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  1. Article ; Online: Cholinergic blockade of neuroinflammation: from tissue to RNA regulators.

    Zorbaz, Tamara / Madrer, Nimrod / Soreq, Hermona

    Neuronal signaling

    2022  Volume 6, Issue 1, Page(s) NS20210035

    Abstract: Inflammatory stimuli and consequent pro-inflammatory immune responses may facilitate neurodegeneration and threaten survival following pathogen infection or trauma, but potential controllers preventing these risks are incompletely understood. Here, we ... ...

    Abstract Inflammatory stimuli and consequent pro-inflammatory immune responses may facilitate neurodegeneration and threaten survival following pathogen infection or trauma, but potential controllers preventing these risks are incompletely understood. Here, we argue that small RNA regulators of acetylcholine (ACh) signaling, including microRNAs (miRs) and transfer RNA fragments (tRFs) may tilt the balance between innate and adaptive immunity, avoid chronic inflammation and prevent the neuroinflammation-mediated exacerbation of many neurological diseases. While the restrictive permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) protects the brain from peripheral immune events, this barrier can be disrupted by inflammation and is weakened with age. The consequently dysregulated balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory processes may modify the immune activities of brain microglia, astrocytes, perivascular macrophages, oligodendrocytes and dendritic cells, leading to neuronal damage. Notably, the vagus nerve mediates the peripheral cholinergic anti-inflammatory reflex and underlines the consistent control of body-brain inflammation by pro-inflammatory cytokines, which affect cholinergic functions; therefore, the disruption of this reflex can exacerbate cognitive impairments such as attention deficits and delirium. RNA regulators can contribute to re-balancing the cholinergic network and avoiding its chronic deterioration, and their activities may differ between men and women and/or wear off with age. This can lead to hypersensitivity of aged patients to inflammation and higher risks of neuroinflammation-driven cholinergic impairments such as delirium and dementia following COVID-19 infection. The age- and sex-driven differences in post-transcriptional RNA regulators of cholinergic elements may hence indicate new personalized therapeutic options for neuroinflammatory diseases.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 2059-6553
    ISSN (online) 2059-6553
    DOI 10.1042/NS20210035
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  2. Article ; Online: Cytotoxicity-related effects of imidazolium and chlorinated bispyridinium oximes in SH-SY5Y cells.

    Zandona, Antonio / Zorbaz, Tamara / Miš, Katarina / Pirkmajer, Sergej / Katalinić, Maja

    Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju

    2022  Volume 73, Issue 4, Page(s) 277–284

    Abstract: Current research has shown that several imidazolium and chlorinated bispyridinium oximes are cytotoxic and activate different mechanisms or types of cell death. To investigate this further, we analysed interactions between these oximes and acetylcholine ... ...

    Abstract Current research has shown that several imidazolium and chlorinated bispyridinium oximes are cytotoxic and activate different mechanisms or types of cell death. To investigate this further, we analysed interactions between these oximes and acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) and how they affect several signalling pathways to find a relation between the observed toxicities and their effects on these specific targets. Chlorinated bispyridinium oximes caused time-dependent cytotoxicity by inhibiting the phosphorylation of STAT3 and AMPK without decreasing ATP and activated ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK signal cascades. Imidazolium oximes induced a time-independent and significant decrease in ATP and inhibition of the ERK1/2 signalling pathway along with phosphorylation of p38 MAPK, AMPK, and ACC. These pathways are usually triggered by a change in cellular energy status or by external signals, which suggests that oximes interact with some membrane receptors. Interestingly,
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Oximes/pharmacology ; Antidotes/pharmacology ; AMP-Activated Protein Kinases ; Pyridinium Compounds/toxicity ; Neuroblastoma ; p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ; Adenosine Triphosphate ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/toxicity ; Cholinesterase Reactivators/pharmacology ; Acetylcholinesterase/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Oximes ; Antidotes ; AMP-Activated Protein Kinases (EC 2.7.11.31) ; Pyridinium Compounds ; p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases (EC 2.7.11.24) ; Adenosine Triphosphate (8L70Q75FXE) ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors ; Cholinesterase Reactivators ; Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-30
    Publishing country Croatia
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 127289-5
    ISSN 1848-6312 ; 0004-1254
    ISSN (online) 1848-6312
    ISSN 0004-1254
    DOI 10.2478/aiht-2022-73-3688
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  3. Article: Altered levels of variant cholinesterase transcripts contribute to the imbalanced cholinergic signaling in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

