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  • Adoptive transfer of mitochondrial antigen-specific CD8+ T-cells in mice causes parkinsonism and compromises the dopamine system

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    By adoptively transferring mitochondrial peptide-specific CD8+ T cells into WT and PINK1 KO mice, we find that this leads to L-DOPA-reversible motor impairment and to robust loss of DA neurons and axonal markers in the striatum in both PINK KO and WT

  • GLP-1 receptor agonism ameliorates Parkinson’s disease through 1 modulation of neuronal insulin signalling and glial suppression

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    GLP-1 agonism reverses this resistance, reducing oxidative stress, improving cellular function, and enhancing neuronal viability. Exenatide treatment shows promise in clinical trials as a disease modifying strategy for synucleinopathies.

  • T cell differentiation from mice spleen tissue

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    This protocol is for T cell differentiation from mice spleen tissue to investigate T cell function (including differentiation and proliferation) in vitro.

  • pPB-EF1A-mSTING

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    STING plasmid

  • pPB-EF1A-HALO-hLRRK2

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    Halo tagged LRRK2

  • LRRK2 G2019S mutation suppresses differentiation of Th9 and Treg cells via JAK/STAT3

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    The Leucine-rich repeat kinase-2 (LRRK2) G2019S mutation, resulting in aberrantly enhanced kinase activity, is one of the well-recognized genetic risk factors in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Increased LRRK2 activity was also observed in immune cells from PD patients. Emerging results have also unveiled an upsurge in alpha-synuclein (alpha-syn)-specific CD4+ T cell responses in PD patients. Given that LRRK2 mutations in PD are germline mutations, there are unmet meets to explore whether LRRK2 G2019S mutation contributes to the pathogenesis of PD via altering CD4+ T-cell functions. To fill this knowledge gap, we generated a new T cell receptor (TCR) transgenic mouse strain bearing LRRK2 G2019S knock-in mutation, OT-II/LRRK2 (Refer to Mut). As CD4+ T cells from OT-II mice specifically recognize ovalbumin, this new strain enables us to explore the impact of LRRK2 G2019S mutation on T-cell functions in an antigen-specific manner. We found that the abundance and proliferation of major immune subsets in spleen tissue from Mut mice are comparable to wild-type (OT-II, Refer to WT) control. However, when we characterized T cell differentiation in these two strains, T cells derived from Mut mice displayed increased Th2 differentiation (IL-4) and decreased Th9 (IL-9) and Treg (Foxp3+ %) differentiation. LRRK2 G2019S mutation significantly altered the expression levels of master transcription factors (TFs) for T cell differentiation. Specifically, Mut T cells displayed an increase in mRNA expression of Gata3 (TF for Th2), a decrease in expression of Irf4 and Foxp3 (TFs for Th9 and Treg, respectively). Mechanistically, LRRK2 mutation decreased IL-9 production and Treg cell population through the JAK/STAT3 signaling. In conclusion, LRRK2 plays a critical role in regulating T cell differentiation, warranting further studies to evaluate the impacts of altered T cell differentiation led by LRRK2 mutation in dopaminergic neuron damages.

  • pPB-HA-hGABARAP

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    HA tagged GABARAP

  • pPB-EF1A-mSTING (1-339)

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    Truncation from pPB-EF1A-mSTING

  • pPB-mCherry-SopF

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    SopF plasmid

  • RAW 264.7 STING KO

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    RAW 264.7 STING KO cells

  • RAW 264.7 STING KO + mouse STING (amino acids 1-339)

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    RAW 264.7 STING KO + mouse STING (amino acids 1-339) cell line

  • RAW 264.7 STING KO + mouse STING (WT)

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    RAW 264.7 STING KO + mouse STING (WT) cell line

  • RAW 264.7 IKKE KO

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    RAW 264.7 IKKE KO cell line

  • RAW 264.7 TBK1 KO

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    RAW 264.7 TBK1 KO cell line

  • RAW 264.7 mCherry-SopF

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    RAW 264.7 mCherry-SopF cell line

  • RAW 264.7 Atg16L1 KO

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    RAW 264.7 Atg16L1 KO cell line

  • RAW 264.7 TBK1 KO + IKKE KO

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    RAW 264.7 TBK1 KO + IKKE KO cell line

  • RAW 264.7 LRRK2 KO + HALO-human LRRK2

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    RAW 264.7 LRRK2 KO + HALO-human LRRK2 cell line

  • RAW 264.7 GABARAP KO

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    RAW 264.7 GABARAP KO cell line

  • Deep sequencing of proteotoxicity modifier genes uncovers a Presenilin-2/beta-amyloid-actin genetic risk module shared among alpha-synucleinopathies

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    The authors study patients based on protein aggregation phenotype to detect variants in a targeted set of genes.

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