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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24065532
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aggrecan; brevican; cerebrospinal fluid; CSF; HAPLN1; neurocan; tenascin-R
The study investigates changes in the brain's extracellular matrix (ECM) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and finds spatially segregated molecular rearrangements of the ECM at RNA or protein levels.
The brain's extracellular matrix (ECM) is assumed to undergo rearrangements in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we investigated changes of key components of the hyaluronan-based ECM in independent samples of post-mortem brains (N = 19), cerebrospinal fluids (CSF; N = 70), and RNAseq data (N = 107; from The Aging, Dementia and TBI Study) of AD patients and non-demented controls. Group comparisons and correlation analyses of major ECM components in soluble and synaptosomal fractions from frontal, temporal cortex, and hippocampus of control, low-grade, and high-grade AD brains revealed a reduction in brevican in temporal cortex soluble and frontal cortex synaptosomal fractions in AD. In contrast, neurocan, aggrecan and the link protein HAPLN1 were up-regulated in soluble cortical fractions. In comparison, RNAseq data showed no correlation between aggrecan and brevican expression levels and Braak or CERAD stages, but for hippocampal expression of HAPLN1, neurocan and the brevican-interaction partner tenascin-R negative correlations with Braak stages were detected. CSF levels of brevican and neurocan in patients positively correlated with age, total tau, p-Tau, neurofilament-L and A beta 1-40. Negative correlations were detected with the A beta ratio and the IgG index. Altogether, our study reveals spatially segregated molecular rearrangements of the ECM in AD brains at RNA or protein levels, which may contribute to the pathogenic process.
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