William T Ralvenius, Alison E Mungenast, Hannah Woolf, Margaret M Huston, Tyler Z Gillingham, Stephen K Godin, Jay Penney, Hugh P Cam, Fan Gao, Celia G Fernandez, Barbara Czako, Yaima Lightfoot, William J Ray, Adrian Beckmann, Alison M Goate, Edoardo Marcora, Carmen Romero-Molina, Pinar Ayata, Anne Schaefer, Elizabeta Gjoneska, Li-Huei Tsai
Pervasive neuroinflammation occurs in many neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). SPI1/PU.1 is a transcription factor located at a genome-wide significant AD-risk locus and its reduced expression is associated with delayed onset of AD. We analyzed single-cell transcriptomic datasets from microglia of human AD patients and found an enrichment of PU.1-binding motifs in the differentially expressed genes. In hippocampal tissues from transgenic mice with neurodegeneration, we found vastly increased genomic PU...
November 6, 2023: Journal of Experimental Medicine