    Gok, Muslum / Madrer, Nimrod / Zorbaz, Tamara / Bennett, Estelle R / Greenberg, David / Bennett, David A / Soreq, Hermona

    Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

    2022  Volume 15, Page(s) 941467

    Abstract: Acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase (AChE and BChE) are involved in modulating cholinergic signaling, but their roles in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (AD and PD) remain unclear. We identified a higher frequency of the functionally ... ...

    Abstract Acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase (AChE and BChE) are involved in modulating cholinergic signaling, but their roles in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (AD and PD) remain unclear. We identified a higher frequency of the functionally impaired BCHE-K variant (rs1803274) in AD and PD compared to controls and lower than in the GTEx dataset of healthy individuals (
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-02
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2452967-9
    ISSN 1662-5099
    ISSN 1662-5099
    DOI 10.3389/fnmol.2022.941467
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  4. Article: Sex-specific declines in cholinergic-targeting tRNA fragments in the nucleus accumbens in Alzheimer's disease.

    Shulman, Dana / Dubnov, Serafima / Zorbaz, Tamara / Madrer, Nimrod / Paldor, Iddo / Bennett, David A / Seshadri, Sudha / Mufson, Elliott J / Greenberg, David S / Loewenstein, Yonatan / Soreq, Hermona

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: Introduction: Females with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer accelerated dementia and loss of cholinergic neurons compared to males, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Seeking causal contributors to both these phenomena, we pursued changes in tRNA ...

    Abstract Introduction: Females with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer accelerated dementia and loss of cholinergic neurons compared to males, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Seeking causal contributors to both these phenomena, we pursued changes in tRNA fragments (tRFs) targeting cholinergic transcripts (CholinotRFs).
    Methods: We analyzed small RNA-sequencing data from the
    Results: NAc CholinotRFs of mitochondrial genome origin showed reduced levels that correlated with elevations in their predicted cholinergic-associated mRNA targets. Single cell RNA seq from AD temporal cortices showed altered sex-specific levels of cholinergic transcripts in diverse cell types; inversely, human-originated neuroblastoma cells under cholinergic differentiation presented sex-specific CholinotRF elevations.
    Discussion: Our findings support CholinotRFs contributions to cholinergic regulation, predicting their involvement in AD sex-specific cholinergic loss and dementia.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-20
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.02.08.527612
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  5. Article ; Online: Butyrylcholinesterase inhibited by nerve agents is efficiently reactivated with chlorinated pyridinium oximes.

    Zorbaz, Tamara / Malinak, David / Kuca, Kamil / Musilek, Kamil / Kovarik, Zrinka

    Chemico-biological interactions

    2019  Volume 307, Page(s) 16–20

    Abstract: Bispyridinium oximes with one (K865, K866, K867) or two (K868, K869, K870) ortho-positioned chlorine moiety, analogous to previously known K027, K048 and K203 oximes, and potent reactivators of human acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibited by nerve agents, ...

    Abstract Bispyridinium oximes with one (K865, K866, K867) or two (K868, K869, K870) ortho-positioned chlorine moiety, analogous to previously known K027, K048 and K203 oximes, and potent reactivators of human acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibited by nerve agents, were tested in the reactivation of human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibited by sarin, cyclosarin, VX, and tabun. A previously highlighted AChE reactivator, dichlorinated bispyridinium oxime with propyl linker (K868), was tested in more detail for reactivation of four nerve agent-BChE conjugates. Its BChE reactivation potency was showed to be promising when compared to the standard oximes used in medical practice, asoxime (HI-6) and pralidoxime (2-PAM), especially in case of sarin and tabun. This finding could be used in the pseudo-catalytic scavenging of the most nerve agents due to its cumulative capacity to reactivate both AChE and BChE.
    MeSH term(s) Butyrylcholinesterase/chemistry ; Butyrylcholinesterase/metabolism ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/chemistry ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/metabolism ; Enzyme Activation/drug effects ; Halogenation ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Nerve Agents/chemistry ; Nerve Agents/metabolism ; Oximes/chemistry ; Oximes/metabolism ; Oximes/pharmacology ; Pyridinium Compounds/chemistry ; Sarin/chemistry ; Sarin/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Cholinesterase Inhibitors ; Nerve Agents ; Oximes ; Pyridinium Compounds ; Sarin (B4XG72QGFM) ; Butyrylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-18
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 218799-1
    ISSN 1872-7786 ; 0009-2797
    ISSN (online) 1872-7786
    ISSN 0009-2797
    DOI 10.1016/j.cbi.2019.04.020
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  6. Article ; Online: Sex-specific declines in cholinergic-targeting tRNA fragments in the nucleus accumbens in Alzheimer's disease.

