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Mechanisms of DNA damage-mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease
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Neurons are highly susceptible to DNA damage accumulation due to their large energy requirements, elevated transcriptional activity, and long lifespan. While newer research has shown that DNA breaks and mutations may facilitate neuron diversity during development and neuronal function throughout life, a wealth of evidence indicates deficient DNA damage repair underlies many neurological disorders, especially age-associated neurodegenerative diseases. Recently, efforts to clarify the molecular link between DNA damage and neurodegeneration have improved our understanding of how the genomic location of DNA damage and defunct repair proteins impact neuron health. Additionally, work establishing a role for senescence in the aging and diseased brain reveals DNA damage may play a central role in neuroinflammation associated with neurodegenerative disease.
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This review synthesizes evidence that DNA damage contributes mechanistically to neurodegeneration through two routes: the genomic location of lesions disrupting transcription of neuronal genes, and downstream lesion-detection signaling (DDR and cytosolic DNA sensing) driving apoptosis, senescence, and neuroinflammation. It argues that DNA repair syndromes serve as proxies for aging-related neurodegeneration and that senescence biology may link DNA damage to neuroinflammation.
Key findings
- Neurons are uniquely vulnerable because they are post-mitotic (excluding error-free homologous recombination), long-lived, and transcriptionally/energetically demanding — consuming approximately 20% of the body's available oxygen, with ROS-mediated damage greatest in the nervous system.
- DNA breaks have functional roles in neurons: activity-induced DSBs occur at immediate-early gene promoters (e.g., after bicuculline stimulation, fear learning, or novel environment exposure), but recurrence at these regulatory sequences makes them vulnerable to mutation and translocation; postmitotic neurons accumulate breaks in regulatory elements associated with neuronal function.
- SSBR mutations manifest exclusively as neurodegenerative syndromes (AOA1/AOA4 from APTX/PNKP, SCAN1 from TDP1, AOA5 from XRCC1); mutant XRCC1 causes PARP1 hyperactivity, excessive poly(ADP-ribose), NAD+/ATP depletion, Parthanatos, and in mouse brain progressive cerebellar degeneration, ataxia, seizure-like activity, and dysregulated presynaptic calcium signaling.
- DNA damage links to neuroinflammation via ATM–NF-κB signaling and cGAS-STING sensing of cytosolic self-DNA; removal of senescent cells mitigates NFT burden, amyloid burden, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline in mouse models of tauopathy, AD, PD, and normal aging.
Methods
- Narrative review; no primary data collection or new experiments.
- Synthesizes literature on DDR pathways (SSB/BER, NER, DSB/NHEJ, HR), DNA repair disorders, age-associated neurodegenerative disease, and senescence/neuroinflammation.
- Discusses DNA lesion-mapping technologies (γH2AX ChIP-seq, END-seq, BLISS, SSiNGLe, LAM-HTGTS, SAR-seq, Click-Code-seq, Nick-seq, ATAC-seq) and their application to neurons.
Limitations
- Stated by the paper: the mechanistic relationship between neuroinflammation and DNA damage "has yet to be fully realized"; the utility of newer break-mapping techniques (BLISS, SSiNGLe) in neurons has yet to be evaluated; it remains to be seen whether DNA damage itself is the main inducer of senescence in each brain cell type; the concept of senescent-like phenotypes in neurons is "particularly controversial" because senescence was initially defined in cycling cells; murine ATM knockout only mildly recapitulates AT ataxia and cerebellar atrophy, limiting mechanistic work.
- Evident from the text: as a review, all conclusions rest on cited primary studies rather than new data; several key claims (e.g., neuronal cGAS-STING in HD/ALS, neuronal senescence) are described as hypotheses or early observations requiring further dissection.
