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Interaction between mitochondrial translocator protein and aging in inflammatory responses in mouse hippocampus

Lai, K. O.; Tham, N.; Fairley, L.; Naik, R. R.; Langley, S. R.; Barron, A. M.

2024-06-22 neuroscience
10.1101/2024.06.19.598824 bioRxiv
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The mitochondrial translocator protein (TSPO) is a biomarker of inflammation which is upregulated in the brain in aging and associated neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimers disease (AD). Here we investigated the interaction between aging and TSPO immunomodulatory function in mouse hippocampus, a region severely affected in AD. Aging resulted in a reversal of TSPO knockout transcriptional signatures following inflammatory insult, with TSPO deletion drastically exacerbating inflammatory transcriptional responses in the aging hippocampus whilst dampening inflammation in the young hippocampus. Drugs that disrupt cell cycle and induce DNA-damage such as heat shock protein and topoisomerase inhibitors were identified to mimic the inflammatory transcriptional signature characterizing TSPO-dependent aging most closely. This TSPO-aging interaction is an important consideration in the interpretation of TSPO-targeted biomarker and therapeutic studies, as well as in vitro studies which cannot model the aging brain.

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