ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2021
Distinct conformers of amyloid beta accumulate in the neocortex of patients with rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease.
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- EMBER multidimensional spectral microscopy enables quantitative determination of disease- and cell-specific amyloid strains.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Amyloid beta (Aβ) deposition in the neocortex is a major hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the extent of deposition does not readily explain phenotypic diversity and rate of disease progression. The prion strain-like model of disease heterogeneity suggests the existence of different conformers of Aβ. We explored this paradigm using conformation-dependent immunoassay (CDI) for Aβ and conformation-sensitive luminescent conjugated oligothiophenes (LCOs) in AD cases with variable progression rates. Mapping the Aβ conformations in the frontal, occipital, and temporal regions in 20 AD patients with CDI revealed extensive interindividual and anatomical diversity in the structural organization of Aβ with the most significant differences in the temporal cortex of rapidly progressive AD. The fluorescence emission spectra collected in situ from Aβ plaques in the same regions demonstrated considerable diversity of spectral characteristics of two LCOs-quatroformylthiophene acetic acid and heptaformylthiophene acetic acid. Heptaformylthiophene acetic acid detected a wider range of Aβ deposits, and both LCOs revealed distinct spectral attributes of diffuse and cored plaques in the temporal cortex of rapidly and slowly progressive AD and less frequent and discernible differences in the frontal and occipital cortex. These and CDI findings indicate a major conformational diversity of Aβ accumulating in the neocortex, with the most notable differences in temporal cortex of cases with shorter disease duration, and implicate distinct Aβ conformers (strains) in the rapid progression of AD.
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