{"doi":"10.1101/2025.07.28.667311","title":"CD33-CD45 Interaction Reveals a Mechanistic Link to Alzheimer’s Disease Susceptibility","abstract":"Abstract The innate immune gene CD 33, encoding a myeloid inhibitory sialic acid-binding receptor, is associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) susceptibility. The AD-associated rs3865444 CC risk variant reduces splicing of the sialic acid-binding domain and increases expression of the full-length (sialic acid-binding) CD33 isoform seven-fold compared to the rs3865444 AA protective genotype. Here we identify CD45 as an immune cell-specific sialic acid-dependent cis CD33 binding partner, whose phosphatase activity is inhibited by CD33. Overexpression of CD33 or loss of CD45 contributes to impaired microglial clearance of amyloid beta and amyloid beta-induced loss of dendritic spines in microglial-neuronal co-cultures, aligning with a detrimental effect of CD33-mediated inhibition of CD45. CD33-CD45 interaction frequency was increased in monocytes from individuals with the rs3865444 CC risk variant compared to rs3865444 AA , as well as in AD compared to controls, independent of genotype. Furthermore, an interaction between CD33 and PTPRC (encoding CD45) gene expression in human brain tissue was associated with a pathological diagnosis of AD and global burden of AD pathology. Our findings thus establish a functional interaction between CD33 and CD45 relevant to AD susceptibility and systemic myeloid dysfunction in this disease.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2025,"id":556605,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9609,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1454946,"name":"Cory D. 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