Genetic reduction of the translational repressors FMRP and 4E-BP2 preserves memory in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by progressive memory decline. Converging evidence indicates that hippocampal mRNA translation (protein synthesis) is defective in AD. Here, we show that genetic reduction of the translational repressors, Fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein (FMRP) or eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E)-binding protein 2 (4E-BP2), prevented the attenuation of hippocampal protein synthesis and memory impairment induced by AD-linked amyloid-β oligomers (AβOs) in mice. Moreover, genetic reduction of 4E-BP2 rescued memory deficits in aged APPswe/PS1dE9 (APP/PS1) transgenic mouse model of AD. Our findings demonstrate that strategies targeting repressors of mRNA translation correct hippocampal protein synthesis and memory deficits in AD models. Results suggest that modulating pathways controlling brain mRNA translation may confer memory benefits in AD.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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