Abstract
Neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system progressively rob patients of their memory, motor function, and ability to perform daily tasks. Advances in genetics and animal models are beginning to unearth an unexpected role of the immune-system in disease onset and pathogenesis; however, the role of cytokines, growth factors, and other immune signaling pathways in disease pathogenesis is still being examined. Here we review recent genetic risk and genome-wide association studies and emerging mechanisms for three key immune pathways implicated in disease, the growth factor TGF-β, the complement cascade, and the extracellular receptor TREM2. These immune signaling pathways are important under both healthy and neurodegenerative conditions, and recent work has highlighted new functional aspects of their signaling. Finally, we assess future directions for immune-related research in neurodegeneration and potential avenues for immune-related therapies.
Keywords: Microglia, Inflammation, Neuroinflammation, Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s disease, Cytokine, Innate Immunity, GWAS, TGF-β, Complement, TREM2, Neuro-immune, Signaling
Etoc blurb:
Hammond, Marsh, and Stevens explore the growing evidence of immune involvement in the initiation and progression of neurodegenerative disease. The authors examine how immune pathways identified by GWAS and histopathological studies contribute to aberrant cellular responses, pathological protein aggregation, and neural deterioration in Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases.
Introduction
Since the first descriptions of neurodegenerative diseases over a 100 years ago our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB), and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) have focused largely on gross anatomical changes including protein aggregation and neuronal loss. However, recent genetic, histopathological, and mechanistic evidence also points to immune pathway dysregulation including changes in cytokine signaling, immune cell proliferation and migration, altered phagocytosis, and reactive gliosis as common features of neurodegeneration. These immune changes were long considered a secondary or reactive response to underlying disease processes, but emerging evidence implicates the immune system as a central player in disease onset and progression.
Identification of immune genetic risk loci through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), technological advances in single cell sequencing, molecular pathology, mouse models, and human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have significantly enhanced the ability to study the mechanisms of immune dysfunction (Figure 1). In this Review, we provide an overview of several neurodegenerative diseases for which substantial evidence points toward immune dysregulation and discuss the human genetics that implicate immune signaling in disease risk. We also provide deeper insight into three important immune signaling pathways: the growth factor TGF-β, the complement cascade, and extracellular receptor TREM2, that influence pathological progression in each disease. Finally, we discuss exciting future research directions that could lead to new biomarkers and therapeutic strategies targeting immune signaling pathways.
Historically, observations of altered neuroimmune function have been described using broad terms (i.e. neuroinflammation or glial ‘activation’) or binary cell states (i.e. pro- vs. anti-inflammatory signals or M1 vs. M2 myeloid cell phenotypes). However, high-resolution multi-omic studies have confirmed what prior studies had begun to realize: that alterations in immune cell phenotypes, gene and protein expression, and morphology are highly complex processes that exist on a broad spectrum (Hammond et al., 2019; Keren-Shaul et al., 2017; Mathys et al., 2017). New research is beginning to better characterize and link disease-relevant pathways and cell states with specific disease mechanisms and aspects of brain dysfunction. Therefore, for the purposes of this review, where possible we utilize specific annotations to describe the relevant immune changes (i.e., patterns of expression or activation of specific genes or pathways).
Clinical & Pathological Characteristics of Neurodegenerative Disease
Age-related CNS neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by a number of shared and divergent clinical and pathological features including selective vulnerability of brain regions and differential protein aggregation that impact their clinical presentations and immune responses (Figure 2). Alzheimer’s disease is a molecularly and genetically complex disease characterized by extensive synaptic and neuronal loss (subsequently brain volume loss) and leads to a progressive decline in memory and cognitive function that ultimately results in an inability to perform basic daily functions and death. AD was first characterized by Alois Alzheimer in 1907, who noted the hallmark protein accumulations commonly termed plaques and tangles, but importantly also noted the presence of immune cells (likely microglia) in close proximity to the plaques (Alzheimer, 1907, 1911). Today, we know that the extracellular plaques are composed primarily of amyloid-beta (Aβ) and the intracellular tangles are hyperphosphorylated tau (Selkoe, 2001). The “typical” progression of pathology by region is different for amyloid vs. tau, although both eventually heavily impact neocortical, entorhinal cortex, and hippocampal regions (for review and further description see (Braak and Braak, 1991; Montine et al., 2012)). Despite the many co-pathologies, it is the loss of synapses that correlates most closely with cognitive decline (Davies and Maloney, 1976; DeKosky and Scheff, 1990; Terry et al., 1991).
Parkinson’s disease is characterized by motor symptoms including bradykinesia, tremor, and rigidity (For Review see (Moustafa et al., 2016)). Later in the disease course, some PD patients also develop clinical dementia, referred to as Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) (Goetz et al., 2008). Pathologically PD is also characterized by hallmark protein aggregates, termed Lewy bodies (Lewy, 1923), which are primarily composed of the protein α-synuclein (α-syn). α-synuclein is also present in AD plaques, as α-syn was originally referred to as the “non-amyloid component” of plaques in AD patient brains, in addition to some AD patients who also have Lewy body pathology (Hamilton, 2000; Hansen et al., 1990; Jakes et al., 1994; Spillantini et al., 1997; Uéda et al., 1993). In many cases Lewy bodies also include pathogenic tau, which has been shown to interact with α-syn (Marsh and Blurton-Jones, 2012). Degeneration and protein aggregation in PD spreads from the brain stem to the substantia nigra and other midbrain regions, then to the neocortex (Braak et al., 2004). The onset of symptoms follows significant loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra that appears to accelerate exponentially as the disease progresses (Cheng et al., 2010; Greffard et al., 2006).
Amidst PD, PDD, and AD sits a disorder known as Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (For Review see (Outeiro et al., 2019; Walker et al., 2015). Clinically, DLB dementia is often distinguished from AD via the presence unique characteristics including of audio and/or visual hallucinations and DLB patients may or may not present with motor symptoms (McKeith et al., 2017) Pathologically, DLB is characterized by the presence of Lewy bodies, similar to PD, although patients may also exhibit amyloid pathology similar to AD (McKeith et al., 2017; Walker et al., 2015). Similar to AD and PD, DLB patients exhibit significant synaptic and neuronal loss, but research indicates that the Lewy bodies themselves are not the first neurotoxic mechanism to arise during either DLB or PD, as neuronal loss is observed prior to Lewy pathology (Milber et al., 2012; Outeiro et al., 2019). The clinical and pathological heterogeneity of DLB suggests that DLB may represent a spectrum of disorders, potentially with differing etiology and/or underlying mechanisms, which complicates the study of many disease mechanisms including the role of immune signaling.
Frontotemporal dementia encompasses a series of likely distinct dementias. Patients under the FTD spectrum are often assigned 1 of 4 primary clinical subtypes and 1 of 3 primary proteinopathy subtypes (For review see (Bang et al., 2015)). Pathologically, the 3 proteinopathy subtypes are characterized by presence of tau pathology, TAR DNA-binding protein with molecular weight 43 kda (TDP-43) pathology, or fused-in sarcoma (FUS) pathology (Bang et al., 2015). As the name implies the neurodegeneration, synaptic loss, and protein aggregation in FTD are concentrated in various regions including the frontal cortex & frontal lobe, anterior temporal lobe, striatum, and more (Bang et al., 2015).
