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- Title
SRF and myocardin regulate LRP-mediated amyloid-beta clearance in brain vascular cells.
- Authors
Bell, Robert D; Deane, Rashid; Chow, Nienwen; Long, Xiaochun; Sagare, Abhay; Singh, Itender; Streb, Jeffrey W; Guo, Huang; Rubio, Anna; Van Nostrand, William; Miano, Joseph M; Zlokovic, Berislav V
- Abstract
Amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) deposition in cerebral vessels contributes to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we report that in AD patients and two mouse models of AD, overexpression of serum response factor (SRF) and myocardin (MYOCD) in cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) generates an Abeta non-clearing VSMC phenotype through transactivation of sterol regulatory element binding protein-2, which downregulates low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein-1, a key Abeta clearance receptor. Hypoxia stimulated SRF/MYOCD expression in human cerebral VSMCs and in animal models of AD. We suggest that SRF and MYOCD function as a transcriptional switch, controlling Abeta cerebrovascular clearance and progression of AD.
- Publication
Nature cell biology, 2009, Vol 11, Issue 2, p143
- ISSN
1476-4679
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/ncb1819