Stimulation of TREM2 with agonistic antibodies—an emerging therapeutic option for Alzheimer's disease

K Schlepckow, E Morenas-Rodríguez, S Hong… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, are associated with
microgliosis. Microglia have long been considered to have detrimental roles in Alzheimer's …

Defects in lysosomal function and lipid metabolism in human microglia harboring a TREM2 loss of function mutation

F Filipello, SF You, FS Mirfakhar, S Mahali… - Acta …, 2023 - Springer
TREM2 is an innate immune receptor expressed by microglia in the adult brain. Genetic
variation in the TREM2 gene has been implicated in risk for Alzheimer's disease and …

Microglia and TREM2

J Pocock, F Vasilopoulou, E Svensson, K Cosker - Neuropharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
TREM2 is a membrane receptor solely expressed on microglia in normal brain. In this review
we outline recent advances in TREM2 biology and its implications for microglial function …

Expression of INPP5D Isoforms in Human Brain: Impact of Alzheimer's Disease Neuropathology and Genetics

DJ Zajac, J Simpson, E Zhang, I Parikh, S Estus - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The single nucleotide polymorphisms rs35349669 and rs10933431 within Inositol
Polyphosphate-5-Phosphatase D (INPP5D) are strongly associated with Alzheimer's …

Mapping medically relevant RNA isoform diversity in the aged human frontal cortex with deep long-read RNA-seq

B Aguzzoli Heberle, JA Brandon, ML Page… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Determining whether the RNA isoforms from medically relevant genes have distinct
functions could facilitate direct targeting of RNA isoforms for disease treatment. Here, as a …

[HTML][HTML] Using deep long-read RNAseq in Alzheimer's disease brain to assess medical relevance of RNA isoform diversity

BA Heberle, JA Brandon, ML Page, KA Nations… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Due to alternative splicing, human protein-coding genes average over eight RNA isoforms,
resulting in nearly four distinct protein coding sequences per gene. Long-read RNAseq …

Profile of TREM2-Derived circRNA and mRNA Variants in the Entorhinal Cortex of Alzheimer's Disease Patients

A Urdánoz-Casado, JSR de Gordoa, M Robles… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Genetic variants in TREM2, a microglia-related gene, are well-known risk factors for
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we report that TREM2 originates from circular RNAs …

More than microglia: myeloid cells and biomarkers in neurodegeneration

E Kodosaki, R Bell, A Sogorb-Esteve… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The role of myeloid cells (granulocytes and monocytes) in neurodegeneration and
neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) is indisputable. Here we discuss the roles of myeloid …

TREM2 variants that cause early dementia and increase Alzheimer's disease risk affect gene splicing

K Kiianitsa, ME Lukes, BJ Hayes, JN Brutman… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Loss-of-function variants in the triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2)
are responsible for a spectrum of neurodegenerative disorders. In the homozygous state …

A novel PSMB8 isoform associated with multiple sclerosis lesions induces P-body formation

BC Shaw, JL Williams - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the
central nervous system (CNS). Current therapies primarily target the inflammatory …