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“reactive oxygen species (ROS), which attack DNA to form oxidized bases and abasic sites”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Single‐Strand Breaks (SSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Lindahl & Barnes, 2000 source
- Partly supportedcites Madabhushi et al, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The cellular DNA damage response section says ROS generate oxidative base modifications, supporting the oxidized-bases part. It does not say ROS attack DNA to form abasic sites; it describes DNA glycosylases excising modified bases during repair. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.86)
- Partly supportedcites Tubbs & Nussenzweig, 2017 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Stochastic Errors in DNA Replication or Spontaneous Deamination as a Source of Mutation” (page not provided), the paper identifies 8-oxoguanine as a DNA lesion arising from reactive oxygen, supporting the oxidized-bases portion. The passages found do not say that ROS form abasic sites. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“In many cases, DNA damage seems to be one of the earliest indicators of neuropathology”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Chow & Herrup, 2015 source
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- Partly supportedcites Shanbhag et al, 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results report DNA double-strand breaks in mild cognitive impairment as well as Alzheimer’s disease, and the Discussion describes their accumulation at relatively early stages of the illness (page not provided). This supports an early association in Alzheimer’s disease, but the paper does not establish DNA damage as one of the earliest indicators of neuropathology across many conditions. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Increased PARP1 activation and elevated poly(ADP‐ribose) has been observed in numerous neurodegenerative disorders and their associated animal models (Thapa et al, 2021; Mao & Zhang 2022).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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- Not checked yetcites Thapa et al, 2021 source
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The “PARP1 and neurodegenerative diseases” section reports excessive PARP1 activation in several disorders, including Huntington’s disease, ALS and multiple sclerosis, and increased PARylation in ataxia-telangiectasia mouse and worm models. The Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease sections also describe PARP1 activation, supporting the broad paraphrase. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“To this end, genome‐wide profiling of DNA breaks in post‐mitotic neurons have revealed that their locations are likely major mediators of their toxicity.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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- Partly supportedcites Reid et al, 2021 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s Repair-seq results (section labeled Abstract; page unavailable) map genome-wide DNA repair hotspots in postmitotic human neurons and suggest that hotspots protect essential genomic elements. It profiles repair synthesis rather than DNA breaks themselves, and it does not establish that break locations are major mediators of toxicity. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“These data suggest that on top of its function as a pro‐survival and pro‐inflammatory transcription factor, NF‐kB is also critical for homeostatic neuronal function (Kaltschmidt & Kaltschmidt, 2009).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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- Supportedcites Kaltschmidt & Kaltschmidt, 2009 source
The NEURONS section (page unavailable) describes constitutive NF-kB activity associated with physiological basal synaptic transmission. The LEARNING AND MEMORY section (page unavailable) reports impaired learning, synaptic plasticity, and synapse formation when neuronal NF-kB is inhibited or ablated. Together, these support its importance for normal neuronal function. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“a wealth of evidence indicates deficient DNA damage repair underlies many neurological disorders, especially age‐associated neurodegenerative diseases.”
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“work establishing a role for senescence in the aging and diseased brain reveals DNA damage may play a central role in neuroinflammation associated with neurodegenerative disease.”
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“These insults ultimately push cellular fate toward apoptosis, senescence, or uncontrolled cell division”
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“the majority ultimately manifest in the form of single‐strand breaks (SSBs)”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Single‐Strand Breaks (SSBs)
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“we are just beginning to appreciate the significance of a lesion’s genomic location in relation to its effect on neuronal activity and, ultimately, degeneration”
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“neurons exhibit substantial mitochondrial respiration, consuming approximately 20% of the body’s available oxygen”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Single‐Strand Breaks (SSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Attwell & Laughlin, 2001 source
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“suggesting it may be an initiating lesion of toxicity”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Introduction
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“postmitotic neurons presumably incur the majority of their DSBs through transcriptional activity”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“A well‐established link exists between DNA damage and neurodegenerative diseases.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Introduction
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“ROS‐mediated DNA damage is greatest in the nervous system”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Single‐Strand Breaks (SSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Nakamura & Swenberg, 1999
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“The nervous system is particularly sensitive to loss‐of‐function mutations in DNA repair proteins.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage
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“while DNA breaks may serve a physiological function in learning and memory, their recurrence in neuron regulatory sequences makes these regions extremely vulnerable to mutation and translocation.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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“Combined, these features reduce the burden of DNA damage toxicity in glia.”
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“Even simply introducing a mouse to a new environment is quickly followed by the induction of DSBs in neurons”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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“work has shown that some may underly neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease.”
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“the protein kinase ATM phosphorylates numerous downstream substrates such as histone variant H2A.X, checkpoint kinase 2 (CHK2), and p53 to initiate DSB repair, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis, respectively.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > SSB and DSB sensing
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“DNA repair mapping reveals that postmitotic neurons do indeed accumulate breaks in regulatory elements associated with neuronal function”
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“somatic mutations induced by erroneous DNA damage repair or transposable elements are a common feature of neural development, giving rise to neuron diversity through genomic mosaicism”
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“mutations in TDP2 result in a rare neurological disease termed spinocerebellar ataxia autosomal recessive 23 (SCAR23)”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Zagnoli‐Vieira et al, 2018
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“a DSB‐mapping technique known as END‐seq was recently used to identify strand breaks in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)‐derived neurons, resulting in the finding that enhancers are hotspots for SSBs”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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“The explanation for this sensitivity may lie in the hallmarks of neuronal identity. That is, neurons perform transcriptionally and energetically demanding cellular functions and are post‐mitotic and long‐lived.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage
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- Rests on an assumption: Neurons are post-mitotic and long-lived.