    Shulman, Dana / Dubnov, Serafima / Zorbaz, Tamara / Madrer, Nimrod / Paldor, Iddo / Bennett, David A / Seshadri, Sudha / Mufson, Elliott J / Greenberg, David S / Loewenstein, Yonatan / Soreq, Hermona

    Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

    2023  Volume 19, Issue 11, Page(s) 5159–5172

    Abstract: Introduction: Females with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer accelerated dementia and loss of cholinergic neurons compared to males, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Seeking causal contributors to both these phenomena, we pursued changes in ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Females with Alzheimer's disease (AD) suffer accelerated dementia and loss of cholinergic neurons compared to males, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Seeking causal contributors to both these phenomena, we pursued changes in transfer RNS (tRNA) fragments (tRFs) targeting cholinergic transcripts (CholinotRFs).
    Methods: We analyzed small RNA-sequencing (RNA-Seq) data from the nucleus accumbens (NAc) brain region which is enriched in cholinergic neurons, compared to hypothalamic or cortical tissues from AD brains; and explored small RNA expression in neuronal cell lines undergoing cholinergic differentiation.
    Results: NAc CholinotRFs of mitochondrial genome origin showed reduced levels that correlated with elevations in their predicted cholinergic-associated mRNA targets. Single-cell RNA seq from AD temporal cortices showed altered sex-specific levels of cholinergic transcripts in diverse cell types; inversely, human-originated neuroblastoma cells under cholinergic differentiation presented sex-specific CholinotRF elevations.
    Discussion: Our findings support CholinotRFs contributions to cholinergic regulation, predicting their involvement in AD sex-specific cholinergic loss and dementia.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Female ; Humans ; Alzheimer Disease/genetics ; Alzheimer Disease/metabolism ; Nucleus Accumbens/metabolism ; Cholinergic Neurons/metabolism ; Cholinergic Agents/metabolism ; RNA/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Cholinergic Agents ; RNA (63231-63-0) ; RNA, Transfer (9014-25-9)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2211627-8
    ISSN 1552-5279 ; 1552-5260
    ISSN (online) 1552-5279
    ISSN 1552-5260
    DOI 10.1002/alz.13095
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  7. Article ; Online: The estimation of oxime efficiency is affected by the experimental design of phosphylated acetylcholinesterase reactivation.

    Maček Hrvat, Nikolina / Zorbaz, Tamara / Šinko, Goran / Kovarik, Zrinka

    Toxicology letters

    2018  Volume 293, Page(s) 222–228

    Abstract: Reactivation of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an essential enzyme in neurotransmission, is a key point in the treatment of acute poisoning by nerve agents and pesticides, which structurally belong to organophosphorus compounds (OP). Due to the high ... ...