In addition to their hallmark neuropathological and clinical characteristics these disorders also exhibit concurrent and chronic alterations in immune function and signaling. In most neurodegenerative diseases, the primary cellular mediator of the immune response in the brain parenchyma is thought to be microglia, the brain’s resident innate immune cells which are derived from primitive hematopoietic progenitors in the yolk-sac. These progenitors migrate to the developing brain of the embryo and become the resident immune cells of the brain (Ginhoux et al., 2010; Yona et al., 2013). Microglia are highly dynamic cells with diverse homeostatic functions, including roles in synaptic pruning, neurogenesis, and brain homeostasis (Hammond et al., 2018; Hanisch and Kettenmann, 2007; Schafer et al., 2012; Squarzoni et al., 2014). However, at their core, they are innate immune cells and perform classically associated roles like tissue surveillance, removal of pathogens, and response to injury (Hanisch and Kettenmann, 2007; Nimmerjahn et al., 2005). In neurodegenerative disease, microglia respond to their environment, migrating to sites of damage or injury, secreting numerous inflammatory molecules, and phagocytosing debris and aggregated proteins (Heneka et al., 2015; Song and Colonna, 2018). It is becoming increasingly clear that microglia and immune signaling may not just be secondary players in disease processes but actually contribute to synaptic and neuron loss and buildup of pathogenic proteins even at the earliest stages of disease (Figure 2) (Hong et al., 2016; Shi et al., 2017; Sosna et al., 2018).
While much of the research has focused on the role of the brain resident microglia in the immune response, the peripheral immune system may also play important roles in the progression of neurodegenerative disease. Many studies have focused on potential roles and/or infiltration of peripherally-derived macrophages in the CNS immune response. However, distinguishing peripheral macrophages from microglia within the brain parenchyma is difficult due to high overlap in both phenotype and gene expression. However, two recent studies have identified unique signatures that peripheral macrophages maintain upon infiltration that differentiates them from resident microglia (Bennett et al., 2018; Cronk et al., 2018), providing potential markers and strategies to dissect of the role of peripheral macrophages in the disease-associated immune response. Moreover, while the innate immune system has been the focus of much of the research in neurodegenerative disease, emerging results suggest that adaptive immune system (primarily T & B cells) may also play important roles in disease progression. However, much of the research examining the functional aspects of the adaptive immune system in neurodegenerative disease is relatively recent and requires further study to understand how adaptive immunity fits in the disease process (Baird et al., 2018; Baruch et al., 2015; Marsh et al., 2016; Mosley et al., 2012). Finally, it is important to note that direct peripheral cell infiltration is not necessarily a requirement for peripheral immune impacts on the CNS. There is growing body of literature which suggests that soluble signaling molecules produced in the periphery can enter the brain and effect both microglial phenotype and modulate cognition (Castellano et al., 2017; Derecki et al., 2010; Katsimpardi et al., 2014; Marsh et al., 2016; Villeda et al., 2011; Villeda et al., 2014).
Evidence from Human Genetics Highlights Immune Signaling in Disease Risk
AD, PD, DLB, and FTD all have strong heritable components. Each of these disorders have rare familial forms linked to mutations in the genes that code for the protein aggregating in the specific disease (APP, MAPT [Tau], SNCA [α-synuclein]), in the genes processing APP into Aβ (PSEN1, PSEN2), or in other genes such as GRN and C9ORF72 (For Review see (Billingsley et al., 2018; Hinz and Geschwind, 2017; Orme et al., 2018; Selkoe and Podlisny, 2002; Tanzi, 2012). In addition to familial forms of these diseases, advances in human genetics have identified a number of genes and loci associated with altered disease risk in each of these disorders, many of which exhibit highly enriched expression in myeloid and other immune cells or take part in immune signaling pathways, especially in the case of AD, which appears to have the most genetically-driven immune component (Figure 2). However, more evidence is emerging that links the genetics of PD, DLB, and FTD to altered immune signaling as well. Here, we summarize some of findings from each disease that link altered disease risk with modulation of immune function and signaling.
More than half of the AD risk loci discovered in GWAS are significantly enriched or, in some cases, uniquely expressed in immune cells – genes including CR1, CD33, members of the MS4A family, the HLA locus, and MEF2C (Bennett et al., 2016; GTEx Consortium, 2013; Hammond et al., 2019; Hollingworth et al., 2011; Jansen et al., 2019; Lambert et al., 2009; Lambert et al., 2013; Marioni et al., 2018; Saunders et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016). Specifically, there is significant enrichment of immune signaling and expression within cells of the myeloid lineage, including microglia and macrophages (Gjoneska et al., 2015; International Genomics of Alzheimer's Disease Consortium, 2015; Jones et al., 2010; Raj et al., 2014); however the specific myeloid population(s) that contribute to AD risk and pathogenesis is an important open question in the field.
The myeloid component is supported by recent analyses that go further than simple GWASs. Researchers have used GWASs and genotyping results combined with gene expression data to perform an analysis of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs), to determine whether a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) from a GWAS is associated with altered expression of either local (cis-eQTL) or distant (trans-eQTL) genes (Michaelson et al., 2009; Rockman and Kruglyak, 2006). Cis-eQTL analysis recently resulted in the discovery of a cis-eQTL for the myeloid lineage determining transcription factor PU.1 (gene SPI1) within the CELF1 GWAS locus. However, it was the discovery in 2013 of a rare SNP in Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) that increased AD risk on par with possessing a single copy of the AD risk allele APOE-ε4, that dramatically increased the focus on microglia in AD pathogenesis (Guerreiro et al., 2013a; Jonsson et al., 2013; Sims et al., 2017) (see in-depth discussion later in this review). More recently rare variant analyses have also uncovered AD risk variants within the microglia-specific genes PLCG2 and ABI3 (Huang et al., 2017; Sims et al., 2017). Finally, the most-well known AD risk gene is APOE, which has long been studied in the context of its basal expression by astrocytes in the brain (Huang et al., 2004; Liu et al., 2013). However, the power of single-cell sequencing to separate gene expression at unprecedented resolution revealed a massive microglial-specific upregulation in Apoe in mouse models of AD (Keren-Shaul et al., 2017; Krasemann et al., 2017). These studies highlight the need to study gene expression of risk variants not just under basal conditions, but also in disease-relevant contexts.
Newer studies are beginning to examine not just the links between genetics and disease risk, but also those between disease variables such as age of onset. There is a significant association between the age of onset in sporadic AD and APOE, plus other immune-enriched loci like CR1, PICALM, and BIN1 (Corder et al., 1993; Naj et al., 2014). Furthermore, a recent study in early onset familial AD found a haplotype of SNPs within a chemokine gene cluster (that included a coding variant in CCL11) that altered age of onset by 10 years in carriers (Lalli et al., 2015). Unlike some of the other immune-related genes CCL11 has virtually no expression in the brain parenchyma. Instead the greatest tissue expression, in humans, is found in the gut, indicating a potential link between peripheral immunity and disease onset (GTEx Consortium, 2013; Hammond et al., 2019; Heng et al., 2008; Saunders et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016). Research in mice which linked increased peripheral Ccl11 in blood from aged mice was associated with cognitive deficits and decreased neurogenesis (Villeda et al., 2011). While there are certainly caveats to the applicability of this to sporadic AD (i.e., it was found in a single family, in familial AD which accounts for only 1-2% of total AD cases), it reinforces how altered immune system function can drastically alter the course of disease. Taken together, these results provide further evidence that immune signaling in AD may not just be a response to pathology but a driving factor in disease development or onset.
