Distinct sub-cellular autophagy impairments occur independently of protein aggregation in induced neurons from patients with Huntington's disease
Pircs, K.; Drouin-Ouellet, J.; Gil, J.; Rezeli, M.; Grassi, D. A.; Garza, R.; Sharma, Y.; St-Amour, I.; Jonsson, M. E.; Johansson, P. A.; Harris, K.; Vuono, R.; Stoker, T.; Hersbach, B. A.; Sharma, K.; Lagerwall, J.; Lagerstrom, S.; Storm, P.; Horvath, V.; Hebert, S. S.; Marko-Varga, G.; Parmar, M.; Barker, R. A.; Jakobsson, J.
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Huntingtons disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG expansions in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Modelling HD has remained challenging, as rodent and cellular models poorly recapitulate the disease. To address this, we generated induced neurons (iNs) through direct reprogramming of human skin fibroblasts, which retain age-dependent epigenetic characteristics. HD-iNs displayed profound deficits in autophagy, characterised by reduced transport of late autophagic structures from the neurites to the soma. The neurite-specific alterations in autophagy resulted in shorter, thinner and fewer neurites presented by HD-iNs. CRISPRi-mediated silencing of HTT did not rescue this phenotype but rather resulted in additional autophagy alterations in ctrl-iNs, highlighting the importance of wild type HTT in neuronal autophagy. In summary, our work identifies a distinct subcellular autophagy impairment in aged patient derived HD-neurons and provides a new rational for future development of autophagy activation therapies.
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