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“Because HR requires sister chromatids, this pathway can only occur in cycling cells during or following S phase.”
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“DNA breaks seem to serve a functional role in neuronal activity”
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“Notably, CAG expansion has been found to be dependent upon DNA repair proteins such as OGG1, MLH1, and MSH2, whose detection of oxidized or mismatched bases in these repetitive elements could potentially elicit erroneous repair, leading to CAG expansion (Kovtun et al, 2007; Bettencourt et al, 2016; Pinto et al, 2013; Manley et al, 1999; Lee et al, 2017, 1).”
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“the pathogenic load of a loss‐of‐function mutation accelerates the development of age‐associated pathology”
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“To date, loss‐of‐function mutations in SSBR proteins have manifested exclusively as neurodegenerative syndromes.”
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“oxidative damage‐induced poly(ADP‐ribose) mediates α‐synuclein aggregation and consequent neurodegeneration in PD (Kam et al, 2018)”
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“With the exception of AOA5, which seems to have manifested exclusively in adults so far (Hoch et al, 2017: 1; O’Connor et al, 2018: 1), the majority of DNA damage disorders typically present in early childhood.”
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“Defective XRCC1 manifests in individuals as Ataxia with Oculomotor apraxia Type 5 (AOA5), another slow‐progressing neurodegenerative disease.”
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“Gene‐wide association studies have further identified SNPs in DNA maintenance genes that influence the age of onset in this disease (Lee et al, 2015; Moss et al, 2017).”
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“whether the resulting pathologies of a DNA repair deficit are developmental or age‐associated likely depends on both the brain cell type composition at the time and the selective vulnerabilities of different neuronal subtypes to different repair deficits.”
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“facilitates the formation of cytoplasmic TDP‐43 foci in ALS (McGurk et al, 2018a, 2018b)”
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“Deficient DNA damage repair in these vulnerable NPCs results in developmental abnormalities such as microcephaly”
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“inheritable DNA damage disorders, which frequently present with neurologic abnormalities”
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“Aberrant DNA repair may also directly mediate the severity of neurodegenerative disorders like HD, whose toxicity is derived from the CAG trinucleotide expansion of the Huntingtin gene.”
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“Similarly, DSB marker proteins correlate with cognitive impairment in individuals with low levels of amyloid and tau pathology (Simpson et al, 2015).”
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“it is likely that post‐mitotic neurons are bearing the brunt of the DNA repair deficit.”
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“Therefore, erroneous DNA repair mechanisms also directly influence HD severity.”
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“many DNA damage disorders are also defined by age‐associated pathologies such as progressive brain atrophy and peripheral neuropathy.”
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“we must acknowledge the pivotal role of DNA damage repair in neurodevelopment”
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“Specifically, increased DDR foci are observed in neurons from individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and AD compared to aged counterparts (Shanbhag et al, 2019).”
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“Accumulation of SNVs at neurodegeneration risk genes could potentially increase risk of disease development.”
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“an individual devoid of DNA repair mutations must experience the progressive stress of aging (i.e. damage accumulation, oxidative stress, declining DNA repair enzyme efficiency) in order to recapitulate the pathogenic load of a DNA damage disorder.”
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“and FUS activates and recruits the XRCC1‐LIG3 complex to sites of oxidative DNA damage in a PARP1‐dependent manner (Naumann et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2018a).”
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- Not checked yetcites Wang et al, 2018a
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“However, toxic aggregation of α‐synuclein in the nucleus or cytosol elicits the accumulation of DSBs (Vasquez et al, 2017; Milanese et al, 2018).”
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“can mediate neuroinflammatory activity in AD (Kauppinen et al, 2011)”
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“Tau may also play a role in DSB repair as well, as its deletion in the mouse brain leads to the accumulation of DSB foci in neurons (Violet et al, 2014; Mansuroglu et al, 2016).”
