values up to 50%.
“As part of the new analysis approach, we also relaxed the data inclusion criteria to require missing values in < 50% rather than < 10% of the samples, given that the WGCNA algorithm for coexpression network analysis well-tolerates missing values up to 50%.”
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Changes in RNA splicing leading to the expression of different protein isoforms may be a useful indicator of AD pathology and cause downstream cellular and network dysfunction leading to cognitive decline.
“Changes in RNA splicing leading to the expression of different protein isoforms may be a useful indicator of AD pathology and cause downstream cellular and network dysfunction leading to cognitive decline.”
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Either the 3-repeat or the 4-repeat microtubule binding domain isoform of tau can be considered constitutively expressed in humans.
“because either isoform can be considered constitutively expressed in humans.”
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The tau pT231 peptide lies within the proline-rich region of tau and is separate from the microtubule-binding region that aggregates into neurofibrillary tangles.
“which lies within the proline-rich region of tau and is separate from the microtubule-binding region that aggregates into neurofibrillary tangles.”
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Most of the common alternatively spliced transcripts present in DLPFC control and AD brain were represented in the RNAseq-based database used to identify alt-EEjxn peptides.
“However, most of the common alternatively spliced transcripts present in DLPFC control and AD brain were likely represented in this database.”
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FERMT2 is an AD risk factor protein.
“with the exception of FERMT2, which has been identified as an AD risk factor protein.”
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“The AD brain network proteome also features conserved upregulation of oligodendrocyte-enriched modules associated with myelination (Fig. 1).”
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“Modules enriched with RNA binding and splicing proteins are also consistently upregulated in the AD network proteome (Fig. 1).”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“suggesting it maintains a causal role in disease pathogenesis [62, 64, 74, 96].”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“Nearly a dozen informative network-based analyses of the AD proteome have been performed in the human brain [62–64, 74, 78, 96, 104–108], including the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), temporal cortex, and other cortical regions heavily affected in AD.”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“Johnson et al. demonstrated this advantage in one of the first TMT-MS network proteomes of the AD brain [74], which quantified 6533 proteins across 47 brain tissues compared to just 2736 proteins quantified by LFQ-MS when applied to the same samples.”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“this study and others have noted that the MSN module is enriched with AD genetic risk factors”
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“Johnson et al. identified several AD-associated RNA-binding/splicing modules notably increased in asymptomatic and symptomatic AD.”
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“The authors subsequently concluded that RNA-binding proteins may drive the proteopathic “biochemical” phase of AD.”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“proteomic network analyses of the AD brain have demonstrated modest upregulation of a highly conserved oligodendrocyte-enriched myelination module in both asymptomatic and symptomatic disease [62–64, 74, 96].”
From Systems-based proteomics to resolve the biology of Alzheimer’s disease beyond amyloid and tau (2021) · cites this paper as [74]
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“The disease-associated alterations in these protein modules were independent of cell type, persisting even after the dataset was regressed for cell type-specific effects [74].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Johnson, E. C. B., Dammer, E. B., Duong, D. M., Yin, L., Thambisetty, M., Troncoso, J. C., Lah, J. J., Levey, A. I., & Seyfried, N. T.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Johnson, Erik C. B.
- Seyfried, Nicholas T.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Molecular Neurodegeneration
- Published
- 2018-10-04
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 52-52
- ISSN
- 1750-1326 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6172707
- OpenAlex
- W2895694428
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 16.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Molecular Neurodegeneration (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Accelerating Medicine Partnership AD (U01AG046161-02)
- National Institute on Aging (5R01AG053960, RF1AG057471, P50AG05146, P50AG025688, R21AG054206, RF1AG057470)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P30NS055077)
- Alzheimer's Association (11060)
- Alzheimer’s Research UK
- Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Weston Brain Institute
- BrightFocus Foundation (A2015332S)
- NIA Division of Intramural Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease, brain proteome, RNA-binding proteins, RNA splicing, alternative splicing, protein isoforms, asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease, proteogenomics, BIN1, PICALM, Pyk2, FERMT2, differential protein abundance, cognitive decline
- MeSH terms
- Alzheimer Disease, Brain, Cognition, Humans, RNA Splicing, RNA-Binding Proteins, Alternative Splicing, Proteomics, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Cognitive Dysfunction
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-10, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-10 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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