期刊
出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/trc2.12283
关键词
Alzheimer's disease; amyloid beta; antimicrobial peptide; arginine; autoimmune; cytokine; tryptophan
资金
- BrightFocus Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Alzheimer's Society of Canada
- Ontario Brain Institute
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Krembil Foundation
- Toronto General and Western Hospital Foundation
- Sobey Family
- Sobey Foundation
- Weston Brain Institute
- Michael Albert Garron Foundation
- Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Alzheimer's disease involves neurotoxic inflammation and amyloid beta oligomerization, and we conducted studies to understand the molecular mechanisms of cytokine-mediated and A beta-mediated neurotoxicities. Based on these findings, we designed potential small-molecule therapeutics for AD.
Introduction Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by neurotoxic immuno-inflammation concomitant with cytotoxic oligomerization of amyloid beta (A beta) and tau, culminating in concurrent, interdependent immunopathic and proteopathic pathogeneses. Methods We performed a comprehensive series of in silico, in vitro, and in vivo studies explicitly evaluating the atomistic-molecular mechanisms of cytokine-mediated and A beta-mediated neurotoxicities in AD. Next, 471 new chemical entities were designed and synthesized to probe the pathways identified by these molecular mechanism studies and to provide prototypic starting points in the development of small-molecule therapeutics for AD. Results In response to various stimuli (e.g., infection, trauma, ischemia, air pollution, depression), A beta is released as an early responder immunopeptide triggering an innate immunity cascade in which A beta exhibits both immunomodulatory and antimicrobial properties (whether bacteria are present, or not), resulting in a misdirected attack upon self neurons, arising from analogous electronegative surface topologies between neurons and bacteria, and rendering them similarly susceptible to membrane-penetrating attack by antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) such as A beta. After this self-attack, the resulting necrotic (but not apoptotic) neuronal breakdown products diffuse to adjacent neurons eliciting further release of A beta, leading to a chronic self-perpetuating autoimmune cycle. AD thus emerges as a brain-centric autoimmune disorder of innate immunity. Based upon the hypothesis that autoimmune processes are susceptible to endogenous regulatory processes, a subsequent comprehensive screening program of 1137 small molecules normally present in human brain identified tryptophan metabolism as a regulator of brain innate immunity and a source of potential endogenous anti-AD molecules capable of chemical modification into multi-site therapeutic modulators targeting AD's complex immunopathic-proteopathic pathogenesis. Discussion Conceptualizing AD as an autoimmune disease, identifying endogenous regulators of this autoimmunity, and designing small molecule drug-like analogues of these endogenous regulators represents a novel therapeutic approach for AD.
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