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[201120 Àú³Î¹ßÇ¥] Pharmacological targeting of MCL-1 promotes mitophagy and improves disease pathologies in an Alzheimer¡¯s disease mouse model

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Pharmacological targeting of MCL-1 promotes mitophagy and improves disease pathologies in an Alzheimer¡¯s disease mouse model

Abstract

There is increasing evidence that inducing neuronal mitophagy can be used as a therapeutic intervention for Alzheimer¡¯s disease. Here, we screen a library of 2024 FDA-approved drugs or drug candidates, revealing UMI-77 as an unexpected mitophagy activator. UMI-77 is an established BH3-mimetic for MCL-1 and was developed to induce apoptosis in cancer cells. We found that at sub-lethal doses, UMI-77 potently induces mitophagy, independent of apoptosis. Our mechanistic studies discovered that MCL-1 is a mitophagy receptor and directly binds to LC3A. Finally, we found that UMI-77 can induce mitophagy in vivo and that it effectively reverses molecular and behavioral phenotypes in the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer¡¯s disease. Our findings shed light on the mechanisms of mitophagy, reveal that MCL-1 is a mitophagy receptor that can be targeted to induce mitophagy, and identify MCL-1 as a drug target for therapeutic intervention in Alzheimer¡¯s disease.




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