Author:
Sim Kyu-Young,Byeon Yeongseon,Bae So-Eun,Yang Taewoo,Lee Cho-Rong,Park Sung-Gyoo
Abstract
AbstractMycoplasma fermentans is a proposed risk factor of several neurological diseases that has been detected in necrotic brain lesions of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients, implying brain invasiveness. However, the pathogenic roles of M. fermentans in neuronal cells have not been investigated. In this study, we found that M. fermentans can infect and replicate in human neuronal cells, inducing necrotic cell death. Necrotic neuronal cell death was accompanied by intracellular amyloid-β (1–42) deposition, and targeted depletion of amyloid precursor protein by a short hairpin RNA (shRNA) abolished necrotic neuronal cell death. Differential gene expression analysis by RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) showed that interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) was dramatically upregulated by M. fermentans infection, and knockdown of IFITM3 abolished both amyloid-β (1–42) deposition and necrotic cell death. A toll-like receptor 4 antagonist inhibited M. fermentans infection-mediated IFITM3 upregulation. M. fermentans infection also induced necrotic neuronal cell death in the brain organoid. Thus, neuronal cell infection by M. fermentans directly induces necrotic cell death through IFITM3-mediated amyloid-β deposition. Our results suggest that M. fermentans is involved in neurological disease development and progression through necrotic neuronal cell death.
Funder
Ministry of Health & Welfare
National Research Foundation of Korea,South Korea
National Research Foundation of Korea
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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