    Abstract Reactivation of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an essential enzyme in neurotransmission, is a key point in the treatment of acute poisoning by nerve agents and pesticides, which structurally belong to organophosphorus compounds (OP). Due to the high diversity of substituents on the phosphorous atom, there is a variety of OP-AChE conjugates deriving from AChE inhibition, and therefore not only is there no universal reactivator efficient enough for the most toxic OPs, but for some nerve agents there is still a lack of any reactivator at all. The endeavor of many chemists to find more efficient reactivators resulted in thousands of newly-designed and synthesized oximes-potential reactivators of AChE. For an evaluation of the oximés reactivation efficiency, many research groups employ a simple spectrophotometric Ellman method. Since parameters that describe reactivator efficiency are often incomparable among laboratories, we tried to emphasize the critical steps in the determination of reactivation parameters as well as in the experimental design of a reactivation assay. We highlighted the important points in evaluation of reactivation kinetic parameters with an aim to achieve better agreement and comparability between the results obtained by different laboratories and overall, a more efficient evaluation of in vitro reactivation potency.
    MeSH term(s) Acetylcholinesterase/chemistry ; Acetylcholinesterase/metabolism ; Algorithms ; Animals ; Antidotes/chemistry ; Antidotes/pharmacology ; Biological Assay ; Chemical Warfare Agents ; Cholinesterase Reactivators/chemistry ; Cholinesterase Reactivators/pharmacology ; Drug Design ; Guinea Pigs ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Nerve Agents/toxicity ; Oximes/chemistry ; Oximes/pharmacology ; Phosphorylation ; Rabbits ; Sarin/antagonists & inhibitors ; Thermodynamics
    Chemical Substances Antidotes ; Chemical Warfare Agents ; Cholinesterase Reactivators ; Nerve Agents ; Oximes ; Sarin (B4XG72QGFM) ; Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-09-01
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 433788-8
    ISSN 1879-3169 ; 0378-4274
    ISSN (online) 1879-3169
    ISSN 0378-4274
    DOI 10.1016/j.toxlet.2017.11.022
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  8. Article ; Online: Halogen substituents enhance oxime nucleophilicity for reactivation of cholinesterases inhibited by nerve agents.

    Zorbaz, Tamara / Malinak, David / Hofmanova, Tereza / Maraković, Nikola / Žunec, Suzana / Hrvat, Nikolina Maček / Andrys, Rudolf / Psotka, Miroslav / Zandona, Antonio / Svobodova, Jana / Prchal, Lukas / Fingler, Sanja / Katalinić, Maja / Kovarik, Zrinka / Musilek, Kamil

    European journal of medicinal chemistry

    2022  Volume 238, Page(s) 114377

    Abstract: The fluorinated bis-pyridinium oximes were designed and synthesized with the aim of increasing their nucleophilicity and potential to reactivate phosphorylated human recombinant acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and human purified plasmatic ... ...

    Abstract The fluorinated bis-pyridinium oximes were designed and synthesized with the aim of increasing their nucleophilicity and potential to reactivate phosphorylated human recombinant acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and human purified plasmatic butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in relation to chlorinated and non-halogenated oxime analogues. Compared to non-halogenated oximes, halogenated oximes showed lower pK
    MeSH term(s) Acetylcholinesterase/metabolism ; Animals ; Butyrylcholinesterase/metabolism ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/chemistry ; Cholinesterase Reactivators/chemistry ; Halogens ; Mice ; Nerve Agents/pharmacology ; Organophosphorus Compounds ; Oximes/chemistry ; Sarin/chemistry
    Chemical Substances Cholinesterase Inhibitors ; Cholinesterase Reactivators ; Halogens ; Nerve Agents ; Organophosphorus Compounds ; Oximes ; Sarin (B4XG72QGFM) ; Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) ; Butyrylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-27
    Publishing country France
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 188597-2
    ISSN 1768-3254 ; 0009-4374 ; 0223-5234
    ISSN (online) 1768-3254
    ISSN 0009-4374 ; 0223-5234
    DOI 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114377
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  9. Article ; Online: High-throughput morphometric and transcriptomic profiling uncovers composition of naïve and sensory-deprived cortical cholinergic VIP/CHAT neurons.

    Yayon, Nadav / Amsalem, Oren / Zorbaz, Tamara / Yakov, Or / Dubnov, Serafima / Winek, Katarzyna / Dudai, Amir / Adam, Gil / Schmidtner, Anna K / Tessier-Lavigne, Marc / Renier, Nicolas / Habib, Naomi / Segev, Idan / London, Michael / Soreq, Hermona

    The EMBO journal

    2022  , Page(s) e110565

    Abstract: Cortical neuronal networks control cognitive output, but their composition and modulation remain elusive. Here, we studied the morphological and transcriptional diversity of cortical cholinergic VIP/ChAT interneurons (VChIs), a sparse population with a ... ...

