Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Systematic elucidation of neuron-astrocyte interaction in models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using multi-modal integrated bioinformatics workflow

  • Vartika Mishra,
  • Diane B. Re,
  • Virginia Le Verche,
  • Mariano J. Alvarez,
  • Alessandro Vasciaveo,
  • Arnaud Jacquier,
  • Paschalis-Tomas Doulias,
  • Todd M. Greco,
  • Monica Nizzardo,
  • Dimitra Papadimitriou,
  • Tetsuya Nagata,
  • Paola Rinchetti,
  • Eduardo J. Perez-Torres,
  • Kristin A. Politi,
  • Burcin Ikiz,
  • Kevin Clare,
  • Manuel E. Than,
  • Stefania Corti,
  • Harry Ischiropoulos,
  • Francesco Lotti,
  • Andrea Califano,
  • Serge Przedborski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19177-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Neuron-astrocyte communication plays a key role in pathophysiology, however systematic approaches to unveil it are limited. Here, the authors propose SEARCHIN, a multi-modal integrated workflow, as a tool to identify cross-compartment ligand-receptor interactions, applied to ALS models.