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SORLA up-regulation suppresses pathological effects in aged tauopathy mouse brain.

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Authors: Huijie Huang1, Christina Huan Shi2, Wenqi Yang1, Juan C Piña-Crespo1, Jay Bhatnagar1, Julian Curatolo1, Rabi Murad3, Palak Shah1, Alex Campos4, Alexandra Houser1, Rebecca A Porritt5, Giau Van Vo1, Qiang Xiao6,7, Tongmei Zhang1, Shengjie Feng1, Kevin Y Yip1,2,8, Timothy Y Huang1
  1. Center for Neurologic Diseases, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  2. Center for Data Sciences, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  3. Bioinformatics Shared Resource, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  4. Proteomics Core Facility, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  5. NCI-designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  6. Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  7. The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
  8. Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program, NCI-Designated Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Journal: Science advances, volume 12, issue 29, article eaed6825
Dates: received 6 November 2025; accepted 10 June 2026; published online 17 July 2026; in print July 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aed6825 · PMID 42467771 · PMCID PMC13378584 · OpenAlex W7169493356
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: genetics / omics (modality), human (organism), mouse (organism), Alzheimer's / dementia (population), cellular / molecular (subfield)
Methods: Statistics, Smoothing, state filtering, decompositions, Preprocessing, fMRI & imaging
MeSH: Aging*, Brain*, LDL-Receptor Related Proteins*, Membrane Transport Proteins*, Tauopathies*, Up-Regulation*, Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Hippocampus, Humans, Long-Term Potentiation, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Neuroglia, Receptors, LDL, Synapses, tau Proteins (* major topic)
Topic: Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (Physiology, Medicine), according to OpenAlex
Funding: NIH HHS (S10 OD030285, S10 OD026929); NCI NIH HHS (P30 CA030199); National Institute of Health (RF1 AG070391, R01 AG061875, R01 AG085498); NIA NIH HHS (RF1 AG070391, R01 AG061875, R01 AG085498); National Institutes of Health (S10 OD026929, SBP S10 OD030285); Sanford Burnham Prebys (P30 CA030199)
Citations: not cited yet (Europe PMC); 119 references in the paper

Abstract

A role for the trafficking receptor SORLA (Sortilin-related receptor containing LDLR class A repeats) in reducing Aβ levels has been well established; however, relatively little is known with respect to whether and how SORLA can potentially affect tau pathology in vivo. Here, we show that transgenic SORLA up-regulation (SORLA TG) can attenuate pathological effects in aged PS19 (P301S tau) mouse brain, including tau phosphorylation and seeding, ventricle dilation, synapse loss, long-term potentiation (LTP) impairment, and glial hyperactivation. Proteomic analysis indicates attenuation of PS19 profiles in PS19/SORLA TG hippocampus, including pathological changes in synapse-related proteins and key drivers of synaptic dysfunction such as ApoE and C1q. Single-nucleus RNA sequencing analysis reveals suppression of PS19 signatures with SORLA up-regulation and identifies a previously unrecognized involvement of Sema4D-PlexinB1/B2 signaling in glial pathology. In contrast, SORLA deletion exacerbates tau seeding and aggregation, glial hyperactivation, and PlxnB1/B2 induction in PS19 hippocampus. These results indicate that SORLA confers neuroprotection against tau toxicity in the PS19 mouse brain.

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Data, code, and materials availability

All data and code needed to evaluate and reproduce the results in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. All sequencing data (snRNA-seq and GeoMx) described in this study have been deposited in the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) under SuperSeries accession number GSE278216 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278216) (https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278216): The GeoMx dataset has been assigned the accession no. GSE278067 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278067) (https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278067), and the snRNA-seq dataset has been assigned the accession no. GSE278215 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278215) (https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278215 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278215)https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE278215). Proteomics raw and search data included in this study are deposited in the ProteomeXchange database under the project accession no. PXD056276 (https://ebi.ac.uk/pride/archive/projects/PXD056276). Published databases used in this manuscript are as follows: Human ROSMAP snRNA-seq (77), https://synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn18485175 (requires access permissions from synapse.org); cell type–specific proteomics data (31), ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE partner repository PRIDE: PXD044093; Thy-tau22 mouse hippocampus (bulk RNA-seq) (78), GEO: GSE142267 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE142267); and Human CCI database (v5.0.0) (118), https://github.com/ventolab/CellphoneDB-data. SORLA TG and SORLA KO mice were originally generated by T. Willnow (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) and were provided to H. Xu and T. Huang (Sanford Burnham Prebys) under VMTA14086 and SBP MTA 25-045. SORLA TG and KO mouse lines can be provided by T. Huang or T. Willnow pending scientific review and a completed material transfer agreement through SBP Medical Discovery Institute and/or Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine. Requests for SORLA TG or KO mouse lines should be submitted to: . This study did not generate new materials.

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Huang, H., Shi, C. H., Yang, W., Piña-Crespo, J. C., Bhatnagar, J., Curatolo, J., Murad, R., Shah, P., Campos, A., Houser, A., Porritt, R. A., Van Vo, G., Xiao, Q., Zhang, T., Feng, S., Yip, K. Y., & Huang, T. Y. (2026). SORLA up-regulation suppresses pathological effects in aged tauopathy mouse brain. Science advances, 12(29), eaed6825. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed6825

BibTeX

@article{huang2026sorla,
author = {Huang, Huijie and Shi, Christina Huan and Yang, Wenqi and Piña-Crespo, Juan C and Bhatnagar, Jay and Curatolo, Julian and Murad, Rabi and Shah, Palak and Campos, Alex and Houser, Alexandra and Porritt, Rebecca A and Van Vo, Giau and Xiao, Qiang and Zhang, Tongmei and Feng, Shengjie and Yip, Kevin Y and Huang, Timothy Y},
title = {{SORLA up-regulation suppresses pathological effects in aged tauopathy mouse brain}},
journal = {Science advances},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
volume = {12},
number = {29},
pages = {eaed6825},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
issn = {2375-2548},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aed6825},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed6825},
pmid = {42467771},
pmcid = {PMC13378584}
}

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AU - Huang, Huijie
AU - Shi, Christina Huan
AU - Yang, Wenqi
AU - Piña-Crespo, Juan C
AU - Bhatnagar, Jay
AU - Curatolo, Julian
AU - Murad, Rabi
AU - Shah, Palak
AU - Campos, Alex
AU - Houser, Alexandra
AU - Porritt, Rebecca A
AU - Van Vo, Giau
AU - Xiao, Qiang
AU - Zhang, Tongmei
AU - Feng, Shengjie
AU - Yip, Kevin Y
AU - Huang, Timothy Y
TI - SORLA up-regulation suppresses pathological effects in aged tauopathy mouse brain
T2 - Science advances
J2 - Sci Adv
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/17
VL - 12
IS - 29
SP - eaed6825
SN - 2375-2548
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aed6825
UR - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aed6825
LA - en
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