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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2022

Discovery of Novel Drug Candidates for Alzheimer's Disease by Molecular Network Modeling.

Jiaxin Zhou, Qingyong Li, Wensi Wu, Xiaojun Zhang, Zhiyi Zuo, Yanan Lu, Huiying Zhao, Zhi Wang

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jiaxin ZhouDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Qingyong LiMedical Research Center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Wensi WuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Xiaojun ZhangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhiyi ZuoDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States.
Yanan LuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Huiying ZhaoMedical Research Center, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Zhi WangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital · CNSun Yat-sen University · CNUniversity of Virginia · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To identify the molecular mechanisms and novel therapeutic agents of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), we performed integrative network analysis using multiple transcriptomic profiles of human brains. With the hypothesis that AD pathology involves the whole cerebrum, we first identified co-expressed modules across multiple cerebral regions of the aging human brain. Among them, two modules (M3 and M8) consisting of 1,429 protein-coding genes were significantly enriched with AD-correlated genes. Differential expression analysis of microarray, bulk RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) data revealed the dysregulation of M3 and M8 across different cerebral regions in both normal aging and AD. The cell-type enrichment analysis and differential expression analysis at the single-cell resolution indicated the extensive neuronal vulnerability in AD pathogenesis. Transcriptomic-based drug screening from Connectivity Map proposed Gly-His-Lys acetate salt (GHK) as a potential drug candidate that could probably restore the dysregulated genes of the M3 and M8 network. Pretreatment with GHK showed a neuroprotective effect against amyloid-beta-induced injury in differentiated human neuron-like SH-SY5Y cells. Taken together, our findings uncover a dysregulated network disrupted across multiple cerebral regions in AD and propose pretreatment with GHK as a novel neuroprotective strategy against AD.

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