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“Importantly, removal of senescent cells promotes healthy aging in mice, making senescence‐associated inflammatory signaling an attractive target of therapeutic intervention for aging and age‐related disease (Tilstra et al, 2012; Childs et al, 2015; Baker et al, 2016; Ogrodnik et al, 2021).”
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“Indeed, many of the risk genes associated with AD mediate their effects through microglia, the brain‐resident macrophages (Glass et al, 2010; Heneka et al, 2015; Nott et al, 2019).”
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“Initially, induction of persistent DDR signaling in cell cultures including fibroblasts (Coppé et al, 2008; Rodier et al, 2009), bone marrow‐derived macrophages (BMDMs) (Härtlova et al, 2015), and primary monocytes (Brzostek‐Racine et al, 2011) was found to elicit the SASP (Coppé et al, 2008).”
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“FUS is an RNA/DNA binding protein that has been found to facilitate DSB repair through its colocalization with HDAC1 (Wy et al, 2013, 1).”
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- Not checked yetcites Wy et al, 2013, 1
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“Furthermore, phosphorylation of FUS occurs in response to DSB detection by proteins ATM and DNA‐PK (Gardiner et al, 2008; Deng et al, 2014)”
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“It follows that while these breaks may be functionally relevant, over time, their erroneous repair could lead to disruptive translocations, mutations, and genomic instability.”
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“This secretory profile was found to be at least partially ATM‐dependent, implying the importance of DSB repair specifically in immune activation (Rodier et al, 2009; Brzostek‐Racine et al, 2011).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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- Not checked yetcites Brzostek‐Racine et al, 2011
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“Thus, senescence is now considered as a potential driver of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.”
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“Previous work with AT fibroblasts had shown that the canonical immune transcription factor NF‐kB is activated in an ATM‐dependent manner following treatment with a radiomimetic, ionizing radiation, or topoisomerase inhibitor (Lee et al, 1998; Piret et al, 1999; Li et al, 2001).”
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“In addition to PARP1 activity, many genes that encode the building blocks of neurodegenerative proteinopathies have been found to play a role in DDR as well.”
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“While these findings have firmly established DNA breaks as a mechanism of neurodegenerative disease, the mechanisms by which break location may contribute to disease progression are not well described.”
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“In addition to DNA damage, neuroinflammation has emerged as a core feature and mechanism of neurodegenerative disease.”
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“Recently, TDP‐43 was also found to be directly involved in NHEJ through its recruitment and stabilization of the XRCC4‐LIG4 complex at DSBs (Guerrero et al, 2019; Mitra et al, 2019).”
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“As described earlier, the use of nucleoside analog incorporation to map DNA repair has led to the observation that postmitotic neurons harbor SSBs and other forms of breaks in the regulatory regions of genes that modulate synaptic plasticity and neuronal function (Reid et al, 2021; Wu et al, 2021).”
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- Not checked yetcites Wu et al, 2021
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“Nevertheless, observations of senescent‐like phenotypes in neurons have been reported for quite some time.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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- Not checked yetcites Jurk et al, 2012 source
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“An additional mechanism of cytosolic DNA‐mediated inflammation is through the NLRP3 inflammasome, which senses cell stressors (such as cytosolic DNA) to activate the cleavage of pro‐1L1b and pro‐IL18 via Caspase I to elicit their secretion.”
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“Additionally, senescent astrocytes have been identified as modulators of PD pathology (Chinta et al, 2018).”
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“Here, DSBs were considered the major driver of these senescence‐associated phenotypes because knock‐out of p21, a protein activated by p53 to initiate DSB‐induced cell cycle arrest, was able to mitigate their enrichment.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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“AGS is caused by mutations in genes that regulate nucleic acid metabolism.”
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- Not checked yetcites Crow & Manel, 2015 source
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“Interestingly, sequencing the cytosolic DNA fragments from these microglia revealed that most were derived from the nuclear DNA as intergenic repetitive elements, suggesting that the source of cytosolic DNA may not be random (Song et al, 2021).”
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- Not checked yetcites Song et al, 2021 source
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“Thus, the interplay between NF‐kB and p53 strongly influence cellular fate following DNA damage accumulation (Karin & Lin, 2002).”
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- Not checked yetcites Karin & Lin, 2002 source
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“Subsequent studies confirmed that following DSB induction, activated ATM couples with a number of protein intermediates leading to its cytoplasmic transport and downstream activation of NF‐kB (Hinz et al, 2010; Wu et al, 2010; Miyamoto, 2011).”
