dc.contributor.author | Sevlever, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Zou, Fang Geng | |
dc.contributor.author | Ma, Li | |
dc.contributor.author | Carrasquillo, Sebastian | |
dc.contributor.author | Crump, Michael G | |
dc.contributor.author | Culley, Oliver J | |
dc.contributor.author | Hunter, Talisha A | |
dc.contributor.author | Bisceglio, Gina | |
dc.contributor.author | Younkin, Linda | |
dc.contributor.author | Allen, Mariet | |
dc.contributor.author | Carrasquillo, Minerva | |
dc.contributor.author | Sando, Sigrid Botne | |
dc.contributor.author | Aasly, Jan | |
dc.contributor.author | Dickson, Dennis W | |
dc.contributor.author | Graff-Radford, Neill | |
dc.contributor.author | Petersen, Ronald C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Kevin | |
dc.contributor.author | Belbin, Olivia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-22T07:46:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-22T07:46:30Z | |
dc.date.created | 2015-08-12T09:35:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Molecular Neurodegeneration. 2015, 10 (18), . | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1750-1326 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2629951 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder in which extracellular deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) oligomers causes synaptic injury resulting in early memory loss, altered homeostasis, accumulation of hyperphosphorylated tau and cell death. Since proteins in the SNAP (Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor Attachment Protein) REceptors (SNARE) complex are essential for neuronal Aβ release at pre-synaptic terminals, we hypothesized that genetically controlled SNARE expression could alter neuronal Aß release at the synapse and hence play an early role in Alzheimer’s pathophysiology.
Results
Here we report 5 polymorphisms in Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 1 (VAMP1), a gene encoding a member of the SNARE complex, associated with bidirectionally altered cerebellar VAMP1 transcript levels (all p < 0.05). At the functional level, we demonstrated that control of VAMP1 expression by heterogeneous knockdown in mice resulted in up to 74% reduction in neuronal Aβ exocytosis (p < 0.001). We performed a case-control association study of the 5 VAMP1 expression regulating polymorphisms in 4,667 Alzheimer’s disease patients and 6,175 controls to determine their contribution to Alzheimer’s disease risk. We found that polymorphisms associated with increased brain VAMP1 transcript levels conferred higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease than those associated with lower VAMP1 transcript levels (p = 0.03). Moreover, we also report a modest protective association for a common VAMP1 polymorphism with Alzheimer’s disease risk (OR = 0.88, p = 0.03). This polymorphism was associated with decreased VAMP1 transcript levels (p = 0.02) and was functionally active in a dual luciferase reporter gene assay (p < 0.01).
Conclusions
Genetically regulated VAMP1 expression in the brain may modify both Alzheimer’s disease risk and may contribute to Alzheimer’s pathophysiology. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | BMC (part of Springer Nature) | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Genetically-controlled Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 1 expression may contribute to Alzheimer's pathophysiology and susceptibility | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 12 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 10 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Molecular Neurodegeneration | nb_NO |
dc.source.issue | 18 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s13024-015-0015-x | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1257520 | |
dc.description.localcode | © 2015 Sevlever et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 194,65,30,0 | |
cristin.unitcode | 1920,16,0,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for nevromedisin og bevegelsesvitenskap | |
cristin.unitname | Nevroklinikken | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |