Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

YAP-dependent necrosis occurs in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and regulates mouse model pathology

  • Hikari Tanaka,
  • Hidenori Homma,
  • Kyota Fujita,
  • Kanoh Kondo,
  • Shingo Yamada,
  • Xiaocen Jin,
  • Masaaki Waragai,
  • Gaku Ohtomo,
  • Atsushi Iwata,
  • Kazuhiko Tagawa,
  • Naoki Atsuta,
  • Masahisa Katsuno,
  • Naoki Tomita,
  • Katsutoshi Furukawa,
  • Yuko Saito,
  • Takashi Saito,
  • Ayaka Ichise,
  • Shinsuke Shibata,
  • Hiroyuki Arai,
  • Takaomi Saido,
  • Marius Sudol,
  • Shin-ichi Muramatsu,
  • Hideyuki Okano,
  • Elliott J. Mufson,
  • Gen Sobue,
  • Shigeo Murayama,
  • Hitoshi Okazawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14353-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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The precise mechanisms of neuronal cell death in neurodegeneration are not fully understood. Here the authors show that YAP-mediated neuronal necrosis is increased in pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s disease and intervention to the necrosis rescues extracellular Aβ aggregation and symptoms in a mouse model.