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Cell Surface Markers Identify Astrocyte Subpopulations in the Adult Hippocampus With a Heterogeneous Response to Aging.

Lucía Casares-Crespo, Marife Cano-Jaimez, Raquel Anta, Alba Ripollés-Boix, Fabián Robledo-Yagüe, Sheila Zúñiga-Trejos, Helena Mira

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7 authors.

Lucía Casares-CrespoInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, València, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3854-3636
Marife Cano-JaimezInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, València, Spain.
Raquel AntaInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, València, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4069-6723
Alba Ripollés-BoixInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, València, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0430-7102
Fabián Robledo-YagüeBioinformatics Unit, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute, València, Spain.
Sheila Zúñiga-TrejosBioinformatics Unit, INCLIVA Biomedical Research Institute, València, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3272-7605
Helena MiraInstituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (IBV), CSIC, València, Spain.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8574-9544

Funding

Generalitat Valenciana CIAICO/2022/74Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2019-111225RB-I00Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2022-141707NBI00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Astrocyte diversity is currently expanding both between and within specific brain regions. Here, we assessed the spatial distribution and transcriptomic profile of two hippocampal astrocyte subpopulations, defined by combinatorial expression of the cell surface astrocyte markers ACSA-1 or GLAST/SLC1A3, and ACSA-2 or ATP1B2. Fluorescence activated cell sorting and genome-wide transcriptomics by bulk RNAseq uncovered distinct transcriptional signatures of the two astrocyte subsets and highlighted heterogeneous responses during aging. The most abundant ATP1B2/GLAST double-positive astrocytes corresponded to functionally specialized glial cells with increased protein glycosylation and stable gene expression patterns. Signatures related to mitochondrial respiration and cholesterol metabolism were induced during aging in ATP1B2 single-positive astrocytes, while cell adhesion genes from the γ-protocadherin cluster were repressed in double-positive astrocytes. Heterochronic co-culture assays with primary neurons show the loss of synaptogenic function of old ATP1B2/GLAST astrocytes. Our results complement previous studies demonstrating the presence of morphological and molecular astrocyte heterogeneity within the hippocampus, and uncover differences among astrocyte subsets in their transcriptomic response to aging.

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AgingAstrocytesHippocampusAnimalsBiomarkersCells, CulturedCoculture TechniquesExcitatory Amino Acid Transporter 1MaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsBiomarkersExcitatory Amino Acid Transporter 1Slc1a3 protein, mouseACSA‐2agingastrocyte diversityGLASThippocampusprotocadherin

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PMID42786753
PMCPMC13613007

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