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Rudenko LK, Wallrabe H, Periasamy A, Siller KH, Svindrych Z, Seward ME, Best MN, Bloom GS. Intraneuronal Tau Misfolding Induced by Extracellular Amyloid-β Oligomers. J Alzheimers Dis 2019; 71:1125-1138. [PMID: 31524157 PMCID: PMC7464573 DOI: 10.3233/jad-190226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Abnormal folding and aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although normal tau is an intrinsically disordered protein, it does exhibit tertiary structure whereby the N- and C-termini are often in close proximity to each other and to the contiguous microtubule-binding repeat domains that extend C-terminally from the middle of the protein. Unfolding of this paperclip-like conformation might precede formation of toxic tau oligomers and filaments, like those found in AD brain. While there are many ways to monitor tau aggregation, methods to monitor changes in tau folding are not well established. Using full length human 2N4R tau doubly labeled with the Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) compatible fluorescent proteins, Venus and Teal, on the N- and C-termini, respectively (Venus-Tau-Teal), intensity and lifetime FRET measurements were able to distinguish folded from unfolded tau in living cells independently of tau-tau intermolecular interactions. When expression was restricted to low levels in which tau-tau aggregation was minimized, Venus-Tau-Teal was sensitive to microtubule binding, phosphorylation, and pathogenic oligomers. Of particular interest is our finding that amyloid-β oligomers (AβOs) trigger Venus-Tau-Teal unfolding in cultured mouse neurons. We thus provide direct experimental evidence that AβOs convert normally folded tau into a conformation thought to predominate in toxic tau aggregates. This finding provides further evidence for a mechanistic connection between Aβ and tau at seminal stages of AD pathogenesis.
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- Lauren K. Rudenko
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- W.M.Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- W.M.Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Advanced Research Computing Services, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Norambuena A, Wallrabe H, Cao R, Wang DB, Silva A, Svindrych Z, Periasamy A, Hu S, Tanzi RE, Kim DY, Bloom GS. A novel lysosome-to-mitochondria signaling pathway disrupted by amyloid-β oligomers. EMBO J 2018; 37:embj.2018100241. [PMID: 30348864 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2018100241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Revised: 08/30/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease are incompletely understood. Using two-photon fluorescence lifetime microscopy of the coenzymes, NADH and NADPH, and tracking brain oxygen metabolism with multi-parametric photoacoustic microscopy, we show that activation of lysosomal mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) by insulin or amino acids stimulates mitochondrial activity and regulates mitochondrial DNA synthesis in neurons. Amyloid-β oligomers, which are precursors of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease brain and stimulate mTORC1 protein kinase activity at the plasma membrane but not at lysosomes, block this Nutrient-induced Mitochondrial Activity (NiMA) by a mechanism dependent on tau, which forms neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease brain. NiMA was also disrupted in fibroblasts derived from two patients with tuberous sclerosis complex, a genetic disorder that causes dysregulation of lysosomal mTORC1. Thus, lysosomal mTORC1 couples nutrient availability to mitochondrial activity and links mitochondrial dysfunction to Alzheimer's disease by a mechanism dependent on the soluble building blocks of the poorly soluble plaques and tangles.
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- Andrés Norambuena
- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.,W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.,W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Genetics and Aging Research Unit, MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA .,Department of Cell Biology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.,Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Cong A, Pimenta RML, Lee HB, Mereddy V, Holy J, Heikal AA. Two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging of intrinsic NADH in three-dimensional tumor models. Cytometry A 2018; 95:80-92. [PMID: 30343512 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.23632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2018] [Revised: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Most studies using intrinsic NAD(P)H as biomarkers for energy metabolism and mitochondrial anomalies have been conducted in routine two-dimensional (2D) cell culture formats. Cellular metabolism and cell behavior, however, can be significantly different in 2D cultures from that in vivo. As a result, there are emerging interests in integrating noninvasive, quantitative imaging techniques of NAD(P)H with in vivo-like three-dimensional (3D) models. The overall features and metabolic responses of the murine breast cancer cells line 4T1 in 2D cultures were compared with those in 3D collagen matrix using integrated optical micro-spectroscopy. The metabolic responses to two novel compounds, MD1 and TPPBr, that target metabolism by disrupting monocarboxylate transporters or oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS), respectively, were investigated using two-photon fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (2P-FLIM) of intracellular NAD(P)H in 2D and 3D cultures. 4T1 cells exhibit distinct behaviors in a collagenous 3D matrix from those in 2D culture, forming anastomosing multicellular networks and spherical acini in 3D culture, as opposed to simple flattened epithelial plaques in 2D culture. The cellular NAD(P)H in 3D collagen matrix exhibits a longer fluorescence lifetime as compared with 2D culture, which is attributed to an enhanced population of enzyme-bound NAD(P)H in the 3D culture. TPPBr induces mitochondrial hyperpolarization in 2D culture of 4T1 cells along with an enhanced free NAD(P)H population, which suggest an interference with OXPHOS. In contrast, 2P-FLIM of cellular NAD(P)H revealed an enhanced autofluorescence lifetime in 3D 4T1 cultures after MD1 treatment as compared with MD1-treated 2D culture and the control 3D culture. Physical and chemical microenvironmental signaling are critical factors in understanding how therapeutic compounds target cancer cells by disrupting their metabolic pathways. Integrating 2P-FLIM of intrinsic NAD(P)H with refined 3D tumor-matrix in vitro models promises to advance our understanding of the roles of metabolism and metabolic plasticity in tumor growth and metastatic behavior. © 2018 International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.
