「MUSICマップ」によって、アルツハイマー病でより早く老化し、より多く存在する脳細胞が明らかになった(‘MUSIC Map’ Reveals Some Brain Cells Age Faster and Are More Prevalent in Alzheimer’s)

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2024-05-14 カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校(UCSD)

カリフォルニア大学サンディエゴ校の研究者たちは、MUSIC技術を用いて、アルツハイマー病患者に多く見られる脳細胞の一部が他の細胞よりも早く老化することを発見しました。女性の大脳皮質では「古い」オリゴデンドロサイトの割合が高く、これは認知機能低下に関与する可能性があります。研究チームは、個々の脳細胞内のクロマチンとRNAの相互作用を分析し、これが遺伝子発現に及ぼす影響を調査しました。この発見は、新しい治療法の開発に役立つ可能性があり、特に老化した細胞の異常な遺伝子をターゲットにすることで、新たな治療標的が見つかるかもしれません。

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加齢ヒト脳におけるシングルセル・マルチプレックス・クロマチン・RNA相互作用 Single-cell multiplex chromatin and RNA interactions in ageing human brain

Xingzhao Wen,Zhifei Luo,Wenxin Zhao,Riccardo Calandrelli,Tri C. Nguyen,Xueyi Wan,John Lalith Charles Richard & Sheng Zhong
Nature  Published:27 March 2024
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07239-w

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Abstract

Dynamically organized chromatin complexes often involve multiplex chromatin interactions and sometimes chromatin-associated RNA1,2,3. Chromatin complex compositions change during cellular differentiation and ageing, and are expected to be highly heterogeneous among terminally differentiated single cells4,5,6,7. Here we introduce the multinucleic acid interaction mapping in single cells (MUSIC) technique for concurrent profiling of multiplex chromatin interactions, gene expression and RNA–chromatin associations within individual nuclei. When applied to 14 human frontal cortex samples from older donors, MUSIC delineated diverse cortical cell types and states. We observed that nuclei exhibiting fewer short-range chromatin interactions were correlated with both an ‘older’ transcriptomic signature and Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Furthermore, the cell type exhibiting chromatin contacts between cis expression quantitative trait loci and a promoter tends to be that in which these cis expression quantitative trait loci specifically affect the expression of their target gene. In addition, female cortical cells exhibit highly heterogeneous interactions between XIST non-coding RNA and chromosome X, along with diverse spatial organizations of the X chromosomes. MUSIC presents a potent tool for exploration of chromatin architecture and transcription at cellular resolution in complex tissues.

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