Aitana Sogorb-Esteve, Sophia Weiner, Joel Simrén, Imogen J. Swift, Martina Bocchetta, Emily G. Todd, David M. Cash, Arabella Bouzigues, Lucy L. Russell, Phoebe H. Foster, Eve Ferry-Bolder, John C. van Swieten, Lize C. Jiskoot, Harro Seelaar, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Laforce, Caroline Graff, Daniela Galimberti, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonça, Pietro Tiraboschi, Isabel Santana, Alexander Gerhard, Johannes Levin, Sandro Sorbi, Markus Otto, Florence Pasquier, Simon Ducharme, Chris R. Butler, Isabelle Le Ber, Elizabeth Finger, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, Mario Masellis, James B. Rowe, Matthis Synofzik, Fermin Moreno, Barbara Borroni, GENFI, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Johan Gobom
We used an untargeted mass spectrometric approach, tandem mass tag proteomics, for the identification of proteomic signatures in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD). A total of 238 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from the Genetic FTD Initiative were analyzed, including samples from 107 presymptomatic (44 C9orf72, 38 GRN, and 25 MAPT) and 55 symptomatic (27 C9orf72, 17 GRN, and 11 MAPT) mutation carriers as well as 76 mutation-negative controls (“noncarriers”). We found shared and distinct proteomic alterations in each genetic form of FTD. Among the proteins significantly altered in symptomatic mutation carriers compared with noncarriers, we found that a set of proteins including neuronal pentraxin 2 and fatty acid binding protein 3 changed across all three genetic forms of FTD and patients with Alzheimer’s disease from previously published datasets. We observed differential changes in lysosomal proteins among symptomatic mutation carriers with marked abundance decreases in MAPT carriers but not other carriers. Further, we identified mutation-associated proteomic changes already evident in presymptomatic mutation carriers. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis combined with gene ontology annotation revealed clusters of proteins enriched in neurodegeneration and glial responses as well as synapse- or lysosome-related proteins indicating that these are the central biological processes affected in genetic FTD. These clusters correlated with measures of disease severity and were associated with cognitive decline. This study revealed distinct proteomic changes in the CSF of patients with genetic FTD, providing insights into the pathological processes involved in the disease. In addition, we identified proteins that warrant further exploration as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker candidates.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adm9654
Aitana Sogorb-Esteve, Sophia Weiner, Joel Simrén, Imogen J Swift, Martina Bocchetta, Emily G Todd, David M Cash, Arabella Bouzigues, Lucy L Russell, Phoebe H Foster, Eve Ferry-Bolder, John C van Swieten, Lize C Jiskoot, Harro Seelaar, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, Robert Laforce, Caroline Graff, Daniela Galimberti, Rik Vandenberghe, Alexandre de Mendonça, Pietro Tiraboschi, Isabel Santana, Alexander Gerhard, Johannes Levin, Sandro Sorbi, Markus Otto, Florence Pasquier, Simon Ducharme, Chris R Butler, Isabelle Le Ber, Elizabeth Finger, Maria Carmela Tartaglia, Mario Masellis, James B Rowe, Matthis Synofzik, Fermin Moreno, Barbara Borroni, Genfi, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Jonathan D Rohrer, Johan Gobom
We used an untargeted mass spectrometric approach, tandem mass tag proteomics, for the identification of proteomic signatures in genetic frontotemporal dementia (FTD). A total of 238 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples from the Genetic FTD Initiative were analyzed, including samples from 107 presymptomatic (44 C9orf72, 38 GRN, and 25 MAPT) and 55 symptomatic (27 C9orf72, 17 GRN, and 11 MAPT) mutation carriers as well as 76 mutation-negative controls ("noncarriers"). We found shared and distinct proteomic alterations in each genetic form of FTD. Among the proteins significantly altered in symptomatic mutation carriers compared with noncarriers, we found that a set of proteins including neuronal pentraxin 2 and fatty acid binding protein 3 changed across all three genetic forms of FTD and patients with Alzheimer's disease from previously published datasets. We observed differential changes in lysosomal proteins among symptomatic mutation carriers with marked abundance decreases in MAPT carriers but not other carriers. Further, we identified mutation-associated proteomic changes already evident in presymptomatic mutation carriers. Weighted gene coexpression network analysis combined with gene ontology annotation revealed clusters of proteins enriched in neurodegeneration and glial responses as well as synapse- or lysosome-related proteins indicating that these are the central biological processes affected in genetic FTD. These clusters correlated with measures of disease severity and were associated with cognitive decline. This study revealed distinct proteomic changes in the CSF of patients with genetic FTD, providing insights into the pathological processes involved in the disease. In addition, we identified proteins that warrant further exploration as diagnostic and prognostic biomarker candidates.
