Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, USA.
Centre for Neuroscience, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología, City of Knowledge, Republic of Panama.
J Alzheimers Dis. 2018;66(2):453-460. doi: 10.3233/JAD-180610.
Altered expression of α-synuclein is linked to Parkinson's disease (PD). A major challenge to explore how the increased α-synuclein affect neurotoxicity is the lack of a suitable human neuronal cell model that mimics this scenario. Its expression in neural precursors affects their differentiation process, in addition to the neuronal adaptability and variability in maintaining a constant level of expression across passages. Here, we describe an SH-SY5Y line harboring Tet-ON SNCA cDNA cassette that allows for induction of controlled α-synuclein expression after neuronal differentiation, which can be an important tool for PD research.
α-突触核蛋白的表达改变与帕金森病(PD)有关。探索增加的α-突触核蛋白如何影响神经毒性的主要挑战是缺乏合适的人类神经元细胞模型来模拟这种情况。它在神经前体细胞中的表达会影响它们的分化过程,此外,还会影响神经元的适应性和在整个传代过程中保持恒定表达水平的可变性。在这里,我们描述了一种含有 Tet-ON SNCA cDNA 盒的 SH-SY5Y 系,该系允许在神经元分化后诱导可控的α-突触核蛋白表达,这可能是 PD 研究的重要工具。