抄録
It is known that the human cellular models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and tauopathy can only recapitulate the very early stage of the disease. To overcome these limitations, we developed a technology to make forebrain organoids (FBOs) from feeder-free induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC)s by regulating a FGF2 concentration and applied this method to generate FBOs from patients with familial AD (fAD FBOs). The obtained fAD FBOs recapitulated the amyloid-β pathology and increased tau phosphorylation but not tau aggregates. To fully induce the tau pathology, FBOs were injected with adeno-associated virus (AAV)-expressing P301L mutant tau. In these Tau-P301L FBOs, tau fibrils were observed in the neuronal cell body and neurites with immunoelectron microscopy, in addition to the sarkosyl-insoluble and thioflavin S-positive phospho-tau aggregates. Collectively, this model can be used as a platform for investigating pathogenetic mechanisms and evaluation of target molecules for drug discovery for tauopathy.
本文言語 | English |
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論文番号 | 100289 |
ジャーナル | Cell Reports Methods |
巻 | 2 |
号 | 9 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | Published - 2022 9月 19 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- バイオテクノロジー
- 生化学
- 生化学、遺伝学、分子生物学(その他)
- 遺伝学
- 放射線学、核医学およびイメージング
- コンピュータ サイエンスの応用