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- Anh Cong
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Integrated Biosciences Graduate Program, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Medical School, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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Alturkistany F, Nichani K, Houston KD, Houston JP. Fluorescence lifetime shifts of NAD(P)H during apoptosis measured by time-resolved flow cytometry. Cytometry A 2018; 95:70-79. [PMID: 30369063 PMCID: PMC6587805 DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.23606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Autofluorescence from the intracellular metabolite, NAD(P)H, is a biomarker that is widely used and known to reliably screen and report metabolic activity as well as metabolic fluctuations within cells. As a ubiquitous endogenous fluorophore, NAD(P)H has a unique rate of fluorescence decay that is altered when bound to coenzymes. In this work we measure the shift in the fluorescence decay, or average fluorescence lifetime (1–3 ns), of NAD(P)H and correlate this shift to changes in metabolism that cells undergo during apoptosis. Our measurements are made with a flow cytometer designed specifically for fluorescence lifetime acquisition within the ultraviolet to violet spectrum. Our methods involved culture, treatment, and preparation of cells for cytometry and microscopy measurements. The evaluation we performed included observations and quantification of the changes in endogenous emission owing to the induction of apoptosis as well as changes in the decay kinetics of the emission measured by flow cytometry. Shifts in NAD(P)H fluorescence lifetime were observed as early as 15 min post‐treatment with an apoptosis inducing agent. Results also include a phasor analysis to evaluate free to bound ratios of NAD(P)H at different time points. We defined the free to bound ratios as the ratio of ‘short‐to‐long’ (S/L) fluorescence lifetime, where S/L was found to consistently decrease with an increase in apoptosis. With a quantitative framework such as phasor analysis, the short and long lifetime components of NAD(P)H can be used to map the cycling of free and bound NAD(P)H during the early‐to‐late stages of apoptosis. The combination of lifetime screening and phasor analyses provides the first step in high throughput metabolic profiling of single cells and can be leveraged for screening and sorting for a range of applications in biomedicine. © 2018 The Authors. Cytometry Part A published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.
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- Chemical & Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
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- Chemistry & Biochemistry, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.,Molecular Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
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- Chemical & Materials Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.,Molecular Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
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Sumi S, Umemura N, Adachi M, Ohta T, Naganawa K, Kawaki H, Takayama E, Kondoh N, Sumitomo S. The luminance ratio of autofluorescence in a xenograft mouse model is stable through tumor growth stages. Clin Exp Dent Res 2018; 4:174-181. [PMID: 30386639 PMCID: PMC6203828 DOI: 10.1002/cre2.126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
Abstract
The aim of this research was to investigate the value of autofluorescence imaging of oral cancer across different stages of tumor growth, to assist in detecting tumors. A xenograft mouse model was created with human oral squamous cell carcinoma cell line HSC-3 being subcutaneously inoculated into nude mice. Tumor imaging was performed with an autofluorescence imaging method (Illumiscan®) using the luminance ratio, which was defined as the luminance of the tumor site over the luminance of normal skin tissue normalized to a value of 1.0. This luminance ratio was continuously observed postinoculation. Tumor and normal skin tissues were harvested, and differences in the concentrations of flavin adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide were examined. The luminance ratio of the tumor sites was 0.85 ± 0.05, and there was no significant change in the ratio over time, even if the tumor proliferated and expanded. Furthermore, flavin adenine dinucleotide and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide were significantly lower in tumor tissue than in normal skin tissue. A luminance ratio under 0.90 indicates a high possibility of tumor, irrespective of the tumor growth stage. However, this cutoff value was determined using a xenograft mouse model and therefore requires further validation before being used in clinical diagnosis.
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- Shigeki Sumi
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral BiochemistryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral BiochemistryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral BiochemistryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral BiochemistryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAsahi University School of DentistryJapan
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