While not as heavily biased toward immune pathways, results from several GWAS studies in Parkinson’s disease also demonstrate a link to immune dysfunction (Dzamko et al., 2015). Relevant immune-enriched loci include the HLA locus, BST1, LRRK2, and CTSD (Chang et al., 2017; Hamza et al., 2010; Nalls et al., 2014). However, these loci are classified as ‘immune enriched’ based on the basal gene expression patterns of healthy adults. There could be other PD loci not classically considered to be immune genes that are upregulated in immune cells only during disease. One potential candidate gene is GPNMB (Nalls et al., 2014), whose expression is significantly upregulated in microglia in AD models (Keren-Shaul et al., 2017), but has nearly undetectable microglial expression through healthy adulthood and even in very old wild-type mice (Hammond et al., 2019).
Pathway analysis of risk genes in PD found significant enrichment in certain adaptive immune cell populations and adaptive immune signaling GO pathways (Gagliano et al., 2016; Holmans et al., 2013). This fits with observational studies of T cell infiltration in PD patients and animal models (Brochard et al., 2009; Castellani et al., 2011; McGeer et al., 1988). The role of T cells in PD pathogenesis is supported by a recent report which found both that fragments of α-synuclein bound to HLA variants implicated in PD and that native and pathogenic forms of α-synuclein induced responses in T cells isolated from PD patients (Sulzer et al., 2017). While this study implicates a functional role for T cells in PD more research is needed to better understand their function in disease.
In addition to enrichment in immune cells and pathways, genetic studies have also begun to examine more complex interactions between multiple genes both at gene and protein level. To perform these studies researchers have utilized protein quantitative trait loci (pQTL) analysis to determine whether a genetic variant is associated with altered expression of a protein not coded for by the genetic variant. Using this methodology, a trans-pQTL analysis found an association between the PD risk locus RIT2 and higher expression of the protein produced by AD risk gene CD33 in peripheral monocytes (Chan et al., 2016). RIT2 is expressed in neurons and oligodendrocytes and has very low expression in the rest of the body (GTEx Consortium, 2013; Saunders et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2016). This result shows that non-immune genes can still impact immune function. Higher expression of CD33 in peripheral monocytes was also found to be associated with increased incidence of parkinsonism in older patients (Chan et al., 2016), showing how the mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease may overlap. Furthermore, this result highlights the need to study immune signaling at the protein level, as this trans association did not occur at the mRNA level.
The genetics of sporadic DLB is still a very new field (Orme et al., 2018). The first large-scale GWAS in DLB was just published in 2018 (Guerreiro et al., 2018). Of the five loci that reached genome-wide significance, the only one considered immune-enriched by gene expression was APOE. While some of the significance of APOE in DLB could be partially the result of neuropathological overlap between DLB and AD with Lewy bodies, APOE-ε4 also increases dementia risk in “pure” DLB cases that lack or have low Aβ pathology (Dickson et al., 2018; Orme et al., 2018; Tsuang et al., 2013). The GWAS in DLB is the most underpowered of all the neurodegenerative diseases discussed in this review, containing an analysis of just over 1,700 patients. The addition of more patients to future studies will likely aid in finding more loci.
Like DLB, the genetics of FTD is still a new field, however several studies have still identified links between FTD genetics and altered immune function and signaling (Broce et al., 2018; Carmona et al., 2018; Pottier et al., 2019). As previously discussed, the study of FTD is complicated by the significant pathological and clinical heterogeneity of the disorder. Therefore, recent studies have either used neuropathological or clinical stratifications to guide their search for risk variants (Ferrari et al., 2014; Mishra et al., 2017; Van Deerlin et al., 2010). After stratifying the patients by clinical phenotype, Ferrari et al. (2014) found immune-related hits, with the HLA locus reaching genome-wide significance across combined analysis of all FTD cases. Another study using clinical stratification identified several more immune-related loci including APOE in the behavioral variant of FTD and SERPINA1 in progressive non-fluent aphasia (Mishra et al., 2017). Finally, in 2012, two simultaneous studies found that expanded repeats in C9ORF72 is the most common cause of familial FTD and ALS (DeJesus-Hernandez et al., 2011; Renton et al., 2011). While more research needs to be done to further understand the biological functions of C9ORF72 and these repeats, gene expression analysis indicates significant enrichment in immune populations including microglia (Bennett et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016).
There are a few caveats to discuss with regards to current genetic results and future directions. As mentioned in the context of APOE in AD, when examining gene expression profiles of risk variants, it is critical to examine results from both homeostatic and disease-specific contexts. While recent single-cell sequencing studies in AD mouse models (Keren-Shaul et al., 2017) have provided new insights, the same is needed in animal models of PD, FTD, and DLB. Finally, these profiles need to be verified at the single-cell or -nuclei level in human patients to determine whether observations in the mouse are translatable to humans. While GWASs have been instrumental in driving new research focuses, there are some caveats to GWASs that should be addressed, as possible, going forward. These caveats includea need for stratification of populations using more than clinical diagnosis, such as retrospective autopsy verified GWASs, analysis of genetic risk in disease traits like rate of decline or age at onset, and increased diversity in ethnicity of patients analyzed. Encouragingly, many recent efforts have been moving to address some of these issues (Farfel et al., 2016; Naj et al., 2014) and results in the next few years will be especially interesting.
Modeling the Immune System in Neurodegeneration
Research using animal models and human post-mortem tissue have identified a host of cellular players, including microglia, neurons, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, vessel-associated cells, and infiltrating immune cells, that produce signals that contribute to the pathological brain environment in neurodegenerative disease. Thus, it is becoming increasingly clear that there is a complex network of communication that drives both beneficial and pathological cell interactions and outcomes.
In this Review, there is not space to delve into the litany of signaling molecules involved. We therefore focused on three pathways (TGF-β, Complement, and TREM2) to describe in greater detail including (1) their importance in immune signaling under both healthy and neurodegenerative conditions, (2) human genetic studies implicating these factors in disease, (3) recent publications highlighting new functional aspects of their signaling, and (4) a large body of literature studying the actions of these signals in vivo.
Dozens of mouse models have been created to understand the pathological mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease including cellular responses to protein aggregates, alterations in the brain signaling environment, and how other pathological features arise (Dawson et al., 2018; Götz et al., 2018). However, teasing apart the involvement of specific immune pathways using these models has been difficult and requires the generation of transgenic or knock-in mice that both express disease mutations and disrupt the pathway of interest. This complexity is compounded by immense variability in the models themselves, most of which fail to fully recapitulate human disease etiology and progression (Ransohoff, 2018). Here we will outline the most common models of AD, PD, and FTD and their associated pathological features to give context to the subsequent in-depth analysis of the TGF-β, Complement, and Trem2 pathways.
