Amyloid β synaptotoxicity is Wnt-PCP dependent and blocked by fasudil

Katherine J Sellers; Christina Elliott; Joshua Jackson; Anshua Ghosh; Elena Ribe; Ana I Rojo; Heledd H Jarosz-Griffiths; Iain A Watson; Weiming Xia; Mikhail Semenov; Peter Morin; Nigel M Hooper; Rod Porter; Jane Preston; Raya Al-Shawi; George Baillie; Simon Lovestone; Antonio Cuadrado; Michael Harte; Paul Simons; Deepak P Srivastava; Richard Killick

doi:10.1016/j.jalz.2017.09.008

Amyloid β synaptotoxicity is Wnt-PCP dependent and blocked by fasudil

Katherine J Sellers, Christina Elliott, Joshua Jackson, Anshua Ghosh, Elena Ribe, Ana I Rojo, Heledd H Jarosz-Griffiths, Iain A Watson, Weiming Xia, Mikhail Semenov, Peter Morin, Nigel M Hooper, Rod Porter, Jane Preston, Raya Al-Shawi, George Baillie, Simon Lovestone, Antonio Cuadrado, Michael Harte, Paul SimonsDeepak P Srivastava, Richard Killick

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INTRODUCTION: Synapse loss is the structural correlate of the cognitive decline indicative of dementia. In the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, amyloid β (Aβ) peptides aggregate to form senile plaques but as soluble peptides are toxic to synapses. We previously demonstrated that Aβ induces Dickkopf-1 (Dkk1), which in turn activates the Wnt-planar cell polarity (Wnt-PCP) pathway to drive tau pathology and neuronal death.

METHODS: We compared the effects of Aβ and of Dkk1 on synapse morphology and memory impairment while inhibiting or silencing key elements of the Wnt-PCP pathway.

RESULTS: We demonstrate that Aβ synaptotoxicity is also Dkk1 and Wnt-PCP dependent, mediated by the arm of Wnt-PCP regulating actin cytoskeletal dynamics via Daam1, RhoA and ROCK, and can be blocked by the drug fasudil.

DISCUSSION: Our data add to the importance of aberrant Wnt signaling in Alzheimer's disease neuropathology and indicate that fasudil could be repurposed as a treatment for the disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	306-317
Number of pages	12
Journal	Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Volume	14
Issue number	3
Early online date	19 Oct 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2017.09.008
Publication status	Published - 19 Oct 2017

Keywords

Alzheimer's disease
Amyloid
DAAM1
Dickkopf-1
Fasudil
Planar cell polarity
ROCK
Synapse
Synaptotoxicity
Wnt

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Sellers, K. J., Elliott, C., Jackson, J., Ghosh, A., Ribe, E., Rojo, A. I., Jarosz-Griffiths, H. H., Watson, I. A., Xia, W., Semenov, M., Morin, P., Hooper, N. M., Porter, R., Preston, J., Al-Shawi, R., Baillie, G., Lovestone, S., Cuadrado, A., Harte, M., ... Killick, R. (2017). Amyloid β synaptotoxicity is Wnt-PCP dependent and blocked by fasudil. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 14(3), 306-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2017.09.008

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Amyloid β synaptotoxicity is Wnt-PCP dependent and blocked by fasudil

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