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@ARTICLE{Choe:273910,
author = {Choe, Kyonghwan and Ali, Muhammad and Lardenoije, Roy and
Riemens, Renzo J M and Pishva, Ehsan and Bickel, Horst and
Weyerer, Siegfried and Hoffmann, Per and Pentzek, Michael
and Riedel-Heller, Steffi and Wiese, Birgitt and Scherer,
Martin and Wagner, Michael and Mastroeni, Diego and Coleman,
Paul D and Ramirez, Alfredo and Ramakers, Inez H G B and
Verhey, Frans R J and Rutten, Bart P F and Kenis, Gunter and
van den Hove, Daniel L A},
title = {{A}lzheimer's disease-specific transcriptomic and
epigenomic changes in the tryptophan catabolic pathway.},
journal = {Alzheimer's research $\&$ therapy},
volume = {16},
number = {1},
issn = {1758-9193},
address = {London},
publisher = {BioMed Central},
reportid = {DZNE-2024-01384},
pages = {259},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease
(AD), have been linked to alterations in tryptophan (TRP)
metabolism. However, no studies to date have systematically
explored changes in the TRP pathway at both transcriptional
and epigenetic levels. This study aimed to investigate
transcriptomic, DNA methylomic (5mC) and hydroxymethylomic
(5hmC) changes within genes involved in the TRP and
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) pathways in AD,
using three independent cohorts.DNA derived from post-mortem
middle temporal gyrus (MTG) tissue from AD patients (n = 45)
and age-matched controls (n = 35) was analyzed, along with
DNA derived from blood samples from two independent cohorts:
the German Study on Ageing, Cognition, and Dementia in
Primary Care Patients (AgeCoDe) cohort (n = 96) and the
Dutch BioBank Alzheimer Center Limburg (BBACL) cohort (n =
262). Molecular profiling, including assessing mRNA
expression and DNA (hydroxy)methylation levels, was
conducted using HumanHT-12 v4 Expression BeadChip and HM 450
K BeadChip arrays, respectively. Functional interactions
between genes and identification of common
phenotype-specific positive and negative elementary circuits
were conducted using computational modeling, i.e. gene
regulatory network (GRN) and network perturbational
analysis. DNA methylation of IDO2 (cg11251498) was analyzed
using pyrosequencing.Twelve TRP- and twenty NAD-associated
genes were found to be differentially expressed in the MTG
of AD patients. Gene sets associated in the kynurenine
pathway, the most common TRP pathway, and NAD pathway,
showed enrichment at the mRNA expression level. Downstream
analyses integrating data on gene expression, DNA
(hydroxy)methylation, and AD pathology, as well as GRN and
network perturbation analyses, identified IDO2, an immune
regulatory gene, as a key candidate in AD. Notably, one CpG
site in IDO2 (cg11251498) exhibited significant methylation
differences between AD converters and non-converters in the
AgeCoDe cohort.These findings reveal substantial
transcriptional and epigenetic alterations in TRP- and
NAD-pathway-associated genes in AD, highlighting IDO2 as a
key candidate gene for further investigation. These genes
and their encoded proteins hold potential as novel
biomarkers and therapeutic targets for AD.},
keywords = {Humans / Alzheimer Disease: genetics / Alzheimer Disease:
metabolism / Tryptophan: metabolism / Male / Female / Aged /
Aged, 80 and over / Transcriptome / DNA Methylation:
genetics / Epigenomics: methods / Cohort Studies /
Epigenesis, Genetic: genetics / NAD: metabolism / Temporal
Lobe: metabolism / Metabolic Networks and Pathways: genetics
/ Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (Other) / Blood (Other) / Brain
(Other) / Epigenetics (Other) / Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase
(IDO) (Other) / Tryptophan (TRP) (Other) / Tryptophan (NLM
Chemicals) / NAD (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {AG Wagner / Patient Studies (Bonn)},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1011201 / I:(DE-2719)1011101},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39616392},
pmc = {pmc:PMC11607912},
doi = {10.1186/s13195-024-01623-4},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/273910},
}