ArticleMolecular psychiatry2024
Microbial infection promotes amyloid pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease via modulating γ-secretase.
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- The association between H. pylori infection and cognitive deterioration: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of medical research · 2025Pooled it
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- The diagnostic value of plasma Aβ42 and Aβ40 in Alzheimer's disease: current status, challenges, and impacting variables.Journal of neurology · 2025Review
- HSV-1 hijacks mitochondrial dynamics: potential molecular mechanisms linking viral infection to neurodegenerative disorders.Apoptosis : an international journal on programmed cell death · 2025Review
- What would it take to prove that a chronic infection is a causal agent in Alzheimer's disease?Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
- No evidence of Alzheimer's disease pathology in mice infected with Toxocara canis.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
- Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease and Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection Between 1990 and 2024.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2025Article
- An updated review of HSV-1 infection-associated diseases and treatment, vaccine development, and vector therapy application.Virulence · 2024Review
- N-glycosylation of the envelope glycoprotein I is essential for the proliferation and virulence of the duck plague virus.Veterinary research · 2024Article
- Recent advances in Alzheimer's disease: Mechanisms, clinical trials and new drug development strategies.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024Review
- Conformational Changes and Unfolding of β-Amyloid Substrates in the Active Site of γ-Secretase.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- MAD-microbial (origin of) Alzheimer's disease hypothesis: from infection and the antimicrobial response to disruption of key copper-based systems.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Gut microbiota metabolites: potential therapeutic targets for Alzheimer's disease?Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Microbial infection as a type of environmental risk factors is considered to be associated with long-term increased risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is characterized by two neuropathologically molecular hallmarks of hyperphosphorylated tau and amyloid-β (Aβ), the latter generated by several biochemically reactive enzymes, including γ-secretase. However, how infectious risk factors contribute to pathological development of the AD core molecules remains to be addressed. In this work, we utilized a modified herpes simplex virus type 1 (mHSV-1) and found that its hippocampal infection locally promotes Aβ pathology in 5 × FAD mice, the commonly used amyloid model. Mechanistically, we identified HSV-1 membrane glycoprotein US7 (Envelope gI) that interacts with and modulates γ-secretase and consequently facilitates Aβ production. Furthermore, we presented evidence that adenovirus-associated virus-mediated locally hippocampal overexpression of the US7 aggravates Aβ pathology in 5 × FAD mice. Collectively, these findings identify a herpesviral factor regulating γ-secretase in the development and progression of AD and represent a causal molecular link between infectious pathogens and neurodegeneration.
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