Björn F Vahsen, Sumedha Nalluru, Georgia R Morgan, Lucy Farrimond, Emily Carroll, Yinyan Xu, Kaitlyn M L Cramb, Benazir Amein, Jakub Scaber, Antigoni Katsikoudi, Ana Candalija, Mireia Carcolé, Ruxandra Dafinca, Adrian M Isaacs, Richard Wade-Martins, Elizabeth Gray, Martin R Turner, Sally A Cowley, Kevin Talbot
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive motor neuron loss, with additional pathophysiological involvement of non-neuronal cells such as microglia. The commonest ALS-associated genetic variant is a hexanucleotide repeat expansion (HRE) mutation in C9orf72. Here, we study its consequences for microglial function using human iPSC-derived microglia. By RNA-sequencing, we identify enrichment of pathways associated with immune cell activation and cyto-/chemokines in C9orf72 HRE mutant microglia versus healthy controls, most prominently after LPS priming...
September 22, 2023: Nature Communications