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Multiple pathogenic proteins implicated in neuronopathic Gaucher disease mice.


ABSTRACT: Gaucher disease, a prevalent lysosomal storage disease (LSD), is caused by insufficient activity of acid ?-glucosidase (GCase) and the resultant glucosylceramide (GC)/glucosylsphingosine (GS) accumulation in visceral organs (Type 1) and the central nervous system (Types 2 and 3). Recent clinical and genetic studies implicate a pathogenic link between Gaucher and neurodegenerative diseases. The aggregation and inclusion bodies of ?-synuclein with ubiquitin are present in the brains of Gaucher disease patients and mouse models. Indirect evidence of ?-amyloid pathology promoting ?-synuclein fibrillation supports these pathogenic proteins as a common feature in neurodegenerative diseases. Here, multiple proteins are implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic neuronopathic Gaucher disease (nGD). Immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses showed significant amounts of ?-amyloid and amyloid precursor protein (APP) aggregates in the cortex, hippocampus, stratum and substantia nigra of the nGD mice. APP aggregates were in neuronal cells and colocalized with ?-synuclein signals. A majority of APP co-localized with the mitochondrial markers TOM40 and Cox IV; a small portion co-localized with the autophagy proteins, P62/LC3, and the lysosomal marker, LAMP1. In cultured wild-type brain cortical neural cells, the GCase-irreversible inhibitor, conduritol B epoxide (CBE), reproduced the APP/?-synuclein aggregation and the accumulation of GC/GS. Ultrastructural studies showed numerous larger-sized and electron-dense mitochondria in nGD cerebral cortical neural cells. Significant reductions of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate production and oxygen consumption (28-40%) were detected in nGD brains and in CBE-treated neural cells. These studies implicate defective GCase function and GC/GS accumulation as risk factors for mitochondrial dysfunction and the multi-proteinopathies (?-synuclein-, APP- and A?-aggregates) in nGD.

SUBMITTER: Xu YH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4082362 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Multiple pathogenic proteins implicated in neuronopathic Gaucher disease mice.

Xu You-hai YH   Xu Kui K   Sun Ying Y   Liou Benjamin B   Quinn Brian B   Li Rong-hua RH   Xue Ling L   Zhang Wujuan W   Setchell Kenneth D R KD   Witte David D   Grabowski Gregory A GA  

Human molecular genetics 20140305 15


Gaucher disease, a prevalent lysosomal storage disease (LSD), is caused by insufficient activity of acid β-glucosidase (GCase) and the resultant glucosylceramide (GC)/glucosylsphingosine (GS) accumulation in visceral organs (Type 1) and the central nervous system (Types 2 and 3). Recent clinical and genetic studies implicate a pathogenic link between Gaucher and neurodegenerative diseases. The aggregation and inclusion bodies of α-synuclein with ubiquitin are present in the brains of Gaucher dis  ...[more]

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