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Enhancement of endogenous midbrain neurogenesis by microneurotrophin BNN-20 after neural progenitor grafting in a mouse model of nigral degeneration

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第6期19卷 1318-1324页

作者： Theodora Mourtzi Nasia Antoniou Christina Dimitriou Panagiotis Gkaravelas Georgia Athanasopoulou Panagiota Nti Kostantzo Olga Stathi Efthymia Theodorou Maria Anesti Rebecca Matsas Fevronia Angelatou Georgia Kouroupi Ilias Kazanis laboratory of Developmental Biology Department of Biology University of Patras laboratory of cellular and molecular Neurobiology-Stem Cells Hellenic Pasteur Institute 3. Department of Physiology School of Medicine University of Patras

We have previously shown the neuroprotective and pro-neurogenic activity of microneurotrophin BNN-20 in the substantia nigra of the “weaver” mouse, a model of progressive nigrostriatal degeneration. Here, we extended our investigation in two clinically-relevant ways. First, we assessed the effects of BNN-20 on human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells and neurons derived from healthy and parkinsonian donors. Second, we assessed if BNN-20 can boost the outcome of mouse neural progenitor cell intranigral transplantations in weaver mice, at late stages of degeneration. We found that BNN-20 has limited direct effects on cultured human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells, marginally enhancing their differentiation towards neurons and partially reversing the pathological phenotype of dopaminergic neurons generated from parkinsonian donors. In agreement, we found no effects of BNN-20 on the mouse neural progenitor cells grafted in the substantia nigra of weaver mice. However, the graft strongly induced an endogenous neurogenic response throughout the midbrain, which was significantly enhanced by the administration of microneurotrophin BNN-20. Our results provide straightforward evidence of the existence of an endogenous midbrain neurogenic system that can be specifically strengthened by BNN-20. Interestingly, the lack of major similar activity on cultured human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitors and their progeny reveals the in vivo specificity of the aforementioned pro-neurogenic effect.

关键词： adult neurogenesis BNN-20 brain-derived neurotrophic factor cell replacement induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) neurotrophic factors Parkinson's disease substantia

Heat Shock Factor A1s are required for phytochrome-interacting factor 4-mediated thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis

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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2024年第1期66卷 20-35页

作者： Bingjie Li Shimeng Jiang Liang Gao Wenhui Wang Haozheng Luo Yining Dong Zhihua Gao Shuzhi Zheng Xinye Liu Wenqiang Tang Key laboratory of molecular and cellular Biology of Ministry of Education Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline of Cell BiologyHebei Collaboration Innovation Center for Cell SignalingHebei Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular BiologyCollege of Life SciencesHebei Normal UniversityShijiazhuang 050024China School of Information Technology Hebei University of Economics and BusinessShijiazhuang 050061China

Thermomorphogenesis and the heat shock(HS)response are distinct thermal responses in plants that are regulated by PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4(PIF4)and HEAT SHOCK FACTOR A1s(HSFA1s),respectively.Little is known about whether these responses are interconnected and whether they are activated by similar mechanisms.An analysis of transcriptome dynamics in response to warm temperature(28℃)treatment revealed that 30 min of exposure activated the expression of a subset of HSFA1 target genes in Arabidopsis thaliana.Meanwhile,a loss-of-function HSFA1 quadruple mutant(hsfa1-cq)was insensitive to warm temperature-induced hypocotyl growth.In hsfa1-cq plants grown at 28℃,the protein and transcript levels of PIF4 were greatly reduced,and the circadian rhythm of many thermomorphogenesis-related genes(including PIF4)was disturbed.Additionally,the nuclear localization of HSFA1s and the binding of HSFA1d to the PIF4 promoter increased following warm temperature exposure,whereas PIF4 overexpression in hsfa1-cq partially rescued the altered warm temperature-induced hypocotyl growth of the mutant.Taken together,these results suggest that HSFA1s are required for PIF4 accumulation at a warm temperature,and they establish a central role for HSFA1s in regulating both thermomorphogenesis and HS responses in Arabidopsis.

