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Neurons undergo pathogenic metabolic reprogramming in models of familial ALS

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MOLECULAR METABOLISM
卷 60, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2022.101468

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Glycolysis; G6PDH; Neuron; ATP; Redox

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  1. National Public Health Service( [NS05225, NS087077, R00NS109252, CA197532, AG049665]
  2. Heather Koster Family Charitable Fund
  3. Les Turner ALS Foundation
  4. Northwestern University Pulmonary and Critical Care Department Cugell predoctoral fellowship

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The study investigates the metabolism of neurons expressing familial ALS genes and finds that in rodent models of fALS, there is a rewiring of metabolism with reduced neuronal lactate production and maintained or enhanced activity of the neuronal citric acid cycle. This suggests that targeting fuel utilization adjustments in neurodegenerative diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction can be beneficial.
Objectives: Normal cellular function requires a rate of ATP production sufficient to meet demand. In most neurodegenerative diseases (including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis [ALS]), mitochondrial dysfunction is postulated raising the possibility of impaired ATP production and a need for compensatory maneuvers to sustain the ATP production/demand balance. We investigated intermediary metabolism of neurons expressing familial ALS (fALS) genes and interrogated the functional consequences of glycolysis genes in fitness assays and neuronal survival.Methods: We created a pure neuronal model system for isotopologue investigations of fuel utilization. In a yeast platform we studied the functional contributions of glycolysis genes in a growth fitness assay iafter expressing of a fALS gene.Results: We find in our rodent models of fALS, a reduction in neuronal lactate production with maintained or enhanced activity of the neuronal citric acid cycle. This rewiring of metabolism is associated with normal ATP levels, bioenergetics, and redox status, thus supporting the notion that gross mitochondrial function is not compromised in neurons soon after expressing fALS genes. Genetic loss-of-function manipulation of individual steps in the glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway blunt the negative phenotypes seen in various fALS models.Conclusions: We propose that neurons adjust fuel utilization in the setting of neurodegenerative disease-associated alteration in mitochondrial function in a baleful manner and targeting this process can be healthful.Published by Elsevier GmbH. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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