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“In particular, microglial NLRP3 has been shown to be a major driver of amyloid beta and tau toxicity in AD, suggesting its activation has important implications for disease progression (Halle et al, 2008; Venegas et al, 2017; Ising et al, 2019).”
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“Finally, removal of senescent microglia from aged mice has been found to improve cognition (Ogrodnik et al, 2021).”
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“Because DNA damage accumulates in neurons early on in AD, and because it is also a primary driver of senescence, it is worth hypothesizing that DNA lesions mediate neurodegeneration at least in part through neuronal senescence, although senescence in other cell types clearly also plays important roles in neurodegeneration.”
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“This dataset was later re‐analyzed to show that neurons with high levels of tau were enriched for signatures of DNA damage and senescence (Dunckley et al, 2006; Musi et al, 2018).”
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“For example, ATM‐deficient microglia have been shown to accumulate cytosolic DNA, thus activating the cGAS‐STING pathway to elicit pro‐inflammatory and neurotoxic signals (Quek et al, 2017; Song et al, 2019).”
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“As early as 2012, the term “senescence” was used to describe pathological features of neurons in the aged mouse brain, including increased DSBs, lipid peroxidation, and senescent‐associated β‐galactosidase staining (Jurk et al, 2012).”
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“Accordingly, RNASEH2 murine models of AGS reveal that CGAS‐STING sensing of micronuclei is the cause for type I IFN signaling in this disease (Mackenzie et al, 2016, 2017; Pokatayev et al, 2016).”
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“Senescent‐like phenotypes in neurons have also been noted in other models of aging and neurodegeneration (Chow et al, 2019; Moreno‐Blas et al, 2019).”
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“For example, deficits in RNASEH2, an enzyme responsible for removing ribonucleotides from DNA and resolving R‐loops, comprise more than half of AGS diagnoses (Crow & Manel, 2015).”
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“Recent single‐nucleus RNA sequencing of AT cerebella reveals that microglial activation likely precedes neuronal degeneration, further emphasizing the role of microglia in ATM‐mediated neuropathology (Lai et al, 2021).”
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- Not checked yetcites Lai et al, 2021
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“Thus, dysregulated NF‐kB signaling in neurons could be a key mechanism linking DNA damage accumulation, altered synaptic function, and disease progression.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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“While these are mechanisms specific to neurons, emerging evidence also suggests that many cell types in the brain, including astrocytes, microglia, oligodendrocytes, and neurons, may mediate the cytotoxicity of DNA damage through senescence‐associated signaling.”
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“Indeed, observations of neuron‐derived immune signaling at early stages of neurodegenerative disease indicate that this may play a role in disease progression (Dutta et al, 2020; Welikovitch et al, 2020).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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“Intriguingly, the inflammatory transcription factor NF‐kB also plays neuron‐specific roles in learning and memory.”
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“The utilization of murine models of DNA damage and DNA break mapping techniques have allowed us to identify how DNA damage may regulate the expression of genes essential for neuronal function, and how this might lead to dysfunction later in life.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Conclusions
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“Inhibition of NF‐kB signaling specifically in neurons impairs synaptic plasticity and synaptogenesis (O’Mahony et al, 2006; Boersma et al, 2011).”
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“However, work examining the immune response to neurotropic viral infections reveals neuron‐derived inflammatory signaling is a critical feature of the antiviral response (Klein et al, 2005; Chakraborty et al, 2010; Di Liberto et al, 2018).”
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“Furthermore, suppression of neuronal NF‐kB in vivo renders neurons more susceptible to kainic acid‐induced neurotoxicity (Fridmacher et al, 2003).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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- Not checked yetcites Fridmacher et al, 2003 source
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“Indeed, the protein machinery required to detect cytosolic DNA such as STING is reported to be low in neurons compared to glial cells (Mathur et al, 2017; Song et al, 2019).”
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“Regardless, it is clear that DNA damage can elicit neuron dysfunction broadly through two distinct mechanisms.”
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“First, the location of the lesion has a significant impact on transcriptional mechanisms required for normal cell function.”
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“Second, the downstream signaling pathways of lesion detection, whether they be through DDR or cytosolic nucleic acid sensing, can elicit apoptotic or inflammatory signaling that lead to neurotoxicity.”
