Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The epichaperome is a mediator of toxic hippocampal stress and leads to protein connectivity-based dysfunction

  • Maria Carmen Inda,
  • Suhasini Joshi,
  • Tai Wang,
  • Alexander Bolaender,
  • Srinivasa Gandu,
  • John Koren III,
  • Alicia Yue Che,
  • Tony Taldone,
  • Pengrong Yan,
  • Weilin Sun,
  • Mohammad Uddin,
  • Palak Panchal,
  • Matthew Riolo,
  • Smit Shah,
  • Afsar Barlas,
  • Ke Xu,
  • Lon Yin L. Chan,
  • Alexandra Gruzinova,
  • Sarah Kishinevsky,
  • Lorenz Studer,
  • Valentina Fossati,
  • Scott A. Noggle,
  • Julie R. White,
  • Elisa de Stanchina,
  • Sonia Sequeira,
  • Kyle H. Anthoney,
  • John W. Steele,
  • Katia Manova-Todorova,
  • Sujata Patil,
  • Mark P. Dunphy,
  • NagaVaraKishore Pillarsetty,
  • Ana C. Pereira,
  • Hediye Erdjument-Bromage,
  • Thomas A. Neubert,
  • Anna Rodina,
  • Stephen D. Ginsberg,
  • Natalia De Marco Garcia,
  • Wenjie Luo,
  • Gabriela Chiosis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14082-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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The biology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remains unknown. We propose AD is a protein connectivity-based dysfunction disorder whereby a switch of the chaperome into epichaperomes rewires proteome-wide connectivity, leading to brain circuitry malfunction that can be corrected by novel therapeutics.