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Upregulation of Trem2 expression occurs exclusively on microglial contact with plaques

Wood, Jack; Wong, Eugenia; Joghee, Ridwaan; Balbaa, Aya; Vitanova, Karina S; Vanshoiack, Alison; Phelan, Stefan-Laural J; ... Edwards, Frances A; + view all (2022) Upregulation of Trem2 expression occurs exclusively on microglial contact with plaques. BioRxiv: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Using spatial cell-type-enriched transcriptomics, we compare plaque-induced gene (PIG) expression in microglia touching plaques, neighboring plaques, and far from plaques in 18-month-old APPNLF/NLF knock-in mice with and without the Alzheimer’s disease risk mutation Trem2R47H/R47H. We report that, in AppNLF/NLF mice, expression of 35/55 PIGs, is exclusively upregulated in microglia that are touching plaques. In 7 PIGs including Trem2 this upregulation is prevented by the Trem2R47H/R47H mutation. Unlike in young mice, knockin of the Trem2R47H/R47H mutation does not significantly decrease the Trem2 expression but decreases protein levels by 20% in the absence of plaques. On plaques, despite the mutation preventing increased gene expression, TREM2 protein levels increased by 1.6-fold (compared to 3-fold with Trem2WT/WT) and microglial density increased 20-fold compared to 30-fold. Hence microglia must touch plaques before Trem2 gene expression is increased but small changes in protein expression can increase microglia density without a change in gene expression.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: Upregulation of Trem2 expression occurs exclusively on microglial contact with plaques
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.26.477873
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.26.477873
Language: English
Additional information: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Neuro, Physiology and Pharmacology
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148033
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