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“all of which are hallmarks of age‐associated disease”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites Hoeijmakers, 2009 source
- Partly supportedcites Madabhushi et al, 2014 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (page unavailable) links DNA damage to cell death, senescence, aging, and cancer, which supports a general connection to the processes named. It does not identify apoptosis, senescence, and uncontrolled cell division collectively as hallmarks of age-associated disease; uncontrolled cell division is not stated in the relevant passage. (LLM, conf=0.82)
- Not checked yetcites Chow & Herrup, 2015 source
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“More recently, researchers have identified senescent‐like brain cells in murine models of AD and tauopathy, and their removal via senolytic drugs seems to mitigate pathology and improve cognition (Bussian et al, 2018; Musi et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2019; Ogrodnik et al, 2021).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage
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- Partly supportedcites Bussian et al, 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The opening summary reports senescent astrocytes and microglia in a PS19 mouse model of tauopathy, and says genetic clearance prevented pathology and preserved cognitive function. The pharmacological-intervention passage reports that the senolytic ABT263 attenuated tau phosphorylation, but does not report improved cognition from drug treatment. This paper does not establish the claim for a murine AD model. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Partly supportedcites Musi et al, 2018 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction and Results report senescence-like features in tau-pathology mouse models and reduced NFT burden and brain atrophy after treatment with the senolytics dasatinib and quercetin. The Results describe MRI, histopathology, and cerebral blood-flow outcomes, but do not report a cognitive improvement; the paper only notes that blood flow is associated with cognitive impairment. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Supportedcites Zhang et al, 2019 source
The Discussion reports senescent OPCs in APP/PS1 AD mice and says senolytic treatment reduced Aβ pathology and improved learning and memory. It also reports senescent glial cells in tau-mutant mice and describes the studies together as showing benefits from clearing senescent cells, while distinguishing genetic clearance from senolytic-drug treatment. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Neurons are highly susceptible to DNA damage accumulation due to their large energy requirements, elevated transcriptional activity, and long lifespan.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Abstract
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“it is popularly cited that just one DSB can induce cell cycle arrest and subsequent apoptosis”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Huang et al, 1996 source
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“Defective DDR pathways can result in toxic genomic rearrangements, transcriptional dysregulation, and the accumulation of unrepaired lesions”
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“SSBs may form DSBs through their collision with the transcriptional machinery and replication forks, or through their close proximity to another SSB.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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- Not checked yetcites Cannan & Pederson, 2016 source
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“While SSBs are the more common form of DNA damage, double‐strand breaks (DSBs) have the higher potential for toxicity.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“DSBs are also directly generated by transcription (Cannan & Pederson, 2016), whereby topoisomerase II (TOP2) induces transient DSBs to relieve torsional stress and facilitate gene expression.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“DSBs are required for T‐cell receptor and antibody diversity, chromosomal recombination during meiosis, and in the case of neurons, assist in the expression of immediate early genes”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“PARP1 senses both SSBs and DSBs, rapidly generating poly(ADP‐ribose) (PAR) chain scaffolds (PARylation) on itself and other target proteins to recruit DNA repair proteins and relax chromatin at break sites.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > SSB and DSB sensing
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“NHEJ operates in all phases of the cell cycle and thus is the only DSB repair pathway available to post‐mitotic cells.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“Both alt‐NHEJ and SSA are inherently error‐prone”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“phosphorylation of H2A.X (γH2AX) by ATM is a critical post‐translational modification, flanking DSB sites more than 500 kb upstream and downstream to form γH2AX foci”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > SSB and DSB sensing
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“Stimulating primary neurons with bicuculline or subjecting mice to fear learning results in the induction of DSBs at the promoters of immediate‐early genes”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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“DNA damage in glia plays demonstrable roles in neurodegeneration, as we will discuss later.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage
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“Poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase 1 (PARP1) and Ataxia telangectasia mutated (ATM) are two major sensors of SSBs and DSBs.”
