Alzheimer's disease is thought to occur when amyloid β protein accumulates in the brain, causing damage to the cranial nerves. It is difficult to accurately measure very small concentrations, about 1/50 of the cerebrospinal fluid, and blood Aβ with conventional techniques, and amyloid β begins to accumulate in the brain about 20 years before the onset of impossibility. It seems. Therefore, it is important to notice and prevent at the stage of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Subjective Cognitive Decline. One of the causative factors of Alzheimer's disease in collaboration with the National Research and Development Corporation, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Biomedical Research Division, Brain Genetics Research Group, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Advanced Life Sciences, and Juntendo University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology. Developed a technology to visualize the dynamics of a certain amyloid β (Aβ) protein in living nerve cells and in vivo. This technology is expected to contribute to the screening of candidate substances for Alzheimer's disease therapeutic agents using cultured cells and living individuals, and to the elucidation of the onset mechanism of Alzheimer's disease. Details of this achievement were published in Scientific Reports (Sci. Rep. Nature Research) magazine (electronic version, open access) on March 16, 2016. Aβ polymerizes easily, and it further aggregates to form large aggregates. It seems that the protein (Aβ-GFP), which is a fusion of Aβ and the fluorescent protein GFP, is presumed to inhibit the fluorescence of GFP by the polymerization of Aβ. Therefore, even if it is expressed in vivo, fluorescence is not observed when Aβ is polymerized, and it seems that it has been difficult to visualize the localization and dynamics of Aβ so far. Amino acid sequence linking Aβ and GFP (human insulin: In 1953, British chemist Frederick Sanger gave the 51 amino acid sequence of insulin (a hormone required for the use of glucose, etc.), which is a hormone secreted from the bovine pancreas. Prove by determination. Start with the short-chain primer binding next to the measurement region. In the presence of four types of nucleotides, the polymerase enzyme binds the complementary nucleotides of the template DNA to the primer and extends. The intention to determine the exact DNA sequence is to stop this reaction prematurely and identify the last base at which extension has stopped, but Frederick Sanger removes the oxygen atom from the ribonucleotide to cause the extension reaction. This is called a dideoxynucleotide, and when it is taken in instead of a ribonucleotide, it seems to act to stop the elongation reaction, as if throwing a wrench into a gear to stop the movement. Polymerizer (The information of the protein written in DNA is once transcribed into mRNA and then translated into amino acids by ribosome to form a protein. RNA polymerase is used to transfer DNA to mRNA. Gene DNA is used as a template for RNA. The four nucleosides (A: adenosine, U: uridine, G: guanosine, C: citidine) that form the basis of the amino acid are polymerized to synthesize mRNA.) The enzyme will not be able to add normal nucleotides to the DNA fragment in the future. In order to stop the elongation reaction and identify what the last base is, it seems that the dideoxynucleotides are labeled with a specific color of 4 for each base so that they can be identified. In the Frederick Sanger sequence, the 3'end. By devising a reaction product of various lengths that differs by one base, which ends with dideoxynucleotide, we have developed a fusion protein that allows observation of GFP fluorescence regardless of the polymerization state of Aβ. It also appears that this fusion protein forms a highly toxic Aβ oligomer that is involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Diagnostic imaging methods such as PIB-PET (PET examination using PIB (Pittsburgh compound-B) as a ligand that can image amyloid accumulated in the brain) are effective, but Aβ oligomers and tau oligomers should be targeted. It seems that it is not an amyloid plaque or a neurofibrillary tangle. In addition, Alzheimer's disease is said to be the most common type of dementia, and I hear that it is more common in women than in men. In addition, while the number of patients with cerebrovascular dementia is flat, it seems that there is a tendency for it to increase. Dementia is thought to occur when the neural network of the brain is destroyed. Nerve networks consist of nerve cells exchanging information via neurotransmitters, and the junction between nerve cells where this information is exchanged is called a synapse. Impaired work seems to affect learning and memory. When not only the synaptic site but also the nerve cells themselves are damaged, causing cell death and starting to drop out, it seems that they become aware of forgetfulness (mild cognitive impairment). Eventually, when so many nerve cells are lost that the brain atrophies, it interferes with normal life and is diagnosed with dementia. In other words, many nerve cells have already died by the time dementia is diagnosed. And the dead nerve cells do not return to their original state and become the glory of the past. It is important to detect abnormalities before nerve cells begin to die and to start preventive treatment at an early stage.
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