The most commonly used AD mouse models are based on pathological amyloid protein buildup and familial mutations in amyloid precursor protein (APP) or in presenilin 1 (PSEN1) or presenilin 2 (PSEN2), which are part of the pathogenic processing pathway of APP (Sasaguri et al., 2017). Transgenic expression of the mutated forms of the human genes leads to toxic oligomeric Aβ accumulation and plaque formation (Games et al., 1995; Hsiao et al., 1996; Jawhar et al., 2012; Oakley et al., 2006). Similar effects can be achieved by knock-in of multiple concurrent fAD mutations or focal injection of oligomeric Aβ in mice, which offer similar – but not completely overlapping – phenotypes as the transgenic models (Saito et al., 2014; Götz et al., 2018). Models of amyloidosis, however, lack buildup of hyperphosphorylated tau and neurofibrillary tangles, do not have extensive neurodegeneration, and have behavioral deficits that are generally mild and not reflective of disease progression in AD. The lack of tau pathology may be due, in part, to differences in the number of tau isoforms between humans and mice (Götz et al., 2018).
Hyperphosphorylated and misfolded tau is found extensively in AD patients (Köpke et al., 1993) and increased pathological tau plays an important role in neuronal health and dysfunction, based on mechanistic studies (DeVos et al., 2018; Fu et al., 2017; Lewis et al., 2000) and analysis from patients demonstrating tau pathology correlates with both neuronal loss and cognitive decline (Giannakopoulos et al., 2003; Gómez-Isla et al., 1997; Nelson et al., 2012), Importantly, hyperphosphorylated tau is also found in Huntington’s disease, DLB, and FTD, among others (Iqbal et al., 2016). Tau, a protein involved in microtubule assembly and found in the axons and dendrites of neurons, is heavily post-translationally modified with approximately 85 phosphorylation sites (Wang and Mandelkow, 2016). Several mutations in the human tau gene (MAPT) have been found in patients with frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism-17 (FTDP), indicating a causal role in neurodegeneration. Tauopathy can be modeled by transgenic overexpression of different human familial FTDP mutations (Denk and Wade-Martins, 2009), and common features of these mutant mouse strains include neurofibrillary tangles that increase in number with age and progressive neurodegeneration (Lewis et al., 2000; Yoshiyama et al., 2007). Combinations of the MAPT and APP or PSEN1/2 mouse mutants leads to tau and amyloid pathology that more closely recapitulates AD (Lewis 2001; Oddo et al., 2003; Saul et al., 2013), but the translational relevance of this approach has been questioned, as the tau mutations are not found in human AD patients and may confer a different phenotype. Interestingly, hyperphosphorylated tau can also be ‘seeded’ in mouse brains by injecting purified forms of the protein (Clavaguera et al., 2013; Clavaguera et al., 2009), which leads to spreading between neurons in a prion-like fashion, and causes neurotoxicity (Kaufman et al., 2016).
Several different approaches are used to model different aspects of PD including chemical agents to trigger the loss of dopaminergic neurons and overexpression of mutated human α-synuclein linked to familial forms of the disease (Tieu, 2011). Chemical agents include 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), which are injected into the striatum or substantia nigra or systemically to induce varying degrees of dopaminergic neuron loss (Meredith and Rademacher, 2011). These models, however, fail to faithfully recreate the α-synuclein fibrils, Lewy bodies, and associated proteinopathy found in PD. Transgenic overexpression of familial mutations of the human α-synuclein gene in mice can cause toxic fibril buildup and Lewy body formation, but does not specifically target dopaminergic neurons and leads to widespread neuronal pathology outside nigrostriatal circuits (Visanji et al., 2016). Other PD models including mutations in other genetic risk factors and seeding of α-synuclein have been useful for teasing apart other mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and have been reviewed in detail elsewhere (Bobela et al., 2014; Lee et al., 2012; Tieu, 2011; Visanji et al., 2016).
These mouse models of neurodegenerative disease have been combined with manipulations of immune pathways to uncover the in vivo roles of each signaling cascade using genetic ablation or overexpression of pathway elements. These models are complex and have many caveats including the timing and method of manipulation, so we have focused on three pathways with the most extensive evidence thus far.
Transforming Growth Factor Beta
TGF-beta is a cytokine important for both innate (Kelly et al., 2017) and adaptive (Travis and Sheppard, 2014) immune function. It is also essential for brain development and function, as it regulates neural patterning (Bond et al., 2012), neurogenesis (Dias et al., 2014), gliogenesis (Stipursky et al., 2014), microglia development (Butovsky et al., 2014), myelination (Palazuelos et al., 2014), and brain wiring (Yi et al., 2010). Tgfb1-knockout mice, which die early in life due to runaway peripheral inflammation, exhibit markedly reduced synapse numbers, thinned cerebral cortex, and an increase in dying neurons (Brionne et al., 2003). Three TGF isoforms exist in the brain, TGF-β1, TGF-β2, and TGF-β3, which are transcribed and cleaved before being released and sequestered by milieu molecules on the cell surface or in the extracellular matrix (Figure 3A) (Dobolyi et al., 2012; Kelly et al., 2017). Latent TGF-β, the final active form of the peptide, is then released and binds to the homodimeric TGF beta type II receptor (TGFBRII), a serine threonine kinase receptor. Then TGFBRII forms a tetrameric complex with the TGF beta type I receptor (TGFBRI). The TGFBRI is then phosphorylated, and a cascade of SMAD proteins propagate the intracellular signaling pathway, thus regulating gene transcription (Kelly et al., 2017).
In the healthy mouse brain, the Tgfbr1 and Tgfbr2 genes are expressed at the highest levels in microglia, endothelial cells, and oligodendrocyte precursor cells (Bennett et al., 2016; Saunders et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2014), and their receptors are found in most brain cell types, including neurons (Tesseur et al., 2006) (Figure 3A). TGF-β1 is essential for normal microglial development and modulates their homeostatic state. In the absence of TGF-β1, microglia have an altered transcriptional profile (Butovsky et al., 2014), which includes downregulation of microglial homeostatic markers, such as Tmem119 and P2ry12, and upregulation of the injury-associated markers Axl and Apoe (Hammond et al., 2019; Keren-Shaul et al., 2017). These transcriptional changes are phenocopied in mice lacking the milieu molecule LRRC33, which is necessary for microglial TGF-β1 signaling (Qin et al., 2018; Wong et al., 2017). Microglia in the brains of LRRC33 (Nrros) knockout mice resemble brain border macrophages and are less ramified and have increased lysosomal content, an indicator of increased phagocytic activity (Schafer et al., 2012).
Increased expression of TGF-β1 protein has been found in the CSF and serum of AD patients (Chao et al., 1994; Zetterberg et al., 2004) and in the brains of individuals with PD (Mogi et al., 1995). Increased expression of TGF-β2 protein has also been found in the brains of FTD and AD patients (Chong et al., 2017). Given the extensive evidence of microglial dysfunction in neurodegeneration, including changes in microglial phagocytic activity, it is possible that changes in brain TGF-β signaling in AD and PD could alter microglial state and trigger their pathogenic functions (Salter and Stevens, 2017). Along these lines, ablating TGFBRII in CD11c+ immune cells in APP mutant mice drastically reduces plaques. It was originally thought that the CD11c+ cells were infiltrating immune cells, but given that plaque-associated microglia express CD11c (gene: Itgax) (Keren-Shaul et al., 2017), it is possible that these unique microglia produced the observed phenotype.
