Susceptibility to gingipains and transcriptomic response to P. gingivalis highlights the ribosome, hypothalamus, and cholinergic neurons
Patel, S.; Howard, D.; French, L.
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Porphyromonas gingivalis, a keystone species in the development of periodontal disease, is a suspected cause of Alzheimers disease. This bacterium is reliant on gingipain proteases, which cleave host proteins after arginine and lysine residues. To characterize gingipain susceptibility, we performed enrichment analyses of arginine and lysine proportion proteome-wide. Proteins in the SRP-dependent cotranslational protein targeting to membrane pathway were enriched for these residues and previously associated with periodontal and Alzheimers disease. These ribosomal genes are up-regulated in prefrontal cortex samples with detected P. gingivalis sequences. Other differentially expressed genes have been previously associated with dementia (ITM2B, MAPI, ZNF267, and DHX37). For an anatomical perspective, we characterized the expression of the P. gingivalis associated genes in the mouse and human brain. This analysis highlighted the hypothalamus, cholinergic neurons, and the basal forebrain. Our results suggest markers of neural P. gingivalis infection and link the gingipain and cholinergic hypotheses of Alzheimers disease.
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