Astrocytic centrin‐2 expression in entorhinal cortex correlates with Alzheimer's disease severity - Molecular Imaging Research Center
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Astrocytic centrin‐2 expression in entorhinal cortex correlates with Alzheimer's disease severity

Elisa Degl'Innocenti
Tino Emanuele Poloni
Valentina Medici
Francesco Olimpico
Francesco Finamore
Xhulja Profka
Castrese Morrone
Aldo Pastore
Liam Mcdonnell
Maria Teresa Dell'Anno

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Astrogliosis is a condition shared by acute and chronic neurological diseases and includes morphological, proteomic, and functional rearrangements of astroglia. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), reactive astrocytes frame amyloid deposits and exhibit structural changes associated with the overexpression of specific proteins, mostly belonging to intermediate filaments. At a functional level, amyloid beta triggers dysfunctional calcium signaling in astrocytes, which contributes to the maintenance of chronic neuroinflammation. Therefore, the identification of intracellular players that participate in astrocyte calcium signaling can help unveil the mechanisms underlying astrocyte reactivity and loss of function in AD. We have recently identified the calcium‐binding protein centrin‐2 (CETN2) as a novel astrocyte marker in the human brain and, in order to determine whether astrocytic CETN2 expression and distribution could be affected by neurodegenerative conditions, we examined its pattern in control and sporadic AD patients. By immunoblot, immunohistochemistry, and targeted‐mass spectrometry, we report a positive correlation between entorhinal CETN2 immunoreactivity and neurocognitive impairment, along with the abundance of amyloid depositions and neurofibrillary tangles, thus highlighting a linear relationship between CETN2 expression and AD progression. CETN2‐positive astrocytes were dispersed in the entorhinal cortex with a clustered pattern and colocalized with reactive glia markers STAT3, NFATc3, and YKL‐40, indicating a human‐specific role in AD‐induced astrogliosis. Collectively, our data provide the first evidence that CETN2 is part of the astrocytic calcium toolkit undergoing rearrangements in AD and adds CETN2 to the list of proteins that could play a role in disease evolution.
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hal-04780616 , version 1 (13-11-2024)

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Elisa Degl'Innocenti, Tino Emanuele Poloni, Valentina Medici, Francesco Olimpico, Francesco Finamore, et al.. Astrocytic centrin‐2 expression in entorhinal cortex correlates with Alzheimer's disease severity. Glia, 2024, 72 (12), pp.2158-2177. ⟨10.1002/glia.24603⟩. ⟨hal-04780616⟩
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