Age-related pathological impairments in induced neurons derived from patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease
Drouin-Ouellet, J.; Pircs, K.; Legault, E. M.; Birtele, M.; Nilsson, F.; Shrigley, S.; Pereira, M.; Storm, P.; Sharma, Y.; Vuono, R.; Stoker, T. B.; Jakobsson, J.; Barker, R. A.; Parmar, M.
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Understanding the pathophysiology of Parkinsons disease has been hampered by the lack of models that recapitulate all the critical factors underlying its development. Here, we generated functional induced dopaminergic neurons (iDANs) that were directly reprogrammed from adult human dermal fibroblasts of patients with idiopathic Parkinsons disease to investigate diseaserelevant pathology. We show that iDANs derived from Parkinsons disease patients exhibit lower basal chaperone-mediated autophagy as compared to iDANs of healthy donors. Furthermore, stress-induced autophagy resulted in an accumulation of macroautophagic structures in induced neurons (iNs) derived from Parkinsons disease patients, independently of the specific neuronal subtype but dependent on the age of the donor. Finally, we found that these impairments in patient-derived iNs lead to an accumulation of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein, a hallmark of Parkinsons disease pathology. Taken together, our results demonstrate that direct neural reprogramming provides a patient-specific model to study aged neuronal features relevant to idiopathic Parkinsons disease.
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