Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Article Title: Neuronal PPP2R5C in plasma is a potential biomarker for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2026.102631
Figure Lengend Snippet: Diagnostic utility of plasma PPP2R5C protein levels in AD (A) Plasma PPP2R5C protein levels in AD, aMCI, and CN groups by ELISA technology. AD, n = 74. aMCI, n = 76. CN, n = 74. (B) Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of plasma PPP2R5C protein levels in distinguishing AD from aMCI and CN. (C–F) Spearman correlation analysis between plasma PPP2R5C levels, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores, and other AD biomarkers, including p-Tau T181, p-Tau S231, and p-Tau T217. (G) Representative western blots for PPP2R5C in brain tissues from young individuals, cognitively normal elderly individuals, and AD patients. (H) Quantitation of PPP2R5C levels, normalized to young CN ( n = 5 or 7). (I–K) Representative immunohistochemistry images of PPP2R5C (I), AT-8 (J), and p-Tau T181 (K) levels in the hippocampus of healthy controls and Braak-graded AD brain slices. Scale bars: 1 mm in (I, left), 50 μm in (I, right), and 1 mm in (J and K). (L) Quantitation of PPP2R5C, p-Tau T181, and AT8 levels (sample quantify, health ctr: 5, Braak II: 9, Braak III: 5, and Braak IV: 4). (M) Difference of plasma PPP2R5C protein levels among AD ( n = 34), PSP ( n = 28), and FTD ( n = 37) patients using ELISA. (N) ROC curve analysis assessing the discriminative power of plasma PPP2R5C protein levels for distinguishing AD from PSP and FTD. All the western blot data are representative of three independent experiments. Quantification data are expressed as mean ± SEM (∗ p < 0.05, ∗∗ p < 0.01, ∗∗∗ p < 0.001, and n.s., no statistics with one-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test).
Article Snippet: The Flag-PPP2R5C plasmid was modified from Flag/ZsGreen-PPP2R5C, siRNA PPP2R5C was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (#sc-45847).
Techniques: Diagnostic Assay, Clinical Proteomics, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay, Western Blot, Quantitation Assay, Immunohistochemistry