实验动物与比较医学 ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 738-751.DOI: 10.12300/j.issn.1674-5817.2025.134

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秀丽隐杆线虫作为退行性疾病模型的分子通路研究进展

孙涵1(), 郭芃2, 俞昕何1, 张隽巧3, 尧莹4, 杨文1()()   

  1. 1.上海交通大学医学院基础医学院, 上海 200025
    2.上海交通大学医学院附属仁济医院, 上海 200127
    3.同济大学医学院, 上海 200092
    4.同济大学附属东方医院, 上海 200120
  • 收稿日期:2025-08-12 修回日期:2025-12-05 出版日期:2025-12-25 发布日期:2025-12-19
  • 通讯作者: 杨文(1979—),男,博士,研究员,研究方向:线粒体代谢与衰老。E-mail: yangwen@shsmu.edu.cn。ORCID: 0000-0002-2032-1982
  • 作者简介:孙涵(2000—),女,博士研究生,研究方向:线粒体氧化应激与衰老。E-mail: Ivyyyyy@sjtu.edu.cn。ORCID: 009-0006-2882-6631
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金面上项目“线粒体ROS通过影响邻近区域eIF2α氧化调节微管的新型信号传导机制及其生理意义”(32570834)

Progress in Caenorhabditis elegans as a Degenerative Disease Model for Molecular Pathways Studying

SUN Han1(), GUO Peng2, YU Xinhe1, ZHANG Junqiao3, YAO Ying4, YANG Wen1()()   

  1. 1.Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
    2.Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200127, China
    3.Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China
    4.Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai 200120, China
  • Received:2025-08-12 Revised:2025-12-05 Published:2025-12-25 Online:2025-12-19
  • Contact: YANG Wen (ORCID: 0000-0002-2032-1982), E-mail: yangwen@shsmu.edu.cn

摘要:

随着我国老龄化加速,退行性疾病(degenerative diseases)患者已超过 1 000 万,亟需高效的机制研究与药物筛选体系。秀丽隐杆线虫(Caenorhabditis elegans)因生命周期短、成本低、遗传操作便捷,已成为研究神经退行性疾病的重要模式生物。通过异源表达 β-淀粉样蛋白(amyloid β-protein,Aβ)、α-突触核蛋白(α-synuclein,α-Syn)、突变型超氧化物歧化酶1(superoxide dismutase 1,SOD1)等,或利用 CRISPR/Cas9 基因编辑(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9,CRISPR/Cas9)构建突变体,可在线虫中重现阿尔茨海默病(Alzheimer's disease,AD)、帕金森病(Parkinson's disease,PD)、肌萎缩侧索硬化(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,ALS)和亨廷顿病(Huntington's disease,HD)等典型病理特征。结合 RNA 干扰(RNA interference,RNAi)和化合物筛选,线虫模型已揭示蛋白稳态、自噬和线粒体功能等核心病理通路,并发现多项潜在靶点。未来,依托线虫在遗传学可操作性、表型量化和筛选规模上的独特优势,并结合多模型跨物种验证,将有望构建更具预测性和可转化性的退行性疾病研究与干预体系。

关键词: 秀丽隐杆线虫, 退行性疾病, 模式生物, 神经退行性疾病

Abstract:

With the acceleration of population aging in China, the number of patients with degenerative diseases has exceeded ten million, urgently requiring efficient mechanism research and drug screening systems. Caenorhabditis elegans, due to its short life cycle, low cost, and convenient genetic manipulation, has become an important model organism for investigating neurodegenerative diseases. Through heterologous expression of amyloid β-protein (Aβ), α-synuclein (α-Syn), mutant superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), etc., or constructing mutants using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9, CRISPR/Cas9), typical pathological features of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington's disease (HD) can be reproduced in Caenorhabditis elegans. By integrating RNA interference (RNAi) and compound screening, the Caenorhabditis elegans model has revealed core pathological pathways such as proteostasis, autophagy, and mitochondrial function, and identified multiple potential targets. In the future, relying on the unique strengths of Caenorhabditis elegans in genetic operability, phenotypic quantification, and screening scale, combined with cross-species validation using multiple models, a more predictive and translatable degenerative disease research and intervention system is expected to be established.

Key words: Caenorhabditis elegans, Degenerative diseases, Model organism, Neurodegenerative diseases

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