TGF-β signaling exerts anti-inflammatory effects and is largely neuroprotective (Dobolyi et al., 2012). In mice, infusing TGF-β1 into the ventricles prevents Aβ oligomer-induced synapse loss (Diniz et al., 2017), and intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection or nasal administration of TGF-β1 prevents neuron death and limits microglial state change in rats injected with Aβ oligomers (Chen et al., 2015). The neuroprotective effects of TGF-β are not limited to amyloid pathology. TGF-β1 reduces MPTP-induced degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, causing a higher survival rate and lowered levels of inflammatory cytokines and decreased microglial lysosomal content (Tesseur et al., 2017).
The exact mechanism underlying TGF-β-mediated neuroprotection is unknown, but the reduction of toxic protein load could play a major role. Transgenic mice expressing a non-functional kinase-deficient TGFBRII under a broadly expressed Prnp promoter exhibit age-related neurodegeneration and increased amyloid beta accumulation and plaque formation (Tesseur et al., 2006). Conversely, overexpressing TGF-β1 in the astrocytes of hAPP mice causes a major reduction in Aβ load and plaque formation, large increases in the number of microglia, and altered microglia morphology (Wyss-Coray et al., 2001). Reduced Aβ load could be neuron-intrinsic mechanism, as TGF-β1 induces expression of interleukin-like epithelial-mesenchymal transition inducer (ILEI) – a factor that reduces Aβ production and plaque load in mice (Hasegawa et al., 2014). TGF-β also prevents Aβ-induced neuronal cell cycle reactivation and tau hyperphosphorylation (Caraci et al., 2008). TGF-β may indirectly stimulate microglial phagocytosis of Aβ, which happens in cultured cells (Wyss-Coray et al., 2001). In summary, the neuroprotective effects of TGF-β signaling are likely due to a synergistic effect of improved neuron function, reduced the production of inflammatory molecules in the brain and changes in microglia cell state.
Complement Cascade
Complement factors are highly upregulated in the aged brain and in several CNS neurodegenerative diseases (Stephan et al., 2012; Stephan et al., 2013). Increased complement activation and deposition of pathway components has been found in AD (Afagh et al., 1996; Dejanovic et al., 2018; Yasojima et al., 1999; Zanjani et al., 2005), PD (Loeffler et al., 2006; Yamada et al., 1992), glaucoma (Stevens et al., 2007), and many other diseases. Human evidence also points toward complement cascade activation on amyloid plaques and Lewy bodies in these diseases, but recent evidence in animal models indicate that vulnerable synapses are also a target in early disease stages, particularly in models of amyloidosis and tau pathology (Lui et al., 2016).
Activation of the complement pathway triggers a proteolytic cascade leading to deposition (also called opsonization) of activated protein fragments on the surface of cells or structures that need to be removed. The pathway is typically known for opsonizing pathogens and infected cells, but it is also important for removing neural structures in the brain. There are three different complement pathways: the classical cascade, the lectin pathway, and the alternative pathway. The cascade involves more than 30 proteins and the sequence of events have been reviewed in great detail elsewhere (Orsini et al., 2014; Sarma and Ward, 2011). In the developing brain, the classical complement pathway proteins localize to developing axons and synapses during refinement of the visual system, leading to their removal by microglia expressing complement receptor 3 (CR3/CD11b) (Schafer et al., 2012; Stephan et al., 2012; Stevens et al., 2007). Complement-knockout mice display altered synaptic connectivity (Chu et al., 2010).
During early disease onset in mouse models of AD, aberrant upregulation and deposition of complement contributes to synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction largely before widespread protein aggregates form and neuronal death occurs (Figure 3b). For example, excess C1qa is deposited on synapses in the hippocampus of several transgenic mouse models of amyloidosis even before the appearance of plaques (Hong et al., 2016). C1qa is also enriched on postsynaptic dendritic spines in the PS19 (TauP301S) mouse model (Dejanovic et al., 2018) and at synapses in a model of FTD caused by progranulin deficiency (Lui et al., 2016). Elimination of CR3 is sufficient to block synapse loss after systemic injection of oligomeric Aβ, showing that microglial phagocytosis is one of the major causes of complement-mediated synapse loss (Hong et al., 2016). In agreement with these results, ablation of C3a receptor 1 (C3ar1) also rescued synapse loss and neuron death in the PS19 tauopathy model, suggesting that recognition of deposited C3 is a major driver of pathology (Litvinchuk et al., 2018).
Inhibiting the complement pathway is effective for limiting the effects of neurodegeneration-associated pathology. Anti-C1q blocking antibodies prevented synapse loss in PS19 mice (Dejanovic et al., 2018), and synapse loss and cognitive decline in two mouse models of amyloidosis are reversed in C3 KO mice (Maier et al., 2008; Shi et al., 2017). C3-KO/APP-transgenic mice and C3ar1-KO/PS19-transgenic mice also exhibit reduced microglial lysosomal content and astrocyte GFAP levels, indicating a possible role for C3 in modulating immune cell function (Litvinchuk et al., 2018; Shi et al., 2017). Interestingly despite upregulation of complement components, in PD models there appears to be little involvement of the complement system in dopaminergic neuron loss in mouse models of MPTP-toxicity (Depboylu et al., 2011; Liang et al., 2007). Loss of C1q or C3 has no effect on survival of nigrostriatal neurons, but synapse loss has not been examined in these knockout mice and warrants further investigation following MPTP-induced injury and in other PD mouse models.
In addition to binding to synapses, C1q directly binds to protein aggregates in AD, FTD, and PD. C1q binds to Aβ and is localized to plaques in AD patients and in APP mouse models (Afagh et al., 1996; Jiang et al., 1994; Reichwald et al., 2009; Rogers et al., 1992) (Figure 3B). Classical cascade components colocalize with Lewy bodies in PD (Loeffler et al., 2006; Yamada et al., 1992). Aβ is also a potent stimulator of the complement pathway, triggering C1q and C3 upregulation (Hong et al., 2016; Lian et al., 2016). Yet, it is still unclear whether complement tagging reduces plaque load. Genetic loss of C3 or injection of C5ar1 receptor antagonist in APP mice led to increased plaque load (Fonseca et al., 2009; Maier et al., 2008), but no difference was seen in C1qa knockout/APP mice which could indicate a role for the alternative complement or lectin pathway, which do not require C1q.
While Aβ is a potent stimulator of the complement pathway, it is also possible that underlying genetics could modulate pathway activation. A recent study reported that activation of the classical complement cascade is inhibited by ApoE through selective binding to C1q, an interaction that is suppressed in mice expressing the human AD risk allele APOE-ε4 (Yin et al., 2019). Furthermore, C1q-ApoE complexes are found in plaques and the choroid plexus of individuals with AD (Yin et al., 2019) (Bonham et al., 2016). Further studies will be needed to determine the extent to which complement pathway activation is a response to synapse toxicity, amyloid buildup, or cell death and how it acts synergistically with other inflammatory factors to exacerbate disease progression.