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Natasha Strydom, Rob C. van Wijk, Qianwen Wang, Jacqueline P. Ernest, Linda Chaba, Ziran Li, Eric L. Nuermberger, Radojka M. Savic
Accelerated tuberculosis drug discovery has increased the number of plausible multidrug regimens. Testing every drug combination in vivo is impractical, and varied experimental conditions make it challenging to compare results between experiments. Using published treatment efficacy data from a mouse tuberculosis model treated with candidate combination regimens, we trained and externally validated integrative mathematical models to predict relapse in mice and to rank both previously experimentally studied and unstudied regimens by their sterilization potential. We generated 18 datasets of 18 candidate regimens (comprising 11 drugs of six classes, including fluoroquinolone, nitroimidazole, diarylquinolines, and oxazolidinones), with 2965 relapse and 1544 colony-forming unit (CFU) observations for analysis. Statistical and machine learning techniques were applied to predict the probability of relapse in mice. The locked down mathematical model had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.910 and showed that bacterial kill measured by longitudinal CFU cannot account for relapse alone and that sterilization is drug dependent. The diarylquinolines had the highest predicted sterilizing activity in the mouse model, and the addition of pyrazinamide to drug regimens provided the shortest estimated tuberculosis treatment duration to cure in mice. The mathematical model predicted the effect of treatment combinations, and these predictions were validated by conducting 11 experiments on previously unstudied regimens, achieving an AUROC of 0.829. We surmise that the next generation of tuberculosis drugs are highly effective at treatment shortening and suggest that there are several promising three- and four-drug regimens that should be advanced to clinical trials.
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Konrad Gronke, Mytien Nguyen, Helen Fuhrmann, Noemi Santamaria de Souza, Julia Schumacher, Márcia S. Pereira, Ulrike Löschberger, Anna Brinkhege, Nathalie J. Becker, Yi Yang, Nicole Sonnert, Shana Leopold, Anjelica L. Martin, Lilly von Münchow-Klein, Cecilia Pessoa Rodrigues, Dilay Cansever, Remy Hallet, Kirsten Richter, David A. Schubert, Guillaume M. Daniel, David Dylus, Marianne Forkel, Dorothee Schwinge, Christoph Schramm, Sylvio Redanz, Kara G. Lassen, Silvio Manfredo Vieira, Luca Piali, Noah W. Palm, Christoph Bieniossek, Martin A. Kriegel
Chronic autoimmune diseases often lead to long-term sequelae and require lifelong immunosuppression because of an incomplete understanding of the triggers and drivers in genetically predisposed patients. Gut bacteria that escape the gut barrier, known as translocating gut pathobionts, have been implicated as instigators and perpetuators of extraintestinal autoimmune diseases in mice. The gut microbial contributions to autoimmunity in humans remain largely unclear, including whether specific pathological human adaptive immune responses are triggered by such pathobionts. Here, we show that the translocating pathobiont Enterococcus gallinarum can induce both human and mouse interferon-γ+ T helper 17 (TH17) differentiation and immunoglobulin G3 (IgG3) subclass switch of anti–E. gallinarum RNA antibodies, which correlated with anti-human RNA autoantibody responses in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and autoimmune hepatitis, two extraintestinal autoimmune diseases. E. gallinarum RNA, but not human RNA, triggered Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8), and TLR8-mediated human monocyte activation promoted human TH17 induction by E. gallinarum. Translocation of the pathobiont triggered increased anti-RNA autoantibody titers that correlated with renal autoimmune pathophysiology in murine gnotobiotic lupus models and with disease activity in patients with SLE. These studies elucidate cellular mechanisms of how a translocating gut pathobiont induces systemic human T cell– and B cell–dependent autoimmune responses and provide a framework for developing host- and microbiota-derived biomarkers and targeted therapies in autoimmune diseases.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adi4000
Natasha Strydom, Rob C. van Wijk, Qianwen Wang, Jacqueline P. Ernest, Linda Chaba, Ziran Li, Eric L. Nuermberger, Radojka M. Savic
