Apolipoprotein E-specific innate immune response in astrocytes from targeted replacement mice
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2006Author
Maezawa, Izumi
Maeda, Nobuyo
Montine, Thomas J.
Montine, Kathleen S.
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Background: Inheritance of the three different alleles of the human apolipoprotein (apo) E gene (APOE) are associated with varying risk or clinical outcome from a variety of neurologic diseases. ApoE isoform-specific modulation of several pathogenic processes, in addition to amyloid [Beta]
metabolism in Alzheimer's disease, have been proposed: one of these is innate immune response by glia. Previously we have shown that primary microglia cultures from targeted replacement (TR)
APOE mice have apoE isoform-dependent innate immune activation and paracrine damage to neurons that is greatest with TR by the e4 allele (TR APOE4) and that derives from p38 mitogenactivated
protein kinase (p38MAPK) activity.
Methods: Primary cultures of TR APOE2, TR APOE3 and TR APOE4 astrocytes were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). ApoE secretion, cytokine production, and nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-[kappa]B) subunit activity were measured and compared.
Results: Here we showed that activation of primary astrocytes from TR APOE mice with LPS led to TR APOE-dependent differences in cytokine secretion that were greatest in TR APOE2 and that
were associated with differences in NF-[kappa]B subunit activity.
Conclusion: Our results suggest that LPS activation of innate immune response in TR APOE glia results in opposing outcomes from microglia and astrocytes as a result of TR APOE-dependent activation of p38MAPK or NF-[kappa]B signaling in these two cell types.