关键词： HSFA1 PIF4 thermomorphogenesis

AtVQ25 promotes salicylic acid-related leaf senescence by fine-tuning the self-repression of AtWRKY53

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Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 2024年第6期66卷 1126-1147页

作者： Qi Tan Mingming Zhao Jingwei Gao Ke Li Mengwei Zhang Yunjia Li Zeting Liu Yujia Song Xiaoyue Lu Zhengge Zhu Rongcheng Lin Pengcheng Yin Chunjiang Zhou Geng Wang Ministry of Education Key laboratory of molecular and cellular Biology Hebei Research Center of the Basic Discipline of Cell BiologyHebei Collaboration Innovation Center for Cell Signaling and Environmental AdaptationHebei Key Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular BiologyCollege of Life SciencesHebei Normal UniversityShijiazhuang 050024China College of Chemical Engineering Shijiazhuang UniversityShijiazhuang 050035China Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100093China

Most mechanistic details of chronologically ordered regulation of leaf senescence are unknown.Regulatory networks centered on AtWRKY53 are crucial for orchestrating and integrating various senescence-related signals.Notably,AtWRKY53binds to its own promoter and represses transcription of AtWRKY53,but the biological significance and mechanism underlying this selfrepression remain unclear.In this study,we identified the VQ motif-containing protein AtVQ25as a cooperator of AtWRKY53.The expression level of AtVQ25 peaked at mature stage and was specifically repressed after the onset of leaf senescence.AtVQ25-overexpressing plants and atvq25 mutants displayed precocious and delayed leaf senescence,respectively.Importantly,we identified AtWRKY53 as an interacting partner of AtVQ25.We determined that interaction between AtVQ25 and AtWRKY53 prevented AtWRKY53from binding to W-box elements on the AtWRKY53promoter and thus counteracted the selfrepression of AtWRKY53.In addition,our RNA-sequencing data revealed that the AtVQ25-AtWRKY53 module is related to the salicylic acid(SA)pathway.Precocious leaf senescence and SA-induced leaf senescence in AtVQ25-overexpressing lines were inhibited by an SA pathway mutant,atsid2,and Nah G transgenic plants;AtVQ25-overexpressing/atwrky53 plants were also insensitive to SA-induced leaf senescence.Collectively,we demonstrated that AtVQ25 directly attenuates the self-repression of AtWRKY53 during the onset of leaf senescence,which is substantially helpful for understanding the timing of leaf senescence onset modulated by AtWRKY53.

关键词： AtWRKY53 leaf senescence salicylic acid transcriptional regulation VQ motif-containing proteins

Beyond functional MRI signals:molecular and cellular modifiers of the functional connectome and cognition

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第5期19卷 937-938页

作者： Lorenzo Pini Alessandro Salvalaggio Maurizio Corbetta Padova neuroscience Center University of PadovaItaly Veneto Institute of molecular Medicine VIMMPadovaItaly Department of neuroscience University of PadovaItaly

Our brain is constantly active.Even at rest,the brain carries out essential functions such as maintenance of resting potentials,subthreshold synaptic activity,and spiking activity related to information processing.This resting activity can be assessed with several in vivo tools,such as resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging.This technique measures subtle changes in blood flow,volume,and oxygenation that occur over time.Although vascular in nature,resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging is considered a reliable proxy of neural activity and several studies have shown that the brain is functionally divided into interacting neural networks called the“functional connectome”.

关键词： functional neural measures

Generation and characterization of nanobodies targeting GPCR

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Biophysics Reports 2024年第1期10卷 22-30页

作者： Shenglan Zhang Zhiran Fan Jianfeng Liu Bioland laboratory (Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong laboratory) cellular Signaling laboratory International Research Center for Sensory Biology and Technology of MOST Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of MOE College of Life Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology

G protein-coupled receptors(GPCRs) are a large family of cell membrane proteins that are important targets for drug discovery. Nanobodies, also known as VHH(variable domains of heavy chain-only antibodies, HcAbs) antibodies, are small antibody fragments derived from camelids that have gained significant attention as potential therapeutics for targeting GPCRs due to their advantages over conventional antibodies. However, there are challenges in developing nanobodies targeting GPCRs, among which epitope accessibility is the most significant because the cell membrane partially shields the GPCR surface. We developed a universal protocol for making nanobodies targeting GPCRs using the cell membrane extract of GPCR-overexpressing HEK293 cells as the llama/alpaca immunization antigen. We constructed an immune VHH library and identified nanobodies by phage display bio-panning. The monoclonal nanobodies were recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli(E. coli) and purified to characterize their binding potency.