Altogether, the complement pathway influences a wide range of phenotypes associated with neurodegeneration by contributing to neuron and synapse loss and modulating glial responses. It is still unclear whether complement plays a primary role in pathology or whether activation of the pathway occurs in response to neuronal dysfunction or buildup of protein aggregates. The recent identification of complement receptor 1 (CR1) as a genetic risk factor AD (Lambert et al., 2009) has provided the first evidence for a primary role in disease, but a lack of evidence demonstrating CR1 expression and function in the brain have limited our understanding of this genetic connection (Johansson et al., 2018).
TREM2 Signaling Network
TREM2 is an extracellular receptor uniquely expressed in cells of the myeloid lineage. TREM2 is highly expressed by osteoclasts in the bone and, within the CNS parenchyma, its expression is unique to microglia (Cella et al., 2003; Heng et al., 2008; Saunders et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2016). It was first cloned in 2000 by Marco Colonna and colleagues (Bouchon et al., 2000) and is part of a series of Trem and Trem-like genes on human chromosome 6 (mouse chr. 17). Shortly after its discovery, a set of homozygous TREM2 loss-of-function variants were found to be one cause of a very rare genetic disorder known as Polycystic Lipomembranous Osteodysplasia with Sclerosing Leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) or Nasu-Hakola Disease (Klünemann et al., 2005; Paloneva et al., 2002). The symptoms of this disease parallel what we now know about the gene expression of TREM2, as PLOSL presented with brain symptoms (as aggressive frontotemporal dementia-like syndrome) and bone-related symptoms (Paloneva et al., 2001). However, PLOSL is extremely rare and only a handful of studies examined TREM2 in AD until 2013. It was then that a pair of reports published back-to-back detailed findings that a rare SNP in TREM2 (resulting in amino acid change R47H) altered AD risk with the highest odds ratio of any AD risk gene outside of APOE (Figure 1) (Guerreiro et al., 2013a; Jonsson et al., 2013). More recent analysis has found an additional SNP variant in TREM2 that also reached statistical significance (R62H; (Sims et al., 2017)), and several other variants are more prevalent in AD patients than controls but have yet to reach significance or be replicated, likely in part due to their scarcity in the population (Carmona et al., 2018). In addition, homozygous TREM2 variants were also found to be potentially casual for a form of FTD (Carmona et al., 2018; Chouery et al., 2008; Guerreiro et al., 2013a), while other variants significantly elevated FTD risk (Carmona et al., 2018; Giraldo et al., 2013). While an initial report suggested an association between TREM2 R47H and Parkinson’s disease (Rayaprolu et al., 2013), a more recent meta-analysis including those original results failed to replicate the findings (Lill et al., 2015). Taken together, these results indicate that altered microglial TREM2 signaling is sufficient to accelerate neurodegeneration or, in the case of homozygous complete LOF variants, are sufficient to cause neurodegeneration.
Current evidence suggests that R47H and R62H are both partial loss of function variants, primarily due to decreased affinity for TREM2 ligands (Kober et al., 2016; Kober and Brett, 2017; Song et al., 2017). While the results from initial studies with crosses of Trem2-KO mice to amyloid mouse models have been slightly controversial with conflicting results, recent studies have found this may have been due to differences in the time points and assays used to assess pathology, the transgenic mouse models used, and differences in the Trem2-KO models (Ulland and Colonna, 2018; Yeh et al., 2017). Early research in the impact of TREM2 on tau pathology has had similar issues. While one report found that Trem2-KO reduced brain atrophy but had no impact on tau pathology when crossed to the PS19 transgenic tau model (Leyns et al., 2017), another report found that a different Trem2-KO mouse crossed with a different tau model exacerbated tau pathology (Bemiller et al., 2017). A third study, again using the PS19 model, found that while homozygous Trem2-KO had slight to no effect on tau pathology. However, they found that haploinsufficiency, which the authors argued better mimics a partial loss of function, increased tau pathology (Sayed et al., 2018). More comprehensive studies at multiple time points in disease pathogenesis will be critical to understanding the functional consequences various risk variants or knockout of TREM2. More information on TREM2 function and dysfunction in AD models and beyond is covered in several excellent reviews including (Ulland and Colonna, 2018; Yeh et al., 2017).
Here we highlight a hypothetical model of potential points of convergence of a number of different AD risk genes with TREM2 signaling as individual results from several studies provide evidence for interactions between TREM2 and other AD risk genes (Figure 4). Much of what is known about intracellular signaling following TREM2 activation comes from research on its adaptor protein binding partner Tyro Protein Kinase Binding Protein (TYROBP, commonly known as DAP12). DAP12 is a promiscuous adaptor protein that binds to a large number of immune receptors including TREM1, SIRPβ, PILRβ, and NKp44 (for in depth review of DAP12 see (Hamerman et al., 2009; Turnbull and Colonna, 2007). TREM2 requires binding to DAP12 in order to function as TREM2 lacks an intracellular signaling domain. To mediate its intracellular signaling, DAP12 contains an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM). Phosphorylation of this domain leads to the recruitment of spleen tyrosine kinase (Syk), which in turn activates PI3K and PLCγ, which activate downstream signaling cascades that include ERK, AKT, NF-κB, and NFAT (Kober and Brett, 2017; McVicar et al., 1998; Mócsai et al., 2006; Mócsai et al., 2010; Peng et al., 2010; Takahashi et al., 2005; Turnbull and Colonna, 2007). A recent report found that a rare variant (P522R) in PLCγ2 is protective in AD patients (Sims et al., 2017). Further mechanistic research is needed to examine whether this protective mechanism is dependent or independent of TREM2, as PLCγ2 activation by Syk is not unique to TREM2.
Activation of TREM2 downstream signaling results in a number of different cellular effector functions including alterations in proliferation, altered survival, cytokine release, phagocytosis, and migration (for review see (Kober and Brett, 2017; Ulland and Colonna, 2018; Yeh et al., 2017)). Exactly how different ligands may activate different downstream aspects of the TREM2 response remains to be elucidated. Current research has identified several potential TREM2 ligands including bacteria (Daws et al., 2003; N'Diaye et al., 2009) anionic lipids (Daws et al., 2003; N'Diaye et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2015), phosphatidyl serine (P/S) (Cannon et al., 2012; Wang et al., 2015), proteins coded for by AD risk genes ApoE, Clusterin (CLU/APOJ) (Atagi et al., 2015; Bailey et al., 2015; Yeh et al., 2016), and potentially Aβ (Zhao et al., 2018). In addition to risk variants which serve as ligands for TREM2 signaling, other risk genes may inhibit TREM2. GWAS risk loci, INPP5D (SHIP1), was shown to inhibit TREM2 signaling via binding to DAP12, preventing recruitment of PI3K (Peng et al., 2010). Additionally, ITAM signaling is classically inhibited by ITIM signaling (immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motif) (Linnartz et al., 2010; Lowell, 2011) and another AD risk gene CD33 codes for an immune cell receptor which contains a classical ITIM domain (Crocker and Varki, 2001; Hollingworth et al., 2011; Naj et al., 2014), and could therefore potentially exert an inhibitory effect on TREM2 signaling. There have been a few studies which have examined potential interactions between CD33 and TREM2; however, much of that work has been done in either monocytes or mouse models, which have important caveats. Mouse Cd33 is not homologous to human CD33, because it lacks the ITIM domain and has differing ligand binding affinities and therefore results from mouse work involving deletion of Cd33 or altered Cd33 gene expression should be interpreted with caution (Brinkman-Van der Linden et al., 2003). Additionally, while the observed monocyte biology may be important to the pathogenesis of AD, there is a real need to study potential TREM2-CD33 interactions in human microglia, using either primary or iPSC-derived cells to better understand how these two risk factors may interact with a more physiologically-relevant cell type.
