Increased Cholesterol Synthesis Drives Neurotoxicity in Patient Stem Cell-Derived Model of Multiple Sclerosis
biorxiv(2024)
摘要
Senescent neural progenitor cells have been identified in brain lesions of people with progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS). However, their role in disease pathobiology and contribution to the lesion environment remains unclear.
By establishing directly induced neural stem/progenitor cell (iNSC) lines from PMS patient fibroblasts, we studied their senescent phenotype in vitro . Senescence was strongly associated with inflammatory signaling, hypermetabolism, and the senescence associated secretory phenotype (SASP). PMS-derived iNSCs displayed increased glucose-dependent fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis, which resulted in the accumulation of cholesteryl ester-enriched lipid droplets. An HMG-CoA reductase-mediated lipogenic state was found to induce secretion of the SASP in PMS iNSC conditioned media via transcriptional regulation by cholesterol-dependent transcription factors. SASP from PMS iNSCs induced neurotoxicity. Chemical targeting of HMG-CoA reductase using the cholesterol-lowering drug simvastatin (SV) prevented SASP release and resulting neurotoxicity.
Our findings suggest a disease-associated, cholesterol-related, hypermetabolic phenotype of PMS iNSCs that leads to neurotoxic signaling and is rescuable pharmacologically.
### Competing Interest Statement
SP is founder, CSO and shareholder (>5%) of CITC Ltd and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board at ReNeuron plc. AD is a founder of Omix Technologies Inc, Altis Biosciences LLC, and an advisory board member for Hemanext Inc and Macopharma Inc. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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