Journal
AGING CELL
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 11-23Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/acel.12018
Keywords
Alzheimer's Disease; brain-derived neurotrophic factor; hippocampus; NMDAR; NR2B; Src; Tau; transgenic mouse
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- Inserm
- CNRS
- DN2M
- FEDER
- France Alzheimer
- IMPRT
- University of Lille 2
- Lille Regional Hospital (CHRU)
- Region Nord/Pas-de-Calais
- Fondation Coeur and Arteres
- LECMA
- MEDIALZ
- ANR (AMYTOXTAU)
- ANR (ADONTAGE)
- European Community (MEMOSAD) [200611]
- LABEX (excellence laboratory, program invest for the future) DISTALZ (Development of Innovative Strategies for a Transdisciplinary approach to ALZheimer's disease)
- CHRU
- University of Lille 2/French Research Ministry
- Communidad Castilla-La-Mancha
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While the spatiotemporal development of Tau pathology has been correlated with occurrence of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's patients, mechanisms underlying these deficits remain unclear. Both brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and its tyrosine kinase receptor TrkB play a critical role in hippocampus-dependent synaptic plasticity and memory. When applied on hippocampal slices, BDNF is able to enhance AMPA receptor-dependent hippocampal basal synaptic transmission through a mechanism involving TrkB and N-methyl-d-Aspartate receptors (NMDAR). Using THY-Tau22 transgenic mice, we demonstrated that hippocampal Tau pathology is associated with loss of synaptic enhancement normally induced by exogenous BDNF. This defective response was concomitant to significant memory impairments. We show here that loss of BDNF response was due to impaired NMDAR function. Indeed, we observed a significant reduction of NMDA-induced field excitatory postsynaptic potential depression in the hippocampus of Tau mice together with a reduced phosphorylation of NR2B at the Y1472, known to be critical for NMDAR function. Interestingly, we found that both NR2B and Src, one of the NR2B main kinases, interact with Tau and are mislocalized to the insoluble protein fraction rich in pathological Tau species. Defective response to BDNF was thus likely related to abnormal interaction of Src and NR2B with Tau in THY-Tau22 animals. These are the first data demonstrating a relationship between Tau pathology and synaptic effects of BDNF and supporting a contribution of defective BDNF response and impaired NMDAR function to the cognitive deficits associated with Tauopathies.
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