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Cerebrospinal fluid lysosomal enzymes and alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.

ABSTRACT: To assess the discriminating power of multiple cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD), we measured several proteins playing an important role in the disease pathogenesis. The activities of ?-glucocerebrosidase and other lysosomal enzymes, together with total and oligomeric ?-synuclein, and total and phosphorylated tau, were thus assessed in CSF of 71 PD patients and compared to 45 neurological controls. Activities of ?-glucocerebrosidase, ?-mannosidase, ?-hexosaminidase, and ?-galactosidase were measured with established enzymatic assays, while ?-synuclein and tau biomarkers were evaluated with immunoassays. A subset of PD patients (n?=?44) was also screened for mutations in the ?-glucocerebrosidase-encoding gene (GBA1). In the PD group, ?-glucocerebrosidase activity was reduced (P?

SUBMITTER: Parnetti L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4282452 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Cerebrospinal fluid lysosomal enzymes and alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.

Parnetti Lucilla L Chiasserini Davide D Persichetti Emanuele E Eusebi Paolo P Varghese Shiji S Qureshi Mohammad M MM Dardis Andrea A Deganuto Marta M De Carlo Claudia C Castrioto Anna A Balducci Chiara C Paciotti Silvia S Tambasco Nicola N Bembi Bruno B Bonanni Laura L Onofrj Marco M Rossi Aroldo A Beccari Tommaso T El-Agnaf Omar O Calabresi Paolo P

Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 20140116 8

To assess the discriminating power of multiple cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers for Parkinson's disease (PD), we measured several proteins playing an important role in the disease pathogenesis. The activities of β-glucocerebrosidase and other lysosomal enzymes, together with total and oligomeric α-synuclein, and total and phosphorylated tau, were thus assessed in CSF of 71 PD patients and compared to 45 neurological controls. Activities of β-glucocerebrosidase, β-mannosidase, β-hexosaminidas ...[more]

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Project description:Biomarkers are urgently needed for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression in Parkinson's disease. Both DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein, two proteins critically involved in Parkinson's disease pathogenesis, have been tested as disease biomarkers in several recent studies with inconsistent results. These have been largely due to variation in the protein species detected by different antibodies, limited numbers of patients in some studies, or inadequate control of several important variables. In this study, the nature of DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein in human cerebrospinal fluid was studied by a combination of western blotting, gel filtration and mass spectrometry. Sensitive and quantitative Luminex assays detecting most, if not all, species of DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein in human cerebrospinal fluid were established. Cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein from 117 patients with Parkinson's disease, 132 healthy individuals and 50 patients with Alzheimer's disease were analysed using newly developed, highly sensitive Luminex technology while controlling for several major confounders. A total of 299 individuals and 389 samples were analysed. The results showed that cerebrospinal fluid DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein levels were dependent on age and influenced by the extent of blood contamination in cerebrospinal fluid. Both DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein levels were decreased in Parkinson's patients versus controls or Alzheimer's patients when blood contamination was controlled for. In the population aged > or = 65 years, when cut-off values of 40 and 0.5 ng/ml were chosen for DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein, respectively, the sensitivity and specificity for patients with Parkinson's disease versus controls were 90 and 70% for DJ-1, and 92 and 58% for alpha-synuclein. A combination of the two markers did not enhance the test performance. There was no association between DJ-1 or alpha-synuclein and the severity of Parkinson's disease. Taken together, this represents the largest scale study for DJ-1 or alpha-synuclein in human cerebrospinal fluid so far, while using newly established sensitive Luminex assays, with controls for multiple variables. We have demonstrated that total DJ-1 and alpha-synuclein in human cerebrospinal fluid are helpful diagnostic markers for Parkinson's disease, if variables such as blood contamination and age are taken into consideration.

Project description:BackgroundPD diagnosis is based primarily on clinical criteria and can be inaccurate. Biological markers, such as α-synuclein aggregation, that reflect ongoing pathogenic processes may increase diagnosis accuracy and allow disease progression monitoring. Though α-synuclein aggregation assays have been published, reproducibility, standardization, and validation are key challenges for their development as clinical biomarkers.ObjectiveTo cross-validate two α-synuclein seeding aggregation assays developed to detect pathogenic oligomeric α-synuclein species in CSF using samples from the same PD patients and healthy controls from the BioFIND cohort.MethodsCSF samples were tested by two independent laboratories in a blinded fashion. BioFIND features standardized biospecimen collection of clinically typical moderate PD patients and nondisease controls. α-synuclein aggregation was measured by protein misfolding cyclic amplification (Soto lab) and real-time quaking-induced conversion (Green lab). Results were analyzed by an independent statistician.ResultsMeasuring 105 PD and 79 healthy control CSF samples, these assays showed 92% concordance. The areas under the curve from receiver operating characteristic curve analysis for the diagnosis of PD versus healthy controls were 0.93 for protein misfolding cyclic amplification, 0.89 for real-time quaking-induced conversion, and 0.95 when considering only concordant assay results. Clinical characteristics of false-positive and -negative subjects were not different from true-negative and -positive subjects, respectively.ConclusionsThese α-synuclein seeding aggregation assays are reliable and reproducible for PD diagnosis. Assay parameters did not correlate with clinical parameters, including disease severity or duration. This assay is highly accurate for PD diagnosis and may impact clinical practice and clinical trials. © 2019 The Authors. Movement Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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Cerebrospinal fluid lysosomal enzymes and alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.

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