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Intracellular Inclusions Induced by Patient-Derived and Amplified α-Synuclein Aggregates Are Morphologically Indistinguishable.

Rabab Al-Lahham, Mark E Corkins, Mohd Ishtikhar, Prakruti Rabadia, Santiago Ramirez, Victor Banerjee, Mohammad Shahnawaz

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Rabab Al-LahhamMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5868-6111
Mark E CorkinsDepartment of Pediatrics, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Mohd IshtikharMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Prakruti RabadiaMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Santiago RamirezMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7335-3005
Victor BanerjeeMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3906-3362
Mohammad ShahnawazMitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, Department of Neurology, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2782-4002

Funding

Differentiation and characterization of conformational alpha-synuclein strains associated with Parkinson's disease and related synucleinopathiesR01NS119689 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Sandra Pritzkow, Mohammad Shahnawaz · 2021 to 2026
$2.6M
Novel Role of Nephron Epithelialization in Nuclear SignalingR01DK115655 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI Rachel Katherine Miller · 2019 to 2026
$2.3M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK115655NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS119689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lewy Body Disease (LBD) and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) are synucleinopathies with distinct prognoses and neuropathologies, however, with overlapping clinical symptoms. Different disease characteristics are proposed to be determined by distinct conformations of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) aggregates, which can self-propagate and spread between cells via a prion-like mechanism. The goal of this study is to investigate whether α-syn aggregates amplified from brain and CSF samples of LBD and MSA patients using the Seed Amplification Assay (SAA) maintain α-Syn seeding properties similar to those of α-syn aggregates derived from patients' brains. To address this, SAA-amplified and un-amplified α-Syn aggregates from LBD and MSA patients' brains, as well as SAA-amplified α-Syn aggregates from LBD and MSA patients' CSF samples, were used to treat synuclein biosensor cells, and induced intracellular α-Syn inclusions were analyzed by confocal microscopy. Our data indicate that induced α-Syn aggregates from LBD and MSA patients' brains have similar seeding properties and morphological characteristics in the α-Syn biosensor cells as those amplified from LBD and MSA patients' brains, as well as those amplified from LBD and MSA patients' CSF samples. In this study, we demonstrated that, regardless of the source of aggregates, the seeds from LBD and MSA produce cellular accumulation of α-Syn with distinct morphologies, confirming the presence of different conformational strains of α-Syn in LBD and MSA and allowing us to differentiate synucleinopathies based on the morphology of aggregates and seeding properties.

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alpha-SynucleinInclusion BodiesLewy Body DiseaseMultiple System AtrophyProtein AggregatesProtein Aggregation, PathologicalAgedBrainFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Agedalpha-SynucleinProtein Aggregatesaggregationbiosensor cellsmultiple system atrophyParkinson’s diseaseSAAα-synuclein

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PMID40422187
PMCPMC12110328

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