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PrP<sup>C</sup>-facilitated cell signaling activates phospholipase Cɣ1 and triggers an Arc/Arg3.1 response in mouse and iPSC-derived human neurons.

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Authors: Daniel Ojeda-Juarez1, Gail Funk1, Daniel B. McClatchy2, Emily Richards1, Alexander J. Rajic1, Katrin Soldau1, Michael D. Geschwind3, Xu Chen4, John R. Yates III2, Steven L. Gonias1, Christina J. Sigurdson1,5
  1. Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
  2. Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  3. Department of Neurology, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
  4. Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
  5. Department of Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Journal: Stem cell reports, volume 21, issue 6, article 102924
Dates: received 12 September 2025; accepted 15 April 2026; published online 14 May 2026; in print June 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924 · PMID 42140197 · PMCID PMC13261956 · OpenAlex W7161275868
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code on request
Categories: genetics / omics (modality), human (organism), mouse (organism), other condition (population), Alzheimer's / dementia (population), cellular / molecular (subfield)
Methods: Preprocessing, Spectral & time-frequency, Statistics, Connectivity
Keywords: protein misfolding, Alzheimer’s disease, proteomics, neurodegeneration, prion disease, amyloid, Ca2+ signaling, EGFR, PLC-γ1, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
MeSH: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells*, Nerve Tissue Proteins*, Neurons*, Phospholipase C gamma*, PrPC Proteins*, Signal Transduction*, Animals, Humans, Mice, Phosphorylation, Prion Diseases (* major topic)
Topic: Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology), according to OpenAlex
Funding: NIH (NS069566, NS076896, NS2033955, NS105498, 5T32AG066596, S10OD026929); UC San Diego IGM Genomics Center (NS136112, AG062429, 5R01MH100175-11); UC San Diego Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (R01 AG031189, R56 AG055619, R01 AG062562, 1R01AG075862-03, R01 AG077046-03)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 100 references in the paper
Research resources: anti-PLC-γ1 RRID:AB_10691383, anti-GAPDH-HRP; Clone: GT239 RRID:AB_11174761, RRID:AB_2096270, anti-Arc/Arg3.1 RRID:AB_2151832, RRID:AB_2269803, RRID:AB_2315112, anti-phosphorylated PLC-γ1-Y783 RRID:AB_2728690, anti-EGFR; Clone: D1D4J RRID:AB_2799458, anti-p70 S6K RRID:AB_331676, anti-ERK1/2 RRID:AB_390779, Mouse: C57BL/6J RRID:IMSR_JAX:000664

Abstract

Synapse loss is an early feature of prion disease, yet the underlying drivers are poorly understood. We recently found evidence of neuronal hyperactivity and synaptic loss in prion-infected mice. Herein, we identified increased Arc/Arg3.1 in patients with prion disease, suggesting heightened neuronal activity also occurs in the human prion-affected brain. To determine the signaling events initiated by prion aggregates (PrPSc), we developed a disease model in which human iPSC-derived excitatory neurons are stimulated with a PrPSc-mimetic antibody, POM1, that binds cellular prion protein (PrPC). Within 2 h of POM1 exposure, we detected an Arc/Arg3.1 response together with transcriptomic changes previously reported in prion-infected mice. We identified altered phosphorylation of PLC-γ1, ERK1/2, and EGFR as additional PrPC-triggered cell signaling events. These results suggest that PrPC ligands, including PrPSc, trigger rapid signaling events linked to neuronal hyperactivity in human neurons, and indicate PLC-γ1 as a potential therapeutic target.

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Ojeda-Juarez, D., Funk, G., McClatchy, D. B., Richards, E., Rajic, A. J., Soldau, K., Geschwind, M. D., Chen, X., Yates, J. R., Gonias, S. L., & Sigurdson, C. J. (2026). PrP<sup>C</sup>-facilitated cell signaling activates phospholipase Cɣ1 and triggers an Arc/Arg3.1 response in mouse and iPSC-derived human neurons. Stem cell reports, 21(6), 102924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924

BibTeX

@article{ojedajuarez2026prp,
author = {Ojeda-Juarez, Daniel and Funk, Gail and McClatchy, Daniel B. and Richards, Emily and Rajic, Alexander J. and Soldau, Katrin and Geschwind, Michael D. and Chen, Xu and Yates, John R. and Gonias, Steven L. and Sigurdson, Christina J.},
title = {{PrP\<sup\>C\</sup\>-facilitated cell signaling activates phospholipase Cɣ1 and triggers an Arc/Arg3.1 response in mouse and iPSC-derived human neurons}},
journal = {Stem cell reports},
year = {2026},
month = may,
volume = {21},
number = {6},
pages = {102924},
publisher = {Elsevier},
issn = {2213-6711},
doi = {10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924},
pmid = {42140197},
pmcid = {PMC13261956}
}

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AU - Ojeda-Juarez, Daniel
AU - Funk, Gail
AU - McClatchy, Daniel B.
AU - Richards, Emily
AU - Rajic, Alexander J.
AU - Soldau, Katrin
AU - Geschwind, Michael D.
AU - Chen, Xu
AU - Yates, John R.
AU - Gonias, Steven L.
AU - Sigurdson, Christina J.
TI - PrP<sup>C</sup>-facilitated cell signaling activates phospholipase Cɣ1 and triggers an Arc/Arg3.1 response in mouse and iPSC-derived human neurons
T2 - Stem cell reports
J2 - Stem Cell Reports
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/05/14
VL - 21
IS - 6
SP - 102924
SN - 2213-6711
PB - Elsevier
DO - 10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stemcr.2026.102924
LA - en
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