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ArticleeLife2023

TPL2 kinase activity regulates microglial inflammatory responses and promotes neurodegeneration in tauopathy mice.

Yuanyuan Wang, Tiffany Wu, Ming-Chi Tsai, Mitchell G Rezzonico, Alyaa M Abdel-Haleem, Luke Xie, Vineela D Gandham, Hai Ngu, Kimberly Stark, Caspar Glock and 5 more

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Article in eLife, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Yuanyuan WangDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1180-1554
Tiffany WuDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9273-0574
Ming-Chi TsaiDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Mitchell G RezzonicoDepartment of OMNI Bioinformatics, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Alyaa M Abdel-HaleemComputational Science & Exploratory Analytics, Roche IT, Hoffmann-La Roche Limited, Mississauga, Canada.
Luke XieDepartment of Translational Imaging, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Vineela D GandhamDepartment of Translational Imaging, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Hai NguDepartment of Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Kimberly StarkDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Caspar GlockDepartment of OMNI Bioinformatics, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Daqi XuDepartment of Immunology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Oded ForemanDepartment of Pathology, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Brad A FriedmanDepartment of OMNI Bioinformatics, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Morgan ShengDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.
Jesse E HansonDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3059-5132

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tumor progression locus 2 (TPL2) (MAP3K8) is a central signaling node in the inflammatory response of peripheral immune cells. We find that TPL2 kinase activity modulates microglial cytokine release and is required for microglia-mediated neuron death in vitro. In acute in vivo neuroinflammation settings, TPL2 kinase activity regulates microglia activation states and brain cytokine levels. In a tauopathy model of chronic neurodegeneration, loss of TPL2 kinase activity reduces neuroinflammation and rescues synapse loss, brain volume loss, and behavioral deficits. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis indicates that protection in the tauopathy model was associated with reductions in activated microglia subpopulations as well as infiltrating peripheral immune cells. Overall, using various models, we find that TPL2 kinase activity can promote multiple harmful consequences of microglial activation in the brain including cytokine release, iNOS (inducible nitric oxide synthase) induction, astrocyte activation, and immune cell infiltration. Consequently, inhibiting TPL2 kinase activity could represent a potential therapeutic strategy in neurodegenerative conditions.

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MAP Kinase Kinase KinasesTauopathiesAnimalsBrainCells, CulturedDendritic SpinesHumansLipopolysaccharidesMiceMice, KnockoutMicrogliaNeuroinflammatory DiseasesProto-Oncogene ProteinsSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell Analysistau ProteinsLipopolysaccharidesMap3k8 protein, mouseMAP Kinase Kinase KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteinstau Proteinshumanimmunologyinflammationmicrogliamouseneurodegenerationneuroinflammationneuroscienceratsingle-cell RNA sequencingT-cellTPL2

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PMID37555828
PMCPMC10411973

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