Degeneration of neurons, axons and synapses are hallmarks of neurodegenerative disease. As the resident innate immune cell and phagocytes in the brain, microglia are responsible for sensing and clearing dead or dying cells and debris. One mechanism by which microglia sense neuronal damage is binding to exposed P/S, which flips to the extracellular side of neuronal membranes during apoptosis and damage. Blocking P/S with AnnexinV decreases microglial phagocytosis of damaged neurons (Krasemann et al., 2017). Several receptors have been found to directly bind P/S, including TIM4, BAI1, and TREM2 (Cannon et al., 2012; Miyanishi et al., 2007; Park et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2015), as well as other which bind P/S via indirect mechanisms to other receptors including MERTK and AXL (Grommes et al., 2008; Meyer et al., 2015). Of all of the proposed receptors, TREM2 exhibits the highest gene expression in microglia (Hammond et al., 2019; Zhang et al., 2016) and TREM2 recognition of exposed P/S on damaged neurons fits with the idea that TREM2, among other receptors on microglia, function as damage sensors that are activated by neurodegeneration. In line with the model of TREM2 as a sensor is the consistent finding that in amyloid mouse models crossed to Trem2-KO mice microglia no longer cluster in close proximity to amyloid plaques (Jay et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2015; Yuan et al., 2016). Recent evidence has also found that human AD patients carrying AD risk variants in TREM2 also exhibit a decrease in microglia association with plaque pathology (Parhizkar et al., 2019; Yuan et al., 2016). However, the question remains as to what exactly TREM2 is sensing in or around the plaques that mediates microglial migration. It is possible that microglia are detecting ApoE or Clusterin, which have both been found to associate with Aβ and are found within plaques in human AD patients and mouse models (Calero et al., 2000; Holtzman, 2004; Namba et al., 1991).
In the case of ApoE, new data implies that ApoE observed in plaques may actually be the result of microglial TREM2 activation. Microglia in an AD mouse massively upregulate Apoe in response to amyloid (Keren-Shaul et al., 2017), and both Trem2-KO and a loss-of-function TREM2 variant from FTD (T66M) both dramatically reduce plaque-associated ApoE in a mouse model (Parhizkar et al., 2019). Thus, a potential cycle involves initial microglial reaction, which results in upregulation and secretion of ApoE, leading to altered amyloid deposition with ApoE incorporated into the plaque, which binds to TREM2 and continues the cycle. This potential cycle is supported by work demonstrating that APP/PS1 mice crossed to Apoe-KO mice have significant reductions in the number of plaque-associated microglia (Ulrich et al., 2018). Furthermore, treatment of an AD mouse model with antibody specifically against non-lipidated ApoE (including that found in plaques) reduced amyloid deposition (Liao et al., 2018).
One aspect of TREM2 signaling that needs further examination is the importance of soluble TREM2 (sTREM2) and TREM2 C-terminal fragments (CTFs). sTREM2 is generated through alpha secretase cleavage of the extracellular domain at histidine 157 by ADAM10/17 (Schlepckow et al., 2017; Thornton et al., 2017). This cleavage site on TREM2 is also the site of an AD risk SNP in the Han Chinese population (Jiang et al., 2014). Alpha-secretase cleavage is also a critical part of the amyloid processing pathway of APP, and both rare and common variants in ADAM10 and ADAM17 have been found to increase AD risk (Hartl et al., 2018; Kim et al., 2009; Kunkle et al., 2019). The TREM2 H157Y variants is thought to result in loss of function of TREM2 via increased cleavage of TREM2 into sTREM2 (Schlepckow et al., 2017; Thornton et al., 2017). However, what function sTREM2 might exert after cleavage is currently unknown. One recent report in humanized TREM2 mice crossed to an AD model found that, in the presence of AD pathology, human sTREM2 binds to the surface of neurons in both the cortex and hippocampus and that mice carrying human TREM2 with the R47H variant exhibited decreased neuronal associated sTREM2 (Song et al., 2018). Although this finding will need further validation and research into what the functional role of such binding to neurons may be, it is intriguing. Others have found that sTREM2 induces inflammatory response in microglia and therefore may be acting as part of a feedback mechanism (Zhong et al., 2017). Finally, several groups are studying the applicability of sTREM2 as a biomarker in various neurodegenerative disorders (Piccio et al., 2008; Piccio et al., 2016; Suárez-Calvet et al., 2016; Suárez-Calvet et al., 2019; Woollacott et al., 2018), but it is still unclear whether the sTREM2 in CSF has any active biological function or whether it is simply being cleared from the brain. While most of the research has focused on sTREM2 following cleavage, more work is needed to understand the impact of TREM2 CTF and CTF cleavage. The TREM2 CTF that remains after alpha-secretase cleavage is still bound to DAP12 and is subsequently cleaved by γ-secretase (Wunderlich et al., 2013). Two of the components of the γ-secretase enzyme complex are presenilin-1 and presenilin-2, mutations in which cause early-onset familial AD (Selkoe 2001; Tanzi, 2012). Those mutations have been shown to modulate γ-secretase’s cleavage of APP, but it is unknown whether those variants may also affect γ-secretase cleavage of TREM2. In vitro research has found that γ-secretase cleavage of TREM2 is critical, as inhibition of γ-secretase resulted in loss of downstream TREM2 signaling (Glebov et al., 2016) and that overexpression of TREM2 CTFs resulted in decreased response to lipopolysaccharide exposure (Zhong et al., 2015). This research will need further validation in more physiologically relevant human cells and in vivo mouse models and adds another layer to the complexities of TREM2 signaling. Collectively, this recent work provides intriguing links between TREM2 and other AD-associated risk genes and suggests that part of the risk conferred by other AD variants may be due to their modulation of TREM2 signaling.
Concluding Remarks
Due to widespread alterations in neuroimmune signaling during neurodegenerative disease, it is likely that components of specific immune pathways could be used to track or limit disease progression. Analysis of TGF-β, complement, sTREM2, and other immune signals in the CSF of patients has already yielded informative results about the extent of immune-related changes at each disease stage. As we gain more insight into the cellular players and mechanisms that contribute to pathology, a new suite of important pathways and targets will undoubtedly emerge. This process has been accelerated by recent advancements in genomic analysis and tools like single-cell RNA-seq, which are being used to investigate “normal” and pathological microglia subpopulations in disease (some recent examples include (Hammond et al., 2019; Keren-Shaul et al., 2017; Mathys et al., 2017). These new datasets are providing important insights into microglial phenotypes during normal development and within amyloid mouse models. However, similar analyses need to be undertaken in animal models of other neurodegenerative diseases. It is also important for single-nucleus RNA-seq studies to be performed on human samples to assess both patient variability and differences between mouse models and human disease states. Finally, advances in single cell and bulk-epigenetic analyses will also enable better exploration of the role of disease risk variants in which occur in non-coding regions and decode potential cell-type specific promoters or enhancers (Gosselin et al., 2017).
