Elovanoids are Neural Resiliency Epigenomic Regulators Targeting Histone Modifications, DNA Methylation, Tau Phosphorylation, Telomere Integrity, Senescence Programming, and Dendrite Integrity

Abstract

Cellular identity, developmental reorganization, genomic structure modulation, and susceptibility to neurodegenerative diseases involve epigenomic regulation engaging multiple signaling interplay. Here we demonstrate that elovanoids (ELVs), mediators derived from very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLC-PUFAs, n-3, C >28), and their precursors in human neurons/astrocytes in culture overcome the damage triggered by oligomeric amyloid-β (OAβ), erastin (ferroptosis-dependent cell death), or other insults like uncompensated oxidative stress (UOS), NMDA mediated cellular excitotoxicity, or oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD), that target epigenomic signaling. We uncover that ELVs counteract damage targeting histones H3K9 and H3K27 methylation and acetylation; tau hyperphosphorylation (pThr181, pThr217, pThr231, and pSer202/pThr205 (AT8)); senescence gene programming (p16INK4a, p27KIP, p21CIP1, and p53); and DNA methylation (DNAm) modifying enzymes: TET (DNA hydroxymethylase), DNA methyltransferase, DNA demethylase, and DNA methylation (5mC) phenotype. Moreover, ELVs revert OAβ-triggered telomere length (TL) attrition as well as upregulation of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) expression fostering dendrite protection and neuronal survival. Thus, ELVs modulate epigenomic resiliency by pleiotropic interrelated signaling.