    Abstract Cortical neuronal networks control cognitive output, but their composition and modulation remain elusive. Here, we studied the morphological and transcriptional diversity of cortical cholinergic VIP/ChAT interneurons (VChIs), a sparse population with a largely unknown function. We focused on VChIs from the whole barrel cortex and developed a high-throughput automated reconstruction framework, termed PopRec, to characterize hundreds of VChIs from each mouse in an unbiased manner, while preserving 3D cortical coordinates in multiple cleared mouse brains, accumulating thousands of cells. We identified two fundamentally distinct morphological types of VChIs, bipolar and multipolar that differ in their cortical distribution and general morphological features. Following mild unilateral whisker deprivation on postnatal day seven, we found after three weeks both ipsi- and contralateral dendritic arborization differences and modified cortical depth and distribution patterns in the barrel fields alone. To seek the transcriptomic drivers, we developed NuNeX, a method for isolating nuclei from fixed tissues, to explore sorted VChIs. This highlighted differentially expressed neuronal structural transcripts, altered exitatory innervation pathways and established Elmo1 as a key regulator of morphology following deprivation.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 586044-1
    ISSN 1460-2075 ; 0261-4189
    ISSN (online) 1460-2075
    ISSN 0261-4189
    DOI 10.15252/embj.2021110565
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  10. Article ; Online: Oxime-assisted reactivation of tabun-inhibited acetylcholinesterase analysed by active site mutations.

    Katalinić, Maja / Šinko, Goran / Maček Hrvat, Nikolina / Zorbaz, Tamara / Bosak, Anita / Kovarik, Zrinka

    Toxicology

    2018  Volume 406-407, Page(s) 104–113

    Abstract: The antidotal property of oximes is attributed to their ability to reactivate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibited by organophosphorus compounds (OP) such as pesticides and nerve warfare agents. Understanding their interactions within the active site of ...

    Abstract The antidotal property of oximes is attributed to their ability to reactivate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibited by organophosphorus compounds (OP) such as pesticides and nerve warfare agents. Understanding their interactions within the active site of phosphylated AChE is of great significance for the search for more efficient reactivators, especially in the case of the most resistant OP to reactivation, tabun. Therefore, herein we studied the interactions and reactivation of tabun-inhibited AChE by site-directed mutagenesis and a series of bispyridinium oximes. Our results indicated that the replacement of aromatic residues with aliphatic ones at the acyl pocket and choline binding site mostly interfered with the stabilisation of the oxime's pyridinium ring(s) within the active site gorge needed to obtain the proper orientation of the oxime group toward the phosphorylated active site serine. However, in the case of W286A, the mutation in the peripheral binding site by preventing a π-π interaction with one of the oxime's pyridinium rings allowed a more favourable position of the oxime for a nucleophilic attack on the phosphorylated catalytic serine. The mutation resulted in a 2-5 fold increase in the reactivation rates when compared to the AChE wild type. Therefore, it seems that aromatic amino acids at the peripheral binding site presented a limitation in bispyridinium oxime reactivation efficiency of tabun-phosphorylated AChE. Moreover, this is further corroborated by the reactivation by mono-pyridinium oxime 2-PAM, in which mutations at the peripheral site did not influence either the affinity or reactivation of tabun-inhibited AChE.
    MeSH term(s) Acetylcholinesterase/genetics ; Acetylcholinesterase/metabolism ; Animals ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/chemistry ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/metabolism ; Cholinesterase Inhibitors/toxicity ; Mice ; Molecular Docking Simulation/methods ; Mutation/drug effects ; Mutation/genetics ; Organophosphates/chemistry ; Organophosphates/metabolism ; Organophosphates/toxicity ; Oximes/chemistry ; Oximes/metabolism ; Oximes/toxicity
    Chemical Substances Cholinesterase Inhibitors ; Organophosphates ; Oximes ; Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) ; tabun (S45M750QSH)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-05-22
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 184557-3
    ISSN 1879-3185 ; 0300-483X
    ISSN (online) 1879-3185
    ISSN 0300-483X
    DOI 10.1016/j.tox.2018.05.008
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