Accelerated tuberculosis drug discovery has increased the number of plausible multidrug regimens. Testing every drug combination in vivo is impractical, and varied experimental conditions make it challenging to compare results between experiments. Using published treatment efficacy data from a mouse tuberculosis model treated with candidate combination regimens, we trained and externally validated integrative mathematical models to predict relapse in mice and to rank both previously experimentally studied and unstudied regimens by their sterilization potential. We generated 18 datasets of 18 candidate regimens (comprising 11 drugs of six classes, including fluoroquinolone, nitroimidazole, diarylquinolines, and oxazolidinones), with 2965 relapse and 1544 colony-forming unit (CFU) observations for analysis. Statistical and machine learning techniques were applied to predict the probability of relapse in mice. The locked down mathematical model had an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.910 and showed that bacterial kill measured by longitudinal CFU cannot account for relapse alone and that sterilization is drug dependent. The diarylquinolines had the highest predicted sterilizing activity in the mouse model, and the addition of pyrazinamide to drug regimens provided the shortest estimated tuberculosis treatment duration to cure in mice. The mathematical model predicted the effect of treatment combinations, and these predictions were validated by conducting 11 experiments on previously unstudied regimens, achieving an AUROC of 0.829. We surmise that the next generation of tuberculosis drugs are highly effective at treatment shortening and suggest that there are several promising three- and four-drug regimens that should be advanced to clinical trials.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adu6563
Idaira M. Guerrero-Fonseca, Bryan G. Yipp
Pseudomonas infection after lung transplantation induces acute intragraft lymphocytotoxicity that promotes antibody-mediated rejection in mice (Liao et al. , this issue).
{"title":"No tolerance for Pseudomonas in lung transplants","authors":"Idaira M. Guerrero-Fonseca, Bryan G. Yipp","doi":"10.1126/scitranslmed.adu6563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.adu6563","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Pseudomonas</jats:italic> infection after lung transplantation induces acute intragraft lymphocytotoxicity that promotes antibody-mediated rejection in mice (Liao <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> , this issue).","PeriodicalId":21580,"journal":{"name":"Science Translational Medicine","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143125407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adq1086
Leslie Chan, Kassandra Pinedo, Mikayla A. Stabile, Rebecca E. Hamlin, Shaun M. Pienkos, Kalani Ratnasiri, Stanford COVID-19 Biobank, Samuel Yang, Andra L. Blomkalns, Kari C. Nadeau, Bali Pulendran, Ruth O’Hara, Angela J. Rogers, Susan P. Holmes, Catherine A. Blish
At this stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, most infections are “breakthrough” infections that occur in individuals with prior severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposure. To refine long-term vaccine strategies against emerging variants, we examined both innate and adaptive immunity in breakthrough infections. We performed single-cell transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional profiling of primary and breakthrough infections to compare immune responses from unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals during the SARS-CoV-2 Delta wave. Breakthrough infections were characterized by a less activated transcriptomic profile in monocytes and natural killer cells, with induction of pathways limiting monocyte migratory potential and natural killer cell proliferation. Furthermore, we observed a female-specific increase in transcriptomic and proteomic activation of multiple innate immune cell subsets during breakthrough infections. These insights suggest that prior SARS-CoV-2 vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during breakthrough infections with discernible sex-specific patterns and underscore the potential of harnessing vaccines in mitigating pathologic immune responses resulting from overactivation.
