ArticleScientific reports2019
Aminophospholipids are signal-transducing TREM2 ligands on apoptotic cells.
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- TREM2 as a central immunometabolic hub in Alzheimer's disease: linking microglial states, lipid stress, and disease-stage-specific intervention.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Role of TREM2 in neuroinflammation regulation: mechanisms, disease associations, and therapeutic translation advances.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
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- Is TREM2 a Stretch: Implications of TREM2 Along Spinal Cord Circuits in Health, Aging, Injury, and Disease.Cells · 2025Review
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- Lipid metabolism in microglia: Emerging mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities for neurodegenerative diseases (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
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- PGRN as an emerging regulator of lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative diseases.Communications biology · 2025Review
- Microglia, Trem2, and Neurodegeneration.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2025Review
- Microglial TREM2 promotes phagocytic clearance of damaged neurons after status epilepticus.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- The various roles of TREM2 in cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Small molecules as ligands in the tuning of immune regulatory receptors.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Variants of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2) are associated with an increased incidence of Alzheimer's disease, as well as other neurodegenerative disorders. Using a newly developed, highly sensitive reporter cell model, consisting of Jurkat T cells stably overexpressing a reporter gene and a gene encoding TREM2DAP12 fusion protein, we show here that TREM2-dependent signal transduction in response to apoptotic Neuro2a cells is mediated by aminophospholipid ligands, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine, which are not exposed on the intact cell surface, but become exposed upon apoptosis. We also show that signal-transducing TREM2 ligands different from aminophospholipids, which appear to be derived from neurons, might be present in membrane fractions of mouse cerebral cortex. These results may suggest that TREM2 regulates microglial function by transducing intracellular signals from aminophospholipids on apoptotic cells, as well as unidentified ligands in the membranes of the cerebral cortex.
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