Exploring therapeutic strategies for infantile neuronal axonal dystrophy (INAD/PARK14)
- Baylor College of Medicine, United States
- New York Stem Cell Foundation, United States
- INADcure Foundation, United States
- Mayo Clinic, United States
Abstract
Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) is caused by recessive variants in PLA2G6 and is a lethal pediatric neurodegenerative disorder. Loss of the Drosophila homolog of PLA2G6, leads to ceramide accumulation, lysosome expansion, and mitochondrial defects. Here, we report that retromer function, ceramide metabolism, the endolysosomal pathway, and mitochondrial morphology are affected in INAD patient-derived neurons. We show that in INAD mouse models the same features are affected in Purkinje cells, arguing that the neuropathological mechanisms are evolutionary conserved and that these features can be used as biomarkers. We tested 20 drugs that target these pathways and found that Ambroxol, Desipramine, Azoramide, and Genistein alleviate neurodegenerative phenotypes in INAD flies and INAD patient-derived NPCs. We also develop an AAV-based gene therapy approach that delays neurodegeneration and prolongs lifespan in an INAD mouse model.
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All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting file; Source Data files have been provided for Figures 1, 3, 4 and Suppl. Figure 1.
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Baylor College of Medicine (P50HD103555)
- Hugo J Bellen
Huffington Foundation
- Hugo J Bellen
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All experimental animals were treated in compliance with the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Baylor College of Medicine IACUC guidelines. Protocol (AN-5596).
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- Suzanne R Pfeffer, Stanford University, United States
Publication history
- Received: August 9, 2022
- Accepted: January 15, 2023
- Accepted Manuscript published: January 16, 2023 (version 1)
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© 2023, Lin et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Exploring therapeutic strategies for infantile neuronal axonal dystrophy (INAD/PARK14)
eLife 12:e82555.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.82555
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