Neural Cell News Volume 16.37 | Sep 27 2022

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    2022-09-28 | NCN 16.37


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    Vol. 16.37 – 28 September, 2022
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    Ketogenic Diet Uncovers Differential Metabolic Plasticity of Brain Cells

    Scientists generated a proteome atlas of the major central nervous system cell types from young and adult mice, after feeding the therapeutically relevant low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet and during neuroinflammation.
    [Science Advances]

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    A Midbrain-Reticulotegmental Circuit Underlies Exaggerated Startle under Fear Emotions

    The authors revealed a neural projection from dorsal raphe nucleus to a startle-controlling center reticulotegmental nucleus that mediated enhanced startle response under fear condition.
    [Molecular Psychiatry]

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    Transcriptional Dynamics of Murine Motor Neuron Maturation In Vivo and In Vitro

    Researchers showed that mouse motor neurons exhibited pervasive changes in gene expression and accessibility of associated regulatory regions from embryonic till juvenile age.
    [Nature Communications]

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    CNS Myelination Requires VAMP2/3-Mediated Membrane Expansion in Oligodendrocytes

    Through live imaging, the authors discovered that VAMP2/3-mediated exocytosis drives membrane expansion within myelin sheaths to initiate wrapping and power sheath elongation.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Elevating Microglia TREM2 Reduces Amyloid Seeding and Suppresses Disease-Associated Microglia

    By using microglia-specific inducible mouse models overexpressing human wild-type TREM2 (TREM1-WT) or R47H risk variant, scientists showed that TREM2-WT expression reduced amyloid deposition and neuritic dystrophy only during the early amyloid seeding stage
    [Journal of Experimental Medicine]

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    High-Throughput Identification of RNA Localization Elements in Neuronal Cells

    Investigators identified peaks of regulatory activity within several 3′ UTRs and found that sequences derived from these peaks were both necessary and sufficient for RNA localization to neurites in mouse and human neuronal cells.
    [Nucleic Acids Research]

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    MEX3A Impairs DNA Mismatch Repair Signaling and Mediates Acquired Temozolomide Resistance in Glioblastoma

    The authors reported significant upregulation of Mex-3 RNA binding family member A in bioblastoma tissues and cell lines following temozolomide treatment.
    [Cancer Research]

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    Distinct Cell Adhesion Signature Defines Glioblastoma Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cell Subsets

    Scientists performed the first broad epigenetic profiling of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) subsets to define underlying cell-intrinsic differences in behavior.
    [Cancer Research]

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    A TRPM7 Mutation Linked to Familial Trigeminal Neuralgia: Omega Current and Hyperexcitability of Trigeminal Ganglion Neurons

    Investigators used patch-clamp analysis and Ca2+ and Na+ imaging to assess a rare variant in the TRPM7 channel, p.Ala931Thr, within transmembrane domain 3, identified in a man suffering from unilateral trigeminal neuralgia.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Parkinson-Causing Mutations in LRRK2 Impair the Physiological Tetramerization of Endogenous α-Synuclein in Human Neurons

    Patient neurons carrying G2019S, the most prevalent LRRK2 mutation, or R1441C each had decreased T:M ratios and pSer129 hyperphosphorylation of their endogenous αSyn along with increased phosphorylation of Rab10, a widely reported substrate of LRRK2 kinase activity.
    [npj Parkinsons Disease]

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    Complement C1q-Dependent Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Elimination by Astrocytes and Microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models

    Researchers found relatively more excitatory synapse marker proteins in astrocytic lysosomes, whereas microglial lysosomes contained more inhibitory synapse material.
    [Nature Aging]

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    Building In Vitro Models of the Brain To Understand the Role of APOE in Alzheimer’s Disease

    Scientists provide a brief background on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the context of APOE susceptibility and feature work employing hiPSC-derived brain cell and tissue models to interrogate the contribution of APOE in driving AD pathology.
    [Life Science Alliance]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    NIH’s BRAIN Initiative Puts $500 Million Into Creating Most Detailed Ever Human Brain Atlas

    The BRAIN Initiative, the nine-year-old, multibillion-dollar US neuroscience effort, announced its most ambitious challenge yet: compiling the world’s most comprehensive map of cells in the human brain.
    [ScienceInsider]

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