While single-cell analysis is useful for static measurements of inflammatory states, we also need better ways to track inflammatory cell states in real-time in live animals and human patients with approaches like PET imaging. The most common PET ligand used to track altered immune cell function binds to translocator protein (TSPO), but is not specific to any cell type and cannot distinguish between beneficial and pathological inflammatory events (Notter et al., 2018). Development of new biomarkers that distinguish between different subpopulations of microglia, astrocytes, and immune cells will give real-time insight into the progression of disease, revealing the location of plaques, foci of dying neurons, and other pathologies. The recent discovery that factors from the brain drain into the lymphatic system suggests that changes in the brain-immune signaling environment could be tracked less invasively (Da Mesquita et al., 2018; Louveau et al., 2015). Many groups are currently examining a variety of potentially immune-related biomarkers, including sTREM2, YKL-40, complement, and IP-10 in CSF to determine whether they correlate with diagnosis and/or disease progression (For recent review on biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases see (Magdalinou et al., 2014; Molinuevo et al., 2018; Zetterberg et al., 2019)). While some of these markers are showing promise in regards to their correlation with diagnosis/disease states, more research will be required to understand how immune signaling leads to alterations in biomarker concentrations in CSF and whether those molecules in the CSF still play a biologically active role in disease-related immune signaling.
Targeting immune signaling pathways to limit neurodegenerative disease progression should also be a major research focus moving forward. Given the conserved disease mechanisms of the immune system across of neurodegenerative disease, dedicating resources to identifying and targeting key triggers of immune dysfunction and pathological functions of immune cells, including phagocytosis and synaptic pruning, will be important. However, it is still unclear whether targeting pathways like TGF-β, complement, and TREM2 will be effective, and caution must be taken in modulating critical systems involved in the function of the immune system outside the brain.
Much of the functional work in the field, including those we highlighted in this Review, have been performed using rodent models or cells, thus there is need to examine these aspects using more physiologically relevant human cells and chimeric humanized models. Recent advances in the ability to generate microglia-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) offer a novel tool for the assessment of altered immune signaling and function in cells derived from patients with and without specific disease variants. Issues generating microglia and maintaining them in a state that resembles their in vivo form have plagued the field, but with the creation of fully-defined media and stepwise differentiation protocols that mimic the in vivo microglia development, the field now has more relevant tools to examine human microglial function (Abud et al., 2017). Importantly, combining iPSC microglia into complex cultures with other brain cell types, 3D brain organoids, and humanized chimeric mouse models will allow for the dissection of complex cell interactions that are not observed in monoculture conditions (Abud et al., 2017; Mancuso et al., 2019). However, caution should be used in both the design and interpretation of these experiments making sure to use iPSCs from many different patients while accounting for human genetic variation that could skew results. Ultimately, these models will never completely recapitulate the in vivo setting but allow a closer examination of human disease mechanisms.
One idea that has gained traction in the past few decades is the use of immunotherapy: harnessing the immune system to clear protein aggregates and remove neurotoxic stimuli. Several immunotherapy phase 3 trials have been completed in AD, all ending in failure. However, the failure was based on not meeting the primary endpoint of improved cognition. Biomarker data emerging from some of these trials has shown that treatments appeared to lower brain amyloid levels (Liu et al., 2015). The failure to improve cognition likely represents the fact that amyloid is thought to be the initiating factor in the disease and therefore, the downstream neurotoxic processes might have been too far along by the time the trials were conducted (Jack et al., 2013). New trials with more promising antibodies are currently being run with patients at the earliest signs of memory loss, with the hope that earlier treatment will slow cognitive decline (Sevigny et al., 2016). Additionally, prevention trials, such as the A4 trial and those using familial AD cohorts, will also provide valuable data on the timing necessary for anti-amyloid therapies to potentially impact cognition (Sperling et al., 2014). In addition to amyloid, several preclinical and clinical trials are currently underway with immunotherapies targeting a range of other pathogenic protein aggregates including tau and α-synuclein (Brys et al., 2018; Qureshi et al., 2018; Schenk et al., 2017; Weihofen et al., 2019). Only time will tell if any of these approaches is sufficient to improve cognition, but results indicate that, when properly targeted or activated, the immune system is capable of clearing these neurotoxic aggregates. However, how antibodies exert their function to clear protein aggregates in neurodegenerative diseases still requires further research to understand the mechanisms and signaling pathways involved. Some AD immunotherapies have been found to be dependent on standard Fc receptor-based mechanisms (Bard et al., 2000; Koenigsknecht-Talboo et al., 2008; Liao et al., 2018), whereas other AD immunotherapies have shown ability to clear their protein targets independent of the Fc receptor (Bacskai et al., 2002; Das et al., 2003; Lee et al., 2016). Furthermore, both ApoE isoform and TREM2 function have been found to modulate the efficacy of anti-amyloid immunotherapy (Pankiewicz et al., 2017; Xiang et al., 2016). These results likely mean that a combination of both the correct protein target (or correct conformation of the protein), along with optimization of other properties of the antibody, are required both for the correct signaling pathways to be activated and the therapy to be truly effective. Furthermore, timing of potential immune-based treatments may be critical; a therapy that improves disease pathology at one stage may exacerbate disease at another. Striking a balance between maintaining the beneficial functions of these pathways (i.e., removing protein aggregates), while preventing the pathological ones (i.e., depletion of synapses) will also be tricky.
Taken together, the immune system is front and center in the fight against neurodegenerative disease. Dissecting these signaling circuits in health and disease contexts will take time to fully understand. What is clear is that disease progression and outcome are driven by a complex interplay between dysfunctional neurons and signals from microglia and the periphery and a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary effort is needed to move this research forward in the field.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by: Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (B.S.), NIH/NIA 1RF1AG051496 (B.S.), and NICHD U54HD090255 (B.S.).
We wish to thank Christina Usher for her helpful feedback and editing. We also wish to thank the authors of the following papers for their commitment to open science for their creation of a series of excellent online databases which were extremely helpful in examination of immune cell enrichment for novel genes/loci: Dropviz.org (Saunders et al., 2018); Microgliasinglecell.com (Hammond et al., 2019); Brainrnaseq.org (Bennett et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016); Immgen.org (Immunological Genome Project; (Heng et al., 2008)); gtexportal.org (Gene-Tissue Expression Project; Gtex 2013).
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project was supported by the Common Fund of the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and by NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMH, and NINDS. The data used in reference to tissue gene expression enrichment in this manuscript were obtained from: GTEx Gene Expression Portal on 02/05/19 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/study.cgi?study_id=phs000424.v7.p2
Footnotes
Conflicts of Interest:
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B.S. is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and minor shareholder in Annexon Biosciences. B.S. is an inventor on multiple patents: “Modulation of Synaptic Maintenance” (US8148330B2, US9149444B2) and is inventor on pending patent “Biomarkers for dementia and dementia related neurological disorders” (WO2015103594A1/US20160327572A1). T.R.H. & S.E.M. have no interests to declare.
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