Potentiation of mitochondrial activity by mitoDREADD-Gs reverses pharmacological and neurodegenerative impairment of cognition
Antonio C. Pagano Zottola 1,2,3*, Rebeca Martin-Jimenez4,5,*, Gianluca Lavanco1,2,6*, Geneviève Hamel-Côté4,5,*, Carla Ramon-Duaso7, Rui S. Rodrigues1,2, Yamuna Mariani1,2, Mehtab Khan4,5, Filippo Drago8, Stephanie Jean4,5, Itziar Bonilla-Del Río9,10, Daniel Jimenez-Blasco11,12,13, Jon Egaña-Huguet14, Abel Eraso-Pichot1,2, Sandra Beriain1,2, Astrid Cannich1,2, Laura Vidal-Palencia7, Rosmara Infantino1,2, Francisca Julio-Kalajzić1,2, Doriane Gisquet1,2, Ania Goncalves2,15, Inas Al-Younis4,5, Yann Baussan4,5, Stephane Duvezin-Caubet2,16, Anne Devin2,16, Edgar Soria-Gomez14,17, Nagore Puente9,10, Juan P. Bolaños11,12,13, Pedro Grandes9,10, Sandrine Pouvreau1,2, Arnau Busquets-Garcia7, Giovanni Marsicano1,2,#, Luigi Bellocchio1,2,#, Etienne Hebert-Chatelain4,5,#
1 Inserm, U1215 NeuroCentre Magendie, Endocannabinoids and Neuroadaptation, Bordeaux, France
2 University of Bordeaux, France
3 Inserm, U1312 Bordeaux Institute of Oncology, Pessac, France
4 Canada Research Chair in Mitochondrial Signaling and Physiopathology, Canada
5 Department of biology, University of Moncton, Canada;
6 Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties of Excellence “G. D’Alessandro”, University of Palermo, Italy
7 Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, PRBB, Barcelona, Spain
8 Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, Section of Pharmacology, University of Catania, Italy
9 Laboratory of Ultrastructural and Functional Neuroanatomy of the Synapse, Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
10 Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Science Park of the UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
11 Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics (IBGF), Universidad de Salamanca, CSIC, Salamanca, Spain
12 Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, CSIC, Salamanca, Spain;
13 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Madrid, Spain
14 Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Nursing, University of the Basque Country/ “Neuroglia basis of behavioral processes” Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, Science Park of the UPV/EHU, Leioa, Spain
15 CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France
16CNRS, IBGC, UMR 5095, Bordeaux, France
17 Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science.
*These authors share first authorship.
#These authors share senior authorship.
Nature Neuroscience, 11 août 2025
DOI : 10.1038/s41593-025-02032-y / NN-A84112-T