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“HR is considered an error‐free method of DSB repair by which resected DNA strands utilize their sister chromatid as a template for DNA synthesis.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > The DNA damage response (DDR) > Double‐Strand Breaks (DSBs)
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“DSB hotspots reside in long genes that are important for neuronal function and are risk factors for autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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- Not matchedcites Wei et al, 2016, 2018
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- Not checked yetcites Wang et al, 2020 source
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“a study performing whole exome sequencing of hippocampal tissue from individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) revealed that somatic single nucleotide variations (SNVs) increase with age and are enriched in genes that regulate tau phosphorylation”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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- Not checked yetcites Park et al, 2019 source
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“compared to neurons, glial cells are replaceable, have lower energy requirements, and, in some cases, are able to re‐enter the cell cycle, thus facilitating DNA repair.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage
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“The consequence of these features is elevated ROS byproducts, exclusion of error‐free HR repair, age‐associated decline in DNA repair enzyme efficiency, and an overall increased chance of somatic mutation.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage
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“erroneous DSB repair could lead to mutations that result in transcriptomic dysfunction, which could further manifest at the cellular level as impaired synaptic signaling.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Functional roles for DNA damage in neuronal activity and development could lead to dysfunction later in life
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“single‐cell whole genome sequencing has revealed that somatic SNVs located near neuronal genes increase with age in human neurons, presumably due to errors in BER, NER, and transcription‐associated repair (Fig 2) (Lodato et al, 2015, 2018).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Oxidative DNA damage
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- Not matchedcites Lodato et al, 2015, 2018
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“Ataxia with Oculomotor Apraxia types 1 and 4 (AOA1, AOA4) are caused by mutations in DNA end‐processing enzymes Aprataxin (APTX) and Polynucleotide Kinase 3′‐Phosphatase (PNKP) respectively.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Neurological diseases caused by SSBR mutations
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“SCAN1, caused by defective TDP1, is a similar neurodegenerative syndrome additionally characterized by peripheral neuropathy”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Neurological diseases caused by SSBR mutations
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- Not checked yetcites Takashima et al, 2002 source
- Not checked yetcites El‐Khamisy et al, 2005
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“8oxoG is capable of repressing gene transcription through many mechanisms, including blocking transcription factor binding (Ghosh & Mitchell, 1999; Moore et al, 2016), recruiting chromatin remodelers that result in the methylation of gene promoters(Wang et al, 2018b; Xia et al, 2017, 4), and erroneous repair through BER, which could result in single nucleotide variations (SNVs).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > Oxidative DNA damage
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“A plethora of studies document increased levels of both SSBs and DSBs in AD, HD, PD, and ALS (Mullaart et al, 1990; Adamec et al, 1999; McKinnon, 2013, 2017; Madabhushi et al, 2014; Alt & Schwer, 2018; Shanbhag et al, 2019; Thadathil et al, 2021), and their accumulation seem to correlate with important milestones in disease progression.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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“More recently, increased ROS and DSBs have also been documented in neurons derived directly from sporadic AD patient fibroblasts, indicating that age‐dependent features of genomic instability are recapitulated in human in vitro models of disease (Mertens et al, 2021).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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- Not checked yetcites Mertens et al, 2021 source
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“DNA damage is a potent activator of inflammatory signaling and senescence (Coppé et al, 2008; Rodier et al, 2009; Brzostek‐Racine et al, 2011; Härtlova et al, 2015).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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“Finally, α‐synuclein, whose cytoplasmic aggregation is a hallmark of PD, is able to bind double‐strand DNA and facilitate NHEJ in homeostasis (Schaser et al, 2019).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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- Not checked yetcites Schaser et al, 2019 source
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“The Huntington protein may also play a role in DNA damage detection, potentially serving as a scaffold for ATM at sites of oxidized DNA (Maiuri et al, 2017), and ATXN3 and PNKP at sites of transcription‐coupled DNA break repair (Gao et al, 2019).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neurotoxicity associated with DNA damage > SSBs and DSBs
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- Not checked yetcites Maiuri et al, 2017
- Not checked yetcites Gao et al, 2019
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“Importantly, while not well‐studied in the context of the degenerating brain, the mechanistic link between DNA damage and senescence has already been defined in great detail (d’Adda di Fagagna, 2008; Miyamoto, 2011; Li & Chen, 2018).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage
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“Interestingly, a subsequent study revealed that DNA damage can also evoke type‐I interferon signaling in AT cells due to the accumulation of cytosolic DNA fragments, suggesting activation of inflammatory signaling via DNA damage can occur independent of the DSB DDR (Härtlova et al, 2015).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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“Therefore, DNA damage has direct molecular links to senescence‐associated inflammatory signaling, both through DDR pathway activation and the mis‐localization of DNA itself (Fig 3).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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In the paper
