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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Estrada, Lisbell D.a; b; c | Chamorro, Davida | Yañez, María Joséa | Gonzalez, Marceloa | Leal, Nancya | von Bernhardi, Rommyd | Dulcey, Andrés E.e | Marugan, Juane | Ferrer, Marce | Soto, Claudiof | Zanlungo, Silvanag | Inestrosa, Nibaldo C.b; h; i | Alvarez, Alejandra R.a; b; *
Affiliations: [a] Cell Signaling Laboratory, Cell and Molecular Biology Department, Biological Sciences Faculty, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | [b] Centro de Envejecimiento y Regeneración (CARE), Departamento de Biología Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | [c] Laboratorio Bionanotecnologia, Facultad de Salud, Universidad Bernardo O Higgins, Chile | [d] Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | [e] National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NACTS), NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA | [f] Mitchell Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX, USA | [g] Gastroentorology Department, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile | [h] Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia | [i] Centro de Excelencia en Biomedicina de Magallanes (CEBIMA), Universidad de Magallanes, Chile
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Dr. Alejandra Alvarez. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Portugal 49, Santiago 830025, Chile. Tel.: +56 226862926; Fax: +56 226862959; E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: One of the pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the presence of amyloid plaques, which are deposits of misfolded and aggregated amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ). The role of the c-Abl tyrosine kinase in Aβ-mediated neurodegeneration has been previously reported. Here, we investigated the therapeutic potential of inhibiting c-Abl using imatinib. We developed a novel method, based on a technique used to detect prions (PMCA), to measure minute amounts of misfolded-Aβ in the blood of AD transgenic mice. We found that imatinib reduces Aβ-oligomers in plasma, which correlates with a reduction of AD brain features such as plaques and oligomers accumulation, neuroinflammation, and cognitive deficits. Cells exposed to imatinib and c-Abl KO mice display decreased levels of β-CTF fragments, suggesting that an altered processing of the amyloid-beta protein precursor is the most probable mechanism behind imatinib effects. Our findings support the role of c-Abl in Aβ accumulation and AD, and propose AD-PMCA as a new tool to evaluate AD progression and screening for drug candidates.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid-beta peptide, amyloid-beta protein precursor, c-Abl tyrosine kinase, imatinib, oligomers, PMCA
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-151087
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1193-1205, 2016
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