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We have engineered transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans animals to inducibly express the human beta amyloid peptide (Abeta). Gene expression changes resulting from Abeta induction have been monitored by cDNA hybridization to glass slide microarrays containing probes for almost all known or predicted C. elegans genes. Using statistical criteria, we have identified 67 up-regulated and 240 down-regulated genes. Subsets of these regulated genes have been tested and confirmed by quantitative RT-PCR. To investigate whether genes identified in this model system also show gene expression changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, we have also used quantitative RT-PCR to examine in post-mortem AD brain tissue transcript levels of alphaB-crystallin (CRYAB) and tumor necrosis factor-induced protein 1 (TNFAIP1), human homologs of genes found to be robustly induced in the transgenic C. elegans model. Both CRYAB and TNFAIP1 show increased transcript levels in AD brains, supporting the validity of this approach.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by senile plaques and neurofibrillary components. Abeta(1-42) is a principal component of senile plaques and is thought to be central to the pathogenesis of the disease. The Alzheimer's disease brain is under significant oxidative stress, and the Abeta(1-42) peptide is known to cause oxidative stress in vitro. One controversy in the amyloid hypothesis is whether or not Abeta plaques are required for toxicity. We have employed a temperature-inducible Abeta expression system in Caenorhabditis elegans to create a strain of worms, CL4176, in which Abeta(1-42) is expressed with a non-permissive temperature of 23 degrees C. The CL4176 strain allows examination of the temporal relationship between Abeta expression, oxidative stress, and Abeta fibril formation. CL4176 were under increased oxidative stress, evidenced by increased protein oxidation indexed by increased carbonyl levels, 24 and 32 h after temperature upshift as compared to the control strain, CL1175. The increased oxidative stress in CL4176 occurred in the absence of Abeta fibril formation, consistent with the notion that the toxic species in Abeta toxicity is pre-fibrillar Abeta and not the Abeta fibril. These results are discussed with reference to Alzheimer's disease.
Multiple gene expression alterations have been linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD), implicating multiple metabolic pathways in its pathogenesis. However, a clear distinction between AD-specific gene expression changes and those resulting from nonspecific responses to toxic aggregating proteins has not been made. We investigated alterations in gene expression induced by human beta-amyloid peptide (Aβ) in a Caenorhabditis elegans AD model. Aβ-induced gene expression alterations were compared with those caused by a synthetic aggregating protein to identify Aβ-specific effects. Both Aβ-specific and nonspecific alterations were observed. Among Aβ-specific genes were those involved in aging, proteasome function, and mitochondrial function. An intriguing observation was the significant overlap between gene expression changes induced by Aβ and those induced by Cry5B, a bacterial pore-forming toxin. This led us to hypothesize that Aβ exerts its toxic effect, at least in part, by causing damage to biological membranes. We provide in vivo evidence consistent with this hypothesis. This study distinguishes between Aβ-specific and nonspecific mechanisms and provides potential targets for therapeutics discovery.
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