“This indicates that different phenotypes of DNA damage response deficits are mediated by different pathways, which may have preferential function in different cell types.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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“This includes TLR9 (Toll‐like receptor 9), which binds to double‐stranded DNA engulfed in endosomes, particularly bacterial DNA or mtDNA. This recruits adaptor protein MYD88 (myeloid differentiation primary response 88) to activate NFκB and stimulate the expression of inflammatory cytokines.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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- Not checked yetcites Miller et al, 2021 source
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“It has since been shown that removal of senescent cells in the brain mitigates neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) burden, amyloid burden, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline in mouse models of tauopathy (Bussian et al, 2018; Musi et al, 2018), AD (Zhang et al, 2019), PD (Chinta et al, 2018), and normal aging (Ogrodnik et al, 2021).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > Senescence‐associated inflammation in brain aging and neurodegeneration
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“For example both microglia (Bussian et al, 2018), astrocytes (Bussian et al, 2018), and neurons (Musi et al, 2018) have been found to display senescent‐like phenotypes in Tau P301S mice, and have been proposed as drivers of cognitive decline and neurodegeneration.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > Senescence‐associated inflammation in brain aging and neurodegeneration
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“Senescent‐like phenotypes have also been identified in oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) in APP/PS1 mice, and their removal has been shown to mitigate amyloid load and cognitive decline (Zhang et al, 2019).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > Senescence‐associated inflammation in brain aging and neurodegeneration
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- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al, 2019 source
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“However, recent work investigating the cause of AGS neurotoxicity revealed that it is the DDR‐mediated activation of p53, not CGAS‐STING, that causes neuron cell death, although increased micronuclei and R‐loops were observed in astrocytes (Aditi et al, 2021).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > DNA damage induces senescence
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- Not checked yetcites Aditi et al, 2021
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“Importantly, as DNA damage is a well‐established source of inflammatory signaling, this uncovers a previously unstudied aspect of neuronal response to DNA damage.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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“Notably, neuronal cGAS‐STING has been shown to be activated in models of HD and ALS, suggesting that toxic protein aggregates may stimulate DNA release (mitochondrial or genomic) to initiate NFκB activation in neurons (Sharma et al, 2020; Yu et al, 2020).”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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- Not checked yetcites Sharma et al, 2020 source
- Not checked yetcites Yu et al, 2020
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“The detection of viral nucleic acids utilizes the same cGAS‐STING pathway as that described for detection of self‐DNA within the cytosol of senescent cells, suggesting that the mechanism of innate immune signaling in DSB‐bearing neurons may be of some significance.”
§ Mechanisms of DNA damage‐mediated neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative disease > Neuroinflammation associated with DNA damage > The role of neuronal DNA damage in neuroinflammation
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Neurons are post-mitotic and long-lived.
“Post‐mitotic neurons are the basic cellular unit of the nervous system.”
“neurons perform transcriptionally and energetically demanding cellular functions and are post‐mitotic and long‐lived.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Glial cells are replaceable, have lower energy requirements, and can re-enter the cell cycle.
“compared to neurons, glial cells are replaceable, have lower energy requirements, and, in some cases, are able to re‐enter the cell cycle, thus facilitating DNA repair.”
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Most mutations are likely neutral.
“While most mutations are likely to be neutral”
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HD toxicity is derived from the CAG trinucleotide expansion of the Huntingtin gene.
“Aberrant DNA repair may also directly mediate the severity of neurodegenerative disorders like HD, whose toxicity is derived from the CAG trinucleotide expansion of the Huntingtin gene.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Age-dependent CAG expansion occurs in the brains of individuals with HD, gradually increasing the toxicity of the Huntington protein in the striatum.
“Specifically, age‐dependent CAG expansion occurs in the brains of individuals with HD, gradually increasing the toxicity of the Huntington protein in the striatum.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Welch, G., & Tsai, L.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tsai, Li‐Huei
- Venue
- The EMBO Reports
- Published
- 2022-05-02
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- e54217-e54217
- ISSN
- 1469-221X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-3178
- PMC
- PMC9171412
- OpenAlex
- W4225288591
- Semantic Scholar
- 2d78ba2004dfe676ffd6931eb4f23964f7f7c921
- Cited by
- 129
- References
- 183
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 4
- FWCI
- 2.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- EMBO Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › DNA Repair Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Keywords
- DNA damage, neurotoxicity, neurodegenerative diseases, DNA repair, DNA strand breaks, DNA mutations, neuronal aging, cellular senescence, neuroinflammation, age-related neurodegeneration
- MeSH terms
- Aging, DNA Damage, DNA Repair, Humans, Neurons, Neurodegenerative Diseases
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