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ArticleGeroScience2019

Age- and AD-related redox state of NADH in subcellular compartments by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy.

Yue Dong, Michelle A Digman, Gregory J Brewer

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Article in GeroScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yue DongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Michelle A DigmanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
Gregory J BrewerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA. gjbrewer@uci.edu.
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

TRD4: Phasor analysisP41GM103540 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI GRATTON, ENRICO · 2012 to 2020
$12.5M
Age-related metabolic alterations in amyloid processing in Alzheimer's diseaseRF1AG058218 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI BREWER, GREGORY J, GLABE, CHARLES G. · 2018 to 2018
$2.9M
NIA NIH HHS RF1 AG058218NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103540NIGMS NIH HHS P41-GM103540
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced form: NADH) serves as a vital redox-energy currency for reduction-oxidation homeostasis and fulfilling energetic demands. While NADH exists as free and bound forms, only free NADH is utilized for complex I to power oxidative phosphorylation, especially important in neurons. Here, we studied how much free NADH remains available for energy production in mitochondria of old living neurons. We hypothesize that free NADH in neurons from old mice is lower than the levels in young mice and even lower in neurons from the 3xTg-AD Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model. To assess free NADH, we used lifetime imaging of NADH autofluorescence with 2-photon excitation to be able to resolve the pool of NADH in mitochondria, cytoplasm, and nuclei. Primary neurons from old mice were characterized by a lower free/bound NADH ratio than young neurons from both non-transgenic (NTg) and more so in 3xTg-AD mice. Mitochondrial compartments maintained 26 to 41% more reducing NADH redox state than cytoplasm for each age, genotype, and sex. Aging diminished the mitochondrial free NADH concentration in NTg neurons by 43% and in 3xTg-AD by 50%. The lower free NADH with age suggests a decline in capacity to regenerate free NADH for energetic supply to power oxidative phosphorylation which further worsens in AD. Applying this non-invasive approach, we showed the most explicit measures yet of bioenergetic deficits in free NADH with aging at the subcellular level in live neurons from in-bred mice and an AD model.

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AgingAlzheimer DiseaseAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGenotypeMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicMicroscopy, FluorescenceMitochondriaNADNeuronsOptical ImagingOxidation-ReductionOxidative PhosphorylationSex CharacteristicsMAPT protein, humanNADtau ProteinsAging brainAlzheimer’s diseaseFLIMMitochondriaNADHRedox states

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PMID30729413
PMCPMC6423217
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