{"title":"Prior vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during COVID-19 breakthrough infection","authors":"Leslie Chan, Kassandra Pinedo, Mikayla A. Stabile, Rebecca E. Hamlin, Shaun M. Pienkos, Kalani Ratnasiri, Stanford COVID-19 Biobank, Samuel Yang, Andra L. Blomkalns, Kari C. Nadeau, Bali Pulendran, Ruth O’Hara, Angela J. Rogers, Susan P. Holmes, Catherine A. Blish","doi":"10.1126/scitranslmed.adq1086","DOIUrl":"10.1126/scitranslmed.adq1086","url":null,"abstract":"<div >At this stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, most infections are “breakthrough” infections that occur in individuals with prior severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposure. To refine long-term vaccine strategies against emerging variants, we examined both innate and adaptive immunity in breakthrough infections. We performed single-cell transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional profiling of primary and breakthrough infections to compare immune responses from unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals during the SARS-CoV-2 Delta wave. Breakthrough infections were characterized by a less activated transcriptomic profile in monocytes and natural killer cells, with induction of pathways limiting monocyte migratory potential and natural killer cell proliferation. Furthermore, we observed a female-specific increase in transcriptomic and proteomic activation of multiple innate immune cell subsets during breakthrough infections. These insights suggest that prior SARS-CoV-2 vaccination prevents overactivation of innate immune responses during breakthrough infections with discernible sex-specific patterns and underscore the potential of harnessing vaccines in mitigating pathologic immune responses resulting from overactivation.</div>","PeriodicalId":21580,"journal":{"name":"Science Translational Medicine","volume":"17 783","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143067604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp4986
Changfeng Li, Yuanda Liu, Chang Liu, Fangquan Chen, Yangchun Xie, Herbert J. Zeh, Chunhua Yu, Jiao Liu, Daolin Tang, Rui Kang
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) driven by the KRAS-G12D mutation presents a formidable health challenge because of limited treatment options. MRTX1133 is a highly selective and first-in-class KRAS-G12D inhibitor under clinical development. Here, we report that the advanced glycosylation end product–specific receptor (AGER) plays a key role in mediating MRTX1133 resistance in PDAC cells. The up-regulation of AGER within cancer cells instigates macropinocytosis, facilitating the internalization of serum albumin and subsequent amino acid generation. These amino acids are then used to synthesize the antioxidant glutathione, leading to resistance to MRTX1133 treatment due to the inhibition of apoptosis. The underlying molecular mechanism involves AGER’s interaction with diaphanous-related formin 1 (DIAPH1), a formin protein responsible for driving Rac family small GTPase 1 (RAC1)–dependent macropinosome formation. The effectiveness and safety of combining MRTX1133 with pharmacological inhibitors of the AGER-DIAPH1 complex (using RAGE299) or macropinocytosis (using EIPA) were confirmed in patient-derived xenografts, orthotopic models, and genetically engineered mouse PDAC models. This combination therapy also induces high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) release, resulting in a subsequent antitumor CD8+ T cell response in immunocompetent mice. Collectively, the study findings underscore the potential to enhance the efficacy of KRAS-G12D blockade therapy by targeting AGER-dependent macropinocytosis.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.ads1298
Kayleigh Ingersoll Omdahl, Rene S. Bermea, Ryan Fleming, Kyle Kimler, James Kaminski, Lida P. Hariri, Amy Ly, Xianliang Rui, Lorenzo Cagnin, Jennifer Lane, Ulrike Gerdemann, Bruce R. Blazar, Victor Tkachev, Leslie S. Kean
