Tracking tau and cellular responses in human iPSC-microglia from uptake to seedable secretion in extracellular vesicles
Karabova, M. K.; del Ser Badia, A.; Hedegaard, A.; Washer, S. J.; Baykam, Z.; O'Brien, D. P.; Vendrell, I.; Hester, S. S.; Fischer, R.; Johnson, E.; Melia, C. E.; Matthews-Palmer, T. R. S.; Matadeen, R.; Santambrogio, A.; Metrick, M.; Vendruscolo, M.; Keeling, S.; Cheam, K.; McEwan, W. A.; Kosik, K. S.; Day, T. A.; James, W. S.; Cowley, S. A.
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The templated spread of tau aggregates in tauopathies has been attributed to neuron-to- neuron spread, but microglia have also been implicated through mouse studies. Here we examine in detail the uptake, processing, release and seeding of tau using human iPS- derived microglia (iMGL). We show that tau is taken up by iMGL via LRP1 and heparan sulfate proteoglycans, with a role for LRRK2 in LRP1 trafficking, and that phagocytosed fibrils can escape into the cytoplasm. Monomeric tau has minimal effects on iMGL, but recombinant or brain-derived tau fibrils induce a shift towards chemokine and interferon response subtypes, alongside downregulation of homeostatic and MHC genes. Endogenous tau protein is undetectable in iMGL, and monomeric internalised tau is digested to completion, but fibrillar tau is more resistant to degradation and becomes phosphorylated on two specific residues. Finally, fibrillar tau is released by iMGL, visualized within extracellular vesicles by cryo-EM, and can seed tau aggregation in downstream neurons.
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