关键词： Nanobody Single domain antibody Heavy chain-only antibody GPCR G protein-coupled receptor

enOsCas12f1-mediated exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy in humanized mouse model

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Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2024年第2期51卷 256-259页

作者： Ming Jin Jiajia Lin Yu Zhang Qingquan Xiao Xiangfeng Kong Xiumei Zhang Zhurui Shao Yin Wang Yuyang Yu Jinjing Li Wan-Jin Chen Guoling Li Hui Yang Ning Wang Department of Neurology and Institute of Neurology of First Affiliated Hospital Institute of NeuroscienceFujian Key Laboratory of Molecular NeurologyFujian Medical UniversityFuzhouFujian 350004China HUIDAGENE Therapeutics Co. Ltd.Shanghai 200131China Institute of neuroscience State Key Laboratory of NeuroscienceKey Laboratory of Primate NeurobiologyCAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence TechnologyShanghai Institutes for Biological SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai 200031China

Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD)is a severe neuromuscular disorder caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene,which encodes the essential protein dystrophin.This genetic condition,affecting approximately 1 in 5000 male births worldwide(Birnkrant et al.,2018),is characterized by progressive muscle weakness and wasting,leading to premature death in the second or third decade of life(Farini et al.,2016).The absence of dystrophin protein causes instability in the sarcolemma,which predisposes individuals to myonecrosis and activation of inflammatory signaling cascades.Unfortunately,there is currently no effective cure for DMD,and glucocorticoid steroids are commonly used in clinical settings to delay symptom development(Merlini et al.,2003).

关键词： dystrophy Duchenne

Cell-type resolved transcriptomic approaches for dissecting selective vulnerability in neurodgeneration

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第7期19卷 1411-1413页

作者： Caleb A.Wood Nicholas M.Tran Department of neuroscience Baylor College of MedicineHoustonTXUSA Department of molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of MedicineHoustonTXUSA

A common feature among neurodegenerative conditions is that ce rtain neuronal populations are selectively vulnerable to loss(Fu et al.,2018).By corollary,other neurons are selectively resilient,suggesting they may possess unique features that support their survival.U nderstanding the basis of neuronal resilience or vulnerability would provide a logical strategy to identify factors that could be targeted therapeutically.

关键词： selective targeted

Neural Stem Cell Competition

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neuroscience Bulletin 2024年第2期40卷 277-279页

作者： Yanan Li Jie He State Key laboratory of neuroscience Institute of NeuroscienceCenter for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence TechnologyChinese Academy of SciencesShanghai 200031China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049China

Cell competition is an adaptive surveillance mechanism to ensure the robustness of developmental outputs,maintain tissue integrity,and regulate tumor progression in multicellular organisms,which is highly conserved from invertebrates to vertebrates[1].At the cellular level,cell competition represents a non-cell-autonomous process in that cells can sense the fitness of their neighbors through cellular interactions,thereby eliminating low-fitness cells and expanding high-fitness counterparts,however,cells develop normally in homogenous populations.

关键词： thereby maintain eliminating

Self-assembled amphiphilic NIR-Ⅱ emissive nano-micelles for imaging-guided photothermal therapy of colorectal cancer

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Science China Chemistry 2024年第8期67卷 2767-2774页

作者： Axin He Fangfang Xia Da Han Qinglai Yang Weihong Tan Institute of molecular Medicine (IMM) Renji Hospital School of Medicine Shanghai Jiao Tong University Center for molecular Imaging Probe Hunan Province Key Laboratory of Cancer Cellular and Molecular Pathology Cancer Research Institute Hengyang Medical School University of South China The Key laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Aptamers and Theranostics Zhejiang Cancer Hospital Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM)Chinese Academy of Sciences molecular Science and Biomedicine laboratory (MBL) State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering College of Biology Aptamer Engineering Center of Hunan Province Hunan University

Colorectal cancer(CRC) is one of the major causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Most near-infrared(NIR) agents used in clinical CRC treatment are at NIR-I(700–900 nm) window, which has limitations on deep tissue, and fluorescent probes in the second NIR(1,000–1,700 nm) allow high-resolution bioimaging with deep tissue penetration. However, existing NIR-II fluorophores used in clinical are still rare. Herein, based on shielding-donor-acceptor-donor-shielding(S-D-A-D-S) scaffold, we developed an organic small-molecule fluorophore IR-BTGP with NIR-II emission for imaging-guided photothermal therapy(PTT) in CRC mice model. Amphiphilic IR-BTGP can be self-assembled into spherical nano-micelles, which presents reliable water solubility and photothermal conversion efficiency(30.2%). In vitro experiments indicate that cancer cells treated with IRBTGP were significantly killed upon 808 nm light irradiation. Furthermore, in vivo NIR-II fluorescence imaging confirms that IR-BTGP accumulates in the tumor region. Remarkably, a significant tumor inhibition rate(78.5%) was observed in tumorbearing mice when treated with IR-BTGP plus 808 nm irradiation. Therefore, this work shows that IR-BTGP holds great promise as an NIR-II fluorescence imaging-guided PTT platform for CRC in the future.

关键词： organic molecule photothermal therapy (PTT) second near-infrared (NIR-II) imaging