Tissue-specific T cell immune responses play a critical role in maintaining organ health but can also drive immune pathology during both autoimmunity and alloimmunity. The mechanisms controlling intratissue T cell programming remain unclear. Here, we leveraged a nonhuman primate model of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to probe the biological underpinnings of tissue-specific alloimmune disease using a comprehensive systems immunology approach including multiparameter flow cytometry, population-based transcriptional profiling, and multiplexed single-cell RNA sequencing and TCR sequencing. Transcriptional profiling revealed substantial biological differences between T cells infiltrating the lung and liver during aGVHD. These included enrichment for transcriptional pathways controlling extracellular matrix remodeling and chemotaxis in the lung and enrichment for transcriptional pathways linked to nucleic acid metabolism and proliferation in the liver. Single-cell RNA sequencing and TCR sequencing substantiated divergent organ-specific transcriptional programing of tissue-infiltrating T cells, which was linked to clonal expansion, with expanded clones progressively enriched for C-X3-C motif chemokine receptor 1 (CX3CR1)–expressing CD8 effector T cells in the lung and eomesodermin (EOMES)–expressing CD8 effector-memory T cells in the liver. This divergent evolution of T cells was maintained even for T cells sharing the same TCRs, indicating its independence from antigen specificity. Together, these results provide insights into the role that tissue microenvironment–derived signals play in local T cell transcriptional programming during alloimmune-mediated clonal expansion and suggest potential opportunities to develop tissue-specific therapeutics to curtail pathogenic immunity after transplant.
{"title":"Organ-specific microenvironments drive divergent T cell evolution in acute graft-versus-host disease","authors":"Kayleigh Ingersoll Omdahl, Rene S. Bermea, Ryan Fleming, Kyle Kimler, James Kaminski, Lida P. Hariri, Amy Ly, Xianliang Rui, Lorenzo Cagnin, Jennifer Lane, Ulrike Gerdemann, Bruce R. Blazar, Victor Tkachev, Leslie S. Kean","doi":"10.1126/scitranslmed.ads1298","DOIUrl":"10.1126/scitranslmed.ads1298","url":null,"abstract":"<div >Tissue-specific T cell immune responses play a critical role in maintaining organ health but can also drive immune pathology during both autoimmunity and alloimmunity. The mechanisms controlling intratissue T cell programming remain unclear. Here, we leveraged a nonhuman primate model of acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation to probe the biological underpinnings of tissue-specific alloimmune disease using a comprehensive systems immunology approach including multiparameter flow cytometry, population-based transcriptional profiling, and multiplexed single-cell RNA sequencing and TCR sequencing. Transcriptional profiling revealed substantial biological differences between T cells infiltrating the lung and liver during aGVHD. These included enrichment for transcriptional pathways controlling extracellular matrix remodeling and chemotaxis in the lung and enrichment for transcriptional pathways linked to nucleic acid metabolism and proliferation in the liver. Single-cell RNA sequencing and TCR sequencing substantiated divergent organ-specific transcriptional programing of tissue-infiltrating T cells, which was linked to clonal expansion, with expanded clones progressively enriched for <i>C-X3-C motif chemokine receptor 1</i> (<i>CX3CR1</i>)–expressing CD8 effector T cells in the lung and <i>eomesodermin</i> (<i>EOMES</i>)–expressing CD8 effector-memory T cells in the liver. This divergent evolution of T cells was maintained even for T cells sharing the same TCRs, indicating its independence from antigen specificity. Together, these results provide insights into the role that tissue microenvironment–derived signals play in local T cell transcriptional programming during alloimmune-mediated clonal expansion and suggest potential opportunities to develop tissue-specific therapeutics to curtail pathogenic immunity after transplant.</div>","PeriodicalId":21580,"journal":{"name":"Science Translational Medicine","volume":"17 783","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143057022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-29DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp5173
Steven L. Brody, Jiehong Pan, Tao Huang, Jian Xu, Huihui Xu, Jeffrey R. Koenitizer, Steven K. Brennan, Rashmi Nanjundappa, Thomas G. Saba, Nisreen Rumman, Andrew Berical, Finn J. Hawkins, Xiangli Wang, Rui Zhang, Moe R. Mahjoub, Amjad Horani, Susan K. Dutcher
