“…Several different ligands for TREM2 have been reported previously including apolipoprotein E (Atagi et al, 2015;Bailey et al, 2015), lipids exposed upon axonal injury (Poliani et al, 2015), nucleic acids released from dying cells (Kawabori et al, 2015) and damage-associated molecular signatures found on bacteria (Daws et al, 2003;N'Diaye et al, 2009). Interestingly, the ADassociated TREM2 R47H variant shows impaired binding to apolipoprotein E or injury-associated lipids (Atagi et al, 2015;Bailey et al, 2015;Poliani et al, 2015). Hence, we speculate that the glycosylation status changes we observed herein for the R47H variant (Figures 1-3) could explain the ligand binding differences between wild-type TREM2 and TREM2 R47H (Atagi et al, 2015;Bailey et al, 2015;Poliani et al, 2015).…”