Primary ciliary dyskinesia is a rare monogenic syndrome that is associated with chronic respiratory disease, infertility, and laterality defects. Although more than 50 genes causative of primary ciliary dyskinesia have been identified, variants in the genes encoding coiled-coil domain-containing 39 (CCDC39) and CCDC40 in particular cause severe disease that is not explained by loss of ciliary motility alone. Here, we sought to understand the consequences of these variants on cellular functions beyond impaired motility. We used human cells with pathogenic variants in CCDC39 and CCDC40, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii genetics, cryo–electron microscopy, and proteomics to define perturbations in ciliary assembly and cilia stability, as well as multiple motility-independent pathways. Analysis of proteomics of cilia from patient cells identified that the absence of the axonemal CCDC39/CCDC40 heterodimer resulted in the loss of a network of more than 90 ciliary structural proteins, including 14 that were defined as ciliary address recognition proteins, which provide docking for the missing structures. The absence of the network impaired microtubule architecture, activated cell quality control pathways, switched multiciliated cell fate to mucus-producing cells and resulted in a defective periciliary barrier. In CCDC39 variant cells, these phenotypes were reversed through expression of a normal CCDC39 transgene. These findings indicate that the CCDC39/CCDC40 heterodimer functions as a scaffold to support the assembly of an extensive network of ciliary proteins, whose loss results in both motility-dependent and motility-independent phenotypes that may explain the severity of disease. Gene therapy might be a potential treatment option to be explored in future studies.
{"title":"Undocking of an extensive ciliary network induces proteostasis and cell fate switching resulting in severe primary ciliary dyskinesia","authors":"Steven L. Brody, Jiehong Pan, Tao Huang, Jian Xu, Huihui Xu, Jeffrey R. Koenitizer, Steven K. Brennan, Rashmi Nanjundappa, Thomas G. Saba, Nisreen Rumman, Andrew Berical, Finn J. Hawkins, Xiangli Wang, Rui Zhang, Moe R. Mahjoub, Amjad Horani, Susan K. Dutcher","doi":"10.1126/scitranslmed.adp5173","DOIUrl":"10.1126/scitranslmed.adp5173","url":null,"abstract":"<div >Primary ciliary dyskinesia is a rare monogenic syndrome that is associated with chronic respiratory disease, infertility, and laterality defects. Although more than 50 genes causative of primary ciliary dyskinesia have been identified, variants in the genes encoding coiled-coil domain-containing 39 (CCDC39) and CCDC40 in particular cause severe disease that is not explained by loss of ciliary motility alone. Here, we sought to understand the consequences of these variants on cellular functions beyond impaired motility. We used human cells with pathogenic variants in <i>CCDC39</i> and <i>CCDC40</i>, <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> genetics, cryo–electron microscopy, and proteomics to define perturbations in ciliary assembly and cilia stability, as well as multiple motility-independent pathways. Analysis of proteomics of cilia from patient cells identified that the absence of the axonemal CCDC39/CCDC40 heterodimer resulted in the loss of a network of more than 90 ciliary structural proteins, including 14 that were defined as ciliary address recognition proteins, which provide docking for the missing structures. The absence of the network impaired microtubule architecture, activated cell quality control pathways, switched multiciliated cell fate to mucus-producing cells and resulted in a defective periciliary barrier. In <i>CCDC39</i> variant cells, these phenotypes were reversed through expression of a normal <i>CCDC39</i> transgene. These findings indicate that the CCDC39/CCDC40 heterodimer functions as a scaffold to support the assembly of an extensive network of ciliary proteins, whose loss results in both motility-dependent and motility-independent phenotypes that may explain the severity of disease. Gene therapy might be a potential treatment option to be explored in future studies.</div>","PeriodicalId":21580,"journal":{"name":"Science Translational Medicine","volume":"17 783","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143056621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}